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Club owner's trial set to last 3 weeks
The jury trial of James "Jim" Panos, the owner of Desperado's cabaret, is expected to last three weeks, according to court documents filed this week.
Panos, 54, of Broussard, was arrested and indicted in December for maintaining drug-involved premises at the Carencro strip club. He pleaded not guilty. A jury trial is set for March 25 in Lafayette, but Panos' attorney is seeking a change of venue, citing pretrial publicity.
A telephone conference was held Wednesday to discuss the case, including the request for a change of venue and the government's motion to delay the trial due to the complexity of the case.
Another telephone conference is set for next week. A pretrial conference is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Friday.
Two arrested in Carencro burglary
Two Carencro residents were arrested Friday in connection to a residential burglary, according to the Carencro Police Department.
Around 11 a.m., officers were alerted to a possible residential burglary in the 500 block of Walter Drive in Carencro. Officers obtained clothing descriptions of the suspects, and upon arriving to the scene, located one suspect in the backyard of the residence and a second suspect behind a storage shed in an adjacent yard.
A third suspect was located near the suspect's vehicle, but was later released.
Arrested were Daniel Harmon, 18, of Carencro, on charges of simple burglary of a residence and criminal trespassing; and Jordan Sam, 19, of Carencro, on charges of simple burglary of a residence, officials said.
Both were booked into Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, where they were awaiting bond.
Man convicted for pouring grits on wife
NEW ORLEANS - A 42-year-old New Orleans man has been convicted of battery for pouring boiling grits on his wife, then hitting her in the head with the pot.
Arthur Porter was found guilty of aggravated second-degree battery, for the grits, and simple battery, for the beating with the pot. The wife suffered severe burns.
The couple got into a fight in October 2011. He took the pot of boiling grits and poured it on his wife, then used the pot to hit her on the head.
The wife declined to cooperate with the District Attorney and refused to testify against her husband at his trial this week. Late Wednesday, an Orleans Parish jury found Porter guilty as charged.
2 dead after car drives into barrier
LAKE CHARLES - Two men died and a third was injured after the car they were in drove head on into a concrete barrier at the intersection of La. Highway 14 and the Interstate 210 East exit.
Lake Charles Deputy Police Chief Mark Kraus tells the American Press officials don't know why the car continued through the intersection, which has traffic signals.
Kraus says two of the car's occupants died at the scene, and a third was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
Police are withholding the names of the deceased until their relatives are notified.
Man convicted in abduction attempt
GONAZLES - An Ascension Parish jury has convicted a Metairie man in a failed plot to hide in the trunk of his estranged wife's parked car and kidnap her.
The Advocate reports Talandis O'Patrick Cotton was found guilty of attempted aggravated kidnapping Wednesday after a two-day trial.
Sentencing is set for May 28. Cotton faces 10 to 50 years in prison.
On Jan. 17, 2012, Gonzales police arrested Cotton after finding him in the trunk of his estranged wife's car at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Gonzales.
Prosecutors say police found Cotton had unlatched at least one of the car's seat releases, which would have allowed him to enter the car's passenger compartment, and also found duct tape, plastic ties, a toy gun and a key to the woman's car on him.
Dump truck crashes into home, starts fire
JEFFERSON - Jefferson Parish firefighters say a small pickup hit a dump truck causing it to crash into a house that started a 2-alarm fire near the intersection of South Causeway Boulevard and River Road.
Joe Greco, director of fire for the East Bank Consolidated Fire Department, says no one was injured. Greco said a 27-year-old woman was inside the home this morning when the truck crashed through it and caught fire. She was able to escape the home with the help of a passer-by.
- From staff, wire reports


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Love You Love Me
Sung by Kelly-Chen/Zhang-Yao
Intro: Bm A G F#m
Bm F#m
Love you and love me
G F#m Em F#m
Cong bu ceng wang ji he ni zai yi qi de tian mi
Bm F#m
Love you and love me
G F#m Em A
Cong bu ceng huai yi ni shi wo yong yuan de wei yi
Em F#m Bm7
Ke shi hu ran fang fu diu le ni
My love
Em A
Wo leng de wu fa hu xi
Em F#m Bm
Ke shi huran fang fu hui bu qu
Em F#m Bm
Xiang shi zhi mi tu zai bei ji de yu
Bm F#m F#m
I miss you now where are you going
Em F#m G A
Xiang nian ceng jing wen nuan de hai di
D F#m F#m
I need you now where are you going
Em F#m G A
Xiang rang chi dao wen nuan zui han leng de bei ji
Bm F#m
Love you and love me
G F#m
Ru guo ni hai you gan ying
Em F#m
Qing zhi yin wo you xiang ni
Bm F#m
Love you and love me
G #m
Dan da hai wu bian wu ji
Em F#m Bm
Wo hai neng bu neng zhong hui dao ni de huai li.

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I first met Megan in 2005, she was a bridesmaid in my client Jenny's wedding. Megan contacted me almost as soon as she got engaged (or maybe before) and she told me how important photography was and why she thought that I was the photographer for her. I have been waiting for this wedding to happen since 2009 and I was very happy when the day finally arrived. Mike and Megan were fantastic and the location they picked was paradise. They wed in Cambria, CA where Megan's grandparents live. The area, located on the central California coast, it is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. I had a chance to sightsee a little bit; I visited the Hearst Castle and got to see sea lions at the beach.
I enjoyed the couple of days that I spent with Megan and Mike; they are super nice and sweet. Even though it rained a lot everybody was in great spirits and super happy. I love it so much when people focus on the important things.
Thank you so much Megan and Mike for having me on your wedding day. Here are a few of my favorite images from. Tomas Valenciano assisted me that day.
Flowers: Flowers by Kim
Ceremony Location: Santa Rosa Chapel
Reception location: Barn at Fog's End Bed & Breakfast
Meg and Mike booked a super nice bed and breakfast called Fog's End.
Megan and her dress.
Mike gave these earrings to Megan. They were made with her grandmother's jewels.
Megan getting her dress.
Perfect fit!
Megan and Mike's first encounter.
I love this. Photo taken by second shooter Tomas Valenciano.
Megan and her mom having a sweet moment. Photo taken by second shooter Tomas Valenciano.
Mike receiving some advice from his mom.
Photos by Sergio and Tomas.
En route to the church.
This is one of my top faves of the day. Megan was always smiling, she is a very happy person.
Photo taken by second shooter Tomas Valenciano.
The officiant is a past groom, Jason. He is Jenny's husband (2005 wedding).
Megan hears something!
A bagpiper! Dang!
Wonderful moment taken by second shooter Tomas Valenciano.
Mike was very emotional.
The bustle hustle!
On our way back to the Fog's End.
First dance.
Heartfelt toast by Megan's maid of honor Jenny (my bride from 2005).
Jason incited a Hora!
Megan and Mike, so happy!
