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eSalon Hair ColoringI haven't had my hair colored in a salon since I discovered eSalon. The convenience and the BEAUTIFUL color I get is awesome. On my last order I wrote a little note that said "I want my color to be a little darker and I want a little more red if possible." Somehow the colorists knew exactly what to do and the color is a PERFECT match to what was in my head. I recommend eSalon to everyone - the product is amazing and I love it! — 2 years, 9 months agojeannie_marino | 1 reviews
LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!One word...AWESOME!!!! I will continue to purchase this product in the future...and I will surely tell all my friends and family. Thanks eSalon for this great advantage. — 2 years, 9 months agodenise_bergman_tafelski | 1 reviews
eSalon Hair Coloring.Don't know how they did it, as I did not send a picture, but the hair color they sent was exactly what I wanted. No trouble applying it and it leaves my hair so soft and shiny. I will never buy boxed hair color again as it was ruining my hair. Thank you for a wonderful product. — 2 years, 9 months agolinda_squires | 1 reviews
I'm in love!I've had grey hair since I was 24, and its gotten tougher and tougher to cover over the years! I refuse to go back to the salon for color, I'm a thrifty girl, so when I saw the ads for E-salon, I jumped. I will never go back to the box again, and eat your heart out salons, there's a new kid in town! I'm in LOVE!! — 2 years, 9 months agorebecca_palacios | 1 reviews
eSalon Hair ColoringWOW. Too scared to try a hair color over the internet.? Have no fear. I have been coloring and or having may hair professionally colored since 1979; and with one application of eSalon Hair coloring my hair now feels as healthy as it did in my early teens. The color is outstanding and is effortless to use. The packaging was professional with clips, gloves, stain remover, etc. included. I have used ...read morethe Color Enhancing formulas after shampooing and 3 weeks later there are still NO grey roots showing. I will continue to use this product as long as I can...no more salon coloring and prices over $150.00. What a monthly savings and my hair looks fantastic. — 2 years, 9 months agodeessnippy | 1 reviews
eSalon-TRY IT!!!I found myself mixing boxed colors attempting to get the color that I usually get from the salon. Salon prices are just too high for me-130$ every time I go to get the desired color. I tried eSalon for the first time a few weeks ago and they are AMAZING! ESalon got my color perfect the very first time and eSalon has literally thousands of colors that are blended just for you. Not only do you get s...read morealon quality color but you can call a color specialist if you have any questions at all. This IS the way to go. You get personalized instructions(making application a breeze), a color specialist and salon quality color. I was ruining my hair with boxed colors. With eSalon, my hair is shinier, smoother AND the color does not fade as it does with traditional boxed products. Now I'm not talking about just after the initial application but after 3 weeks of shampooing, Just try it! You have nothing to lose but the high cost of the salon. ESalon has my business permanently. Thank you eSalon!!! — 2 years, 9 months agochristine1331 | 1 reviews
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eSalon Hair ColoringI was delayed a couple of weeks in using the product. I am pleased with the presentation of the box and its content. The way it presented made me feel special while reviewing the content. The product was easy to mix and apply and I am pleased with the color. There was only one challenge with the entire process; the gloves were way too small for my hands. Other than that....perfection!!! Thank you eSalon! Carla — 2 years, 9 months agocffryar | 1 reviews
eSalonAMAZING!!!! The color is exactly want I wanted. :) Thank you eSalon! — 2 years, 9 months agoshelby_ray | 1 reviews
eSalonThe eSalon personalized hair color company is so much better then going to the Salon and spending over $100.00 to have your colored and then pay for a haircut and a blow out. I loved my shade and I am planning on ordering my special shade and the shampoo and conditioner from eSalon. No more drugstore boxed colors or hairdresser to color my hair for me! Thank you eSalon for making my hair look natural and I did not have to spend a fortune to get it that way. — 2 years, 9 months agomelissa_abramowitz | 1 reviews
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A reader has asked about the old Plymouth settlement on the West Bank of the Columbus Lock and Dam.
Spring has arrived right on time, as the calendar and daytime temperatures reassure us. Redbud and saucer magnolia blooms are fading and dogwoods are showing their true colors. Here are a few tips to help you and your landscape be prepared for the coming season.
Columbus is filled with pilgrims these days. They wear comfy shoes and cameras around their necks, and expressions of awe. These are time travelers, truly aware that they have arrived in a very special land, so distant from everyday reality.
Somewhere along the way of trying to get educated, I think some teacher told me that many, if not most, nursery rhymes of our childhood were actually thinly veiled political comments.
I love these seven words from our memories that are hardly used unless you have been lucky enough to eavesdrop on a conversation between two or three Southern belles from another time. Old in wisdom, but young at heart, these womens mothers rode in carriages along brick city streets. Listen up, because the words these matriarchs in tweed suits, pearls and arched brows drop are the ones too special to be forgotten.
Finally, spring! After such a difficult winter, it seems the world is filled with promise and truly ready for rebirth.
Websters Dictionary defines foundation as an institution supported by an endowment or an undergarment worn to shape the contours of the body. But women near and far know the foundation I speak of will be that flesh-toned cosmetic we just cant live without. It is used to even out the complexion and, quite frankly, is where all makeup begins.
During World War II my dad purchased a small silver case in India. One side has a crude etching of India-Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta, the Taj Mahal on the other side. Dad was well known for buying crafts from neighborhood children; they flocked to our door with their wares. Dad certainly would have purchased a small silver case from a street child. I wonder about that child.
Spring has arrived with its vivid display of color and that has brought a question. Which of our common flowers are native to this area? That is not a question I can address from the view of a botanist, but I can address it as a historian. There are a number of early accounts that describe the flora of the Golden Triangle.
The Black Death struck Europe in the 14th century, killing hundreds of millions of people.
I know little about fish or fishing, but I know fisherman like to go for rainbow trout, a good fish to have at the end of your line or to have in your frying pan.
Once upon a time, I was a Catholic. The churches were beautiful then. They were cool and dark, filled with flickering candles, the aromas of incense and burning wax, and life-sized statues of saints. I loved those statues, and, in the spring, placed small bouquets of pink roses at their plaster feet.
The garden has been tilled. We mixed in sand left over from a construction job to loosen up the prairie clay.
The heist movie is a Hollywood standard, so when a real heist is made, it is necessary for those telling about the real heist to compare it to the movie versions. Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell have repeatedly done this in Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History (Union Square Press). They repeatedly refer to the 2001 remake Oceans Eleven when telling the story of the 2003 burglary of an office called the Diamond Center in the heart of the Diamond District in Antwerp.
Some animals like to sport bright colors, as if they want to be seen. Others favor drab colors, as if they want to blend in and avoid recognition. There must be advantages to both strategies. Soldiers used to sport bright red clothing in the field, and now tend to go with grey and olive blotches, if they are in forest, and beige spotty patterns if they are on sand.
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Mississippi is in the national news, again. Sometimes it seems that we only get press for embarrassing things, like being one of the fattest states, or the least literate.
Last week Marion asked: What is the oldest surviving house in Columbus?
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June 26th, 2010 (2:56 AM).
Flandre Scarlet
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Originally Posted by
This hack look's really good and i like how you made the pokemon move before its in the light..........anyway keep it up!!!!
Thank you.
Originally Posted by
I like your hacks, the screen shots are promising. Also, what rombase are using?
Thanks, I'm using Fire Red.
Originally Posted by
Cynder The Bloody Angel
the ne battle bg looks great =)
its nothing special anymore cuz every hack have
those battle backgounds =/
anyway the game looks pretty awesome =) GOOD JOB
Yes, you're true, but anyway. xD
Thank you.
