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This weekend (Aug. 8-10), moms fighting for the last three pack of highlighters may be the usual once-a-year event, but it does fall under the list of items that qualify for the tax-free savings, as do most school supplies.
The usual school supplies, like binders, backpacks, pencils, fall under the tax-free list.
H-E-B is a place many head for school supplies. In years past, they haven't run out of supplies, but it has been close, said Unit Director Shelia Poorman.
"It's probably our biggest weekend for sure," Poorman said. "People take advantage of not having to pay tax on school supplies and also apparel, footwear, backpacks, even the baby department. It's our busiest weekend, but we are pretty busy every weekend up until school in that particular area of the store. But it spikes during that weekend."
However, things start to get tricky with other items that qualify.
Most clothing, which includes T-shirts, jeans, dresses and jackets, would be tax free. However, clothing accessories, including purses, watches and jewelry, would not qualify.
While most shoes, like sneakers and cowboy boots, qualify, athletic-specific shoes, like football cleats, would not.
Also, while they may qualify in other states like Alabama and Georgia, computers and tablets do not qualify as tax free.
However, across all items over the sales tax holiday weekend, there's a $100 rule that is applied. Each item must be under $100 to qualify. So, two shirts worth $60 each, totaling $120 would qualify, but a shirt that is $105 does not.
Take note when discounts and coupons are being applied. When they are applied on items over $100, making the cost less than $100, they qualify as tax-free.
Stores also like to drum up sales by advertising in big, bold letters "Buy one, get one free" or "Buy one, get one half off." The $100 rule still applies, even though you would be purchasing two items, unless that second item becomes less than $100, which would then make it qualify.
Mirella Escamilla Davis, a mother of two, enjoys the concept of Tax Free Weekend, but feels that it's a hassle trying to shop with massive crowds.
"Very busy, very hectic, too many people," Davis said. "Maybe I just don't take stress very well. Don't get me wrong, it's a good intent. It's just not for me individually."
Davis went shopping on Wednesday with her children because the stores were well stocked, and so she wouldn't have to deal with the angry mob.
"I've done it twice, and it's been very hectic for me and with two kids and 'I need this; I need that', and they get tired, and you're trying to save a buck here with the taxes," Davis said. "We'll just do it on our own, after work, after hours.
"I can handle that."
Overall, you would be saving just a little over $8 for every $100 that you spend.
Is it worth it to put on some elbow pads and go up against a mob of people hungry for savings?
That's for you to decide, and Poorman has a tip that may help you if you do scavenge for supplies this weekend.
"Come early and have your list," Poorman said. We have the school supply list right in front of the lobby right when you walk in. So, you grab that list and follow that."
Mackey Torres is the regional editor at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 343-5219, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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'Hugo' Author Explores His Inspiration Up Close
By Andrea Bernstein • Feb 20, 2012
When Brian O. Selznick wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabaret — a graphic novel about an orphan in 1930s Paris — he imagined the secret spaces of a Paris train station. For inspiration, he visited Grand Central Terminal in New York City. But the scenes in the book — hidden tunnels, secret rooms, the giant clock tower — were all drawn from Selznick's imagination and later turned into the movie Hugo by Martin Scorcese, which is nominated for 12 Academy Awards. Selznick recently got to explore Grand Central's secrets for the first time and it turns out that life imitated art in shockingly faithful ways.


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Good morning and welcome to the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing.
Cast your vote
Hometown favorite Hank Baskett has become a website favorite in the Athlebrity Madness tournament.
The site asks you to vote for your favorite pro football player who blends athleticism and celebrity — Athlebrity.
Baskett sent Mark Sanchez packing by garnering 54 percent of the vote in the first round.
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Ribbon cutting
The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is hosting a ribbon cutting 10 a.m. today to celebrate the opening of the Terry Young Insurance Agency at 716 E. Tierra Blanca.
HOME meeting
The monthly United Way of Eastern New Mexico HOME meeting is 9 a.m. Thursday at The Master's Center.
Non-profits and other community groups meet to acquaint and re-acquaint each other with services offered, available or needed
If you are interested in presenting, call Erinn or Patricia @ 769-2103.
Quirky quote of the day
"If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me." – Bobcat Goldthwait
Step back in time
The Wheatland School Reunion is set to begin at 8 a.m. May 28 in the Grady Senior Citizens Building.
Attendees are asked to bring a covered dish for lunch, and donations are to be taken to cover the rent of the building.
Information: 806-333-4524.
Today in history
On this day in 1839, the initials "O.K." are first published in The Boston Morning Post.
Meant as an abbreviation for "oll correct," a popular slang misspelling of "all correct" at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.
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CHELSEA Lois Jean Goodrich, 86, of Chelsea, Vt., and formerly of Amesbury, Mass., died on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, at the Berlin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Berlin, Vt.
Lois was born on July 16, 1927. She was the daughter of Franklin H. and Iva M. (Johnson) Sargent. She lived in Amesbury most of her life.
She graduated from Amesbury High School in 1945.
After high school she worked at the Sears and Roebuck Order Office and the Briggs Insurance Agency, both in Amesbury, Mass.
She married George E. Goodrich on Nov. 27, 1946.
While George was attending the Wentworth Institute in Cambridge, Mass., under the GI Bill, their son was born in 1947 and the family moved to Schenectady, N.Y., for employment. After four years, the family moved back to Amesbury.
Lois enjoyed raising her family of three boys, George D., Gene E., Gregg S., and one girl, Gay Lynn. Lois sewed quite extensively, making clothes for her family and relatives. Her other hobbies included braiding rugs, hiking and camping in New Hampshire and Vermont. George and Lois also enjoyed attending the many sporting events of their grandchildren. They retired to Vermont in 1986.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, George E. Goodrich; three sons, George D. Goodrich and his wife, Ruth Ann, of Schenectady, N.Y., Gene E. Goodrich and his wife, Michele, of Amesbury, Mass., Gregg S. Goodrich and his wife, Dianne, of Gorham, Maine, and a daughter, Gay Lynn, and her husband, Mark Cartier, of West Ossipee, N.H.; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; a sister, Beverly Fogg, of Hampstead, N.H.; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents and a sister, Persis McLaughlin.
A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery Chapel in Randolph Center, Vt., with the Rev. Sam Newton officiating. The burial will be held immediately following the service.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the United Church of Chelsea, P.O. Box 98, Chelsea, VT 05038.
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America's Uncivil Phone Manners
Wednesday, I called the newsrooms of Pennsylvania's two largest newspapers. All I got were disembodied voices telling me no one was available and to leave a message. It was 11 a.m., and I thought someone—anyone!—should have answered their phones. But, with publishers doing their best to "maximize profits" by cutting news coverage and reporters, I figured they either didn't have anyone capable of answering a phone or figured no one would be calling with any news that day. So I left a message. It was a routine question, specific for each newspaper and related to verifying information from their papers for a book I was completing. I left another message the next day. I would have called individual assignment reporters, … Continue reading


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School officials in Sparta are taking further action to stop bullying in the district after a high profile incident on a bus last month.
