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> Since 2000, Jefferson County, along with over 700 rural counties across the country, has received an annual federal payment to compensate for a decline in timber harvest levels.
Unless the U.S. Congress takes action to extend the payments when it reconvenes in 2007, the $837,851 check the county receives in the next few weeks will be its last.
"This is going to hurt a lot if it doesn't happen," said Geoff Stuckart, media liaison for Sen. Ron Wyden. Stuckart said that Congress adjourned early Saturday morning without allowing consideration of an amendment cosponsored by Wyden and Sen. Gordon Smith to extend the $500 million in payments for another year.
The joint legislation would have closed a tax loophole that allows government contractors to avoid tax obligations to help fund the extension.
"Now we go back into the next Congress that convenes in early January, and this is top priority for senators," said Stuckart. "Congress will be a new place. There will be new faces, obviously new leadership. We hope they will be more sympathetic to the plight of rural communities than the current leadership was."
The original law, called the Secure Rural School and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, was enacted to address the decline in revenue from timber harvest on federal lands in recent years. Counties such as Jefferson relied upon those payments, which were based upon an average of the top three years of payments from federal lands within their borders.
The funding, over half of which goes to counties in Oregon, has been used to support roads in rural counties and all of Oregon's public schools.
The bulk of the funds received by Jefferson County goes to the County Road Department, which is also supported by gas tax and vehicle registration fees, but no local property tax money.
Because the road department receives no general fund money from the county, it will take the largest hit if the funding is discontinued, according to Mike McHaney, director of the road department.
For the current year, with projected revenue of $1,892,111 for the department, the timber payment will account for about $554,611 of that -- approximately 29 percent.
"The federal government has historically understood the need for counties to be compensated for the federal lands in their county that cannot be taxed locally," he explained.
With 650 miles of roads across the county -- 257 paved miles, 220 graveled miles, with the balance in primitive roads -- the department, which still has the same level of staffing that it had in the 1980s, has its hands full.
"We've been preparing, knowing that this could be a reality," McHaney said. "We've been pretty frugal in what we spend; we'll have a healthy beginning fund balance. We've known this was a possibility."
McHaney hates to speculate about what will happen to his department if the funding stops. "Obviously we're hoping that they deal with it in the new Congress," he said.
Although most of the funding goes to roads, School District 509-J will receive about $154,000 for the current school year, according to Dan Chamness, chief financial officer for the district.
"It's been as high as $225,000 a year," he said, noting that the amount is based on a state school formula. "It hurts all schools. It reduces the amount total available for schools. It impacts even schools that do not get federal forest receipts."
While $154,000 represents less than half of a percent of the school's $33,360,000 general fund budget, Chamness pointed out that all funding sources are important.
"The bigger impact would be the incidental impact; we use a lot of county roads," he said, noting the importance of well-maintained roads for the school buses that transport the district's students.
The balance of the county payment -- over $125,000 this year -- supports Resource Advisory Committees, which recommend projects affecting federal lands, and six categories of specific projects: search, rescue and emergency services on federal lands; community service work camps for federal lands; easement purchases; forest-related educational opportunities; fire prevention and county planning; and community forestry.
"It's going to be very difficult," commented County Commissioner Bill Bellamy, who isn't optimistic about the chances for a renewal of the funding source.
"It's too bad, but we knew it was a five-year program," he said. "I think our best chance was this year."
Bellamy noted that with over half the money going to Oregon, "It's very difficult to convince the other senators and representatives from the other states that they should allocate this kind of money to one state, and we knew that."
He would like to see the state encouraging the production of more timber. "There's absolutely no reason why the forests in the state of Oregon are not able to produce more harvestable timber," he said. "If we had more timber going to the sawmills, that would be the answer to the problem."


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After getting sick for the first time in years (a sinus infection that I helped "manage" with large amounts of herbs, vitamin C and rest), I am reminded of how complex our immune system is, and how much more we are learning about it. This link to Kelly Brogan, MD is a good intro to this doctor and her world view, with an emphasis on the intricacies of immunity. The comments were also interesting.
For the 3 weeks I was fighting the infection I refrained from eating any added sugars (I was about 98% compliant). Just before I got sick I ate more sugar than I usually do (which is very little since it seems that genetically I am prone to blood sugar imbalances) because it was the holidays. Just a reminder to self that sugar reduces the body's immune response. An excellent explanation of this is found in this link:
Even though I cannot remember where I read this research, it seems that the body does not do as well with single large amounts of oral Vitamin C as smaller amounts spread out evenly throughout the day. To get your blood titer up and constant seems to be the best strategy, and to do that, you want to take about 200 mg. of Vitamin C per hour. When I was sick I used a powdered vitamin C (with bioflavonoids, which help potentiate the C) and lemon juice.
May the rest of this winter be a healthy one for you and your loved ones.
Dear Friends,
Ever since the first free webinar series (which one could also purchase) about gluten sensitivity there have been multiple series about many pressing health problems. Much of the information has been pretty decent, and often collated from a good variety of alternative practitioners and sources. This one regarding cancer seems like another good bet to watch, with an interesting line up. I've earmarked 5 of the 9 episodes as having possibly new information for me, and I study this stuff as part of my business. It's still tricky trying to process new information as I heal from my accident, but that's what note taking is for!
So if you'd like free access (which lasts for approx. the time of the episode's showing and then 23 hours afterwards) please sign up using this linkhttp://go.thetruthaboutcancer.com/?pid=293c9a6c-4cdc-4abf-8132-0e16676dc47b:
Too many of my friends and relatives have battled cancer, not always successfully. Let's support one another in finding ways to prevent cancer, not just naively buying big medical's hype about early detection. And not all alternative cancer treatments are wishful thinking and quackery: some really work well, even though they are demonized by big pharma.
