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When was the last time you thought to yourself, "We should really make more of an effort to put our nation deeper and deeper in debt"?
For decades America has continued to spend far more than it takes in and there isn't any doubt that we must cut spending, balance the budget, and pay down our national debt. While this process will be tedious and painful, we shouldn't shy away from reforming or even eliminating the numerous agencies within our bloated bureaucracy that fail to function at even the most basic levels.
Take, for example, the Department of Education. When this department was founded the government spent about $6,702 per pupil - today we are spending more than $11,000. Since 1980, the Department of Education has spent hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars while doing little to improve educational outcomes. Test scores across the board have either remained flat or declined over the past 30 years and, according to the most recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States ranks 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science, and a below-average 25th for mathematics.
When compared to countries like China, our education system is vastly inferior. In the very same OECD report referenced above, Shanghai and Hong Kong ranked first and second (respectively) in all three skill categories. These aptitude scores indicate not only an intellectual superiority, but also an increased capacity for financial and military dominance on the world stage. If America continues to promote educational standards far below the international average, we will find ourselves beholden to China for far more than $1.1 trillion.
Unfortunately for our children, the Department of Education deserves an "F" for these unacceptable results.
Similarly, the Department of Energy has failed to live up to its purpose of "ensuring America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges." What's being done about the challenge families across this country face every day when they go to fill up their gas tanks?
Instead of promoting deliberate and successful programs to lower the price of gas, increase energy production, and advance the development of alternative energy sources, the Department of Energy has used billions of tax-payer dollars to fund the ludicrous projects of President Obama's campaign supporters - projects that have either gone bankrupt or continue to face financial problems. One of the more notable failures came after the solar energy firm Solyndra filed for bankruptcy and laid off almost all of its employees just one year after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.
Despite the embarrassing and inexplicable failures from both of these departments, we continue to reward them with more and more hardworking taxpayer dollars. The buck stops here.
The federal government cannot afford to continue to fund agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Energy any more than it can afford to continue meddling in issues that are best handled at the state level or in the free market. When we return to promoting the effective and efficient programs deemed successful at the most local levels and shift control back to the hands of those most knowledgeable officials, we will end this perpetual cycle of government waste.
We must embrace again our roots of small government and remember the principles of federalism on which this nation was built.
Republican Tom Marino is the representive to Congress from the 10th District of Pennsylvania.


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Act 10 Lawsuit Judgment Strikes Down Forced Dues Contracts between Kenosha School District and Unions
Bargaining agreements between unions and the school district violated Wisconsin's public-sector labor reform statute
Kenosha, WI (March 27, 2015) – In a lawsuit filed by current and former Kenosha public school teachers, a state court has struck down monopoly bargaining agreements between the Kenosha Unified School District and School Board and three local unions as illegal under Wisconsin's 2011 public-sector unionism reforms commonly referred to as Act 10.
Current Kenosha school teacher Carrie Ann Glembocki and former Kenosha school teacher Kristi LaCroix filed the lawsuit in November 2013, with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. The lawsuit challenged bargaining agreements between the District and officials from the Kenosha Education Association union, the SEIU Local 168 union, and the AFSCME Local 2383 union. Those agreements required teachers and other District staff to pay union dues or fees to keep their jobs.

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MD Convocation 2013May 12, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Manoa Campus, Kennedy Theater
Sixty-four new Hawai`i trained physicians will be receiving their MDs at the UHM Commencement Ceremony on May 11. The next day, at Convocation, the new MDs get to be together as a class to celebrate, and Convocation is always memorable because it includes touching moments in which our students will publicly express their "mahalo" to family and friends — and each other — for the support they received through four years of challenging study. Awards are granted to students in various categories, including the ALOHA award.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Whenever I see fall arrangements chock full of pumpkins indoors or out both my mind and my mouth begin to conjure up nostalgia. I think of my mother and one of her favorite poets and I think of one of my all time favorite flavors. Mom used to read me James Whitcomb Rileys childrens works and those he wrote for adults for which he was known as The Hoosier Poet. We both loved When the Frost is on the Punkin, and she read it to me until I was able to negotiate his dialectical wording myself. He was a mid westerner, as was she, and we both appreciated Rileys style. I always thought he was a kind of Dr. Seuss for adults the way he manipulated words you never heard of before but because of his ingenious pictorial presentation, knew exactly what they meant. Such as:
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodders in the shock,
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin turkey-cock,
And the clackin of the guineys, and the cluckin of the hens,
And the roosters hallylooyer as his tiptoes on the fence;
So this was my mind set when Terri Killiri asked me if I liked pumpkin pie. Terri, who has flair with hair as well as with food, was coaxing my tresses into a more fetching form when she set my taste buds alight. Like it? I replied, its one of my favorites. And at this time of year I can also get pumpkin muffins and pumpkin ice cream!
Then youre going to like this Pumpkin Dip I just tried. It was a big hit at a family party and everybody just loved it, she told me. Plus it was perfect seasonal timing to get me thinking again of some of Rileys words in his ode to autumn:
But the airs so appetizin; and the landscape through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
Is a pictur that no painter has the colorin to mock
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodders in the shock.
Bring on the recipe, I told Terri, it sounds perfect for kids of all ages (including me). Her daughter-in-law got this off the internet and knowing Terri, Ill bet she nudged it a bit. But thats fine with me as shes a wonderful cook.
Pumpkin Dip
1 8 ounce package cream cheese
2 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
½ cup sour cream
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon ginger
Mix ingredients together and chill thoroughly. Serve with graham crackers or ginger snaps. I found some cinnamon flavored tiny Teddy Grahams which the young (at heart) will enjoy scooping into this luscious concoction.
. While my family is imbibing in this feast for the tongue, Ill be savoring the mental banquet, remembering the last lines of that poem:
I dont know how to tell itbut ef such a thing could be
As the angels wantin boardin, and theyd call around on me
Id want to commodate em all the whole-induring flock
When frost is on the punkin and the fodders in the shock.
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Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Seventh Avenue – to the east, and the Hudson River and West Street to the west. To the north of Chelsea is the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, also known as "Clinton," to the northeast is the Garment District, to the east are NoMad and the Flatiron District, to the southwest is the Meatpacking District and to the southeast is the West Village.[3]
Chelsea is divided between Manhattan Community Board 4 and Manhattan Community Board 5. It contains the Chelsea Historic District and its extension, which were designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and 1981, respectively,[4] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, expanded in 1982 to include contiguous blocks containing particularly significant examples of period architecture.
The neighborhood is primarily residential, with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks, city housing projects, townhouses and renovated rowhouses, and its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population. The western part of Chelsea has become a center of the New York art world, with many art galleries located in both new buildings and rehabilitated warehouses.
