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The Palmyra Ambulance Association (Palmyra/Cinnaminson/Riverton EMS), was formed in 1921 and has the distinction of being the "Oldest Volunteer Squad" in the nation. The squad is a non-profit organization and is not part of any fire district or fire department. We depend on your generosity during our fund drive.
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CPD founder and fellow John Menadue and former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Michael Keating launched their new book Fairness, Opportunity and Security: Filling the Policy Vacuum. This book is a collection of the special… more
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CPD founder and fellow John Menadue and former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Michael Keating launched their new book Fairness, Opportunity and Security: Filling the Policy Vacuum. This book is a collection of the special… more
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Neat, plausible and wrong: Why Australia should avoid the 'Big Society' Great article from CPD Public Service research director Chris Stone, on ABC Religion and Ethics, considers the ethical and religious basis of the controversial and ostensibly failed policy framework… more
Big Society failed… | Crikey, 27 February
Warning to Australia: Cameron's 'Big Society' failed in UK The package of policies under the Big Society brand were touted to the UK public as delivering essential services with better value for money, greater social cohesion and a raft of… more
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Update and epilogue to the 2012 CPD report, Big Society and Australia Whatever happened to the Big Society? | CPD OP25 | C Elliott | Feb 2013 CPD Researcher Cameron Elliot has produced a progress report on results from the Big… more
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The pain behind the plan of Abbott's Mr Fixit SMH National Affairs Correspondent interviews Big Society 'architect' Blond, drawing on CPD research Lenore Taylor's interview with Phillip Blond investigated the failings of David Cameron's implementation of his Big Society ideas… more
VCOSS | More questions than answers on the Big Society
Victorian Council of Social Service responds to interest aroused by Q&A Phillip Blond's appearance on ABC TV's Questions and Answers last week stimulated a great deal of discussion both on and off screen. Blond's assertions about the Big Society and… more
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Well, I Did It! Come Follow My New Blog!
Well, how many of you actually thought I could stay away from blogging for good? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Alright, but anyway, I just wanted to stop by this old dinosaur to let anyone out there who still may be following me know that I have started a new blog! I am SUPER excited about this space, and about the opportunity to start blogging again…I have really missed it you guys. I will let you know though that I have made very specific parameters around this blog to allow it to remain a creative outlet for me and to protect it as a hobby and to not let it become a "job." This space will not have sponsorships and a rigid posting schedule, and will instead be a more candid, personal blog where Eric and I will share everything from our major home renovation we've currently started to our continued, difficult journey to start a family. It won't always be pretty, but it will always be real.
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I'd like to welcome you all to Life on the Ropes.
I'm super excited about this endeavor and have been working on it for the better part of six months now. This beautiful blog design was completed by the talented Elizabeth of Chantilly Designs and the photos were taken by my wonderful Daddio. But my favorite part about this new blog? The name. I love that it has a more obvious meaning and also an almost secondary hidden message that is very special to both Eric and I. But, if you want to find out what that is you will need to head over to my very first blog post on Life on the Ropes (shameless plug, I know).
If you're curious about what's been going on with us and still interested in following our story, I'd love for you to join us over in the new space! I've been keeping up with many of you who blog from the shadows and am really looking forward to connecting with you again! And as always, if you'd prefer to keep track of me on social media instead of or in addition to, feel free to connect with me through the links below!


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Its mind boggling to see how much excess mileage AOL has gotten out of its MSFT deal. Since April 9, the stock just keeps popping every few weeks every time Tim Armstrong announces yet another way he will return shareholder value from the same old deal. The valuation simply doesnt add up. The forward P/E is twice that of Google! Does AOL have innovative search and market-leading home-page links for a home page? No. Are people lining up to get an AOL email account? No. Are earnings stagnant? Yes. It will be interesting to see how far and how fast it plummets after December's one-time dividend.
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With Ciena Corporation at a 52-week high, 2 Ways To Hedge
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Delivering holiday cheer to the women of Chez DorisMarina Boulos-Winton, executive director of Chez Doris, applauded the current and retired Montreal police officers and the many students, employees and warm-hearted individuals who helped to make the holidays happier for the women who ...
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We exist to campaign for better cycling conditions in Brent, and to help more people to cycle in Brent.
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October 2016: Consultation details here.
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We hear a sad report of a hit-and-run collision today at the junction of Fulton Road and Olympic Way, with a 15-year old cyclist injured. These details come from the Brent & Kilburn Times.
