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- Baling hay an economical alternative for freeze-damaged wheat
- Reduce risk
- Producers would need to determine how much forage they have in the field.
- Wheat hay can be worth quite a bit.
- Demand should be strong with continuing drought
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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts say farmers who are finding significant freeze damage to their wheat fields might consider haying the crop.
Baling or ensiling freeze-damaged wheat to take advantage of drought-induced higher forage prices might be the best option for some producers, said Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
Producers would need to determine how much forage they have in the field, said Dr. Larry Redmon, AgriLife Extension state forage specialist in College Station, and compare the economics of harvesting for grain to harvesting for hay.
"When it turns dry, people get desperate, and that hay can be worth quite a bit," Redmon said."Back in 2011 during the drought, the last round-bales of hay into Abilene were priced at $180 a bale. If the bales weighed 1,000 pounds, that's $360 a ton. I would use current market prices to start figuring the crop's potential as hay."
Dr. Calvin Trostle, AgriLife Extension agronomist in Lubbock, said there is no substitute for assessing a field to see how much damage is there and knowing what potential it has.
"Yes, for many fields we know now or will soon know that they may not be worth carrying to grain," Trostle said. "And how much grain is 'worth it' if we have to keep irrigating: 15 or 20 or 25 or 30 bushels per acre?"
A producer will have to determine how much forage tonnage he can expect to get from the damaged wheat crop, and there's no simple method to do that, the experts said.
"I don't have a simple means to gauge the approximate tonnage of a wheat field or other small-grain forage field," Trostle said. "You eye it and estimate, though it is an educated estimate."
Redmon said if it was a pasture, forage would be estimated by taking a 12-inch quadrant and cut, dry and weigh the forage in that quadrant to extrapolate pounds per acre. But with a drilled crop, generally grown on 7- to 8-inch rows, that measurement has to be tweaked a little.
"Estimating forage for crops planted in rows requires adjustments for row spacing to arrive at a reasonable estimate," he said.
Then the producer has to compare the tonnage of hay possible from an acre to the possible wheat grain yield. Grazing freeze-damaged wheat, which is most likely a bearded variety, at this point is not a likely option, except for wheat in the northern Panhandle. The emergence of bearded heads greatly reduces the usability of the forage as feed due to the awns.
"How much hay could we get off an acre – maybe a ton, which might be worth $125 up to $180 a ton, depending on how the rest of the year goes," Redmon said. "Versus, if they harvest 10 bushels of wheat, they would get $7 per bushel – so the hay harvest looks good."
Some of the questions to be considered, Trostle said, are: What are hay prices? Who pays for haying? What are silage prices? If silage price includes a percent crude protein criterion, will the price be discounted heavily if percent crude protein is not met?
Also, Trostle notes a hidden "cost" of forage production – one that wheat grain growers may not have factored in their consideration – is the amount of nutrients moved off the field in the forage. Depending on the wheat growth stage, it could cost $30 to $50 to replace the nitrogen and other nutrients leaving the field in a ton of dry wheat hay.
"Right now haying yield-damaged wheat appears to be the best option," said Dr. Steve Amosson, AgriLife Extension economist in Amarillo. "The drought has resulted in very good prices for wheat hay. Currently, these prices are running from $145 to $175 per ton.
"New crop wheat offers are about $7.15 per bushel, which is historically a good price, but by the time you adjust for harvest expenses for both hay and grain options, it appears that you will have to harvest approximately 20 bushels of wheat to get the equivalent net returns from harvesting a ton of wheat hay," Amosson said.


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In Germany today, President Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visited the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
In Germany today, President Obama held meetings and a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel also visited Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where they were joined by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz, a survivor of the camp.
The President said: "I've known about this place since I was a boy, hearing stories about my great uncle, who was a very young man serving in World War II. He was part of the 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp. They liberated Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps.
And I told this story, he returned from his service in a state of shock saying little and isolating himself for months on end from family and friends, alone with the painful memories that would not leave his head. And as we see -- as we saw some of the images here, it's understandable that someone who witnessed what had taken place here would be in a state of shock.
My great uncle's commander, General Eisenhower, understood this impulse to silence. He had seen the piles of bodies and starving survivors and deplorable conditions that the American soldiers found when they arrived, and he knew that those who witnessed these things might be too stunned to speak about them or be able -- be unable to find the words to describe them; that they might be rendered mute in the way my great uncle had. And he knew that what had happened here was so unthinkable that after the bodies had been taken away, that perhaps no one would believe it.
And that's why he ordered American troops and Germans from the nearby town to tour the camp. He invited congressmen and journalists to bear witness and ordered photographs and films to be made. And he insisted on viewing every corner of these camps so that -- and I quote -- he could 'be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever in the future there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda.'
We are here today because we know this work is not yet finished. To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened -- a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful. This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts; a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history."
Read the President's full speech or more on the White House Blog.
Karen in Oregon writes:
What happened at Buchenwald was horrendous. It left a rift in the fabric of the planet. When you feel that "sucking out the soul" feeling, you have lost part of you soul to that place, and it must be healed before you can move forward to get your life. A rift leaves a sense of helplessness and hopelessness in people following traumatic events.
People believe genocides only occur in concentration camps, or in Africa with machetes, but that is not so. Genocides occur every day, and on every level of society. The process is the same. Family genocides are what originally unempower us.
Genocides come from a power game, where one person puts another on a pedestal, and it creates a sense of judgment. The person envies his or her hero, and judges everyone else as being less that that person. By judging others, it allows the person the justification to put them down. Eventually the so-called victims walk away.
A genocide has the element of Illusion to it. In the final stages, the perpetrator is so tormented by what he or she has done, he believes he is the victim and it spins the cycles tighter.
The games continue until an innocent person is crucified (torn apart). A genocide continues to draw in people until someone says, "stop." Then you must address the steps of conflict resolution, coming up with a plan that enables everyone to get their life on a higher level.
Stacy in Massachusetts writes:
President Obama's visit to Buchenwald was an important way to not only honor those who were victims [and survivors] of the Holocaust, but to send a message to the world that these dark, traumatic historical events will be remembered, acknowledged and used in our public diplomacy to remind the world (and continue to remind us in this country) that we all have a responsibility to prevent such horrors in the present and future. Secretary Clinton's strong, public acknowledgment of the 20th Anniv. of the Tiananmen Square massacre, is also an example of this.
And of course, action must follow words -- the U.S. must keep pressing Sudan (and countries who help enable the govt there) to stop the genocide in Darfur and we must continue to publicly and privately press China and others to recognize the full human rights of their citizens.
Edite in Canada writes:
It is hoped that President Obama was equally as cognizent as a child about Siberia and the bones of individuals that lie in shallow, unmarked graves in the Gulag. Their crime? Opposing Communism. When President Obama makes his virgin trip to Russia, one would hope that he could make a slight detour on his trip and lay flowers on any gravesite in Siberia. Any grave will do. Millions of souls lost their lives in slave labour in that barren, icy , cold wasteland. My father's godparents lay there too, somewhere, in that God-forsaken Gulag. One hundred million lives lost to Communism in the 20th century. Perhaps, they, too, deserve recognition and comemoration. Children in school should be taught about that Holocaust as well. Revisionist Soviets tend to overlook this detail in their history books.They claim these people were liberated.
Patricia S. in New York writes:
It seemed, to this poster, that German Chancellor Merkel was annoyed at what President Obama was saying during their joint news conference. The Chancellor's annoyance was also on display during their visit to Buchenwald, when she looked over at the President, and rolled her eyes in response to what he was saying. Wonder how their meetings fared.