Mike's mom enjoying the reception.
Jason and Jenny.


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I am starting this diary as im hoping it will keep me on track!
I started Slimming World on Monday 7th Jan & lost 4.5lbs in the first week! im very happy with that loss but this week i seem to be strugging, i have been stupidy getting weighed every morning & even though i had been sticking to the plan by Friday morning the scales say i have gained 1.5lb!!?? how can that be?? i just don't understand so ever since then its thrown me & im wanting to snack & eat rubbish all the time so i thought by starting a diary on here it would encourage me to behave!
so far today in have had;
frosted wheats HXB
skimmed milk HXA
for my tea im planning to have extra lean mince beef, pasta, tomato based pasta sauce, peppers, onions & mushrooms
later tonight i will be having a couple of measured martinis with diet lemonade using some of my syns allowance.
i may snack on a mullerlight & fruit this afternoon.
i think if i can stick to this plan today my weigh in on Monday wont be too bad! im hoping the weight gain is just water retention or something as its not like i've been stuffing my face all the time!
i'll post again tonight before i go to bed everything else i will have had by then


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DENVER (AP) -- -- Police say a 25-year-old man accused of beating an elderly man to death with a baseball bat in Denver told his mother shortly after the slaying that he was God and he had "killed the devil."
The Denver Post reports (http://bit.ly/16iqAVU) Zachery Joseph Cooper faces a first-degree murder charge for the death of 70-year-old Peter Morales on Tuesday. An affidavit says Cooper's mother told investigators she returned to her home near City Park after grocery shopping and found her son naked and "making comments about ... being in heaven and referring to himself as God."
She told detectives her son had been discharged from the military earlier this year and suffers mental health problems. Cooper had been living off and on with his mother and Morales.
Authorities say Morales' throat also had been slit.
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why do we feel sadness?
Why do we see madness?
Such emotions of destruction,
Only becoming life's obstruction.
I personally hate both feelings,
Can't find for either meanings.
Both create oceans of bitterness,
Leaving nothing but loneliness.
Why feel destructive things?
Why surcome to their poisonous stings?
Life doesn't give options of feelings,
After all, we are emotional beings.
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Hi Lesbith. Congratulations on your little Nemo! Oh you're going at a great time of the year especially while being pregnant. Can you believe I went to Walt Disney World when I was almost 6 months pregnant? Wait, did I tell you it was in the hot month of July and I was huge? Well, I survived and had a great time! My suggestion is to do what feels best for you. I stayed away from attractions that were too bumpy and roller coasters. Other than that, I had a blast eating at every theme park. I ate at every popcorn and ice cream cart.
As for the ticket price, you will need to purchase an Adult Ticket to enter the theme parks. Believe it or not, you will not have to pay for Nemo just yet. Nemo will not need a ticket until the age of three. Try to think of it as a two-for-one deal. Yay! So be sure to get in as many trips as you can before then.
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There are 7 ninjas in this room now.
To control one's eating/body means to control one's life.
Once that main idea sinks into their persona, then the real psychological mess manifests itself into them. Their delusion of being fat leads them to the fear of them being not in control of themselves and will go to extreme lengths to get it back into their distorted definition of "control". This typically involves hardcore fasting and hardcore exercising, and hardcore purging (voluntary vomiting). This sudden demand on the body without any fuel (except for muscle and bone...and yes...muscle and bone fuel exercise come before fat...he/she needs to know this important fact causes some high stress on the person.
As she loses control of that to that stress, she begins eating/drinking for comfort. Eventually he/she realizes "OMG I'M EATING" and begins the vicious cycle of trying to gain "control" all over agian. The important objective is to show her that the disorder is controlling her, not her controlling it.
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The long-awaited commissary gift cards are available in stores and online, in denominations of $25 and $50.
But you'll want to buy them in the store, not online: The online vendor charges a 3.5 percent processing fee on the dollar amount of the gift cards ordered, as well as shipping charges of $1.95 for first-class mail. For orders totaling $200 or more, shipping is $6.95 by priority mail.
If you buy a $25 gift card at the commissary, you'll pay a processing fee of 88 cents. For a $50 gift card, it's $1.75.
Retailers other than the Defense Commissary Agency may not need to charge these fees because they have profit margins to absorb the cost, said Jim Speir, director of sales for SVM LP, the vendor DeCA officials chose to handle the gift cards. As a gift card vendor, he said, "we don't have the profit margin retailers have when a customer buys a shirt" with that card.
Nor does DeCA. By law, the commissary agency can sell items only at cost; taxpayer dollars are used to fund the operations, and commissary officials are trying to keep costs down for taxpayers, not increase them.
Target and Walmart don't charge processing fees for gift cards bought online. A Walmart $25 gift card costs a total of $25, and shipping is free. Target charges $1.95 shipping.
Anyone can buy gift cards, but only authorized shoppers can redeem them. The cards are available in stores at full-service, front-end registers, and the commissary website, www.commissaries.com.
Commissary gift cards can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. Outside the U.S., cards can be shipped to APO, FPO or DPO addresses. They expire five years from date of purchase and cannot be reloaded.
DeCA began using gift vouchers in 2009 shortly after the agency's gift-check provider, CertifiChecks Inc., ceased operations. Since then, customers have redeemed nearly 191,000 vouchers for about $4.7 million, officials said.
Commissaries stopped selling gift vouchers once they received their gift cards. Customers who have already bought gift vouchers will be able to redeem them through Aug. 31, 2016.
New stores open
A new $25 million commissary opened June 29 at Fort Bliss, Texas, rounding out the Freedom Crossing open-air shopping center.
Freedom Crossing includes a renovated main exchange that opened in November, alongside other retailers such as Paul Mitchell and GameStop. Eateries include Arby's, Sarku Japan, Buffalo Wild Wings, Smashburger and Val Verde. The outdoor marketplace includes privately owned shops and a multiplex Grand Theatre.
The new commissary features a large produce department, international deli bakery, olive bar, sushi, sandwiches to go and fresh seafood. The hours are good news, too: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.
At Naval Station Norfolk, Va., a newly renovated and expanded exchange opened June 29, with 180,000 square feet of retail space.
The store, now the largest Navy exchange in the world, features more toys, sporting goods, a sunglasses/watch shop and food items, as well as an expanded uniform/tailor shop, a major appliance center, a large selection of mattresses and an improved special-order center.
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In the P1 SuperStock Championship 2011, Edox closed the gap at the top of the points table after two emphatic wins today in Plymouth Sound.
The 300 Class fleet in action during the penultimate round of the P1 SuperStock 2010 at the PSP Southampton Boat Show 2010.
Driver Rupert Pugh (Matlock) and navigator Tony Crossley (Sidmouth) were unstoppable as they blazed away from the field to win both rounds and score a maximum 40 points.