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We have learned from the council that funding is now in place via Transport for London to construct a segregated cycle route on the Brent section of Carlton Vale in South Kilburn. This is a plan for which Brent Cyclists has been campaigning for some time, and we are delighted at this news. If it goes through consultation successfully it will become the first on-road segregated cycle facilitiy in Brent. Taken together with other work in progressing some our other Space for Cycling Ward Asks and Top Ten Quick Wins, and the regular formal contact we now have with councillors and officers through a Cycle Forum, we consider and hope that this may mark the start of a new and more constructive era of co-operation between Brent Cyclists and the council, which we have often had to criticise in the past for a poor record of progressing cycling improvements.
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Posted: 8:00 PM EDT Oct 09, 2012 Updated: 7:21 PM EDT Oct 10, 2012
Four people have been charged for their suspected roles in an arson in Exeter Township.
The group tipped over a portable toilet at a youth soccer field on Oct. 3 and then doused the toilet in gas and set it on fire with fireworks, police said.
A 16-year-old, a 20-year-old and two 19-year-olds have been charged with arson, criminal mischief and related offenses, police said.
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Urban Chaos: Riot Response
Rise up against this.
The game's story unfolds through live-action newscasts between the levels. There's a lot of talk of terrorists and the controversy over the brutal methods you'll be using to take them down. At first, this seems like a bit of Verhoeven-esque satire, but before long, it becomes apparent that the whole thing is, in fact, perfectly straight-faced -- just very hammy. In fact, it's almost embarrassing enough to pass for actual television news. There could've been a message here -- and when a game comes this close to actually invoking 9/11, you'll probably be looking for that message, but it's just not there.
The newscasts make much of T-Zero's supposedly brutal methods, and while you're provided with the means to arrest criminals without killing them, whether or not you do so is mostly irrelevant. Even if you're a complete cuddle bunny, using nonlethal methods to incapacitate every gun-wielding nut in the game, the newscasts will still talk about the "controversy" over your "brutality," and the public-opinion polls will remain evenly divided. In the end, the only use in arresting anyone is to earn a nonlethal takedown badge or to unlock bonus stages by capturing a gang leader for interrogation. And it sends kind of a mixed message when that nonlethal badge lies right next to the "make 20 head shots" badge.
With those opportunities missed, what's left in Urban Chaos is just a relatively straight up first-person shooter. Not a bad one, by any means, but very definitely average. It's not particularly ugly, and the missions and subsidiary objectives are interesting enough, but there's a definite lack of variety in the enemies; practically all of them are hockey-mask-wearing thugs. Enemy actions are very scripted, so the developers make up for the baddies' lack of intelligence and durability by throwing large numbers of them at you at once. This solution's all right at first, but it gets old quick.
Probably the cleverest element in the game is a riot shield that you can hide behind with the L trigger. The shield leaves you exposed on the sides and behind and vulnerable to bombs dropped at your feet, but it provides perfect defense against anyone you're facing. This adds a Time Crisis-like strategy of hiding behind cover and then leaping out to pop the bad guys while they reload.
Urban Chaos features a wide variety of weapons. Not only can powerful arms be earned by completing bonus missions, but cleavers, Molotov cocktails, chainsaws, and other unorthodox weapons can be picked up from fallen gangsters. However, with very few exceptions, there just isn't any reason to use any of them unless you just feel like screwing around. From the very beginning of the game, you're armed with a pistol that's not only perfectly accurate and features a decent zoom, but which will drop nearly any enemy in the game with a single head shot. Given how easy head shots are to pull off, even from great distance, most players will probably end up ignoring the other armaments the game has to offer.
Finally, the multiplayer component isn't bad, though there are two things that are glaringly missing. First, there's no straight-up deathmatch mode. Players will be taking the side of either the cops or the criminals, and the sides aren't particularly well balanced. Second, there's the inexcusable absence of splitscreen play. This isn't so bad on the Xbox, where most people will probably want to play on Live, anyway. On the PS2, however, it means that players will either have to link together a bunch of systems and TVs -- or they'll have to monkey with the PS2 modem. There aren't a lot of multiplayer games that'll motivate people to go to that kind of trouble, and Urban Chaos sure as hell isn't one of them.
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Dana Carvey show announced
If tickets to the two Louis C.K. shows at the Riverside Theater Oct. 10 sold out before you could snag one, you have another comedy alternative that night to consider.
