text: By MARC KOVAC Staff Writer Hungry sows aren't shy when it comes to breakfast. The slamming of a door or the sight of people is enough to send the animals into a frenzy of movement and guttural squeals. Imagine the trumpet of an angry elephant crossed with fingernails scratching across a chalkboard. "They know it's feeding time," said Terry Meek, manager of the swine herd at Ohio State University's Agricultural Technical Institute. Meek and assistant manager Stuart Courtney oversee 700-800 animals at ATI's swine facility, from newborn piglets that stay close to their mother's side to full-size market hogs about to become supermarket staples. Before sunup one day recently, they joined five ATI students in cleaning and feeding chores at the school's livestock facility near Apple Creek. Though the sun rises later and sets sooner, autumn still is a busy time across Wayne County's farms and fields. At mid-morning, the Steiner brothers were hard at work fixing tractors at their business northeast of Orrville, trying to keep pace on engine overhaul and restoration projects in between other service and sales calls. Before noon, the city of Wooster's finance director stopped to talk about commodity prices and livestock numbers, indicators he watches regularly to pinpoint economic trends for the city. By mid-afternoon, a farmer was cutting soybeans in a field near Rittman, hoping to truck the harvest away before dew or rain drenched the yellowing pods. And just before sunset, a husband and wife north of Wooster's city limits finished feeding their herd of miniature beef cattle, a potential niche market for livestock producers. 'It goes pretty fast' Courtney wheeled his pick-up down a dark gravel drive toward a couple of outbuildings at the ATI livestock facility. On cue, dozens of sows began screaming for service. Some were so excited they jumped up onto the fences surrounding their pens no small feat for animals of such mass. Students Ryan Heffelfinger, Zach Morey and Tim Sherwood climbed off the back of the truck, pulled a wheelbarrow from the bed and headed to a feed bin. In a matter of minutes, they had dropped scoops full of food (about 5 pounds for each animal) into the pens, and squealing gave way to slurping and sloshing as pregnant hogs made quick work of their morning meal. "It goes pretty fast when you've got this many people helping," Courtney said. There are about a dozen students enrolled in ATI's two-year swine management program. From day one, each is required to sign up for chores at the hog facility, committing to do 30 hours of work per quarter. Last year, Wayne County ranked ninth in the state in total hogs and pigs (50,100 in 2003), according to the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Services. Swine also accounted for more than $7.4 million in cash receipts to local producers. Students trained in swine management are in demand, Meek said. "They can go anywhere they want to go," he said. "All over the United States, jobs are open." ATI's program has an emphasis on hands-on experience; swine students sign up for two-hour morning stints to complete chores at the hog barns. One day recently, five students were at the facility before sunrise, hosing down aisles, filling feed bins and making sure animals were awake and healthy. "I just want to work with animals," said Zach Morey, a Knox County native enrolled in swine, beef and sheep studies, shortly before spraying down the pig nursery area. His older brother, Alden, started his morning by cleaning farrow pens, where week-old piglets hovered under heating lamps or near their mothers to keep warm and fed. He provided the mothers with a "good healthy scoop-full" of feed, making each get up on its feet to eat. It takes nearly six months for piglets to grow into market hogs. Meek said the animals are moved several times, from the farrowing area to nurseries to larger pens and, eventually, to market. In another barn, Christy Derck, a Paulding County student whose interest in hogs stems from involvement in 4-H projects, mixed hundreds of pounds of food for feeder pigs. An auger system filled bins in separate pens, ensuring the animals have enough to get through the day. Later, before some of the students had to return to main campus for classes, Meek hoped to complete the week's artificial insemination activities. Running a swine operation requires being precise about the number of pregnant hogs on site and the timing of their births. "We'll be shooting for eight or nine (sows)," he said. Busiest Time of Year Larry and Loren Steiner remember the last time they had so-called "slack time" to focus on their own tractor hobby interests. It's been about two years. "This whole year has been our busiest time of year," Larry Steiner said. "It's not let up." The brothers run Steiner Equipment & Repair from the longtime family farm near Orrville. They sell equipment (including zero-turn mowers) and repair tractors and implements. The two grew up on the farm and have worked with engines since they were young. Loren Steiner remembered his first project, converting a riding lawn mower into a go-cart. Larry Steiner learned the ropes through ag mechanics classes at the Wayne County Schools Career Center "Before I could even drive," he joked. The Steiners have been fixing tractors for other farmers for more than 30 years, starting out doing repair jobs on the side, then going full-time about eight years ago after ceasing the family dairy operation. Repair services are in demand, in part because of the price of equipment. It's cheaper to fix the old than to invest in something new. In Wayne County alone, farms had more than $138 million worth of machinery and equipment in 2002, up from $106 million in 1997, according to the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture. Also, 1,619 farms in the county had 5,501 tractors on site that's more than three per operation. A little more than 600 local farms had 1,280 tractors with 100 horsepower or greater power, according to the Census, compiled every five years by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Loren Steiner tightened and loosened gaps on a 4240 John Deere as part of an engine overhaul. Back in 1978, when the tractor was new, the model cost about $18,000. Today, a comparable tractor would run more than $100,000, Loren Steiner said. "And the price of commodities has not gone up since '78," he added. An engine overhaul can take 40 labor hours or more. Loren Steiner hoped to have the 4240 completed by the end of the day. His brother focused his attention on the restoration of a 1936 Deere, power washing a cylinder head to remove years of dirt and oil deposits. He already installed new rings and pistons and planned to have the engine re-assembled later in the day. Then, he would have to sandblast the frame and add sheet metal for the body shell. Spring and autumn generally are the most hectic times for the business. Larry Steiner said he and his brother repair a dozen or more tractors during harvest time. Occasionally, they make house calls to get implements back into fields faster. "You can have three or four different colored tractors in here (at one time)," Loren Steiner said. Larry Steiner worked within sight of the house where he grew up and the barn where his parents milked about 50 cows. "The farm has been in the family for several generations," he said. He doesn't know how much longer his and other families can stay on multi-generation farms, however. The changing economics of agriculture and the tax burden associated with