The double win comes on the back of retirement from the second race in Jersey and puts the Edox Swiss Watches crew firmly back in the title hunt. 'It's a great feeling to win after the frustration of retiring from the lead at the opening round in Jersey', said a delighted Rupert.
The outstanding performance by Edox was not without its share of drama though as the crew lost vital radio contact after just a few laps. 'It was an awesome second race and a great weekend, although we had inter-com failure so it was quite hard to co-ordinate and it cost us some time.' Rupert added. ' Tony and I have formed a really good team which is working well – when we can hear each other!'
The 300 and 150 Class fleet heading out during the final round of the P1 SuperStock 2010 in Lymington, Dorset.
Championship leader John Wilson (Coleshill, Birmingham) had a difficult weekend in boat Pertemps. In both races John and navigator Neil Scarborough (Monks Risborough) held second place but had to settle for a brace of third places. In race one Pertemps lay second for six laps until Rough Cut Racing squeezed past, then in race two Peters & May Racing took advantage of lapping the slower P1 150 boats to get past. 'We were passed in the traffic and I'm not happy about it as I felt it may not have been within the rules', said John.
For Hull racer Ian Brusby it was a weekend of highs and lows. Together with navigator Dan Whapples (Poole) they won the Saturday match races to start on pole position for race one today in their boat Rough Cut Racing. They finished a season's best second place in the first race but fuel feed problems caused retirement early in the second race.
'The first race was great as we have figured out the handling sweet spot now and are going really well. We had a really close fight with Pertemps for lap after lap and were delighted to come out on top. But then disaster struck in the second round as the engine cut out and we did not manage to even complete the first lap'
The 150 Class fleet in action during Race 2 of the penultimate round of the P1 SuperStock 2010 at the PSP Southampton Boat Show 2010.
Rookie crew Team 88 continued the superb form they showed in Jersey to come away from Plymouth with two fourth place finishes. Londoners Simon Bayles (Battersea) and navigator Philippa Baker (Kensington) had never raced before joining SuperStock but they are now in third place ahead of far more experienced teams.
In the P1 150 Class there were two different winners and some very close quarters racing. Macdonold Mermaid started the weekend by winning Saturday's match races to secure pole position. Husband and wife team David and Kirsty Toozs-Hobson (Arundle) made a great start in Sunday's opening race to get the better of championship leaders Team Purple, but in the second race they bogged down and the field zoomed past leaving them in fourth place behind Team Fox.
Team Purple, crewed by Stuart and Sara Cureton (Lindford, Hants) got to the first marker in front and then pulled out a clear lead, which they held all the way to the flag. Stuart said, 'we had a great start run to get into the lead at the first marker and then just worked hard to pull out a lead. We're in top form having won three out of four races, so expect to be in the title fight all the way to the finale in Liverpool.'
Eclipse Team Pilot, Rose Lores, from Surrey with Navigator, Sara Cureton, from Hampshire in action during the penultimate round of the P1 SuperStock 2010 at the PSP Southampton Boat Show 2010.
Eclipse driven by Rose Lores (Stubbington, Hants) with navigator Tom Hunter (Maindenhead) had their best race so far this season with a storming drive into second place in round two which combined with fourth place in race one hoists them up into second place in the points table.
P1 250 Class points:
1. Pertemps 70 points; 2. Edox 66pts; 3. Team Eighty Eight 58; 4. Peters & May Racing 57; 5. Typhoo 55; 6. Helvetia Wealth 52; 7. Haas Racing/SS Racing 42. 8. Rough Cut Racing 41
P1 150 Class points:
1. Team Purple 77 points; 2. Eclipse 65; 3. Team Fox 60; 4 = Aztec Racing, Black Magic 38; 6 = Red/Macdonald Mermaid 34 8. Flying Sparks 26.
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"Aimee Day" can't come soon enough.
That is the holiday --date still to be determined -- Andy Copeland hopes for as his daughterAimee fights off virulent flesh-eating bacteria that turned her lifeupside down in less than two weeks.
Her fight won't be overon Aimee Day. She will likely need dialysis for some time to help herkidneys function, and rehab to adjust to life without her left leg, partof her abdomen and perhaps other body parts that surgeons may stillremove because of her disease.
Still, on that day, the24-year-old University of West Georgia graduate student should be ableto breathe on her own, after medical staff remove a tube now stuck downher throat that is being used to regulate her oxygen level. And herparents and her sister should, again, hear her voice.
"We're going to celebratethat day forever for the rest of your life," Andy Copeland told hisdaughter as she lay heavily medicated in an Augusta, Georgia, hospitalbed. "It's the day that my daughter was delivered from this horrible,horrible disease."
Speaking Sunday on CNN,Andy Copeland didn't go into detail about the latest on his daughter'scondition as she fights for her life beyond saying, "We're holding upvery well here."
Yet, as he's done in regular Facebook posts chronicling the ordeal, Andy Copeland was positive about the future.
"I have every confidence that Aimee will be able to overcome this," he said.
Just last month, she had afull and active life. Aimee was pursuing her master's degree inpsychology, with a focus on eco-psychology -- the idea that harmonizingwith nature can be a powerful tool in ensuring one's psychologicalhealth and vitality.
On May 1, she and somefriends were out near the Little Tallapoosa River, about 50 miles westof Atlanta, when she grabbed onto a homemade zip line, her family hassaid.
It snapped.
That led to a gash in her left calf, and ultimately it took 22 staples to close the wound, according to CNN affiliate WSB.
Athough she didn't knowit at the time, it was because of that cut that Aimee Copelandcontracted the flesh-devouring bacteria, Aeromonas hydrophila.
Dr. Buddy Creech, anassistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at VanderbiltUniversity, said that Aeromonas hydrophila -- which is "remarkablycommon in the water and in the environment" -- is one of many bacteriathat can cause a flesh-eating process.
"When it gets into thosedeeper tissues, it has a remarkable ability to destroy the tissues thatsurround it in sort of this hunt for nutrition," Creech said. "When itdoes that, those tissues die, and you see the inflammation and theswelling and the destruction that can be very difficult to control."
Most humans are affectedby these bacteria by swallowing them, resulting in diarrhea. AimeeCopeland's case was much more uncommon, in that her wound got "infectedand the infection (ran) wild," explained Creech.
The pain continued forAimee after her accident and, on May 4, a friend took her to anemergency room where she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis andflown to Augusta for surgery.
She went into cardiac arrest after being removed from the operating table, but was resuscitated, CNN affiliate WGCL reported.
It was then, Andy Copeland recalled on his Facebook page, that he was "told that Aimee might not survive the night."
She did survive, thoughsurgeries cost her the leg and part of her abdomen. A post Saturday on ablog set up by the University of West Georgia psychology departmentsaid more operations are coming: "Aimee will suffer the loss of herfingers, however physicians have hope of bringing life back to the palmsof her hands, which could allow her the muscle control to use helpfulprosthetics."