It's been a longish hiatus since I last wrote, and teaching and gardening are boiling away on the front burners.
So much of what we've been learning in our class on anatomy and physiology is the stupendously intricate complexity of the human body. And that science is still figuring us out. New hormones, proteins, enzymes, etc. are still being discovered. Ways everything interacts is still being parsed. Really intelligent people can read the same data and draw very different conclusions. Our own journey affects how we understand the concept of being a human…
In studying the digestive system and now adding nutrition, we are learning not just the basics, but the basics from a variety of viewpoints. The concept of a "calorie" turns out to be incredibly "loaded" with politics, belief systems and which scientists/studies you trust. Who knew!? And hardly anyone except "radical granola types" pay any attention to the primary basis of all health: the health of a country's soil. And yet studies are showing up even in the mainstream that state that our food today is less nutritious that it was even 50 years ago. When we "mine" our soil, and don't "put back" the minerals and organic matter and healthy microbes, then the plants don't have the same nutritional content in their cells, because the soil is deficient. Add the GMO, herbicide and pesticide issues, not to mention processing whole foods to death, plus artificial chemicals….well, it becomes tremendously difficult to find quality food in an average supermarket.
And that, dear reader is the crux: quality of food is the basis of health.
I just looked at my last blog posting, and realized I've taken a 2 month hiatus without planning to…Yes, there were holidays, and crazy weather everywhere, and inventory (my least favorite activity), and maybe a bit of fatigue: the attack on our food and health is unrelenting, and constantly pointing this out gets tiresome.
SO: this spring (in the Celtic calendar spring begins with Imbolc/Candlemas, as the days get longer and buds swell) I am going to take a break from gloom and doom and focus on positive steps we can all take towards reclaiming our authority and agency around our heath and healing process. As the old saying goes: the personal is political. And yes, systemic change means more than just our personal choices, and yet where we choose to spend our money and how we treat ourselves really does matter, for both our own healing journey and the planet's.
I am currently teaching 5 students one morning a week, and have been (with some breaks) since last June. We've been going on plant identification field trips, learning how to make herbal medicine, and now we are studying anatomy and physiology for herbalists. We are having a great time as adult learners, and are amazed that we didn't get this information about how our body works in school. Even those professionals who took A and P didn't get the "big picture" with a paradigm that is health based (and the one we are studying comes from Michael Moore, southwest herbalist who died in 2009). There is much good info that I plan to share here from this ongoing course.
Here's your first "assignment" (oh, and there are no tests, no grades, just an informative exploration into the mysteries on the body/mind): notice what you eat. Just pay attention. No judgments, no shaming self, no excuses. If you want extra credit, write what you eat (and I mean everything that goes in your mouth) for the next week. You will be amazed…
This post by Rodale is a compendium of natural cold and cough remedies. The only caveat: there are brand names used that I would NOT recommend. For honey, use raw and wild (less pesticides, and all the enzymes intact). For salt, use any bulk salt that is natural (Himalayan pink, sea salt, etc.) because they don't contain additives (like anti-caking agents). For black pepper, get certified organic: not sprayed, not irradiated.
here's the link: http://www.rodalenews.com/natural-cough-remedies?cm_mmc=TheDailyFixNL-_-1529492-_-12112013-_-13_Natural_Remedies_for_Coughs_and_Colds_text
The following article comes from a newsletter of Friends of the Trees, and contains valuable info about the current situation in Fukushima, as well as info on protecting yourself from radiation. The link to the health and radiation protection protocol is an infomercial for the guy's products. That said, the info is still useful, though I may disagree with certain points made. It's at least a place to start…and no, no one really wants to think about this. We really don't want to know how close we are to a radiation disaster on top of what is already happening as amazing amounts of radiation are pouring into the Pacific Ocean. It is so much easier to just think about our Thanksgiving plans….
Within the next two weeks the workers at the Fukushima plant are going to try to remove spent fuel rods that are suspended on damaged racks. They weigh about 400 tons all together and contain radiation equivalent to 14,0000 times the amount released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. This is very dangerous work, not just for the workers, or Japan, but for the entire world. There's a media blackout about the gravity of the situation (and has been for two years) but right now I believe that prayers are needed more than ever.
The seriousness of it extends far beyond the removal of the airborne fuel rods, but this one act of removal is extremely dangerous and could impact all of us within a rather short amount of time. I believe it needs out utmost attention and prayers. I would like to ask that we join together in daily prayers* for the next month focusing on stabilization of the plant, of the fuel rods, of the workers safety and fair working conditions, and for their utmost competence in facing this daunting global responsibility. A request that prayers focus on the world community coming together, encouraging the best nuclear specialists and global engineers to step forward in a unified manner, bringing their expertise and best plans in stabilizing and containing leaks and damage to the plant.
Lastly, may we pray for stabilization for the entire nuclear plant, including the end of radioactive leaking and contamination of the Waters, and for the renewed health of our Pacific Ocean, and all marine life there.
All thoughts on how to add or build onto this multi-faceted prayer for stabilization, safety, and protection – of the plant, workers, families, waters, marine life, and global community.
Amaji has asked us to pray for a successful conclusion of the removal of the fuel rods at Fukushima's crippled reactor pools. There is a potential for a catastrophic explosion during this process which would cause a huge emission of radioactive elements into the whole world.
Here is one such prayer, which you can add to as you see fit.
