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The improvements Marlin Meyer made to his Nodaway County hog operation weren't to keep up with what the neighbors were doing. That's because Meyer's 600-sow farm at Ravenwood is the last sizable hog farm in the county. But Meyer saw a way to utilize the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to make his handling of animal waste more efficient.
In September 2007, Meyer installed an underground, high-pressure transfer line to a new, center-pivot irrigation system. Then in June, he built a composter for dead hogs. He received technical and financial assistance from the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which manages EQIP. The voluntary program provided 50 percent cost-share for both the pipeline and the composter, and a $10-per-acre incentive payment for three years for spreading effluent.
Rick Douglas, NRCS district conservationist, says about 4,000 feet of 8-inch, underground pipe carries liquid waste from a lagoon to the center-pivot irrigator. It replaced above-ground pipes that Meyer used to have to move to a traveling gun and a less-efficient center-pivot irrigator.
"It cuts the labor,"Meyer says. "I can turn the pump on and in two days I can do more irrigation than I used to be able to do in a week. And I don't even have to be out there."
Meyer says one rotation of the center-pivot irrigator covers 110 acres. He still uses a traveling gun to reach other areas of his crop fields, but it also can be attached to the underground pipes.
"In addition to reducing the labor associated with having to move the above-ground pipes around, this eliminates the obstacle on the surface,"Douglas says. "The key to installing this was trying to route the pipeline around the conservation practices already there to minimize the impact."
The five-stall composter provides a permanent location for storing dead hogs, which are covered with sawdust. It turns their carcasses into valuable nutrients that can be spread onto fields. From the 7,000 hogs on his farm, Meyer says he puts about 50 animals per week (mostly from the farrowing house) into the composter.
"It has made life nice to have a place for them,"he says.
Together, the irrigation system and composter probably would make Meyer's hog operation the most efficient in the county for handling animal waste; even if it weren't the only one.
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Boehner sticks with demand for concessions
WASHINGTON House Speaker John Boehner stood his ground Sunday alongside the most conservative Republicans in Congress, insisting that the House would not vote to finance and reopen the government or to raise the nations borrowing limit without concessions from President Barack Obama affecting his health care law.
The fact is, this fight was going to come one way or the other, Boehner said on the ABC News program This Week, adding, Were in the fight.
With his hard line, Boehner reaffirmed that the stalemate with the White House over the 6-day-old government shutdown was now compounded by an even more economically risky fight over raising the governments borrowing limit by Oct. 17 to pay for bills already incurred.
Most of the government remains shuttered for a second week, with no end in sight, and markets and businesses were growing increasingly fretful over the chaos that could result from the first government default on its debt.
Both houses of Congress will be back in session this afternoon after making no progress toward breaking the budget deadlock last week. With Boehner and other Republicans expanding their demands from changes in the health care law to broader budget reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, senior administration officials said that the White House would challenge them to propose specific savings they want from Medicare, the popular health care programs for older Americans.
On Sunday, Boehner disputed those lawmakers Democrats as well as some Republicans who have said that a bipartisan majority exists in the House to approve the funds needed to run the government in the new fiscal year that began last Tuesday, if the speaker would defy his most conservative Republican colleagues and allow a vote on the spending measure with no conditions a so-called clean bill.
There are not the votes in the House to pass a clean CR, he said on the ABC program, referring to a continuing resolution to provide money for military and domestic programs.
The speakers assessment that he did not have the votes to pass a clean budget bill was contradicted by members of both parties.
Im positive that a clean CR would pass, said Rep. Peter T. King, R-N.Y.
If it went on the floor tomorrow, I could see anywhere from 50 to 75 Republicans voting for it, he added. And if it were a secret ballot, 150.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, a Democratic leader, was just as blunt in a telephone interview. Nobody believes that, he said of the speakers comment.
Schumer challenged Boehner to put a clean budget bill on the floor and prove that he is right. He called the speakers remarks a step back.
Im hearing from my Republican colleagues that this is a strategy going nowhere thats hurting them and hurting the country, he added, noting that several Republicans have approached him recently asking him to help broker a deal that ends the shutdown. What theyre saying to me is weve got to help Boehner find a way out of this, Schumer said.
Boehner also said the House would not pass an essential increase in the debt limit without concessions from Obama. Republicans have said in recent days that Boehner had privately assured them that he would not allow a breach of the debt limit, though it was unclear how far he would be willing to go to avoid it.
In his television appearance, he said firmly, Were not going to pass a clean debt-limit increase.
I told the president, Theres no way were going to pass one, he added. The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit. And the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us.
Describing the negotiations he wanted with Obama, Boehner seemed to shift from demands that the president agree only to defund or delay his signature health care law a nonnegotiable condition, as Obama sees it to calling once again for deficit reduction talks that would result in savings from Medicare in particular.
Obama has proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in long-term savings in the entitlement programs, including to Social Security, but only if Republicans agree to raise additional revenues by closing tax loopholes for wealthy individuals and some corporations.
Boehner ruled that out. Were not raising taxes, he said.
On the budget impasse, the speaker acknowledged that in July he had gone to the Senate majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and offered to have the House pass a clean funding resolution. His proposal would have set spending levels $70 billion lower than Democrats wanted, but would have no contentious add-ons like changing the health care law.
Democrats accepted, but they say that Boehner then reneged under pressure from tea party conservatives.
I and my members decided the threat of Obamacare was so great, Boehner said, that it was time for us to take a stand. And we took a stand.
For the administration, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, the governments chief financial officer, appeared on four Sunday talk shows to keep the pressure on Republicans to raise the debt limit.
Lew, speaking on the CNN program State of the Union, emphatically reiterated the administrations legal opinion that Obama cannot constitutionally raise the debt ceiling by himself if Congress fails to act.
There is no option that prevents us from being in default if were not paying our bills, Lew said, rejecting the idea that the president could invoke a constitutional power or take some other action. Obama has also ruled that out.
Lew, who wrote Congress on Tuesday to say he had used his last extraordinary measure to manage federal accounts in ways to buy time, reiterated that the government would most likely have about $30 billion available on Oct. 17.
And $30 billion is a lot of money, but when you think about the cash flow of the government of the United States, we have individual days when our negative or positive cash flow is $50 or $60 billion, he said on CNN. So $30 billion is not a responsible amount of cash to run the government on.
Its very dangerous, he added. Its reckless.
Lew dismissed questions about why Obama would not negotiate with House Republicans over the debt limit. The president has said that increasing the borrowing authority is a basic congressional responsibility under the Constitution, and not one for which lawmakers can extract ransom in this case the demand that he defund or delay his health care law.
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|The John Stewart Stone House in the Village of Verona
Where J.P. McPherson lived in the Fall & Early Winter of 1850
Photograph, courtesy of the Maggie McPherson Burmeister Family
Four Stewart brothers came to the area around Verona and Springdale in Dane County, Wisconsin, from Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. The following information, transcribed from Verona Centennial Souvenir: History of Verona by Alice Kunstman, is about the next two brothers, John & James Stewart, who arrived in Dane County about 1844:
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Two more of the Stewart brothers came here from Scotland in 1844. James Stewart located on what is now the George Kahl farm and remains of the early house can still be seen near the spring a little off the road leading to the house where Elmer Palmer, son-in-law of George Kahl, operates the farm. But his brother John Stewart chose the section about two miles west of the "corners" as our village was then called. Today, travelers can see the fine stone house built by this pioneer, on highway 18 where Melvin and Hubby Bollig live. The farm, now owned by Frank Stewart, needs no description. Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart had one son, Thomas A. Stewart, and three daughters, Mary, Christine and Margaret, the latter two married two Lyle Brothers and Thomas (he was known as Stonehouse Tom) married Jessie Rutherford and they are the parents of Frank Stewart.