At one point her lungs"required 100% pure oxygen to be fed to her through a respirator," asthe bacteria ravaged her body, her father wrote. By Sunday, she hadimproved significantly to 33% -- just 12 percentage points shy of 21%,the level of oxygen in air around us.
If and when it gets tothat point, she can be taken off the respirator. And her family can markthat moment, Aimee Day, on their collective calendar to celebrate thisyear and every year after.
For now, Andy Copelandis busy standing by, conversing with medical staff and expressingappreciation for his "amazingly resilient" daughter, as well as for themedical staff, friends and complete strangers who have shown theirsupport.
And the entire family is staying hopeful, fueled in part by the remarkable progress they've seen so far.
"The words I hear fromthe medical professionals to describe Aimee's continued recovery are'astonishing,' 'incredible,' 'confounding,' 'mind-boggling' and'unbelievable,'" Andy Copeland wrote Saturday on Facebook.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Hank Aaron will throw out the first pitch for the Columbia Blowfish this season.
Aaron played his final minor league game for the Jacksonville Braves in 1953 at Capital City Stadium in Columbia, S.C., the same place he will be on May 29 to make the ceremonial first pitch for the summer collegiate Coastal Plain League team.
Blowfish President Bill Shanahan has been friends with Aaron for years and says the first pitch will be the first of a number of events to honor the stadium, which was built in 1927.
Aaron hit 755 home runs in his major league career, a record that stood until Barry Bonds passed him in 2007.
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We've been discussing the "Nonfarm Payrolls % change from Recession End" for quite some time now. Each time we revisit this chart, I am struck by how starkly different this recession/recovery cycle is from the preceding business cycle(s).
A reader sends in this Ned Davis chart (below), which looks at the issue from a somewhat different angle. NDR observes that the first interest rate hike does not occur on average until employment ticks up by 4% from the cycle low (The cycle low in August 2003 was payroll employment of 129.789 million).
Davis further states:
"If employment needs to rise 4.0% before the Fed takes the punch bowl away from the bull party, this would imply a rise of 5,191,560 new jobs. At 112,000 per month (last month's employment rise – the best since December 2000) we would need to wait 46 months before the Fed hikes rates."
Additonally, rate hikes aren't nearly as fatal to the markets as many assume them to be: Davis notes that "stock prices continue to rise for 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months later, on average."
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Eudora Relay for Life organizers will get the chance to learn a thing or two from other communities at a Relay for Life University Saturday at Eudora High School.
American Cancer Society income development specialist Amy Kralicek said the idea behind the "Universities," which this year are offered in five larger Kansas cities in addition to Eudora, is to get area Relay volunteers together to share ideas in break-out sessions.
"The volunteers are the ones that do the Relay," Kralicek said. "They're the ones who come up with the best ideas."
Topics will include the importance of newsletters, survirorship and team recruitment.
"It amazes me," Kralicek said. "Going from being a volunteer, I thought Relays were all the same. When I came on as a staff member (I realized) they are as different as night and day."
Eudora Relay organizer Judi O'Grady, who will be speaking at the seminar, said Relay for Life Universities she's attended in the past have been fun as well as educational.
"It just gets your adrenaline pumping," she said.
O'Grady said she was excited about having a seminar in Eudora because the event here had become a "signature Relay."
"We need to help Johnson County, and they need a lot of help," she said.
Kralicek said the society decided to have a seminar in Eudora for the northeastern area of the state in part because of the space donated by the high school.
Moreover, O'Grady said the seminars allow volunteers to meet the staff who make the event happen as well as other volunteers.
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EDITOR: "We have no more right to consume happiness without giving it than consume wealth without not producing it." — George Bernard Shaw
In regards to an article run on Feb. 4, "State's view of climate change," to preempt the serious threat seen by the stupes in Sacramento, we must consider this "threat" imparts only on those who have gases in their greenhouse, corn in their car's gas tank, and no CO2 in their 7-up or other soft beverage. The rest of us rest in perfect contentment with prospects of carbon's vitality, assured even more now by the practice and presence of a meteorite bursting in carboniferous strata over our heads, to accent our earthly capacities to find carbon a many splendored thing in heaven and earth.
But political deadheads, victims of their own chagrin, don't understand that in physics versus geographical politics science does not mix. Their little heads can't stand the tangible truth. They flow into our neighborhoods to expect we eat from some primitive gruel outside their castles.
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I adjusted the ingredients a little so my review isn't 100% accurate for this exact recipe, however I found this to be a great guide! I found that the listed amount of sugar worked perfectly for me as my tomatoes were slightly under-ripe but as others have said, it would probably be too much on riper fruit. I also added an apple and some roasted capsicum I needed to use up. Will be giving away 2 jars as Christmas presents and keeping the third for myself - perfect with cheese on crackers!
Even after using slightly less sugar as recommended i found this chutney sickly sweet, im going to make another batch today with no sugar and mix them together and hope it turns out ok. I also used 8 chillis and left the seeds in and it had a bit of bite but still wasnt really hot, for my liking would prrobably use even more next time, the base recipe must be fairly mild.
This is a very easy yet very tasty chutney. I have tried several recipes and this is my favourite. I have made it several times with different chills. If using Habaneros just use two. It doesn't look like much but it is enough for a flavoursome chutney.
this is my families alltime favourite chutney ..I have made it many many times ...the only things I do differently is I double the chillies as we like it hot ....and I cut down on the sugar a little instead of 1 1/2 cup I do 1 cup ....brilliant recipe
I used yellow cherry tomatoes directly from the garden and replaced chilli with 6 hot chilli from garden. Spicy but delicious.
Really yummy chutney, so easy to make and tastes so good! Much better than the stuff you buy.
Everyone I know , loves this super easy chutney recipe, it's great spread over fish and baked in the oven but equally great with cheese and crackers , a fab all rounder
I used whole dry chillies and added some chilli flakes. It's not too hot but with the dry chillies the flavours may develop over time.
An excellent chutney base to add other ingredients. I added a paste in the last 1/4 hour of cooking; 2 tbl flour, 1 tbl mustard powder, 1tbl curry powder, 1tsp cinnamon stirred into a1/4 cup of the brown vinegar. Then added a handful of currants and a few whole peppercorns. Had a nice "bite" but not overly so. Will never buy a chutney again! Yummy and simple to make.
Delicious and easy! We've made about 10 jars since discovering this recipe. Be careful not to have oil too hot when cooking mustard seeds and don't be afraid to add a couple of chilli seeds for more spice. I initially used the recommended sugar amount, but like other readers would suggest scaling this back to 1 cup as I've done for my last couple of batches.
This chutney was super easy and soooooo yummy! I took the advice of other cooks in the comments to reduce the sugar, and only put in 1 cup. Otherwise, this chutney was perfect! I didn't find it made a huge amount, I felt it was just right. Enjoy making and eating this for yourselves!!