At a Board of Education committee meeting Tuesday night, board members announced several steps being taken to help improve the situation.
Joan Cook, the board's clerk, says parents' concerns about bullying are being taken seriously.
"If anyone is a good bully, they know where to be, what to do and how to do it. And they're hard to spot sometimes," said Cook.
An incident last month led to a lot of publicity about bullying and even police action against a 12-year-old student. The boy was seen in bus surveillance video shoving his hands down his pants and then rubbing them in the face of a 13-year-old boy.
Cook says the district is now planning on reviewing bus video on a regular basis. District officials are also scheduled to meet with all bus drivers to discuss how to spot and then stop bullying on the bus. There are also plans in the works to have volunteer bus monitors ride on certain routes.
"The bus driver is still the one in charge. The monitor is just there to inform and tell (students) to sit down and that kind of thing," said Cook.
"I'm glad to see not only the school take steps forward but the community as well," said Misty Morales, the mother of the victim in the bus bullying incident.
Morales sees progress being made but says there is still more to be done. She suggested having extra cameras installed on the buses as well as in-class surveys that allow students to tip off educators about bullying incidents.
"Nothing's going to be perfect and I understand that bullying isn't going to just stop. Children and adults, we can all be quite mean at times, unfortunately," said Morales.
It's a problem Sparta school officials are hoping to fight, but one they say they can't fight alone.
"It takes a village or a community to teach a child and raise a child. It also takes a community to fight bullying too," said Cook.
The school board plans to continue the conversation about bullying at it's next meeting on March 26.


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The Food and Drug Administration has new numbers to back up its advisories that certain people should avoid raw milk products.
The study looked at dairy-related disease from 1993 to 2006. Raw milk products were the cause of 60 percent of outbreaks across the country, and 200 of the 239 hospitalizations were connected to raw milk.
Tyler Mueller at Fromagination in downtown Madison said some customers prefer the taste and health benefits of raw milk cheeses, but he does disclose the ingredient to anyone who might not be aware.
"Not necessarily because they're 100 percent more safe," Mueller explained, "but because they're concerned about possible side effects with consuming raw milk."
The FDA advises that pregnant women and people with weak immune systems stay away from raw milk products due to the increased risk of disease.
Federal regulations already require cheese makers to age raw milk cheeses for at least 60 days. Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Executive Director John Umhoefer said that's to give the cheese plenty of time to rid itself of bad bacteria.
In the latest study, the FDA does open the possibility of extending that mandatory aging period.
"I don't think you'll see raw milk disappear under the FDA's ideas," Umhoefer said. "I think they're just going to make those hurdles much higher for the bacteria to survive."
Director of the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research John Lucey researches milk and cheese for a living. He said while the new data quantifies pre-existing government warnings, the FDA didn't make this study completely relevant for American regulations. Lucey noted that the type of cheese looked at in the study has a higher pH level, making it more prone to pathogens in the first place. On top of that, the category of cheese is not typically aged to the 60 day minimum.
"I think it's possible that the FDA would go and say for different categories, we're not going to give you the option of having raw, just because it's too risky," Lucey said.
After working with cheese for four years, Mueller said any food can be dangerous, and for his product, it's about quality products from quality vendors.
"It comes down to the way it's produced, the way it's handled, and the way it's cared for," Mueller said.
The Centers for Disease control has more information on this topic in a recent news release.
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BETHEL, NY — MiZ performs solo at the Dancing Cat Saloon on Saturday, January 11 at 8:30 p.m. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Mike Mizwinski, who gives his name to the band MiZ as well as his solo work, is a soulful rock-Americana artist from Northeast Pennsylvania. Known as an acoustic and electric guitar virtuoso, his songs evoke the rustic tones and imagery you would expect from the Pennsylvania coal-mining region and its cultural heritage.
He has opened for Derek Trucks Band, Blues Traveler, Lyle Lovett, Leon Russell, Railroad Earth and many more, and won the 2011 Tri-State Indie Acoustic Artist of the Year award. Mizwinski says, "I knew at a very early age I wanted to play the guitar but it was when my Dad took me to my first Grateful Dead show (at the age of nine) that I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life." Visit www.dancingcatsaloon.com [1] or call 845/583-3141.


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NASCAR opens garage areas to children
By Official Release
February 14, 2011 3:02 PM, EST
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway not only opens up the 2011 racing season, it also opens the garage gates to some very important fans.
A revision in NASCAR's garage access policy allows an adult with approved access, either via annual credential (hard card) or a single event license (SEL), to bring his or her children in the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck series garages on race days.
The policy is in effect only during the "cold" pre-race period. Each child will be issued a special credential. There is no minimum age requirement.
"NASCAR offers the best behind-the-scenes access in all of sports and this gives young people the opportunity to experience this excitement up close and personal," said Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR senior vice president of track operations. "The thrill of being in the NASCAR garage on race day cannot be duplicated and we're looking forward to having our young fans participate in this race-day experience."
Some "Need to Know" parameters for this new policy:
* Parents must complete a minor's release form prior to receiving a minor's credential.
* Releases and credentials will be available at the Cup registration hauler or at the garage location.
* Nationwide and Truck series children credentials will be available at those series' at-track registration locations.
Also updated for 2011: The dress code for all NASCAR pit and garage areas. Attire must remain appropriate for both a major sporting event and a family environment, but has been relaxed to include shorts, open-toed shoes, sleeveless blouses and skirts/dresses.


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I should not be blogging but aggressively resting. I'm quite sick. Today is the first day I've been able to email people. It might be pushing it to do a blog post. Unfortunately I'm all too familiar with what can be in store for me if I don't turn this around.
Throughout the course of this illness I start getting sick in the Fall and then am down the entire Winter. It occurred throughout worst years of my illness so I know this pattern.
The only time it didn't happen was when living in Livermore and then Pleasanton where I did my best.
I'm trying to figure out what caused this so I can try to avoid feeling this way in the future. I'm too sick to juice. Eating has gone out the window for now. In the future I need to have on hand some instant soup or top ramen or something.
There are several contributing factors:
1) I had a medical procedure on Monday. It was painful. Extremely painful actually. There was one point where I couldn't stop myself from suddenly yelling "SHIT" because of the pain. I quickly apologized as did the colon surgeon but I sort of chuckled inside because of the pun (shouting shit in a colon surgeon's office). He also apologized and said it was his error. By the time I got home (had to drive myself) I was in so much pain that I had to take a Vicoden. For the next 6 hours I laid in bed unable to even watch tv. The best I could do was listen to a recording of Jon Kabat-Zinn doing a meditation on how to deal with pain.
However, when I had the procedure before I did not feel this way after. So this couldn't be the sole reason.
2) Toxins-there are 3 closets in this bedroom. One is big. I stored stuff from the old toxic apartment there. Tuesday I was trying to make room for more stuff so I threw more stuff out and organized the rest. I've decided to put the rest of my stuff in the closet in the hopes of making Winter less Doom-like. I was already not feeling well but want to get the stuff in there asap. That project is currently not finished due to feeling pretty horrid the next day.