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The far west side of Chelsea—New York's premier contemporary-art district—was an edgy, semi-industrial patch before it was colonized by adventurous gallerists in the 1990s. Increasingly blue chip, it is now home to such high-profile spaces as Gagosian Gallery, Gladstone Gallery and Haunch of Venison. The development of the High Line has brought more visitors to the formerly desolate area. The verdant, elevated promenade commands great views of the surrounding architecture—a mix of industrial landmarks and gleaming new structures—and passes through the old loading dock of the former Nabisco factory, which now houses the eateries and shops of Chelsea Market. While the Chelsea gay scene has become commercialized and, to the younger set, passé, there are still some worthwhile watering holes, eateries and shops, and flea market aficionados can peruse vestiges of a sprawling hub for antiques and bric-a-brac.
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Ninth Judicial Circuit Court
The Family Division of the Circuit Court is located at the Gull Road Courthouse, 1400 Gull Road, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49048.
Some Family Division proceedings are handled at Crosstown Center, 150 E. Crosstown Parkway, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001.
The entrances to the Gull Road Courthouse and Crosstown Courthouse are monitored by security equipment and security personnel. The following items may not be brought into the building: guns, knives (including small pocket knives), razors, scissors, box cutters, any type of spray, and food/beverages (except for identified jurors and staff). All packages may be inspected. Dangerous or illegal objects may be seized. Litigants should arrive early for court proceedings to allow time for security measures.
Three judges serve in the Family Division:
Honorable Julie K. Phillips* - Court G
Honorable Stephen D. Gorsalitz - Court E Presiding Judge of the Family Division
Honorable G. Scott Pierangeli** - Court F
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Probate Judge Curtis Bell assists with the Family Division docket.
Family Division referees are cross-trained to hear both domestic and juvenile matters.
The types of cases heard by the Family Division include:
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In a contentious 4-3 vote, the Holland School Board on Monday agreed to keep using the middle school building for administration only and concentrate any renovation efforts on the elementary and high school campus on Canada Street. That includes the possibility of adding classrooms.
The motion put forward by board President Steven Marom drew fire from board members Kelleen Kensey, Joseph Levesque and Larry Krzeminski, who favored closing the elementary school. They also expressed frustration that the board was being asked to make the decision on short notice.
"We've been kicking this around for years now. Let's stop floundering around and just do it," Marom responded.
Kensey, however, was irked by the suddenness of the motion, noting there had been only one meeting of the facilities committee on the matter before it was brought to the board.
"You know you have your four votes," she snapped. "Is this discussion falling on deaf ears?"
The district began reconfiguration talks last year after an analysis showed the district could be $2 million in the red within a few years. The board originally planned to close the elementary building and house all students in the middle and high schools, but the publicly unpopular decision was reversed last year when elections altered the board's makeup and ousted former Superintendent Dennis Johnson before his contract expired.
In what some thought a temporary measure, the Harold O. Brumsted Elementary School became a prekindergarten through sixth-grade building, and the high school a seventh- through 12th-grade building. The middle school housed offices.
Monday's resolution, which solidifies the move as a permanent one, also asks the district to explore efforts to move the superintendent and business offices into the elementary school and the curriculum and special-education offices into the high school to further reduce the middle school's energy footprint.
A second motion, also passed 4-3, asked the superintendent to explore the feasibility of adding two rooms at the elementary school, where about $1 million in upgrades will likely be necessary. However, Marom said that is less than the $2 million in reconstruction the middle school would need – work that would be ineligible for state aid because students are no longer housed there.


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She jangled the quarters in the passenger door handle. It could be our last
sunny day and I rescued her from the recliner and walls. We drove to the riverwalk and she stayed in the car. My girl and I, drew in by the waves - harnessed and pulled we ran - and we cuffed our jeans and slipped off our boots in the sand to feel October's drink on our skin.
Pick a shell for her and she picked two, and a smooth stone for his grave. We drove there next and she placed it down on his ledge. It smelled like beach and strawberries she said when she cupped it to her lips. His favorite place, came to him. And we drove past the 'stones and it could always be our last
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The annual Oldies Fundraising Concert for the Tyrone-Snyder Township Public Library has brought excitement and quality acts to Tyrone for 12 years.
Next year's show, however, has caused a bit more excitement than the concert committee had expected.
The 2014 fundraiser will bring The Lettermen to the Tyrone Area High School auditorium on May 3. Their appearance has led to a deluge of tickets being purchased. More than 750 of the 1,100 seats have already been sold.
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The Lettermen will perform on May 3 at the Tyrone Area High School auditorium. From left are Bobby Poynton, Donovan Tea and Tony Butala.
"Since The Lettermen posted [the concert] on their web page, tickets have been selling tremendously," said Chuck Banas, the concert organizer. "We are getting calls every day from out-of-the-area ticket purchasers. We fully anticipate this show to be sold out before the end of September, if not before."
The concert committee is trying to let people know that tickets are going fast.
"In years past, we waited until November to sell tickets. The Lettermen posting it on their web site changed everything," Banas said.
The Lettermen formed in 1959 and had their first big hit with a new version of the pop standard "The Way You Look Tonight." They proved adept at using their three-part harmony to update pop standards, getting big hits from versions of "When I Fall in Love," "Theme From A Summer Place," "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" and a medley of "Goin' Out of My Head" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You."
The group has been touring in one form or another since their formation, with co-founder Tony Butala being the constant member. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame - an institution that Butala founded in his hometown of Sharon, Pa., in 1998 - in 2001.
Currently, the group is made up of Butala, Donovan Tea (a member since 1984) and Bobby Poynton (a member off and on since 1988).
"We had no idea that this was to be this hot a ticket," Banas said. "It's beyond our wildest dreams, for sure."
Tickets for the show are $35 per person. Tickets can be purchased at Bressler Food Mart & Sports and Kopp Drug located in Tyrone, the Tyrone-Snyder Township Public Library in downtown Tyrone and Thompson Pharmacy on Broad Avenue in Altoona Mastercard and Visa are accepted only at the library in or by calling the ticket hotline number at 682-1017.


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The family of Allison Griffor hope a kindly gesture this Christmas will ease the pain of spending another holiday without their little girl or answers as to why she was killed.
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Anyone with information about the shooting death of Allison Griffor should call Crime Stoppers at 554-1111.
The Griffor family, who lost the 5-year-old after someone shot into their West Ashley home in 2011, has since moved out of the Lowcountry. They buried Allison in Detroit.
But as the holidays approached this year, the family decided to do something on behalf of their daughter. They sent gifts to a little girl who was a friend of Allisons and had gone to school with her.
Their son, Aidan, became pen pals with the child following his sisters death and the Griffors have kept in touch with the girls family, Allisons mother, Jennifer, said in an email.
We cant give (gifts) to Allison so we thought maybe we could do something nice for one of her close friends, Griffor wrote.
Griffor said her daughter loved her friends. During bedtime, Allison would tell her mother about how she would look out for her friends and pick them up if they fell down. She was a great friend.