The James Stewart family were Katie, Maggie, Jack (little Jack) Robert and Willis (twins) and Jesse. There are no living descendants of this branch.
(According to the diary of James P. McPherson, when they first came to the area in 1850, they were welcomed to the John Stewart farm; before moving to their home in Springdale, the McPherson's first lived in John Stewart's log home, then moved into John Stewart's stone house, "next to the new frame store." This store undoubtedly the store mentioned below, from page 11 of the History of Verona.
"Red Store" ConstructedAt about that time a little store was built on the John Stewart farm. It was know as the "Red Store." Mr.s George Nieland recalls that her mother, Mrs. Alex mcFarlane, took eggs to this store in a basket on horseback and received 3c a dozen "for trade."
(John Stewart was also involved in the early organization the the Presbyterian Church in the area, as noted in the following,from page 19 of the History of Verona:)
In the winter ... , January 16, 1847 a meeting was held at the Badger Mills for the purpose of organzing a Presbyterian church and the minutes of that first meeting are recorded as follows:
Badger Mills,January 16, 1847
The Presbytery of the Wisconsin River having appointed a commmittee to visit the people, residents in the neighborhood of the Badger Mills with the view to the organization of a Presbyterian church, should the way be clear for it.
M.A. .Fox, one of the me mbers of the said committee being present at the meeting specially called for the religious service. Satisfactory evidence of the regular standing of the following named persons were given:
Adam Davidson, from seccession from the Church of Scotland; also John McDonald, Janet McDonald, Alexander Crearer and Margaret Crearer.
Elizabeth Robson, from the Presbyterian church of Milwaukee.
James, Edie, Peter Martin, Janet Martin, Patrick Davidson, John Stewart and Catherine Stewart from seccession from the Church of Scotland.
Lydia Matts, Presbyterina Church of St. Peter, Pennslyvania.
James Campbelll, Catjherine Davidson, Amelia Davidson and james Young from the Church of Scotland.
The church procceds to the election of ruling Elders when Peter Martin and John McDonald were chosen and set apart in the usual manner.
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Early day trustees were Adam Davidson, John Rutherford, John Stewart, Samuel Lamont, William Donkle, John Meyers, William Charleston, James Edie, J. Cameron, William Thompson, James Miller, Alexander McFarlane, Walter Rollo Sr, James Muir, and James Clow.
In 1861 the congregation built a fine church and parsonage in Scots lane, on the Mt. Vernon road, just about where the Darrow farm road meets the Mt. Vernon road. Eventually the church was abandoned after the settlers moved nearer to Verona Corners. The church was taken down and built into a barn on the Drives farm and several years later the barn was destroyed by fire.
There were many notations in the diary of James P. McPherson which referred to John Stewart. The last was on February 16, 1858:Funeral of John Stewart. Very cold day. At Taylor's Store.
John Stewart, born February 10, 1810, was only 48 years of age when died on February 13, 1858.
James Stewart and his family were listed in the Dane county Federal Census of 1850, 1860, and 1880. John Stewart was listed in the Dane county Federal Census of 1850. His widow and family appear to be listed in the Verona, Dane county, WI 1860 Federal census, though her name is listed as Carolina rather than Catherine.
The Stewart family were early pioneers in the settling of the area around Sugar River and Verona, and in fact of early Wisconsin. They were also very important to my ancestor James Peter McPherson. Someday, I hope to find how and when this connection started.
The Stewart family were early pioneers in the settling of the area around Sugar River and Verona, and in fact of early Wisconsin. They were also very important to my ancestor James Peter McPherson. Someday, I hope to find how and when this connection started.
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Man charged with dangerous driving
BARRE A Northfield Falls man is accused of driving dangerously with his 2-year-old daughter in the car.
Jesse L. Hodgdon, 39, pleaded not guilty to charges of careless or negligent operation and child cruelty on a child less than 10 years old, both misdemeanors, in Washington County criminal court Thursday. If convicted, he faces a maximum of three years in prison and a $1,500 fine.
According to the police affidavit, witnesses saw Hodgdon tailgate a slow vehicle on Route 12 heading toward Berlin. When the vehicle turned onto Muzzy Road, Hodgdon allegedly got close to the car and laid on the horn, then swerved around him, missing the turning car by only a few inches.
A witness said Hodgdon then passed another slow car near the Econo Lodge and nearly had a head-on collision with another vehicle.
The witnesses called police, who located Hodgdon at the Cumberland Farms in Berlin. Police said they saw Hodgdons daughter in a car seat in the locked vehicle, which was not running although the temperature was around 36 degrees. They also said Hodgdon would not have been able to see the vehicle from inside the store.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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Events » Family & Youth Programs » Young Artists' Workshop
Young Artists' Workshop
Apples, Pears, and Primroses on a Table, 1871-1872
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23-1/2 x 28-3/4 in. (59.7 x 73 cm)
Norton Simon Art Foundation
Artful Baskets
Date: Saturday, July 27, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Speaker: Cameron Taylor-Brown
Type: Young Artists' Workshop
Spend an afternoon in the galleries with artist Cameron Taylor-Brown discovering delicious foods painted by the masters, followed by a basket-making workshop inspired by your discoveries. Then layer yarn, paper and cloth scraps onto a balloon template to create beautiful fiber baskets based on the colors and textures of fruits, vegetables and roots observed in the Norton Simon collections.
Meets in Entrance Gallery | The course is free, and space is limited to 20 participants. All materials are provided. | Online registration is required. For further information, contact the Education Department at (626) 844-6980.


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What readers are saying!
Ack–let's hope I don't jinx anything, but so far, I'm thrilled to say Pick Me Up has gotten none of the Steve Trachsel treatment. By which I mean that reviews have been great!
If you're a guy, I hope you'll take a look and get a gift for any lucky lady in your life. (Or, like the guys who've read the book, you may be surprised to find you love it too.) And if you're a gal? I truly think you'll love this novel as much as I do!
Bestselling author Sophie Kinsella (of the famous Shopaholic series) calls my novel "Clever, witty, and fun!"
From FreshFiction.com:
"PICK ME UP is chick-lit at its finest, and this compliment is from someone who really isn't into "chick-lit." Zoe Rice has created superb and colorful characters, placed them in (mostly) believable situations, and gives them a lot of zippy dialogue to speak. Some scenes are hold- your-sides-laughing funny, and there some very poignant incidents. By and large, though, PICK ME UP is a real "pick-me-up" for summertime — or anytime — reading."
From Trashionista.com:
"I really enjoyed this book. Izzy's a charming, down-to-earth character and the supporting cast – particularly Izzy's gallery colleague, Kimmy (who I hope gets her own book one day) – are great fun too….There are laugh-out-loud moments and an enormously romantic ending. You know what I'm going to say, don't you? Yeah. Pick it up. "
From Romancereaderatheart.com:
"Aptly named, PICK ME UP will do just that for you—it's funny, it's witty, it's just downright uplifting. Full of engaging characters and zippy dialogue, it's one of those books that no matter how many times you may have to start and stop it (office interruptions, you know), and no matter how long in between your reading sessions, you'll remember exactly where you've left off last. The writing and characters are just memorable. Zoë Rice has done a great job with her debut book, and this from a reviewer that's not that fond of chick lit….Bottom line? PICK ME UP is just a fun, feel good book that's perfect no matter where or how you read it, and you don't have to know a Picasso from a Monet to understand it. Simply read it and enjoy the pick me up that PICK ME UP will give you."