3) Resetting the nervous system might be stirring up toxins (whether bacterial/viral/mold related). The last time I tried Prazosin I felt really sick for a couple days which is odd for an alpha blocker to cause an increase in symptoms. I think resetting the nervous system is causing an increase in symptoms because its also affecting the immune system.
Prazosin, although an anti-hypertensive drug, works on the sympathetic nervous system. It's particularly effective for reducing the diastolic pressure. Mine is usually high sometimes creating narrow arterial pressure.
What does this have to do with the immune system?
Chronic illness often results in a body dominated by the sympathetic nervous system. This results in all sorts of secondary problems.
An additional feature of the fight/flight response (sympathetic nervous system) is an increase in immune system activity (Sapolsky, 1998; Scaer, 2001). Rises in norepinephrine and epinephrine in this acute phase are associated with increases in the organism's front line of defense, expressed through augmentation of natural killer cell activity (Scaer, 2001). As acute stress becomes chronic, however, elevations in cortisol levels impair the immune response and inhibit natural killer cell activity, rendering the organism more susceptible to infection (Scaer, 2001).
4) Stress-lots of stress. Big-time stress.
5) I'm just plain sick. I don't think this is the reason because the way I feel right now is how I've felt at the worst of my crashes. I feel like I did when I was a kid who had c. pneumonia. It feels as bad now as it did then.
6) allergies.
Considering the severity of this crash or sickness or whatever the hell it is I think its all the above.
I have to figure out how to get myself out of it. I can't remain this sick here. I have to negotiate stairs which are currently difficult due to feeling so bad.
A friend sent me her remaining Immunovir so I took 1/2 of the 500mg tablet. It has helped a little. I don't feel as bad as I did when I first woke up.
I know that when I have any improvement quickly after starting a medication, especially in the Fall when I start going downhill, means it's a keeper.
The only problem is that it costs over $100 a month. If I can get well enough to work part time I can afford it. Otherwise I can't afford it.


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With the Owlz – Day Two
Robert Fish started Sunday afternoon for Orem against Casper.
If you're looking for action on a Sunday, Happy Valley isn't the place to look.
I'm not up on all the fine details of the Mormon faith, but apparently one practice is that Sunday should be a day of rest and worship.
When the Helena Brewers moved to Utah County for the 2001 season and became the Provo Angels, they were allowed to use the Brigham Young University ballpark until they found a permanent facility, but only under certain conditions. One was that no games would be played there on Sunday.
This caused complications with the Pioneer League schedule, and it wasn't unusual to see the Provo team scheduled to play a one-game road trip in Ogden, on the north side of Salt Lake City, 70 miles up the road.
When the franchise moved six miles west in 2005 to become the Orem Owlz, Utah Valley State College was far more tolerant, and Sunday games were scheduled.
But just because you schedule it, that doesn't mean they'll come.
Chris Rosenbaum homered in the third inning for Orem.
So a sparse crowd was on hand for today's 4 PM game against Casper. The announced attendance was 1,032, which includes tickets sold. I'd guess the actual number of bodies was probably around 500.
Owlz manager Tom Kotchman seemed to be in a playful mood.
When it came to exchange lineups with Casper manager Tony Diaz, both managers stepped out of their dugouts, glared, and then ran to home plate, where they had a good laugh. The two umpires looked rather perplexed, but I'm sure they've seen worse. And will.
Later in the game, right fielder Donato Giovanatto swung and missed at a pitch. The bat got loose from his hands and helicoptered down the third base line past Kotch, who was coaching third base. Kotch took the bat and tossed it the same distance back at Giovanatto, as if to say, "Two can play that game." The crowd roared.
The Owlz won 7-3. Chris Rosenbaum, Jerry Gonzalez and Giovanatto all homered. I have video of Gio's homer and will post it when I get the chance.
Jerry Gonzalez homered in the 4th to give Orem a 4-1 lead.
Angels scout Jeff Scholzen is here for a few games substituting for regular hitting coach Francisco Matos. "Frankie" went home on a personal matter, nothing bad I'm told.
Tomorrow night's game is "Christmas in July," with Santa Claus scheduled to make an appearance. Another wacky minor league promotional idea …
On a personal note, I went for a jog this morning along the Provo River Trail. Just a reminder, running at 4,500 feet is not the same as running at 100 feet, wheeze, gasp …
And yes, more bug bites.
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From UncleCharlieYacker, I stopped by yesterday to say hello and I was happy to have the chance. As you noticed I had a special pass allowing me to be on the field before the game. Although, I don't use that on a frequent basis, I do come see a lot of games for free!
I stopped by tonight, saw the two run homer in the early innings, but then had to run, if you know what I mean.
As I left a man and a woman were asking a young man if they could have the homerun ball he just caught. The kid was freaked! They tried to let the kid know that they are the host family for the guy that hit it and it's his first professional home run ever! The kid started to run away, so I jokingly told the kid they'd trade him the ball for "several" items. At that point, the kid was certain we were all kidnappers and he scurried off into the crowd. I don't know if they ever got that ball. Though, I was laughing. I felt the pain for the family as they desperately wanted that ball. I'll have to ask how that went.
Anyway, great to meet you, I hope to stop by tomarrow. Not sure what time you arrive at the park, but I'll swing by anywhere from 3-7, hopefully to say hello one more time before you leave town.


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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and its allies are making a last-minute push to persuade Americans to enroll in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Open enrollment ends at midnight Monday, and with it, the chance to avoid a penalty for not purchasing insurance in 2014, which people will pay with their federal-income taxes next year.
Administration officials say interest is surging as the deadline nears. Sunday evening, Health and Human Services announced 2 million visits over the weekend to HealthCare.gov, the federal government's enrollment site.
In the last week alone, the call center handled a record 2.5 million calls, surpassing the 2.4 million it received during the entire month of February.
Over the weekend, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared at a Baptist church in Miami to urge Floridians to sign up before the deadline. She plans a fresh round of television interviews with local stations Monday to boost enrollment numbers.
An interview with Vice President Biden encouraging young people to enroll will air Monday on celebrity chef Rachael Ray's talk show.
"The traffic and energy and interest this weekend shows many more are interested in the coverage," White House spokeswoman Tara McGuinness said Sunday afternoon.
Those who start the process — either by working on a paper application with a navigator, attempting to enroll online, or talking with a call center representative — may continue the process after the deadline passes.
The government has boosted the number of call center representatives, as well as the capacity of the website, to handle the increased volume. Even so, officials with the federal government's health-care exchange tweeted Sunday afternoon: "High call center volume right now. System will now allow consumers to leave their info to be contacted later when we can serve them."
White House officials expect visits to the federal government's health-care website to spike Monday, given that weekday traffic typically is higher than weekend volume.
McGuiness said the website, plagued by technical troubles when it launched last October, was performing well, despite the increased traffic. The average response times on the site are less than half a second, officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a blog post Sunday evening.