Originally Posted by
Fire Red. It's in the thread title.
Loving the animations. I still can't believe it's possible- just came out of nowhere, and... Yeah, Fire Red now has animations, lol.
Yep. Sure does, and I'm pretty sure this is the first ever hack to have animations. Thanks for your comment.
Originally Posted by
hey TS, can i ask you something? does the animation applies to the pokedex too?
No it doesn't unfortunately.
Originally Posted by
I thought the animation was suppose to happen after the slidy thingo makigos
It is, but read below.
Originally Posted by
The animation occurs whenever the sprite is loaded up. because the opponent sprite is loaded up before it reaches the centre of the battle background, that's why it moves before the "slidy thingo makigos".
Anyway, looks good, can't wait for the beta
Yep, you're correct. Also thank you for your support. You're a great friend. :D
Originally Posted by
Would it be possible to add a pause then before the sprite animates?
Originally Posted by
yes, that shouldn't be too hard at all.
I'm not sure, you'd have to add a pause, and it might effect the trainer battles, although I am not 100% positive.
Well guys, I've edited the exclamation image thing when you go into a Trainer battle or in other events or whatever.
Also, I've added lots of the Pokemon's second frame, but I wanted to show you this:
That is the second frame of Pidgeot's animation, and I must say, I love the sprite. Chaos Rush did a great job of doing some of the second frames for FireRed/LeafGreen sprites.
Chaos Rush
The person who made the Decap Patch for FR (Wichu?)
Thank you guys, oh and if you were wondering, I'm in the process of making a new titlescreen. ^.^
By the way, before you guys start complaining, I want to say something.
The reason why Pidgeot is Level 3, is because it is a test.
The reason why Bagon's name is in capitals, is because I'm using an old save file before I applied the Decap Patch.
That is all.
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The Actor Franz Dinda Talks About Style
Franz Dinda is a prominent sponsor of the first Topman in Germany. We met the actor at a style-interview in a café in Kreuzberg.
Dinda is on time, grinning broadly, wearing a turquoise-colored longsleeve, a jacket with brown elbow-patches, over it. In the breast pocket of his jacket he carries a pen, wears bright green socks, gray trousers and leather shoes.
We asked him what he thinks of the current trends like Baseball and creepers, what his biggest fashion sin was and how he has found his style.
Describe your style.
Still in style.
Can style be taught?
If your environment sharpens your senses when you busy yourself with the topic, then style can certainly be learnt. Like almost everything else in life.
How did you find your style?
It has grown with my aesthetic sense. Eventually I got, that clothes are not only functional, but also visual. But my style is evolving. What I wore three years ago, I would burn today.
Important issue: style sins. What are your biggest ones?
Red cowboy boots with flame pattern. I loved her above all else. Why? I ask myself today. Pointe shoes, so the cut on the shit, I feel today as "Still in Style".
What will you wear at your own funeral?
A tailored suit by Jens Fanslau..
At the end of our little conversation we want to hear your opinion on four current fashion trends:
Trend 1: Baseball
It's great on the baseball field.
Trend 2: Transparency
Trend 3: Creepers
Photo: Marlen Stahlhuth
Inflationary, bad: Wood-Sunglasses!
On a daily-bases, press-releases by labels are reaching us, which have specialised in the production of sunglasses out of wood.
They are boasting themselves with sustainability. Are praising their work with totally funny slogans like 'Woody since 2012′, 'In Wood We Trust' or 'Done by nature, designed for your eyes'.
All die Holzbrillen-Designs von Marken wie Kerbholz, Stadtholz, Wood Fellas, WOODONE, ROLF Spectacles, Eric Lauer, Enzo Forciniti, Scherler oder Zeitgeist Berlin tun das nicht.
The Berlin-based label with the original name 'Stadtholz' is assuring that one 'really has a piece of nature on their nose', when purchasing their glasses.
But does one want that?! Having a piece of nature on your nose, when it looks bad. Sustainability is great and all. But fashion is mainly about design. And that should look good.
Plus, there is nothing more annoying than labels, who are massively pining 'sustainability' on their flag. Most of the times it is exactly those labels, who have as much to do with sustainability as bumm-bumm-Boris with the smart usage of Twitter. Not a lot.
KRISVANASSCHE is not going to be continued!
Shortly after Scott Sternberg announced the end of Band of Outsiders, Kris Van Assche has also informed the public, that the label, which also carries his name, is not going to be continued.
Kris Van Assche will mainly concentrate on his work for DIOR HOMME. The Belgian designer announced the end of his label through a hand-written letter which he gave to his business partners and the press.
'Times are tough for independent labels.', Van Assche said to WWD. 'This wonderful adventure has reached a point where I feel the need to take a break and some distance to better think about how to develop my brand in the future.'
We will miss the sporty-but-buttoned-up aesthetics by KRISVANASSCHE!
Getting Bananas ¿+'!
Next big Thing: Grace Wales Bonner
New York Fashion Week: Hood by Air AW 2015
HOOD BY AIR presented their new collection 'Daddy' in a cellar-like setting at the Wall Street, the centrum of finance.
The mastermind behind HBA, Shayne Oliver, showed classics from the world of fashion, like button-down shirts, sweaters and polo t-shirts in the typical unisex Hood by Air Silhouette. Therefore it came to an hybrid between polo shirt and dress. Or camel coat and tank top.
The models wore locks in-front of their mouths and tights over their heads, like burglars. The soundtrack of the show, total freedom, was ended drastically, followed by jazz, underlined with the statement of the Empire:
"I wanna show you a faggot really can run this company".
It becomes obvious how appreciated HBA is also in the art-world, when looking at the guests who attended the show, for example Klaus Biesenbach and Grace Coddington.
It seems that HBA, even after the diss by their once supporter A$AP ROCKY, is still very hip.


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13500 Gulf Blvd, Madeira Beach, FL 33708
ReviewsMarch 2016 - The condo was very clean . It looked just like the pictures. Plenty of bath and beach towels to use. The view of the beach was amazing. Their was plenty of dishes and cooking utensils. We actually just hung out inside the condo one day to relax instead of going to the beach. The pool is very nice and right off the beach so we could see our family at the pool if one of us went to the beach. Close to johns pass and the daiquiri deck (our favorite). We grilled out several nights . Would love to stay here again. The only thing is there is only one elevator and if busy its kinda slow. Not slow enough not to come back though! Thanks again! We had a great time. (and Eddie the cabana rental guy is super nice as well!) We love Madeira. Have been here multiple times and will continue to come back. Seabreeze was great and the condo was excellent.
March 2016 - We love Sea Breeze. This condo was very nice and comfortable. The condo was nicely equipped. The view of the Gulf & beach is 2nd to none. The beach is well groomed and not crowded. It was just my wife & I so we had plenty of room. The furniture was comfortable as was the bed. We really liked the digital door lock which made it very easy not having to worry about keys. There are plenty of things to do, St. John's Pass is an easy walk and there are very good resturants within walking distance or a short drive. I recommend this condo and the management team.
October 2015 - We just arrived back home after a week long stay at Sea Breeze 705. The unit was exactly as described and clean . Excellent location . Just a short walk to John's Pass and some great places to eat ( Lisa's cafe was one of our favourites) . I had a few questions regarding the area prior to our arrival and was vey pleased at response time when I emailed the owner ( within the hour). I would have no hesitation staying here again.
October 2015 - Second time at this clean beautiful condo. The weather was perfection and was the vacation.....Short walk to many restaurants and Johns Pass. Perfection!!!!