Prayer to the Devas of Radioactive Elements
"I pray to the great devas of the radioactive elements, uranium, plutonium and others that they will closely oversee the removal of the Fukushima fuel rods without great release of radioactivity. Furthermore, I pray that they will closely oversee Fukushima and all the other nuclear power plants until they can be closed and safely dismantled. I include here all the nuclear weapons on the planet as well. I appreciate the natural role that the radioactive elements play on the Earth. It is humans that have concentrated the radioactive elements for their own ends. May you assume your natural roles and not be allowed to be used for evil purposes or to greatly harm the human race and other species.
I ask my guides to carry this prayer up to the highest levels they can reach and so on until this prayer reaches the ears of the highest devas of the radioactive elements and to the ears of the great deva which overlights all of humanity. I send this prayer also to the ears of the great Overlighting Logos of the planet Earth. Sanat Kumara, Gaia or whatever other names may be used for this great Being that ensouls our planet.
Thank you for hearing our prayers. So be it."
Of course we should also be praying to all of the spiritual allies of the human race.
*Perhaps the prayers could begin everyday at 10:00 am Pacific time, 11:00 Colorado, 12:00 noon Chicago, 1:00 East Coast time. Other suggestions?
While researching nascent iodine for protection against radioactivity I came across the following article on protecting yourself from radiation and we should probably all read it closely at this time. Living With Radiation: Protection Starts Today by Hank Liers, PhD
If you want to continue purchasing healthy, fresh , local produce from family farms, this issue is critical. It takes a few minutes, but essential to allow small farms the freedom to continue growing the best food.
FDA DEADLINE APPROACHING: Please Get Your Proxy in the Mail ASAP Your Voice Could Make the Difference in Saving the Family Farms Producing Our Best Food
http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/11/deadline-get-proxy-fda-rules-force-localorganic-farms-business/ You can make a difference. Please help save our nation's diversified produce farmers from potential ruin! The FDA's proposed food safety rules threaten to ensnare many of the country's safest farmers in a tangle of expensive, misdirected regulations that may force many of our best farmers out of business.
Download, sign and mail back to us the linked proxy-letter today! The public comment deadline closes in a few days.
Thousands of you have already made the effort to mail your proxy-letter back to Cornucopia for hand delivery to the FDA. If you have yet to do so, please act now.
If you have already mailed your proxy, let your friends know they can help too by sharing this message via email, Facebook, Twitter and whatever other options you use.
Better food safety oversight of factory farms and giant agribusinesses is needed – and appropriate – but it appears that the FDA and corporate lobbyists are using these food safety proposals to simultaneously crush the organic and local farming movements. Together we can defend those farmers producing local, fresh, safe and nutritionally superior food.
Cornucopia will hand-deliver the thousands of proxies we have collected directly to the FDA. But time is growing short. If you want additional background information, please visit our food safety page.
It is critical for the good food community to come together right now. We know you enjoy the bounty of nutritious, healthful food produced by our nation's best farmers. Please help protect family-scale farmers and maintain this alternative in the marketplace. It is worth fighting for.


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By Ridge Mahoney
Back in April, long before Sporting Kansas City battled through a season that would eventually match it again against playoff
nemesis Houston, Graham Zusi hedged a bit speaking about the importance of reaching the MLS Cup title game.
He wouldn't call 2013 a
make-or-break season. He didn't have to. The ultimate objective was clear. Housed in a great stadium and backed by zealous fans, SKC had twice stumbled short of its objective.
"It's certainly a goal for us, that's what we put down on paper as what we want to accomplish this year as different from past years," said Zusi in reference to Dynamo
knockouts in 2011 and 2012.
"We're certainly going to do everything in our power to get there, to get to that final, and to bring a championship to Kansas City. I'm not
going to say this is the only year to do it. You're constantly trying to evolve as a team and as an individual as much as possible. I'm not going to put a timeline on it but that
doesn't mean we're not trying to take it."
Road to MLS Cup 2013:
New England-Sporting
Sporting KC-New England: 3-1
Houston-Sporting KC: 0-0
Sporting KC-Houston: 2-1
For Zusi and Sporting Kansas City, the time has come. A 2-1 defeat of
Houston in its home leg of the Eastern Conference finals has brought the title game to Kansas City, an accomplishment that marks a milestone in the evolution of a team that spent more than a decade in
a football stadium and minor-league baseball park.
Head coach Peter Vermes remembers those days well. As defensive linchpin of the former Kansas
City Wizards, he lifted the 2000 MLS Cup following a 1-0 defeat of Chicago. Since then, coaches have come and gone, the team was sold by the Hunt family, and a spectacular futuristic facility,
Sporting Park, has arisen in what many observers long ago proclaimed as a dead market for professional soccer.
"It's definitely changed the entire city in that regard,"
says Vermes, a native of New Jersey and former U.S. international. "I'd say it's not a change in the fan base, it's a change in the whole cult following. It's been
Its gleaming $200 million home –
which is regularly packed with raucous fans and bedecked with banners such as the one that reads "WELCOME TO THE BLUE HELL" -- has already this season staged the league's All-Star
Game and a U.S. Hexagonal defeat of Jamaica, and on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, ESPN) it will complete a unique trifecta of hosting major events. It will also close a circle of sorts, particularly for men
like assistant coach Kerry Zavagnin, who came to the Wizards in 2000 for a tryout after fizzling out with the MetroStars, who had traded him to Colorado in
exchange for -- Vermes. Reunited in his first season as a Wizard, Zavagnin and Vermes anchored the middle of a championship team that in other respects was anything but top-drawer.