Griffor said her family was particularly touched to learn her daughters former school, Drayton Hall Elementary School, had put up a tree in her honor this year.
Allisons parents have thought about their daughter every day since her shooting on Oct. 25, 2011. We are moving forward as best we can, Griffor wrote.
Allison also remains on the minds of detectives with the Charleston County Sheriffs Office, who continue working to find her killer or killers. It pulls at your heart strings, said Sgt. Derek Boyd, a detective investigating the case.
Investigators hope someone, perhaps with a minor role in the crime, will come forward in exchange for possible leniency. Sheriff Al Cannon made that clear during a press conference in October where he said that the first person to provide details about the case could get a deal.
When whoever down the road talks to us about it, then were going to go after you (the others) with the max. Then its too late to talk to us. Then we dont want to talk to your lawyer, Cannon said during that conference.
Investigators seem convinced the little girl was not an intended target and said they think those involved in the shooting mistakenly believed there were drugs at the home. Cannon also indicated they believe they know whos involved and said some of those people are behind bars for other crimes.
Someone kicked in the front door of the Griffors home on Pierpont Avenue at about 1 a.m. As Allisons father, William, walked toward the door, shots were fired into the house. Several buckshot pellets went through the door and a wall into the room where Allison slept. She was hit in the head in the room she shared with her two brothers. Allison died two days later at Medical University Hospital.
Weve been taking it moment by moment, trying to stay very busy. It is still hard to believe that someone would shoot blindly into anything, let alone at the voice on the other side of a random strangers door, the Griffors said in a statement following the one-year anniversary of her death earlier this year.
Boyd also pointed out that anyone else with information could reap benefits with a reward if their tips lead to arrests in the case. Crime Stoppers, with a donation from a private citizen, is still offering up to $4,000.
Any information would help strengthen or build the case, Boyd said.
Reach Natalie Caula at 937-5594 or Twitter.com/ncaula.


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Yesterday, I told you about THIS.
Today, we have THIS:
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday evening to block enforcement of a new Wisconsin law that bans doctors who lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals from performing abortions.
U.S. District Judge William Conley granted the order following a hearing in a lawsuit filed Friday by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services. It alleged the requirement would unconstitutionally restrict the availability of abortions in the state, violates the U.S. Constitution's due process guarantee and unconstitutionally treats doctors who perform abortions differently from those who ...
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Two diaries kept by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s paint a portrait of a woman apparently deeply in love with her then-husband, J. Howard Marshall II, but often worried about her weight and disdainful of sex.
"I've been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can't quit eating. I feel like a pig," Smith, who died Feb. 8, writes in an entry dated Aug. 16, 1992.
The journals, made available to the Associated Press on Thursday, are among several pieces of Smith memorabilia to be auctioned off in a few weeks by Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries.
The first diary is a purple and green Hallmark hardback book with the handwritten message on the inside cover: "This diary belongs to Vickie Smith. Do Not Read!" (Smith's birth name was Vickie Lynn Hogan.)
In it, she describes the beginning of her relationship with Paul Marciano, CEO of Guess Inc. "O my Gosh!! Paul Marsiano called today to see if I got his books also I'm gonna go to San Antonio to do photo shoot," she wrote on June 23, 1992. "I'm so excited!! I can't believe this. This could be it." The entry ends with five smiley faces.
Two days later she describes buying $3,000 worth of clothing at Neiman Marcus. "I'm so happy they look great," she wrote. "I hope it empresses Paul Marsiano. ... I'm starving!! I've been starving myself."
Smith launched her career as a model for Guess, eventually replacing Claudia Schiffer as the face of the company's jeans line.
In August, Smith expressed her frustration with Marshall, the oil tycoon 63 years her senior whom she would marry in 1994. "Howard has been buying me som jewelry but he call me 15 or 20 times a day it drives me crazy. I love him but he aggravates me somtimes," she wrote. "I don't no what to do about Paul hes strange guy. I hate for men to want sex all the time."
The entry ends with the word "Chow!" written in large letters and underlined.
The diaries also foreshadow Smith's eventual dependence on the prescription medications that, according to an autopsy report released in March, killed her in an accidental overdose.
On June 13, 1992, she wrote that she was hung over and watched a movie at home, adding that she "Took a Zandrex!"
In the second diary, a spiral-bound paperback Guess Kids calendar from 1994, Smith describes her relationship with Marshall.
"Hes so very weak and fragile When I touch him Im afraid he might break," she wrote in an undated entry. "If Jesus desides to take him I dont no what I'll do. I love him so much it hurts me to site and watch him when hes hurting I just want to hold him touch him let him no how much I care."
Marshall died in 1995, and Smith had been battling his family for a share of his estimated $500 million fortune up until her death.
Heritage Auction Galleries bought the journals from an anonymous German businessman who purchased them and other items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago, the AP reports.
According to Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage, opening bids will start a $20,000 and he expects the diaries to fetch as much as $100,000.
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A white rapper and singer from Southern California that uses autotune, "smokes, drinks, and never sleeps." He's covered in tattoos, smokes weed all day, gets laid, and is paid tons of money.
I'm gonna blaze with T. Mills!
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One of the sexiest white rappers. He has sexy tattoos and girls would kill for one night with him. His songs are amazing
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Philip Barbour High School returns a strong group of players from last year's 15-14 team for veteran head coach Stanley Fitzwater. "We return a good group of players from a year ago," Fitzwater said....
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A Lancaster woman cut a gas station clerk with a box cutter during a robbery attempt early Friday, according to police.
Lisa Anne Ruoss, 32, walked into the Gas Mart in the 600 block of Columbia Avenue about 12:35 a.m. Friday with a box cutter and demanded money, police said.
She tried to get behind the register area and cut a clerk's hand during a struggle, police said. The clerk and another person were able to restrain Ruoss until officers arrived.
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Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom Will Be Apart for Thanksgiving
But even if Khloé Kardashian, 28, and her basketball star husband Lamar Odom, 33, won't be together this year for the family holiday, they remain connected and supportive as both continue their busy careers.
"Honestly, I'm fine with it, because I'm obsessed with my husband – in a healthy way – but he's on the road. He has a game in Brooklyn, so I don't feel guilty, like, 'I'm not going to be able to cook for him!' " Kardashian told PEOPLE from the set of The X Factor on Thursday.
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Wherever her husband may be, Kardashian says Odom lovingly takes time to watch her show, even if it's a replay on YouTube, where he often makes fun of her voice. Odom, she adds, has also given her other advice, chiding her for being a bit ... overexposed.
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The mother of a girl raped when the child was 12 says she has always supported her daughter and wants nothing to do with the man responsible for the sexual attack.
Upset over a prosecutor's remarks that questioned her support for her daughter during the Erie County Court sentencing Thursday of rapist Cotrell Jenkins, the mother called The Buffalo News on Friday from her out-of-state residence to say she is a caring parent and intentionally relocated to start a new life for her family and get away from Jenkins, her ex-boyfriend.
