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Is it Organic? Genetically Modified? How to read a produce label.
Have you ever looked at two bins of apples, one labeled 'organic,' and the other 'conventional,' and wondered if the apples might not be the same? I have.
And since discovering a little secret of the produce industry, I've found that you really have to be a detective in the aisles these days.
The secret is the price look-up (PLU) codes. They're an international numbering standard that identifies each type of produce, so that computerized cash registers can ring up the cost of fruits and vegetables automatically. They're also a powerhouse of information for savvy shoppers. The code indicates whether the item is a conventional, organic or genetically modified (GM) crop.
The codes are based on four-digit numbers for conventional produce, to which an extra digit is added to indicate organic or GM status. If the number is five digits beginning with a 9, then the item is organic. If the item is five digits beginning in 8, then it is a genetically modified crop.
For example, the PLU code for bananas is 4011. If the PLU sticker on the banana bunch reads 94011, then they are organic bananas. If the PLU sticker reads 84011, then the bananas are a genetically modified variety.
There are PLU code stickers on virtually every piece of fruit, banded around every head of lettuce or bunch of spinach, and stamped onto the bag of every bag of organic salad greens. But that doesn't prevent certain confused grocers from mislabeling them. I've discovered conventional Fuji apples (4129) in the 'organic Fuji apples' (94129) bin many times. It's strange that I've never found organic apples in the conventional bin. In any case, knowing the codes will ensure that you get what you intended to get every time you shop.
The Results Are In: Organic Foods More Nutritious Than Conventional Foods
(NewsTarget) If you have been a supporter and consumer of organic foods because of its better taste and health benefits, then you've probably endured the taunts from scoffers and sceptics and labelled a "health nut", "fanatic" or worse.
Even a government body (the FSA) which provides advice and information on food, has up to now had the following stance on organic foods: "Consumers may also choose to buy organic food because they believe that it is safer and more nutritious than other food. However, the balance of current scientific evidence does not support this view."
Well, now it's almost official: Organic foods really are better for you.
The biggest and most extensive scientific study and research into the benefits of organic food has found that it is more nutritious than ordinary produce and may in fact lengthen people's lives. They also contain higher levels of antioxidants and flavo-noids which help ward off heart disease and cancer as well as higher levels of beneficial minerals such as iron and zinc. (But you could've told them that.)
Newcastle University have been leading this £12m, four-year project, funded by the European Union and their findings show that organic food contains more antioxidants and less unhealthy fatty acids.
They found levels of antioxidants in milk from organic cattle were between 50% and 80% higher than normal milk. Organic wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, onions and lettuce had between 20% and 40% more nutrients than non-organic foods.
Think Globally, Act Locally: Dr. Vandana Shiva
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, author and environmentalist from India. As someone deeply dedicated to eradicating the use of GMO crops in India, She is working with Indian farmers to save the seeds from previous years crops and adding them to a "seed library". This seed library exists to strengthen the diversity of seeds such as the wide variety of rice and lentil species that have existed for centuries in India. Dr. Shiva started, Navdanya, a program that teaches sustainable farming techniques to local Indian farmers so that they do not have to purchase the genetically modified seeds that biochemical companies produce.
Navdanya is the term for the nine crops that represent India's main food source. Dedicating herself to the preservation of India's traditions of farming is the main focus of Dr. Shiva's organization. To read more about Dr. Shiva and Navdanya, visit her website here.
Seed saving is a tradition that has existed for centuries. To learn more about saving seeds in your own yard, visit: www.seedsavers.org
Green Goes to School
SHYLA RAGHAV is being put to the test. She's trying to explain to fellow UC Irvine students that air fresheners are chemicals pressed onto tree-shaped cardboard, whereas tropical plants clean the air naturally. But she keeps getting interrupted. The guys next door are hooting over three cranked-up TV sets tuned to football and tossing their Coke cans and polystyrene fast-food containers toward a trash can in the hall.
"Taking care of the planet is a global issue, but it starts with the individual," Raghav says, standing in a demonstration dorm room lined with carefully selected products: the energy- efficient, the biodegradable, the sustainable. Unlike the guys' room next door, there isn't an electricity-sucking appliance, off-gassing polyester beanbag chair or synthetic sheet in sight.
As the college-bound prepare to live away from home for the first time, campus crusaders for green living are trying to influence not only what is purchased in the back-to-school buying frenzy, but also how students go about their daily lives.
Raghav and others in the statewide Green Campus Program are pushing the benefits of vegetable-based laundry detergent, thermoelectric mini refrigerators and remanufactured printer ink cartridges. They're replacing inefficient incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps. They're organizing residence hall competitions to see who can save the most water and energy, and they're promoting Earth Day rallies and Waste Awareness Week.
"We can't continue to have a hotel mentality where every light is left on because we're not paying the bills," says Raghav, 21, who graduated in June with a bachelor's degree in applied ecology and international studies and will start this fall in Yale's environmental management master's program.
Bantus rediscover farming roots
Photography by Cyrus McCrimmon
Somali Bantu refugees farming vegetables in Aurora marvel at spending days outside without worrying for their safety as they cultivate products that will soon turn into dollars.
This month marks the first time the Bantu farmers are taking their organically grown vegetables to market in an effort to forge a path to becoming full-time farmers.
"It is better to have this; they need this," said Abdi Aziz, a 22-year-old Bantu who translates for most of the elders who farm.