And this isn't even counting all the great reader comments I've gotten on MySpace or by email.
So thanks to everyone who's taken the time to write such lovely reviews! And if you've got a loved one, girlfriend, Mom, sister, daughter (15 or over, I'd say), then this is the book for her. Or if that's you? I hope you'll email me too with your thoughts on the novel!
When the Mlblogs guru invited me to blog with MLB.com, he envisioned this space as a place for both updates on my novel and "occasional" blogging on the Mets. Hee. I think I surprised him with my interest in Mets blogging, but it's the novels that pay my bills–and offer great fulfillment from making people laugh, smile, enjoy an escape…whatever you want to call it, trust me. Pick Me Up is just plain fun.
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I truly recommend it. I have to confess this was my first chic-lit book. At first I was a little aprehensive about the genre but I loved it! It is beleivable and funny. Izzy is a character you can relate to. There is nothing wrong with being an intelligent woman who every know and then screws up and endures those awful guilt trips.
And of course Z is a witty funny writer who kept me hooked!! Thanks for the laughs chica!!
By the way I am a fellow aquarian😉
P.S. I will do the review in amazon… I promise!
No question you have exceeded any expectations about what this Mets blog would turn into! Great reviews for the book! Keep it up…no rain here today so let's play some ball tonight.
Thanks tons for the love, Desiree! And I can't *wait* for the ball game!
you cant wait……neither can I glavine give us the win and offense step up for glavine GO METS!
Aww no problem girl. I truly loved it! Now I'm looking into other chic lit authors (that have high expectations to fulfill) 'cause you don't have another book!!! When's the next one coming? LOL
I have a thing that if I start reading someones work, I must read everything in their collection. So hurry up girl!!!🙂
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Crates named Ada's Citizen of the Year at Town and Gown Banquet
Agnes Crates, a longtime village of Ada worker who recently turned 100 years old, was named Ada's Distinguished Citizen of the Year at the 48th annual Town and Gown Banquet at Ohio Northern University on Monday, Nov. 4.
"Agnes may not have a lot of awards or plaques on her walls, but her trophies are the friendships she has made over the years and all the people who have been encouraged by her example and faith," said Trent Boedicker, pastor of Grace Gospel Church, who introduced Crates as the citizen of the year. "For her birthday open house in September, there were well over 300 people in attendance. The VFW was literally filled, and it was tough finding an open chair for those who came late. That was surely a testimony to the impact her life has had on the Ada community.
Crates, who worked for the village of Ada for more than 30 years, worked in the water department and for the police department. Crates is a member of Grace Gospel Church, where she taught children's Sunday school and vacation bible school and hosted the "Good News Clubs" in her home.
In addition to Crates' honor, many new personnel, both at the University and in the Village of Ada were introduced at the banquet. Four new businesses were recognized including The Ada Flea Market, The Family Chiropractic Center, Miss Vicki's Music Studio and Ohio Cart Parts.
The Town and Gown Association was established in 1957 by a group of townspeople and University personnel whose primary interest was to develop and maintain a strong and positive relationship between the village and the University.
In the second year of its existence in 1958, the association decided to sponsor an annual banquet at which time an individual was to be honored as the Distinguished Citizen of the Year. This tradition continues and is considered the high point of the evening's program.


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Hayes Named UMF's Interim Coach
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FARMINGTON, Maine -- University of Maine at
Farmington alum Jon Hayes '97 has been named the UMF interim men's
lacrosse and men's soccer coach for the spring of 2011.
"We are very pleased to be able to bring Jon on board to provide leadership and continuity for our programs," said UMF Director of Athletics, Fitness and Recreation Julie Davis. "Jon brings us a wealth of collegiate sport experience and he knows us well. He'll provide the enthusiasm and structure needed for the men's lacrosse season which is upon us as well as a point of contact and direction for the men's soccer program during their off-season. In short, I am confident he will serve to bridge the gap for both teams and we are fortunate to have him work with us in this capacity."
Currently an assistant coach for the Thomas College men's basketball program, Hayes will serve as interim coach for both programs this spring. Simultaneously, a national search for a men's lacrosse and men's soccer head coach will be conducted. He brings more than a decade of coaching experience in intercollegiate athletics.
"I am excited to help out the UMF athletics program and the student-athletes through this transition," said Hayes.
Hayes recently returned to Maine after a stint in Washington as the assistant coach of the Whitworth University men's basketball team. He has also previously served as men's basketball head coach and event management coordinator at the University of New England and as a men's basketball assistant coach at the University of Maine, Colorado School of Mines, UMF and Hamilton College.
A Farmington native, Hayes played lacrosse at Mt. Blue High School and Bates College before transferring to UMF. He graduated from UMF in 1997 with a bachelor of arts degree in history.
A national search for a men's soccer and men's lacrosse head coach is under way.
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Just thought I'd invite some stories regarding hosting companies.
I know that sometimes its just unlucky and I dont want it to be a hole digging exercise, but its also good to know these things to learn from them.
Afrihost (shared hosting)
It was dreadful having your site down so often, many support emails came through to me, much more than I cared to have and was a huge waste of my time.
Moral: If your server is struggling they can move you to another box. dont be afraid to ask
Gridhost (shared hosting)
They decided to take down a server one of my clients systems were on. They did not warn us.
They upgraded the php, mysql. They changed IP addresses. They left the old server on, running scheduled tasks on old data, that we could not see or do anything about.
Their reply was "oh yeah, the old one is still running. Should we switch it off?". (we never knew there was an old or a new one)
The result of their no warning, was actually rather grave.
Moral: Dont expect others to treat your systems as you do. They might just not care about downtime in the same way. At some point you need to own the whole thing, rather than have it in the hands of others.
We all expect things to go wrong every so often and I can take many things in my stride, but the lack of apology and lack of care from gridhost was really evident and frustrating.
After 22 domains, and managing various customer domains around the world, I have noticed s.a hosting to be down most often. I have two serious questions
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It seems to me that a culture of customer service is absent from those companies that you cite.
I work for a isp and I can tell you we do. We also inform our users directly when services will be going down and use social media channels as well. We will never send notices 3am in the morning.
Tech skills - Nope, or not at least where I work. We very much on par with our technical skills and our staff under go regular training.
I have not dealt personally with many hosting companies, but as with any other service, one company will provide you with superior service and the other not.
I guess I got unlucky then. :(
Kurt, if you are so proud of where you work, why dont you share with everyone or is it because you work for Web Africa?
Any recommendations ?
I use Hostgator, they are fantastic! I was with Arvixe for a month - the worst hosting company ever and even worse customer service. (worse than telkom) I moved over to Hostgator and have been with them for just under 3 months now.
Hostgator are very helpful and quick to respond to issues and you can contact them 24/7- try getting that kind of service in SA.
Hi Jonathan
I can understand your frustration as up time should be the most important factor next to performance when choosing a hosting provider. Unplanned downtime does happen and it's difficult to avoid as the issues could be power or routing related but you should be notified as the outage occurs with regular updates so you are kept update on the status and may notify your clients accordingly.
At Clickworks we take our uptime seriously as should all hosting providers, please let us know if we can help you with your hosting requirements in the future.
I use Afrihost www.afrihost.com, best quality service you can get and they are the winner for best ISP of the year 2011.