I made this using home grow tomatoes given to me. Instead of mixed spice used combination of cardamom cinnamon allspice chili flakes cayenne pepper.Also u sed one cup of balsamic vinegar and one of malt. Threw in handful of raisins and used dark brown sugar turned out brilliant nice and spicy with a definite kick.
This is so delicious!!! Added two red capsicum and more chilli to original recipe. Will definitely make again. Great gift idea
This was lovely. We had a stack of tomatoes from our garden and wanted to use them up. We forgot the chilli, but had a tube of Gourmet Garden chilli in the fridge. It said it equalled 5 chilli's, so my hubby put in the whole tube! We've eaten far too much on cheese and bickeys and Mum loved it on her steak sandwich the other night. It did make a lot..probably too much. Next time I'd make 1/2 I think.
I made this today but halved the ingredients to get half the quantity. It reduced quite quickly after 20 minutes but I am unsure of its consistency as this is my first time. Taste is not too bad. I used 2 long red chillis and 2 small birds eye chillis instead and added a full teaspoon of mixed spice as well as garam marsala.
I made this today using both tomatoes and chillis from my vegetable patch. I took note of what others had written and actually increased the amount of chillis (jalapenos) that I used. I also substituted 5 spice, garam masala and allspice for the mixed spice. Mine took rather longer then the 2 and a bit hours to get to a thick stage, but I think that was just me being careful and cooking it very slowly rather than risk a big pot of burnt mess, especially as this was my first ever attempt at any sort of chutney/jam etc. End result was brilliant, so tasty, next time I am going to double the quantities and make enough to give away.
Awesome awesome awesome. I'm not a huge relish fan but this one I love, looking forward to having it with some snags tonight. I used home grown mini romas, I did de-seed those that were heavily seeded because they can get a bit bitter, and substituted malt vinegar for apple cider and change 1/s cup white sugar to brown.
This chutney was delicious - I added some apples for some extra sweetness. Took a bit longer to thicken up but came out beautifully!
Fantastic recipe, I didn't add as much sugar as recommended and it turned out perfectly! I would definitely try and make it more spicy next time with some more chillis
I've made this a few times but with a few changes. Firstly I don't deseed the chillies, therefore making it really hot!. I also add 1/2 teaspoon of garam marsala to the spices. Thirdly, I never have to cook it for 2 1/4 hours...about 40 mins is fine! Taste great and loved by everyone! We use it on sandwiches, with meat and on potatoes! Yummm : )
Not a bad base for a nice chutney. But its super sweet and could do with more spice, I recomment dropping half a cup of sugar and adding at least 6 nice sized chillies.
What an easy sauce to make. I added a lot more chillies as my partner wanted it to be very hot. I just loved this.
Delicious flavour with only a mild chilli taste (maybe a 2 out of ten on the chilli scale!). I thought chutney making was a pastime reserved only for grandmas before my chilli-obsessed partner coerced me into making this. It was so simple I'm a convert! I will be using hotter chillis, or a lot more of them next time, though!
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James Logan was born in Harlem and raised in the South Bronx. He received a B.A. in Psychology/Pre-Law from Goshen College, an M.A. in theology and ethics from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, and Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton Seminary. He is a Professor of Religion and Professor and Director of African and African American Studies. He was recently appointed the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies. Logan's areas of teaching and research cover religious, philosophical and social ethics; religion and law; constructive Christian theologies; Black religion; theories of religion; and the relationships among religion, ethics and politics in civil/public life.
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Is Religion "T(t)rue"? History of African American Religious ExperiencesIntroduction to African American StudiesCriminal Justice and Moral VisionReligion and Culture of Hip Hop Love, Protest, and Hope"Human Nature" and Social ChangeText Seminar: Native American Religion/sIntroduction to Peace and Justice Studies in Religion
Manuscript in process tentatively titled, The Limits of Perfection: Race, Nonviolence, and Anabaptist Peace Church Assimilation into the American Social Order.
"Religion, the Natural World, and Migrations of Black Body and Soul," in Theology and Migration in World Christianity: Contextual Perspectives (in Three Volumes), Volume 3: Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective, eds. Elaine Padilla and Peter Phan (Palgrave McMillian, in press).
"(Everywhere) Ferguson and the Socio-Religious Challenge of Hip Hop Culture." Sightings. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Divinity School's Martin Marty Center for Advanced Research, March 19, 2015.
"Healing Memory, Ontological Intimacy, and U.S. Imprisonment: Toward a Christian Politics of 'Good Punishment' in Civil Society," Law & Contemporary Problems. Durham, NC: Duke University School of Law, Volume 75, Number 4, 2012. Pgs. 77–86.
"A Response and Invitation to Discernment and Open Dialogue" (aka, "Religion, Environmental Racism and the Black Body") in Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred: They Shall Be Called Children of God, College Theology Society Annual Volume 56, edited by Margaret R. Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012).
Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources, Co-Edited with Marcia Riggs (Fortress Press, 2012).
"Immanuel Kant on Categorical Imperative," in Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Ethics From the Margins, Eds. Miguel De La Torre and Stacey Floyd-Thomas (Westminster John Knox, 2011).
"Prisons and Prison Reform," The Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (Baker Academic, 2011).
"Dividing Lines: Where Prisoners Stand in the Divine Politics of Jesus," Sojourners (February 2011).
Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment (Eerdmans, 2008).
"Liberalism, Race, and Stanley Hauerwas," CrossCurrents (Winter 2006).
Jennifer Graber, The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons & Religion in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Conrad Grable Review. Spring 2014, Volume 32, Number 2.
Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, and Margaret Pfeil. The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. The Journal of Lutheran Ethics. July/August 2013, Volume 13, No 4.
Vincent Lloyd, Editor. Race And Political Theology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Fall 2013 in Political Theology, Volume 14, No. 5.
Nonviolence: A Brief History: The Warsaw Lectures by John Howard Yoder (Baylor University Press, 2010) for Theology Today (April 2011).
"Everywhere Doing Time: Mass Incarceration as Theo-Ethical Challenge in Civil Society." Keynote Address, World Mission Institute, Chicago, IL. Theme: Prisons: Realities, New Mission. April 16, 2015."Hold-Up, Not-So-Fast Reconciliation and the Ground of Peaceable Christian Hope." Public Lecture, Duke University Divinity School, March 22, 2015."Race, Mass Incarceration and the Black Body: Teaching as Ministry." Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, African/African American Working Group. Session Theme: The New Jim Crow in African American Theological Perspective, Chicago, IL, January 9, 2015.