President Obama announced Thursday that more than 6 million people had enrolled in the federal and state health exchanges, a goal projected by the Congressional Budget Office to ensure the system is sustainable.
Administration officials have not released updated numbers, but there were signs that enrollment numbers have grown since Thursday's milestone was announced.
State officials in New York said Friday that it had bumped up enrollment in private plans almost 25,000 from the previous week, and 70% of the enrollees had not had insurance before. California has already met its goal, but its executive director, Peter Lee, planned to visit several enrollment sites over the weekend. In Washington, DC, gospel artist John Kee and songwriter Brittney Wright performed at a "gospel enrollment concert" Friday.
The government will have to wait for the insurers to release payment data, as well as information about the newly insured, to answer. However, some states, such as California, have reported payment rates as high as 85%.
White House officials Sunday released a memo that details the administration's public outreach to tout the law. One example: White House officials, Cabinet secretaries and "celebrity surrogates," including NBA standout Kobe Bryant and actress Kerry Washington, have held more than 300 radio interviews in the last six weeks, officials said.
Here's what you need to know:
- The deadline is Mar. 31 at midnight EDT for the states where the federal government is running the sign-up website; states running their own exchanges set their own deadlines.
- You can sign up online by going to HealthCare.gov or your state insurance exchange. If you don't know what your state marketplace is called, HealthCare.gov will direct you.
-You can call 1-800-318-2596 to sign up by phone or get help from an enrollment specialist.
-Check online for sign-up centers that may be open locally, offering in-person assistance.
-If you started an application by Monday but didn't finish, perhaps because of errors, missing information or website glitches, you can take advantage of a grace period. The government says it will accept paper applications until April 7 and take as much time as necessary to handle unfinished cases on HealthCare.gov.
-Be prepared for the possibility of long wait times.
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For most Iowa row crop farmers, weather extremes such as untimely heavy rainstorms and drought are phenomena for which there is little protection. Many believe that hoping and praying for good weather is just part of farming, as is paying for and collecting on crop insurance when yields are poor.
But for a growing number of farmers, this philosophy is changing. More and more Iowa farmers are "growing" their own crop insurance, through soil health management practices like cover crops that protect the soil and crop yields from weather extremes. Crop producers like Wade Mitchell of Buckingham in Tama County are farming with soil health and protection as their primary goal, and producing better yields ─ naturally.
Mitchell, who farms with his son Clay, says the soil is his 'factory.' "Crop production is based entirely from soil," he says. "Rain and sunlight are limited by things we can't control. Things we can control, like soil structure and water holding capacity, are our primary focus."
Conservation practices like no-till and cover crops increase organic matter levels and biodiversity in the soil, creating healthier soils that hold water like a sponge, leading to better water infiltration, less runoff, minimal erosion, and reduced flooding and sedimentation.
Mitchell says no-till also sequesters much needed carbon in the soil. "Organic material and carbon sequestration go hand-in-hand," he says. "Normally there are 390 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere around here. Once farmers begin fall tillage, that number jumps to 460 parts per million. Tillage releases a tremendous amount of carbon, which is not going to be there to hold water."
Cover Crops
The Mitchells have no-tilled for about 30 years, but recently began incorporating cover crops into their system. They received a Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) contract through USDA that is rewarding them for years of conservation activities. Part of that contract challenges participants to implement new measures – called enhancements. The Mitchells chose cover crops as one of their CSP enhancements.
For the past four years they have slowly "ramped up" their use of cover crops. They grow cereal and annual rye, along with turnips on the end rows. Wade Mitchell says they primarily grow cover crops to reduce soil erosion in the spring. But they are also receiving "secondary" benefits, like keeping nitrogen in the soil, better soil structure, and carbon sequestration.
Mitchell says the organic material that cover crops provide made a tremendous difference during the 2012 drought. He says corn yields in his region of Tama County varied from 300 bushels per acre for farmers with healthy soils to 50 bushels per acre for farmers with high clay content and poor soil structure. "It was obvious that soils with good structure were aided by the high carbon and organic materials," he said.
He says his soils respond similarly well during wet years. "Our water holding capacity prevents much runoff," says Mitchell. "It takes a lot of water before we get runoff, and when we do the soil properties hold in place. When you no-till it is really evident during wet years like we had (in 2008) when we had three-inch rains followed by four-inch rains."
Larry Jones, district conservationist for USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Toledo, says the Mitchell's attention to soil health management is refreshing and timely. "NRCS was founded to help farmers conserve soil," he said. "We are now focused on soil health because it is even more all-encompassing. Soil is the foundation for protecting most of our natural resources. Without healthy soils, it's much more difficult to keep pollutants out of water, grow plants naturally, and protect and raise animals."
Chemical Disturbance
Tillage isn't the only way farmers disturb the soil. Misuse of fertilizers and pesticides can also chemically and biologically disturb the soil. When these chemicals are added to the soil, they can make important soil and plant relationships in the soil ineffective.
The Mitchells protect their soils from chemical disturbing practices. As nutrient management innovators, they have worked with the John Deere Innovation Center to conduct research on timing and quantity of nutrient applications. "Research indicated we need to apply fewer chemicals and fertilizers (in the fall)," said Mitchell. "Now we sidedress nitrogen in the spring, dictated by the weather. We are very conscious not to over-apply chemicals."
Overall, Mitchell says the family's focus on soil health makes him feel good about the way they are preserving soil. "Soil erosion is such a detrimental thing," he said. "When it's gone, it's gone. You can't let erosion happen on your farm because it's really not recoverable."
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Bushcrafter Pack
- Burly 15-ounce canvas construction.
- Specifically designed to be low profile and narrower in width to allow easy navigation through heavy brush.
- Unique features like an 18" long axe sleeve and two double front pockets that can hold a folding saw and replacement blades.
- Padded leather/canvas shoulder straps with adjustable sternum strap and removable waist belt.
- Three nylon webbing side compression straps keep your load stable and allow for pack to be either increased or scaled back in capacity depending on the season or conditions.
- Weight: 4.5lbs (for waxed canvas add .75lb)
- Guaranteed for life. Made in the USA.
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- Still cant believe I own this High Quality Pack!
- Cheap stiching and plastic clips.
We are deeply sorry to hear about your experience with your Bushcrafter Pack. Please contact our customer service team at: [email protected] or call 1-800-777-4439, we would be more than happy to discuss repairing your pack for you. Thank you for your feedback! (Posted on 3/31/2012)
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Thank you for your feedback! The reason we opted for nylon side cinch straps is because with the nylon, you can get a nice tight fit, significantly more so than using a leather strap with a roller buckle. If you'd like, we can custom make our Bushcrafter Pack with the leather cinch straps on the side. Please call our Customer Service Department if you are interested (1-800-777-4439). (Posted on 1/13/2012)
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- Surprisingly comfortable, and holds everything
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When I loaded it up and put it on I was just flabbergasted at the fit. The padded shoulder straps are just the right length so they don't cut into your arm. No fancy S shapes are needed. It's a big pack but the compression straps make it easy to adjust the volume. And you get to walk standing straight up. It's kinda spendy but well worth the price. Now if I can just live long enough to wear in out. :) (Posted on 11/2/2010)
- great pack!