"Saturday Night Live" alum Dana Carvey, the man behind The Church Lady and Wayne's World's geeky sidekick Garth, is coming to the Northern Lights Theater at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino for a night of stand-up. »Read Full Article
Skylight makes the most of bland 'Pump Boys'
In the fictionalized North Carolina being served up in "Pump Boys and Dinettes," the country music pastiche that's now open for business at Skylight Music Theatre, none of the six characters actually works much.
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If you're looking for the Florentine Opera Company, you'll find them in Vogel Hall for the next couple of weeks, trying something a little different.
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Maybe you weren't aware, but the NBA Playoffs are actually going on right now.
A lack of interest is understandable, considering that LeBron James has dominated every episode of SportsCenter for the past week, despite the Cavaliers' elimination from the playoffs.
All of the talk circulating King James focuses on his new team for next season.
After failing to win a championship for several years in Cleveland, nearly everyone believes LeBron will change scenery.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Michigan's body of work was enough for the Wolverines to earn the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region of the 2014 NCAA tournament, headed to Milwaukee Thursday to take on Wofford (20-12).
Whether or not the Wolverines' 69-55 loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten tournament final Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis played a factor, Michigan was passed over for the fourth and final No. 1 seed in the bracket, those seeds going to Florida (South), Wichita State (Midwest), Virginia (East) and Arizona (West).
Michigan sits at 25-8 overall including a 15-3 mark in the Big Ten, making their sixth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance.
The Wolverines avoided a loaded South Region including Florida as the No. 1 seed, No. 2 seed Kansas, Syracuse, Ohio State and UCLA, the Western Michigan Broncos set to take on the Orange in round one in Buffalo as the No. 14 seed.
Michigan's Midwest Region will be no cakewalk either though.
Should the Wolverines take care of Wofford Thursday the winner of No. 7 seed Texas (23-10) and No. 10 seeded Arizona State (21-11) will await Saturday.
If the Wolverines make it to the Sweet Sixteen No. 3 seeded Duke could be waiting. Michigan lost to Duke 79-69 in Durham back in December in the ACC/B1G Challenge.
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BREAKING NEWS: PETA Sues SeaWorld for Violating Orcas' Rights
Posted October 25, 2011 by Rachelle Owen
In the first case of its kind, PETA, three marine-mammal experts, and two former orca trainers are filing a lawsuit asking a federal court to declare that five wild-caught orcas forced to perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves in violation of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The filing—the first ever seeking to apply the 13th Amendment to nonhuman animals—names the five orcas as plaintiffs and also seeks their release to their natural habitats or seaside sanctuaries.
The suit is based on the plain text of the 13th Amendment, which prohibits the condition of slavery without reference to "person" or any particular class of victim. "Slavery is slavery, and it does not depend on the species of the slave any more than it depends on gender, race, or religion," says PETA's general counsel, Jeffrey Kerr.
The five wild-captured orca plaintiffs are Tilikum and Katina (both confined at SeaWorld Orlando) and Kasatka, Corky, and Ulises (all three confined at SeaWorld San Diego).
"All five of these orcas were violently seized from the ocean and taken from their families as babies. They are denied freedom and everything else that is natural and important to them while kept in small concrete tanks and reduced to performing stupid tricks," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "The 13th Amendment prohibits slavery, and these orcas are, by definition, slaves."
Orcas are intelligent animals who, in the wild, work cooperatively, form complex relationships, communicate using distinct dialects, and swim up to 100 miles every day. At SeaWorld, they are forced to swim in circles in small, barren concrete tanks. Deprived of the opportunity to make conscious choices and to practice their cultural vocal, social, and foraging traditions, they are compelled to perform meaningless tricks for a reward of dead fish.
Our understanding of animals grows every day. Animals are no longer regarded as "things" to dominate, but as breathing, feeling beings with families, dialects, intellect, and emotions. Just as we look back with shame at a time when we enslaved other humans and viewed some people as property less deserving of protection and consideration, we will look back on our treatment of these animals with shame. The 13th Amendment exists to abolish slavery in all its forms—and this lawsuit is the next step.
The orcas are represented in the suit by what the law refers to as their "next friends": PETA, Ric O'Barry (a former orca and dolphin trainer and the star of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Cove), renowned marine biologist and orca expert Dr. Ingrid N. Visser, Orca Network founder Howard Garrett, and former SeaWorld trainers Samantha Berg and Carol Ray.
The groundbreaking suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego.