Jenkins, 27, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after admitting he raped the girl more than two years ago.
"I don't appreciate the things that were said in court. My daughter and I have moved on. I believed my daughter from the start," the mother said in contradicting the prosecution's claims that the mother only accepted the fact that Jenkins impregnated her child after being shown DNA test results proving his paternity.
The mother says that she does not know the circumstances of the rape but that Jenkins should not have harmed her daughter. Jenkins had said he does not recall the rape, claiming that he may have blacked out from taking prescription pain medication and alcohol.
"My daughter told a few different stories, that she willingly got in bed with him or that he put a pillow over her head. I honestly don't know what happened. It doesn't matter if she got into bed with him. She's a child, and he's an adult, and he should have walked away," the mother said.
The rape occurred when the mother was expecting a child with Jenkins. That child, a son, is now 2 years old and lives with her and her daughter and other siblings. The daughter's pregnancy from Jenkins, authorities said, ended in an abortion.
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UT System regents today appointed Dr. Kern Wildenthal as a new president and professor emeritus at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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What is Aeronautics?
Aeronautics is the science of flight. Scientists and engineers who study aeronautics learn about how and why airplanes fly. Using what they learn, they can design better, safer, and cheaper-to-build airplanes. To understand how NASA scientists and engineers begin this big job, we need to first learn how an airplane flies. Then we can answer a few other questions including:
When we are done here, we can jump into learning what tools are used to design an airplane.
How does an airplane fly?
Most of us have probably seen or felt wind blowing things like flags or kites around. But how is it possible that heavy airplanes (some weighing almost half a million pounds, or more than 200,000 kilograms) are able to be supported by air high above the ground?
The answer may sound strange at first, but it's actually the air that is pushing the airplane's wings and the rest of it up. The air under the wings pushes up more than the air on top of the wings pushes down. This "pushing" by the air is called air pressure. We can think of air pressure as air "press"-ing down or up against something else. On a windy day, you can actually feel the air pressure push against your body. The wings of an airplane "feel" a similar pushing, but there happens to be a bigger pressure under the wings and a smaller pressure on the top.
What's really amazing is why this happens. The special shape of an airplane's wing makes the air moving around it behave in a certain way. If we look at an airplane's wing from the side, we can see that the wing is a special shape called an airfoil.
An airfoil is curved on the top and flat on the bottom, causing some of the air to go over the top and the rest of the air to go along the bottom. This shape looks simple, but it is the main reason airplanes can fly at all. Because of the airfoil's curved shape, the air moving under the airfoil moves at a slower speed than the air going over the top.
A scientist named Daniel Bernoulli (Ber-NEW-lee), who lived more than 200 years ago, did work that proves slow-moving air causes a high pressure and fast-moving air causes a low pressure. Because there is a higher pressure "pushing" on the underside of the wing than on the top, the bottom pressure wins out overall and the wings (and the airplane attached to it) are pushed up, making the entire thing fly!
You can actually see this for yourself. If you take a strip of paper and blow over the top of it as shown in the picture below, the paper will rise.
What happened? You lowered the pressure that was pushing down on the top of the paper, causing the pressure on the bottom side of the paper to push the paper strip up. The same thing happens when air pushes on the bottom side of an airplane's wing. The pressure that is pushing the airplane up creates a force called lift in the upwards direction.
For a further explanation of lift.
What forces act on an airplane?
There are four forces acting on an airplane in flight: lift, weight, thrust and drag.
We already know that lift comes from the wings. What about the other forces?
Weight is a force caused by gravity. You've felt gravity every time you jump. Gravity is what pulls you and everything else back down to the ground. This "pulling down" by gravity is what causes you to have a "weight" that you measure when you step on a bathroom scale. An airplane's weight also pulls downward on it - directly opposite to the lift force that is pulling the airplane up. It's like the lift and weight forces are playing a game of tug-of-war. One pulls in one direction and the other pulls in the opposite direction. For level flight, lift and weight must balance each other out.
Thrust, caused by the airplane's engines, is the force that moves the airplane forward. If an airplane did not keep moving, air would stop moving over and under the wings. Without this movement of air, the wings could not create lift, and the airplane would start to fall back to the ground!
Drag is the force that tries to slow down a moving object. To lessen the drag that an airplane feels, most airplanes are made more aerodynamic, or streamlined, to reduce the amount of drag they feel. A streamlined airplane has smooth surfaces and no bumpy sections, causing as little resistance to the air as possible. Just like lift and weight are opposite forces, thrust and drag are opposites to each other too. For an airplane to keep flying, its thrust must be bigger than its drag.
Can I see any of this myself the next time I'm flying on an airplane?
Definitely! Now that you know what makes airplanes fly, you can look for certain things the next time you are aboard.
Right before take-off, feel your back get pushed against your seat as the airplane builds up its speed before leaving the ground. As the airplane races down the runway, it's waiting until enough lift is created by the wings to lift the entire thing off the ground. If you are sitting by a window and can see the wing look at the way the ailerons (flaps on the back edge of the wing) move up or down when the airplanes banks or turns.
When the airplane gets ready for landing, try to listen for the sound of the landing gear being lowered below you. Then, right before touchdown notice the large wing flaps in their down position. The pilot lowers these flaps so he or she can more easily control the airplane at such a slow speed. After landing, look at how the spoilers (big rectangular sections in the middle of the wing) pop up to create more drag to slow down the airplane even more!
What are the different types of airplanes?
You may be wondering why there are so many different types of airplanes out there. What makes them different from each other? We'll take a quick look at what makes each of the following airplanes unique:
Cargo/Transport Airplanes
Cargo/transport airplanes have a lot of room inside them to carry things that would ordinarily be too large or too heavy to carry on other types of airplanes. Sometimes these planes carry trucks, packages, construction equipment, or even other airplanes! Since cargo/transport airplanes are so big they usually have large, powerful engines to help get themselves off the ground. Because of their large cargo bays, a few of these planes are a little unusual-looking. It's no wonder that the "Guppy" and the "Beluga" are named that way - they look like huge fish! Sometimes private shipping companies and the postal service use modified passenger jets as cargo planes. In those cases, most or all of the passenger seats are removed and large containers full of cargo go in their place. Pictured here are a Boeing 757 freighter and a Airbus Guppy.
Experimental Concept Airplanes
When engineers are designing an airplane, they often build one or two full-size airplanes of the design to see if it flies the way it should. Because the engineers are still experimenting with the design, these types of airplanes are sometimes called experimental concept airplanes or prototypes. A specially trained and very experienced pilot flies these airplanes, and then reports to the engineers. The research pilot can tell them what he or she thought were the good and bad features of the airplanes and what needs to be improved. Many times, experimental concept airplanes are quite unique-looking because they are trying out a strange, new concept or technological advance. Most experimental planes, like the X-36 and X-29 pictured here have names starting with "X" as in eXperimental.