inheritance are making it difficult to preserve family operations. "It presents a real problem for farms staying in the family for generations," Larry Steiner said. For the present, the brothers focused on the projects at hand, pushing to finish before sunset. But the Steiners have to stay flexible to meet other business demands. "You can get a lot of interruptions here," Larry Steiner said. "We are the secretary. We take the calls. We do the whole business." Market Watch Andrei Dordea is a white-collar guy with bib overall dreams. Growing up, he remembers visiting a friend's grandparents' farm, and he baled hay as a teen-ager. Today, Dordea occasionally visits a friend's longhorn cattle farm in eastern Ohio, and he's enjoyed opportunities to visit with area producers. Retiring to a small hobby farm would be nice, he said. For the present, however, he must find agricultural contentment through daily newspaper and radio market reports. Dordea is finance director for the city of Wooster, a position that involves evaluating a variety of national, state and local economic indicators. On the national level, he watches unemployment rates and other statistics. At the state and local level, he scrutinizes housing starts and building permits and the like. Since taking the helm of the finance department a couple of years ago, Dordea also has made it a point to check commodity prices, hog numbers and other agricultural statistics. Wayne County ranked third in the state in farm commodity sales last year, totaling $162 million, according to the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service. The county ranks first in cattle and calves, milk cows and hay, second in sheep and lambs and oats and ninth in hogs. A rise in commodity prices could mean a few extra dollars for area farmers, who, in turn, might pay down additional debt or invest in more land, equipment or livestock. A drop could translate into less spending at local businesses and, perhaps, a drop in city tax revenues. "(This) sort of stuff impacts the county, which impacts the city," he said. Throughout each week, Dordea listens to radio farm reports and reads prices and statistics in newspapers and at agriculture-related Web sites "Any type of market news," he said. He considers the indicators when making budget projections and recommendations for the city. But translating agricultural market trends isn't an exact science. "It fluctuates wildly," Dordea said, adding later, "It is just one piece. ... You've got to look at all of (the indicators) together." Cutting Beans Dave Dotterer made a second pass through a soybean field north of Rittman. In spots, there were few plants to run through his big red Case combine. "Conditions weren't real good at planting time," he said, referring to persistent rains that hampered early crop development and drove some farmers to replant soggy fields. But other parts of the parcel were flush with stalks and fuzzy pods fat with soybeans. In fact, Dotterer said he's averaging yields of 50-55 bushels per acre a good number in any year. According to the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service's Oct. 1 survey, soybean yields statewide averaged 46 bushels per acre, up 7.5 bushels from last year. If realized, production would top 203 million bushels, a new state record. As of last week, soybeans statewide were 94 percent mature, about five days behind last year and eight behind the five-year average, according to the statistics service. About 73 percent of the crop was harvested, about one day behind 2003 and four behind the five-year average. Dotterer was a little behind schedule but making headway. He cut a path through a field he rents near the Medina County line. On one side, yellowed plants were ready to harvest; on the other, darker stalks, planted later in the season, would need more time to dry. Dotterer waits until the moisture content of the soybeans is about 15 percent or less to begin harvesting. Farmers can split pods and crush beans in their fingers or bite into them to determine crop progress. Implements also have moisture and yield meters, giving producers exact measurements of water content at the time of harvest. Soybeans can soak up water throughout harvest time, so Dotterer often waits until early afternoon (after the sun has dried dew) to begin cutting. He stops before the evening dew settles. "Some nights, you're done at 8:30, 9 p.m.," he said. The combine has a rotary system that cuts the plants, splits the pods and shoots the beans into a storage bin. The leftover chaff and field debris is blown out the back. From his combine seat, Dotterer could see traffic speeding along state Route 57 and construction crews working on a new car dealership being built nearby. His semi-truck was parked on a country road in the other direction, within reach of the combine for unloading. Dotterer made a couple of passes through the field, then dumped his harvest into the trailer. He hoped to complete the field and start another before the end of the day. He planned to truck the beans back to his Sterling farm for more drying and storage. The beans will be transported to a processor this winter. Some of the crop will return to Wayne County later as livestock feed. Little Doggies Just north of Wooster, at the end of a new subdivision road lined with the types of big houses that are sprouting on frontage lots throughout the county, Ron Hovanec and his wife, Julie, are establishing a specialty livestock farm. "So far, I haven't had a single neighbor complain," he said. A couple of years ago, the couple moved to the Wayne Township site after selling the New Pittsburg-area dairy farm they'd operated for about 14 years. Not wanting to get out of farming entirely, they purchased 40 acres near a growing rural neighborhood. "(That space was) going to be everybody's backyards," Hovanec said of pasture land in front of his home. Hovanec's principal job involves trading milk futures. On the side he tends about 39 beef cattle. It's a small herd. Talk about little doggies. "This is a 2-year-old cow," he said, motioning to a Lowline Angus, one of the miniature cattle he raises as breeding stock. At full size, the black cows stand less than 42 inches tall. Some are shorter than a yard stick. They're a lot different than the 60 or so Holsteins he and his wife used to milk. And typical beef cattle stand a couple of feet taller. The miniature breeds have their advantages, Hovanec said. Studies have shown they can produce more meat per acre than regular beef cattle. The animals are more docile, too. "One likes to have her back scratched," he said, later demonstrating on said animal. Because of their smaller stature, the cattle are easier on the land and produce less manure. And the best part for the Hovanecs: It takes a lot less time to complete feeding and other daily chores, compared to the full day of activity required when milking cows. During the summer, pasture grasses provide the bulk of their diet, requiring even less work. Hovanec and his wife can do the morning chores in about 15 minutes. They finished the evening feeding routine, which included hauling hay by tractor out to the pasture, in about 45 minutes. "It's a lot different to go (from) 8-10 hours a day to one hour a day," he said. There is at least one major disadvantage to the animals, however. Miniature cattle can be too pet-like, Hovanec warned. "They're cute," he said. "Some people won't eat them." County reporter/Farm Editor Marc Kovac can be reached at (330) 287-1645 or e-mail at email@example.com.