Upcoming sales to Strings restaurant in Denver and a display scheduled for Sunday at the Whole Foods "Be Loyal, Buy Local" event in Cherry Creek are expected to increase their earnings. The first outing at a local farmer's market earlier this month brought in $150.
Organic farming CAN feed the world
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming in developing countries, and holds its own against standard methods in rich countries, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
They said their findings contradict arguments that organic farming -- which excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides -- is not as efficient as conventional techniques.
"My hope is that we can finally put a nail in the coffin of the idea that you can't produce enough food through organic agriculture," Ivette Perfecto, a professor at the University of Michigan's school of Natural Resources and Environment, said in a statement.
She and colleagues analyzed published studies on yields from organic farming. They looked at 293 different examples.
"Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base," they wrote in their report, published in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.
"We were struck by how much food the organic farmers would produce," Perfecto said.
"Corporate interest in agriculture and the way agriculture research has been conducted in land grant institutions, with a lot of influence by the chemical companies and pesticide companies as well as fertilizer companies, all have been playing an important role in convincing the public that you need to have these inputs to produce food," she added.
You Are What You Grow
Michael Pollan explains the Farm Bill
A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of obesity in America today is a person's wealth. For most of history, after all, the poor have typically suffered from a shortage of calories, not a surfeit. So how is it that today the people with the least amount of money to spend on food are the ones most likely to be overweight?
Drewnowski gave himself a hypothetical dollar to spend, using it to purchase as many calories as he possibly could. He discovered that he could buy the most calories per dollar in the middle aisles of the supermarket, among the towering canyons of processed food and soft drink. (In the typical American supermarket, the fresh foods--dairy, meat, fish and produce--line the perimeter walls, while the imperishable packaged goods dominate the center.) Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots. Looking for something to wash down those chips, he discovered that his dollar bought 875 calories of soda but only 170 calories of orange juice.
As a rule, processed foods are more "energy dense" than fresh foods: they contain less water and fiber but more added fat and sugar, which makes them both less filling and more fattening. These particular calories also happen to be the least healthful ones in the marketplace, which is why we call the foods that contain them "junk." Drewnowski concluded that the rules of the food game in America are organized in such a way that if you are eating on a budget, the most rational economic strategy is to eat badly--and get fat.
This perverse state of affairs is not, as you might think, the inevitable result of the free market. Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies, to take one iconic processed foodlike substance as an example, is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well as the packaging and a hefty marketing budget. So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots?
For the answer, you need look no farther than the farm bill. This resolutely unglamorous and head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation, which comes around roughly every five years and is about to do so again, sets the rules for the American food system--indeed, to a considerable extent, for the world's food system. Among other things, it determines which crops will be subsidized and which will not, and in the case of the carrot and the Twinkie, the farm bill as currently written offers a lot more support to the cake than to the root. Like most processed foods, the Twinkie is basically a clever arrangement of carbohydrates and fats teased out of corn, soybeans and wheat--three of the five commodity crops that the farm bill supports, to the tune of some $25 billion a year. (Rice and cotton are the others.) For the last several decades--indeed, for about as long as the American waistline has been ballooning--U.S. agricultural policy has been designed in such a way as to promote the overproduction of these five commodities, especially corn and soy.
That's because the current farm bill helps commodity farmers by cutting them a check based on how many bushels they can grow, rather than, say, by supporting prices and limiting production, as farm bills once did. The result? A food system awash in added sugars (derived from corn) and added fats (derived mainly from soy), as well as dirt-cheap meat and milk (derived from both). By comparison, the farm bill does almost nothing to support farmers growing fresh produce. A result of these policy choices is on stark display in your supermarket, where the real price of fruits and vegetables between 1985 and 2000 increased by nearly 40 percent while the real price of soft drinks (a k a liquid corn) declined by 23 percent. The reason the least healthful calories in the supermarket are the cheapest is that those are the ones the farm bill encourages farmers to grow.
A public-health researcher from Mars might legitimately wonder why a nation faced with what its surgeon general has called "an epidemic" of obesity would at the same time be in the business of subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn syrup. But such is the perversity of the farm bill: the nation's agricultural policies operate at cross-purposes with its public-health objectives. And the subsidies are only part of the problem. The farm bill helps determine what sort of food your children will have for lunch in school tomorrow. The school-lunch program began at a time when the public-health problem of America's children was undernourishment, so feeding surplus agricultural commodities to kids seemed like a win-win strategy. Today the problem is overnutrition, but a school lunch lady trying to prepare healthful fresh food is apt to get dinged by U.S.D.A. inspectors for failing to serve enough calories; if she dishes up a lunch that includes chicken nuggets and Tater Tots, however, the inspector smiles and the reimbursements flow. The farm bill essentially treats our children as a human Disposall for all the unhealthful calories that the farm bill has encouraged American farmers to overproduce.