"Peter and I remind each other that these guys look at us and say, 'Yeah, whatever," when we tell those back-in-the-day stories," says Zavagnin, who finished his playing career
with the Wizards in 2008. "We have to be careful how often we tell them because they'll get sick and tired of it, but it's absolutely true. We've told the stories about having
to change in the back of our trainer's truck to get taped. The site where our training facility [Swope Park] is where we also trained in 2000, and it looks a lot different.
"When I came here in January of 2000, I came here for a tryout. I was here for a week and had been picked in the third round [No. 30 overall], and I thought, 'This is a good opportunity,
I'll see what turns out of it. If I establish myself, maybe I go somewhere else,' and 13 years later I'm still here."
Real Salt
Lake: Makeover team makes way to final
Years before the team
officially went up for sale, Robb Heinemann -- a private equity investor who is now CEO -- had lobbied the Hunt family to abandon the home it shared with the
NFL Chiefs. Vermes was hired as technical director in November 2006, shortly after OnGoal LLC, a group led by medical software moguls Clif Illig and Neal Patterson, purchased the team from Hunt Sports Group.
A frugal era that could be subtitled "Arrowhead Forever" had ended and a month
later the first man to invest in MLS, Lamar Hunt, died. He'd spearheaded the league's startup and built modest MLS stadiums in Columbus and Dallas; OnGoal
went all-in.
Sporting Park opened to incredible fanfare in June 2011, endowed with sleek technological features and spectacular amenities. Video screens are everywhere. There are 200 wifi
access points. Foodies rave about the menu options. The grass field is impeccable and in their locker room, SKC players can relax on ergonomic chairs.
For Zusi, whose rookie season in
2009 landed him at CommunityAmerica Ballpark and its baseball billboards and room for maybe 11,000 fans to watch action on a field laid at a crazy angle, the worlds couldn't be more different.
He's one of the league's brightest stars playing for a flagship franchise with a World Cup on his horizon.
"From what I came into to what it is now, not many words can
describe it," he says. "If you haven't seen it yourself, it's tough to comprehend and imagine. I wouldn't have believed it if you told me back then we'd go to what
we have now. It's been a true transformation. It's a testament to the ownership group and their faith in the team and really the dedication they put it forth to make it happen."
By opening day of the new stadium, Vermes -- who had taken over the coaching duties after Curt Onalfo was dismissed in August 2009 -- and his staff
were well into the implementation of a 4-3-3 system and more importantly, trying to ingrain a mentality of winning it all. By finally surviving the playoffs to end a 13-year absence from the title
game, SKC has also won the right to host it.
Tickets for the championship game sold out in less than an hour. Projected temperatures are in the low 20s. No matter. "The
Cauldron" will be bubbling, the blue smoke intense. Scalpers will clean up if their freezing fingers can exchange tickets for cash. What seemed unthinkable less than a decade ago is now fact:
Kansas City is soccer cool personified.
"You look around the league and think of the top fan bases and best places to play," says Zusi. "A couple of years ago, Kansas
City wasn't even on the radar. Now you can say they're at the top of the league in both of those categories. It makes me appreciate it all that more because I saw what it was and what it
is now.
"That's not to say I didn't feel that my first couple of years, because I did. I was doing what I love for a living and it's doesn't get much better
than that. But, yeah, there's now the benefit of playing in the best stadium in the league in front of the best fans."
And with a chance to prove they are the best team.


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Mr Justice Wilkie discharged the jury after the forewoman told him on the fourth day of their deliberations that there was no prospect of them reaching either a unanimous or majority verdict.
The defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, admitted Kiyan's manslaughter on May 18 after a play fight turned fatal. But he denied murder.
He told police afterwards that it was an accident. The knife he was carrying at the time "was like a toy I carried around every day", he allegedly told officers. He said he had only intended to scratch Kiyan.
He accepted he had killed him, but denied he intended to murder him or cause serious injury.
Kiyan, a promising footballer who played for Queens Park Rangers youth team, was stabbed in the heart outside the school gates of the London Academy, Edgware, north London.
The case will be listed next Friday for a date of the retrial to be fixed.
Kiyan's parents, Tracey Cumberbatch, 39, and Mark Prince, 37, were in court when the seven women and five men jurors were discharged. The jury had spent a total of 13 hours eight minutes deliberating.
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A group of primary schools in Kenyas
Pokot and Turkana tribes districts is improving its management and
education quality by using computers and training teachers and
administrators in the use of them. Ultimate goal is to significantly
reduce the dropout rate of primary schools students.
In the first year, with
the support of IICD and Edukans in
the Connect4Change consortium and local partner NCCK Northrift, 4
schools will be targeted: 2 in West Pokot County and 2 in Turkana
District. Both these areas are located in the Northern part of the
Rift Valley Province. With the support
of Edukans, community education facilitators train the School
Management Committees on their roles and responsibilities in the
management of their schools. These management committees are elected
volunteers that have the mandate to approve or dismiss schools
To this improved management training,
IICD adds a digital component. An ICT officer was hired to support
and train the schools and equipment was procured and distributed to
the schools over the last few months. Coming June, staff will be
trained in the use of basic ICT for school administration (for
instance the use of Excel) and will discuss what should be in the
administration system. This will lead to a school administration
system where teachers, headmasters and administrators can more easily
store school results and monitor dropout rates. It is also easier for
teachers and administrators to keep the enrollment lists up to date
and to act swiftly if they see that someone is not attending class
regularly. They can also see how not attending classes regularly has
affected students grades.
Another advantage of a digitalised
administration system is that it gets easier for School Management
Committees in Pokot and Turkana districts to understand how money is
spent and how this could be improved. In the future, an online
component could also be added so financial and administrative data is
also available (in a secure way) if the committee members or school
staff are not at school and still would like to access the data.