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Statues of American soldiers stand at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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I can't believe that it has been 60 years since the end of the Korean "Police Action" (as it was so often called). I have vivid memories of what I saw as a result of the Chosin Reservoir conflict where the Marines were overrun by thousands of Chinese soldiers and had to fight their way to safety. This was in the latter part of 1951.
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Deputy Collins succumbed to injuries received three years earlier when the car he was riding in was struck by a gasoline truck. He and the undersheriff were searching for a witness in an upcoming murder trial when the accident occurred. Deputy Collins suffered severe head and body injuries which lead to his death three years later.
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The Rite of Passage Silver State Academy is planning a new construction project that will replace many of its office and classroom buildings, and which could be completed by the end of the summer.
ROP Program Director Nikki Isaacs said the $2.5 million, 20,000-square-foot project will be to construct office, case management, medical and educational facilities and a new dining room. Three old administrative buildings will be taken down, she said, adding, "It's been strategically planned to eliminate the old construction and old modulars."
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Israel defines itself as a Jewish state, a racist state, and will never accept a non apartheid democracy with a Jewish minority. Continuing illegal annexations, settlement expansion and ethnic cleansing have also precluded any negotiated two state solution. Justice may now be served only by imposing resolution just as involuntary, disruptive and humiliating to Israel as Israel has wreaked upon occupied Palestine for generations. The Jewish State must be forced, by whatever means necessary, to recognize an armed Palestine with externally enforced autonomy, eviction of all settlers, true contiguity encompassing Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem together, neither pinched nor parceled, and pay punitive reparations. American foreign policy may then again serve American interests, not the Jewish state's paranoid pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and racist empire in and beyond the Mideast.
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Johanna Vuoksenmaa's popular comedy drama Upswing (Nousukausi) topped the list of nominations for the Finnish film organisation Filmiaura's coveted Jussi awards.
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They Don't Want To Eat Your Brains; They Just Want To Rock
The Zombies, despite their completely terrifying moniker, are not scary at all. That is, of course, unless amazing psychedelic rock gives you a particular fright. Starting in England 1964, they made a hit or two, "She's Not There" and "Tell Her No," they released only three albums (one of which was a hodgepodge of singles and unreleased materials,) never invaded the United States with the other British bands, and broke up in 1967. But that third album… what an album. The Zombies pulled together to make Odessey and Oracle [sic]. Though one of the best albums ever made, at the time, O&O almost didn't get a U.S. release, and only did in 1968 at the intervention and insistence of Al Kooper, and let's just be glad he was around.
The album features beautiful harmonies, jazz-inspired piano, songs that range from wistful and sunny to provocative and dramatic. While most casual listeners of any oldies station will recognize "Time of the Season," so many other songs like the bouncy "Care of Cell 44," the sad "A Rose for Emily" (whose lyrics hold thematic similarities to Eleanor Rigby,) and the truly wonderful "I Want Her She Wants Me" really steal the show.
The Zombies released Odessey and Oracle in 1967 along with so many other psychedelic classics like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Days of Future Passed, Headquarters, Surrealistic Pillow, The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Doors, the aborted Beach Boys' project Smile (with some tracks featured on their box set,) Are You Experienced?, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and yet, in this year of amazing music, Odessey and Oracle stands at the top of the heap.
On a side note, the 1998 30th Anniversary Edition, like many anniversary editions of mid-sixties records, contains both the mono and stereo mixes.


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Clean yellow borders matching the envelope lining light up the simplicity of this classic invitation. Left aligned names and right-aligned texts make the over-all layout neat and graceful.
Dimensions 5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″
Paper Type: White in 250 gsm
Envelope: With yellow lining and dry embossed names
Print Process: Thermography
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The brand's biggest drop-top gets a brand new face for its mid-cycle refresh.
With its sculptured skin, gullwing doors and plugin-in hybrid drivetrain, BMW looks to the future with its new i8.
It's not a bird, and we're pretty sure it's no plane, but we've just sat behind the wheel of the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and it's one of the flyest cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show
We've received a batch of photos of Mercedes-Benz's revival of the 300SL Gullwing, the SLS AMG.
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Mercedes-Benz released additional details about and pictures of the 2012 SLS AMG Roadster. The roadster will make its U.S. debut this fall.
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The watch, issued Wednesday, is in effect from 6 a.m. Thursday until 6 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service in Wilmington said.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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JONESBORO — Mundy's Mill standout running back Rodney Smith will have surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn ACL, which happened in the next to last week of the regular season.
The junior was injured in the first quarter of the Tigers' 35-20 win over Ola on Nov. 2.
Smith will miss the entire baseball season while going through rehab following the surgery. In addition to being a standout football player, Smith was also a top baseball player in the area.
"He is in good spirits," said Patrick Smith, the school's athletic director and Rodney's father. "He will get a chance if the rehab goes well to play some summer baseball."
Smith rushed for 1,575 yards and 18 touchdowns before the injury. In the Ola game, he had seven carries for 196 yards and two touchdowns.
With Smith out the following week, the Tigers lost 15-3 to Northgate in a region play-in game to end their season with a 4-6 record.