Please help animals imprisoned by SeaWorld today. Click here to write to The Blackstone Group—the company that owns SeaWorld—and ask that it immediately set in place a firm and rapid plan to release the animals to sanctuaries that can provide them with an appropriate and more natural environment.
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1717 days ago
Poor babies 🙁 that is ludicrous.
1807 days ago
tmurph –
Unlike animal companions who are playing around the house, and gain pleasure from interactions with humans, animals are SeaWorld are not given this choice. They are forced to perform against their will, and they spend the remainder of their lives in captivity.
For example, Tilikum has shared Shamu Stadium with orcas captured from multiple areas around the world, as well as those born captive in multiple locations. Orcas frequently enter and exit the group: when they are purchased from other marine parks; when they are transferred from parks within the SeaWorld system; and when they are born or die. At various times Tilikum has been forced into group structures with at least twenty-seven orcas in captivity: some for mere months, others for years. All this is absolutely contrary to all natural family and social structures known to orcas in nature.
1808 days ago
I do agree with the orca being slaves but one thing does worry me. If the orcas were taken from the wild as babies and raised in Seaworld wouldn't releasing them into the wild now decrease their chances of survival. Yes what the did was wrong but we should be working to make sure this does not happen to anymore sea animals.
1809 days ago
go get 'em!
1812 days ago
you guys should do something about the animals brought to fairs, too. i live in sc, and every year the coastal carolina fair comes and they ALWAYS have animals. this year they had elephants, camels, and horses in cages for people to ride. you shouldve seen their faces, they were so miserable from being cooped up in a pen all day. and they also had bears doing tricks and stuff. and i'm sure it's not just the coastal fair that does that.
1815 days ago
1816 days ago
That's insane. Animals deserve the same rights human's do. I'm doing this as my topic in Speech class 🙂
1821 days ago
These facilities constantly violates animals rights by keeping them in captivity and away from everything that is natural to them. From these facilities point of view these animals are closer to objects than live, breathing beings.
1822 days ago
i hope they get all the orcas taken from them. they were never meant to be captive and forced to perform. the orcas have suffered from numerous deaths at sea world they need to be released back into the ocean where they can live the way they were meant to live,in freedom
1822 days ago
1823 days ago
The Consitution refers only to "men" as owning property. Indeed, when it was written only white men owned property. Married women and African-Americans could not legally own property (they were considered property themselves). Now, of course, these provisions are interpreted in a way the Founding Fathers never envisioned. The same should be so with the 13th Amendment. They authors may not have envisioned it being applied in this way, but it does not mean it should not be applied this way. Slavery should be abolished in all its forms.
1823 days ago
What just kills me is that these animals are taken from the wild. TAKEN FROM THE WILD where they were peacefully living their lives with their family and social unit, traveling freely for hundreds of miles each day. Then a place like Sea World takes them from their families, throws them in a small tank and forces them to perform for our entertaiment while they profit from these animal's misery. How this is legal is beyond me.
1823 days ago
Time to let the Orcas return to the Oceans.
1823 days ago
One crucial point in my opinion is that Seaworld claims to educate people through their so-called programs of conservation. This is a fallacy. They are stifling people's intelligence every way possible. I don't have to get on the next space probe to know everything I need to know about the universe. When I am brought news of the world I live in, I don't have to reach out and touch it with my physical being. I am grateful that some of us can; and they study, document, and share. And they leave it alone. When people fall for the Seaworld model, they are conditioned to through marketing and the whole mega-posh play land draw, and they love the hyper-stimulation. It is what came to replace public hangings and other violent entertainment. The main thing for me has always been that adults wrongly support this for their families' entertainment when the fact is, when children are told the truth of a thing, they want justice, and nothing else. Tell any kid how that circus elephant has been treated all its life, and they won't be back, or go in the first place. We human types have lost some of the most crucial forms of intelligence but can get them back. We will truly have evolved, which is what happens with real education, when people stop supporting Seaworld That is a lesson worth learning!.
1823 days ago
I will never understand how another human, let alone a company of humans, can treat such presious living beings with such distaste. Whether it is an Orca, a dolphin or even a small gold fish, they are alive, they deserve the best treatment. Its one thing when an animal is raised in captivity because it was injured or had no family, but being taken from its home, in the sea, just to do tricks. Thats wrong. I have never been to seaworld, but i am def. never going now.
1823 days ago
I completely agree. Animals are not toys for us to enjoy. It is a stupid business where they are imprisoned in small areas living their slavery life, performing tricks for a short pleasure of humans. it must stop! Those who understand the needs of animals and try to protect them for those is my respect.