"A Christian Politics of (Sometimes Funky) Love." Commencement Address, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, May 24, 2014."A World Yearning For Your (Sometimes Funky) Love." Baccalaureate Address, Earlham College's 167th Baccalaureate Ceremony, May 14, 2014.Co-Presenter with Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness). Methodist Church U.S.A. Symposium entitled, "Christian Ethics and the Crisis in the U.S. Criminal Justice System," Columbus, OH, March 8, 2014. "Punishing Black Bodies: The Nerve Center of Mass Incarceration in Civil Society." University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH, February 15, 2014. Respondent, American Academy of Religion Roundtable, "Break Every Yoke: Religion, Power and the Ends of Mass Incarceration." Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD, November 25, 2013"Toward and Christian Vision and Politics of 'Good Punishment' in Civil Society." Paper delivered at a Religion, Abolition & Mass Incarceration Conference, Cornell University. October 4-5, 2013. "Toward a Christian Politics of 'Good Punishment?'" Duke University Law School Symposium, Theological Argument in the Law: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas, September 9, 2011.Forester Lecture (Huntington University): "Healing Memory, Ontological Intimacy, and U.S. Imprisonment: Toward a Christian Politics of 'Good Punishment' in Civil Society," March 6, 2012."A Response and Invitation to Discernment and Open Dialogue" (aka, "Religion, Environmental Racism and the Black Body"), a response to M. Shawn Copeland's Keynote Address, "God Among the Ruins: Companion and Co-Sufferer." The College Theology Society's Annual Meeting, Summer 2010, Iona College. Presider, Afro-American Religious History Group: "African-American and Latino/a Mennonites: Marginal No More." American Academy of Religion 2010 Annual Meetings Atlanta, GA, October 31. Research Consultant: The Role of Prison Chaplains and Religion in Rehabilitation and Re-entry. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Spring, 2012.Doctoral Faculty Mentor: The Fund For Theological Education (2007–2010)Presider, Special Topics Forum: "Queering Communities of Color." Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee of the American Academy of Religion. 2009 Annual Meetings Montréal, Quebec, Canada, November 8. Session explored the tensions existing within religious communities of color over issues relating to LGBTIQ praxis."Strangers No More: Conversational Essays Between Doctoral Students," Perspectivas. Facilitator and Editor (Princeton, NJ: Hispanic Theological Initiative, Fall 2008)."Toward an Attitude of 'Good Punishment' in the Service of Christian Responsibility in the Public Square." Paper given for the Ethics Section, American Academy of Religion, 2008, Chicago, IL. Session Theme: Criminal Injustice and Christian Responsibility: Christianity and the Criminal Justice System."Notes on The Politics of Memory, Narrative and Christian Responsibility (or Rethinking John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas on the Politics of Jesus)." Lecture given to the New Perspectives in Theology Group (Goshen, IN), June 2008."A (Not So) Simple Word of (Audacious) Hope." Baccalaureate Address, Earlham College's 161st Baccalaureate Ceremony, May 3, 2008."Healing Memory, Ontological Intimacy, and U.S. Imprisonment: Toward a Christian Politics of 'Good Punishment.'" Lecture given for the Religion and Race Workshop, University of Chicago (The Divinity School and the Council of Advanced Studies). January 15, 2008.Presider, Wildcard Session, The American Academy of Religion, 2007, San Diego, CA. Session Theme: Restorative Justice and the U.S. Penal System."Strangers No More: Learning to Dialogue Across Difference." Panel Participant (Sponsored by the Fund for Theological Education and the Hispanic Theological Initiative), November 2005 Pre-Annual Conference Meeting of the American Academy of Religion."Racial & Ethnic Minority Mentoring: A Conversation Among Graduate Students and Professors." Panel Participant, November 2005 Annual Conference Meetings of the American Academy of Religion."King's Moral Vision Today," Princeton Seminary (February, 2006)."That's Love," Sermon to Joint Weekly Service of Earlham School of Religion and Bethany Theological Seminary (November 2004).
"Black Student Survival at a Predominately White Liberal Arts College." Earlham College Panel Presentation for African and African American Faculty-Student Luncheon (Sponsored by Office of Multicultural Affairs, September, 2004)."Race, Nonviolence and 'Mainstream' Mennonite Assimilation into the American Social Order." Presented at Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion, March 2002.
"Introduction to the Black Liberation Theology and Ethics of James Cone and the Responses of His Interlocutors"; "Mennonite Social Assimilation: From Nonviolence to (Active) Pacifism"; "Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism as Challenge to Anabaptist-Mennonite Nonviolence": lectures presented at Goshen College, Alumni Scholar Forum (January 2000).
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With the final painful snap of the San Diego/Oakland game, the first week of the 2012 NFL season is in the books. What do we take away from week 1?
Well if you listen to popular media it's very simple. Peyton Manning is clearly on his way to a MVP regular season along with the obvious comeback player of the year award. San Franciscois a lock to win the NFC. Robert Griffin the third...that's right I wrote it out...is clearly the best QB taken in the draft since Peyton Manning and the Redskins just won the NFC East this past Sunday. That is due to the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles most likely won the only game they can possibly win the entire year based on Michael Vick's play. In the end RG3 (abbreviated) will out clutch the not trustable Tony Romo when it matters most and lead the Redskins to the post season. The Green Bay dynasty is clearly over and Tom Coughlin needs to go in NY/NJ. New England will be there at the end along with Baltimore and the rejuvenated Denver Broncos and this year's Super Bowl will hopefully be a Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh matchup. Oh and by the way, all of these facts were determined by games that didn't even have real referees. Oh shit wait..."Tim Tebow!" Phew……almost forgot that.
What I take from week one is a little different from popular media. I agree that the 49er's look really, really good. Baltimore and Peyton Manning were no slouches either. Beyond that I cannot take anything forward from one week of football considering the last two Super Bowl Champions limped into the playoffs in the final minutes of the season and were long shots to get out of the first round. My hat is off to the replacement officials for doing a bang up job considering where they came from and the situation in which they find themselves (#EricGregg). The facts of week one are that Rex Ryan lost the weight of a place kicker and Tim Tebow put on 20 pounds to facilitate a couple of dives into the line of scrimmage. Logic tells me that the Saints losing GM's, coaches, head coaches, and players had and will continue to have a negative effect on their season. (Not taking anything away from RG3.) On the topic of rookie QB's my summary is this: Seattle fucked up, Miami is rebuilding, Andrew Luck is fine, Brandon Weeden is not, and Washington is shitting gold for a week. The speculation that Indy was in the wrong for trading Manning and drafting Andrew Luck based on one week is ludicrous. Let us not forget, Peyton Manning was 3 and 13 in his rookie season. The final thing I take from week one of the 2012 NFL season is that my beloved Buffalo Bills look like they are once again in for a long season. But nonetheless football is back and the next five months should be exciting.
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Do Tell: Do You Have a Valentine's Day Tradition?
Do Tell: Do You Have a Valentine's Day Tradition?
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Every year on Valentine's Day, my parents eat dinner at In-N-Out and head straight to Krispy Kreme for dessert. Their tradition started out as a joke, but they had so much fun the first year they did it, they haven't skipped a year since! Now I'm sure not many people are as random as my parents, but I wouldn't be surprised if others have Valentine's Day traditions too, so ladies, do tell, what's yours?