Like many bushcraft practioners, I am always on the lookout for practical, durable gear. I own several backpacks, but they are either too large or too small. As mentioned in an earlier post, recently my outings are 2-3 days usually 2-3 miles into the woods, so I'm not looking for aerospace suspension and superultra light weight materials. I need a tough, practical mid-size pack. I was also gravitating towards traditional materials like a Duluth type pack. I've grown tired of mil-spec OD green and SWAT black nylon.
Enter the Duluth Bushcrafter. I emailed Mike Lummio and he gave me some details about the pack. Based on his recommendation, I placed an order. Found out that the base price of $370.00 went up to $395.00 in waxed canvas. I was going on a canoe trip in Maine and thought this could be the pack.
A few days later, I received a call from Molly at Duluth who advised me that I was the first person to order this new pack. I told Molly when I needed the pack by and she assured me they would try to make the deadline as the packs are made one at a time.
The pack arrived 3 days prior to my departure date which gave time to play. First impressions;
Very heavy duty 18 oz. waxed canvas. Straps are leather and securely stitched and also heavy duty. Side compression starps , nylon with fastex type buckles. Weight on my digital fish scale 4 pounds, 9 ounces. The capacity is listed as between 3900 and 4200 cubic inches.
I like the two front pockets with sleeves behind for a folding saw or similar items. An axe sleeve which I like as axes are sometimes hard to pack and secure. On this pack just slip it into the sleeve and it's secure and protected. I packed the pack for my trip. It carried sleeping bag, pad, tent and poles, tarp, clothes, all tools, water and cooking gear. I didn't line the pack with plastic as I wanted to test the water repellency of the waxed canvas. All items were in waterproof stuff sacks as a precaution.
The pack carries well even with upwards of 40 pounds of weight. Tha padded leather and canvas which feel great. The hip belt also helps stabilize the load.
How did it perform?
The pack did great!! When placed in the canoe, it was wet from rain and river water, yet didn't absorb much. No water was transferred into the pack. On portages, it carried very confortably compared to traditional canoe packs. I was never in fear of damage when it was placed on the wet, muddy ground. Though dirty and used, it gained character and has more of that "just belongs" look of Duluth products. For me personally, this pack fills a void in my equipment allowing flexibility for many outings from overnight to longer trips. This is my new favorite go to pack.
Hats off to Mike Lummio and Duluth Pack.
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Gulf War Illness
One-fourth of the veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War complain of persistent memory and concentration problems, chronic headaches, widespread pain, gastrointestinal problems, and other chronic abnormalities not explained by well-established diagnoses. Treatments are ineffective and symptoms do not improve over time. Gulf War Syndrome or Gulf War Illness is a controversial diagnosis, and some have questioned whether it really exists. Now a new report from the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses has concluded that Gulf War Illness is real and that it is probably attributable to pyridostigmine bromide (PB) and pesticide exposures.
Its major conclusions:
- Gulf War illness is a serious condition that affects at least one fourth of the 697,000 U.S. veterans who served in the 1990-1991 Gulf War.
- Gulf War illness fundamentally differs from trauma and stress-related syndromes described after other wars.
- Evidence strongly and consistently indicates that two Gulf War neurotoxic exposures are causally associated with Gulf War illness: 1) use of pyridostigmine bromide (PB) pills, given to protect troops from effects of nerve agents, and 2) pesticide use during deployment.
The Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses was mandated by Congress and appointed in 2002. The report, published November 17, 2008, is an exhaustive review of all available data, including some that is unpublished. It runs to 454 pages, has multiple authors and consultants, lists 1840 references and has multiple appendices. I can't pretend to have mastered all the information, but I have read enough to understand the basis of their conclusions. They are based on good evidence and logic, but they leave me with some doubts.
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Depression Re-examined: A New Way to Look at an Old Puzzle
Depression affects approximately 10% of Americans. It can be fatal; I found estimates of suicide rates ranging from 2-15% of patients with major depression. When it doesn't kill, it impairs functioning and can make life almost unbearably miserable. It is a frustrating condition because there is no lab test to diagnose it, no good explanation of its cause, and the treatments are far from ideal.
Jonathan Rottenberg is a psychologist and research scientist who began to study depression after his own recovery from a major depressive illness. He teaches psychology at the University of South Florida, where he is the director of the Mood and Emotion laboratory. He has launched the Come Out of the Dark campaign to start a better, richer national conversation about depression. In a new book The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic, he reviews insights from recent experiments and asks a number of difficult questions, such as why humans evolved to be subject to incapacitating depressions. He comes up with some startling hypotheses, including the idea that evolution favored depression because of its survival value and that depression is essentially a good thing. He offers his ideas as the basis of a paradigm shift. (more…)


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As this very site has pointed out, Hollywood gets police work wrong probably more than any other profession. One of the side effects of that is, for instance, that I get to watch multiple drunk/high people demand to be let out of jail because we failed to read them their rights (it doesn't work like that). It's kind of funny the first few times. I'd imagine the corrections officers didn't find it as funny as I did.
Anyway, I used to be a cop, and what I learned on the job is that it is far more ridiculous than any fictional portrayal. You're seeing people at their most insane/stoned/naked, all the time. So let me tell you ...
5 There's a Reason We Stay Out of Some Neighborhoods
There's an apartment complex in every city that cops just don't go into without lots of backup. I always imagined it was because those places were littered with armed gangsters, but that's just a part of it. What really keeps police out of a neighborhood is all the people who absolutely do not give one lonely, mountain-dwelling fuck about the law. Here's an example:
I was cruising about one night and saw this drunken guy riding a horse through the streets, rolling through every lane, clopping into oncoming traffic. I turned on my lights and tried to pull him over. He decided to run away on horseback. I went after him, with my partner patiently explaining that I'm a moron. The horseman headed for that apartment building, the one our own protocols dictate that any officer who goes inside is always to be accompanied by at least three other officers.
Or two and a horse whisperer.
He stopped the horse inside, possibly assuming that no officer would follow him for drunk driving a horse. Well, I sure showed him. We pulled up, and I leaped out of the car to grab the rider. The guy, in keeping with the old joke, immediately assured me that "The horse is sober."
"It's his gambling problem that's gotten out of hand."
But the guy was not, and wacky circumstances don't grant you license to endanger yourself and others while under the influence. I knew I wasn't getting horse registration off this guy, so I started to book him, at which point this little old lady came up and asked why I was arresting Horse Guy. I began to explain that he was drunk driving, and that horses do count as vehicles under the transportation code, when some random dude ran up and punched the old lady in the head.
Punching little old people is a felony, or at least it should be, so my partner and I chased the assailant through the complex. He vanished somewhere into the labyrinth and was lost to us, so I made my way back to the car, hoping maybe the lady knew who he was. But she had vanished, too. And so had the drunken rider. The horse, however, had been left behind.