To speak of the farm bill's influence on the American food system does not begin to describe its full impact--on the environment, on global poverty, even on immigration. By making it possible for American farmers to sell their crops abroad for considerably less than it costs to grow them, the farm bill helps determine the price of corn in Mexico and the price of cotton in Nigeria and therefore whether farmers in those places will survive or be forced off the land, to migrate to the cities--or to the United States. The flow of immigrants north from Mexico since Nafta is inextricably linked to the flow of American corn in the opposite direction, a flood of subsidized grain that the Mexican government estimates has thrown two million Mexican farmers and other agricultural workers off the land since the mid-90s. (More recently, the ethanol boom has led to a spike in corn prices that has left that country reeling from soaring tortilla prices; linking its corn economy to ours has been an unalloyed disaster for Mexico's eaters as well as its farmers.) You can't fully comprehend the pressures driving immigration without comprehending what U.S. agricultural policy is doing to rural agriculture in Mexico.
And though we don't ordinarily think of the farm bill in these terms, few pieces of legislation have as profound an impact on the American landscape and environment. Americans may tell themselves they don't have a national land-use policy, that the market by and large decides what happens on private property in America, but that's not exactly true. The smorgasbord of incentives and disincentives built into the farm bill helps decide what happens on nearly half of the private land in America: whether it will be farmed or left wild, whether it will be managed to maximize productivity (and therefore doused with chemicals) or to promote environmental stewardship. The health of the American soil, the purity of its water, the biodiversity and the very look of its landscape owe in no small part to impenetrable titles, programs and formulae buried deep in the farm bill.
Given all this, you would think the farm-bill debate would engage the nation's political passions every five years, but that hasn't been the case. If the quintennial antidrama of the "farm bill debate" holds true to form this year, a handful of farm-state legislators will thrash out the mind-numbing details behind closed doors, with virtually nobody else, either in Congress or in the media, paying much attention. Why? Because most of us assume that, true to its name, the farm bill is about "farming," an increasingly quaint activity that involves no one we know and in which few of us think we have a stake. This leaves our own representatives free to ignore the farm bill, to treat it as a parochial piece of legislation affecting a handful of their Midwestern colleagues. Since we aren't paying attention, they pay no political price for trading, or even selling, their farm-bill votes. The fact that the bill is deeply encrusted with incomprehensible jargon and prehensile programs dating back to the 1930s makes it almost impossible for the average legislator to understand the bill should he or she try to, much less the average citizen. It's doubtful this is an accident.
But there are signs this year will be different. The public-health community has come to recognize it can't hope to address obesity and diabetes without addressing the farm bill. The environmental community recognizes that as long as we have a farm bill that promotes chemical and feedlot agriculture, clean water will remain a pipe dream. The development community has woken up to the fact that global poverty can't be fought without confronting the ways the farm bill depresses world crop prices. They got a boost from a 2004 ruling by the World Trade Organization that U.S. cotton subsidies are illegal; most observers think that challenges to similar subsidies for corn, soy, wheat or rice would also prevail.
And then there are the eaters, people like you and me, increasingly concerned, if not restive, about the quality of the food on offer in America. A grass-roots social movement is gathering around food issues today, and while it is still somewhat inchoate, the manifestations are everywhere: in local efforts to get vending machines out of the schools and to improve school lunch; in local campaigns to fight feedlots and to force food companies to better the lives of animals in agriculture; in the spectacular growth of the market for organic food and the revival of local food systems. In great and growing numbers, people are voting with their forks for a different sort of food system. But as powerful as the food consumer is--it was that consumer, after all, who built a $15 billion organic-food industry and more than doubled the number of farmer's markets in the last few years--voting with our forks can advance reform only so far. It can't, for example, change the fact that the system is rigged to make the most unhealthful calories in the marketplace the only ones the poor can afford. To change that, people will have to vote with their votes as well--which is to say, they will have to wade into the muddy political waters of agricultural policy.
Doing so starts with the recognition that the "farm bill" is a misnomer; in truth, it is a food bill and so needs to be rewritten with the interests of eaters placed first. Yes, there are eaters who think it in their interest that food just be as cheap as possible, no matter how poor the quality. But there are many more who recognize the real cost of artificially cheap food--to their health, to the land, to the animals, to the public purse. At a minimum, these eaters want a bill that aligns agricultural policy with our public-health and environmental values, one with incentives to produce food cleanly, sustainably and humanely. Eaters want a bill that makes the most healthful calories in the supermarket competitive with the least healthful ones. Eaters want a bill that feeds schoolchildren fresh food from local farms rather than processed surplus commodities from far away. Enlightened eaters also recognize their dependence on farmers, which is why they would support a bill that guarantees the people who raise our food not subsidies but fair prices. Why? Because they prefer to live in a country that can still produce its own food and doesn't hurt the world's farmers by dumping its surplus crops on their markets.
The devil is in the details, no doubt. Simply eliminating support for farmers won't solve these problems; overproduction has afflicted agriculture since long before modern subsidies. It will take some imaginative policy making to figure out how to encourage farmers to focus on taking care of the land rather than all-out production, on growing real food for eaters rather than industrial raw materials for food processors and on rebuilding local food economies, which the current farm bill hobbles. But the guiding principle behind an eater's farm bill could not be more straightforward: it's one that changes the rules of the game so as to promote the quality of our food (and farming) over and above its quantity.
Such changes are radical only by the standards of past farm bills, which have faithfully reflected the priorities of the agribusiness interests that wrote them. One of these years, the eaters of America are going to demand a place at the table, and we will have the political debate over food policy we need and deserve. This could prove to be that year: the year when the farm bill became a food bill, and the eaters at last had their say.
