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Fort Worth Stockyards
For the drovers heading the cattle up the Chisholm trail to the railheads, Fort Worth was the last major stop for rest and supplies. Beyond Fort Worth they would have to deal with crossing the Red River into Indian Territory. Between 1866 and 1890 more than four million head of cattle were trailed through Fort Worth, which was soon known as "Cowtown." Cowtown soon had its own disreputable entertainment district several blocks south of the Courthouse area known all over the West as "Hell's Half Acre".
When the railroad finally arrived in 1876, Fort Worth became a major shipping point for livestock. This prompted plans in 1887 for the construction of the Union Stockyards about two and one half miles north of the Tarrant County Courthouse. It went into full operation about 1889.
Because the Union Stockyards company lacked the funds to buy enough cattle to attract local ranchers, President Mike C. Hurley invited a wealthy Boston capitalist Greenleif Simpson to Fort Worth in hopes he would invest in the Union Stock Yards. When Simpson arrived on the heels of heavy rains and a railroad strike, more cattle than usual had accumulated in the pens. Seeing this, he decided that Fort Worth represented a good market and made plans to invest. Simpson invited other investors to join him, one of whom was a Boston neighbor, Louville V. Niles whose primary business was meatpacking. On April 27, 1893, Simpson bought the Union Stockyards for $133,333.33 and changed the name to the Fort Worth Stockyards Company.Fort Worth Stockyards Company
It soon became apparent that instead of shipping to other markets to process the cattle, it would be much more desirable to keep more of the business in Fort Worth by having local packing plants. A search began to lure major packers to the City. By about 1900, after much work by local businessmen, both Armour & Co. and Swift & Co. were persuaded to build plants adjacent to the Stockyards.
Construction began in 1902, but not until after the exact site of each plant was decided by a flip of the coin. Armour won the toss and selected the northern site and Swift began to build on the southern tract, which was the site of the original Livestock Exchange and Hotel. Swift & Co. received an unexpected financial bonus when a large gravel pit was found on the southern site that was ultimately used in the construction of both plants.
The new Livestock Exchange Building in its present location, as well as the pens and the barns, were also started in 1902. The new building was designed to house the many livestock commission companies, telegraph offices, railroad offices and other support businesses.
While construction was underway, the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company, which now included the two meat packers, incorporated much of the area north of the river adjacent to the Stockyards as North Fort Worth. In 1909 the City of Fort Worth annexed the new city with the exception of the Stockyards and the packing house property.
Business boomed with the opening of the packing houses. Armour and Swift bought 265,279 cattle, 128,934 hogs and 40,160 sheep, which brought over six million dollars into the local economy. A livestock market that drew local farmers and ranchers had finally arrived in Fort Worth.
The Livestock Exchange Building became known as "The Wall Street of the West".
Because of the success of the Stockyards, the necessity for an indoor show facility became obvious. In 1907 construction began on a grand Coliseum that was completed in just 88 working days, in time for the grand opening of the Feeders & Breeders Show. The Coliseum, which today is known as the Cowtown Coliseum, was the home of the first indoor rodeo. It was used for many cultural, social, agricultural and religious events as well.
The Stockyards continued to prosper in spite of droughts and floods. In 1911, after two disastrous fires that killed a large number of the penned livestock, the yards were rebuilt with an eye toward using as much noninflammable material as possible.
In 1911 a new town, Niles City, was chartered and grew up around the Stockyards and packinghouse properties. Niles City was known as "the richest little city in the world" with a property value of 30 million dollars. In 1923 Fort Worth annexed this area.
At the height of World War I in 1917, the Fort Worth Stockyards was the largest horse and mule market in the world. Military officers from Allied countries came to purchase the animals to support their war efforts. Total sales of all livestock continued to grow during the war years.
During World War II, the Fort Worth Stockyards processed 5,277,496 head of livestock making 1944 the peak year of the entire operation. In later years sales at the Stockyards began to decline and by 1969 had dwindled to a mere 1,045,158 head. By 1986, sales reached an all-time low of 57,181 animals.
Many reasons for the decline of the Fort Worth Stockyards can be stated, but one of the largest factors was the rise of the trucking industry on the newly paved roads after World War II. Because of their lower operating costs and greater flexibility, much of the advantage that railroads had in bulk shipping was lost. The market moved to the shipper with the creation of local livestock auctions and feedlots. It was a completely new way of marketing livestock. Not only was Fort Worth affected, all the major packers in the United States struggled with this new way to market livestock.
Both Armour and Swift had huge outdated plants that were straddled with risings costs, wages and administrative expenses. Armour was the first to close their Fort Worth plant in 1962 with Swift hanging on until 1971. Partial demolition followed over the years after several fires.
The unique Armour office building was lost, but the classic Swift headquarters building was put to use as the home of a popular restaurant during the 1970s.
While local auctions continued to be held in the Stockyards, the volume diminished until it was unprofitable to continue. This vibrant part of Fort Worth history fell on hard times as the Stockyards area continued its decline.
In 1976, the North Fort Worth Historical Society, founded by Charlie and Sue McCafferty, was chartered to ensure Fort Worth's livestock heritage would continue and be preserved. Since then, the Society has worked to promote the history of one of the greatest livestock and meatpacking industries in the country.
The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historical District was also established in 1976 and many of the area's landmarks have been restored including the Livestock Exchange Building and the Coliseum. Recently, the historic Swift & Co. headquarters building underwent an almost total restoration.
In 1989, the North Fort Worth Historical Society opened the Stockyards Museum in the historic Exchange Building. It now hosts thousands of visitors from all over the world each year. Its facilities and collection are expanding to handle the ever increasing number of visitors.
Weekly livestock auctions ceased many years ago, but the Stockyards continues to host special breed events and sales including Longhorn auctions. Many thousand of head of cattle are still sold in the Stockyards every week via video/satellite sales originating in the Exchange Building. The livestock legacy lives on.
Today the Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District is one of Texas' most popular tourist destinations. Many events of all kinds are held every year, new businesses and lodgings have been established adding to the history and fun that is the Fort Worth Stockyards . . .