Zharkov in USA writes:
One expects that German officials are as embarrassed to be reminded of Nazi wartime prison camps, as our federal government should be embarrassed about its wartime concentration camps for Asian citizens or the slaughter of Native Americans by the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars.
At some point in history, it is necessary to let go of old wars and the injustices that they represent.
For example, our federal government no longer remembers the horrible, filthy, genocidal conditions of its Andersonville Prison where nearly all Confederate P.O.W.'s died of starvation and disease after being forced to eat their own shoes and drink their urine. We can thank President Lincoln for that but don't tell anyone - it's still a secret.
More recently, certain former government officials in Washington and New York have already forgotten about Abu Ghraib, and no doubt would not attend a remembrance ceremony even if invited by the Iraq Government.
Germany has remembered about the holocaust for almost 70 years and paid reparations repeatedly, so it should be time to forget it and move on.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
There's a few forced labor gulags in North Korea where folks are routinely beaten, starved, and worked to death if anyone feels like shutting these "Buchenwald"s down.
As bad or worse than anything Stalin came up with in his day, and modeled upon them.
If the Russians of today need any incentive to help...
Edite in Canada writes:
It is horrifying that North Korea has continued to detain, convict and sentence unjustly, two young American journalists to twelve years in a slave labour camp. President Obama of course, will appeal to a better sense and nature of themselves so that the North Koreans will release these ladies who are both married, one having a four year old young daughter. Good luck, Mr. President. It is highly unlikely that his touchy- feely, make friends with our terrorist enemies approach will result in the desired result. Just what is it that makes people feel that they can trust communists, any communists to do the humane thing, like just release these ladies and send them home to their urgently waiting families? President Obama is taking the Christian belief of turning the other cheek just a bit too far, in fact, too far-fetched. There is a very fine line between giving a friend or relative or colleague, a pass, the benefit of the doubt or second chances. We are not required as Christians to subject ourselves to inhumane and terrorists' actions of those who would blow us off the face of the earth. What about this does President Obama not understand? Diplomats already know that these young ladies will not be released as a humanitarian gesture but rather North Korea will demand a quid pro quo that America should not be extending under these circumstances, although, probably not a viable option, Special Ops would be best equipped to deal with North Koreas nutbars.
John in Greece writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico -- ("Russian help"?) Help: vi.1 to give assistance; be cooperative, useful or beneficial.
I think this term is unidiomatic (CHUCKLE!)
You can't teach an old "term" new tricks. So, your "old school of thinking" still works perfectly as always: only U.S.A. can help! We should not expect any other help.
Great point Bro!
Ron in New York writes:
Buchenwald....the last stop on the train to complacency.
Obama is challenging the world on the "Wake-Up Tour".
Every current Human Rights disaster, has roots in the
Fascist idea. Now is the moment for awareness to action.
Obama is accelerating and compressing the process
because we do not have much time to make corrections.
Jun in South Korea writes:
The Nampo about the connection one North Korea Gaeseong Industrial Complex our thought will be what about new access method?
Will affect in the open and independent economy which North Korea is progressive will be what, China one export economic structure could be formed with week aim? If will become, who there will be will be able to propel the work to peel and about is a point of view where the investigation becomes necessary.
if, can,,?????????????????????????????
i wanna make some organization. for peace and unity.
(sorry, just dream......... have not ability, money, people and so on)
Jun in South Korea writes:
Dear to Sec..
tv said to me, Secreatry Hillary Clintion want(?)
under detention two tv reproter set exile from N-Korea.
i prays to my god, it`s be come true.
just...... and///
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Russians are pretty logical folk, and I could imagine a situation where the Russian president would be explaining a new Russian foreign policy towards North Korea to the Duma and his people, to justify the change in historical terms so any Russian with heart and ears to hear would understand, and if he would, they'll compare him to President Obama as a man with vision, and he'd become as popular I think:
"It is time for we as the Russian people, this great melting pot of cultures no member of which being a stranger to our history, to take stock in ourselves and who we are on the world stage as a nation.
We are percieved by some as a bear cub in international affairs who naturally is prone to getting his paw stuck in a jar full of honey, and by others as a dangerous grizzly to be feared and wary of at all times.
History may befuddle the eye of the beholder, but we are no stranger to pogrom and genocide, we laid waste to facism and tore down stautues of tyrants that lead us.
Why then do people doubt our ability to determine our future as correct for us?
Because we have yet to determine that for ourselves.
Thus, to lead is to sometimes point out the obvious and so it would be criminally negligent for any nation with our history to further the continuation of a regime that voids its right to lead its own citizens; by denying them the soverign rights to life and life well lived in peace, prosperity, and security."
John in Greece writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico -- "tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" - Fleetwood Mac
You cannot either trust or expect something from the Russians.
I can't understand why you guys support this illusion. Nothing has changed in the Russian diplomatic school, strategy and policy. They will never change! Churchill was right: They will never be our friends.
Let's face the truth and proceed toward a resolution after 17 years: Nothing actually changed! Russians still create problems in Georgia, Ukraine, Poland and tens of other places. The only thing that changed is the Russian oil-shop window.
The Russian president can say whatever he wants. In fact, even me, myself and I can make better and more touchy speeches than him. However, the question is: After 17 years of "prime time advertising" that Russia changed -- Have they?
You know better than me, that especially in politics and diplomacy, what you say is one thing, what you mean is another one and certainly what you intend to do: a great secret. If we get asleep in our chairs expecting that Russia changed and Medvedev or whoever their real president is (too complicated) will present a new political face, I apologize for being cruel, but WE LOST THE GAME!
President's Obama Administration has already done the right moves. Once again, they opened a corridor for further collaboration. But can you trust these guys (Russians)? Dr. Rice also attempted to open a corridor for a new era, but after some months, Putin changed his "mind" and he's still there. What's the difference between him and Kim? They both want to stay in "power" -- no matter the "rules". So, how can you expect help from them?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Well John, I have a pretty fair track record of anticipating miracles over some time now, without ever expecting my thoughts on the matter to have any effect what so ever. Yet they mysteriously seem to on a semi-regular basis.
( If you like I'll pull some interesting old posts from the archives and we can do a comparitive study between those thoughts and what was said later and then transpired on the ground.)
"Miracle" being defined as something good that has no reasonable probabiity or chance of occuring, not as a function of an omnipresence stepping into human affairs in god-like fashion.
However, I would suggest to you that I just gave the Russian president the method to prove your expectations of his nation wrong, if he choses to plagerize me at his earliest convieniance...with permission of course...(chuckle).
Change...we are slaves to it. No one is immune to it. It happens on a regular basis, but occasionally we have the power through a single thought to nudge it in a more benificial direction for mankind.
I certainly can't create miracles all by myself, so I'm not shy about suggesting folks with a lot more resources and ability than I to pitch in by word and deed.
Thoughts require follow-through like a good golf swing.
And occasionally I'll suggest an utterance that might just make too much sense for world leaders to ignore, and therein lies the beauty of Dipnote.
You really never know who reads these things.
Scuse me if I try for a hole-in-one with a sand wedge on a par 5 hole without teeing up.
I'm anticipating that ball will be assisted by the stiff wind of change at my back to carry the idea over the hazzards of the course we're all on as nations and peoples.
John in Greece writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico -- The problem is that, you are right! As always! I don't disagree with you concerning the Russian help. I just worry.