Also, the
Pokot and Turkana are pastoralist people who are in a constant
conflict over land and cattle. About a third of the the children in
the IICD-supported schools in the region are orphan or miss at least
one parent because of this conflict. There is a lot of distrust
between the people, but schools indicate that they are interested in
using computers to get closer. A proposed idea was for each school to
build their own simple website to promote their school, which can
also be used for Turkana and Pokot children to share their ideas and
poetry. Though schools are quite far apart, at some point during the
implementation phase, schools could also visit each other. Teachers
and school management committees may be from different tribes, but
their all have the same aim: improving education, and using ICT to do
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In the past we've commemorated Black History Month by celebrating the names of great figures in history and the civil rights struggle. This year we salute some of the notable thespians, some now sadly forgotten, who have contributed so much to the cultural fabric of this country—and of course paying particular attention to their distinctive names.
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This is hilarious. Suddenly, the House Democrats are rewriting the rules for funded travel because a group of Republicans (and one Democrat) wants to visit the Gulf in July. Well, "rewriting" makes it sound like something official and accountable is going on. "Remaking it up as they go along" would apparently be more accurate.
The little shabby digs and jabs just keep coming out of the woodwork. Last week, the left-wing blogosphere was atwitter over the story that Bobby Jindal had activated fewer than half the national guardsmen Obama had authorized for Louisiana. Why, there Jindal was, complaining and bellyaching about how little Obama had done, and the hypocritical low-life hadn't even called up the Guard!
Fox News bothered to get Jindal's perspective on the issue, along with that of the other Gulf Coast governors, who also had called up far fewer guardsmen than they were authorized to. Fox talked to the Defense Department as well. As a moment's reflection would suggest, there was no good reason to call up more of the Guard, since it doesn't have the tools or expertise needed for the actual problem.
The Guard is already piling up sandbags, and Jindal had it start – in mid-June – making the sand berms he's been pushing for, until the federal government shut that operation down. What Jindal needs is offshore skimming and berms. The Guard can't skim for him, and the feds control whether the Guard can make berms for him. Why make the taxpayer fork over for an expanded call-up that won't address the problem?
All this petty nonsense is of a piece with Obama's unleaderly comments in Wisconsin today. John Boehner's take afterward – that it was simply a childish performance – about covers what there is to say about it.
Meanwhile, Gulf businesses that have been hurt due to loss of tourism may not be compensated from the $20 billion BP shakedown fund. This is interesting, as it certainly isn't hard to make the case that they are losing business as a direct and inevitable result of the oil spill. On the other hand, any rig workers idled by the Obama drilling moratorium won't be losing their income due to inevitable consequences of the oil spill, but due to an entirely discretionary decision by the administration. Nevertheless, early in June, the administration promised that those workers would be compensated from the BP shakedown fund.
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15. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Feb 20, 2007 8:15 PM (in response to 843849)
1. Is there no way to associate j9.exe or j9w.exe with jar filesSee http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=737820
so jar files would run just as any other application ?
2. If a shortcut has to be created, like the one quoted above,Why not try it?
is there no way to use relative paths?
3. In the shortcut, everything has to be inclosed in quotes ?Ditto.
16. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Jan 30, 2009 5:28 AM (in response to 843849)Hi All,
I would like to know, if anyone has tried java.awt.print on pocketPC with creme as jvm ??
Basically, I have an application which has to print barcode image.
But am facing the problem that, it does not supports printing..
Then i installed IBM's J9 onto my Windows Mobile Device CE 5.0 and tried to run my application by making a jar file and running it directly by double clicking on it..
I am getting an exception saying Printer not supported on this device..
Is there any way to print ??
Please Help.
17. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Mar 7, 2009 12:37 AM (in response to 843849)I started this post around 2006, and three years and nothing has changed...
I really hope Sun will eventually lose their hold in the cellular/pda market.
This company doesn't deserve to be a player in the field of PDAs
The missing implementations, the endless and strange standards, the CLDC/CDC/MIDP/Midlets confusions, the lack of beginner tutorials (lack of tutorials!!!), the mess, the amount of stuff not working, the error-in-compilation demos and examples....
All of those bring me to use .NET in my PDA, and advocating agains Sun wherever I can when it comes to cellulars/pda.
I really trully hope and wait to downfall of these terrible standards.
Keep your hands out of J2ME, or whatever they call it...
Frustrated like I never was before
18. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Mar 18, 2009 11:09 PM (in response to 843849)I should have looked at mirkhurramali's post sooner because I spent entire week just to set up the environment especially I'm new to java language as well. This indeed a good thread.
I'm not a developer anything, but I use both EVC and VS2005 for device before, and it's easier.
Edited by: TurtleJava on Mar 18, 2009 4:09 PM
19. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Jul 3, 2009 11:28 AM (in response to 843849)Hi,
I did a "step-by-step" tutorial last year, with every necessary step to construct a Pocket PC application "CDC"(running on Windows Mobile) using Swing.
If you follow every step, at the end you will get your application running. Here is the link http://www.codexistence.com/articles.php?id=1 .
20. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Jul 9, 2009 11:09 AM (in response to 843849)I've been studying Java with the Open University and would like to put into practice some of my newfound knowledge on the mobile side of things.
Can anybody help me get started by telling me which configuration I should be using with regard to CLDC/CDC-MIDP, are there any JDK's for the Touch HD etc?
I have tried searching but to no avail so far so would appreciated your help.