HELL'S HALF ACRE, FORT WORTH. In the later decades of the nineteenth century, Hell's Half Acre became almost a generic name for the red-light district in many frontier towns, including San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Tascosa, Texas. The exact origins of the name are unclear, but in the days of the Republic of Texas it was applied to Webberville, near Austin, because of the community's lawless and immoral reputation. The name did not come into widespread usage, however, until after the Civil War. Returning soldiers may have brought the phrase back with them from such bloody battlefields as Stones River, where it had been applied with a different but equally vivid connotation. As a name for prostitution districts, it was usually shortened to "the Acre," but everyone knew what the abbreviation stood for.
Among the various Hell's Half Acres that dotted the frontier, none was more infamous or more rambunctious than Fort Worth's. The Fort Worth version started during the city's heyday as a drover's stop on the cattle trails to Kansas in the early 1870s. The name first appeared in the local newspaper in 1874, but by that time the district was already well established on the lower end of town, where it was the first thing the trail drivers saw as they approached the town from the south. Here there was an aggregation of one and two story saloons, dance halls, and bawdy houses, interspersed with empty lots and a sprinkling of legitimate businesses. Only those looking for trouble or excitement ventured into the Acre. As one headline put it in a description of a popular saloon there, "They Raise Merry Cain at the Waco Tap." Moreover, the usual activities of the Acre, which included brawling, gambling, cockfighting, and horse racing, were not confined to indoors but spilled out into the streets and back alleys.
As the importance of Fort Worth as a crossroads and cowtown grew, so did Hell's Half Acre. It was originally limited to the lower end of Rusk Street (renamed Commerce Street in 1917) but spread out in all directions until by 1881 the Fort Worth Democrat was complaining that it covered 2½ acres. The Acre grew until it sprawled across four of the city's main north-south thoroughfares: Main, Rusk, Calhoun, and Jones. From north to south, it covered that area from Seventh Street down to Fifteenth (or Front) Street. The lower boundary was marked by the Union Station train depot and the northern edge by a vacant lot at the intersection of Main and Seventh. These boundaries, which were never formally recognized, represented the maximum area covered by the Acre, around 1900. Occasionally, the Acre was also referred to as "the bloody Third Ward" after it was designated one of the city's three political wards in 1876.
Long before the Acre reached its maximum boundaries, local citizens had become alarmed at the level of crime and violence in their city. In 1876 Timothy Isaiah (Longhair Jim) Courtrightqv was elected city marshal with a mandate to tame the Acre's wilder activities. Courtright cracked down on violence and general rowdiness-by sometimes putting as many as thirty people in jail on a Saturday night-but allowed the gamblers to operate unmolested. After receiving information that train and stagecoach robbers, such as the Sam Bass gang, were using the Acre as a hideout, local authorities intensified law-enforcement efforts. Yet certain businessmen placed a newspaper advertisement arguing that such legal restrictions in Hell's Half Acre would curtail the legitimate business activities there. Despite this tolerance from business, however, the cowboys began to stay away, and the businesses began to suffer. City officials muted their stand against vice. Courtright lost support of the Fort Worth Democrat and consequently lost when he ran for reelection in 1879. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s the Acre continued to attract gunmen, highway robbers, card sharks, con men, and shady ladies, who preyed on out-of-town and local sportsmen.
At one time or another reform-minded mayors like H. S. Broiles and crusading newspaper editors like B. B. Paddock declared war on the district but with no long-term results. The Acre meant income for the city-all of it illegal-and excitement for visitors. Possibly for this reason, the reputation of the Acre was sometimes exaggerated by raconteurs; some longtime Fort Worth residents claimed the place was never as wild as its reputation. Suicide was responsible for more deaths than murder, and the chief victims were prostitutes, not gunmen. However much its reputation was exaggerated, the real Acre was bad enough. The newspaper claimed "it was a slow night which did not pan out a cutting or shooting scrape among its male denizens or a morphine experiment by some of its frisky females." The loudest outcries during the periodic clean-up campaigns were against the dance halls, where men and women met, as opposed to the saloons or the gambling parlors, which were virtually all male.
A major reform campaign in the late 1880s was brought on by Mayor Boiles and County Attorney R. L. Carlock after two events. In the first of these, on February 8, 1887, Luke Short and Jim Courtright had a shootout on Main Street that left Courtright dead and Short the "King of Fort Worth Gamblers." Although the fight did not occur in the Acre, it focused public attention on the city's underworld. A few weeks later a poor prostitute known only by the name of Sally was found murdered and nailed to an outhouse door in the Acre. These two events, combined with the first prohibition campaign in Texas, helped to shut down the Acre's worst excesses in 1889.
More than any other factor, urban growth began to improve the image of the Acre, as new businesses and homes moved into the south end of town. Another change was the influx of black residents. Excluded from the business end of town and the nicer residential areas, Fort Worth's black citizens, who numbered some 7,000 out of a total population of 50,000 around 1900, settled into the south end of town. Though some joined in the profitable vice trade (to run, for instance, the Black Elephant Saloon), many others found legitimate work and bought homes.
A third change was in the popularity and profitability of the Acre, which was no longer attracting cowboys and out-of-town visitors. Its visible population was more likely to be derelicts, hoboes, and bums. By 1900 most of the dance halls and gamblers were gone. Cheap variety shows and prostitution became the chief forms of entertainment. The Progressive era was similarly making its reformist mark felt in districts like the Acre all over the country.