No one deals with horses. Animal control didn't have the right facilities to house one, our station sure as hell didn't, and not even my sergeant knew what the hell to do with it. I called a towing company and said I wanted a flatbed to move an abandoned horse, and was dismissed as a crank until I pointed out I was using the police-only number and that I did have a goddamn horse that needed to be ... impounded. Or something. In the end, we just moved it onto some grass and hoped it knew how to get home.
Last I heard, he'd cleaned up his act and gone back to school.
So that's why you don't go into those parts of the city alone. Shit like that happens.
4 There's Just So Much Male Nudity
One night I was on patrol, alone, when a call came in from a nearby house alarm. I figured it was nothing -- they're usually dogs setting off a motion sensor or the wind or something. But I got there and saw a terrified woman clutching a terrified 6-year-old boy, and their front door was wide open. I asked what happened.
"I don't know, I woke up and the door was open, so I grabbed little Timmy [I don't remember his name] and we ran outside. But my husband won't come out. We've been yelling his name and he won't come out."
This freaked me out. Images of this dude being carved up by some serial killer filled my head (hey, I've seen the same horror movies you have). So I told my backup to hurry (I try to learn from said movies) and just ran in with my little pistol (but not enough, apparently). I yelled the guy's name and identified myself as police. I found the bedroom door locked, and with no response from inside. I kicked the bedroom door down.
This guy was in bed with his Bose headphones on and porn on the screen, just jacking it and completely unable to hear a word.
And at the rate he was going, I was surprised he was still able to see anything.
I asked, "Are you OK?"
Blank look.
"Is anyone in here?"
Blank look.
I told him to put some pants on and I moved to check the walk-in closet, and then the bathroom, just to be sure. I didn't tell his wife what I'd found him doing. The guy took his sweet time putting his pants on, then thanked me and offered a friendly handshake, which I declined.
"At least have some coffee. Do you like extra cream?"
On another occasion, a guy showed up naked at the front door of a female acquaintance and shouted "I'm gonna fuck you in the ass!" He pinned her down on her bed, at which point she began kicking his balls. When he let go of her arms to try to pin her legs, she reached down and started punching his balls. Eventually she got all four limbs into the act, just wailing on his nuts until the signal reached his brain that it would be better to leave.
Finding him was fairly easy; he was the guy who had walked back to his hotel room wearing only a cowboy hat and briefs. After all he did, we still offered to let him put on pants before being hauled off to jail. His response? "Fuck pants."


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Hello, I am new to these forums and I am hoping that someone might be able to help me or at least reassure me that things will get better. I have been EBF my 4 week old little girl and have been having problems since then.
Our breastfeeding relationship started off a little rocky as she wouldn't initially latch and I was advised to use a nipple shield for the first 36 hours which I now believe to have been bad advice. She then latched on and was getting good amounts of milk once my milk came in and gaining appropriately but I have persistently had pain during nursing, often to the point of tears. My nipple usually comes out of her mouth with a dramatic crease in it, particularly on the right side. The left looks more like a tube of new lipstick and I have large cracks/sores on both nipples, worse on the right.
I have seen several LC's both in the hospital before discharge as well as since then along with being seen by a breastfeeding medicine specialist. We have worked on latch issues and it "looks" OK as far as anyone can tell. She seems to get a decent bite of areola and was getting milk ok and gaining weight appropriately. We have worked to try and adjust the latch anyways just to make sure it's as good as we can get. In spite of all this my nipples are destroyed and got to the point where I pumped exclusively for a few days and gave her milk in a bottle which I hesitated to do but was done on the advice of the breastfeeding medicine doc. She told me to go back to a nipple shield until I was healed and then go back to the breast. I am super hesitant to use the shield and not sure it really feels that much better anyways.
I put her back to the breast today and they have healed a bit so it feels a little better but the nipples are still coming out abnormally shaped. To make matters worse, she seems to be having a more trouble getting milk out than she used to and doesn't always seem to be satisfied. I worry that the bottlefeeding has irreparably hindered breastfeeding.
I am using APNO cream ( for about 36 hours now), and really working on getting a good latch but my nipples are still coming out of her mouth odd shaped. The consensus that I have gotten is that her mouth is just not big enough and she is having difficulty getting a deep latch as well as moving her tongue a bit abnormally and that I just have to give it some time but nobody knows exactly how much. Baby was full-term and was 7lb6oz at delivery and at last check was over 8 pounds ( about a week and a half ago),
My question is whether or not I simply have to endure toe-curling pain for the next several weeks while she nurses until her mouth gets bigger or is there something else I can do. I desperately want to BF and my goal s at leas a year but I can't live in this kind of pain. Add in what I suspect is a mild case of PPD and I am at my wits end. Any help would be appreciated.
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History of Resist-A-Ball®
The stability ball was originally designed for use in the rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders and spinal injuries. Resist-A-Ball® crossed over into the fitness arena and has become a "must have" piece of training equipment for nearly every personal trainer and fitness professional.
Mike and Stephanie Morris rolled out the Resist-A-Ball® program to the fitness industry at the IDEA World Fitness Conference in New Orleans, U.S.A. in 1993.
Just one year prior to the conference, Mike learned about the stability ball while attending a personal training certification course led by Tom Purvis, a physical therapist and former head trainer for the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Mike returned home excited about working with this new exercise ball, but quickly realized that little information was available for stability ball training in the fitness industry. With Mike's expertise in strength training and Stephanie's background in dance exercise and choreography, they introduced the stability balls into their personal training and group exercise workouts. After establishing its popularity and effectiveness with the public, the first educational manual for Resist-A-Ball® training was written. Today Resist-A-Ball® education and training products can be found in many health clubs and homes throughout the world.
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Today's workforce is increasingly mobile and global, and an office extends beyond the four walls of a physical building. With globalization and the growth of the Internet, people have dramatically changed the way they work and the devices they use for communication. Along with the standard office phone and computer, many workers conduct their business on smart phones, tablets, and home computers. In addition, they work in the office, on the road, and at home. The fact is that today's business is conducted over multiple devices and anywhere there is an Internet connection.
Unfortunately, when it comes to video conferencing, the majority of solutions have really limited themselves to proprietary endpoints that limit the availability and use cases. This is especially true for telepresence rooms, which fail to deliver an immersive experience despite the excessively high price tag. Figure 1 shows a very simple example of the imperfect telepresence experience, which is a common scenario that occurs hundreds of times every day.
The above scenario depicts a three way video conference with three participants in one location (P1, P2, P3) and one participant in another location (P4). These four participants are communicating with another telepresence room with three screens. As shown in the figure, when there are four remote cameras and only three screens, a tradeoff needs to be made. In this case the trade off results in P3 not being displayed. P3 can participate by appearing through voice activated switching, and the images of the participants will jump from screen to screen. The typical configuration above probably cost about $1 million when factoring in the network and ongoing maintenance costs. Even after that expense, the experience is not immersive but rather imperfect telepresence.