1823 days ago
C'est honteux. Laissez-les en liberté là où ils doivent être et non prisonniers dans de petits bassins. C'est vraiment abjecte et je souhaite à ceux qui leur font ça de connaître un jour ce que c'est juste pour qu'ils se rendent compte de la souffrance qu'ils causent
1823 days ago
I bow down to this.
Well done PETA for taking a stand against these ugly marine parks. For too long have they been able to masquerade under the guise of education. I hope this serves as a lesson to all – marine mammals are sentient creatures that don't deserve to be incarcerated for human entertainment!
1824 days ago
Great news… This could be awesome and groundbreaking… Full support from Cyprus…
1824 days ago
that is crazy!! never thought of the 13th amendment being used in that way, that was smart! glad that they are getting sued for what wrong they did, they know what they did!
1824 days ago
1824 days ago
go peta!
1824 days ago
I think human beings are becoming more and more selfishly horrid to everything not just animals but to thier own kind too
1824 days ago
people who mistreat animals should be punished! they have feelings and are alive!
1824 days ago
That is horrific 😮
1824 days ago
Watching and looking at the animals was the most boring part of seaworld anyway…I only went a second time as a child to ride Journey to Atlantis! It's about time you guys caught them in their act, however I still can't understand how this hasn'thappened much sooner… people are dead from these orcas..leave them be!
1824 days ago
Well done PETA, this is so cruel bless the gorgeous creatures x
1824 days ago
This makes me smile. Thank you for the post, from Florida.
1824 days ago
If they get the best medical care, why are they only living a few years compared to their natural life span. Also, if you had the best medical care, but you were kept in a bath tub your whole life, how would you feel. These, like all animals, should not be owned or kept by humans.
1824 days ago
1824 days ago
How lOng have the orca's been here for? I went there probably about 10 years ago, way before I went vegan an I can't believe they can just take then from their families as babies, never to see them again. I would be an angry orca and depressed too if I were locked in such a small area
1824 days ago
Its Cruel these Whales R prisoners in a conctrete tank they should be in open seas free to swim the hundreds of miles they were born to do & not performing for people don't go to these shows this just promotes the cruelty!!!!
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1822 days ago
Miami seaquarium save animals in put them back in the ocean
1822 days ago
No they don't. Have you heard of Lolita? She's an imprisoned orca, just like those mentioned in this PETA article. A movie was actually made about her; it's called "Slave to Entertainment":
1824 days ago
por la mierda que no aprendimos nada de liberen a willy????
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Plants and soil work together. Plants feed diverse soil biology that stimulates nutrient cycling and improves soil functions. Diverse plants lead to diverse soil organisms.
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"This fungus builds an association with plant roots that increases the plant's ability to sequester water and nutrients throughout the soil profile. In return the fungus receives sugars from the plant. This coexistence is beneficial for both organisms," says Goodwin.
When these fungi are present, it's a clue that the plants and soil are healthy.
"This is a relationship that we like to see when we dig up a plant and look at the roots. A good soil management system is all about building carbon back into the soil, building a higher level of organic matter and getting more biological activity again in the soil," he says.
Malcolm Beck, founder of Garden-Ville, an organic gardening and farming business, and a farmer near Selma, consults with farmers about soil health.
"Learning about holistic management has helped many farmers and ranchers regain productivity on their land, dividing it into smaller pastures to crowd the cattle together, rotating through the pastures. They graze competitively and eat on every plant and trample what's left, creating litter that adds organic matter to the soil. They also leave a lot of manure," explains Beck.
"I've learned to listen to old-timers. They rotated livestock with crops to keep the soil fertile and more productive for the next crops." The most important thing is a proper population of bacteria and fungi. If there is soil litter (old grass) there will be certain fungi which are instrumental in restoring soil health. They feed on dead organic matter.
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Many producers are implementing some of these principles. Focusing management on all 5 enables producers to use their property to its full ecologic potential and may help an operation to remain economically sustainable by minimizing costly inputs.
A USDA and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension cooperative project demonstrates these 5 soil-health-building principles and allows producers to compare innovative management strategies to traditional production methods.