Email email@example.com and I can send you a referral link to get 50% off first month's bill, that is how cool they are. I have 23 domains with them, there support is good and I can even register domains via my phone and my phone is a Samsung Star. Otherwise when you get a reply email from the CEO Gian, then you know you in good hands. I will not change hosting companies even if you paid me. All the best, hope you come right, keep us updated!
"Afrihost (shared hosting)
It was dreadful having your site down so often, many support emails came through to me, much more than I cared to have and was a huge waste of my time.
Moral: If your server is struggling they can move you to another box. dont be afraid to ask"
Didn't read this, if you have troubles with shared hosting why not get a dedicated server?
Seems like you running a lot of traffic on your site, you might need an upgrade, I do think having your own server is cool.
Well Im with Hertnzer and havent had any issues the falks are helpful when I need help. I think its the pricing that gets me shooting off the roof!!
Hetzner currently has an ip range clash with some other ISP's. 2 of my clients websites were being forwarded to other domains. :(
Afrihost - we were moving our .co.za domain away from them and they denied the transferral about 5 times. The support robot on the other side of the phone told us to speak to our current hosting company. Riiighto.
Hetzner - never have I seen a Drupal site load so slowly. They would not increase our memory limit beyond 50mb either. SSH is about the only positive side.
Amplehosting.co.za - for the price, pretty good, but have outgrown them.
Now have a VPS with vpscloud.co.za (very new) - no problems so far. :-)


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Seven score and a sawbuck ago, our president brought forth on this continent the Gettysburg Address, conceived in tragedy and dedicated to the proposition that men shall not have died in vain for the cause of the American republic.
We did this. All of us.
Although "leaders" is more of a formal term than anything else.
Tuesday, November 19 marked the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, when Abraham Lincoln reminded Americans that a way of life worth fighting and dying for must also be worth living for. But what have you done with that mandate, America? You've been given the greatest opportunity in history, but you fill your days with reality TV, racism, and -- worse than those two put together -- autotune.
Yet we as a nation harbor greater sins than LMFAO. Here are the modern behaviors everyone is guilty of, regardless of party, persuasion, or parish.
4Staying Misinformed
Yellow journalism is nothing new, but historically people only got subjected to it for an hour or two each day. With just a few major broadcasters, there was no need to pretend a day contained 24 hours' worth of news. Americans received a fairly accurate account of the world, or at least had an excuse for their inaccurate one.
But now newspapers are dying, the Internet only serves up information relevant to its secret profile of you, and Ouija boards still haven't made contact with Walter Cronkite. Sad, no? This has led to shoddy gimmicks like reporting "live" from the police station where they took the suspect five hours after the crime occurred, or its anchor counterpart, "breaking news" on a story that's already wrapped.
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And the weird thing is the mugging happened in Sheboygan.
Sure, you can still access real journalism if you subscribe to The New York Times, but understanding its relevance to you is expensive, since first you have to move to western Connecticut. For the rest of the country, it's hard to feign interest in a Lifestyle profile on what five bankers are having for lunch followed by an Arts bio of the world's last living six-toed ballerina. Turning the page, you read a Dining review that's mostly an apology for enjoying plebeian food. And every single one of those articles jams in an ill-fitting reference to Marcel Proust and his madeleines.
Come on, New York Times, I just wanted to know which parts of the world were exploding, and instead I'm reading the most awkward hip-hop profile piece ever, and I still can't tell what it has to do with Young Preezy's "M.A.D.E. Linez."
So TV news it is, even though TV is trying to stay competitive by becoming the worst parts of humanity, much as radio did before it.
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And then, since it's the Internet, someone pedantic would correct it as "Two Minutes Hate," plural.
The 24-hour cable news networks are, in order of ratings:
FOX News -- If FOX News were a person, it would be a teenager with an adult haircut whose dad bought him a DeLorean driving backward through time and complaining the entire trip. The only thing worse than FOX News is FOX News on fast-forward, because then you absorb three times as many lies before you can avert your eyes. The reason they're a TV network and not a tailor shop is that you can't sustain the new clothes trade with so few emperors these days. According to their business model, when owner Rupert Murdoch gets to hell, he'll buy it out and spend billions convincing the residents to pretend it's heaven.
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Here they report on Elizabeth Warren's tuition reform efforts.
MSNBC -- FOX might be a gaggle of dickheads, but MSNBC is the strap-on your girlfriend whips out during sex with no prior discussion. MSNBC is FOX News for the kind of liberals who only exist in conservative fantasies and liberal nightmares. You have to watch it 40 feet from the kitchen or all your gluten, meat, and dairy turn to arsenic, soy, and smug satisfaction. So long as three TVs in a building are simultaneously tuned to this channel, everyone inside is a spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street.
Or at least that's the untested theory, because nobody really watches this circle jerk. The only MSNBC personality who pulls decent ratings is Rachel Maddow, because she's the only one who isn't a cartoon. There's Chris Matthews, of course, but he's less a personality and more of a haystack someone trained to do verbal pratfalls.
If you want to see the real face of MSNBC, look at Ed Schultz, host of the electrifyingly titled The Ed Show. In the body of public discourse, Schultz is the goiter. He's sort of like Bill O'Reilly minus an audience that wants to hear a lump of bread dough grumble. The Ed Show is targeted at what I can only assume are very irate little men wearing socks and Tevas in Napa Valley. Nobody, not even Ed Schultz, knows what the purpose of his program is. He's the only man in the world whose mirror reflection changes the channel.
CNN -- Deserted by the right, then the left, the weary news network has tried to stay hip with holograms and touchscreens. If CNN still showed news, you'd get it without a political agenda, but the network loses half an IQ point every time they treat Justin Bieber's Instagram feed like news.
"Here's the magic wall bringing you 1951's most cutting-edge telestrator technology, annnnd we're all idiots now."
HLN -- This is CNN for mothers who like to angrily cluck their tongues and mutter something unintelligible about "those people."
Al Jazeera America -- Stands on a reputation for solid reporting, but still a good five years away from convincing Americans that watching it won't red-flag your NSA profile.
One America News Network -- I have no idea what this is, but it sounds like the mouthpiece of a totalitarian future state.
The Fix:
As you can see, it's hard to form a real idea of what's going on. You have to seek reputable news sources and be willing to mistrust the things you most want to believe ... so that you can confirm or correct their validity by testing them.
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The only way you know how.
If you don't, you're left with whatever brand of panic the news networks want to sell us, and that leads to ...
3Stereotyping and Demonizing the Opposition
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Pictured: everyone who disagrees with you slightly.
Have you ever hung out with people who hold different opinions from yours? Enjoy that adventure, because in the future, your media exposure will become even more tailored to your tastes. And it will cost you the ability to see opponents as people, not platitudes. The only thing either side in any of the modern American debates agrees on is that the other guys are Nazis.
And if they're not Nazis, God forbid you criticize them for their actual flaws. For example, here is Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey and forceful personality, who -- whatever other criticisms you may level at him -- puts the fucking work in. He does the job he was elected to do, but he's known for his brash mouth. Can you guess what jokes get made about him?
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If lazy jokes were fat cells, you'd have enough about Governor Chris Christie to build your own Governor Chris Christie.
But forget public figures. Their whole shtick is to make you hate the other guys more than you hate them. Let's look closer to home. Who here has a relative that will make next week's turkey dinner tense?
Nobody? Seriously? No one else here is Irish Catholic?
Well, some of us have a cousin who won't stop preaching about the evils of the meat industry during the carving. Others suffer through a great-uncle's theory of how the Lizard-People helped Obama fake bin Laden's death. At my house, the family puts up with my Bull Moose Party rhetoric (platform: "Everyone is bastards") and my plan to replace most legislation with a computer that eats statistics and craps sensible government.