Vidyo has pioneered a new way to do video conferencing that redefines the telepresence paradigm.
VidyoPanorama is a solution that enables personal telepresence with immersive interactions. The experience is personal because we enable video conferencing over any device including PCs (Win, Mac, Linux), mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android), and other room systems. The experience is immersive with 1080p60 resolution, which is the highest resolution offered in a telepresence solution today. In a visual communication, 70% of all communication is nonverbal*.
At the end of the day, the quality of the interaction is not determined by the furniture or lighting but the immersive quality of the video itself. The video needs to VGA quality or better for the face of each participant with real time voice and video synchronization whether the person is participating from a high end room system or an iPad2. Vidyo delivers on these requirements with the best quality video and makes video conferencing universally available with its Adaptive Video Layering technology, which makes it possible to do video conferencing with a simple Internet connection. And the best part of the Vidyo solution is that we provide all this for about 10% of the cost of the other solutions in the market today.
It is exciting to talk to partners and customers who see the game changing potential of VidyoPanorama. Beyond the traditional telepresence market, VidyoPanorama is being considered for new applications in healthcare and manufacturing that allow communications and collaboration not possible before. Vidyo is delivering a whole new world of applications and industries by delivering a new era of telepresence economics that is sure to permanently change the industry dynamics. Workers will be able to do video conferencing over the devices they want to use, and IT managers will be able to deliver a universal video conferencing solution to every employee in the company.
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Spring Training Begins (For The Blogger)
Ballplayers get at least three months off between end of season and start of spring training. I took three and a half weeks off between blog posts. Am I rested? I don't know. Am I in shape for the 2013 season? Absolutely not!
I vegged out over the past three and a half weeks. I thought about posting some thoughts but I just couldn't pull the trigger. I spent more time playing with my Christmas presents than I did looking into the minutia of Texas Rangers baseball.
Most common statement I've heard from non-Rangers brethren since the off-season began and, more specifically, since Josh Hamilton signed with the Angels: "Bet it's going to be hard to watch the Rangers this year. They're going backwards."
I agree it seems the Rangers have gone backwards going into 2013. Gone are Hamilton, Michael Young, Mike Napoli, Mike Adams, Koji Uehara and Ryan Dempster. Colby Lewis and Neftali Feliz won't be any help until the second half of the season at the earliest. Coming on board? Joakim Soria, who's also disabled until after the All-Star break. Lance Berkman, who was limited by injury to less than 100 at bats in 2012. New bullpen pieces in Jason Frasor and Josh Lindblom. A new catcher in AJ Pierzynski. Not exactly a group that's going to make you forget Hamilton, Young, Napoli, Adams and Uehara, right?
And yet, and yet. I am possibly looking forward to 2013 as much as I looked forward to 2010, when I began this corner of the webiverse chronicling a team that, for the first time in a decade, was possibly going to contend for a title. That team exceeded my expectations and made it to the World Series. And while I harbor no illusions of the 2013 squad being in the Fall Classic, I won't totally discount the possibility either.
I am looking forward to seeing what the infusion of youth does for this team. Whether the names Leonys Martin, Mike Olt and Jurickson Profar will become as well-known to baseball fans as Josh Hamilton and Michael Young were for the past few years. I can't wait to see if Yu Darvish builds on a successful rookie campaign to become a bona fide ace. Whether Derek Holland can put a pedestrian 2012 behind him and progress to be at the very least an above average #3 starter. I want to see if new hitting coach Dave Magadan transforms Texas from a team of sluggers to hitters who work counts and put pressure on the pitcher. Will the Rangers running game improve and will baserunning coach Gary Pettis be able to effectively do his job from the third base coaches box instead of his usual first base box? Will Berkman stay healthy enough to impact the team? Is Nelson Cruz going to rebound from a so-so 2012 both offensively and defensively to be the presence he was in 2010 and 2011? Can the new bullpen pieces quickly coalesce into a unit that consistently delivers a lead to Joe Nathan in the 9th?
Most important of all, how will Ron Washington handle the youth movement? Wash took a lot of flak last year for staying with his veterans, especially Michael Young, while Olt and Profar languished on the bench in September. And if he gets all the young guys to perform at a high level and the Rangers continue to compete for a division title, will he finally get some consideration for Manager of the Year?
OK, so Texas didn't get Zack Greinke. Or Justin Upton. Or Hamilton. Or Napoli. Or James Shields, Josh Johnson, R.A. Dickey, Travis D'Arnaud and J.P. Arencibia, all of whom Jon Daniels kicked the tires on during the off-season. Nor does it appear that Kyle Lohse or Michael Bourn are Arlington bound. Yet I'm excited about the 2013 season.
Pierzynski and Berkman aren't sexy signings, but the two of them have something the rest of the team doesn't have- a World Series champion ring. I bet that counts for something, including what impact their work ethic might have on Olt, Profar and Martin.
For sure, this is a team with flaws. Just 20 days from Spring Training and there's no clue who will be the utility infielder or fifth outfielder. It's anyone's guess who will be in the bullpen besides Nathan and Frasor. The fifth starter for the rotation has yet to be determined and none of the names in contention are likely to strike fear in the average major league line-up.
What gets me excited is this. If Wash can keep this team in contention through the All-Star break, the second half will see Feliz and Soria returning to the pen and Colby Lewis to the starting rotation. That would make for an intriguing stretch run.
Too bad it's still 20 days from pitchers and catchers reporting and 66 days til Opening Day at Houston.
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Personally, as a huge baseball fan and former player, somebody who played with Rudy Jaramillio in college and has followed the Rangers every day since I attended the first game in the old ballpark, I am glad 2 players have left. Young's WAR confirmed him as one of the 2 worst regulars in MLB last year and his time has passed, and Hamilton disgraced himself and the game of baseball by quitting on his team down the stretch. His Primma Donna act was just as sickening as his at bats the last 4 months of the year, where he swung at balls 2 feet outside and in the dirt with such regularity that I sometimes turned the channel when he came up against a lefty, knowing the result in advance anyway. I applaud the Rangers refusal to chase him, as his last 4 months could very well be the start of decline due to age that Bill James has chronicled, usually at age 31-32 for the majority of players. His drug and alcohol use might even speed his decline. If his last 4 months are an indication of what is coming for Hamilton, Vernon Wells will look like an All Star and a bargain when compared to Hamilton, and the Angels will have another $25 million/yr flop on the bench. Pujols and Hamilton will represent about $50 million of wasted money/yr in a couple of years, and Ryan and Daniels wisely passed on the brain-dead Hamilton. Time for the Rangers to reload with Profar and Olt, Leonys Martin, and bring some young pitchers up to see what our farm is producing. If we are in contention at the trade deadline, we can make a move, and if not, so be it. Time to change the culture of accountability that Washington laid off on MY, who had no influence on Hamilton's plate discipline, Kinsler's pathetic ADD base-running, and his own pathetic attempt to pull the ball for power for the first 5 months, which was Washington's fault in the first place by hitting Young 5th, a position he was never suited for. If we falter out of the gate, it is time to dump Washington and get somebody who knows strategy and demands accountability like Showalter. Washington showed no leadership last year, and a change will be good for the Rangers


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Eugène Brands
The Ambassade Hotel's art collection includes various works by Eugène Brands. The following tells you briefly who this artist was and reveals the background to the art you see hanging in the hotel.