October 2015 - This unit was well equipped and GORGEOUS! A short 7-10 minute walk to John's Pass. The view is like no other! Beach are super clean and very accessible. I had read complaints about the elevator being slow, but we didn't find that the case at all! I would HIGHLY recommend this place to everyone!
June 2015 - This condo is great! It had everything we needed the entire week. Very clean and well kept. It was a great week, I wouldn't have changed a thing. We were able to see dolphins playing in the Gulf!
May 2015 - The condo was beautiful and was exactly as stated in the description. The kitchen was a perfect size, although we ate out most of the time, it had everything you could ever need. The living room furniture was very comfortable. The bed was way too firm for us and could possibly benefit from one of those foam toppers. Our view of the beach was awesome and we saw beautiful sunsets and lots of dolphins. Enjoyed John's Pass for shopping, even went Para sailing, which we highly recommend at Gators. Had lots of wonderful dinners especially at Salt Rock Grill and The Pub. When we first arrived our pass code for our room did not work, although it took about an hour to get straightened out, we did finally get a new code and really appreciated not having to always take a key with us to the beach or whenever we went out. Very convenient. The beach is beautiful and the grounds of the condo are meticulous. Highly recommend this condo and would definitely come back...probably fora longer visit!!
May 2015 - Absolutely wonderful! The weather was perfect. The beach, the water, the sunsets, all incredible. The condo was very clean & comfortable. Exactly as advertised. The property was clean and well maintained. The pool was very nice. We did rent a cabana and chairs for the week (only $70 & worth it). Johns Pass was only a five minute walk away, which we walked to several evenings. Enjoyed all of it! Did not disappoint. Plan to return.
May 2015 - Incredible Sunsets from your top floor balcony! Quiet and clean with everything you need for your vacation. The Sea Breeze property is very well maintained and managed, the people are friendly, and helpful. Would stay here again any time. 5 minute walk to Johns Pass provides lots of entertainment and dining options. Walks on the beach go on for ever. Awesome!
March 2015 - A great unit with everything you need to make your stay enjoyable. With a great view of the beach and comfortable surroundings it's sure to make your stay enjoyable. This unit is located on the same floor as the laundry facilities which is nice as well. Definitely will not disappoint!
October 2014 -First time renting a condo....never go to hotel again. The condo was like home. Comfortable, clean and close to everything. The beach was the best, the weather perfect and no surprises. What was described and shown in the pictures was exactly what you got. We will be going back next yr and hopefully for many more. Massachusetts
October 3, 2014 - I must say that my wife and I enjoyed this beautiful condo. The unit was very clean and we are coming next year !!! The view of the ocean was incredible and I can't say anything negative about the unit. The condo is excellent for walking to John's Pass and highly recommend Lisa's Cafe which is located across the street. We both loved this unit !!! - Awesome Time
May 22, 2014 - Gorgeous beach area, very quiet & close to the water. Older unit that has been kept up well. Great view from the balcony and w/in walking distance of eating/shopping at John's Pass.
April 19, 2014 - We had a great time, Unit was clean and well maintained, beautiful view with great dolphin watching! So much to do we couldn't complete it all, Busch Gardens and waterpark, sea bird sanctuary, Clearwater marine aquarium, trip to shell Island, pirate cruise, and johns pass are just some of the things we did and we still had a list of things for our next trip!
OverviewMadeira Beach Treasure with Spectacular Top Floor Views to Enjoy!
Unit 705 at the Sea Breeze Condominium is a lovely place for a vacation. Location, location, location are the key words for this attractive and updated condo. It is situated directly on the powdery sands on the Gulf of Mexico where you can sit on the balcony and watch the most unbelievable sunsets each evening. It is about ½ mile north and only a five minute walk from John's Pass Village and Boardwalk, the center of shopping, dining and activity in Madeira Beach. The unit itself is very open and airy with plenty of room for four people. The compact kitchen is fully equipped and boasts beautiful sand colored granite countertops. There is a handsome eating area which leads directly into the living area with comfy, plush sofa and loveseat. For your enjoyment the unit has a huge flat screen television complete with a blue ray player. Tucked away in the living area is a queen murphy bed allowing sleeping arrangements for four people. The common area has appealing ceramic tile throughout, great when it comes to beach side living! The ample bedroom has a king size bed and pretty floral linens in addition to a flat screen television mounted in the corner of the room. The bathroom is pleasantly updated and decorated with a tub and shower combination. The unit also has wireless internet, cable, beach chairs, a beach umbrella, and a cooler for your convenience.
The Sea Breeze Condominium is an intimate complex within steps of the beautiful beach. It features the largest hot tub in Mad Beach and has a heated swimming pool which are both beachside. Plenty of lounge chairs are situated around the good-looking brick patio. The tiki huts on the property are a nice addition when you just want to get out of the sun for a bit but still enjoy the fabulous weather. There is a nice BBQ grill patio area and a bocce court. Laundry facilities are located in the complex on floors 4 and 7.
Madeira Beach is a small seaside community sandwiched between the Intracoastal Waterway to the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. Measuring only two miles long and with only about 5000 residents this community draws beach lovers to its pristine white sandy beaches. Despite its size this vacation paradise has much to offer. The warm and calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico make this a wonderful family vacation spot and there are many nearby attractions to keep you busy. The "Great Gale" of 1848 created John's Pass on the Island's south end which is now home to the world famous John's Pass Village, and the center of shopping in Madeira Beach. Home to a variety of shops, stores, restaurants and bars, John's Pass Village has something for everyone. Book now to enjoy this award winning beach community!


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Where they stand: At 3-2-0, the Winterhawks are second in the U.S. Division behind 3-1-0 Tri-City.
This week: Portland hosts Prince Albert at 7 p.m. on Saturday and Tri-City at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Both games are at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Last week: Lost to Tri-City; beat Seattle.
Player of the week: Forward Ty Rattie. Rattie had a goal in each game last weekend. He has scored six goals in four games, five of them on the power play.
Noteworthy: The Winterhawks' penalty kill is off to a strong start. They have killed 15 of 16 shorthanded situations and scored one shorthanded goal. … Portland defenseman Joe Morrow on Monday returned to Portland from the Pittsburgh Penguins camp. … Nino Niederreiter (Islanders) and Ryan Johansen (Blue Jackets) remain with their NHL clubs for the start of the regular season. … Riley Boychuk was signed by the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.
Where they stand: At 2-0, the Victory are tied with Butte for first place in the eight-team league.
This week: Vancouver visits Eugene at 7:30 p.m. Friday for its only game of the week.
Last week: Vancouver won twice at West Sound of Bremerton, 5-3 and 10-1.
Noteworthy: Vancouver's Bordak brothers are off to a fast start. Avik Bordak had five goals and four assists last weekend, Elijah Bordak had one goal and seven assists, and Joe Bordak had three goals and three assists.


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Deoxit is amazing, it really does what they claim. Especially on a single cell (lower voltage) like a 1.2v Nimh light.
It has made some of my lights a lot brighter, especially on low. The brightness increase in my Nitecore D-10 and my Fenix LOD is excellent. I was skeptical before. It does not seem to lose anything over time, even on lights that go in and outside in the cold weather all the time.
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Looking for advice on converting our 10 speed Cannondale road tandem to 9 speed for touring purposes. After 12 months and 10000 kms we are finding the 10 speed unreliable. The gears always seem to need adjusting, the chain never quite sits perfectly on the gear on the first change, etc, etc.