In 1911 Rev. J. Frank Norris launched an offensive against racetrack gambling in the Baptist Standard and used the pulpit of the First Baptist Church to attack vice and prostitution. Norris used the Acre both to scourge the leadership of Fort Worth and to advance his own personal career. When he began to link certain Fort Worth businessmen with property in the Acre and announce their names from his pulpit, the battle heated up. On February 4, 1912, Norris's church was burned to the ground; that evening his enemies tossed a bundle of burning oiled rags onto his porch, but the fire was extinguished and caused minimal damage. A month later the arsonists succeeded in burning down the parsonage. In a sensational trial lasting a month, Norris was charged with perjury and arson in connection with the two fires. He was acquitted, but his continued attacks on the Acre accomplished little until 1917. A new city administration and the federal government, which was eyeing Fort Worth as a potential site for a major military training camp, joined forces with the Baptist preacher to bring down the curtain on the Acre finally. The police department compiled statistics showing that 50 percent of the violent crime in Fort Worth occurred in the Acre, a shocking confirmation of long-held suspicions. After Camp Bowieqv was located on the outskirts of Fort Worth in the summer of 1917, martial law was brought to bear against prostitutes and barkeepers of the Acre. Fines and stiff jail sentences curtailed their activities. By the time Norris held a mock funeral parade to "bury John Barleycorn" in 1919, the Acre had become a part of Fort Worth history. The name, nevertheless, continued to be used for three decades thereafter to refer to the depressed lower end of Fort Worth.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fort Worth Daily Democrat, April 10, 1878, April 18, 1879, July 18, 1881. Oliver Knight, Fort Worth, Outpost on the Trinity (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953). Leonard Sanders, How Fort Worth Became the Texasmost City (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1973). Richard F. Selcer, Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red Light District (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1991). F. Stanley [Stanley F. L. Crocchiola], Jim Courtright (Denver: World, 1957).
Because the Union Stockyards Company lacked the funds to buy enough cattle to attract local ranchers, President Mike C. Hurley invited a wealthy Boston capitalist Greenleif Simpson to Fort Worth in hopes that he would invest in the Union Stock Yards. When Simpson arrived on the heels of heavy rains and a railroad strike, more cattle than usual had accumulated in the pens. Seeing this, he decided that Fort Worth represented a good market and made plans to invest. Simpson invited other investors to join him, one of whom was a Boston neighbor, Louville V. Niles whose primary business was meatpacking. On April 27, 1893, Simpson bought the Union Stockyards for $133,333.33 and changed the name to the Fort Worth Stockyards Company.
It soon became apparent that instead of shipping to other markets to process the cattle, it would be much more desirable to keep more of the business in Fort Worth by aving local packing plants. A search began to lure major packers to the City. By about 1900, after much work by local businessmen, both Armour & Co. and Swift & Co. were persuaded to build plants adjacent to the Stockyards.
Construction began in 1902, but not until after the exact site of each plant was decided by a flip of the coin. Armour won the toss and selected the northern site and Swift began to build on the southern tract which was the site of the original Livestock Exchange and Hotel. Swift & Co. received an unexpected financial bonus when a large gravel pit was found on the southern site which was ultimately used in the construction of both plants.


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|Grand Marshalls excited for fair
|Written by Darci Tomky
Elsie and Leo Fisbeck of Paoli are serving as this year's Phillips County Fair Grand Marshalls. —Enterprise photo
"We were excited when they came and told us we were the Grand Marshalls," said Elsie Fisbeck.
This year's Phillips County Fair July 27-Aug. 1 will feature Leo and Elsie Fisbeck as Grand Marshalls, and the couple is looking forward to the upcoming festivities.
"It's a big honor," said Elsie.
The Paoli residents said the county fair has always been a special thing to them.
Leo moved to Paoli as a 2-year-old in 1930. "My dad was a fair-goer," said Leo, noting he's only missed the Phillips County Fair a couple times because of his years in the service. He was in the Army in 1951-52, with one year spent in Korea.
Elsie grew up just across the border in Venango, Neb. and moved to Phillips County in 1948. She graduated from Haxtun High School while Leo was a graduate of Holyoke High School.
The couple has lived in the same house in Paoli since they married in 1954.
Leo spent 35 years working at the Paoli Farmers Co-op Elevator including 23 years in a management position. He has also served on boards for the Town of Paoli, Paoli Gun Club and the Paoli Telephone Office.
The couple has three sons, and Elsie spent her time raising the boys and working around the house. Their sons are Steve who now lives in Gill, Larry and his wife Cynthia of Windsor and Lenny and his wife Tillie of Holyoke.
The Fisbeck boys were in 4-H growing up, another reason to travel to Holyoke for the county fair. Years later, the Fisbecks' grandkids even visited during the summer so they could go to the fair too. Leo and Elsie now have five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Fisbecks recalled a flood around fair time in 1989.Leo and Elsie still managed to spend some time at the fair despite the flood in Paoli.
Other highlights of past fairs have been the entertainment and carnivals. This year, the Grand Marshalls are looking forward to seeing all the people at the Phillips County Fair as well as looking at all the livestock and craft exhibits.
Plan to join the Fisbecks at the 2010 Phillips County Fair and watch as they lead the fair parade on Saturday, July 31.
"Even our grandkids are coming to see us!" Elsie said.

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Cut and dried
Politics | The March sequester created no crisis, but may yet shape budget politics for the rest of the Obama era
"Cut and dried" Continued...
WASHINGTON—Faced with budget cuts in 1969, the director of the National Park Service shut down the Washington Monument for two days a week. "It was unheard of," George Hartzog said in a 2005 interview with Parks & Recreation Magazine. "Even my own staff thought I was crazy."
The ploy worked. Public uproar over the closing led Congress to restore the funding. So many government bureaucrats copied the strategy of fighting cuts by disrupting the most popular parts of their bureaucracy that the practice became known as the Washington Monument Syndrome.
The Obama administration took the strategy to new heights in its frantic effort to halt $85 billion in automatic spending cuts called sequestration. President Obama traveled more than 5,000 miles on a campaign tour to predict gloom and doom and devastation. Cabinet secretary after Cabinet secretary doled out gruesome details of the most catastrophic scenarios, from shuttered air traffic control towers to, according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, "teachers now who are getting pink slips."
The Office of Management and Budget's thick report on the impacted agencies included one, the National Drug Intelligence Center, that no longer exists. Even though it closed last June, it is still slated to lose $2 million to sequestration.
When the Obama administration finished weaving its lamentations of disaster to the nation, the Washington Monument was about the only thing spared. And that's because it's closed indefinitely due to the 2011 earthquake. Well, another item was spared: The Obama administration insisted that Obamacare would be implemented on time.
But after the mother of all Washington Monument Syndrome performances, the most frightening outcome possible for the Obama administration happened: The public did not panic and lawmakers cut spending. That bears repeating: The federal government cut spending.
Washington's fear mongering did not generate widespread sympathy in America, from New York to New Mexico, because most workers had to cut their own budgets after the Jan. 1 expiration of the payroll tax cuts.