His best game this season was a 301-yard rushing effort in a 32-31 win over Drew, which included four touchdowns. He also had a 274-yard rushing effort against Mount Zion.
Mundy's Mill started the season with an 0-4 record, but won four of its last five games to finish second in Region 4-AAAAA, Div. A.
Smith will also be missed on the baseball team, where he was an all-region second baseman for the Tigers, who are coached by his father. He has played on the varsity since his freshman year at the school.
Last season, he hit .429 with three home runs and 18 RBIs for the playoff team. He also had 16 stolen bases and seven doubles. It was the second straight season that he had batted at least .400.
"We are going to miss his big production," Patrick Smith said. "Rodney is one of the leaders on the team."
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Duquesne University professor George Yancy will present "Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms" Tuesday, Feb. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m. at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, in Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery.
Yancy's lecture is free and open to the public.
Yancy is the author or editor of 15 books and two-time award winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Prize. He works primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies and philosophy of the Black experience. He is particularly interested in the formation of African-American philosophical thought as articulated within the social context and historical space of anti-Black racism, African-American agency and identity formation.
His current work has focused on the theme of whiteness and how it constitutes a site of embedded social reality and a site of opacity. He links these two foci to such themes as white subject formation, white epistemic ways of knowing/not knowing, privilege and hegemony, and forms of white spatial bonding as processes of white solidarity and interpellation.
As co-editor of The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, he believes in the significance of black philosophical voices, and black knowledge production, as sites of conceptual and existential transformative possibilities. He also serves as an ex officio member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy.
This event is part of the college's programming to foster inclusive excellence. Learn more at www.lvc.edu/inclusive-excellence.


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It gave him, writes Sykes, "the ability to become his own craftsman."
There are 17 processes herein, which collectively take four years for a craftsman to master.
People take for granted how skilled he was as a craftsman, the simplicity of the writing, and how naturally it came.
What, we think, as we gaze upward, would the Master have given for such a craftsman?
I was beginning to think you were a craftsman, but I believe you're an artist.
To the craftsman it offers a welcome chance to enlarge his production, but he must be well equipped.
He could picture the shining face of craftsman, the Sunday editor, as he read it!
They were derived from suggestions in the craftsman, and were successfully worked out in remodelling a house.
What kind of house did the retailer and the craftsman occupy?
It seems wonderful (says the author of the craftsman) that the plague was not as peremptorily imputed to the Papists as the fire.


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Clawing Back Time
I have a project to reduce or eliminate some of the things that take up a fair bit of time but which don't seem to provide commensurate benefits. This project advances in fits and starts, but today sees a couple of steps forward.
The second thing I did was to deactivate my Facebook account. That was quickly done, although I did need five attempts before I got a captcha that I could decode to complete the deactivation process.
The other thing, which took most of the day, was to setup a new dspam installation to help in the fight against the incoming deluge. I've been a keen dspam user for ages, ever since I setup a test installation to see if it had promise. Finally, I've updated it to the latest version, put it into place properly, trained it on a corpus of 10k ham and 70k spam that I've carefully assembled over the past few weeks, and am now watching it do an almost perfect job.
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November 30, 2015
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Topeka Police are looking for the man who stabbed a Topeka teen early Sunday morning. Seventeen year-old Eddie Gordon was walking in the 1300 block of of SE 4th St. when, according to police, two men approached him.
A fight then broke out between the three during the course of which Mr. Gordon was stabbed by an unknown object. Family members took him to the hospital and police were notified, arriving at the hospital about 4:30 a.m.
Police describe the man who stabbed Mr. Gordon as a white man in his twenties, about 5'7", 210 lbs, with dark hair and "scruffy" facial hair. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.
The man accompanying him was also in his twenties, 5'9", 180 lbs., and was wearing a black t-shirt and a black New York Yankee's cap.
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From a time before paved roads in Door County, the faded writing on the front of this 1910-era postcard seems to say 'Shore Drive, Ellison Bay.'
75 Years Ago: 1938
? Door County entertained an estimated 15,000 cherry blossom visitors last weekend.
? Silverdale School will close with a picnic May 27. The teacher, Mrs. Annabel Muckian, has had a successful year and has been engaged to teach again next year.
? Herbert Foth of South Sturgeon Bay Town has several men employed getting material ready for the barn that will be raised sometime next month.
? At a special meeting of the Sturgeon Bay City Council, Mayor D.W. Reynolds and City Clerk E.S. Ackerman were authorized to sign the first WPA project secured by the new administration, a proposal to spend $440,782 for the improvement of parks and playgrounds.
? The Brussels High School band, entering its first district tournament, won a first in Class D in concert work at Manitowoc. Miss Dorothy Brenner is the director.
? Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knaapen have purchased the former Herbert Reynolds house on the corner of Minor Street and Lawrence Avenue and are renovating the place.
? A.K. Frederick, who was recently engaged as manager of the Fruit Growers Cooperative, will be introduced to stockholders for the first time at the annual meeting of the cooperative Saturday.
? Being disorderly at the Door County HI-Way club dance at Forestville last Saturday night cost Raymond Schley, 24, a $5 fine, $6.30 in court costs and a pair of new leather putties for Officer Paul Roble.
? Miss Marcella Stauber has opened a beauty shop in the Matzke building on South Cedar Street.
? Sherman Larson, 25, son of Sophus Larson of Nasewaupee, died of a spinal ailment after a long illness.
? Deaths: Con Jensen, Sturgeon Bay; Mrs. Robert Fox, 46, Pittsburgh.
? Births: A son to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Haberli, Egg Harbor, May 16; daughters to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Steinscifer, Fish Creek, May 17; M/M Joseph Schlise, Forestville, May 14.
? Wed: Joseph Vandertie and Lillian Gilson, Brussels.