Eugène Brands
1913 – 2002
Painter - poet – writer – music collector
"I'm a lyrical abstract and experimental painter."
In 1948, Eugène Brands wrote in his article 'To the Point', in the magazine Reflex, about the Dutch Experimental Group that he had just joined: 'Above all else we are optimists. And it costs us anything but the effort you might expect. We have set up this young group and have far less money and appreciation for our work than we have ideals. And this strikes the right balance.'
More than half a century later, and one year after his death, people who had known Brands well outlined his character and work in a documentary entitled 'The universe of the painter Eugène Brands' (2003) as follows:
Gallery owner Cora de Vries said, 'He was a magician, an individualist. Someone who, in a manner of speaking, portrayed space with wonderful warmth.' Kars Persoon added to this, telling what kind of impression he made on his students, 'We did see him as a man who had a certain magical air about him, an aura, and who exuded friendliness.' Fellow painter and colleague of the Experimentalists, Karel Appel, sketched Brands' works of art as Meditative spaces. Gallery owner John Josten said, 'His paintings were haikus; he created something from a sparse use of lines and brushstrokes with very few trimmings and the like.'
Cora de Vries described the work she saw around her, at that time, in 2003 or thereabouts, 'The things artists create are all self-portraits in effect. They interpret the inner world as imagery and what I see is nothing other than beautiful, highly optimistic images. It's true there's sometimes quite a lot of black in them, but that's the cosmos, an interpretation of the cosmos. So it has nothing to do with pessimism.'
Life history
Eugène Brands was born in Amsterdam in 1913. His parents moved shortly afterwards to the Dutch seaside resort of Zandvoort where he spent the rest of his childhood. He took a course in commercial art and then went on to choose the fine arts.
Inspired by exhibitions on surrealism and abstract art in Amsterdam in 1938, he started making assemblages from objects he found on the beach at Zandvoort. At the same time, he began experimenting with paint and language. During the Second World War he moved back to Amsterdam and, influenced by the surrealists' concept of automatic writing, he started creating cosmic-like pictures using charcoal, ink and gouache. He used dripping, splashing and stippling techniques and discovered new directions to follow.
It was the latter with which he caught the attention of Willem Sandberg in 1945 – the newly appointed director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
In 1946, Sandberg opened doors for Brands by inviting him to show work in the exhibition '10 Young Painters'. He was bowled over, 'To my great surprise I saw that Sandberg had reserved an entire room for me alone … he had laid everything out. There must have been at least sixty pieces. I was taken aback with respect to my colleagues.' The painters Karel Appel, Corneille and Anton Rooskens were deeply impressed by Brands' work and followed in Brands' footsteps by also making assemblages. As it turned out, Appel and Brands happened to live opposite one another on Oudezijdsvoorburgwal. Contact between the two artists intensified even further when they discovered they shared a passion for music.
Even before the war, Brands was a fervent collector of African music, music from Tibet, jazz and of what were known as work songs, music by black prisoners in the US. This music was directly related to his own work. He also made a habit of playing his records at openings or on other special occasions. The primordial nature of this music was eagerly interpreted by his fellow painters and writers.
In 1948, Constant visited him four times to ask him to join the Dutch Experimental Group. According to Brands, Constant said the following about Brands' artistic prowess, 'the non-dogmatic way you work is totally in line with the experiment'. After much hesitation, Brands did not like being one of the pack, he nevertheless agreed. He was 'inaugurated' on 19 August 1948.
From that time on, the Experimentalists also held meetings in Brands' home. Jan Elburg described what Brands' home looked like in the 1940s, 'Compared with the housing where the other artists lived, his home was truly a pinnacle of interior design. He had removed the wallpaper and lath work everywhere from the walls and whitewashed the raw brickwork underneath – not unusual these days, but back then it was nothing less than sensational … When we had a meeting at his house on 17 January, he apparently had had another brainwave. He let slip that, generally speaking, people lived too high up in relation to the floor and he had drastically shortened the legs of every piece of furniture.
At the end of 1948, the Dutch Experimental Group merged into the International Cobra Movement (see Cobra page).
Now that Brands was part of the Experimentalists, he sent letters to Sandberg suggesting that the new Dutch and international artists be given an exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum. Although it took a while before his action bore fruit, it met with success in 1949. Sandberg gave the artists eight rooms.
It became a legendary event that caused quite a commotion. Problems started as early as setting up. Poet Jan Elburg, who also participated, recalled, 'Everybody argued with everybody else whilst setting up the exhibition.' Art collector Martin Visser said, 'Then they were allocated a particular spot. They went and sat there, afraid someone else would hang something in their place. Even Eugène Brands made his wife keep his place if he had to go anywhere. She had to stand on guard.'
The exhibition was opened to the beat of African drums, which had come from one of the many records in Brands' collection. A few days later a special evening of music and poetry had been organised, and Brands likewise took care of the music. The gathering went off the rails and ended up in a riotous punch-up. Brands' valuable record collection was saved with considerable effort and in the nick of time. Afterwards, Brands left the Cobra Movement and the Experimental Group. He was totally at odds with the political wrangling and the whole shambolic goings-on. And he felt let down by the lack of collegiality while setting up the exhibition. Later on he said he was grateful that he had been part of the adventure and had been branded with the Cobra label. Otherwise, so he thought, he might well have been overlooked.
At around the same time that he broke away from the group, Brands developed a completely personal style in his work. Forms arise out of soft hues that flow into branching specks.
His work changed direction yet again in the 1960s. Cloudy, sweeping, soft, edged, rounded figures then became typical elements in his oeuvre. He said that he gave preference to colour above form, because colour almost exclusively appealed to intuition. He also emphasised the following, 'I make nothing, it comes into existence.'
Karel Appel admiringly said about Brands' later work, 'Being nothing in the space, that's a really fantastic idea. To have that in you. It was omnipresent in Eugène Brands. I find that one of the best sides he had.'
Brands called himself a self-taught man on principle, but that did not stop him from teaching at a school for young artists. He not only taught the students to reflect on their work, but also to look at their palette. What, by coincidence, had accumulated there? Sometimes the composition on the palette turned out to be more interesting than what they were busy making.
Brands continued to exhibit throughout his entire life. From 1951, Brands took part, among other things, in exhibitions by groups known as 'Vrij Beelden' (Free Images), 'Creatie' (Creation) and 'Liga Nieuw Beelden' (League of New Images). In the Netherlands, his work can be found in practically all of the big museum collections, in private collections and in collections belonging to businesses, such as the Bijenkorf department store.


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