The research we have already done shows that the 10 speed chain is much more narrow than the 9 speed and that we could likely expect better performance from a 9 speed. We are currently running Shimano Ultegra. If we change the rear cluster to a 9 speed, change the chain to 9 speed, will we then also need to change the shifter to a 9 speed? Is there another option? Any advice appreciated.


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THE THREE-ARCHED BRIDGE. By Ismail Kadare. (Arcade, $21.95.) A vivid, macabre and wise novel, set in the 14th century, when the author's Albanian homeland was suffering disruptions that suggest the Balkans of today.
TIMEQUAKE. By Kurt Vonnegut. (Putnam, $23.95.) A sort of novel and sort of memoir, both moral and hilarious, that offers a running commentary on chunks of the author's life and considers its interplay with his imagination.
TRACES: Stories. By Ida Fink. (Metropolitan, $23.) Spare, lucid stories, set in Poland during the Nazi era and pervaded with the polarities of normality and terror.
TUMBLE HOME: A Novella and Short Stories. By Amy Hempel. (Scribner, $21.) Taut, precise stories that capture fleeting moments of life as though assembled from scraps of conversation.
the universal donor. By Craig Nova. (Houghton Mifflin, $23.) In the hands of this accomplished novelist, a love story becomes a thriller as a Los Angeles doctor tries to save a woman by tracking down the criminal psychopath who shares her rare blood type.
UNRAVELLING. By Elizabeth Graver. (Hyperion, $22.95.) A mill girl of the 1840's, ruined by a rotter and expelled by her mother, at length acquires the power to forgive in this absorbing first novel.
THE UNTOUCHABLE. By John Banville. (Knopf, $25.) A hall-of-mirrors spy story, antic in delivery, based on the life of Anthony Blunt; at heart, its focus is the appeal of Communism for Britain's upper intellectual classes in the 1930's.
WEST OF VENUS. By Judy Troy. (Random House, $23.) A beguiling first novel, set in Venus, Kan., where an engaging cast of characters hang out downtown, to look for love or, if they can't find it, settle for banter and eavesdropping.
WET PLACES AT NOON. By Lee K. Abbott. (University of Iowa, $22.95.) Stories whose ebullient narrators preserve their good humor while quite awful things happen to the characters.
WHEN the sons of heaven meet the daughters of THE earth. By Fernanda Eberstadt. (Knopf, $25.) A more-than-lively novel of the New York art world, in which an untutored genius from Harvard persuades an ever so grand collector and heiress that art should be beautiful.
WHERE TROUBLE SLEEPS. By Clyde Edgerton. (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $18.95.) A stranger shows up in a small Southern town in 1950, causing disturbing reverberations in the tight-knit community.
wicked women: Stories. By Fay Weldon. (Atlantic Monthly, $23.) A bristling collection by a cunning moral satirist, set in an uncompromising universe where right is right, wrong is wrong and justice is unblinking.
THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE. By Haruki Murakami. (Knopf, $26.95.) This big book by Japan's most popular novelist wrangles with big subjects: the evanescence of love, the vacuity of politics, the legacy of aggression in World War II.
THE WISHBONES. By Tom Perrotta. (Putnam's, $22.95.) A coming-of-age novel about the members of a New Jersey rock band who are forced to face the prospect of growing up or continuing to perform at weddings.
WOMEN WITH MEN: Three Stories. By Richard Ford. (Knopf, $23.) Postmacho fiction that presents all that is awkward about American manhood without ever being awkward itself.
THE WORLD IS the home OF LOVE AND DEATH: Stories. By Harold Brodkey. (Metropolitan/Holt, $25.) Posthumously published stories that obsessively revisit aspects of the author's childhood, capturing the child's world as it continues spinning in the adult's mind.
A YEAR OF LESSER. By David Bergen. (Phyllis Bruce/HarperCollins, paper, $12.) Bergen's first novel offers a subtly shaded portrait of a forthright sinner, a Manitoba feed salesman who loves women and longs for grace.
THE ADIRONDACKS: A History of America's First Wilderness. By Paul Schneider. (John Macrae/Holt, $25.) A readable, entertaining tour of New York's Adirondack Park and of the people -- some rich, some strange -- who made it.
AFRICAN EXODUS: The Origins of Modern Humanity. By Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie. (John Macrea/Holt, $25.) A literate, readable argument for the theory that modern humans arose in Africa alone.
ALFRED C. KINSEY: A Public/Private Life. By James H. Jones. (Norton, $39.95.) Kinsey, who took hell's own amount of abuse for his work on sexuality, turns out to have been a masochistic bisexual. So aha! But his science still endures.
ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN.' By Rick Bragg. (Pantheon, $25.) A moving memoir whose author rises from grim poor-white Alabama to a Pulitzer Prize, won by his reporting for The New York Times.
AMAZON JOURNAL: Dispatches From a Vanishing Frontier. By Geoffrey O'Connor. (Dutton, $25.95.) A modest report on an awesome region by a documentary filmmaker with much experience in situ but no pretense to expertise.
AMERICA IN BLACK AND WHITE: One Nation, Indivisible. By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. (Simon & Schuster, $32.50.) Two social scientists offer a survey of race relations to argue that race-conscious Government interventions are a mistake.
AMERICAN BANDSTAND: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire. By John A. Jackson. (Oxford University, $27.50.) A carefully researched and evenhanded account of the television program that made rock 'n' roll a cultural mainstay -- and its host a millionaire.


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Situated in Jensen Beach, this bed & breakfast is within 3 mi (5 km) of The Children's Museum of the Treasure Coast, Indian Riverside Park, and Eagle Marsh Golf Club. Harbour Bay Plaza and Treasure Coast Square are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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All booked for this trip - would like to meet any others going too.
Have just returned from this trip ~ you should be in for a really great time. Kamal, the tour leader, knows his game reserves like the back of his hand ~ where there are Tigers around you will find them !
Train travel in India is an experience to be enjoyed. It works.
Be prepared for long days when visiting the National Parks ~ dawn till dusk but is worth it.
A good blend of touristy bits capped by the time spent in rural India.
Hope you get as good a group as ours ~ plenty of laughs: was great fun. Lucky you
My partner and I have recently returned from this tour and to be honest found it a bit disappointing. As has been mentioned before Kamaal is a very good tour guide, knowledgeable, well organised and friendly.
The hotels, food and transport were all good. The local guides at Agra and other monuments were a pretty good too.
Our disappointment was largely to do with the way the game drives were carried out and lack of knowledge of the local safari "guides", supplied by the parks. These guides are required on each truck and seemed to be job creation scheme for the locals, no bad thing itself, but this didn't make for good guides since they were supplied on some sort of rota scheme (ie. there was no incentive for them to be better guides). Unlike reserves and national parks in Africa, Central America and Latin America, the Indian Parks seem completely obsessed with tracking down and spotting a single species, namely Tigers. Even in Uganda the local guides had some interest and knowledge regarding animals other than Gorillas, who are understanably Uganda's main tourist attraction. To put this in perspective, our least knowledgeable local guide from our many African trips, was better than any of the guides supplied in India. Obviously I'm not including Kamaal in this comment, he certainly knew his Tigers! Sure there is less wildlife to see than Africa in particular, but no effort seemed to be made of promoting or understanding the wildlife they are lucky enough to have.
To this end, we spend virtually all our game drives driving around the parks, often at speed, ignoring "less interesting" animals and birds concentrating almost entirely on finding and photographing tigers. Most visitors seemed happy with this. Our group was split into three for the game drives in Bandhavghar and Kanha, which meant we were stuck with the useless local guides on most game drives - they really were with the exception of one guide, completely useless and could barely identify common birds and almost never stopped the drivers, who in most cases were more skilled in wildlife spotting.