Fighter/Military Airplanes
There are many different kinds of military airplanes. Transport airplanes carry armies, equipment, and supplies hundreds of miles to where they are needed. Reconnaissance, or spy, airplanes fly secret missions to photograph enemy territory. Fighter airplanes were used for the first time in World War I. Today, most fighters have advanced computer, navigational, and weapons systems and are able to maneuver quickly and precisely in case they have to participate in aerial combat. Some fighters are able to fly at supersonic (faster than sound) speeds for short periods of time, and other fighters use stealth technology to make themselves nearly invisible to enemy radar. The first letter in the name of a military airplane tells us what kind of mission it flies. For example, the F-16 and F-15 shown here are types of fighters. Similarly, a B-2 is a bomber, a A-10 is an attack airplane, and a C-7 is a cargo/transport airplane.
Passenger Airplanes
The airplanes most people see most often are passenger airplanes. These are the type of airplanes that you are more likely to board at the airport or see or hear flying overhead. The earliest airliners in the 1950s were very noisy and could not travel very far without refueling. Today, people use passenger jetliners to travel all over the world for both business and pleasure. Most jetliners travel at about 600 miles per hour (965 kilometers per hour), and some can carry people and cargo for over 8,000 miles (12,874 kilometers) non-stop. Some airplane designers are working on passenger airplanes that carry more than 600 people or fly at supersonic speeds. Right now, the Concorde is the only supersonic passenger jet, traveling at twice the speed of sound (1,400 miles per hour or 2,250 kilometers per hour)!
By the way, do birds fly the same way airplanes do?
Yes, for the most part, birds and airplanes fly for the same reasons. If we looked at the shape of a bird's wings, we would see they are curved the same way airfoils on airplanes are. When a bird glides during level flight, it stays in the air just like airplanes do - its wings provide the lift. However, birds flap their wings up and down to go higher in the sky while airplanes must use a combination of control surfaces and their powerful engines. In the 19th century, before airplanes were around, some inventors tried strapping homemade wings to their arms and jumping off buildings to copy the flapping motion of birds - usually with deadly results. Unlike humans, birds have strong wing muscles that give them the power needed for flight. So, after millions of years of evolution, birds and insects continue to fly on their own, but humans will have to depend on machines like airplanes. For more information how birds, bats, and marine life fly, check out the Aeronautics Internet Textbook's chapter on the aerodynamics of animals.
Why does NASA study aeronautics?
NASA scientists and engineers work together with other researchers from several universities and aerospace companies to learn how to design better airplanes. What does this mean to the general public? Improved or more modern airplanes are easier to maintain, cost less to operate (which means a cheaper ticket for the passengers aboard), are safer to fly, and are better for the environment. NASA focuses on several areas including weather-related safety, aging airplanes, advanced structures and engines for airplane design, air traffic control, helicopters, airport and supersonic engine noise reduction, turbulence prediction, and the human factor.
An Aeronautics Glossary
Where else on the Internet can I learn about aeronautics?
As part of a national program in High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), NASA is working to empower educators and students to use the evolving National Information Infrastructure to meet their educational needs. Through grants and cooperative agreements, the following aeronautics-related educational materials have been developed:
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Ben and Katy drove to Wendy's to get Ben a chocolate Frosty. When they ordered a chocolate Frosty, the man told them the chocolate Frosty machine is broken. Ben had to get vanilla. Ben felt depressed, and so did Katy. They were feeling mutual depression.
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Compassion Fatigue and Self Care for Caregivers
A critical component of caregiving is compassion. Compassion means "to bare suffering." As we give more and more of ourselves in caregiving relationships, we also experience the suffering, the ups and downs, the good news and the bad news with our loved ones. Just being compassionate can be exhausting and when it becomes too much, caregivers can experience "compassion fatigue."
Symptoms of compassion fatigue include sleep disturbances. This can include insomnia, hypersomnia (sleeping too much) or disruptions to our 'normal' sleep/wake cycles. A caregiver may turn to alcohol or drugs to help themselves cope and substance use or abuse can be a symptom of compassion fatigue.
Often times, compassion fatigue can be described as feeling "fried." When you feel fried, you doubt your abilities as caregivers. You may experience denial about the caregiving situation or your own abilities (or limits). You may feel discouraged and may disengage from those around you who care. Compassion fatigue is a common side effect of caregiving that can be prevented, or managed by making a commitment to caring for YOURSELF! This is known as 'self-care.'
Self care techniques vary for each individual. What works for one, may not work for another. Studies have shown that the best technique for managing compassion fatigue is through physical activity and exercise. This doesn't mean you need to go out and train for a marathon. Find a physical activity you enjoy doing. Maybe it's bowling, walking around the neighborhood, zumba, swimming, or tai chi. The important thing is to get moving, as exercise releases endorphins. Endorphins have properties that naturally relieve pain and distress. Endorphin release can also trigger better sleep and decreased anxiety, as well as boost our self-esteem.
Perhaps you are an avid reader. Losing yourself in a book can be a wonderful way of caring for yourself. However, this can be difficult to do when you are trying to manage caregiving responsibilities. This is a great time to ask a friend or another family member to provide supervision, companionship or other caregiving duties for your loved one. It is important to develop a caregiving support network to tap into for help so that you can take time to care for yourself.
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EJ Manuel had one clear goal in mind as he started his preparations for the 2013 NFL Draft.
He believed he was the best quarterback available, and very much wanted to be the first one selected.
To get there, Manuel did what so many of the elite quarterbacks at every level of the sport – high school, college and the pros – now do, and employed his own positional coach.
For four months, Manuel went through intensive one-on-one training in Boca Raton, Fla., with Ken Mastrole, owner of the Mastrole Passing Academy.
The training paid off when the Buffalo Bills made Manuel the first, and only, quarterback to be drafted in the first round, using the 16th overall selection on the Florida State product last month.
"It was huge," Manuel said of his apprenticeship. "Ken and I really set a goal when we first met. We wanted to accomplish a lot of things. Thankfully we did."
Manuel believes his steady rise up draft boards was due in large part to the work he put in with Mastrole during the pre-draft process.
"We anticipated every drill I'd be doing at the combine or the Senior Bowl," Manuel said.
That emphasis on position-specific training — especially at the quarterback position — continues to grow. With each success story like Manuel's, more and more young quarterbacks are turning to "gurus" like Mastrole in hopes of landing a college scholarship or professional career.
It hasn't always been like that.
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Take Bills coach Doug Marrone, for example. He considered himself a pretty good baseball player as a youngster growing up in the Bronx. He didn't have the benefit of a pitching coach or hitting coach, just one Little League coach.
"He picked us all up in a station wagon," Marrone said. "We all went to a batting cage. We all went out and practiced. We all walked down to the field. I think everyone can relate to that."