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Quick tip: If your Twitter bio includes your politics, you are this person in your family.
But these people aren't monsters. These are your relatives. You probably love them. You may even like them. Because they're yours. But it's more than just the bloodline, right? You know them well enough to know that whatever crazy stuff they believe, they're good people. Except for Great-Aunt Murgatroyd. She's only here for the whiskey, cruelty, and Jesus, and she's all out of Jesus.
The Fix:
I know this is hard to believe online, but almost nobody you'll ever meet is working toward the destruction of America. Your life probably isn't exciting enough to meet any real-life terrorists or Bond villains. All you can do is avoid the people who, on an actual, personal level, create harm and havoc. Just because some people believe we should close all the banks and go back to the barter system doesn't mean they aren't human beings full of laughter and tears and some kinks that would shock you but, hey, no judgments.
Go join a basketball team with somebody you like even though you disagree on stuff. Or start a band. Or do anything other than sit around fantasizing about how the XYZs are destroying this country.
But This Is the Hard Part:
Now we are engaged in an embarrassing civil war, testing whether this nation, or any nation, can long endure its self-obsessed whining and sniping. We are met on a great battlefield of that war, the Internet, to lay a final resting place for such behavior.
Remember that people out there -- even the ones you disagree with on the nerve level, and yes, even a lot of raging bigots -- have Thanksgiving with somebody who loves them in spite of themselves. Or because of it. People are a screwed-up species.
Try to see that human part and treat them as a person, not a faceless member of a group. If you don't know where to start, try stroking their hair, making suggestive jokes, and inviting them back to your hotel for a quickie.
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OK, that's too intimate: a quickie, but no eye contact and no kissing.
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Fair points WR. Maybe disappointed is a little bit strong with regards to my feelings about the squad - maybe puzzled would be more appropriate. When Glenn was presented as the new coach and gave his vision for the coming season, SL contacts already offering him good players and all that, I came away feeling happy as larry and excited that we had a new coach who would surely want to stamp his mark on the team. It seems though, that he has taken on board eleven of the players who were to variable degrees, part of the last three miserable seasons - and that baffles me, I mean surely not all of our shortcomings were down to WJ . Sure I would have kept some of them but not that many. The young kids who have signed will hopefully turn out to be diamonds, and Aizue and Gallagher might turn back the clock, so I'm not suggesting the squad is a disaster, but I would have liked one or two more proven championship players - even if we can't afford "wow".
GOR - No i'm not trying to say that at all. As you know, all the 'WOW' players are in short supply and will always migrate to the clubs who
battle with each other in the financial stakes. As MS has said, the Rams will not and are not able to do this and the club will work within a Budget
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Posted 18 October 2012 - 06:48 PM
If Cummins is going to influence who GM wishes to take on loan it IS a problem. We don't need any more hookers, however good they are. If players are given the impression that they could lose their place whenever Cummins fancies trying out one of his rookies in the championship it is hardly conducive to team spirit. Now if GM lets it be known in the press that we're still short of a few quality backs, and we are thinking of taking Crookes or Platt off them (doubt they'll figure much for the bulls), that would be different.
"IF" - didn't someone once write a poem about that?
I could give you chapter and verse on my fears if.........................................but I'm prepared to see how this all pans out. I am confident that we won't have any players foist upon us and that GM will be his own man, unless someone knows different.
Like me GOR you have had far too many seasons of disappointment to avoid the first instinct being a flinch.
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#191 - 03/15/00 03:06 PM -gry
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Okay, we've mostly all gotten that email that's passing around. I've seen it several times over the years. So what is the third word that ends with GRY? *grrrr*
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#192 - 03/15/00 04:08 PM Re: -gry
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The E-mail you refer to has misstated an old riddle, and in the process the entire point/trick was lost. The correct wording would be: "Angry and hungry both end in -gry. What's the third word in the English language?" Answer: language.
(I think I learned this, in fact, from A.W.A.D. itself, bless its heart.)
#193 - 03/16/00 12:12 AM Re: -gry
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the 3rd word besides angry and hungry is in fact 'gry' that is, it both starts and ends with the same three letters. It means the dirt that collects under fingernails.
#194 - 03/17/00 01:16 PM Re: -gry
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Hmm. I was told at one point some years ago that the answer was 'agry', which was supposedly a small smooth stone. I think it came from the OED.
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This is a cut and paste from the OED.
gry , sb. Obs.
a. L. gry (in Plautus Most. i. iii. 67 where recent edd. have gru), a. Gr. gru occurring in
the phrase oude gru, and explained by the lexicographers as meaning (1) the grunt of a pig, (2) the
dirt under the nail; hence the veriest trifle.
The smallest unit in Locke's proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a
line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a ('philosophical') foot.
Also means "to roar".
#196 - 03/19/00 11:30 PM Re: -gry
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There are actually several words that end in -gry. The best discussion of this mis-stated riddle and the other words that end in -gry is at the Internet Public Library:
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#123920 - 02/26/04 10:45 AM Re: genuine
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Don't they tend to use Greek roots in the medical terminology? -ectomy is ultimately from the Greek.
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Glossalgia or glossodynia avoid mixing Latin and Greek.
So I'm biting my tongue again.
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Dear Bill-- Not a problem. I was just wondering out loud if there was a procedure called a glossectomy? And after googling, I see there is. Didn't US Grant have one? Or did he just die of tongue cancer? In re your other two words: is there a difference between glossalgia and glossodynia?
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Dear jheem: I don't remember seeing either of those words
before I found them a few minutes ago. I see no likely difference. Never heard of Pres.Grant's problem. Oral cancers from snuff are not rare, but I'll bet they hit the cheeks or gums first. Good thing lies don't cause cancer. Or maybe fear of it would encourage veracity.
Trying to think of a fancy word for Pinocchio's problem.
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Trying to think of a fancy word for Pinocchio's problem.
How about rhinauxesis? Rhinogigantasm?
#123925 - 02/26/04 11:48 AM Re: genuine
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Dear jheem: better than I could do. But to be mischievous,
I challenge you to incorporate idea that it is a punishment.
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Yes, Bill, I thought what is it about Pinocchio's nose. Sure it grows, but it's also as a punishment for his lying. Greek has trouble with this sort of compounding, but Sanskrit would be perfect for it, sometimes combining a whole bunch of words together into a 4 or n word compound. Let me think about it and get back to you.
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The Greeks were reputed masters of the art of wilful misrepresentation to achieve goals. Odysseus was much
admired for his skill at deception. If Greeks had a
Pinocchio, he would have been rewarded by enlargement
of the phallus, not punished by protrusion of the proboscis.
In thinking about infant on father's knee, it occurred to me
that the Roman diaper service was so inadequate that to take
an alimentary canal with a loud noise at one end and no
reponsibility at the other onto the paternal knee would have
not been at all appealing.
#123928 - 02/26/04 01:32 PM Re: genuine
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Ya don' spose the nose was a whaddaya callit? like Aphrodite spranging from Zeus's brow?
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Dear Faldage: Old Zeus must have been c...headed. Twice?
After a time Zeus developed the mother of all headaches. He howled so loudly it could be heard throughout the earth. The other gods came to see what the problem was. Hermes realized what needed to be done and directed Hephaestus to take a wedge and split open Zeus's skull. Out of the skull sprang Athena, full grown and in a full set of armour. Due to her manor of birth she has dominion over all things of the intellect.