Of course this over-emphasis on Tigers resulted in a few Tigers being spotted, but that experience was often ruined by the number of trucks surrounding the animal, guides and drivers shouting at the top of their voices, engines screaming, jostling each other to get their clients in the best position for that perfect tiger photograph. Bit of circus anyway. Not that the Tigers seemed that bothered.
Sorry for ranting, but we weren't the only one's on the trip disappointed to some degree.
Having said all this, if your one aim is to see a Tiger and the Taj Mahal, then this is the trip for you. We may have been slightly to blame for our disappointment, by not missing more game drives and doing our own thing. Or indeed making it more clear to Kamaal earlier in the trip that we wanted to see all wildlife and not just Tigers. This might have made for a more relaxing and enjoyable trip. I would suggest that the 3 optional game drives aren't really needed, since the ones included are more than enough. The optional drives are also quite expensive and scheduled at the end of the longest travel days.
Hope I haven't put you off the trip. Hope you have a good trip!
Another thing to note is that when leaving India, you must change any spare cash [b]before security [/b]at Delhi Airport. Only Indian citizens can change Rupees in the departure lounge (and even they are limited to 5000 rupees per person). Luckily for us a very helpful fellow passenger changed our Rupees for us, otherwise we'd have been stuck with about £60 of Rupees and nowhere to spend them, except the Duty Free.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, pauses after a brief but heated response to remarks by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., not pictured, during the committee's hearing on immigration reform, Monday, April 22, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. is at right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)


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The government and the Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc on Wednesday officially authorized a midterm tax reform program to increase the 5 percent consumption tax in fiscal 2011 if the economy improves.
Prime Minister Taro Aso held a news conference to stress the need to bump up the sales levy to cover snowballing social security costs, but he did not specify how high the tax would be hiked.
"This tax increase is to secure stable pension, medical treatment and nursing systems," Aso said. "It is aimed so we don't leave (debts) for our children and grandchildren to pay."
Social security costs are expected to shoot up dramatically starting in fiscal 2009, especially with the scheduled hike in the central government's share of funding pensions to 50 percent from the current one-third. For the first two years, the government will rely on emergency measures like using surplus reserves in the "special account" to cover the spending increase.
"But these are just emergency revenues and are not a stable source of income," Aso said. "To create a social security system that is free from concerns, the No. 1 task is to secure a stable source of revenue."
The government until recently had considered boosting the tobacco tax but gave up in the face of strong protests from LDP lawmakers and the tobacco industry.
Aso refused to say how high the consumption tax will go.
"That is something the government and the ruling bloc will determine from this point forward," Aso said.
Appearing on a TV talk show Sunday, economic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano stressed the necessity of raising the consumption tax to 10 percent by 2015. The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) also recommended to the Aso Cabinet in October that the 5 percent tax be doubled by 2011.
Whether to clarify fiscal 2011 as when to raise the tax was a source of argument between the two ruling parties. New Komeito feared specifying the timing would hurt the two parties in the next general election, which must take place by next September at the latest, when the current Lower House term ends.
But after several days of discussions, New Komeito finally agreed to the consumption tax hike on condition that the tax reform program states the increase will only take place if the economy improves over the next three years.
"We agreed to the document and I think it turned out fine," New Komeito leader Akihiro Ota said later Wednesday after the Cabinet approved the midterm tax program.
During his news conference, Aso also reiterated his intention not to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election in the near future.
"I am well aware that some people are calling for an election, a coalition, a reshuffling of the political parties," Aso said. "But we are in the middle of what is said to be an economic crisis that happens once in 100 years, and now is not the time to be saying such things."
Aso said this is instead a time to take strong steps to address the economic crisis.
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The Democratic Party of Japan adopted a tax reform action program Wednesday that advocates waiting at least until fiscal 2013 before studying whether to raise the consumption tax.
Whether to hike the 5 percent sales tax is "an issue to be studied in the future," said the action program, which was adopted at a meeting of the DPJ's tax system study panel.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has added a new healthcare provider survey to their suite of surveys. The latest release is the ambulatory surgery services (ASC) survey. In general, the AHRQ surveys are designed to measure the culture of an organization. The survey captures opinions and attitudes of staff, while the results
Hospitals Can Offer AHRQ's Free "Taking Care of Myself†Brochure
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Samoa vs Tonga — two rugby hakas. Intimidation and showmanship!
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From Retronaut — this beautiful collection of glamour photos from the 1890s. This was back when a full waistline and brimming bosom signalled health and fertility — though I love the array of body types and sizes. At a time when women's bodies were mysterious and exotic, generally hidden under layers of constricting garments, the sight of a sumptuous, juicy leg must have set the hearts of men in the gay 90's all aflutter.
I also love how the faces of so many of these 'exotic dancers' bear the same bored looks as the dancers in today's clubs.
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RISD graduate Lisa Nilsson makes exquisite representations of the innerworkings of the human body with paper filigree (or quilling), a craft I first learned about from Martha Stewart magazine years ago (before the prison imbroglio). Nilsson has developed her own techniques, which can be investigated here.
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These beautiful vintage map dresses by Annex are an obvious example of clothing as art. I love the idea of paper dresses — unwearable garments that expose the delicateness of the materials we sometimes do clothe ourselves in.
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Jillian Tamaki, the lady behind the Penguin Threads series of embroidered book covers, has made a handy guide to 'sexy' options for ladies' Hallowe'en costumes.
"Sexy Virginia Woolf" is in line with a costume I talk about executing every year,"Sexy Margaret Thatcher", with sensible patent leather pumps over fishnetted legs, red powerblazer unbuttoned, suit skirt hiked up. Puffy gray-brown wig, thin red puckered lips. Can you imagine anything more terrifying? Likely not, if you were a British miner in the 80's. But since I never go out for Hallowe'en, (Toronto Hallow's Eve events seem to be based around standing in line for hours) this costume has never actually seen the light of day (or night).
A friend-of-a-friend went as "Sexy Mustard" last year, to my great envy; I would repost the photo here if I knew her at all well enough to ask her permission. I do not, so you will have to use your imagination.
21 Wednesday Sep 2011
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Aubrey Longley-Cook is a textile artist based in Atlanta. One of the rare male embroiderers, he has created this piece from 14 hoops and used his dog, Gus, as a model.
More of his work can be found here.
21 Wednesday Sep 2011
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The nexus of my love of workout videos and my obsession with Angela Lansbury.
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
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Found this during a previous summer when I had time to sit around and watch videos on ArtForum with my own BFF. Charlie White only made three –wish he'd make more! This video pretty much encapsulates the terror I feel whenever I step outside my apartment into the commercial world of conspicuous consumption — I think I want to not want more than I want to want. Whenever I step inside a mall, the mass-produced goods just seem to merge together and all look the same, and more often than not I ende up leaving emptyhanded, even if I needed to buy something specific.
But, on the other hand, having can be pretty great.
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
Nagi Noda created fabulous hats out of synthetic hair. Unfortunately the artist passed away in 2008 — more work can be found here.


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Why did O'Sensei create aikido?
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Well, why did he?
He did it for strength and martial ability, not religious or philosophical reasons.
The Life of O-Sensei, Morihei Ueshiba
Part One
by Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Second Doshu
[Editor's Note: O-Sensei's son, Kisshomaru Ueshiba, recounted O-Sensei's life story, in his first book Aikido, which was one of the first books on Aikido translated into English. This is the first installment. Photos courtesy of the Aikikai Foundation from the book, The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Ueshiba Morihei, Founder of Aikido Memorial Photo Collection.]