In New York, Mayor Bloomberg brushed off the hype: "We're going to take all the prisoners from jail and put them on the street. Spare me. I live in that world. I mean, come on, let's get serious here."
In Rep. Tim Huelskamp's sprawling district of 69 counties throughout western and central Kansas, a grand total of three calls concerned about sequestration came into Huelskamp's congressional office two days before the cut's March 1 deadline. "I think most Americans are going to wake up and yawn," Huelskamp said.
In Rep. Raul Labrador's Idaho district, an educator called the congressman after listening to the White House's warning that the state would lose 50 teachers after the sequester. According to Labrador, the educator was not fazed because he knew that the education system is operating under 2012 budget allotments. Any losses would occur in the next school year, giving officials time to plan for the cuts through attrition and budgeting.
"There is no possible way that we are going to lose any teachers right now," Labrador said.
An official in West Virginia agreed. When pressed for specifics about his pink slip comment, Duncan, the nation's education secretary, could only name one school district in Kanawha County, W.Va. That school system's superintendent, Ron Duerring, soon told the media that no teachers had lost their jobs.
Across the country in New Mexico, during a telephone town hall conference call, nearly 60 percent of 7,000 participating constituents told Rep. Steve Pearce that the cuts should go through. "The idea that we can't make cuts without hurting the nation is preposterous," said Pearce, whose staff has counted, for instance, 123 different agencies dealing with childhood nutrition.
Facing little pressure from constituents, Republicans in Congress sat on the already locked-in spending cuts. That was a dramatic change from previous fiscal fights that featured last-minute, late-night deals that usually included kicking the can down the road. In the vote to avert the fiscal cliff, senators ushered in the New Year by voting just after 2 a.m. This time Congress adjourned hours before the sequestration deadline hit.
Then, despite Obama's melodrama, the Dow Jones Industrial average hit a new 52-week high on March 1. It hit an all-time high on March 5.
Fiscal conservatives heralded sequestration as an encouraging victory, but it represents just a small step toward fiscal sanity.
The cuts amount to 2.4 percent of an annual federal budget that has ballooned to $3.6 trillion. The $85 billion seems even more minuscule compared to a national debt that stands at $16.61 trillion. And, in accounting magic that can only occur in Washington, the $85 billion in cuts ordered to occur before this fiscal year ends will amount to about $44 billion in real spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The remaining cuts will be spread out to future years.
The cuts, moreover, are to the growth of government, not to real spending. The federal government's budget will be larger this year compared to last year. Federal spending is predicted to grow by 67 percent over the next decade even with sequestration (without sequestration it would grow 69 percent to $6 trillion by 2023). The reason: Sequestration leaves untouched the real drivers of spending—entitlements.
Even with the cuts, the government will have $60 billion more in discretionary money to play with than it did in 2008, the year before Obama took office. The education program Head Start is just one of the many programs that has exploded under Obama, going from a budget of $6.87 billion in 2008 to $7.97 billion in 2012. The program faces $422 million in sequester cuts, giving the program a budget of $7.55 billion. That's above Head Start's 2008 budget.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., insists, "There are easy ways to cut this money that the American people will never feel." Coburn sent a Feb. 26 letter to the White House highlighting more than 1,362 duplicative programs identified by the Government Accountability Office that costs taxpayers at least $364.5 billion annually. They include 80 economic development programs at four agencies, 160 housing programs, and 250 programs at the Department of Justice that offer similar grants.
Last year, when the Department of Homeland Security discovered $8.3 billion in unspent grant funds, it issued new guidelines to expedite the process "in light of the current economic situation." In other words, department officials wanted to spend it so they wouldn't lose it in future budgets. The department says that $5.25 billion of those funds remain unspent. But that is not something Janet Napolitano, the DHS secretary, brought up when she decried the $2.6 billion in cuts facing the department through sequestration.
And no one in the government has targeted the roughly 77,000 unused, underused, and sometimes dilapidated federal buildings that the Congressional Research Service reported last year as costing $1.67 billion a year to maintain.
Coburn also wrote to the Pentagon to target such programs as: the Board of Geographic Names, the Grill It Safe video series that highlights "grill sergeants" showing off their own recipes, the $1 million program planning to send a spaceship to another solar system, and the $5.2 million used on a project to determine what lessons about democracy could be learned from fish.
Armed with these examples of federal waste, Senate Republicans introduced a bill to give the White House more flexibility in managing the $85 billion in cuts. It failed, with Obama threatening to veto the bill.
The fiscal battle now moves to the next deadline: The government's current funding levels run out on March 27. But a longer fight will occur over the future of the sequester: A decade's worth of cuts totaling $960 billion are left.
Republicans are banking that the current cuts will show that shrinking the government won't hinder private growth, while Democrats are hoping that removing a slice of money from the federal coffers will lead to a calamity that allows government to come to the rescue. Whether the public screams or yawns will go a long way to determining the outcome of the 2014 elections. Obama will look to those elections to cement his legacy by taking over the House while Republicans will look to stop him by controlling the Senate.
Until then, if the economy remains sluggish, Obama has already begun to use sequestration as an excuse in the same way he used former President George W. Bush as the fall guy during the last four years.
"Every time we get a piece of economic news, we'll know that news could have been better if not for Congress' failure to act," Obama said March 1 after blaming Republicans for the cuts that he called "dumb" and "arbitrary."
Sensing that the public had not fallen into hysteria over the cuts, Obama did concede that not everyone will feel the pain right away. But he could not resist one more attempt with the Washington Monument Syndrome. He warned that the "folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol" will make less money due to the cuts. "The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that," he said.
Soon after Obama spoke, Carlos Elias, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol building, emailed his employees: "The pay and benefits of EACH of our employees WILL NOT be impacted … I request that you please notify all of our employees about the importance of ignoring media reports."
Meanwhile, the "deeply destructive" cuts in the 70-page report the White House attached to the sequestration order included: $3 million less for Pacific salmon recovery in the Pacific; $1 million less for the Defense Department's support for international sporting competitions; and $1 million cut from the Interior Department's helium fund.
Beltway tightening
Most conservatives agree that across-the-board cuts are a crude way to budget, and no one is arguing that squeezing into the last seven months of the fiscal year cuts totaling 9 percent of nonmilitary programs and 13 percent of defense programs will go unfelt by everyone.