California dairy co-op to stop using rBST hormone
FRESNO - Consumer groups are applauding a major dairy cooperative's decision to dissuade its farmers from using a synthetic hormone to coax more milk from cows, a move insiders say will have a ripple effect across the dairy industry.
Members of California Dairies Co., who generate 10 percent of the milk produced in the nation, will have to stop injecting their herds with the genetically engineered hormone, rBST, by Aug. 1. If they don't, they'll have to pay a premium for the co-op to truck their milk to alternative markets.
RBST, or recombinant bovine somatotropin, is already banned in Canada and Europe, mostly overs concerns that it makes cows more prone to illness.
On Jan. 23, the co-op's board of directors told its 650 members they would stop accepting milk from herds treated with the growth hormone and from cloned cows.
"We're merely responding to our customers' demands and we've gotten very strong support," said Richard Cotta, the group's CEO and president.
The Food and Drug Administration approved rBST to boost production in dairy cows in 1993, making rBST one the first major biotechnology-related products to enter the national food supply.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- If you are a frequent visitor to the local track or casinos it is important to keep good records of your gambling winnings and losses. To deduct losses you must be able to provide receipts, tickets, statements or other records. If you play the lottery, keep your losing tickets. If you play the ponies, keep the daily track programs and all your losing tickets. And make sure the tickets you are saving don't have footprints on them!
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Our son has not been quite as busy as his sister. You know how he decided to take up scuba diving last year? Well he got so good at it, that he was chosen to be one of only three teens to dive with a select group in search of Atlantis. And guess what? They found it! He will receive a special commendation from the Pope after he gets back from a summer vacation in Pamploma where is going running with the bulls (our son, that is, not the Pope!!)
My husband decided to take a break from triathalons and make this the year he was going to conquer the seven summits (the highest peaks on the seven continents)! He got through six of them when an avalanche partially uncovered a 2000 year-old city buried under Mount Aconcagua. His group decided to delay their climb up the seventh peak so they could excavate the city, alone, by hand, for five months, until archaeologists could reach the site. What a thrill that was for him!
And then there�s me. You know I�m just happy to be a plain old, stay-at-home mom and bask in the simple accomplishments of my family. I�ve been busy doing laundry, making dinners, etc. In my spare time, though, I did happen to invent a toilet paper dispenser that changes the roll for you whenever it is empty. I thought it was kind of a silly thing, but the people at Charmin bought the rights for 2.2 billion dollars, so I guess it�s a worthwhile invention! Maybe I'll use some of the money to bail out Hostess and save the Twinkies! LOL!!
Anyway, I�m sure you and your family have had just as incredible a year, even if you didn�t discover any ancient civilizations or get published in the New England Journal of Medicine for discovering a cure for male pattern baldness like my daughter did in her science class.
Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!
PS. Almost forgot� On our family vacation this winter, our new puppy Monty dug up a skeleton that scientists are calling the actual BIG FOOT! Sasquatch will be on display at the Smithsonian for a month in April. Don�t miss it!
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Health Care Reform Will Still Shock America
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Are American consumers ready to take control of their health care decisions?
Health care reform virtually demands they do, but evidence is mounting that consumers are unprepared for the changes scheduled to hit the marketplace next year.
What the company found should be alarming to health care companies, government officials, and above all, U.S. health care customers.
According to fresh data from the its Workforces Report, released on Thursday:
- More than half (54%) of workers would prefer not to have greater control over their insurance options.
- Only 23% of workers are saving money for potential increases in health care costs.
- 53% of workers fear they may not manage their coverage adequately, leaving their families less protected than they are now.
- 72% of the workforce hasn't even heard phrase "consumer-driven health care."
- 75% of workers said they think their employer would educate them about changes to their health care coverage as a result of reform, yet only 13% of employers said educating employees about health care reform was important to their organization
Maybe that's why Aflac says Americans face an "uphill climb" with changes in the nation's health care system starting next year.
The firm says consumers are going to have to change the way they look at health care; the way they choose a plan; they way they prepare to pay for care (which, as it has been for decades, will continue to rise after reform, Aflac says); and the way they adhere to regulations that will change significantly.
The report, which tracked responses from 2,500 U.S. employees and 1,900 workplace managers, says that while Americans shouldn't be blamed for being unprepared for health care reform, blunders in dealing with those changes will fall on them, and them alone.
"It may be referred to as 'consumer-driven health care,' but in actuality, consumers aren't the ones driving these changes, so it's no surprise that many feel unprepared," said Audrey Boone Tillman, executive vice president of Corporate Services at Aflac. "The bottom line is if consumers aren't educated about the full scope of their options, they risk making costly mistakes without a financial back-up plan."
The study notes that 89% of health care consumers opt for the same health care plans every year, but don't understand what's in those plans. Furthermore, 76% say they are largely unaware of how so-called health care exchanges -- which are the foundation of health car reform -- work.


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Advanced Persistent Threats: The New Reality
There's a lot we know about advanced persistent threats, but there's a lot we don't know. This is due in large part to the complexity of the attacks and the stealth of the attackers.