This project is near Riesel on the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Riesel Watersheds. The partners are USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Texas Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI), the USDA ARS and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
Jeff Goodwin, state GLCI grazing land specialist in Temple, says the project is separated into 2 demonstration areas of 350 acres each that are managed separately. The "south ranch" uses conventional practices common to the region such as application of inorganic fertilizers to increase production, managing monoculture forages, continuously grazing the pasture, and feeding hay through the winter. The "north ranch" is being managed with soil-health-building practices such as planting multispecies cover crops, integrating no-till systems, no fertilizer, using adaptive grazing strategies such as pasture rotation and no supplemental hay for the livestock.
"We feel we can build soil health and consequently reduce the inputs (fuel, fertilizer, machinery, labor, etc.) while producing a comparable level of forage production. This enables us to get away from a high production model and go to a more low-input system focused on ecology and economics," says Goodwin.
In recent decades, Goodwin says, "We have focused on managing the above-ground production in our pastures, but have not paid enough attention to what's happening below ground. NRCS has focused heavily on the physical and chemical aspect of soils, the pH, soil structure, soil texture — all of which are very important. However, until the past few years, we haven't been focused on a critical component, which is the soil's biological activity," he says.
More armor, less disturbance
Soil armor is a new term to most producers. The soil needs to be covered to minimize bare ground. In most cases this is accomplished by forage or crop residue. Bare ground is detrimental to soil health because soil organic matter is lost and soil temperature may increase to a level that limits biological activity.
"In my opinion, the reason our soils are so degraded is because we've lost or severely reduced biological activity. We've lost the right combination of microbes that need to be there," says Goodwin.
Why are they gone? Because there's no longer enough organic matter.
"Carbon in organic matter is food for soil organisms. Soil organic matter is increased if we keep the soil covered and minimize soil disturbance. If we keep plowing, we keep releasing the carbon. This is a reason we now try to use reduced tillage methods in cropping systems to keep a cover on soil. In pastures, we try to stop haying them and start grazing them instead," he says.
This NRCS project is implementing no-till and adaptive grazing strategies to keep the soil armored. The differences of both management systems are being measured by soil testing for nitrogen, phosphorus and CO2 respiration, which gives an indication of biological activity.
Species diversity and live roots
For years, ranchers have been overseeding bermudagrass pastures with rye grasses or clovers, but generally use just 1 or 2 species. Increasing the diversity above ground allows for a more diverse underground community. Specific soil microbes require specific plant types. The more diverse the microbial population in the soil, the better the forage will respond due to increased biological activity.
"In this project we are planting diverse 12-species mixes that include grasses, forbs, and legumes at a cost of about $30 per acre," says Goodwin. "We find that they use less water than a monoculture overseeding and produce more (forage). Last year we produced 5,500 pounds of forage per acre on a 5-acre test plot. During the cool season we used it to graze 30 cow-calf pairs for about 25 days during that dormant stage. This extends the grazing season and helps fill that winter gap," he says.
The 5 legumes in the mix were another benefit, he says. "Legumes have the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen due to their symbiotic relationship with rhizobium bacteria. Diverse cover crops are planted during the fall, including legumes. They facilitate carbon and nutrient cycling through a period the pasture is normally left dormant," says Goodwin.
"One of the reasons we picked that 5-acre pasture was because it was a degraded bermudagrass field that wasn't growing much forage at all. In 1 season, with no fertilizer, the process we implemented increased the coverage of bermudagrass in that field by about 35 percent — with no tractors or fuel, just with plants and cows. These are the kind of things that we are excited about," he says.
Diverse forage species provide an excellent opportunity for producers to be creative and keep a living root in the ground year round. Soils are most productive when the soil microbes have access to living plant material. A living root provides a food source for beneficial soil bacteria and ensures that symbiotic relationships between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi continue to occur.
"We are keeping a living root in the ground by limiting dormant seasons. On cropland and pastures we are implementing multispecies cool or warm season cover crops opposite the intended cash crop to keep that living root in the ground," he says.
Adaptive grazing management
Adaptive grazing is a management strategy that helps the landowner use a major tool on the ranch (cattle) more effectively. The goal is to mimic natural grazing systems (in which wild grazers move in large herds) that will increase soil function.
"This type of system continually adapts to the ecological, climatic, animal, and human conditions," says Goodwin. Adaptive grazing includes several strategies — management-intensive grazing, rotational grazing and ultra-high stock density grazing (also known as mob grazing). These systems are based on how the plants need to be used and/or to meet a nutritional requirement for the grazing animal.
"Adaptive grazing uses the animal to improve manure distribution, reduce plant selectivity, increase plant diversity, and improve soil function.