With the defense budget bearing an unequal burden, states with a large military footprint will see challenges. About 800,000 Defense Department civilian employees are facing unpaid leave days that could cut their pay by 20 percent for the remainder of the year.
Sequestration's ax will fall hardest in the area surrounding the nation's capital. But the hub of federal government that includes Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland will get little sympathy from the rest of the country.
The region has enjoyed a government-fueled boom in the midst of the recession. It has escaped the large drop in employment felt by the nation. (In January, the unemployment rate for government workers stood at 4.2 percent compared to 8.6 percent for the private sector.) And of the nation's 15 counties with the highest percentages of households in the top-tier income bracket (incomes $191,469 and higher), seven are in the greater Washington area. Five of those seven are in the top 10. —E.L.P.


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Diatomaceous earth is a material made up of fossilized diatoms. Diatoms are a type of hard-shelled algae or phytoplankton that once made their home in oceans and lakes that covered a portion of the western United States in times past and still exist today. These microscopic organisms, tiny as they are, are an important part of the food chain for underwater dwellers. Diatomaceous earth is also referred to as diatomite. Millions of years ago the hard shells of these diatoms aggregated together in the ocean to form hard, chalky deposits. These chalky deposits were mined and then milled and processed to form diatomaceous earth.
This finely milled, chalky white, talc-like powder known as diatomaceous earth or diatomite has an interesting history. Alfred Bell combined it with sodium carbonate and nitroglycerin to create the world's first dynamite. These days diatomite has a variety of other applications and is commonly used as an ingredient in household, cosmetic and personal care products.
There are two types of diatomaceous earth – food grade and industrial grade. Food grade diatomaceous earth is safe for oral and cosmetic use. Some people mix it with water and use it orally as a colon cleanser, although this isn't necessarily condoned by the mainstream medical community. Some alternative health practitioners believe the diatomites "scrub" the inside of the intestines and remove parasites and other intestinal debris that cause intestinal problems. In addition, diatomaceous earth is a source of trace minerals.
Diatomite has other applications as well. It's used as a natural and non-toxic pesticide. When bugs walk through it, it clings to them and absorbs fats on the surface of their exoskeleton. This causes the bugs to lose critical amounts of water, which eventually kills them. Gardeners appreciate the fact that it controls garden pests, including worms and slugs, without the use of chemicals. Diatomaceous earth has excellent absorptive properties and is used to clean up spills and absorb odors. It's also an ingredient in cat litter. In addition, some people place it in their shoes to absorb foot odor.
Diatomaceous earth is also used in the manufacture of cosmetic and personal care products. It's an effective absorbent that absorbs water, and it functions as an anticaking agent. This makes it a useful additive in facial powders, foundations, eye shadow and other powder-based products that need to absorb moisture. Diatomite also acts as bulking agent. Bulking agents are added to power-based blush, eye shadow and face powder to give the product a more "slippery" texture and help it go on more evenly.
One of the other functions of diatomaceous earth in cosmetic products is to serve as an opacifying agent in order to make cosmetics look less transparent so you can't see through them. This is a benefit for products formulated to cover blemishes, skin discoloration or redness. Because it serves so many important functions, it's used to formulate a variety of cosmetic and personal care products including facial cleansing products, soaps, bath products and body cleansers. It also has mild exfoliating action. This makes it an ideal ingredient for facial scrubs and polishing products. Some people mix food-grade diatomaceous with water and use it as a facial scrub or mix it with a cleanser for more exfoliating power. Of course, you can buy pre-made facial scrubs that have diatomite already added.
Is it safe? Food-grade diatomaceous earth is non-toxic when used by mouth or applied to the skin. The only potential hazard from diatomaceous earth comes from breathing in the powdery dust. Because diatomite contains silica, it's a respiratory irritant. Silica can irritate lungs, leading to coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath, and it increases the risk of a lung condition called silicosis. This is only a risk when a product containing the dry powder is inhaled. At high concentrations, diatomaceous earth can also be drying to the skin.
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The K2 Panoramic Splitboard opens up whole new possibilities to the powder hound in search of untouched stashes. So, your buddies called and asked if you'd like to go spend a hundred bucks on a lift ticket to to ride bumped-out hard pack with a bunch of skiers. Take a rain check and step into the white room.
The Panoramic starts with K2's All Terrain baseline profile. This hybrid rocker profile employs slightly higher rise at the the tip than the tail to give the Panoramic a loose buttery feel while maintaining responsive edge control and loads of pop. The directional shape uses K2's Hyper Progressive sidecut, with an infinite number of turn radii that progress from mellow at the tips to aggressive between the bindings. The result is a predictable feel with tons of control, but with mellow, non-hooking contact points at the tip and tail. It's K2's perfect blend of precision and forgiveness.
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Great set up for getting into splitting!
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I actually have the 11/12 version of this (without the tweekend tip and tail) and have used it several times - with the stock Voile kit as well as Spark Burner bindings (also 11/12 model) and LT Pin system. I am 6'1" 200lb and have the 162. Used with Burton SLX, K2 UFO and other boots, all sized 11. This board is very well designed! The skins are the best I have ever used. They are made be a Swiss company and they skin up anything. Better than the Voile, BD or G3 Aplinist skins. Plus you get the standard Voile kit, all you need is your snowboard bindings and you are set. Pretty sweet. You can not go wrong with this kit if you are getting into the sport. I lent it to a buddy today for his first time splitting and he kicked my butt up the hill (thanks to the great skins this comes with) was able to transition to ride mode quickly and had a blast on the way down. The flat base to rockered nose and tail are easy to climb with and even better to ride with! I have used a few other split boards (Voile Mojo 162 and Venture Storm 166) and the K2 was the easiest to control, the lightest construction and idiot proof. Seriously. The skins are already cut for you, there are specific holes for the skins to attach to thus eliminating any possible misalignment, comes with awesome skin savers, nice pouch to store them in and all the gear you need to get out there. And at the price it is currently at its a steal! Go get your avy training, beacon, shovel, probe, compactor poles and this kit and enjoy the journey!