Also, is there a decent Java compiler that operates under WM6. As that would be novel to play around with too! I currently use NetBeans on my pc.
21. Re: Beginner Guide for developing GUI for Pocket PC843849 Sep 6, 2010 5:27 PM (in response to 843849)Hi,
thinlet + CrEme (nsicom) have a good performance.
Try the old version from thinlet... (thinlet-2005-03-28.zip)
Anybody try lwuit with CrEme, in production environment ?
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Remember that old Fry's Turkish Delight advert from the 1980s? The one with the lady in the dunes; the blowing sand; the twisty, sideways desert snake; the pipe music and the New Romantic Arab chap? Hang on, why was it all Arabian, when it's Fry's Turkish Delight? Oh well, it's all over that way, isn't it? And this was the 1980s.
Anyway, there are times when Wild Arabia (BBC2), a lavish three-part documentary about the wildlife, people and culture of the Arabian peninsula, feels like that. "For centuries an exotic and forbidden land has captured our imagination," says Alexander Siddig, narrating – and narrating passionately. Seriously? Exotic and forbidden? Still? "As dawn breaks, the story of the night's drama is left written in the sand," he says later, as if reading from the Arabian Nights itself. And this about a few tracks left by a pair of jirds (rats, basically) and a dung beetle.
If you can stomach the fruity narration, there are lots of lovely things to look at. I like the dhub lizard, which is sometimes black and sometimes white, depending on the time of day. A sort of reptilian Tim Westwood, then (there's probably a joke to be made about dhub reggae in there somewhere, if you can find it). I like the jeboa, a bit jird and a bit miniature kangaroo. And the elegant Arabian oryx, the animal that inspired the myth of the unicorn.
The dominant male of the oryx herd – entitled to 101 wives, one for every night of the story – is being challenged by a young buck. (They always have that storyline, these nature films, don't they?) He's defeated, and abandoned, left to fend for himself. "In this brutal place he may not last long," says Mr Siddig, with a heavy heart. Alas, poor oryx. It's not just about animals: there are also Bedouins, riding their camels past the ruins of ancient civilisations, across the "mighty sea of sand".
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text: AUSTIN, Texas, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyonic Corporation finalized the first $9 million portion of a committed $35 million investment into the company, intended to pilot a first-of-its-kind carbon capture and utilization plant in the U.S. that will demonstrate the viability of capturing and reusing carbon dioxide (CO2) as a profitable commercial-scale venture. Northwater Capital Management, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), BP (NYSE: BP), and PVS Chemicals are participating in the Series C funding, joining existing investors Carl Berg and Zachry Corporation. These funds will be used to support construction costs for the plant's groundbreaking this summer, advancement of its global IP portfolio of green carbon chemistry solutions, and other R&D and operations purposes. "Northwater Capital Management is excited to support Skyonic's efforts in carbon mineralization," said Frank Egan, Managing Director at Northwater. "Skyonic's green carbon chemistry technologies present a cost-effective solution to a problem that many industries have struggled with for years: emissions. We're excited to work with them in this first step towards a cleaner environment." Located at Capitol Aggregates, Inc., in San Antonio, Texas, the facility will capture 83,000 short tons and offset an additional 220,000 short tons of CO2 annually once it is operational in 2014. Skyonic's electrolytic carbon capture technology, SkyMine®, will selectively remove CO2, acid gases, and heavy metals emitted from the cement plant's flue gas streams and recycle it into hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate and other byproducts. Skyonic estimates the Capitol SkyMine plant will capture CO2 at a substantially lower cost than competitive technologies. Utilities for the plant will be provided by the City of San Antonio. "PVS is pleased to be working with Skyonic, who share a strong commitment to minimize the environmental impact of industry," said Scott Trussell President at PVS Chloralkali, Inc. "Skyonic's green carbon capture technologies present a scalable cost-effective solution for industry to reduce emissions." SkyMine® is a profitable carbonate mineralization technology that produces beneficial re‐use products in a safe, efficient and profitable manner. The process achieves this goal using low-cost chemical inputs, producing high-value chemical outputs and operating at energy-efficient conditions. A major differentiator is that SkyMine® captures CO2 as a stable solid, making it easy and safe for storage.


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Biogen, Gilead Get European Boost; RBC Bullish on Both
Shares of Biogen Idec (BIIB) and Gilead Sciences (GILD) are skyrocketing today after the European Union made some decisions that could provide a long-term boost for both stocks. The decision has also boosted shares across the biotech sector, as Celgene (CELG) and Regenron (REGN) also gain.
The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) has gained 1.7% to $125.18.
European regulators announced two major decisions today. First they said that Biogen would have 10 years of protection for its multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera, which gives Biogen a green-light for a European launch. It also approved Gilead Science's new drug for Hepatitis C.
RBC Capital Markets' Michael Yee and team explains the importance of the EU's decision for Biogen:
This is an overhang removed as BIIB should now most certainly launch Tecfidera in EU, generating peak sales of $1-2B+ before data exclusivity expires in 2024. Note BIIB also has EU patent for twice-daily dosing expiring 2028, which adds as another layer of patent protection - which in our view is underappreciated in the model.
We expect the stock to trade up to new highs as investors should look to potential Tecfidera upward revision in USA and eventually EU too, increased operating leveraging (~40% currently to ~50% in next 3-4 yrs) and many pipeline readouts beginning 2014 (SMN-Rx, IPF antibody, anti- LINGO and TYsabri SPMS).