"Our approach in this project is to focus on all grazing lands. It's not just a cropland or a pasture approach. We are also looking at rangeland. This boils down to proper grazing management, managing for residual stubble heights on key grazing species, and proper grazing distribution.
"The most important key to any grazing system is the amount of rest you give the plant, allowing it to fully grow back before it is grazed again," he says. If a person can move away from season-long grazing on a pasture, breaking it up into segments and using it rotationally, then plant health and productivity are always improved.
"We applied adaptive grazing strategies to the north ranch, which is stocked with 30 cow-calf pairs. The first thing we did was combine the 2 herds into a 1-herd, 14-pasture rotational grazing system," he says. This concentrates the cattle on a smaller area where they recycle urine and manure to naturally fertilize the soil. This also gives the other areas a rest and a chance to regrow.
"Not only did we immediately increase the amount of rest for each pasture, but we also increased the overall grazing distribution to uniformly graze the plants," says Goodwin. Instead of overgrazing their favorite plants and leaving some of the others, the cattle in this situation tend to eat all the plants, using more total forage biomass.
"The second thing we did was stock the north ranch according to how much it can produce. The south ranch was left at its traditional stocking rate. We have minimized the dependency on supplemental forage by balancing animal demand with forage production rather than the common practice of stocking the ranch at maximum carrying capacity. In that situation, when they are out of grass (during a drought, or winter) the rancher has to buy hay. We built in some flexibility by backing off numbers to a realistic stocking rate and implementing the rotational grazing system," Goodwin explains.
Kent Ferguson, state rangeland management specialist in Temple, says that using cattle to improve the pastures is the simplest and least expensive way to do it. "All it takes is periodically opening and shutting a few gates," he says. Anyone can create a rotational system on just a few acres or on 1,000 acres.
"More ranchers/farmers throughout the U.S. are becoming interested in using their livestock as a tool to improve soil health. We are optimistic that our project will show these benefits. We have it set up for 10 years, so we will be able to see how it works through dry spells and wet spells," says Ferguson.
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"In our project we are fecal testing the cattle and assessing their body condition every month," says Goodwin. "Each month we can look at the numbers from their fecal analysis, and this tells us their dietary crude protein intake, the digestible organic matter, etc., so we can track the forage quality of their diet along with their body condition score for that month. This gives us a better idea about when or if we might need to start supplementing protein," he says.
Some ranchers start supplementing beef cow herds with protein in October or November just because they always have. "But if you do this type of fecal testing — which costs about $30 per sample — it can tell you if your cows are getting 8 percent, 9 percent or whatever the protein percentage might be, in what they are grazing. If it's anything above the 8 percent requirement for maintenance for a dry cow, then you don't need to feed protein. You would just be throwing your money away. So this is a good economic tool for ranchers to use.
"We do this testing at the Grazing Animal Nutrition lab, through Texas A&M, here in Temple," Goodwin says.
A healthier economic picture
"We are managing the north ranch with conservation practices focused on improving soil health," Goodwin says. "On the south ranch we are doing everything traditionally — feeding hay, applying fertilizer and continuously grazing. We are analyzing the economics of both systems. We want to know if this system with fewer cows and fewer inputs is more profitable than trying to maximize production with all the necessary inputs the increased forage production demands.
"It is exciting to work with landowners and be able to show them on a piece of paper how they can limit their inputs, match their cattle numbers with their forage production, and make more profit," Goodwin says.
"We are utilizing adaptive grazing strategies that balance forage production with the animal demand, instead of filling those forage deficiencies with high-cost hay. When we produce hay, we put on fertilizer after each cutting to get an adequate crop. The plants use the fertilizer and then the hay is cut and removed from the field. The same process is repeated the next year. This constantly mines the soil of nutrients.
"By contrast, when you graze the forage, you are recycling about 90 percent of those nutrients back into the ground," says Goodwin.
The agriculture industry for the past 30 years has been focused on increasing production by increasing inputs. Ranchers have been led to believe that the only way to make a profit was to keep increasing production (bigger cattle, higher weaning weights, using more fertilizer on pastures and hay meadows for higher yields, using monocultures rather than diverse forage species).
"In doing those practices, we are actually making less money. Most of the time, when you increase production you have also increased your inputs. When you increase the inputs you decrease your profit.
"This thinking was based on cheap fertilizer, cheap fuel, cheap feed and basically cheap everything. Fertilizer used to be inexpensive and now it's more than $1,000 per ton. Diesel is $4 a gallon. It often doesn't pencil out to use these inputs. We are trying to figure out some ecologically viable and economically feasible alternatives," says Goodwin.