This board is awesome. I love the flat camber for skinning, seems to grip better than the reverse camber ultra split. The voile plates are a bit outdated compared to new tech but they get the job done. Be sure to keep the weight in mind if you have heavy binders like I do, makes longer tours a bit more exhausting. Other than that this thing rips right out of the box! I am just under 6 feet tall and weigh 175lbs. The162cm is the best fit for me.
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First day out split boarding was a lot of work but a lot of fun. I would definitely recommend this kit to anyone just getting into split boarding. The skins did a fair amount of slipping on the steeper hills but that could have been because it was below zero, with warmer temps I think they will be fine.
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Haven't put this board through the ringer yet. But after many week long trips and day trips I have good first impressions. First of all, It's not as straight forward or as easy as I thought it would be to set up. feels as if voile is still in the first years of prototyping although its been in production for years and years. Once it is set up it is bomber and very simple. The board itself is top notch, rides great and is good for skinning. Next year I plan to get splitboard specific bindings that I think will make the whole set up feel a lot better.
all in all, the only complaint I have is against the voile kit being very finicky to set up. All K2 branded stuff the kit comes with is the best it gets for the price. To be honest the K2 Backside skins are the best I've ever used.
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I am seriously considering buying this K2 splitboard kit as my first split board. The only issue that I have is whether the stance width will be sufficient for me as I am a bigger guy (6'4) and usually go for the maximum stance to be comfortable.
Is the mentioned stance width (23 inches for 168 board) the maximum possible width that can be adjusted or medium stance width? I am riding Lib Tech T. Rice regular board which has maximum stance of around 25 inches so I am little worried if this wouldn't be a problem.
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This board can handle a much wider stance than 23 inches. 23 inches is the "recommended" stance width for that size. I would assume you would be able to cowboy up to the 26 in range.
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World leaders must consider the environment if they want to ensure people enjoy a sustainable and dignified life. That was the message IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre gave in her keynote address to the High-Level Ministerial segment of the 17th session of the United Nations Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD), held in New York from May 4 to 15. …
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The final evaluation report available as well in French and Spanish,of the 2008 World Conservation Congress (WCC), held in Barcelona, is available for consultation. The report, performed by independent evaluators Universalia, calls the Barcelona Congress the most successful congress to date. …
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The G20, meeting yesterday in London, agreed with what IUCN and many others have been saying: the economic recovery must be inclusive, green and sustainable. …
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A new global coalition of environmental, development, business and labour groups calls on the G-20 to make sure the financial stimulus package they are discussing this week is an inclusive and green one. …
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IUCN and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), along with input from key stakeholders (Earthwatch Institute, World Resources Institute, Katoomba Group/Forest Trends, the US Business Council for Sustainable Development and Fundacion Entorno) have developed a free, interactive and fun game about how ecosystem markets work. …
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IUCN was recently invited by the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention, which is hosted by IUCN and has a long-standing partnership with the Danone Group, to help develop a new initiative to assess the feasibility of generating certified carbon offsets through wetland restoration and conservation. …
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In the past 60 days, two of the world's greatest western powers were subjected to cruel and appalling attacks at the hands of vile Islamic terrorists. The first attack came on April 15, when the Tsarnaev brothers detonated two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring dozens more.
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He recently sat down with the Herald to discuss his new position and what he hopes to accomplish.
The day after the Moreland Commission I called Sen. Skelos and asked him if his offer to be appointed was on the table because now I was interested. I wanted to help, I wanted to make a difference and I also knew the new [LIPA] Chairman [Lawrence Waldman].
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Session will include introduction to EAGLE software and how create schematics using DesignLinkFarnell, the leading multi-channel distributor of electronic and industrial components, and CadSoft, the developer of the bestselling CAD tool of its kind, EAGLE, will co-host a webcast entitled 'Schematic and Layout Design with EAGLE' on Jan 26, 2011, from 3-4 pm CET. To register, visit: https://premierfarnell.webex.com/premierfarnell/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=844768806"We are very glad to announce this joint CadSoft/Farnell webinar to demonstrate to our customers not only the state-of-the-art functionality of our EAGLE software but also the latest developments with DesignLink," said Thomas Liratsch, CadSoft's General Manager. "With the successful launch of EAGLE v5.11 in December, we decided to host this webinar for a wider audience of electronic design engineers who'd like to familiarize themselves with EAGLE or learn more about DesignLink functionality."During the hour-long webcast, CadSoft's Technical Support Manager Richard Hammerl will present an introduction to CadSoft's EAGLE software and will then discuss the latest 5.11 upgrade and its advantages over previous versions. The webcast will comprise a 45-minute online presentation followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. The session also will be archived after the event and can be accessed by visiting http://www.element-14.com/community/groups/technology-training-webinars (under recent documents section). This webcast is ideal for electronic design engineers and students who want to stay current with the latest in CAD technologies.The full session will cover:
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According to police, the shooting took place in the 1600 block of South Buckley Road around 12:30 p.m.
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Three Aurora Police officers arrived on the scene. When they arrived they found the man armed with a machete and a carving knife. A struggle ensued and two of the officers were hit.
The third officer fired at least one shot at the man, killing him.
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Thunder writers Darnell Mayberry and John Rohde provide coverage of the Thunder's game against the Detroit Pistons. Friday's game tips off at 7 p.m.
9:27 p.m. Final score: Thunder 105, Pistons 94. Kevin Durant and Serge Ibaka finish with 25 points each. Thunder shoots 53.5 percent. Pistons 0-6.
9:22 p.m. To be clear, career highs don't include playoff games. Ibaka had 26 points in the Western Conference Finals last year. He's got 25 tonight.
9:16 p.m. With 3:05 remaining and Ibaka sitting on 25 points and five fouls, what's more likely, him scoring 30 or fouling out?
9:15 p.m. Kendrick Perkins has tied Greg Monroe with six assists tonight.
9:11 p.m. There it is. Ibaka now has a career-high 23 points. He's 8-for-12 from the floor and 7-for-8 from the foul line.
9:02 p.m. With 21 points, Serge Ibaka is one basket away from setting a career high.
8:59 p.m. Make that three straight games Kevin Martin has been called for traveling...That's got to be a record.