100 Years Ago: 1913
? The Men's Club of Ephraim has declared war on grasshoppers. In the past few years the pests have become so numerous as to destroy entire fields of crops. While they do not seem to bother other parts of the county, Ephraim has a veritable plague of the insects and the men are determined to wipe them out.
? The fight for the postmastership on the West Side was settled on Thursday, when the name of Alderman William R. Stephan was sent to the senate for confirmation.
? Chief of Police Fritschler was on Tuesday afternoon notified by the sheriff of Menominee County that one Barness Liski, who was wanted for the attempted murder of his sweetheart, was thought to have crossed the bay in a gasoline launch to Sturgeon Bay. Officials reported that the man in question proposed marriage and when he was refused shot his would-be wife with a revolver. Fortunately the young woman was saved from death by the medallion she was wearing around her neck.
? The premises around the electric light plant are being beautified by Engineer George Wright and his firemen.
? The high water of the present spring has proven a great inconvenience to those owning boathouses along the bay shore.
? Ole Oleson, second assistant at the Plum Island light, has been transferred to Beaver Island, and Robert G. Young has taken his place.
? Maple Avenue and St. John Street in Sturgeon Bay are scheduled to be macadamized this year.
? Death: Ole Abrahamson, 67, Gardner; Arthur L. Aullsberg, 1 month, 7 days, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Hatch, Sturgeon Bay; Theodore Jacobs, 59, West Side; Mrs. Herman, 76, Sevastopol.
? Births: Sons to Mr. and Mrs. James Lamson, Sturgeon Bay; Mr. and Mrs. George Saaler, Sturgeon Bay; M/M Carl Berger, Sturgeon Bay; M/M William Remillard, Sturgeon Bay; M/M Albert Kimber, Sturgeon Bay; M/M Frank Shmejkel, Sturgeon Bay; daughters to Dr. and Mrs. Hilton, Sturgeon Bay.
125 Years Ago: 1888
? The contract for doing the stone and brick work on the new Catholic schoolhouse has been awarded to Frank Destree for $950.
? Door County was visited by a snow storm on Sunday morning that threatened to repeat itself on Monday when the area received snow and sleet, followed by temperatures below freezing. This is undoubtedly the coldest and most backward spring since this region was first settled. Certainly it has never been heard that snow would be received at this latitude in the middle of May.
? The latest Door County veteran to be placed on the pension roll is Van Ransselaer Marshall, of Egg Harbor. Rans was among the first to enlisted, and at the great battle of Shiloh, Tenn., fought on the 6th of April, a minnie ball carried away one side of his jaw.
? Court Street between Spruce and Pine streets will be graveled and put in good condition for travel.
? Work on the new sewer along the north side of Spruce Street has begun, and the improvement will be pushed along as rapidly as weather permits.
? Dry wood is at a premium in Sturgeon Bay, and if the weather continues as cold and damp as it has been much longer, people will really suffer for fuel.
? It has been reported that thousands of men have been temporarily thrown out of employment at Marinette and Menominee by the flooding of the Menominee River.
? We are saddened to hear of the passing of an old and highly respected resident of Jacksonport. Victor LeClair Sr., 60, was struck by an apparent heart attack as he sat fishing along the beach.
? Deaths: August F. Poehler, 69, Sevastopol.
? Births: A son to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sweatman, Sturgeon Bay, May 11.
150 Years Ago: 1863
? Our ferry is now in first rate working order. Schjoth has given notice that he will ferry across the soldiers' wives free while their husbands are away fighting for the Union.
? Jacob Crass has arrived home on a short furlough from the 12th Regiment. Crass looks rugged and healthy and reports that all of the boys are well and in fine spirits.
? The brave young men who ran away to Canada to avoid the draft and the war are in for a surprise, as the Canadian Parliament has introduced a bill for the return of all United States deserters.
? General Grant has captured Jackson, Miss., and cut off the rebel retreat from Vicksburg by the railroad in that area.


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Nope, cost isn't the answer, technology architecture isn't the answer, and security isn't the answer either. In fact, no one answer is correct, but in some cases all of them are. The first priority for the business is running a successful enterprise. The first priority for IT is to provide solutions that help the enterprise achieve that success however the business chooses to measure it. In other words, the right answer is the one that best enables the success of business objectives. The right answer could be private, public, mainframe or all of the above, and that answer will be dynamic, just as modern business is.
Common Private vs. Public Cloud Decision Themes
There are a wide range of requirements that the industry and those of us who write about cloud have used to try and convince you are always best. I'm here to say that there is no "always" when it comes to picking IT solutions and cloud is no exception.
Public Cloud Themes
Private Cloud Themes
|Massive scale requirements
|Geo-Distribution requirements
|Support structure
|Speed of access & delivery
|Steady consistent business growth
|Ecosystem of partners
|Support structure
|Well understood usage
|Ecosystem of partners
|Elasticity at scale
|Speed of access & delivery
|Compliance requirements
|Compliance requirements
|Rapid Business Growth
|Legacy Applications & Infrastructure
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No, your eyes aren't deceiving you what you're seeing in the above table is in fact true, many of the supposed "drivers" for selecting public vs. private (in the right circumstances) apply to both options. The magic is in where and how each of the above variables applies and what importance they should be given.