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Valynn 7 years
My husband and I say to each other "Happy Spendy Day".That's about it. And we love it.
Valynn 7 years
My husband and I say to each other "Happy Spendy Day". That's about it. And we love it.
bbkf 7 years
My hubby always buys me a teddy...and I wear it!
blissaddict 7 years
nope but I wish I had
blissaddict 7 years
nope but I wish I had
KadBunny 7 years
I skip school and spend the day with the bf. :) Bad mee but I love it.
emalove 7 years
Nothing out of the ordinary...dinner at a nice restaurant, exchange gifts, a little romance...the usual.
ilovecandyfloss 7 years
We get dressed up and go out for a nice dinner, somewhere small and with a 'Valentine's menu', then get down and dirty in the backseat of his car down some back alley. Hah.
reeveske 7 years
yeah the bf and i are pretty untraditional too. our first year together he made reservations for us at a super nice restuaratnt-like a 5 course meal. well, considering im the type of gal that will either eat everything on my plate or nothing at all (dont ask-its inheritied from the madre) I told him thanks but no thanks, save your money, and we ordered takeout and ate it on my patio with our xmas lights on (still up from two months ago-but its Austin, so thats not wierd). we've played it low key ever since nd do the same thing every year pretty much.
Marci 7 years
Yes, we have a tradition. We ignore it. Valentine's Day has become way too big with too much emphasis put on the wrong things. And I hate to say it, but it's the women who expect their men to deliver. Gee, no pressure on the poor guys.
Marci 7 years
Yes, we have a tradition. We ignore it. Valentine's Day has become way too big with too much emphasis put on the wrong things. And I hate to say it, but it's the women who expect their men to deliver. Gee, no pressure on the poor guys.
CoconutPie 7 years
I think I'll wear my ugliest clothes, not shave my legs and tell him I have a headache. I just hate Valentine's Day. And I'm lucky because my BF hates it too.
UrbanBohemian 7 years
I just grunt and scowl and wait it out until it's over. Lol. I should lighten up though!
kristinhomesick 7 years
well, one year i made cupcakes that spelled out "feelings are overrated." but the past couple years i've gone out to dinner with single friends and hit the bars to comisserate with the other single people.
brdwaystarlett 7 years
sorry, guys. not the most cheerful person on V-day. :-)
brdwaystarlett 7 years
yes. homicide.
brdwaystarlett 7 years
yes. homicide.
CaterpillarGirl 7 years
He always cooks me dinner and the meal is in the shape of hearts, last year it was steak on the grill with scallops. all hearts.
TFS 7 years
time_after_time 7 years
We order KFC and get a movie, and I always buy him boxers lol
fashionhore 7 years
We make our presents and depending on our moods, we both contribute to a favorite-dinner making session. Plus, we buy a bag of candy that we each like, or ice cream, or a mini-cake, cupcakes, SOMETHING, and watch a movie and eat it!
sugar_me_sweet 7 years
my boyfriend and i never know where to go for valentine's day.
MandyPinecone 7 years
I cook a romantic dinner for the 2 of us.
Wormella 7 years
He cooks a 3 course meal, I eat a 3 course meal. Works well for us ;)
jopperma 7 years
My fiancé and I started a tradition last year that we plan to keep. A small, under the radar, but very good restaurant down the street from my apartment runs a special Valentine's Day menu every year filled with wonderful and interesting food that we use Valentine's Day as an excuse to splurge for!


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Nikkei Net reports that NEC will soon begin to produce notebook computers which use biodegradable plastics in their frames. "The plastic is made from materials derived from plants such as corn and is broken down into water and carbon dioxide by microbes. NEC says it aims by 2010 to make more than 10% of the plastic it uses in PCs biodegradable" The rest of the information is only available to Nikkei subscribers, although a search on the NEC site comes up with a short article from earlier this year about corn-based bioplastics.
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The next time a laptop dies, I want to pull the guts out and toss the rest on the compost heap...
Now, see, I want to be able to dump the whole thing into my fabber to be used as raw material for my next laptop...
...but this is a good start, I suppose.
It would be even better if they made laptops fully modular, like desktops. That way, you could keep a durable case and swap out all the biodegradable/recyclable components. Still this is encouraging to see.
Here's a link to E.S. Steven's Green Plastics website, based on his book. The site has a simple formula for making your very own biodegradable plastic!


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It's the Ecology, Stupid
"I get on my knees every day, and I'm saying an extra prayer right now," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters, adding that he'd be doing rain dances if he knew of one that would work to break the drought that's gripping most of the United States.
It's a bit late in the day for prayers and rain dances. The idea that you can systematically burn up the rainforests, poison the oceans, foul the land with toxic waste from factory farms, and pour millions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere ... and then pray for a "deus ex machina" to somehow make everything OK again is magical thinking at a rather desperate level.
The agriculture secretary might do better addressing his prayers to the President and to Congress. Right now, both campaigns are behaving as though the climate crisis doesn't even exist. The Obama campaign has said they don't expect to introduce the idea of climate change.
The agriculture secretary might do better addressing his prayers to the President and to Congress. Right now, both campaigns are behaving as though the climate crisis doesn't even exist.
"I think it's politically explosive," explained Carol Davenport on the Diane Rehm show. "There's a very strong new element of climate change skepticism on the right. Most climate change policy probably involves raising some kind of energy prices. It's just not something that any of the parties or any of the candidates feel comfortable introducing."
Gov. Romney isn't about to mention the topic, either. Government "leaders" and would-be leaders are rarely in the business of leading; they feel safer following what they believe the voters want to hear. And the voters don't want to hear about climate change.
"Polls show consistently it's not really an issue that voters care about," Davenport said. "The number one issue that voters care about is the economy. Environment ranks almost dead last these days."
As if the economy were somehow independent of the ecosystem. It's not; the two are completely intertwined. Just for starters, the drought, which now affects more than two thirds of the nation, is crippling the economy.
The month of June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. It followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere.
Highways are cracking, rail tracks are buckling. Nuclear power plants can't keep their water-cooling systems operating efficiently. And in Texas, a US Airways regional jet got stuck in the asphalt, which was melting under the 100-degree-plus temperature.
"We've got the 'storm of the century' every year now," Bill Gausman, a senior vice president and 38-year veteran at the Potomac Electric Power Company, told the New York Times. His company had just taken more than a week to recover from the storm that reached from the Midwest to the east coast at the end of June, knocking out power for 4.3 million people.
(That was a rather small number, in retrospect, compared to the 600 million people who suffered a power outage in India that was caused in large part by the failure of the monsoon this year.)