......Until he was 14 or 15 years old, the Founder looked quite weak with his short, thin body, but he was strong and his behavior was quite different from others. He had already had a general interest in budo since he was around ten.
When he was just twelve, his father, Yoroku, a member of the local council, was the main caretaker of the village. The so-called Toughs of the town, the hoods of his father's political opponents, would come to his house to negotiate. Sometimes they would rough up his father quite severely. The Founder said that seeing this happen so frequently
seared a deep sentiment into his mind.
He swore to become strong no matter what it would take, and throw out his father's attackers
Young Days as a Soldier
In 1901 when he was 18, the Founder took the first steps in the direction of
achieving his driving ambition
. He had come to Tokyo because he wanted to be a great merchant. He spent busy days working on a wholesale street, and studied jujutsu of the Kito Ryu at night. Some- times he went to hear political speeches, as well. However, within a few months he developed heart beriberi and had to return home.
On this occasion, he made up his mind to build a strong body and after recovering began walking two and a half miles every day. This continued for ten days. Then twenty. Eventually he began running. He slowly gained physical strength and became capable of lifting two straw bales of rice, while previously he had not been able to lift even one. By the time he was
about twenty he began to look quite different.
Although he was still short his body was much stronger than ordinary people's. But the Founder was not satisfied only to be strong. He went to Sakai to study Yagyu-Ryu jujutsu. During this time he was involved in fishery and boundary problems of his village, and helped in solving them. Through this work he became well known locally. It was also about this time that he became involved in so many activities that more than once he was a headache for his father.
The Founder was full of youthful vigor. He had an unyielding spirit. If others did twice as much as ordinary people, he would do four times. If others carried 80 pounds, he would carry 160 pounds. His quick temper found good opportunities for expression in the rice-cake-making contests of his village.
In these contests a large scoop of a special type of cooked rice is placed in a huge stone mortar or bowl. Then a large sledge, something like a wooden mallet with elongated head, is used to pound the cooked rice. An assistant constantly turns the rice over on itself as it is being pounded. Gradually the rice is transformed into a rubber-like substance which is laid out in flat cakes to cool before eating. The weight of the sledge with its awkwardly-shaped elongated head, and the force and frequency of the kneading means that making the cake requires a great deal of strength.
In these contests the Founder eagerly matched himself against other strong young men-four, six. Then ten. All were defeated. Finally the Founder broke the pounder. He would go to other places to pound rice and again broke many pounders. People eventually had to politely refuse the Founder's offer to help make rice cakes for fear he might break more of them. Instead, they served tea and pastries, in the Japanese way reserved for honored guests, to keep him away from the rice-cake-making area.
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This is going to plunge hard
Looks like you are going to loose your shirt. It was up 7% yesterday stupid.
Look, I'm a professional short and this is not a short. The number one reason it's not a short is because it's below book value. You don't short something below book value, ever, you buy it, no matter what.
He's doing like the banks do. His first position was already all in short on margin.
Now he's in so far over his head he's marking to make believe.
While you are in Florida who is going to make your margin calls all next week?
You're not very good at this are you???
I see dead people!!! This is a starting point of a reversal. See you bears at $20's.
If NOK lumia 900 very good on April 08, then NOK will rocket, take RIMM market shares, RIMM to $5.
Sub 13.90
Market what??? Dead tech? Geeze...


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@FBinNY asked about old Kingsbridge (his brand) of cone wrenches. I don't seem to have them any more, but I still have and use these.
From top to bottom: Sugino, Bicycle Research, Shimano. I probably got these in the late 70's or early 80's. Boy, just writing that must make me sound old.


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Bishop McGuinness to open with Shawnee's JV team
When Douglass broke its contract with Bishop McGuinness to play in the Kirk Herbstreit Kickoff Classic at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, it left the Irish in a bind.
McGuinness and Douglass were each other's season openers, but the Trojans opted to play Sept. 5 against DeSoto (Texas) High School in a nationally-televised game.
First-year McGuinness coach Justin Jones tried desperately to fill the Week 1 void with teams from out of state, but had to settle for Shawnee's junior varsity team. The Irish and the JV Wolves will play on Thursday night, September 1.
"I couldn't find anyone to play," Jones said. "We didn't want to not have a Week 1 game.
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x = 5;
temp`x = 6;
{x, Global`x, temp`x}
The result in my Mathematica session is
{5,5,6}, but it's
{6,5,6} in "Power Programming with Mathematica". (Page 231)
The result in my Mathematica session is
This behaviour has changed since that book was published. I am writing this additional answer to make it clear how Mathematica 9 searches contexts for symbols and that even the current version 9 documentation is incorrect in describing this.
How symbol lookup actually works
When you enter a symbol name such as
Your observations are explained by these rules, noting that
Warning: the documentation contains an error
In fact
In old versions this was not the case, as the Wagner book describes. I don't know when the change happened.
The Contexts tutorial does correctly state the order of search in the current version:
It appears since version 3 shadowed variables are given priority, as demonstrated below. In the
It seems that when the book appeared, the behaviour of how a symbol is resolved was different. We have two important things:
Now there seems to be confusion how a symbol is found. The documentation to
This suggests that it is first checked whether a symbol is in the current
This is how it seemed to work when the book was written and it is completely understandable that you are confused why it behaves differently. In this tutorial it is written the other way around
Therefore, let me explain your code as I understand what happens.
You create two symbols in different contexts, the first one in
With the
Finally, please note that you can refer to the symbol
will give 6.
I haven't seen that almost the same question was already asked and has an answer which goes along what I wrote. Another important aspect was mentioned there that I haven't said:
Result about Context is inconsistent with the description of "Power Programming with Mathematica"
(this is wiki answer, as just noticed it is duplicate, but will keep it here for easy reference)
The result is different from Version 2.2 and version 10.1, this is just to show the difference. Something changed between 1993 and today:


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This example at 200mm shows an optical weakness at the right side of the frame, something I observed repeatedly with field shooting when focused near infinity near 200mm. In many cases, I was shooting at f/5.6 or so, and the blur is largely overcome by depth of field, showing up only as a slight loss of detail and contrast. Clearly the 70-200VR2 is capable of very high imaging quality should the optics perform as designed.
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my 17 months DD has been with my MIL 2 weeks ago, when she came home she slept all day and kept sleeping ever since.
I could hardly wake her up but she would wake up to eat then sleep again
we took her to ped who gave her antibiotics + ....etc as she had swollen nasal pockets.
thing is she suddenly stopped fixing her eyes on our faces or on anything ... she is just very weak and doesn't want to leave her bed.
now, after 2 weeks of antibiotics and several doctors, her ped ordered a cat scan on her head
she is currently under general anesthesia and going in
needless to say her dad and I are totally devastated..we are worried like hell and unfortunatly we won't know the results before 24 hours from now.
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If you could swap one Country in World Showcase, which one would you choose and what would you replace it with.
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If you could swap one Country in World Showcase, which one would you choose and what would you replace it with.
I would lose China, the first time we went I remember thinking how special it was with the different individual artists in the long room right at the back. We bought a beautiful silk painting and had the year and our surname written on it.
Now I think it is just OK, the food isn't brilliant and it is looking slightly tired.
I'm stuck now with what I put in it's place, :unsure: Greece or possibly Australia I think would be nice, there would be nice theming and the food is nice :D
I'd swap the United Kingdom for a proper United Kingdom pavilion. :thumbsup:
I'd hate to swap any out really but I would love to see some added. Greece, Iberia (Spain/Portugal), Australia, India, Argentina or Brazil or even both.