8:52 p.m. Through three, the Thunder leads the Pistons 74-69.
8:41 p.m. Brooks wisely gets Westbrook out of there and puts Maynor in.
8:41 p.m. Russell Westbrook better be look out for Jason Maxiell on his next drive to the bucket. He just shoved Drummond and caused him to land hard.
8:06 p.m. At halftime, the Thunder leads the Pistons 49-42. Durant leads all scorers with 12 points. Eric Maynor's got 10. OKC now shooting 46%
8:05 p.m. Durant's headed for another big rebound game. He's got seven in the first half.
8:01 p.m. RT @Jumbl0 @DarnellMayberry there are some teams Perkins shouldn't play against. By some, I mean everybody but LA. (Memphis? Utah? Spurs?)
7:50 p.m. Westbrook, Sefolosha and Perkins return and, with Martin and Collison still on the floor, immediately kill that momentum. 36-35, Thunder.
7:49 p.m. Amazing how well the second unit just played considering it got virtually nothing from Reggie Jackson and Perry Jones III. +6 in 4+ min.
7:40 p.m. Doesn't look good for Daniel Orton tonight. Brooks looks like he's sticking to small ball.
7:35 p.m. After one, the Pistons lead the Thunder 19-18. Thunder shooting 26 percent. Pistons shooting a blistering 38 percent.
7:06 p.m. Just saw the Thunder Girls' new unis. They're 10 times better than the team's alternates. Suddenly that navy blue ain't so bad. Wonder why?
6:24 p.m. Not that they were going to speak out against it, but Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant and Eric Maynor all endorsed the alternate uniform.
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In 1979, the Coast Guard established a Military Pay center in Riverdale, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., by moving the JUMPS (Joint Uniform Military Pay System) conversion team and other pay-related functions out of CG Headquarters in Washington. This was a temporary move until a more geographically centralized location could be found.
In 1977 a newly erected Federal Building known as the Frank Carlson Federal Building (named after the late Kansas Senator) was opened in Topeka, Kansas. Five years later in 1982 this became the Center's new permanent location.
As pay automation streamlined, many additional personnel processing functions became the Center's responsibility resulting in a change of name to PPC (Pay & Personnel Center) in mid-1983.
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In March of 1997, the PPC became known as HRSIC (Human Resources Service & Information Center). In 2003 the name was changed to Personnel Service Center, PSC.
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A WEC 47 featherweight matchup between Courtney Buck (6-2 MMA, 0-1 WEC) and Fredson Paixao (8-3 MMA, 0-1 WEC) that was previously reported by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) was today made official by the fight promotion.
Buck steps in for an injured Bryan Caraway, who was originally expected to face Paixao.
With the addition, the full card for "WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz" is now complete.
Featuring a bantamweight title fight between current champ Brian Bowles and top contender Dominick Cruz, WEC 47 takes place March 6 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The night's main card airs on Versus.
Buck again fills in as a late replacement; the Minnesota Top Team fighter made his WEC debut and filled in on less than a week's notice when he replaced Tyler Toner at WEC 45 in December. Buck suffered a TKO loss to Brandon Visher late in the third round and snapped a six-fight win streak.
Paixao, meanwhile, also looks for his first WEC win. After dropping a unanimous decision to Wagnney Fabiano at WEC 40, Paixao then suffered a split-decision defeat to Cole Province at WEC 42. However, the Province loss was overturned to a "no decision" when Province failed a post-fight drug test (due to Methasterone metabolite, a designer steroid).
Both fighters will likely need a positive result in the preliminary matchup in order to maintain their position in the organization.
With the official addition to the card, the full WEC 47 lineup now includes:
- Champ Brian Bowles vs. Dominick Cruz (for bantamweight title)
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Miguel Torres
- Jens Pulver vs. Javier Vazquez
- L.C. Davis vs. Deividas Taurosevicius
- Karen Darabedyan vs. Bart Palaszewski
- Chad George vs. Scott Jorgensen
- Erik Koch vs. Chad Mendes
- Danny Castillo vs. Anthony Pettis
- Leonard Garcia vs. Diego Nunes
- Bendy Casimir vs. Ricardo Lamas
- Courtney Buck vs. Fredson Paixao
For the latest on WEC 47, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
(Pictured: Fredson Paixao)


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At no point during the storm did I think I was going to die. But as I returned from moving my truck, through rushing water now deeper than my waist, it occurred to me that I might have to spend the night on my roof, or floating somewhere over Lido Boulevard, my dog perched on the nose of my surfboard as I paddled furiously to stay local. That seemed like an extremely un-enticing way to pass an evening.
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I have visited Point Lookout since I was 15 months old. My dad spent his summers at my Grandma Ledwith's and Aunt Kit's place since the 1930's. The home is still in the Staudt family. Such loving warm memories of family the ocean and wonderful meals together. Your account refreshed my vision that this precious home may be now " Floating Memory". Though all was fine at the high end of town closer to the church, your experience was felt by so many of my cousins there.
I hope you recover sooner than later and have support of family and friends. Is there someone in particular there that can use some hands on help? Let me know.
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I read this story and it is a incredible way to describe the feeling. I live in Island Park, I also stayed behind thinking to myself well I would rather be here to do all I can to save my belongnings atleast the irreplaceable items. I have never experienced anyhting like this in my life have always seen it on television and it hurts to watch the devastation that others have went through not knowing exactly how they felt until now. It is the most humbleing life altering experience that anyone can go through. Ypu are completely rendered powerless when nature unleashes her fury.
For us we flooded that morning before about 3 feet in the streets, it went back down at low tide, however that evening the lights flickered on and off around 6:45 pm and then were out completely at 6:50 at that moment we grab some last minute items and put them up as high as possible and then the water started rushing in from all corners of the house within 10 minutes the water was up to my knees. My son started crying saying omg we are in trouble. I never feared for my life however my mind started racing " what to do next ? how high is it going to get? where will I lve? " questions that I could not answer. I had 5 feet of water in my house I watched from the 2nd floor as my shoes, my clothes, furniture etc just flowed throught he house in water. The next morning we woke to no more water in the house or streets, and began to clean up the remnants of my life and Sandy. It took 10 days to clean up and with no power for 6 weeks and the loss of my car it was difficlut to complete things once it got dark out. I still to this day do not have heat in my house other than electric baseboards heaters, and the work is not done as far as rebuilding.