In fact, if you allow me to share with you my prediction, the Russians will probably offer some "help" in the area. However, they will not do it by following the term "help" as described below. After their "help", they will attempt to take advantage of the situation in a political, geo and MILITARY commercial way.
I can understand your humanitarian approach and perspective. And this makes this "nuclear chess" game even tougher than it seems to be, especially if we think of the people starving due to Kim's paranoia.
On the other hand, I just worry about the future political components and reactions of a probable "Russian help". This is what I am trying to say!
Thank you very much for your replies. It's always wonderful to read your posts. So, "less sitting, more writing" (CHUCKLE)!
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Now that a resolution on North Korea has been tabled in the UN Sec. Council, and the draft has gone back to capitals for approval prior to Friday's vote, the stage is now set for the circumstance I envisioned.
In any case, we'll see what the future brings.
I would say that Russia has been very helpful in this from all indications, and attitudes expressed.
National interests will always play a role, just as it does with U.S. foreign policy, this is not to say we have the same national interests, but they often coverge on the interational stage and in private.
I think our bilateral relations are strenthened by a handshake and one's word well kept, far more than all the agreements ever entered into and enforced.
Trust just flat takes time to earn, and is easy to lose, as is patience on occasion when trust is broken.
The internal dynamics of the Russian Federation are such that the time may be just right for such a speech to be given, calling upon the Russian people to help provide the direction the nation will take with the rest of the world.
Far be it for us to deny them the opportunity to do the right thing for themselves and others by casting suspicion and doubt now on their intent over the long term.
We'll just have to cross that divide when we get to it, if we do..
The choice is theirs to make.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ John in Greece, This isn't exactly what I had in mind, but will this do for a start?
Quote of the Day: http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/
"What do we need nuclear arms for? ... Was it us that invented and ever used it?"
--Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying his nation would relinquish its nuclear arsenal if other nations did the same.
"If those who made the atomic bomb and used it are ready to abandon it, along with -- I hope -- other nuclear powers that officially or unofficially possess it, we will of course welcome and facilitate this process in every possible way," Putin said (Agence France-Presse/Spacewar.com, June 10).
While I can certainly give Prime Minister Putin a guided tour of the Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos, NM and show him exactly who designed and built it, and a few associated patents on metalurgy and reactor design my granddad has under his name as a result...
Had we not produced it before the Nazi did, the entire world would have become one large "Buchenwald".
I must note my immense regret on behalf of all of humanity, that Joeseph Stalin never bothered to ask himself this question after WW2 was over.
The world would be a completely different place to live in today, and probably qite a bit saner all in all...no 'lil Kims on the nuclear warpath...at the very least.
(Here's the answer he's looking for, so I'll deliver it as if face to face, personally):
Well, we haven't blown ourselves slap off the map yet after all these years Mr. Prime Minister, so I guess it's not too late to ask the question, and I thank you for it on behalf of my late granddad.
So what do we do with all this hardware that has been deemed "not in the public interest" to keep?
To address a threat as deadly to the planet as nuclear war, pointed outward in orbit and equipped with the warheads that we no longer point at each other, some rudimentary defense against asteroid impact is possible.
With shared expense, a shared defense, for all nations.
It's not a question of "if", but "when" we'll need it by.
Let's not learn this lesson the hard way.

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Police say Busharis and Comstock conspired with Brandon Boyle, another CSC student athlete, who worked at the store. A felony charge of retail theft is still pending against Boyle, who has pleaded not guilty to the offense.
Police said that by using computer transaction records and surveillance footage from the store, they identified several occasions in which Busharis, Comstock and the other student athletes approached the counter where Boyle was working with a large amount of merchandise. Boyle would scan each item into the stores computer system, then void out all but one inexpensive item, police said.
Managers at Dicks became suspicious of Boyle, police said, after they noticed a pattern of voided transactions on his part totaling thousands of dollars. The store tracked credit card numbers to link customers to those transactions, according to court records.
When police arrested Busharis in the parking lot after being called by the store Sept. 10, according to affidavits, he had about $300 worth of merchandise, but his receipt showed him paying only $3.20 for a single bottle of 5-hour Energy drink.
Three other students charged in the theft ring, Eric N. Cross, Dominic S. Heller and Zachary J. Howe, all pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them.
The status of their cases is unknown. Their cases are no longer on file at Rutland criminal court. However, that doesnt mean they were dismissed. Cases referred to court diversion are confidential, according to court clerk Laurie Canty, until participants either complete the process or flunk out and return to face their criminal charges.
The Rutland Herald could not confirm whether Cross, Heller and Howe are participating in the diversion process.
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December 20, 2012 - December 27, 2012
Louis A. Foschino
Louis A. Foschino, longtime resident of the Town of Bethel, passed away on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, after an illness. He was 92.
A memorial service will be held in the spring.
Carl J. Henderson
Carl J. Henderson of Sparrowbush, NY passed away Sunday, December 16, 2012 at Andes, NY. He was 58.
Funeral services were held Friday, December 21 at the Knight-Auchmoody Funeral Home, with Rev. Nancy Vonderhorst officiating. Interment took place at Pine Hill Cemetery, Sparrowbush, NY.
Memorial contributions can be made to a charity of donor's choice.
Matthew Joseph McCauley
Matthew Joseph McCauley, Matt, of Kauneonga Lake, NY, a blessing brought into this world on June 23, 1989, was tragically taken on December 16, 2012. He was 23.
There was a church service held on Friday, December 21, 2012 at the Rock Hill Church of the Nazarene, 210 Katrina Falls Road in Rock Hill, followed by the interment at Evergreen Cemetery in Bethel.
Memorial donation information can be found on Facebook.com through the Funds For Our Friend event. The family is greatly appreciative of all the support and love through this time, and especially to Christopher Evans and the DiCostanzo family.
Alan M. McKaig, MD
Alan M. McKaig, MD of Binghamton, NY, passed away peacefully Sunday, December 9, 2012. He was 92.
A memorial service was held Thursday, December 13 at the First Presbyterian Church of Endicott, 29 Grant Ave., Endicott, NY.
Burial will be in Chenango Valley Cemetery at the convenience of the family.
Those wishing, kindly consider memorial contributions to the American Cancer Assn., 13 Beech Street, Johnson City, NY 13790, or the American Heart Assn., 59 Court Street, Binghamton, NY 13901.
Anna J. Theadore
Anna J. Theadore, a lifelong resident of Callicoon, NY, died on Friday, December 21, 2012 at Elant Goshen. She was 91.
Visitation will be on Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 12 p.m. at Stewart Murphy Funeral Home in Callicoon with a service by Pastor David Collins of the Callicoon Methodist Church at 1 p.m. Interment will be at Hortonville Cemetery.
Donations can be made to the Callicoon Methodist Church, P.O. Box 235, Callicoon, NY 12723; or Hortonville Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 15, Hortonville, NY 12745; or to Elant at Goshen, 46 Harriman Drive, Goshen, NY 10924.


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Journal Junction for February 27
Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor,"?which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.
From Martinsburg:
The Administration in Washington has gone on a liars club campaign about the sequestation potential results. The small pittance of monies not available will not affect government programs substantially. In reality, the spending reductions are necessary to save this nation from world wide default which is inevitable in the near future from current spending.
From Pikeside:
The only way to get gas prices down is to fill up your car, go to work, then go home. Don't go on vacation. The hotel owners will then complain. Don't go to the big box stores. The retailers will then complain. Don't even go into a convenience store and buy anything. They'll complain. When Congress hears the retailers and hotel owners complain, that's when they'll do something about the gas prices.