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Scenario 1: 20 plus year old mid-size enterprise (Not internet driven)
|1000 plus legacy applications
|Many won't be moved to cloud (any cloud) for 5 years or more
|Small IT team with limited developer skills
|Likely to want packaged solutions that allow them to gain rapid benefit, even with a cost premium
|Well Understood Usage
|Applications are well understood in the usage characteristics (limited short term scale needs)
|Having limited elasticity requirements means the "massive" scale of public cloud doesn't provide additional value
|Agility in moderation
|Agility is desired for competitive advantage
|Rapid delivery is important but not measured the same way as an internet driven business (Days vs. months is OK).
|Steady moderate growth
|Business growth of 7% or less CAGR
|Growth implies fewer surprises for IT requirements at scale
|No real geo distribution needs
|Limited geographic diversity requirements of apps
|Have a few locations but primary app usage is at HQ
The likely answer for Scenario 1 is private cloud, with public cloud used for a few applications and some development. The fact that the majority of workloads are well understood and don't experience significant usage spikes means that a slightly over provisioned private cloud environment is likely more cost effective in the long run. The limited size and experience of the team also means they would most likely benefit from a packaged cloud solution (converged infra with a CMP). As speed isn't the primary requirement and there are only a few key office locations the need for a widely distributed public cloud based application set is diminished as well. The focus for new applications should be on SaaS wherever possible.
Scenario 2: 7 year old internet facing business
|Legacy Apps
|Limited set of legacy applications
|Active projects underway to retire all of them as opportunity provides
|Good sized IT team focused on enabling an internet driven business model
|Focused on solutions that can scale and scale at a manageable cost.
|Elasticity, Geo-Diversity, Support structure
|Primary applications are internet facing and each of them can vary wildly in use depending on product launches and seasonal buying patterns
|Elasticity at scale is critical, along with an ability to rapidly deliver updates.
|Agility is desired for competitive advantage
|Agility is measured in hours vs. days and applies to the entire company
|Rapid growth, geo-distributed, Internet oriented
|Business growth of 15% or more CAGR
|Growth can be volatile and difficult to plan for
|Widely distributed work force with developers and contributors in offices all over the world. Also, a customer base that is globally distributed and dynamic.
|Geo-Diversity is critical for application, performance and fault tolerance
In scenario 2 the primary usage characteristics for the company (global distribution, speed to market, many locations for customers and staff/engineering) suggests that the focus should be put on utilizing public cloud for most solutions. If there are internal focused applications that are fairly steady in their use, then the addition of hybrid and or private cloud could make sense.
Scenario 3: 20 plus year old large financial Institution
|Legacy Applications
|1000s of custom built applications, some delivering millions in revenue
|Some projects to retire or move applications to stateless environments. Heavy focus on building new apps for cloud. Many existing apps impossible to move to public cloud
|Large IT team focused on enabling large scale cost effective performance oriented infrastructure
|Solutions that scale, potentially involve staff investment in open source (I.e., OpenStack/CloudStack/RedHat/Automation, etc)
|Elasticity, Geo-Diversity, Support structure
|Extreme elasticity applies to a few key apps for trading, Monte Carlo, big data analytics etc.
|In some cases this could be handled by public cloud/grid infrastructure. Some applications will be better suited in hybrid/private cloud
|Agility is a driver like most businesses, but is not the sole reason for cloud operations.
|Agility is measured in days vs. months
|Steady growth, geo-distributed, heavy IT investment
|Business growth of approximately 12% CAGR
|Growth is fairly well understood
|Widely distributed work force with developers and contributors in offices all over the world. Also, a customer base that is globally distributed and dynamic.
|Geo-Diversity is critical for application, performance and fault tolerance
|Heavy regulatory and compliance based risks
|Require contractual guarantee with providers or internal solutions
With scenario 3 the environment is fairly complex and doesn't fit into a single solution. The fact that they have a strong IT team and fairly large internal set of applications means private cloud is a real option for them. They are also likely in a position to be able to develop unique private cloud environments instead of focusing on pre-packaged converged infrastructure. However, public cloud is potentially an ideal solution for some of the customer focused applications and or applications requiring elasticity at scale. An open item is compliance; using public cloud would depend on the provider's credentials along with usage trends for any given application.
It Depends
As you can see from the definitions of each company's unique environment and how those unique needs help define the priorities and strategy for technology adoption, there isn't a one size fits all option for cloud. My belief is that for the next 5-10 years we're likely to see the majority of companies with over 200 employees using a hybrid set of cloud based solutions, which include private, public, hybrid and SaaS. Farther down the road, who knows, maybe we'll get to the magical low cost commodity cloud that will suit all.
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A gathering of family and friends of Thomas E. Morasch, 52, Leavenworth, met on Nov. 12 at the Centennial Center, Bonner Springs.
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Second Gold Medal for Croatia in London: Giovanni Cernogoraz is Olympic Champion!
Croatian shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz won a gold medal at the Games in London. Anton Glasnovic has completed the final, at the 6th place.
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- If I win Olympic medal, the restaurant will arrange a big party. I will certainly invite some friends from Croatian Olympic village – said before the competition.
It is now clear that Novigrad expects big party. Is there some secret?
- Finals are shooting at one shot, where I am in fact quite good. A lot of shooters then have bigger psychological pressure where I am in better position – said Giovanni.
Olympics, shooting, Trap:
1. Cernogoraz – Croatia
2. Fabbrizi – Italia
3. Aldeehani – Kuwait
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Students vs Nick Clegg – Who'll Win?
I think David Mitchell has it pretty much right about university students, their demonstrations and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and his pre-election lies:
Student "unrest" is embarrassing for the coalition because even its slavish supporters in the press can't resist talking up a bit of pushing as if it heralds revolution. A few short clips of jerkily televised vandalism make the government look like it's failing to govern. The fact that more damage gets done to public property every day by people turning round quickly while holding something hot is irrelevant. A photo of broken glass is a thousand times more politically threatening than a kid with an unwise haircut whining about his allowance.
Another reason to support the fisticuffs is that Nick Clegg doesn't like it at all. Before last Wednesday's demonstrations, he appealed for people to "examine our proposals before taking to the streets. Listen and look before you march and shout". Sounds like a protesters' green cross code.