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CHMP document confirmed that Gilead received a positive and clean recommendation for sofosbuvir (brand name Sovaldi). This is 1-2 months earlier than expected based on estimated timelines from filing and confirms a quick head-start on Hep C launch in Europe. This should pull forward estimates by a couple months but quite simply means that 2014 Sofosbuvir sales should likely exceed consensus estimates of $2B (we think they'll do $2B in USA alone, and EU could add a few hundred million as its country-by-country launch in EU starting primarily with Germany and other countries can take up to 6-12 months for full reimbursement/pricing and distribution launch).
Stock should continue higher as launch will be very strong and we want to own the stock for this launch as estimates keep going up.
Bernstein Research's Geoffrey C. Porges and team believe a U.S. approval for Gilead Sciences will happen soon:
Given the extensive collaboration between the EMA and the FDA about this approval, and about HCV in general, this recommendation bodes well for the imminent approval of sofosbuvir in the US. Specifically, this recommendation would suggest that the FDA is not inclined to either exclude prior null responders from the label (despite them not being studied in the pivotal trials reviewed), nor to restrict the approval to specific combinations, regimens or genotypes. Such an approval would be even better than that assumed by our current bullish revenue forecast for the product's initial launch trajectory.
Shares of Biogen have gained 11% to $280.68 today at 10:14 a.m., Gilead Sciences has risen 4.7% to $74.98, Celgene has advanced 2.7% to $162.77 and Regeneron is up 2.4% at $282.97.


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Clinton says she will put out a clean energy plan in next few days
DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she would release a plan in the next few days for a clean energy agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico.
"I will also be putting out in the next few days a broad approach to how I would work to have a North American compact about clean energy," Clinton told the Des Moines Register editorial board, after announcing earlier on Tuesday her opposition to the proposed Keystone oil pipeline. (Reporting by Amanda Becker; Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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A much belated shout-out to our webmama, Cynthia Mosher, who did a wicked good (as my friend Wendy used to say) job of heading up the recent migration of the old Mothering web site—which entailed moving thousands and thousands of pages—to our new and improved home.
Cynthia, who lives in Saudi Arabia, seemingly never sleeps, is available for us at all hours (of her day and ours, even though she's 10 hours ahead of us). She's always there, patient and good-humored. She seems to know how to fix anything that could possibly go wrong online and manages to make me laugh on a regular basis, even when she's under a ridiculous amount of stress—as she often is. We'd be lost without her.
Kudos, Cynthia, for all you do! Thumbs up on a job well done!
Photo: I was out of town when Cynthia came to Santa Fe in 2007 to meet with the MotheringDotCommunity board administrators. Since I couldn't be there to meet her but wanted her to feel welcome, I left a cutout of myself in my chair with a speech bubble that said "Hi, Cynthia!" She shot this photo and left it for me to discover upon my return.
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Discover why miniature roses are better suited to indoor culture than other rose varieties. Learn about the new mini rose/groundcover rose hybrids and lookalikes. Buy mini rose plants here.
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A mini rose plant will usually lack the sweet perfume of other, larger roses. But whatever it lacks in aroma, this indoor rose plant makes up in blooming power. Mini roses are all ever-blooming as long as you keep them deadheaded.
Miniature roses range in height from 8 to 24 inches. They bloom in every color and, while most are doubles, there are a few single-flowered varieties.
They are better suited to indoor growing than any other type of rose precisely because they are smaller and less thorny.
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Growing roses indoors is a process that involves both pleasure and pain. If you can manage to get their culture right, you'll have the pleasure of nearly year-round flowering. If you don't, you'll suffer the pain of battling insect infestations.
The biggest problem an indoor rose plant will face is attack by spider mite.
Mites appear as tiny red dots on the undersides of the rose foliage. As they suck the life from the plant, you will notice the leaves becoming marred. Once they've got a foothold you'll see their webs. Check your plants weekly. The sooner you catch them the better.
The appearance of spider mites is an indication of a cultural problem. They show up when the air is too hot, dry, or stagnant. Turn on a fan, lower the heat (move plants away from radiators) and increase the humidity in the growing area.
Place a piece of foil over the soil in the pot and rinse the mites off under the faucet.
If this doesn't work, apply a systemic pesticide. Use a drench rather than a spray. The drench will be taken up by the roots of the plant and spread to every leaf and branch. This way you won't have to spray toxic chemicals inside your home.
Roses do not bloom continually but repeatedly, in flushes which occur every few weeks. Snip off the old blossoms after each flush to prepare your little rose bush for its next burst of bloom.
If your rose should stop blooming and drop a lot of leaves in the dead of winter do not panic. Your lovely rose is not dying.
This is normal winter behavior. Look at the roses outside in your yard. They're doing the same thing. Some miniature roses that grow indoors will do this as well. Some will not. The ones that do are just telling you that they want to rest.
Place them in a cooler, but still somewhat bright, location. Water sparingly and do not feed them during this time.
Place the rose back in full sun and resume your normal feeding and watering schedule when you see new growth forming. Follow these instructions and your roses that grow indoors will give you pleasure instead of pain.
They appear in profuse flushes from spring til frost on robust plants 24-36 inches tall by 36-48 inches wide.
'Drift' roses are a series of groundcover rose/mini rose hybrids. You get the toughness of a carpet rose combined with the heavy bloom and compact growth habit of a miniature rose.
Because of their carpet rose lineage, 'Drift' roses will thrive outdoors. Their small size allows them to flourish in containers.
When growing them indoors, treat them just as you would any miniature rose.
There are single and double-flowered cultivars in colors ranging from peach to bright pink. Plants range from 12-36 inches in height and spread. Some cultivars are mildly fragrant but most are not.
They are, without a doubt, the best mini roses to plant outdoors.