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The blame gameApril 07,2014
Americans live in a culture of blame. It is much easier to point the finger at someone
else than take responsibility for our own shortcomings. Sometimes, when no one else is around to blame, we resort to the next available target. The other day I was rushing to get to an appointment on time. I knew it couldnt be my own fault that I was running late. As it turned out my dog was to blame for my speeding down the interstate. He has been eating too much.
About a week ago, a perfectly delightful afternoon was shattered by a friend who hinted that my pet might be gaining a bit of weight. Her exact words were, Yogi sure is getting fat. This struck me as a very personal, insensitive comment, and to say I took
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Needless to say I totally denied any weight gain on the part of my beloved canine. It just appears he is heavier because his groomer tried a new fur style on him, I said, grasping at straws. But truth be told, I did start to notice indications that my friend might be right. Little things, like the floor would creak as Yogi walked down the hallway, and when he stepped on my foot recently he bruised three of my toes. And then there was the incident the other day when I went to take him for a ride to the store. Yogi jumped onto the front passenger seat and the seatbelt indicator began to beep. The dog had finally tipped the scales to the point where the car recognized the animal as heavy enough to be a human, and determined that this particular human had not buckled up. Yeah, the dog was starting to become gravitationally challenged.
The next day I had a doctors appointment. I have a healthy respect for those in the medical profession since they have the ability to poke, prod and cause general discomfort at the drop of a pill. I left the house with a half hour to spare in order to arrive several minutes early for check-in. As I was driving down the interstate I looked at the car clock and saw it was already time for my appointment. Somehow I had lost a half hour and was going to be late!
I had visions of the good doctor exacting his revenge for my tardiness with an impromptu prostate exam. This fueled my desire to make up for lost time, and I actually started to drive fast. Fast is a relative term, though not a term any of my relatives would use to describe my driving. While admittedly an extremely slow driver, desperate times called for desperate measures. I hit the gas and began to careen down the interstate at a blinding 58 miles per hour. Things got so out of hand that I actually changed lanes once and passed another vehicle. Granted, the driver was pulled over on the side of the road talking on his cellphone. But I blew right by him.
When I arrived at the doctors office, I hurried in ready to throw myself at the mercy of the receptionist with an elaborate tale involving a train derailment, carjackers, kidnapping, and an escaped circus elephant. You are right on time, she said handing me a pre-registration form to fill out. A glance at the clock revealed I was 10 minutes early for my appointment.
I was sweating profusely from a combination of hurrying and worrying about being late, and I was on time. It occurred to me that I had been driving like a lunatic for no reason at all. Clearly this wasnt my fault. And it wasnt the doctors fault because the appointment had been set weeks earlier.
It wasnt until I returned to the car that I realized what had happened. When the dog was setting off the seat belt buzzer the other day I was hitting every button I could find in the car to deactivate the passenger air bag, and had inadvertently advanced the time on the clock by 20 minutes. That damn dog with the weight problem was the cause of my rushing and reckless driving.
Yup, it was all Yogis fault. Well placed blame can have a calming effect on your soul, and suddenly I felt better.
And as for looking like a goober in my profile picture? That was the photographers fault.
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The Commencement speaker was Dr. Donna Christensen, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Virgin Islands.
An Honor's Convocation and Hooding ceremony was held on the 16th.
J. David Moss, DMD was the guest speaker. Moss serves as the President-Elect of the South Carolina Dental association. A reception was held after the event on the 1st floor of the James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine Clinical Sciences building. Thirty-six awards were presented for achievement in various areas of dentistry.
Now that the students have graduated, they are off to start their careers as new dentists.
Thirty will be going into residency programs, including eight into General Practice Residency (GPR), five into Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD), three into Orthodontics, three into Pediatric Dentistry, two into Periodontics, one into Prosthodontics and one into Oral Surgery. Of those, seven will be starting military service when they begin their residency.
Twenty new graduates will start their careers in private practice. The rest of the new dentists will go into Public Health, National Health Service Corps, and internship/fellowship programs.
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A generator can keep things running until the power comes back on. Consumer Reports just tested more than a dozen.
That's today's On Your Side.
More and more people like Vincent Pici are convinced it's worth buying a power generator. Vincent Pici "Once you lose power the first time for any period of time, you don't need any reasons to get a generator, you're going to get one." But which one? Consumer Reports just tested 14 power generators, ranging in price from around 700 dollars to more than three thousand. Some are portable, while others are stationary. Consumer Reports tests by hooking them up to small appliances, a water pump, and lights. Testers found that with portable generators, run time depends on the type of fuel they use. Dave Trezza Consumer Reports "We found that most gasoline models were about the same, running anywhere from eight to ten hours, depending on your power demands. However, when we looked at propane models, they went through a tank of propane in about four to six hours." So whichever you choose, be aware you'll need plenty of fuel on hand. And you'll need a transfer switch to safely hook up the generator. It can run up to 900 dollars. Stationary generator Propane tank Stationary generator startingStationary generators are more convenient. They run on natural gas or a large tank of propane and start automatically in a power outage.
Dave Trezza, "If you want to power your whole house, a large stationary generator would be better, cause it'll power things like your stove, your dryer, your central A/C system, stuff like that." BANNER: Generac CorePower 5837 Among stationary generators, Consumer Reports named the Generac CorePower 5837 a Best Buy. It costs 18-hundred dollars, plus installation. BANNER: Generac GP 5500 For far less, Consumer Reports recommends a portable Generac, model GP 5500. It will keep your basic necessities going for 670 dollars.
If you use a portable generator, Consumer Reports has this important caution: More than 100 people a year die from the carbon monoxide produced by portable generators and similar equipment. To be safe, never run a generator inside a garage or shed.
Always run it as far as possible from your house, ideally at least 10 to 15 feet, and away from any windows or doors.
I'm Martha Koloski and that's today's On Your Side.
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The current controversy over water issues facing this community should tell us we need the very best and most qualified people elected to City Council. The cries of concern and consternation that a "committee" was not formed to develop solutions for the water issues might remind us "if Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock," words of Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. Others argue of not "sufficient community" input. Evidently, three town hall meetings were apparently not sufficient.
The fact is, City Council is charged with the ultimate responsibility for governing this city. Therefore it is incumbent upon us, the electorate, to vote for the very best and most qualified people to handle issues that will only continue to become more complex as Beeville grows. In the past, too many have simply voted for their friends, relatives, etc. – a voting formula that leads to disaster and complaints about City Council competency. With the exception of Libby Spires, a person who is eminently qualified, I personally don't know any of the other candidates. I do know that, besides Libby, the only candidate I saw at the recent water issue town hall meetings was Randy Forbes, which I found very telling. Ultimately, though, it is the decision of your readers, and they should be encouraged to ignore the phone calls and e-mails encouraging voting for certain candidates and instead think for themselves, study the candidates and vote for the most qualified person.
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Closing arguments are completed in the trial of the father accused of starving and torturing his 16-year-old daughter.
The trial against 41-year-old Chad Chritton was wrapping up Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court. He faces five felony child abuse charges and one misdemeanor charge.
The jury started deliberations Thursday afternoon.
The girl testified that her father kept her locked in the basement, and that she endured years of physical abuse and was denied food.
The girl, who in court records is referred to as "SLC", weighed less than 70 pounds when she ran away 13 months ago.
The defense said the girl had adequate food and clothing available, but chose not to dress appropriately or eat well.
During closing arguments, Assistant Dane County District Attorney Matthew Moeser said Chritton didn't try to get help for the girl, and recounted the timeline of events in the case and the witnesses the jury heard from over the past two weeks.