Greece? they could probably downsize and move there! LOL
it would be China and maybe Thailand
Oooo Australia would be good!! G'day mate :)Quote:
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I'd swap out the US for maybe Israel or Jordan. That area of the world is not represented.
Or perhaps an African country... Ethiopia, maybe!
Id love to see India or Egypt or Brazil there.... Ummm, cant think of a country to swap though
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I think I'd swap China for Brazil. I think Brazil would just be one big party.:dance:
I'd swap out the U.S. (not because it's not good, but because it's sort of redundant) for India.
I would also swap out Morocco for Turkey, Egypt or Australia.


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EditorтАЩs Note: Few issues have created as much furor as President BushтАЩs proposals to restrict farm program payments to $250,000 per individual and limit loan eligibility to 85 percent of a farmerтАЩs direct payment yield. Farm Press Editors Elton Robinson, Ron Smith, Harry Cline and Cecil Yancy talked to growers to get their reaction to the presidentтАЩs proposals.
The Southwest: All things being equal, Barry Evans would just as soon make a living selling his cotton on the open market and forego any government support payment.
All things, however, ainтАЩt equal, leaving Evans, who raises cotton and grain sorghum near Kress, Texas, scratching his head in bewilderment at recent proposals to make significant cuts in the farm support program created in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.
Evans, like many farmers across the country, contends that the 2002 act represents a contract between American farmers and their government, with promises to maintain a farm safety net through 2007.
тАЬWeтАЩve based our five-year farm plans on this program,тАЭ Evans says. тАЬThe people in Washington D.C. do not understand the program. Many donтАЩt realize that we donтАЩt get those payments when prices are high. But when prices fall, we do get payments and thatтАЩs when folks complain.тАЭ
Evans says the 2002 legislation created тАЬa good farm bill. It works and with previous high prices, agricultural spending is down. The program smoothes income out for farmers.тАЭ
Evans says farmers benefit from the government loan program and that without proposed cuts a significant amount of his cotton will not be eligible. тАЬIтАЩm not certain how much of my cotton will qualify,тАЭ he says, тАЬbut itтАЩs extremely important that what we grow is eligible for the loan. ItтАЩs hard to plan what to grow without the loan program.тАЭ
Evans says West Texas cotton yields are тАЬextremely variable. In a good year, we will make more cotton than will be eligible for the loan (under the proposed cuts).тАЭ
Harsh payment limitations also hamper a farmerтАЩs ability to reach optimum efficiency. тАЬWe canтАЩt expand to the most efficient size if we face lower payment limitations,тАЭ he says. Denying larger farms adequate support, тАЬpromotes inefficiency.тАЭ
U.S. farmers have a tough time making a living тАЬin a world economy,тАЭ he says. тАЬWe have things such as the Plant Variety Protection Act, which I support. But other countries get those same varieties by bootlegging and they compete with us without having to pay fees.тАЭ
He says competing countries also do not have agencies like EPA and OSHA to protect the environment and workersтАЩ rights. тАЬU.S. rules donтАЩt apply in China.тАЭ
Evans says farmers could compete with any country if they could buy on the world market and get labor for $1 a day and work with bootlegged products. тАЬBut I am glad we have the protection, even though we are not on a level playing field.тАЭ
He says the American standard of living would be jeopardized if labor were as cheap as it is for competitor countries.
He says the general public does not understand how their standard of living and farm subsidies are inter-related. тАЬWe have higher production costs than most of our competitors.
тАЬ I just want to run the most efficient business I can.тАЭ ThatтАЩs a much tougher proposition without a government safety net.
The Mid-South: Proposed changes in the farm bill might be designed to create more small farmers, but for Dyersburg, Tenn., cotton producer Jimmy Moody and Senath, Mo. cotton producer Charles Parker, тАЬbroke farmersтАЭ is the more apt description.
тАЬIтАЩm involved in two operations, my family operation and a partnership,тАЭ Moody says. тАЬMy grandfather formed Moody Properties, Inc., in 1966 as an estate planning tool тАУ a way to divide his property equally among his children. WeтАЩve been farming as corporation for almost 40 years. There are a lot of relatives in the corporation who rely on the income to live.
тАЬCurrent USDA regulations make Moody Properties a single entity for payment purposes. The marketing loan today (March 2) is 13.43 cents. With a $75,000 hard cap, a 1,000 pound yield will limit my cotton acres out at 558 acres, and thereтАЩs nothing left for any other crops.тАЭ
Moody knows what that will do to his operation and others. тАЬTo figure out cotton acreage every year, youтАЩll have to project the marketing gain, then do the math to figure out how many acres of cotton you can afford to plant. тАЬThen, youтАЩre going to have to go to a crop that is not susceptible to that limit. Basically, the limit is going to dictate how I farm. ItтАЩs going to eliminate the medium- and large cotton operations in this country. тАЬIf the cap were to stand, itтАЩs just about going to prohibit us from growing cotton when prices are low at planting time. ItтАЩs going to force us into other crops.тАЭ
The trickle-down effect on the rural economy is another consideration, according to Moody. тАЬWhat do you do if youтАЩre a ginner knowing youтАЩre ginning this much one year and maybe 30 percent of that the next year? And youтАЩve got all these fixed costs to worry about. It will really wreak havoc with the cotton industry in this country. тАЬWarehouses, fertilizer and chemical vendors, ag pilots are all going to be hurt, too,тАЭ says Moody. тАЬWe have a lot of widows who have farmland rented out for cotton at a high dollar. But with the new limits, the cotton farmer who leases that land will limit out and wonтАЩt farm it. тАЬWhen you tell your banker that you want to grow cotton, but the big percentage of it is not going to be eligible for marketing loan gains, itтАЩs going to make financing a lot tougher, too.тАЭ
Moody Properties currently farms about 1,600 acres of cotton, with the balance of acres in soybeans. Moody wonders if his partnership in another corporation will affect his benefits at Moody Properties. тАЬAm I going to have to divest myself of the partnership to participate? I donтАЩt know. The devil is in the details.тАЭ
Moody believes that any decision should be put off until 2007, the end of the current farm bill. тАЬIn 2002, we made a decision on the purchase of Boll Buggies, module builders, irrigation and module trucks based on us growing cotton until 2007. Everything is geared to go through 2007. If I had thought that 2006 would be my last cotton crop on Moody Properties, we would not have made those decisions. тАЬIt took two years for Chairman Larry Combest and the House Agriculture Committee to travel all over the country working to put the last farm bill together. Now weтАЩre going to dismantle it in a few months. In effect, we will unilaterally disarm in the face of our trading partners. They need to leave everything be until it expires in 2007.тАЭ
Senath, Mo., cotton producer Charles Parker says proposed changes would cut farmers off at their financial knees. тАЬWe signed a contract back in 2002 to last through 2007. WeтАЩve been under budget the whole period of time and now they want to cut us. тАЬWe can take a percentage cut on a direct pay and maybe the counter-cyclical. IтАЩm not saying I want to, but one thing that has kept us in business is (marketing loan) certificates. When you talk about certificates applying against the limitation and then you cut your limitation, then change the 3-entity rule, it will be a disaster.тАЭ
Without an effective safety net, cotton producers can only hope for record-breaking crops every year. тАЬI donтАЩt believe thereтАЩs any way in the world we can make the same kind of crop in 2005 that we made in 2004. I hope we do. We can survive if we can make this kind of crop.тАЭ
Parker is holding out hope that good sense will prevail. тАЬIn past farm bills, theyтАЩve kind of pitted the northern farmer against the southern farmer, but the way they have this one set up, itтАЩs going to affect the northern corn farmer as much as it does the southern cotton farmer. ThatтАЩs one reason why I think we might survive. тАЬIтАЩm cautiously optimistic that something can be worked out. We realize that we canтАЩt keep spending money while the deficit keeps getting worse. But agriculture is between 1 percent and 1.5 percent of the total budget. And there are a lot of things in the ag budget that are not agriculture.тАЭ
If everything goes through as proposed, тАЬI donтАЩt know what path IтАЩd take,тАЭ Parker said. тАЬBut IтАЩm sure our northern farmers donтАЩt want us growing a lot of corn and beans down here. We have some good irrigated cotton and rice land that will grow some corn and beans. This country needs the SouthтАЩs crops and it needs the NorthтАЩs crops.тАЭ
The Far West: The only debatable issue out West from President BushтАЩs midstream cuts in the federal farm program is which state will it hurt the most: California or Arizona.