Everyone from a certain generation, that is. Marrone shared the story of his 9-year-old son, who's in Little League now.
"He has a pitching coach, a hitting coach and a baseball coach. I struggle a little bit with that, personally," the coach said. "I think that's what we're seeing now. You see that at a Little League level. Kickers have been doing it for quite some time. Quarterbacks are doing it. Offensive linemen are going and training with people. I think you see a lot of people doing that."
As a parent, Marrone wonders if it's all worth it.
"My wife and I, we argue about this all the time," he said. "Logistically, it is very difficult. For us, the expenses are high, too. We want the best for our children. I think that's become so individualized. I want my son to play multiple positions and multiple sports. Be a kid and have fun. … Nowadays everything is becoming more specialized at a younger age and that's what we're seeing."
It's a trend that's not going away. Of the four quarterbacks on the Bills' roster, only Kevin Kolb does not work with a personal coach.
Does Marrone fear the possibility of mixed messages coming from his own coaching staff and that from those employed by the players themselves?
"I don't think so. The player is training to a certain point, and then once we get the player, we become the coaches," he said. "Here's the good part about it – he's working, he's training, he's trying to get better and he knows what we're expecting now. So if one of our players left to go train with someone else, they know what our system is, and they know what our drills are, so I don't have a problem with that."
Mastrole said he never conflicts with what a team wants from its player.
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"The NFL is ultimately timing, speed, and being in sync with great athletes. Obviously the windows are so small at the professional level and the mistakes are so magnified, so it's important that you're on the same page. They provide the feedback with what they do in their NFL offenses, and I just work on the things the coaches can't get to with the players during that offseason time."
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Bills quarterback Jeff Tuel has had a personal coach since he was 12 years old. It was then that he attended "Camp Quarterback," led by legendary California coach Bob Johnson of Mission Viejo High School. Johnson has tutored more than 100 Division I quarterbacks, including his son, Rob, who played for the Bills.
"That's been my guy for years," Tuel said of the elder Johnson. "He actually wanted me to move to Mission Viejo and try to play quarterback at their high school, because I lived in Arizona at the time. It's been a long-standing relationship. We've kept in touch the entire time. I make trips down whenever I can. It's not something I can do every month or every week, but whenever I get the opportunity, I go get some work."
Johnson had previously worked with Tuel on accelerating the quarterback's dropbacks, but the offense installed by Nathaniel Hackett with the Bills calls for quarterbacks to make slower, time drops.
"It's a lot about the timing of your drop and the receivers' routes so I've slowed down a little bit, but it's not anything huge," Tuel said. "There are basic mechanics that every quarterback should have and work on. Those things stay the same wherever you're at."
Tuel plans to meet with Johnson after the Bills' mandatory minicamp next month and prior to the start of training camp.
"You have someone pushing you and telling you, 'hey, you opened your front side that time. Keep it closed. You open your hips up.' He can see all that and it's something you can't see yourself," Tuel said. "We'll film it and watch it. We'll watch tape of Brady and some of the best guys to see how they do things mechanically. All that stuff helps."
Familiarity helps Jackson
When deciding on a positional coach, Bills quarterback Tarvaris Jackson stuck with someone he's had a long-standing relationship with.
Jackson works with Richard Moncrief, a former quarterback for Clemson University and coach at Alabama State in Jackson's hometown of Montgomery.
"He's going to tell me the brutal, honest truth," Jackson said. "This offseason was some footwork stuff. I felt like I made some major strides."
Jackson returned home after the Bills' recent voluntary minicamp to start working with Moncrief on what Hackett is installing.
"I let him know this is the way coach Hackett wants to do it here," Jackson said. "When it really boils down to it, it's all about getting comfortable with that."
Mind games
The world's best golfer, Tiger Woods, has had three different swing coaches in his professional career alone. The comparison between a quarterback coach and a swing coach is one made often by Mastrole when explaining what he does.
"When we're on the driving range or we're on the practice field, we go through a pre-shot routine," he said. "You go through that mentally to get in the right place and find the right rhythm. Once you develop that rhythm and establish it, you step away. You go out on the course and let all the other elements play themselves out. Then the athlete just goes out and performs. He doesn't think, he just lets him natural athletic ability take over. All I'm trying to do is just help to en grain those things on that driving range or on that practice field prior to competition."
Of course, there is one big difference between the golf course and being under center: Nobody's trying to tackle Tiger in his backswing.
That's why Mastrole wants his clients to, in essence, forget all that they've heard from him.
"The thing I always tell the athlete is you've got to feel comfortable, you've got to shut it off. There are a lot of relaxation methods and focus things that I do. I think that kind of differs my program," he said. "It really helps them once they step on the field, they can shut down all that thinking.
"EJ's got to worry about what coverage is being thrown at him, where are his reads, his protections? The last thing I want him doing out there is focusing on 'am I set up to the target? Am I extending my figures to the target?' "
Mastrole, 36, started training quarterbacks about four years ago. He had a brief professional playing career mainly in the arena leagues, and also coached in arena ball for one season before opening his academy.
"I felt like I've got this knowledge, I can relate to kids from a high school to professional level, let me provide them everything I really didn't have," he said. "I put it together to speed up the learning process, which I wish I could have had earlier."
The "quarterback guru" business is booming. In California, coaches like Bob Johnson, Steve Clarkson and Tom House have worked with some of the biggest names in the profession.
House spent eight years in the majors as a relief pitcher and started as a baseball coach, but is an expert in "motion analysis." He focuses on how athletes turn their hips and shoulders. House counts the Patriots' Tom Brady, the Saints' Drew Brees and the Ravens' Joe Flacco among his A-list clients. Manuel is Mastrole's biggest client to date.
Given their desire to always get better, it makes sense that the kids who look up to them would emulate their path. "It's the most sought-after position in American sports," Mastrole said. "People gravitate to it."
Whitfield a rising star
Mastrole isn't the only quarterback coach Manuel has worked with. Starting in high school, and continuing during his career at Florida State, he's also worked with perhaps the "hottest" quarterback guru in the country, George Whitfield. A former college quarterback at Tiffin University, Whitfield established Whitfield Athletix in 2004 and has quickly risen to the top of an ultra-competitive field.
In consecutive years, Whitfield trained the No. 1 overall draft picks (Cam Newton and Andrew Luck), has tutored the Pittsburgh Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger and is currently working with Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M.
"The main reason had nothing to do with George, it was just more so I wanted to stay on the East Coast with my mom still dealing with breast cancer at the time," Manuel said of why he switched coaches.
Fine tuning
Manuel and Mastrole met about three weeks before the Senior Bowl through a mutual friend, Tony Villani of XPE Sports. Villani works as Manuel's speed coach.
"Tony set me up a meeting and a workout with EJ, so I got an opportunity to meet him, tell him a little bit about my program and the way I conducted things and set it up," Mastrole said. "We kind of clicked, and step-by-step his stock continued to rise. It was just a really good fit."