"I am not saying that inorganic fertilizer does not have a place, because there are fields that need an establishment rate — a shot of fertilizer to get started. However once the system gets rolling, the rancher can decide whether to keep the high-input model or look for less expensive alternatives to keep it going. Management techniques and vegetative alternatives in place of inorganic fertilizer can help sustain pastures at a level that is profitable," he says.
"Implementing these soil health practices has the potential to reduce expensive inputs to bare minimum, and ensure the profitability of a farm or ranch," says Ferguson. "The beautiful thing about this process is that it can work on any acreage. You just have to use the right scale and proper stocking rate to fit the land, in concert with the forage production — using fertilizer from the animals to improve the soil health and fertility," he says.
The selling price for a producer's cattle is important, but so is the cost to get those cattle produced and to the market. "I think our project has the ability to show this. It's something local, and our ranchers here can see how it works," says Ferguson.
The things we can learn about reducing input costs can help us stay in business during tough times. "The average producer cannot spend that kind of money to grow grass to sell cows," Ferguson says. It makes more sense to let the cattle help improve the soils to grow more grass.
"The key is managing our livestock and using the herds in high enough density on pastures to where we can recycle those nutrients. This grazing strategy, with the application of other soil-improving practices, enables us to have forage growing year-round," he says.
"When you go to other places around the country and see these kinds of demonstrations, you might think it won't work in your own area or on your own place. This project is on a typical blackland farm, nothing special, and people here can relate to what we are doing," says Ferguson.
"Some farmers in the Northeast and Midwest have been practicing these methods for a long time, managing for soil health. They are producing outstanding corn yields — just as high as their neighbors — but with zero fertilizer," he says.
The same thing is being done with mob grazing, building soil health with cattle. "What we want to try to do here in Texas is model our efforts after what some of these other states are doing, and start grazing more of our croplands," says Goodwin. "In Texas, unless the farmer is growing small grains — wheat or oats — for grazing purposes, it's rare that we ever allow a hoof on a cropland field. There are miles of cropland fields, with no cattle or fences. We are missing an opportunity to use cattle and get the full use from our resources," he says.
Before farmers had inorganic fertilizer it was standard practice to rotate cattle with crops, so the cattle could add nutrients back to the soil. "When a person just had 40 acres and a mule, we were much more in tune with keeping soil productive than we are today with our 40-foot plows. Farms got larger, and farming technology got away from the basics of plant and soil health. As an industry we need to explore all alternatives, but at the end of the day if we're managing our grazing lands for soil health, we will be closer to balancing economic viability with ecologic sustainability."
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Panos Cosmatos 2010 feature film Beyond The Black Rainbow (previously) was largely panned as being a self-indulgent, incoherent mess. But just about every reviewer who couldn't stand the homage to 70's/80's mindfuck cinema agreed with one thing: Jeremy Schmidts original score for the film, itself distilling all the best essences of 70's/80's era synth experimentation was a triumph.
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Robert Creeley, one of the most exquisite and influential poets of our era, died this morning at age 78. I'd link to a story, but it's not in the news yet. This is a note from one of Robert's friends: "American poet Robert Creeley passed away this morning at 6:15 am in Odessa, Texas, where he was fulfilling a Residency at the Lannan Foundation. (Mr. Creeley was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.) His wife of twenty-eight years, Penelope, and son Will and daughter Hannah were at his side. The cause of death was complications from respiratory disease." Though a comrade and muse for Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Creeley was much less well-known, and had a style rather unlike theirs, distinguished by extreme economy of words and an understated approach toward emotion. Creeley was often cited as a pioneer by the so-called language poets, and his most creatively generative friendship was with another poet's poet, the late Charles Olson. Creeley's subtlety and balance will be missed.
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Five purified protein components, RNA polymerase I, Rrn3p, core factor, TBP (TATA-binding protein), and upstream activation factor, are sufficient for high level transcription in vitro from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae rDNA promoter. Rrn3p and pol I form a complex in solution that is active in specific initiation. Three protein components, pol I, Rrn3p, and core factor, and promoter sequence to -38, suffice for basal transcription. Unlike pol II and pol III, yeast pol I basal transcription does not require TBP. Instead, TBP, upstream activation factor, and the upstream element of the promoter together stimulate pol I basal transcription to a fully activated level. The role of TBP in pol I transcription is fundamentally different from its role in pol II or pol III transcription.
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