Our knowledge about APTs is growing, but, unfortunately, that's because the attacks themselves are growing in frequency. Criminals using APTs want data, so the more valuable an organization's data, the more likely it is to be targeted. Government agencies and organizations in industries such as finance, energy, IT, aerospace, and chemical and pharmaceuticals are the mostly likely to be the victims of APT infections, as are those involved in international trade. Users and organizations with access through business relationships to valuable data, such as smaller defense contractors, are also beginning to be targeted. And the use of watering hole attacks may be heralding a change in tactic to mass infections, which are then sifted for any potentially interesting targets. Criminals are less likely to target organizations running critical infrastructure, but attempted APT-type attacks by hactivists and nation-states are on the increase. Any organization running industrial control systems linked to the Internet is at risk. Administrators of some systems may be unaware that their systems are connected to the Internet, while systems installed some years ago, when cybersecurity was less of an issue, may not be adequately protected from attack.
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Cerebral_DownTime wrote:motherscratcher wrote:e0y2e3 wrote:Seriously, why won't people just quit them?
Until they win what do they deserve?
I'm legit only watching them today because of Arian Foster.
If we don't watch them our wives will make us do shit on Sundays.
This is the correct answer.
Raking leaves? Fuck that bullshit. That's what the wind is for anyway.
I'm not so sure...a compelling argument can be made that raking leaves would be a whole lot more fulfilling than watching this display of suck.


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'Sequester' not so bad
Federal spending cuts labeled "the sequester" will be a terrible calamity, the White House warned during the weeks before they kicked in Friday.
Really? A spending cut of nearly identical magnitude kicked in Jan. 1, and it didn't seem to upset anyone in Washington.
Perhaps that is because the Jan. 1 cut forced you, not Uncle Sam, to tighten your belt.
The goal of President Barack Obama's spin doctors in issuing dire warnings about the sequester was to whip up a public opinion frenzy calculated to pressure Congress into approving tax increases Obama wants as part of a deal to forestall the sequester. Obviously, it didn't work.
Part of the public relations blitz simply isn't true. For example, it was reported the sequester will slash $85 billion in federal spending between Friday and the end of September.
Not true. The $85 billion figure represents sequester cuts on an annual basis. With just seven months left in the fiscal year, the actual reduction for the period would be about $46 billion.
At a rate of $85 billion a year within the $3.8 trillion federal budget for this year, allowing the sequester to take place would reduce federal spending by only about 2.3 percent.
During 2011-12, we taxpayers got a bit of a break in the amount of our paychecks withheld to help pay for Social Security. For two years, 4.2 percent of our pay was withheld for the purpose.
But Obama and Congress allowed that to expire Jan. 1, letting the withholding rate go up to 6.2 percent. Washington is keeping 2 percentage points more of what you earn than it did last year.
That means the approximately 143.3 million Americans who have jobs were forced on Jan. 1 to cut our spending (or saving) by 2 percent – nearly the same rate of belt-tightening Uncle Sam faces from the sequester.
You don't recall White House wailing and gnashing of teeth about that, because virtually nothing was said in Washington when we taxpayers were told we had to make do with less.
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Southerly winds today will be in the 15-30 mph range - gusts above 30 mph will likely occur on rivers/lakes/open areas.
Rainfall totals later today into tonight will range from 0.30"-0.60" with pockets of greater than 1" possible in the heaviest downpours.
It will be warm enough for this precipitation event to be in the form of rain.
Our next weather maker will arrive on Thursday/Thursday night. There remain some questions on the exact timing of the precipitation. If the precipitation moves in sooner on Thursday morning then a mixture of freezing rain, sleet, and snow will fall across our region. If the precipitation holds off until the late afternoon hours then there will be a better chance of rain (at least over parts of our region).
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Hikohadon wrote:peeker643 wrote:I'm with you on Barkley. He does nothing for me. But there's a chance you'll have to do something at that spot. Might as well give him a try. If it doesn't work there's 2014.
We'll just step by your crybaby comments about being called a crybaby...
Unless Weeden is just awful all season, there's little chance they draft a QB in the 1st anyway, but even if you do you don't re-draft Colt McCoy at the top of the 2013 draft when you could just suck with the current Colt McCoy for free. There will be better QB's than Barkley available. He's just the only one a lot of people have name recognition with.
Good point.
Guys like Tannehill and Weeden weren't close to being on anyone's 1st round radar last year at this time and look how well things turned out for those guys!!!
They made bank when someone was stone cold stupid enough to go get them early!!
Ugh.... I can't imagine the OBR site right now. It'd be worth joining just to read it.
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Surprisingly, the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal of a New Mexico photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex ceremony. That refusal violated a New Mexico anti-discirmination law, and the New Mexico Supreme Court previously held that Elane Photography lacked a First Amendment protection against the law. Here's what I wrote about that decision in August.


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Building and Enforcing an Endpoint Security Strategy
By most any measurement, your endpoint devices see more exposure to risk than any other system in your organization. The way in which you protect those devices will most certainly have a significant impact on the overall security posture of your network and its resources. Whether your organization's crown jewels are intellectual property, customer data or even top-secret information, all of that will ultimately pass through your endpoints at one time or another. This report recommends how you can protect your resources and data from compromise at that most crucial point in your network. (S7020613)
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Madre Hill, Superstar wrote:The series MVP to this point is not the guy wearing #23. And that's the problem.
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They have to strat getting physical on RR . Make no mistake, the Cavs a a HUGE basketball team, even for NBA standrads.
Time to get down and dirty. Need so FF's when Mr 6 ' 1" 170 drives the lane. Not saying they need to go Mahorn's elbow on Price, but RR is way to comfortable out there.