From Berkeley County:
Complaint about NASCAR: No sport is carbon-neutral. How much fuel is used to fly pro and college teams all over the country every week? Not to mention that baseball and football have been awash in PEDs, performance-enhancing drugs, and the suicide and the dementia rate in the NFL from head injuries. I'll take a race anytime.
From Charles Town:
To the Charles Town caller: Why don't you just give up your campaign of hatred against the house on George St.? This person has every right to collect vintage and antique automobiles. He is breaking no law, therefore, there is nothing the city can do about it. Also, it is none of your business. Why don't you get a life? Or better yet, to quote a Journal Junction putinanny, "If you don't like it, move!"
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From West Virginia:
I have four words for the do-nothing Congressmen and Senators: No budget, no pay. Why do we the people allow these millionaires to continue to receive their paycheck when they're not doing their job? They don't have a problem hurting the middle class and making workers take paycuts and layoffs. Perfect example that our elected politicians don't care about the 99 percent.
From Harpers Ferry:
When is Martinsburg going to take down its Christmas decorations and the snowmen? They are pretty, but it's time to take them down.
From Hedgesville:
I was at the new DMV to renew my license and had to wait for one and a half hours. They have 14 customer service windows, they had only four open. There were three employes talking to each other about what they were going to do on the weekend. What happened to the drive-thru window? That place is such a waste of our tax dollars.
From Harpers Ferry:
If we are in the middle of a sequestration, why are Obama and Michelle always traveling, and what purpose was there for her being at the Oscars? Another wasted trip for the taxpayers. They never seem to give any thought to the economy or stay in D.C. and fix the problems that we are having. Oops, I forgot, he always blames someone else.
From Martinsburg:
W. Va. Gov. Tomblin now wants to add 4- and 5-year-olds to the clientele of the W.V. Collectivized Baby-Sitting Service (public schools). Already 70 to 80 percent of local real estate taxes go to government schools. When are they going to take 2- and 3-year-olds? We don't need or want cradle-to-grave collectivism! Enough is enough!
From Charles Town:
De-icing roads for rain is a waste of our tax dollars, and as far as the "rat trap" on George Street…if it was you or I, we would be fined. It just depends on "who" you are. It's disgusting.
From Martinsburg:
The "church without walls" group needs no government permit to gather on the square and read from the Bible. Nor does the city council have the authority to vote to approve a sectarian religious service. The city erred and should formally rescind its action.
From Gerrardstown:
Why is the White House making so much noise over the sequester? Is a 2.3 percent budget adjustment expected to crash the economy? All American workers recently went through a nearly identical two percent increase in their social security taxes. The White House didn't make a peep over that, and there was no news of the sky falling over the increased tax.
From Inwood:
Just so we are all clear: The so-called "cuts" Mr. Obama is fear-mongering us with are nothing more than a reduction in projected spending. The turnip is dry, folks!
From Huntfield:
I believe the recent decision of our mayor and city council to allow a member of the Ku Klux Klan to speak at a recent meeting was ill-advised and insensitive, to say the least. Having a police department with no officers of color is bad enough. Allowing this individual to express his support for this is even worse!
From Shepherdstown:
I would like to thank Jefferson County Board of Education for wanting to bring the staff from Grafton here to Jefferson County. I will support it all the way. Thank you, Ms. Susie Wall!


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More Than 2,800 Students Earn Prairie State Achievement Awards in All 5 Topics
More than 2,800 Illinois high school juniors earned Prairie State Achievement Awards in all five subjects on a statewide test students took for the first time in April 2001.
The Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) measures the performance of grade 11 students in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social science. A total of 2,843 students earned Prairie State Achievement Awards for scoring in the Exceeds Standards in all five topics.
Of the more than 113,000 students who took the test, 27,573 - just under one-fourth - earned a Prairie State Achievement Award in at least one topic.
Students earned the greatest number of awards - 17,225 - in social science. Reading was next with 13,151 awards, followed by science (12,867 awards), writing (10,621) and mathematics (10,185).
The data show that at the highest level of performance, there are still achievement gaps that divide the test results of students with different backgrounds. For example, more than 28 percent of students not eligible for free or reduced-price lunches earned at least one award; fewer than 6 percent of eligible students reached the same mark. Similar gaps exist in the performance of various ethnic groups.
The results also indicated gaps between the highest achievement of male and female students. Males earned a higher percentage of awards in mathematics (11.1 percent to 7.1 percent), science (14.7 percent to 8.4 percent) and social science (20.2 percent to 10.3 percent); females earned the higher percentage in reading (12.2 percent to 11.3 percent) and writing (10.9 percent to 8.1 percent).
Students took the test for the first time in April 2001. Grade 11 students will take the test this spring on April 24-25.
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Regardless of the fact that Zimmerman was trolling for a neighborhood-watch adventure so he could live-round "target practice" and he found it in the person of Trayvon, why does the corporate news media keep commonly advertising this tragedy with a picture of Trayvon when he was only 13 years old? At age 17, Trayvon was over six feet tall and 160 pounds.
In any event, it's quite obvious that Zimmerman was not just "standing-his-ground," while responding to Trayvon's retreat, instead of staying where he was at, he aggressively pursued his perp (that "suspicious" dark-skinned target) so he could oppress him. The fact that Zimmerman had armed himself with a 9mm while ostensibly performing what should be passive Neighborhood Watch duties strongly suggests that he was advocating for a confrontation.
Now, Florida's community of police-state advocates really don't like this "Stand-Your-Ground" law too much, mostly because it may incite some cop-assaulted citizen to attempt standing his/her own ground against some sexually deviated gangbanger of law enforcement.
So, what's the best way to "popularly" get this law repealed? Why, the cop-class just guilelessly allows it to unjustifiably be abused by some bone-headed knuckle-dragger, of course! Then the Florida legislature get compelled to "undo" what many see as a quite effective strategy of crime-reduction.
Paramilitary law-enforcement organizations best enjoy subservient salary sources that have lost all spirit for aggressive self-protection. On the other hand, an armed population owning the right to stand its ground is a much poorer target for most any state activities of punitive-tax revenue enhancement.


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Hawaii residents get to see pro football once a year at the Pro Bowl. For some it's a tradition.
Click here to watch Ashley Moser's story.
This year, tradition comes with a change in security. NFL security officials say this comes after multiple threats on sports events around the world.
"Certainly has brought us to a place where we are mindful and vigilant of potential threats that exist in our stadium, and our country for that matter," said Lenny Bandy of NFL Security.
Because of that, it's a whole new ballgame when you enter Aloha Stadium this year.
"We have implemented a clear bag policy that restricts the types of bags that can be brought into NFL stadiums," said Bandy.
It's a policy that Aloha Stadium officials are welcoming with open arms, especially with an expected crowd of some 40,000 to 50,000 people.
"When you have that big of a crowd in one area, you have to have some delays," said Deputy Stadium Manager Lois Manin. "We try to get everybody in as fast as we can. Bag check, hopefully, won't be as long because of the clear bag policy."
You're allowed to bring in a plastic bag 12-inches-by-6-inches-by-12-inches, a one gallon clear freezer bag or a small clutch the size of your palm. You can bring in medically necessary items.
Don't be alarmed if security approaches you with one of the see-through bags after you park. They're just trying to save you a trip back to your car to put away your huge bag. You can keep the bags as NFL mementos.
Some fans don't mind using the bag.