Mastrole first watched tape of every one of Manuel's games from 2012 so that he could tailor a workout program to fit his needs.
"The things I was really looking for were that fine tuning which will take him to the next level. His base, his balance, set up and body position. Everything from his anticipation to where his shoulders were when the throws were happening," Mastrole said. "We try to find out why he was inefficient on some of the throws. Was he playing flat footed or was he playing on the balls of feet?"
Gradually, Mastrole saw a more consistent quarterback.
"It was just a tweak here and here, like getting more extension on throws," he said. "He didn't do any drastic changes. He wouldn't have warranted a first-round pick if he had to do major surgery."
"We've really been honing in my footwork, getting my hips and shoulders in line so I can be accurate and have even more 'pop' on my ball," Manuel said.
When the Bills made Manuel the first quarterback taken, it was a moment of gratification for Mastrole.
"It was pretty incredible. That's what we pushed for," he said. "It wasn't just his on-field preparation, it was his personality and the way he conducted himself."
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KINGS BEACH, Calif. - With construction on the long-awaited three-lane project set to break ground this summer, a community open house on the $48 million endeavor is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the North Tahoe Event Center.
The open house from 5:30-8 p.m. will include schedules, maps, exhibits, graphics and an opportunity for one-on-one discussions with design and construction representatives, according to a press release.
Specific topics expected to be covered include: final design details; project funding and scope; 2013 schedule; right-of-way acquisition; parking replacement plan; and traffic management plan in community's neighborhood known as The Grid.
The project - dubbed the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project - is designed to upgrade a 1.1-mile section of Highway 28 through downtown.
It will reconfigure the stretch of highway into a three-lane roadway with two roundabouts, and sidewalks, bike lanes and other streetscape features will be constructed. Seasonal on-street parking will be built, and additional parking will be provided in lots that either already exist or will be constructed along the highway.
Further, in the grid of streets above the highway, about a mile of sidewalk will be installed to further improve safety and pedestrian access to the commercial core, according to the project. So far, about third of the planned traffic management features - including mini roundabouts and speed bumps - in an effort to cut down on drivers bypassing the highway have already been installed in The Grid.
The project is expected to take about two construction seasons to complete, with working happening between May and October of each year.
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It's good to know we're not the only ones who fell in love with Batkid, the 5-year-old who dressed up as Batman to fight crime in San Francisco on Friday.
Miles, who is now in remission after being diagnosed with leukemia at just 18 months of age, has become a worldwide star after the Make-a-Wish Foundation turned the city by the bay into Gotham City for one unforgettable experience.
Former Caped Crusader Christian Bale heard about Miles' adventure and told New York magazine that he thought it was "fantastic."
Bale, who's been shooting the upcoming film Moses in Spain, heard about Batkid after flying into L.A. for a press junket on Saturday. "I saw this headline and thought, 'What's that?' " he said. "I looked on the news and I saw all the pictures of him running around and saving people. It's so touching."
"He must have been bewildered," added Bale, who played Batman in three films. "Hopefully, later on, he'll be able to look back and say, 'Oh my God, how amazing.' "
But he's not the only Batman to be wowed by Miles's feats. Ben Affleck, who's playing the Caped Crusader in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel, Tweeted on Saturday that Batkid is the "Best Batman ever."
Adam West, who played TV's Bruce Wayne in the 1960s also Tweeted, "What a wonderful thing. Relieved that Gotham is safe again thanks to Miles."
And Michael Keaton, who starred in 1992's Batman Returns, told TMZ that it was "the cutest thing in the world."
While there's no word yet from George Clooney, who played Batman in 1997, Val Kilmer – who donned the black mask and cape in 1995 – gave Miles a shout out on Facebook while the action was unfolding on Friday, posting, "Just heard the riddler is robbing a bank in the financial district. Hurry #sfbatkid."
Batkid. Best Batman ever. #SFBatKid #MakeAWish @SFWish— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) November 16, 2013
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The House of Representatives passed the farm bill by a vote of 251-166 Wednesday morning, according to a news release from the office of Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., the chairperson of the House Agriculture Committee.
The bill voted on was the same that had been passed by the Farm Bill Conference Committee on Monday.
The quick farm bill action this past week comes as a relief to those in the agriculture industry and others. The 2008 farm bill expired on Sept. 30, 2012, and lawmakers had long been unable to agree on the details of a new one, and, instead passed short-term extensions.
The new farm bill — officially titled the Agricultural Act of 2014 — will now go the Senate for a vote.
A spokesperson from the office of Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. — a member of the Senate Ag Committee — said the Senate was expecting to vote on the bill this week.
The bill includes the most significant reduction to farm policy spending in history by improving agricultural programs, according to the news release from Lucas.
The new farm bill:
• Repeals Direct Payments and limits producers to risk management tools that offer protection when they suffer significant losses.
• Reduces limits on payments, tightens eligibility rules and means tests are streamlined to make farm programs more accountable.
• Strengthens crop insurance, a successful public/private partnership that ensures farmers invest in their own risk management.
• Provides historic reforms to dairy policy by repealing outdated and ineffective dairy programs. Offers producers a new, voluntary, margin protection program without imposing government-mandated supply controls.
• Supports small businesses and beginning farmers and ranchers with training and access to capital.
Food Stamp Reforms
The Agricultural Act of 2014 makes the first reforms to the food stamp program since the welfare reforms of 1996 while maintaining food assistance.
The new farm bill:
• Closes the "heat-and-eat" loophole that artificially increases benefit levels when states provide nominal LIHEAP assistance.
• Establishes a 10-state pilot to empower states to engage able-bodied adults in mandatory work programs.
• Prohibits the USDA from engaging in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recruitment activities, and advertising SNAP on TV, radio, billboards and through foreign governments.
• Ensures illegal immigrants, lottery winners, traditional college students and the deceased do not receive benefits.
• Ensures SNAP recipients are not receiving benefits in multiple states.
• Prevents abuses, such as water dumping to exchange bottles for cash.
• Demands outcomes from existing employment and training programs.
• Prohibits states from manipulating SNAP benefit levels by eliminating medical marijuana as an allowable medical expense.
• Allows states to pursue retailer fraud through a pilot investigation program and crack down on trafficking through data mining, terminal ID, and other measures.
• Increases assistance for food banks.
Additional Reforms and Regulatory Relief
The Agricultural Act of 2014 also includes multiple regulatory relief provisions benefitting agricultural and forestry industries.
The new farm bill:
• Consolidates 23 duplicative and overlapping conservation programs into 13.
• Provides one year of full funding for the Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, which provides funding for vital services in communities containing federal lands.
• Provides certainty to the forest products industry by clarifying that forest roads and related silvicultural activities should not be treated as a point source under the Clean Water Act.
• Creates a permanent subcommittee within the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board to conduct peer review of EPA actions that would negatively impact agriculture.