One of the many problems with the proposals is that you need to examine them so carefully before you realise that they're not quite as awful as they initially seem. The fact that the vast amount of debt that students will accrue will only be repayable when they earn more than £21,000 a year and will be written off after 30 years of failing to do so elevates the scheme from an utter disgrace to a huge disappointment. But this scant silver lining is barely noticeable. Kids, especially from poorer backgrounds, will just see the giant cloud of future debt and infer that higher education isn't a welcome opportunity but a big financial gamble.
Very well put indeed. As he put it earlier, of course the demo wasn't going to hit the newspapers without something controversial happening. I don't imagine for a moment that the NUS' strategy ever involved attacking the Tories' Millbank HQ, but the fact is that event changed the entire tone of the stand-off to one which suddenly matters. The fact is too that his final line is especially poignant. Yes the Browne Report isn't the total disaster on paper which many students and commentators are attacking, but what's been noticeable from those arguing against the student demonstrators has been their dismissal of the massive increase in future debt, and how the now inevitable variation in tuition fees across the country will skew the entire higher education system.
Under Browne everything will be skewed on class grounds. When Oxbridge, the LSE and others surely start charging extortionate amounts, which in the future will be much harder to pay back unless you're from a wealthy background, as Mitchell puts it, kids from poorer backgrounds, with a completely different experience of money and debt, will be more predisposed to going to universities which charge less (and which have lesser reputations – a crucial factor in the age where even this government wants 50% of young people to go to university) to avoid the crushing debt. We'll end up with a two-tier education system. Didn't Clegg want to abandon tuition fees to prevent this? Why is it ideologically correct for graduates to be saddled with ever greater debt?
I remain confused why so few commentators seem to grasp why the students are angry. I've seen them accused of stupidity, jumping on bandwagons, political naivety and ignorance, but that's not my experience of the main body of them. Michael Chessum and Jonathan Moses put their case very effectively:
mobilise we must. The coalition's proposals represent a nigh irreversible transformation of higher education, and the commodification of knowledge and learning. Dressed in the semantics of deficit reduction, it has been easy to play one sector off against another. Yet, as a recent report by the Higher Education Policy Institute acknowledged, these measures will increase public expenditure through this parliament and into the next. It is ideology, not necessity, that ultimately informs the coalition's agenda.
I've argued myself about the commodification of knowledge and learning, and how this will damage civil society. If an outcome of the Big Society is to increase the inequality of access to knowledge, how on earth can Clegg support that? It's an argument unconnected with the education debate, which presupposes that everything has a market value – how can he possibly expect the main body of students to agree with that? Mitchell concludes:
National wealth comes and goes, we have good times and bad. A rarer commodity, one vital to effecting change, is political will. If there's a will for a progressive reform, statesmen instinctively find a way. That's why Clement Attlee persevered with setting up the welfare state in the late 1940s, even though the country had never been poorer. He sensed that, if he waited for better economic times, the political will would have gone. In this less statesmanlike era, when the political will existed to reform the banking system in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, the government bottled it and now the Tories are in and the will is gone.
The student protests just might be demonstrating a growing political will to reform our higher education system, to have it paid for out of income tax. I think that would be fairer. Maybe it's unrealistic but it's what happened until 12 years ago before the proliferation of courses. If, as a nation, we really cared about higher education, we'd find the money. If the Lib Dems cared half as much as they claimed, they'd welcome this movement.
And the Higher Education Policy Institute concludes of the proposed changes:
The reality is that we cannot safely extrapolate from the introduction of fees in 1998, and then their increase to current levels, to predict the effect of the new arrangements. It seems quite plausible that some potential students will be deterred from entering higher education, but we do not know how many. Their actual impact will depend to a large extent on perceptions. To the extent that loans are not distinguished from ordinary debt from banks, then fees will act as a deterrent. How the new arrangements are described and "sold" will be crucial.
And that's the battle going on, which is being played out 0n a weekly basis on the streets. Nick Clegg was elected on a platform of being the one party leader who wouldn't lie, yet look where we are now. The fury at his and his party's betrayal is only likely to grow, the more he publicly embraces a political ideology alien to the majority of students, many of whom voted for him. Granted there are still calls of 'Tory scum', which as I said the other week are entirely misplaced (Browne was a Labour idea), but this appears to sit on top of a broad identification by most students that Browne (as Mitchell agrees) isn't the only possible solution to the problem of university funding in the middle of the economic crisis. The Higher Education Policy Institute rightly points out that it's impossible at this stage to determine the impact of the imposition of Browne, and which side in this increasingly angry debate eventually wins out will no doubt be determined by how eager the coalition is to repress rebellion – the evidence of the last weeks suggests it'll just get uglier. Either way, if the coalition really doesn't budge I can't imagine how Clegg will manage to keep his job as Lib Dem leader for much longer.
We Should Not Marketise Knowledge
Given the Tories' support for Tony Blair's education policies, it's hardly surprising to see them accelerating under the ConDem coalition, particularly under these economic conditions. Jonathan Freedman has responded to Business Secretary Vince Cable's announcement of the government's plans for funding higher education:
They show just how "transactional" this government's view of citizenship really is: that it boils down to a cold calculation of what you as an individual put in and what you as an individual get out.
That is the premise for both John Browne's report into tuition fees and the debate that's followed. The starting assumption has been that a university education is to be viewed solely as a personal asset, and those lucky enough to get it should foot the bill. Not upfront, because that's politically unpalatable, but afterwards in the form of a personal debt. What's more, says Browne, the more prestigious the course or university, the more recipients should pay, since their personal earning power will be enhanced. There has been much talk about the mechanics of payback – when and at what rate – but few have contested Browne's premise: that students are essentially consumers who should pay for services they receive – the more upmarket, the higher the price.