A the sage Gerard Warren once said when quoting the poet Trick daddy, "Killa da head aand da body dead."
Time to get a little old school. You give up some fT's but the toll will be taken on lil Rajon.


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Editors note: The following was sent to Montanas congressional delegation on behalf of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.
Because there is much discussion among gun owners of Montana about proposals by Sen. Diane Feinstein and others for Congress to enact various types of gun control, I though you would appreciate knowing what I hear from Montanans about this.
I speak to you as a person intimately familiar with firearms, with public policy about firearms, as a person accepted in state and federal courts as an expert on firearms, firearms safety and use of force, and as the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, Montanas primary organization asserting the right to keep and bear arms, also affiliated or associated with the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Second Amendment Foundation.
On behalf of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, I wish to express our unequivocal opposition to any ban on any class or type of firearms, any new registration requirements on any class or types of firearms, any restrictions on manufacture, sale or possession of ammunition feeding devices of any configuration or capacity, and any government intrusion into firearm transfers between private citizens. Any congressional actions in any of these areas would be an infringement upon the rights the citizens of Montana have reserved to themselves.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article II, Section 12 of the Montana Constitution these sections of these foundational documents are not government permission to keep firearms. They are statements whereby the people have reserved these rights to themselves specifically from government interference.
These statements do not create any rights, but simply recognize preexisting natural rights which are restricted from government interference. As you consider whatever gun control (actually people control) may be offered by Sen. Feinstein or others, I hope you will keep these facts clearly in mind.
Gun-free zones are a terrible failure of public policy. Virtually all mass shootings, including the one in Connecticut that has sparked the current wave of media hysteria, happen in places where public policy has incorrectly assured people that they are safe, but where the policy has actually created risk-free zones for madmen, and pools of defenseless victims conveniently offered up for slaughter by failed policy.
Former police officer Ron Avery says, The only way to check violence in progress, where the victim can neither hide nor flee, is by equal or greater force in a timely manner. If Congress feels compelled to do something in the wake of the Connecticut shooting, it should repeal the pretense of all federally-mandated or federally-inspired gun-free zones.
For any inside the Beltway who actually believe in the effectiveness of gun-free zones, I recommend that the White House, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, the U.S. Supreme Court and all federal courthouses be declared gun-free zones, and that all armed guards and protective personnel in those places be removed. If gun-free zones are effective for our kids, theyre good enough for our servants.
Various gun bans, licensing or registration schemes, and/or bans or restrictions of ammunition feeding devices will fail. I wont bother you with discussion of the fact that any such restrictions will have no effect on criminals or madmen. I believe you already know that.
I do hope to inform you about how strongly the gun owners of Montana feel about their right to keep and bear arms. I have asked around among a considerable number of friends, acquaintances and contacts in Montana. I have not learned of anyone who would comply, for example, with a new federal law requiring them to register or surrender their semi-auto rifles to authorities.
Let me be very clear: Montanans will not comply with any new federal restrictions. The most any such restrictions would do would be to create a huge, new, armed, outlaw class of citizens. And I very much doubt that most Montana law enforcement personnel would cooperate in enforcing any such federal restrictions.
Clearly, the vast numbers of citizens who have bought new firearms in the past month, especially the hundreds of thousands of expensive semi-auto rifles, did not buy these new firearms simply so theyd have them available to surrender if Congress should pass a law demanding they do so.
Since Montana law enforcement personnel are unlikely to enforce any such restrictions, the effect of passage of such restrictions would ultimately be for federal officers to come to Montana to enforce them. Because most Montanans will simply not comply with any new federal restraints on a right they have reserved specifically from government interference, the obvious result would be armed conflict between Montanans and federal enforcers. (I offer this not as a threat or a challenge, but simply as an observation.)
I certainly hope you would not set Montana on the path to an armed conflict with federal enforcers by aiding or supporting passage of any new federal restrictions. That would not be in the best interest of your constituents.
Instead, if you feel compelled to pass some actually corrective legislation in response to the media hysteria over the Connecticut shooting, I highly recommend that you get rid of those dangerous and illusory gun free zones.
Gary Marbut, of Missoula, is the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.
One way or another...
Each Orange Dot Is a Gun Owner
Then the US government would have went into coo coo bird land. If Wacos happen, anti-government guerrilla warfare cells would form all over the US.
The money quote. Advice to gun-grabbing politicians: think and live.
They only got away with this once.
That's the general idea.
Eliminate the US as a effective presence the world stage, provide a free hand for the establishment of ummah.
Ever wonder why we aren't mentioned in Revelation?
what's never said is, that even without the 2nd amendment, no where does the Constitution allow the federal government to do anything about guns - no registering, no background checks, no permits. Nothing.
Ruby Ridge?
Hundreds of anonymous SWAT raids?
Perhaps "once" has a different definition in your dictionary.
Yet they do.
The government may attack a few fringe groups without serious problems. But trying to take the guns of the population at large has been tried before. It started the most important war in US history.
Smaller country, but still - if America can marshall a few million out of the 80 million gun owners....
I don't think the Maoists have the balls to really try by making their idiotic and megalmaniac fantasies come true...but we will see.
I know about RR quite well. The FBI's Sniper Lon Noriuchi murdered his wife and child. It was entrapment and murder, but not on the wholesale scale of Waco where the government murdered dozens of women and children and used US troops to do it. All the rest were SWAT, ATF and FBI.