"There's not too many things you can bring in, so the less the better," said fan Willie Collins.
"If I'm going somewhere, I want to feel safe. I don't want anybody to make me feel like I have to give up something," said Salt Lake resident Melissa Jonas.
Giving up those extra items and leaving them at home will mean shorter lines at security check points.


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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Economists Don't Know Stocks
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- "The economists don't know a thing about stocks," Jim Cramer proclaimed to his "Mad Money" TV show viewers Thursday as he sounded off against the academics who have been trying to keep individual investors out of our red-hot stock market.
Cramer said the economists who warn that weakness in China and Europe will spell doom for U.S. stocks or those who warn that increases in our payroll taxes or the price of gasoline will cause our economy to stop in its tracks have been wrong so many times it's a wonder they still bother to offer their opinions. These macro-economic theories may work in the classroom, he said, but so far in the real world they haven't amounted to a hill of beans.
Cramer once again explained how important the housing sector is to the U.S. economy. Rising home prices make people feel wealthier, while new home construction allows them to move around more freely. A rising stock market has boosted IRAs and 401(k)s around the country, he said, and the strong dollar has created bargains for those traveling or selling overseas.
The economists cite the rise in payroll taxes and gasoline as major worries, but for most people those changes have been barely noticeable, said Cramer. The fact is that most people are better off now than they were four years ago and that simple notion has lifted stocks from Macy's
Cramer said it doesn't take a genius to see what's happening in the markets, it just takes someone looking at individual companies rather than macro-economic trends that are hazy at best. The economists don't know about stocks, he concluded, because if they did they would see how dead wrong they've been for months.
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In the "Off The Charts" segment, Cramer dove into the health of the Nasdaq with colleague Tim Collins to find out if the tech-heavy average can prosper without the leadership of Apple


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It was a rough start for the Longhorns as they were down 8-6 in the first quarter.
The Longhorns stampeded onto the Bulldog's field in the second quarter, scoring 15 points to Marion's 12 to take the lead 21-20 by halftime.
But things didn't go so well for George West in the second half of the game as they were unable to score again; by the third quarter the Longhorns were down 28-21
Marion scored eight more points in the final quarter for a final score of 36-21.
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This weekend, we honored veterans who gave their lives for their country. But throughout the school year teenagers must deal with their grief for classmates who die suddenly in car accidents, homicides or other incidents. When a young person dies, the tragedy strikes not just at family, but at friends and classmates. School psychologists and guidance counselors often try to help students deal with loss. But increasingly, teenagers themselves are creating the symbols and ceremonies they need to express their grief. One form is a memorial garden where kids and adults can remember together. As ideastream's Karen Schaefer reports, these so-called grief gardens are transforming the landscape of American mourning.
On a late spring morning at Ashland High School, death is the farthest thing from most students' minds. They're rehearsing for dance class, cramming for finals, and making dates for the prom. But nine years ago tragedy struck this small Ohio town and left a permanent mark on its youth.
Andrew Gardner: There's seven of us camping and in the middle of the night the cabin caught on fire and only six of us were able to make it out.
Andrew Gardner was just 16 when his best friend died. He and the other students who survived decided they wanted to create a memorial for their friend and for other students who'd died young. What they chose was a garden.
Andrew Gardner: (reads) The Ashland High School Memorial Garden. In loving memory of those students who were taken from us through the years. They live forever in the hearts of those who loved them.
But this isn't a typical flower garden. Working with horticulture teacher Eric Mayer, the students designed a Japanese-style garden based on the ancient teachings of zen.
Eric Mayer: I think the whole idea of using zen self-awareness - that's what's grief is, self-awareness, becoming aware of you and your feeling. And then the zen garden used nature to create that self-awareness.
Water falls from a bamboo fountain - drop by drop - into a granite basin surrounded by a curving bed of small stones.
Andrew Gardner: We have a rake out here at all times, there's a wooden rake that you can use to actually rake the dry lake. It gives you your own peace of mind and serenity and tranquility all in one.
Andrew Gardner says making the garden helped him work through his grief. In fact, it changed his life. He's now a professional landscape designer.
But not all young people are so fortunate. Dr. Alan Wolfert, Director of the Center for Loss and Grief in Fort Collins, Colorado, has written extensively on grief and children. He says teenagers deal with death no differently than adults do. But he says America's discomfort with death makes it harder for young people to mourn.
Alan Wolfert: Grief is your thoughts and feelings inside when someone dies, but how you integrate loss into your life is through mourning, the shared social response. We as a culture have in many ways lost an understanding of and support for a more active mourning. Kids are trying to teach us about the need to openly and authentically mourn.
Dr. Wolfert believes that grief gardens are one way to accomplish that. Six years ago in the small college town of Oberlin a group of teens planted a simple grove of seven pin oaks on the grounds of their high school. In the grass beneath the trees are 82 granite markers bearing the names and dates of students who have died since the school opened.
Rudd Crawford: Here's the stone where this woman died in childbirth and her son when he was in high school was being raised by his grandma, so the son and the grandmother put that one in together.
Math teacher Rudd Crawford helped students create this garden after four classmates died within a few months of one another. But the students wanted to include everyone who had died young. They formed a memorial committee, which called local families for permission to add the names they found. When they held the first ceremony that year, nearly the whole town came. Mr. Crawford says the students have carried on that tradition.
Rudd Crawford: I'm really in awe of the way the kids are so solid about this thing. They worked their heads off for the ceremony this fall. There must have been three or four hundred candles in bags with sand as a pathway across the campus from there to here.
Memorial committee members like Barbara Lee and Dan Lauschman hold a ceremony each spring and fall, to add new markers, and remember those placed there in past years.
Barbara Lee: I lost Angelique Hamilton, Daniel Shipman, and Nicole Sanderson. Not like going to the cemetery...
Dan Lauschman: I had a neighbor who is out there who committed suicide when he was 19. It does kind of make it easier to accept knowing that we're all still thinking about them and that they're still remembered.
Nicole Sanderson's stone is the latest to be placed in the oak grove at Oberlin High School. And it won't be the last. No one knows how many grief gardens have been created in recent years. But as young people across the country continue to commemorate the friends they've lost, they remind us all that mourning after death is an essential part of living. In Oberlin, Karen Schaefer, 90.3.


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Why Can't I have a Souvenir Cup?
Since I never seem to find myself in a place that my hometown (from across the state) Tigers like to visit, I'm usually limited to one or two live games in a year. This year, I only had one chance and that day was last Saturday as Detroit visited Baltimore for what promised to be an easy four-game series. Well, let's just say that neither the game nor the series went the way they were supposed to go. The Tigers hammered Daniel Cabrera in the first inning but then managed to not only let the Orioles back into the game but even found a way to lose it. And they dropped 2 of the four games. So, I'm not writing about the game or the series. I'm writing about what I saw at the game instead.
First off, If you've never been to Camden Yards, go. The tickets are cheap, the views are great and chances are that if you came to watch another team play the Orioles, you're going to go home happy. However, I have a bone to pick with the management. Why can't I buy a beer in a souvenir cup? I don't want a Pepsi. I don't want a Diet Pepsi. I want a beer and I want it in a plastic cup that has the Oriole's season schedule and whatever happens to be the catch-phrase of the year on it. I do this everywhere I go and up til now it hasn't been a problem. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the cup I got from Yankee Stadium because I can spit sunflower seed husks into it and it feels like I'm somehow spitting on the Yankees. That's a good feeling. But how can I spit on the Orioles if they won't give me a cup? Yes, I finally broke down and bought a lemonade because it was really freakin' hot but a part of me is still outraged. It's un-American.