It's also been a freakishly warm summer in Greenland, where July brought a massive ice sheet melting. While it's not unusual for some ice to melt during the summer, what was unusual was that the melting happened in a flash and over a widespread area. "You literally had this wave of warm air wash over the Greenland ice sheet and melt it," NASA ice scientist Tom Wagner said. The ice melt area went from 40 percent of the ice sheet to 97 percent in four days, according to NASA.
At the same time, a giant iceberg broke off from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland.
A US Airways regional jet got stuck in the asphalt, which was melting under the 100-degree-plus temperature."It's dramatic. It's disturbing," University of Delaware professor Andreas Muenchow told NPR. "We have data for 150 years and we see changes that we have not seen before. It's one of the manifestations that Greenland is changing very fast."
Meanwhile, drought continues to strangle the economy. One third of the nation's counties – 1,297 of them across 29 states – have been declared federal disaster areas. More than half of the continental United States is under moderate to extreme drought.
"It really is a crisis," Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois told the New York Times after touring ravaged farms in the southern part of the state. "I don't think we've ever seen anything like this in my lifetime."
"We're moving from a crisis to a horror story," Purdue University agronomist Tony Vyn told Reuters. "I see an increasing number of fields that will produce zero grain."
Food columnist Mark Bittman wrote:
Here's what American exceptionalism means now: on a per-capita basis, we either lead or come close to leading the world in consumption of resources, production of pollutants and a profound unwillingness to do anything about it. We may look back upon this year as the one in which climate change began to wreak serious havoc, yet we hear almost no conversation about changing policy or behavior.
While Congress and the White House continue to do nothing, scientists warn that we are approaching another tipping point. A new study in the journal Nature says that by the end of this century we're going to be looking at a very different kind of planet. Lead author Anthony Barnosky writes that we humans are causing changes to the Earth even faster than the natural events that brought an end to the last Ice Age. Global temperatures are rising faster than they did back then, and humans have completely transformed 43 percent of Earth's land surface for cities and agriculture, while the explosion in human population is putting ever more pressure on existing resources.
Barnosky explains that the thing about tipping points is, by definition, that they suddenly tip.
Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds.
"These ecological systems actually give us our life support, our crops, our fisheries, clean water," he told reporters, adding with typical understatement, "We're at a crossroads where if we choose to do nothing we really do face these tipping points and a less-good future for our immediate descendants." (Translation: "Your kids are screwed.") "If we choose to do nothing we really do face these tipping points and a less-good future for our immediate descendants."
One thing Agriculture Secretary might include in his prayers is for an answer to the conundrum that's brought about by cattle ranching and factory farming. Much of the corn and other crops that are wilting under the drought are to feed cattle who use up huge quantities of corn and water to produce far less food than would otherwise be available. At the same time, these cattle emit more greenhouse gases than all the vehicles in the world. But Secretary Vilsack is in the business of promoting and subsidizing the very people whose cattle are such a major part of the problem.
As things stand, the system is locked in place. Perhaps we should all be praying that someone in Congress, in the administration, or in the election campaign would simply have the courage to tell the truth to the American people – even if it costs that person their job. It would be a small price to pay for at least salvaging one's conscience.
[…] this month, we quoted Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack as saying that he prays every day for an end to the drought. But it's a bit late in the day for prayers when you've steadfastly […]
[…] It's the Ecology, Stupid: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he's on his knees every day saying prayers to help break the drought. But the drought is not a natural disaster; it's man-made. And neither of the two presidential candidates will even discuss it. […]


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As hats were flung onto the ice at Xcel Energy Center, Ryan Suter skated in front of the Minnesota Wild bench for a line of high-fives.
It was the first time, his teammates joked, they had seen Suter celebrate. His performance on Saturday was too good to ignore -- the first hat trick by a defenseman in franchise history to lead the Wild to a 5-3 victory over the Washington Capitals.
It was a win the Wild desperately needed, and with fellow star Zach Parise and a slew of other players sidelined by injuries, it was Suter who stepped up.
"I can't stop smiling," he said.
It was his first hat trick at any level, he said.
"I can't even score two goals in summer hockey."
He went 40 games this season without a goal but has netted five in the past four games. His final tally on Saturday was the biggest.
Leaving the penalty box after a successful penalty kill, Suter joined Clayton Stoner to created a rare, all-blue line 2-on-1 rush.
"I mean, that doesn't happen very often me on a 2-on-1," Stoner said. "It was one of those things that was a little surreal coming down the ice. I think I tried to freeze the goalie. I don't think he bit, but it was a heck of a shot by Suter."
He slid the puck to Suter, who banged home a one-timer from the top of the left circle to put the Wild up 5-3. A few dozen hats rained down from the stands.
"I think there were a few smiles on the bench, that's for sure," coach Mike Yeo said. "On top of that, it's a huge goal. We get an enormous (penalty) kill in that situation, and then to come right out of the box and go down and score, that's obviously huge for us and I'm sure very deflating for them, too."
It was equally big in the larger picture.
A second consecutive win eased the pressure on the team's front office and cooled the seat under Yeo, who has been under fire during a lousy month. The Wild beat woeful Buffalo on Thursday to stop a six-game regulation losing streak.
Suter's first two goals came 42 seconds apart, with the game more than half over and Washington leading, 2-1. The Wild, in fact, had managed just three shots on goal.
But they were given a gift, a two-man advantage for 1 minute, 56 seconds. They needed only the 42 seconds.
Suter blasted his first goal from the point and past a host of players including Dany Heatley. Less than a minute later, he fired a very similar shot through traffic to give the Wild their first lead of the night.
"Suter's two goals were definitely big for us, and getting them that quick back-to-back changed the momentum," said Jason Zucker, who also scored a power-play goal. "It was great. I think that was the first time I've ever seen him celebrate a little bit. He's obviously a huge part of this team and a great player so it was cool to see that."
The Wild managed their five goals on 11 shots, the first time that's happened since the NHL began keeping track of shots on goal in 1973.
"Well, our shooting percentage went up," Yeo joked.
Same for the player that led the way.
Suter recorded three shots Saturday night. They all found twine.
"I'm very happy for him because I know I talk about our leadership group a lot, but these guys have been doing a great job in this tough time," Yeo said. "They've been battling and grinding. ... It was nice to see him get rewarded."
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Dale Lucore proves that great art springs from the quality of the artist working from his cabin in the woods of Eureka, the reclusive artist recently created waves in the abstract art world with his "pure digital creations." Lucore's work now rivets visitors in galleries from London to Cape Town, South Africa, and Los Angeles to New York.
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Compared by some to the work of Salvador Dali, Lucore's complex creations feature layers of images, fearsome to joyful, abstract to verging on realism, executed in vibrant color to tone on tone.
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"I'm a 100% Service Connected Disabled Veteran and a LIFE MEMBER of both, The VFW- Veterans of Foreign Wars & the DAV- Disabled American Veterans Organizations" However, he found a silver lining from the accident related to his lifelong proclivity for art.
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