Rick Lavis, executive secretary of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association, says BushтАЩs proposed reduction in payment limits to farms will impact almost three-fourths of Arizona producers and would cut income 20 to 40 percent.
BushтАЩs proposed cuts would be devastating to the Arizona cotton industry already struggling to remain viable with less than 250,000 acres in cotton annually. At one time it was more than 1 million acres.
тАЬThere is no questions the PresidentтАЩs proposed budget cuts in the farm program would have a huge impact on the California cotton industry,тАЭ said San Joaquin Valley cotton producer Tom Teixeira of Dos Palos, Calif. тАЬMore so than any, other part of the Cotton Belt.тАЭ
Teixeira, who farms about 2,700 aces in Merced and Fresno counties, said under the proposed reduced $250,000 payment limit, a California grower with 650 acres of cotton would max out.
By comparison, it would take about 1,600 acres for a Mid-South grower to max out. Teixeira, who is the newly elected chairman of California Cotton Growers Association, acknowledged California producers make more cotton per acre than other parts of the Cotton Belt, except for Arizona, тАЬbut it costs a lot more per pound to produce in California because growing cost are so much higher in the irrigated West. Our margins are already thin.тАЭ
Western growers were gearing up for a big battle over the 2007 farm bill and were expecting major challenges once again to lower the payment limits. However, they are disappointed and miffed that the battle is coming now. They contend the 2002 farm bill was a five-year contract and producers and bankers made commitments and loans based on that. Changing the rules in midstream is unfair, they contend.
Western farmers believe, overall, the current farm bill is a good one, giving the farmers a safety net and at the same time encouraging conservation with one of the most generous conservation titles ever included in a federal farm bill. тАЬChanging the farm bill at this stage is going to pull a lot of dollars out of the farm economy,тАЭ said Teixeira.
тАЬI really believe the farm bill is working. It is working when prices are low and works when prices are profitable.тАЭ
Without something like the current farm program in place, the federal government would find itself back to funding expensive disaster programs to keep American agriculture afloat.
And, Teixeira said, without the safety net, there would be wide commodity market swings. тАЬThere is no question the next farm bill will be a difficult sell to a lot of legislators who lack the understanding of the importance of a strong American agriculture,тАЭ said the San Joaquin Valley producer.
тАЬWe are told we must become more efficient and consolidate to compete on a worldwide basis yet the administration wants to reduce the amount of money allocated to support larger growers. What the government is telling us is not matching the actions we are seeing in these proposed cuts in the farm program,тАЭ said the California producer.
Teixeira acknowledged California producers have alternatives if the cotton program is gutted, However, as he has told vegetable and tree and vine producers, if the federal farm program no longer allows producers to grow commodity crops, they will switch to the so-called specialty crops and likely flood the markets for those crops.
тАЬI sit on a farm credit board with vegetable producers from the coast who say the government does not need a farm program. I remind them that if we are not growing cotton or other program crops, we will grow something and it may be the some of the crops they now grow,тАЭ said the valley producer.
The Southeast: тАЬItтАЩs not good news for farmers.тАЭ тАЬWeтАЩll be able to dodge the bullet.тАЭ тАЬItтАЩs premature to get excited about the proposed cuts to agriculture in the presidentтАЩs budget.тАЭ Those are just a few of the comments coming from growers in the upper Southeast.
Cotton grower representatives are тАЬthoroughly convinced that weтАЩll be able to convince people in Washington, D.C.,тАЭ that the proposed cuts to farm programs in the presidentтАЩs budget are тАЬdisproportionate,тАЭ says Roy Baxley of Dillon County, S.C.
Readying for planting, Baxley expects to see some cuts, but not the magnitude of the Bush proposal, which includes payment limitations.
тАЬGiven the prices we have, if these cuts were implemented, IтАЩd lose 35 to 40 percent of my assistance,тАЭ Baxley says. тАЬThat would mean I would grow less cotton and more wheat and soybeans.тАЭ
Baxley as well as others arenтАЩt ready to do that just yet. HeтАЩs getting ready to plant 1,300 to 1,400 acres of cotton this season. HeтАЩs also gearing up to plant peanuts this year.
тАЬWeтАЩre going to do everything in our power to fight it and prove to Congress that these programs are absolutely necessary,тАЭ Baxley says.
Cotton producer Allan Baucom of Union County, N.C., believes the budget proposal is тАЬa first blushтАЭ of the process. тАЬItтАЩs premature to get excited. We have made no changes in our plans for this year based on the presidentтАЩs budget.
тАЬIf they want to cut a budget, it must be equitable,тАЭ Baucom says. тАЬLetтАЩs cut every department the same amount, every aspect of every department the same amount.тАЭ Rex Alphin, a Windsor, Va., diversified producer, says, тАЬItтАЩs not good news for farmers. тАЬFor farmers who rely completely on row crops, itтАЩs just more screws tightening,тАЭ Alphin says.
He believes payments limitations could be beneficial only in the sense that they donтАЩt affect the family farm. тАЬWhen it starts affecting the family farm, which is the backbone of agriculture, it would be tough,тАЭ Alphin says.
тАЬItтАЩs slowly becoming where we donтАЩt have a cash crop,тАЭ Alphin says. тАЬPeanuts have been our cash crop in the past, but the contract price has gone down,тАЭ Alphin says. тАЬBut weтАЩll continue to grow peanuts.тАЭ
Alphin, who grows crops on about 1,000 acres, also has a hog operation. тАЬItтАЩs getting very difficult for farmers to make a living. ItтАЩs going to be tough.тАЭ Taking the tact that farm programs provide the underpinning for 15 percent of the economy, grower representatives of the National Cotton Council are emphasizing the benefits of farm programs from a consumer perspective.
Baxley provides an example that comes from a тАЬthank youтАЭ visit following the signing of the 2002 farm bill. тАЬOne of the congressmen from my state pulled me out in the hall and said he was somewhat sorry that he had voted for the farm bill. Some of his conservative constituents were telling him it was an extreme waste of money.
тАЬI said, тАШLetтАЩs look at it this way: Both of us are consumers and taxpayers, right? What is it worth to you to be protected by the strongest military in the world?тАЩ He said it was worth a lot.
тАЬWell, тАШwhat is it worth to you to have access to the most abundant and safest supply of food and clothing in the world? Is it worth $100?тАЩ He said, тАШyes.тАЩ
тАЬAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, consumers are getting that for $67 a year,тАЭ Baxley says. тАЬThatтАЩs what itтАЩs costing the American taxpayer.тАЭ
Traveling to Washington, D.C., with the Southern Cotton Growers, Baxley has found тАЬwe have a lot of people on our side that believe the farm bill is working.тАЭ
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