And speaking of un-American, the Orioles tossed out a special welcome to the Venezuelan Embassy, employees of which happened to be in attendance at Saturday's game. I suppose this shouldn't have come as a surprise since half the players on the field had some sort of Venezuelan connection and we were only an hour's drive from Washington D.C. And it was nice to see some of the Venezuelan players come through during the game; for instance, Miguel Cabrera hit a three-run shot in the first inning. But there's just something a little strange about a group of people enjoying the classic American pastime while their president says things like: "I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet." I'm just saying…
But, despite the unfortunate ending to the game, the crowd's even more unfortunate adoration of "the wave" and the disproportionately large and drunk meat-head a few rows in front of me, it was good to see my team play. It gives you a similar kind of feeling to the one you get when you find out that the blog you (kind of) help write has now moved up from fifth to fourth place in the standings. At this rate, we might even make the playoffs! There are playoffs, right?
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I think everyone shows a little hypocrisy when it comes to a country like Venezuela. Even the hard core neo-con magazine The Weekly Standard accepts advertising from Citgo, which I find strange considering the fact that they'd probably like to bomb Venezuela back to the stone age as long as Hugo Chavez is in power (that would be for the rest of his life, by my calculations).
Did you guys see the latest rankings of the fan blogs? You don't have a complaint because you've moved up to fourth, but I'm down to 13th behind a crop that contains a guy who's basically a spammer in the "Rumor Mill" and just in front of a guy selling baseball spikes.
I love how you guys are a Cardinals and a Tigers fan. It's pretty brilliant.
I feel your pain. I don't want a Pepsi when I go to the ballpark either. In fact, I don't even like Pepsi. The bubbles tickle my face.
Why can't I get a souvenir baby bottle? I'm not even asking for a top or a nipple, I'll bring my own. Just a suggestion. Some pureed peas and carrots wouldn't hurt either. Just my $0.02.
I talked my Dad into hooking you up with an Orioles souvenir cup. He may even be able to dig one up from the old Memorial Stadium. He told me, to tell you, to send him an e-mail and he would see what he's got stashed away.


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McKain outlines state history
PARKERSBURG – The state of West Virginia was born in Parkersburg, a local historian told a group of local residents.
About 50 people gathered Tuesday evening at the Judge Black Annex to listen to local historian Dave McKain speak about Parkersburg's involvement in the formation of West Virginia, as part of West Virginia's sesquicentennial celebration this week.
The state's first and third governors were from Parkersburg as well as the first U.S. representative and senator, McKain said. One of the first people to try to convince Virginia officials to stay in the Union, before succession was voted on, was from Parkersburg, he said.
McKain said some historians, a number from Virginia, present the formation of West Virginia as more an action of the Union and its armed forces coming into the area, rather than the concentrated effort of people to overcome legal issues and other concerns at a time when the nation was at war with itself.
"If history has been in the books for the last 150 years, they don't want someone to come along and say that's not right," McKain said. "One piece at a time and we will get there."
McKain said the formation of the state was a closely and carefully put together legal process full of personal drama. Issues of slavery, the railroad and economics were all a big part of the process, he said.
In 1861, a meeting was held in Parkersburg where it was decided the northwest part of Virginia would not follow the rest of the state if it voted for succession.
"They voted and basically said there would be no succession for this part of the country," McKain said. William L. Jackson, who eventually went to the Confederacy, was the lone dissenting vote.
Gen. J.J. Jackson was elected to go to the convention, which was considering succession for Virginia and put the message across. He was an influential person known by many across Virginia.
General Jackson was able to hold off the vote for a long time and gave a speech highlighting the desire of the northwestern part of the state not to follow if Virginia decided to leave the Union.
"The first vote they took after that speech, they turned down succession," McKain said.
However, circumstances, namely the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces, pushed many Virginians to vote for succession, which caused delegates from the northwest to leave Richmond quickly.
McKain spoke about the people involved in the oil and gas business in the 19th century who had political connections; many of them worked on the formation of the state of West Virginia.
"A lot of the founding fathers of West Virginia were involved in the oil business," he said.
Over time, it was determined that a new state could not just be formed. There were legal issues that had to be overcome.
Because law required that only the mother state could allow the formation of a new state from its ground, officials put together the Reformed Virginia Government, which ultimately gave its approval for the formation of the new state.
Representatives and senators were sent to Washington, D.C., and accepted there. Although the original West Virginia Constitution did not mention slavery, national lawmakers required a provision outlawing slavery before they would accept it.
Even after the bill was approved and signed into law by the president, a vote had to occur in the state to accept that provision.
After getting everything together to form the new state and with congressional approval of the new state, there was a question of whether President Abraham Lincoln would sign the bill into law.
McKain said Lincoln's cabinet was split on the issue. The president's main concern was whether creating this new state was unconstitutional. He was fighting a war to preserve the union and he was having a hard time justifying splitting one of the states in that union.
Ultimately, the president decided in favor of the new state with a little persuasion of Parkersburg resident, oil man and congressman Jacob Beeson Blair, who visited the president at the White House near the deadline for the bill to be signed.
"The story is (Blair) climbed through the window (at the White House) the next day and Lincoln showed him the statehood bill with his signature on it," McKain said.


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Small Solutions to Big Problems
If you read the newspaper or watch the evening news or leave your house every day, you might find the above statement to be true.
Ironically, it is true. Because whether we like it or not, we are all going to die; however, I personally like to think it won't happen to me until I'm around 90 years old, gripping a cold one while I overexert myself with my 20-something year old gold-digger.
And I'm cool with that.
What I am not cool with is the tense and terse escalation of fear-mongering which has replaced logic and common sense among those who "inform" us on the world's goings-on. Admittedly, some problems are bigger than others. I ain't no fool. I get it. But since I am willing, able and sober (for now), allow me to mend some of these major issues with some easy fixins'…
THE PROBLEM: Mexico's Exploding Drug Violence
THE SOLUTION: Carlos Lee
It's easy. Hand El Caballo an AK-47. Give him immunity. Let him go to work.
I know, I know. Carlos is Panamanian, not Mexican. Doesn't matter. He speaks the language, he's scarier than Dick Cheney on a hunting trip and he plays for the Astros (meaning he's expendable). Indeed, I had the pleasure of meeting El Caballo as he was getting on the Astros' team bus after a game at Wrigley a couple of years ago and while the man is only 6'2, he has to be the most behemoth of a human being I have ever encountered in real life. He's listed at 235 lbs., but that is a stone cold lie. He looks like he ate my entire family for lunch and I have a huge family. Anyone who can devour me and my six sisters has the inner wrath and tenacity it would take to bring down Mexican drug lords galore. ¡Venga, Carlito! ¡Ya basta! ¡Venga, venga!
THE PROBLEM: World Financial Crisis
THE SOLUTION: Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres
Assemble the wealthiest 1% of people in the world. Force them to put their money into global markets equally, thus spreading the love, injecting life, creating confidence. If they do not follow this direction, simply hand them ownership to the Pirates, Royals and Padres and watch them die a slow, meaningless death.
THE PROBLEM: Chicago's Intra-City Turf War
THE SOLUTION: Shut Milton Bradley's Trap
For a guy who has the meaty reputation of being an unadulterated ^sshole everywhere he goes playing for a team that hasn't won a World Series in 101 years, Milton Bradley sure does a lot of incessant yapping. Uh, Milton, didn't you get the memo from Ryan Dempster and Ronny Cedeno? Yeah, they've been there, done that. Their feet ended up in their mouths. Yours probably will too.