"Starvation ends in death, and that's where SLC was heading," Moeser said. "The defendant endangered SLC's safety by engaging in criminal misconduct to deprive her of food."
Moeser said the abuse was punishment for a threat Chritton's daughter made years ago.
"When does confining a child in the basement stop being reasonable discipline? When does it simply become another form of abusing that child or causing that child mental harm?" Moeser asked the jury.
In closing, Moeser recalled the victim's testimony about the mold-covered mattress she slept on as she was locked in a basement for years.
Chritton's attorney, William Hayes, cast doubt on SLC's testimony and said her stories about how she was treated changed numerous times.
He said Chritton repeatedly asked authorities for help with SLC, and that Chritton was doing what he could to help his daughter, who has diagnosed mental health issues. There was no credible evidence that SLC was ever locked in the family's basement, according to Hayes.
"It's her mental illness, her mental problems, and that's why she's doing what she's doing," Hayes said.
Hayes told the jury that it can only begin considering a guilty verdict if it believes everything SLC said.
Hayes argued that SLC was a problem child that Chritton couldn't control.
"As (Chritton) sits here today, he's innocent. The law says he's innocent and it doesn't change until you folks say something else," Hayes said.


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it makes no sense since obito and zetsu should have had possession ...also 2nd hokage because i thought he was killed by kinkaku's unit pretty far from base
wasn't t kabuto who got it?
Originally Posted by khallil123
wasn't t kabuto who got it?
No, Orochimaru and Kabuto had been experimenting on Madara's body for years. That's how they uncovered the secrets of what was written on the Uchiha stone tablet and discovered that an Uchiha could awaken the Rinnegan with senju dna. How they got their hands on his body, however, is a mystery.
Well actually Kabuto managed to take it.....we still don't know how. I would imagine he was buried in a special location by Obito/Zetsu, and Kabuto managed to figure it out. Thst or between the time he revealed the final coffin and actually bringing out Edo Madara Kishi decided to have Madara know Obito...my bet is on the first one though lol
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Orochimaru and kabuto both worked for akastkui.I am also certain this is where oro got the idea to take the sharingan.
He used his knowledge from his time with akatskui and his own experiments and realized obito was not madara.
If kabuto could find where obito's hide out was its safe to say he also knew where he kept madara.He is a MASTER IN ESPIONAGE in case any forgot
tobi was not even part of akatsuki officially so your arguments invalid...tobi is the one who got kisame in akatsuki and even he didnt know who he was later....
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The world lost a unique and amazing person. "Special" falls short in describing Rusty. She passed peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family.
She was born in Beeville, Texas, to Paul and Edith Krause. She grew up on the family farm and, as they say, you can take the girl out of Texas, but a Texan she remained.
Rusty attended Texas University for Women where she earned her BA in Advertising Design. While working for a newspaper in New Mexico, she fell head over heels for Orrie Olsen. They enjoyed nearly 50 years of marriage. Orrie's career with Kaiser Aluminum took them all over the country before they settled in Walnut Creek in 1964.
Rusty is preceded in death by Orrie and her brothers, Paul and Alfred Sidney. She is survived by her son, Paul (Linda); daughter, Lisa; grandsons, Ryan and Patrick Stokes; and step-grandchildren, Ginger Joy, Heather Galloway and Angie Snapp; and many dear other family members.
Rusty painted beautifully throughout her life. She was an active member of the Gardens at Heather Farm, avid bridge player, gardener extraordinaire and amazing cook. She was a devoted mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin and friend. Ever feisty and ready for fun, Rusty was always game for adventure. Loved by the birds and animals she nurtured, the flowers she grew, the friends and family she adored, Rusty will stay in our hearts forever.
Services to be held at:
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March 21, 2013
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We have a word for old houses and buildings that have been sitting empty, in the darkness, for decades: "haunted." For whatever reason, there's just something creepy about places that sit abandoned for years after their owners have died. So while all of these accidental time capsules are cool, we sure as hell wouldn't want to spend the night in any of them.
5A Parisian Apartment, Locked Away for 70 Years
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Did any of you have parents who left your bedroom untouched after you moved out? When you went back to visit a year or two later, did you feel like you were stepping into a time machine, with all of your old magazines and shit laying around? OK, now imagine how the family of a deceased Frenchwoman felt seeing an apartment of hers that had been left untouched for 70 years:
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The guys from American Pickers just got massive boners.
How is that even possible? We're talking about an apartment in Paris. Did nobody ever drop by or, you know, break in? How could this apartment wind up frozen in time like this?
Well, imagine it's 1940 and the Nazis are coming. Not "There's a menacing wartime chill in the air and everyone wonders what Hitler's up to," but "Oh shit, the Nazis are coming, like, right now!" If you're like one Ms. de Florian, you're getting the hell out of there. She packed her necessities, locked the door of her Paris flat, headed for the South of France, and never came back.
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"Crap, I think I left the key in the- you know what, fuck it. Forgot about that whole Nazi thing."
Now, here's where things got interesting. Most of us would have eventually rented a U-Haul to come back for our stuff, even if our stuff was crappy. A handful of people might have given up on the apartment altogether. Not de Florian. She just kept paying the rent on her locked apartment ... for seven damn decades. While she was going to the Cannes Film Festival or sunbathing in the nude or doing whatever it is that people do in the South of France, de Florian's Paris apartment turned into a monument to dust and indifference. It wasn't until she died at age 91 and her heirs tried to sort out her finances that anyone remembered that the apartment was even there.
The manager of the estate found that everything was exactly as de Florian had left it, and this wasn't some run-of-the-mill Parisian studio apartment, either. De Florian was a wealthy collector, but a weird one, as evidenced by her Mickey Mouse toy and stuffed ostrich.
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Yeah, we said "weird," but not one of us here at Cracked would turn that baby down if it were offered to us.
Among the dusty books and rodent memorabilia were tons of framed paintings, including this portrait of a buxom lady barely keeping her pink nightgown on:
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"Titty Titwoman" by Boobs McJugflopper.
It wasn't just the near-nip-slip that got one appraiser's attention. This painting looked like it was made by a famous Italian portrait artist named Giovanni Boldini, except no one had ever seen this painting before, so they couldn't be sure he made it. Further snooping revealed a love note from the (married) artist. It turns out the subject of the painting was Marthe de Florian, the grandmother of the apartment's tenant. And Marthe was hot stuff -- she counted French prime minister Georges Clemenceau among her admirers.
So imagine learning that your grandmother left you a 70-year-old museum of an apartment and that your great-great grandmother was scandalously horny. You probably wouldn't mind, since the painting of your great-grandma would later sell for 2.1 million euros.
4A Boarded-Up Mom-and-Pop Store, With Merchandise Still on the Shelves
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Before you could buy your sodas and 5-Hour Energy bottles from the grocery store or gas station, people got that sort of thing from the general store or, as they were called in Britain, the corner shop. Corner shops provided everything from medicine to candy to cuts of meat, all sold as Britishly as possible.
In 2008, an English developer was renovating a boarded-up building when he made the discovery of a lifetime. An entire store had been abandoned 40 years before -- and everything was exactly where the previous owner had left it. It looked like the candy shop from the beginning of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, minus the candy and happy children.
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And not nearly as much blood and screaming.
Among the treasures discovered by the developer were dulcet cream, kidney pills, and a 1971 magazine with the misleading title of Titbits.
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Companion magazine to Asschunks.