Yet this is a radical departure from how we once conceived the public realm. Before Tony Blair introduced tuition fees, higher education was seen as a social good, enriching our whole society rather than merely an individual's future salary. It sounds quaint now, but the purpose of universities was to hand down to the next generation the stock of human knowledge and add to it. They were about learning rather than earning.
And this is the true iniquity of what's taking place under the cover of 'necessary' cuts. We could end Trident, institute a Robin Hood tax and make this entire issue redundant, but of course that's not what's happening. What's happening is ideological, not a financial necessity. The bankers created this problem, yet we're told the solution is to cripple the next generation with debt which isn't theirs. But instead why not withdraw this New Labour nonsense of pushing 50% of young people into university, whilst shutting down the legions of Mickey Mouse degrees like Media Studies or International Football Business Management? Aaron Porter, president of the National Union of Students has said:
that graduates would be shouldered with "crippling" debts and universities faced with "devastation". Lord Browne responded by saying that the 20 per cent of lowest earning graduates would actually be paying less under his proposal – with the threshold to trigger repayments being raised to £21,000 a year.
However, an analysis by the Social Market Foundation said students able to pay up front and avoid a loan could pay as much as £12,000 less than a middle-income graduate. It was this that prompted Mr Cable's pledge to consider a charge for early repayment.
So the immediate outcome is likely to be greater social inequality. Take a look at a snapshot of what students think:
Lauren Harris, 20, a student at Highbury college in Portsmouth, said she would give up her dream of going to Southampton Solent University if fees increased by as much as Lord Browne is recommending.
"If it's six or seven grand for a year plus the £5,000 debt I already have I probably won't do it. I'll go and get a job instead," she said.
The daughter of a lorry driver, Harris would have been the first in her family to go to university. "I wanted to go. I want to better myself. But I won't start my working life with a big debt."
She bridles at the idea that the proposed reforms would put students more in control. "It's the elite students who will be in control. They know they will be able to pay their loans back and if they can't, their rich parents will do it. It restricts people from poorer families going to university. It's not fair."
If we get into the state where going to university is only about increasing your earning potential in your future career, there will be consequences. Research and learning will suffer, as degree programmes warp around the overriding necessity of needing to provide employability for the highest earning careers only. Who'll need history? Who'll need journalism? Who'll need to study the classics? Some languages? There will become a marketplace for knowledge, which will damage the public sphere fundamentally. We'll also end up with an entrenched two-tier university system, which Simon Heffer agrees with:
A young person faced with substantial and expensive debt to finance a university education will ask him or herself: will the education I am going to get be worth it? This is not just a crude calculation about whether the salary likely to be commanded once the degree has been obtained would enable the loan to be repaid easily. It is also about whether the course being considered is likely to be sufficiently stimulating to merit the financial sacrifice. This consideration appears not to exist in the present era of cheap education, otherwise we must presume that a course such as Wastes Management with Dance, offered by Northampton University (a former technical college), would not exist.
And yet the quality of the course won't always be determined by the level of the fees – in fact there will not be any mechanism to ensure that. Heffer is making a hideous assumption that market forces will make these things happen, yet there are seriously entrenched interests at academic and administrative levels geared to prevent that from happening. There's no doubt that all universities will face that pressure, but they'll certainly not all face it equally.
This may result in fewer people choosing to go to university. It ought not to result in fewer talented people going to university. It will mean that people who are not academically gifted will judge that going to work, and learning on the job the skills they need to do it properly, is a far more beneficial use of their time and money than going to something that is allowed to call itself a university, and doing something that is permitted to be called a degree course, when in truth the former remains a vocational training college and the latter nothing but a diploma in a vocational study.
'Ought not' eh? Quite a telling caveat there, and of course we don't have a parallel, Abitur-style vocational option for those not geared up to a university education. In an era of job cuts and a shrinking economy and public sector he's essentially advocating throwing those not geared up for a 'traditional' university education onto the scrapheap. It's a flippant argument which won't wash.
The last Labour government's "target" of getting 50 per cent of young people into something called a "university" was not merely fatuous. It was also highly damaging. It spread precious resources too thinly, especially by diverting them away from able students from poor backgrounds. It devalued the notion of a university and of a degree. It misled employers and, most tragically, misled many students. Not every young person wants to go to university to enjoy three years of sex, drugs and alcohol. Quite a few want a qualification that will help them get on in life. In this, many are disappointed. A market will now operate, and it would be no surprise to see some institutions go out of business. It would serve them right.
It would serve them right eh? The 50% target did devalue the notion of a degree, no question about it, but not for the reason he cites – it's got nothing to do with a misallocation of resources. Employers used to decide employability based on whether or not candidates had a degree because it meant they were more likely to have more highly developed critical faculties. The 50% target has meant that more able undergraduates have had to get Masters degrees from more elite institutions, as employers have found themselves unable to determine the value of undergraduate degrees, dumbed down as many have often become. Heffer says the decisions made by undergraduates post-Browne are more likely to be even more marketised – that's true to an extent, but they'll without question be more socially stratified. Undergraduates will rush for elite institutions for courses they see as more likely to earn enough to pay back their crushing debt more easily. No doubt law will win out, perhaps maths and engineering-related subjects, but what about English literature or Astrophysics?
These plans will mean the marketisation of knowledge, which will be socially detrimental to us all. Browne, if implemented by the ConDems would mean a dramatic increase in inequality of access to knowledge, but it would also undermine the social desirability of knowledge. It used to be a vital and essential commodity to the public sphere; to squeeze it out as desirable in and of itself, on the spurious presumption that it is fair game to be subjected to market forces because 'in these economic times nothing else matters', would put us on the same slippery slope which America is sliding headlong down. Not every aspect of public life should be allowed to be commodified.


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