'Cuz no matter how good the Cubs are on paper, Milton, no matter how good they should be this season, no matter how many knowledgeable baseball folks pick you guys to go all the way, at the end of the day, Milton, you play for a loser. A LOSER. In fact, they are the only professional baseball team nicknamed the "Lovable Losers", Milton. Yes. That's true.
You want to talk about Chicago winners, Milton? Since Jordan & Co. left town, the White Sox are it, buddy.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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haha "They should. I'm here." Awesome, Milton, awesome. Because your presence brought playoffs to Texas last year… oh wait, it didn't. How is that possible? haha
I predict the Cubs choke again this year. Like always. One reason they're lovable is that they are also so predictable.
The only reason the Cubs have a chance of winning anything this year is because their division is SO bad.
Melissa — As Cardinal fan and Chicago Southsider, I have been disliking the Cubs my entire life… never found them "lovable"… but yes, always predicatable.
Julia — You are correct on that one. They almost win by default this year, which is even more reason for them to choke… AGAIN.
Thanks for the congrats, but we're STILL in the top 3, Julia. Number Three that is… right behind ya.
When Carlos is done with Mexico, tell him to come to New York and taunt my teachers into giving me a passing grade with a hard stare and a threatening stance.
Pirates, Royals and Padres? I believe you neglected to mention the Nationals.
Milton's words just reminded me of the days of Gary Sheffield blabbing his mouth in a Yankee uniform [or about the Yanks after his days in a Yankee uniform].. eehckk..
p.s. thanks for the 'kick'.. lol🙂
– V [ http://flairforthedramatic.mlblogs.com ]
V — No prob. I'll send Carlos a txt and he'll be there as soon as he's done eating the Brady Bunch. And can we please not talk about Sheffield here? This is a family-friendly forum😉 Glad to see you're alive, V. We were wonderin'…
I'm a person that believes team chemistry is overrated; it's worth it to have arrogant, obnoxious, teammates if it means you're going to win. For crying out loud I was clamoring for the Indians to reach out to Bonds until not too long ago! But even I can't argue with the Indians decision to send Bradley packing. That dude is just intolerable.
But this is the Cubs' year! Eddie Vedder even said so!-Erinhttp://plunking-gomez.mlblogs.com
Are you serious Jeff? The Padres are going to die in a slow, meaningless death? Don't be kiddin' :)http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
mayz — Somehow I find Bonds' personality more likable than Bradley's. That's scary.
Eastsleep — It happens when he pouts.
Erin — Contrary to popular belief, Eddie Vedder is no longer cool (not since 1997).
Hyunyoung — They already have been. Maybe Moorad can bring them back to life.
Excellent! The 'fear mongering' over the violence in Mexico caused the parents of a girl who works for me to pressure her into canceling her honeymoon to Tulum. They suggested South Padre as an alternative, which is actually closer to the violence than the Mayan Riviera. And, inexplicably, the parents are OK with the fact that the kids have rebooked their honeymoon to the Dominican Republic, which of course must be safer since they have never actually heard of it.
Yes, I know, I live in the south. I just wish they made a news program for people who cannot actually think for themselves. Oh wait, that's who they are all made for.
Sorry, so cynical today.
I can honestly say I think the Cards and Astros finish ahead of the Laughable Losers this year. Milton will be a one man wrecking crew this year. Of course this is coming from a true SOXSIDER.
Mike D
Wow, Kathy. Honeymoon in the DR? Hope they like steroids.
SOXSIDER! I hope you're right, Mike. That would make my year complete.


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im pretty much done w jr **** too
Davis hasnt even played that well but incredibly we're a plus 15 with him on the court. Its amazing the difference a point guard with a basketball iq can make compared to Douglas, Bibby, and JR Smith. Nothing against Smith but hes not a point guard
Man if we had the Clippers treatment with how Chris Fall and Blake Trippin gets all the calls, we would be a 4th seed squad.
You can SEE Chandler frustrated.
and F*CK BREEN FOR getting down on Smith for giving extra effort on defense. Breen calls it "MINDLESS". Smith is moving his feet so much and shuffling giving his heart on the floor.....the hell with these refs and Breen. It makes these games hard to watch.
That was ****ing stupid from JR!
Dunleavy's a cheating sack of ****. Haven't seen a team fall over as often as the Bucks.
i cant bear to watch this ! How can this be happening against this **** team - Ellis 29 points and 10 assists, Dunleavey 19 points again, Jennings doing whatever he wants
and to top it all off, biased, cheating **** refs !
Its a joke !
JR is best suited in an uptempo game
His best year in Denver was with Ty Lawson as the back up PG, when they came in and JR got transition 3's and dunks
Game is too slow for him right now


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Our resident supergroup commemorates their 10th Anniversary with a four-night celebration, highlighting their greatest arrangements and original compositions. An all-star jazz ensemble comprising eight of the finest performer/composers at work in jazz today, the SFJAZZ Collective's mission each year is to perform fresh arrangements of works by a modern jazz master and newly commissioned pieces by the Collective members. Through this pioneering approach, simultaneously honoring jazz's recent history while championing the music's up-to-the-minute directions, the Collective embodies SFJAZZ's commitment to jazz as a living, ever-relevant art form. This "best of" week includes material from each of the group's tribute composers, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Stevie Wonder and Chick Corea. The opening night performance will highlight the music of Thelonious Monk on what would have been the jazz icon's 96th birthday, and will mark the performance debut by a new Collective member, vibraphonist Warren Wolf.
Artist Personnel
Miguel Zenón alto saxophone
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Avishai Cohen trumpet
Robin Eubanks trombone
Warren Wolf vibraphone
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(Makes about 6 servings, recipe adapted from Puerto Rican Cabbage Salad at Champaign Taste.)
5-6 cups finely chopped green cabbage (about 1/2 large head of cabbage)
1 cup diced tomatoes (I used diced grape tomatoes)
1/2 cup celery, sliced (or if the celery is large, I would cut in half before slicing)
1/2 cup chopped celery leaves (optional, but good)
6 radishes, stem and root cut off and cut into half-moon slices (optional, but good)
1/4 cup sliced green onions (dark green part)
Dressing Ingredients:
2 T apple cider vinegar
1 tsp. fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4-1/2 tsp. hot pepper sauce (I used Sriracha sauce; use any hot sauce that has a good flavor. If you have some type of Carribean hot sauce it would be perfect in this.)
3 T grapeseed oil (or other neutral-flavored oil such as canola will work)
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Val's Sweet Cabbage Slaw with Green Onion and Parsley from Kalyn's Kitchen
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Beeville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Donnie Morris said Thom Aman was on his tractor using his disc attachment to plow up ground in front of a rapidly spreading brush fire when he suffered first and second degree burns.
Morris said the victim had what was thought to be a small, third degree burn, but most of his injuries were not as serious.
Most of the injuries were to his face, Morris said.
The chief said he was nearby on FM Road 888, not far from the scene of the fire on Lohse Road Sunday when he saw the smoke from the fire. When he arrived to check out the source of the smoke, he noticed Aman plowing the ground in front of the fire.
Morris said the victim was unaware that the heat from the fire had injured him.
Morris called in fire units to extinguish the blaze, and he got the victim to park the tractor.
The chief confirmed that Aman had been flown to the hospital by a HALO-Flight helicopter.