The picture is what I was remarking on. It won't happen again without a rebellion or repercussions.
Are Americans a different species than the people in those countries? Do we really have some magical genetic protection from it ever happening here?
Yes, it's called individualism. You won't find that prevalent around the world except in the US.
saw a show on that this morning early. They showed the video of all the ATF agents during the gun battle and after the cease fire was declared.
Certainly not America's finest moment.
We need to make sure they never, ever, ever have confidence that they can indeed pull it off.
The instant they believe they can get away with it, without any personal loss, they will try it.
So what if a few hundred, or a few thousand LEOs or Military are sacrificed on the alter of the greater good?
I believe we are now on the same page.
Before congress rushes to 'never let a crisis go to waste', they need to understand that every county has a sheriff and sheriffs are sworn to defend the constitution and protect their citizens from the feds if it comes to that.
I'm not going to get into a lot of your "what ifs" here... But the answers to your questions are easy to answer.
Neither will freepers
This says it all.
In 1929 , the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953 ,
about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
In 1911 , Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million
Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total
of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were
rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves , were rounded up and
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, one hundred
thousand Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves , were rounded up and
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, three hundred
thousand Christians , unable to defend themselves , were rounded up and
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977 ,one million
educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.
Yes we are different. For example we have an all volunteer military. Not mandatory service, not conscription not required for culture advancement, etc.
Do you know many individualists under 30? Are they a majority? A plurality? A minority? Or are they an anomaly?
They may yet save us.
You won't see me nully, but I'll wave to you from a distance when you're being ushered to a FEMA camp while you're also waiting for the coming Revelation. You know most of this is nonsense talk.
I don't think I'll be allowed to live long enough to see the inside of a FEMA camp.
I'm also an agnostic, for whatever that's worth.
All dressed up, destination unknown...
The author does touch the subject of every human being's 'natural right' to self-defense and the extension of this natural right.
Article - "These statements do not create any rights, but simply recognize preexisting natural rights "
If you mean "we" as in "you and I" then oh oh it is because we was smart enough to get out (all the way out) when the getting was GOOD!
I won't comply either. I reserve the authority to defend and protect my life and those I love from any aggression or aggressor who means to intimdate me into complying with their demand or whoever intends on injuring or killing anyone.
I will not be disarmed and made venerable, that is "defenseless".
It is my right and moral obligation, God given, to save myself, those I love and anyone near me from death.
I will use any means to overcome and overpower anyone or beast who would attempt to kill or maim.
You may have my guns after I run out of ammunition but, that ammunition will be sent downrange in your direction with accurate fire.
I have never nor do I have any thoughts of being a 1st aggressor and never harmed a man or thing who did not strike me first.
I abhor violence but, the only way prevent violence is the knowledge of all men that their first strike will be met with an even greater force to end their actions and that may very well result in great bodily injury to them or their death.
All men know this. The rational ones.
For the KuhRayZee and Demented, as well those who are evil, conscience has left them long ago as to what is right and what is wrong. For they will act on the stories they tell themselves and they are not to be trusted nor will they be allowed to prevail. The outcome for them is predictable. They will be ended or subdued and circumstances will dictate whatever the result is.
Leave me alone.
Well, we threw out the government those citizens chose to keep, so yes on GB.
Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia...
Those two governments don't exist anymore.
Commie China and Khmer Rouge Cambodia
Not much freedom for gun owners or anybody else in those two countries. We don't tolerate the other repressions routinely done in those countries, I don't know why anyone should expect we will roll over on the gun issues.
Do we really have some magical genetic protection from it ever happening here?
No we don't. And previous stands against tyranny doesn't provide magic protection today. That is why we have to be prepared to refresh the Tree of Liberty any time it is needed. We just need to provide it with some tyrants along with the patriots.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
- Ronald Reagan
Either the Book of Revelation is wrong, and even as an agnostic that bothers me*, or we are rendered irrelevant in the Final Battle.
That bothers me too.
*Yes, I know that makes absolutely no sense. It is what it is...
Most of us hard working folks cannot afford the time off work and the cost of the fight, but I have longed for someone with the means and temperament to be arrested for open carry and take it all the way to SCOTUS. No where in the 2nd does it say anything about concealed permits and other such nonsense and restrictions, but we have tolerated it in fear of the fight to SCOTUS not turning out our way. Actually now and with the next SCOTUS appointment that fear rings true.
Just like when Wyatt Earp and others posted their towns as no-gun zones, that was against the law but some people think he was justified.
Nully won't be going anywhere. I'll be at his side sending .308 downrange.
Neither will ours, at least in any recognizable form, if they go down that bloody road.
No we don't. And previous stands against tyranny doesn't provide magic protection today.
That is exactly my point.
Perhaps you should modify your first line in post #2 so that it reads: "they will try..."
Hopefully, we can avoid that by not being home when they come knocking...
I do fear that they will comply, one way or another, even if it requires that every mother's son of them be buried without their guns.
And we have just the man eager to accept Edgar's terms (MIB) in the white house right now.
I suppose I could have said "The Montanans will try not to." but then "One way or another..." wouldn't fit.
"Beast out of the Earth or Beast out of the sea" I bet we are, but not in a way American Christians would hope that we would be...