Thank You for your incredible story
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LEESBURG, Va. (WUSA) -- Signs that the political climate's on fire?
One Leesburg couple found their actual Romney sign burning in their front yard.
A driver stopped to alert the Stevens Monday around 2 a.m.
Libby Stevens said, "It was scary. There was a knock at the door. There was a fireball in my front yard."
That set off Libby Stevens' two dogs. The Stevenses are Romney supporters. Before it all went up in flames, Stevens took a few snapshots of what was left of their 4-by-8 foot Romney sign in the front yard.
"There are political signs up and down the street. It's disheartening and sad that someone would chose to do this. shame on them. It's freedom of speech. What's wrong with them?" Libby Stevens said.
Stevens says that the 400 block of South King Street in Leesburg is diverse and friendly. Neighbors have differing views, and put up both Democratic and Republican signs. They've had signs stolen before but never had one burn to the ground.
Sandi Redman is a Democrat and says, "Everybody in our neighborhood is peaceful. It's shocking someone would go to that lengthy to make it a negative political environment."
Chris Ann Matteo is also a neighboring Democrat and says "We should be able to do this without threat to each other. We should be able to support each other as neighbors."
Stevens says she's had smaller Romney signs stolen in the past at her home.
Redman says, "I'm glad she has strong political beliefs, and she has a right to put up her signs in her yard."
Stevens says even her neighbor, Democratic Senator Mark Herring, stopped by to condemn the act.
Stevens has since put up a much smaller sign.
If this person is caught they face destruction of property charges.
The Romney campaign says it will loan Stevens another big sign to replace the one that burned down.


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Frank Ocean caused a stir on Independence Day when he took to Tumblr to post a coming out letter that addressed his relationship with another man. The Odd Future crooner has remained quiet on the letter up until now, talking with GQ magazine about the decision to put his words out there for the public to see.
During the interview, Ocean said that a journalist referencing the male pronouns in his songs encouraged him to write the letter. After he posted it, he felt relief. "The night I posted it, I cried like a fucking baby. It was like all the frequency just clicked to a change in my head," he said. "All the receptors were now receiving a different signal, and I was happy. I hadn't been happy in so long. I've been sad again since, but it's a totally different take on sad. There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness."
Ocean said that he would not address whether he's bisexual or homosexual, since he doesn't want to be put in a box. But he noted that he was aware what the reveal could do to his career.
"I had those fears. In black music, we've got so many leaps and bounds to make with acceptance and tolerance in regard to that issue. It reflects something just ingrained, you know. When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family—not even my mother—who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that. It's tempting to give those views and words—that ignorance—more attention than they deserve. Very tempting.
"Some people said, 'He's saying he fell in love with a guy for hype,'" he continued. "As if that's the best hype you can get in hip-hop or black music. So I knew that if I was going to say what I said, it had to be in concert with one of the most brilliant pieces of art that has come out in my generation. And that's what I did. Why can I say that? Why I don't have to affect all this humility and shit is because I worked my ass off. I worked my face off. And the part that you love the most is the easiest part for me. So I'll do it again."
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Roger Federer confirmed he will be taking part in the next season's Davis Cup opening round here in the US on his website today:
Dear Fans,Yay! This is great news for US fans but probably not the best news for the US team, however. Fed could single-handedly (and I mean that literally) defeat the team even on their home turf.
After making it back to the world group for 2009, I have decided to play the first round tie of Davis Cup in the USA in March. I am excited to once again join my fellow Swiss teammates, who I have a great friendship with, and I look forward to what I am sure will be a tough weekend.
All the best,
Oh well - that won't stop me from being there!
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One of my earliest memories of watching TV is of Skippy das Buschkänguru. I had cruel parents who made me play outside rather than watch TV in my childhood, but I was allowed in occasionally for Skippy, Flipper and Lassie. All mightily caring animals who somehow persuaded me that all animals are good, and really rather clever. That theory got thrown out when we got our dog; but that is another story entirely.
Anyway, back to Skippy. Skippy was not only bright and looked out for world peace while hopping around a fictional wildlife park near Sydney, but the entire series was indeed a feat of progress. In the early 1960s, when the series was made, Australia was still in the throes of black and white TV transmission, but the producers of Skippy decided to film the series in colou,r hoping for syndication all over the rest of the… Read more


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|It's easy to save energy at home
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Reducing energy usage is a good way to help the environment and save money along the way. Saving energy can be done in a variety of ways, many of which do not require significant effort can lead to significant savings.
—Stop using the dishwasher to dry the dishes. A dishwasher is a modern convenience few people feel they can live without. While it's not necessary to give up the dishwasher entirely to save money, it's important to note that many dishwashers use more energy to dry the dishes than to wash them. If the dishwasher does not automatically dry the dishes, turn the knob to the off position once the dishes have been cleaned and open the door to allow the dishes to air dry.
—Go with a more traditional refrigerator-freezer combination. Side-by-side refrigerator and freezer combinations may be more fashionable, but such units can use as much as 20 percent more energy than their traditional counterparts. If homeowners must purchase a side-by-side unit, be sure to buy only those with an Energy Star label.
—Do laundry less frequently. Whether in an apartment or a home, having an in-unit washer and dryer is a great convenience. But frequently doing small loads can be wasteful, as it takes roughly the same amount of energy to clean a small load of laundry as it does a full load. Limit the family to only full loads of laundry as much as possible.
—Do the drying all at once. When using the dryer, try to dry one batch of clothes right after another. Many dryers require a significant amount of energy to heat up, but drying consecutive loads won't require as much energy to get the dryer up to operating temperature as the dryer will need if one allows a significant amount of time to pass between loads.
—Don't go to extreme temperatures. Arriving home to a house that's especially cold or warm inspires many people to turn their thermostats way up or down in an effort to heat or a cool the home more quickly. This forces the unit to work harder and use more energy. Instead of taking such an extreme approach, invest in a heating or cooling system that allows people to set the temperature in advance so the temperature inside the home is pleasant when they walk through the door.
Holyoke Enterprise March 21, 2013