"People just don't realize that you just don't get in front of a brush fire with the conditions we have now," the chief said. "Things could change instantly."
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I love the idea of couponing. Those little bits of paper are like finding free money, provided you can get a good deal on the item. In the past I've used various methods of keeping track of my coupons, none which worked perfectly.
So this week I reorganized the coupon binder, using a method I found at A Full Cup. I think I've finally found a system that will work well.
The first thing to notice about this binder is that it is a zipper binder. If I drop it, the coupons will stay in the binder! Very important when you have kids or are klutzy like me.
On the front of the binder is a pocket big enough to contain a pen, a small calculator, and my scissors. It's important to keep these items with your binder. The pen and calculator come in handy when shopping, and keeping a special scissors with your binder will ensure the kids don't run off with your scissors!
The first page of my coupon binder contains three pockets:
The "Refile" section is also handy, if you find pull out coupons in the supermarket aisles. Pull a couple (NOT all of them!), and put them in the "Refile" pocket, so you can use them another day.
The second page of my coupon binder contains my store loyalty cards. I hate having to dig through my purse for them. Now I can see them all at a glance.
You can use 9-pocket page protector for baseball cards like the one shown below for both the store loyalty cards and coupon pages (see below). I also have a few 4×6 photo pages in my binder, to hold really big coupons.
My coupon binder is organized in alphabetical order by manufacturer. Remember my problem with the L'Oreal coupons? I now have a page dedicated to L'Oreal. If I find a sale on L'Oreal products, whether it be hair, makeup, or something else, I know where to look for the coupon. In the "L" section.
Finally, I have a pocket in the back of my binder to hold current ads. I always like to reference ads when I'm shopping, to make sure I'm buying the right sized items.
You really can save a lot of money by using coupons, but you have to be organized to get the most bang for your buck. If I know exactly how my coupons are organized, and I take my coupon binder wherever I go, I will always be prepared for the unexpected clearance sale that will result in getting something I need for free!
Do you use coupons? How do you organize them?
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Never too early for Independence Day
WATERBURY Rose Digracia wont be writing any angry letters this year, because she got everything she wanted out of Saturdays Not Quite Independence Day Parade in Waterbury.
She got coffee boxes of it courtesy of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
She got cheese two slivers of cheddar straight from Cabot Creamery.
And, the Florida woman who accidentally caught a lollipop that she wasnt at all interested in and a hot dog she didnt finish, got ice cream a single serving of Cherry Garcia that, thanks to a little sleight of hand, she topped off with 3.6 ounces of Strawberry Shortcake. Note to Ben & Jerrys: You wont be getting a letter like the one you received from Digracia after last years parade expressing her profound disappointment over the notable absence of ice cream.
Only four things got Digracia out of her seat on John and Kelley Jipsons front porch late Saturday morning. One of them was the sound of bagpipes; the other three involved word that one of the Vermont producers of what she views as the holy trinity of parade giveaways was approaching.
On a day when Main Street was awash in red, white and blue, Digracia was focused like a laser on coffee, cheese and ice cream.
Though Digracia didnt actually consume any of her most prized curbside collections, she pursued them with the all the enthusiasm of children scrambling after candy as it skitters across the pavement.
I love this parade! she exclaimed, settling back into her seat with a satisfied smile after she finished filling a three-item grocery list near the tail-end of a parade that has made the Jipsons home, and others like it, a magnet in Waterbury this time of year.
With a house that is located right on the parade route, the Jipsons have played host to a growing number of family and friends, like the 13 who traveled from as far away as Florida to join them for Saturdays edition of a parade-first-barbecue-later tradition.
This really is the social event of the year for our family, Kelley Jipson said even as her husband generously noted there is always room for one more.
Traditions are flexible that way, which may explain why, for the second straight year, Waterbury comfortably put Independence Day in its rearview mirror before the end of June. It will happen again next year and when the Fourth of July falls on a Saturday in 2015, organizers will have to decide whether to strike the now-familiar disclaimer Not Quite from their Independence Day festivities, or celebrate the event a full week in advance.
It makes no difference to 102-year-old Florilla Ames.
Ive always been in the parade, said Ames, who learned a week or so ago that her 1937 Ford a wood-paneled station wagon her that her father, Arthur Perkins, bought brand new in Waterbury the year it was made was being pushed to the very front of this years parade.
If her eyesight werent failing, Ames, the grand marshal of this years parade, said she would have happily hopped behind the wheel of a car that has covered 96,070 miles and, she joked, is older than most of the folks who turned out for the parade.
Most of these people came afterwards, she said.
Ames chauffer, 22-year-old Ethan Johnson of Barre, was one of them.
Johnson, who is young enough to be Ames great-great-great-grandson, successfully piloted her Woodie from one end of town to the other, leading a parade with a Happy Birthday theme inspired by the fact that Waterbury, like several surrounding towns in the Winooski River Valley, was chartered 250 years ago by New Hampshire Gov. Benning Wentworth.
Duxbury was another one of those towns and members of the Duxbury Historical Society, including one Mark Morse who came dressed as Wentworth turned out in force and ready for a little friendly rivalry.
Weve got the (Camels) Hump. What do they (Waterbury) have? joked Morse, who thanks to a costume created by his wife, Bonnie, could have passed for Wentworth if he wasnt wearing sneakers.
Morse recalled attending the 200th celebration back in 1963, a year when all Waterbury men grew beards for the occasion and wooden nickels were passed out as souvenirs.
Ive still got my wooden nickel, said the man in the long coat, top hat, knickers and New Balance sneakers.
The Duxbury crew came armed with a tandem truck pulling a little red wagon, three horses, an 18-by-36-foot garrison-style American flag, a tractor driven by Morse towing a tiny float, and a separate float created by George Welch that showed the evolution of his family-owned lumber business.
Were just old hill people, joked Welch. For us this is just plain, old-fashioned foolishness.
While Welch was laid back, Maureen Haney sounded more serious as she unfurled a flag that was carried in the parade by a dozen members of the historical society.
Duxburys efforts didnt go unnoticed and judges agreed to honor them for best use of theme and very nearly gave Welch the nod for creativity.
Instead that honor went to local Scouts, who transformed a flatbed into a sizeable birthday cake with 25 extra large candles. Size mattered, according to Cubmaster Thea Churchill, who said 250 candles was too tall an order.
Were going for a factor of 10, she said.
Another birthday cake, this one a triple-decker with believable white frosting and candles made out of PVC pipe, was good enough to earn first-time parade participants from Walker Construction best in show honors.
Erin Godin, who helped make the cake, said thats more than the folks at Walker Construction were hoping for.
Were just trying to get our name out there, she said.
Gregory Viens worked up a sweat marching in his period costume while occasionally pausing to fire a British Brown Bess musket that he made from a kit.
I fired it 21 times with no misfires, said the 62-year-old North Fayston man, who has had six knee replacements, appears destined for a seventh, but made it to the end of the parade route with a noticeable limp.
If you were looking for irony Saturday, Waterbury Rotarian Justin Blackman the man with the thick British accent said he would probably be the leader in the clubhouse.
Where else would you find a British guy where the (Not Quite) Fourth of July is his favorite day of the year, he said.
Blackman is the imagination behind the Rotary Clubs expanding fleet of custom tractors including one dressed up like a military tank and armed with a working candy cannon, and another disguised as a Good Humor ice cream truck and hauling a freezer filled with 4,000 freezer pops that were passed out to parade-watchers.
This is it, Blackman said. This is what I love.
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