The Beast system may have a power base, and broke though we are only invites a charismatic madman who takes control of our nukes, our military, and our air and space flight prowess....don't think we couldn't put things back together in the name of the "father land" under certain Nazi like conditions. Canada and Mexico could be easily annexed.
We could have a financial collapse, but that would just mean a military dictatorship arises that ignores our past national debt. We would be a wounded nation, but with nukes and what ever else they have never begun to tell us about. We still have vast supplies of oil, coal, and even rare earths that could be mined again once the "old order" including troublesome enviro's and Religious fanatics(many of which had suddenly vanished from the scene) were kicked out of the way.
Now what sort of Charismatic Satanically empowered Beast System wouldn't take advantage of all that to begin to assert its will upon the Earth...."Who is like unto the Beast and who is able to make war against it?" The US disappears or worse becomes the heart of a dark empire...perhaps even a few decades before the Beast and the final end of days scenario is played out!
We are in the Book of Revelations, imho. We are Israel.
I thought you meant the government, hence I was thinking "they will try".
even if it requires that every mother's son of them be buried without their guns.
I suspect the government will run out of ammo before the people do.
Tim McVeigh is a murderous a**h*le who gave us a national tragedy including the re-election of Bill Clinton. But he did plant this seed in the mind of every federal storm trooper who is inclined to these type of excesses.
got away? not exactly. Remember there was that whole disagreement thing that McVeigh had with the Fedz so he made a major "point" in Okie City. I'm pretty sure most Fedz realize they would be surrounded if another clusterflock like Waco develops
"...every county has a sheriff and sheriffs are sworn to defend the constitution and protect their citizens from the feds if it comes to that."
I live in a fairly rural coastal area of Maine. Most people in Maine are armed to the teeth. The majority of them are pro-second amendment.
In late December, Donnie Smith, the sheriff of Washington County, Maine, called for an "assault weapons" ban. This "sheriff" said that people aren't allowed to own SCUD missiles or nuclear weapons, so they shouldn't be allowed to own "assault weapons." What?! He's equating semi-automatic rifles with nuclear weapons?
Fortunately, I don't live in Washington County, Maine, a rural coastal county in "downeast" Maine, in the northeast corner of the state. It is a poor county, but like all of rural Maine, people are well-armed.
Meanwhile, these tiny police and sheriff departments around the nation have FULLY automatic weapons, armored personnel carriers, drones and aggressive SWAT teams who, in numerous cases, serve warrants for minor offenses. The feds are giving THEM all sorts of military equipment. Yet, they want to strip US of our constitutional rights.
A sheriff I greatly admire is Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona, halfway between Phoenix and Tucson. I've heard him on talk radio and he is very conservative and pro-second amendment. Great guy.
different species? genetic protection? Nope——just armed to the teeth and not really interested in being a marxist's subject. For my own part I've never started a fight but have indeed finished a few. Not a good career move for a dumbass, public or private.
I can't make that interpretation work in my mind.
mdmathis6's interpretation better fits the current trajectory and human nature.
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US Women Win Gold at the World Mountain Running Championships - Page 2
Men repeat fourth place finish from 2011
In the men's race, another newcomer – and former Nordic skier – led the U.S. team to a fourth-place finish. Glenn Randall, 25, of Mesa, Colorado – who finished fourth at the U.S. men's team qualifier in June – finished ninth overall, covering the 14.1-kilometer course (which featured over 1100 meters in elevation gain) in 1:05:48.
"I managed to move up into the top 20 or so very early, and tried to hold that position through most of Temu, the village where the race started," says Randall. "After we left Temu, the race flattened out a bit…during this section I used my leg speed to move into the top 10. At this point, the Eritreans were really pushing the pace, and I held a pace that I felt was reasonable, telling myself that I definitely wanted to have energy for the latter stages of the race."
"I felt like I did a very good job preparing for the course," he continues. "The really steep ups and downs seemed to catch a few people off guard, but I was happy with my preparation for them. There are almost always parts that I wish I'd done a better job with, but I think I prepared as well as I could have."
Fellow newcomer and 2012 U.S. Mountain Running champion Sage Canaday, of Boulder, Colorado, finished 12th overall in 1:05:55 and USMRT veteran Joe Gray, of New Castle, Washington, finished 14th overall in 1:06:20. Eric Blake, of New Britain, Connecticut, rounded out the team scoring with a 53rd-place finish in 1:10:00. The US men's team scored 88 points – lower than the 112 it scored last year – but matched its fourth-place finish of a year ago. Eritrea won the team title with 17 points; Italy won silver with 31 and Russia finished third with 75.
"Having interviewed all of the seniors post-race, those that had a less-than-expected result learned a lot from what went wrong and plan to apply what they learned to future races," says Hobbs.
She also noted that the junior team members gained valuable experience by racing in a world championship event. The junior women's team, led by a 17th-place finish by San Diego's Kelly Lawson, placed ninth of 15 teams; the junior men's team, led by University of Richmond runner Jordan Chavez's 17th-place finish, placed sixth out of 16 teams.
"The U.S. mountain running program is thriving," says Hobbs. "There are more athletes interesting in being on the team than ever before and the competition for team spots is lifted a few notches every year. I think we'll see some of the same athletes on the 2013 team, and perhaps some newcomers.
A record 40 total nations competed in the 212 World Mountain Running Championships, which was the 28th edition of the event. Complete results can be found here.