Research revealed that the shop had been run by a series of couples from 1890 until it closed in the 1970s, but the weird part is that whoever ran it didn't seem to restock the shelves for the decades the store was open.
There were medicine bottles from the 1930s, a magazine describing Princess Elizabeth's 1938 tour of Australia, lozenge tins, and dated records. Just whatever the owners felt like shoving on the shelves, apparently. Researchers even found an invoice from 1927. But locals must not have minded, because they fondly remember coming over for ice cream and cigarettes. Hopefully they weren't eating 30-year-old ice cream.
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The U.S. Navy is preparing for $4.6 billion in cuts as Congress fails to pass a spending bill. Those cuts will affect Hawaii to the tune of $110 million.
"We're basically operating the Navy in fiscal year 2013 with fiscal year 2012 dollars. That's just not going to be enough," said Rear Admiral John Kirby.
Kirby explained the cuts the Navy is preparing to roll out if Congress fails to pass a spending bill soon.
The cuts will slow the rate of spending from the Navy's operating account -- money used to run, maintain and train the Navy.
"It would affect ship maintenance aboard the USS Chafee, one of our guided missile destroyers out there, to the tune of $35 million. That's what that saves us," said Kirby. "We would also have to cancel some aircraft maintenance on dozens of aircraft."
The Navy will also reduce or cancel repairs and maintenance of buildings, including runways and piers. It already has a civilian hiring freeze.
The fear, though, is in postponing the maintenance.
"If they are, in fact, cancelled at the end of the year, there's gonna be a bill to pay later on next year because the maintenance that wasn't done on the Chafee. That maintenance wasn't done on those aircraft means that they aren't ready to deply perhaps when they were scheduled," said Kirby.
The hope is, by deciding where these cuts come from, that Congress will come up with a bill to restore funding.
"They are very prudent. They're belt tightening," said Kirby. "They're meant to be reversible so that should we get a spending bill in the spring, we could recoup some of that and still continue to do some of that work. But, right now we've gotta ax."
Another $4 billion in cuts, called sequestration, will go into effect beginning March if Congress doesn't reach a debt deal.
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Find Your Passion: Lights, Camera, Russell
By Sarah Caroline Willcox
In the 8th grade, Russell Stephens had an epiphany that would change his life. It came after the final curtain call in a local production of "Rag Time," when he realized he was destined for the spotlight. The lights, applause and thrill of the stage continue inspiring Stephens, a sophomore at The University of Alabama and self-proclaimed "theater geek."
When he was just 3, Stephens' mom took him to see his first play at Fantasy Playhouse Children's Theater in Huntsville. He participated in his first production at age 10 and continued to act through middle and high school. Stephens says he has seen 30 Broadway plays so far.
"I can't call a favorite, but I've seen 'Cats' and 'Wicked' four times each," he says. "If it's not the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning, you need to find something else to do."
Passionate about theater for most of his life, Stephens decided on a theater major with a built-in minor in music and dance his freshman year at UA. Halfway through his first semester, he discovered something else about his love for show business—his ability to arrange music.
"I started [arranging music] last fall when I wasn't happy about some piano songs I was doing in voice. So, I used music editing software to change them myself," Stephens says. "Basically, I adjusted the songs to my taste."
He began his second arrangement while recovering from wisdom teeth extraction during Christmas break. With post-surgery time on his hands, Stephens developed the idea to adapt his own version of a play in addition to arranging the music—he chose renowned musical, "A Little Night Music."
"It's a very complicated musical in every aspect," Stephens says. "I wanted to make it more approachable for a modern audience—to take some of the colloquialisms that were specific to that time and modernize them."
"Night Music," with music and lyrics written by composer Stephen Sondheim, is well-known for its song, "Send in the Clowns." It was this song from the play that Stephens focused on adapting. By January of 2009, Stephens had rewritten a cello piece for "Clowns" and was able to perform it for his peers in the theater department.
Although Stephens never implemented his final script changes to the play, the preliminary stages of adapting a musical were valuable experiences for him, he says. Dissecting the show and studying the transition of a classic script to a modern audience is something he says he will use in upcoming projects.
Seth Panitch, assistant professor in the theater department, says it is impressive that a student would already be attempting such a project so early in his career. Panitch has worked with Stephens through his time so far at UA.
"Stephens is a very mature student in the department. Very daring with his acting work," Panitch says. "To work on challenges now helps not only with his work today, but he has already established projects that he can revisit later in his career."
Currently, Stephens has adapted a new project to utilize his creative energy. A sort of "senior project" he will work on throughout his next two and a half years at UA, Stephens will prepare a condensed version of the chamber musical "ADD1NG MACH1NE."
Joshua Schmidt, composer of "ADD1NG MACH1NE," has given Stephens legal permission to produce his own version of a scene to perform at UA. His version will include a seven-person cast and three-piece orchestra.
"The actor who is able to construct their own vehicle is the actor who is going to be seen and eventually hired due to that higher visibility," Panitch says.
And Stephens is gaining that higher visibility every day.
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Sarah Caroline Willcox is a senior at The University of Alabama, majoring in public relations, with a minor in English. She is from Birmingham.
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The Assistant Secretary oversees the Department's planning, evaluation, policy development, and budget activities, coordinating these with the relevant Principal Offices and outside organizations such as the Congress and the Office of Management and Budget.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary is responsible for the policy management process that reaches across primary offices to ensure policy is aligned, integrated, implemented and communicated with one voice. Activities include coordinating policy development with research, studies, data collection, grants, budgeting, and communication (internal and external). The Assistant Secretary is also responsible for managing the Policy Committee, which is led by the Secretary and supported by OPEPD staff. Additionally, a staff member in the immediate office serves as the Legislative Services Officer to the Division of Legislative Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel.
The Policy Committee is a key element of the policy management process. It provides a forum for rigorous, data driven decision-making and allows key Department executives direct, early involvement in setting policy priorities. The Committee is comprised of the Secretary, Chief of Staff, Deputy Secretary, Under Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Congressional Affairs, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, and the General Counsel. Other Department executives may be involved in meetings, depending on the matter before the Committee. The Committee meets weekly in short, focused meetings to make decisions on specific policy recommendations. It also meets quarterly to review the Department's policy agenda and set priorities.
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- Analyzing policy proposals from program Principal Officers. Identifying issues, preparing options, and making recommendations about priorities.
- Implementing the Secretary's decisions by ensuring policies are widely disseminated to internal and external shareholders. Monitoring and analyzing program operations to ensure policies are implemented consistent with management objectives, strategies and initiatives.
- Directing the development, and assisting in the defense before Congress, of legislative proposals in cooperation with OGC, OLCA, and other staff and program Principal Officers.
- Advising and counseling the Secretary about the consequences of actions and events within and outside the Department and provides information and analyses that enable the Secretary to anticipate and avoid potential problems and conflicts.
- Maintains continuing liaison with internal and external educational organizations. Representing the Secretary and the Department in explaining and defending policies and program priorities to Department officials, OMB, the Congress, and the public.
- Directing the development and analyzing legislative proposals developed outside the Department by identifying issues; preparing options, evaluation findings and recommendations; assuring consistency with previous policies; and projecting possible effects; and developing priorities and program directions based on current management focus.
- Directing the review and analyses of short‑ and long‑term plans for program evaluations, management objectives, and statistical surveys; identifying evaluations and studies that are necessary for effective budget, policy, and legislative development.
- Acting as a policy clearinghouse for the Secretary, Under Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Secretary by serving as a focal point for policy development and integrating the many disparate forces and processes that affect Department policies and programs.