• Enhances coordination between USDA, EPA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) regarding the conflict between laws governing pesticide use and the Endangered Species Act.
• Enhances coordination between USDA and the U.S. FWS regarding actions taken to manage the lesser prairie chicken.
• Eliminates duplicative reporting requirements for seed importers; requires improved economic analysis of FDA regulations. ❖


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Gymnastics THINK PINK Meet Friday; On Sports Link
Ball State's women's gymnastics meet Friday vs. Kent State will be televised by Sports Link and aired on Comcast Indiana 81 LIVE, Channel 57 in the Ball State residence halls and online on ballstatesports.com.
The event, beginning at 7 p.m., will be produced by Emily Barker, while Zach Hughes, Andry Wright and former Ball State gymnast Kayla Kmiecik will handle the commentary.
In addition, the Friday meet will be the team's THINK PINK MEET! All fans are encouraged to wear pink to support breast cancer awareness. Ball State's Code Red Dance Team will perform prior to the meet to entertain the crowd.
The meet is also a Student Rewards Bonus opportunity worth 300 bonus points to Ball State students in attendance.
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UNIVERSITY PARK -- Most season tickets at Beaver Stadium will carry the same Nittany Lion Club donation fee next year, although Penn State is lowering the prices for more than 11,500 seats and introducing a new $200-per-seat contribution level between the goal lines on each sideline.
There will be no NLC or seat price increases next year in the STEP program, and the school also is implementing a new "One Team Commitment" program that will allow fans to earn Nittany Lion Club bonus points.
Four sideline sections on the upper decks -- EGU, ECU, WGU, WCU -- will be lowered from $400 per seat to $200. Those sections constitute the largest and most significant price reductions. (UPDATE: Four other sections will be lowered from $600 to $400: EFU, EDU, WFU and WDU.)
Penn State's attendance is down 4.8 percent so far this season, from an average of 101,427 last year to 96,553. The last home game against Temple drew 93,680, the smallest crowd since 1995.
"The changes this year are put into place with two goals in mind," PSU athletic director Dave Joyner said in a university statement. "One, offer our fans additional, more appealing options in order to maximize the number of Nittany Lion fans coming to Beaver Stadium and cheering on our team each week, and two, grow the revenues needed to maintain, in an increasingly difficult climate, the excellent competitive and classroom performance that Penn Staters everywhere expect."
Go to NittanyLionClub.com for more information on specific seat prices.
SUBHD: Della Valle impresses
During his senior year of high school at Shaler Area, Jesse Della Valle would lay in bed at night and contemplate his options of where to play college football.
He had two options -- accept a scholarship at a number of Division I-AA schools or take his chances and go to Penn State as a preferred walk-on. Della Valle eventually chose the latter of the two for the opportunity to play big-time college football.
"It was like, are you going to take the money, or are you going to take your dreams?" Della Valle said. "I was going to take my dreams."
Under the previous coaching staff, Della Valle failed to make an impact last season, appearing in just one game after being redshirted as a freshman. But with a new coaching staff came new opportunities, and a fresh start for all the current Lions.
"They didn't know any of us, we didn't know any of them," Della Valle said of the coaches. "So they were just basing it off talent, and that brings out the best in everyone because it's natural competition."
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien saw enough promise in the redshirt sophomore to reward him with a scholarship this summer.
One of the positions that needed to be filled after the summer was a return man after Justin Brown, who returned kicks and punts last season, transferred to Oklahoma.
Della Valle said it was an open competition, and the coaches wanted anyone on the team with previous experience of catching kicks to do so at practice. Prior to the Virginia game, in pregame warmups, the coaching staff noticed how naturally Della Valle was catching kicks.
Since then, he has been one of the two Lions back to receive punts, along with Evan Lewis. He is also the deep man on the kickoff return team with Alex Kenney. Della Valle also sees time on the punt coverage team and occasionally on the kickoff unit.
Della Valle said he and O'Brien have discussed his role on the team and that the coach is very open and honest with all of the players on the team about their role.
"He's always been very honest with me," Della Valle said.
SUBHD: Zwinak surprises
Before the season, O'Brien made it clear that Bill Belton was the team's starting running back and would be getting the bulk of the carries.
Then Belton hurt his ankle in the season opener and missed time. Derek Day injured his shoulder against Virginia and missed time as well. Curtis Dukes also battled injuries and was held out of the Temple game.
It gave an opportunity to a back that had his name buried on the depth chart, Zack Zwinak. The sophomore carried the ball 19 times last week against Illinois for a bruising 101 yards and two touchdowns.
"I came into this season saying I know we have a lot of guys playing this position," Zwinak said. "It is a stacked spot with a lot of talent."
The sophomore has continued to progress this season and climb his way into game action. He is another guy that O'Brien said has come in and accepted his role.
Zwinak said although the other Penn State running backs are healthy again he still is preparing to get game reps and help the team move the football.
"You have a certain job to do and you have to make sure you do that one job to the best of your ability," he said.
SUBHD: Back to track
While many of his Penn State teammates will be taking the winter months to lift weights and recover from the season, receiver Alex Kenney is planning on competing on the Lion indoor track team.
In addition to being a standout football player at State College Area High School, he also set the state indoor record for the 60-meter dash in 2010. Kenney competed in last year's Big Ten Indoor Track and Field championships and ran a team-best 6.96 in the 60 meters.
"With the old staff it was kind of a questionable situation [to run track], but I spoke to the strength coaches, and they seem to be OK with the idea," Kenney said.


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Lecture Series Committee (MIT). The group that puts on movies and lectures at MIT.
Common phrase heard in the Cambridge/Boston area: "LSC...sucks!," particularly when a movie melts in the projector or the power fails.
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Abbreviation for the Lifetime Shard Card
Similiar to a deli sandwich card where you buy 10 deli sandwiches and get the 11th one free, except in the case of the LSC you would be getting Shards (aka meth) instead of a deli sandwich that you wouldn't be hungry for if high on meth!!!!
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Lip Slut Crew...a group of girls who aren't traditional sluts--kissing only.
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Mac Dによって 2006年03月31日(金)
Stands for Lesbian Sex Cult. Basically, a gang or club made up of lesbians and bisexual girls who want to stand out. The ring leader or "lsc master" is normally a perverted guy, but can often be another female.
Male: Hey check out those babes!
Male2: Forget it man, they're the lsc.
Male: But we can still spy for some hott action
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Male: But we can still spy for some hott action
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DSpiteによって 2006年05月13日(土)
Lake Shawnee Crew. The true OG's from the small lake community of Jefferson Township. The second generation is rising and raising hell. Their are no enemies in the Crew and someone in Shawnee always has a butt. Infamous for partying up in the woods where zoot zooters don't often go...for the most part. Livin up to those before them and passing down the tradition to the next generation of punks/scumbags/assholes/flubbers/and sluts.
"Yo man you in da LSC"
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