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The double Impatiens more closely resemble mini roses than any other plant.
They thrive indoors as long as the air around them is not too dry.
If you want the look of a miniature rose on a plant that does not require direct sun, this is the plant for you.
Double Impatiens bloom in various shades of white, pink, lavander and red.
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My hives have very different yields--why?
Q: I robbed my three hives which are all within 10 feet of each other. The annual yield is:
- 2nd year hive, 5 frames
- 1st year hive: 4 frames
- Another 1st year hive, 20 frames
Why such differences?
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A: It's all about the number and strength of the foragers and the need of feed for larvae in the hive. In other words, it is all about the queen. Over the years we've seen it all over the board in our yards and Kelley's.
And another fun thing? You might think that 20-frame first year hive is your strongest, but our bees always like to surprise us with who survives over the winter and who does not!


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I just got a ...believe it or not... Labradoodle with lab grand national champ lines out of Canada. She has all the drive and instinct and looks of a lab. Very driven to retrieve. I live in Fallston and I am looking for someone to show me the training ropes. I am a big goose hunter and we have a great farm in Chestertown we hunt.
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The 2013 Elite Series campaign is nearly underway, and all 100 anglers remain tied ... for now. There's no first place, no last place, and perhaps most significantly, no second place.
No one has to say "what if?" about a tournament they almost won last week, except that part of being a professional angler is having a steel trap memory about tournaments that happened a year, two years, 10 years or even 20 years ago.
Last week, 24 year-old rookie Josh Bertrand drove 20-plus hours with John Murray to the Sabine River in East Texas to start his Elite Series career. Many fishing fans, especially those east of the Mississippi, think of Murray primarily for his longevity on tour or for his deep-water finesse skills. For the young pros from the west, though, he is a godfather – one-half professor, one-half O.G.
Talk to Skeet Reese, Fred Roumbanis or Ish Monroe about him, and their reverence for Murray shines through. Even if they occasionally beat him on the water, he is still placed on a pedestal, so for an up-and-comer like Bertrand to have nearly a full day of his uninterrupted time is an honor and a huge opportunity. I spoke to Bertrand as they pulled into Orange, Texas, and he clearly recognized that fact. He was ebullient in his praise for the not-so-old senior statesman.
Bertrand was also still hopped up on the fact that his Elite Series career was set to start in less than a week. He'd fished his last Open event in September and thought the "off" months (he guides when he's at home) would fly by, but in hindsight he said, "The offseason seemed like it took forever." He took the last week off from guiding and still found himself trying to get everything in order the night before they put Arizona in the rearview mirror for a few weeks.
Another thing he may try to put in his rearview mirror is a string of second place finishes. Last year, he tied Brent Chapman for the lead after three days during the season-opening Central Open on Lake Lewisville. In a fish-off, Chapman prevailed.
"One more ounce and I would have made the Classic," Bertrand said. "But I caught what I caught. I didn't lose a key fish or have a bad break. I don't have a whole lot of regret. I was just one fish short."
The win gave Chapman an automatic Classic berth, one of three he earned in 2012, but he couldn't give one of the extras back to Bertrand, so as Classic week unfolded in Tulsa this February, Bertrand kept his eyes on the sport's biggest prize from a distance. Meanwhile, he fished an EverStart tournament on Arizona's Lake Roosevelt, his home body of water, where once again he finished … you guessed it … second. Unlike Lewisville, the gap between first and second was over 5 pounds and there was no Classic spot at stake, but it did mean a difference in prize money of over $17,000, something any young gun looking to make a name for himself could use.
The other thing those young guns can use is a little bit of appropriately-placed encouragement. Sometimes that comes from an elder statesman like Murray. Other times it's derived from on-the-water examples. Our sport has lots of notorious bridesmaids who've gone on to be successful. Aaron Martens has a string of near-misses in the Classic, but no one denies that he's a superstar. Brandon Palaniuk has two near misses in the Classic; he's clearly going to be a superstar in the very near future. Until recently, Cliff Pace was better known for runner-up finishes at Hartwell, Toledo Bend and La Crosse than he was for his exceptional angling skills, but if possession is nine-tenths of the law, then the Classic trophy on his mantle puts all of the second place talk on the back burner.
"To get close like that and come in second so many times, it could wear on a guy after a while," Bertrand said. "I'm not at that point yet. I feel like if I keep putting myself in that position that many times, eventually it'll happen."
At 24, he has a long road ahead of him and plenty of time to gain the respect those anglers like Murray and Pace have earned. Today everyone has an equal claim on first place and an equal likelihood of ending up in last, but no one's in second place. The race is a blank slate, and every angler is one win away from changing his outlook and his reputation.


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- disrespectful form of address for a woman.
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My grandmother has had my nephew every since he was born. He was diagnosed as autistic about a year ago. He rarely see his mother and father. The only time his mother come around is on holidays to bring him clothes. My nephew mother and father never signed over their parental rights so could either of them take my nephew away? Even if his doctor says it would be bad for his health to be taken from my mother would the court take him away?
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I agree with Mr. Kelso, she should consider bring a custody action. Without a custody order in place, the child's mother and/or father have a constitutional right to the care, custody, and control of the child. However based on the very limited information, it sounds like they have acted inconsistent with that right, and that it may be in the child's best interest for his custody to be with grandmother.
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The best way to protect yourself from the flu is to get a seasonal flu shot. That's the word from Southcoast Health System's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Robert Caldas. We have all known someone who says…"I'm not getting a flu shot because i don't get sick." Dr. Caldas says those people can still spread the disease.
Those at risk of catching the flu include very young children, people with certain medical conditions like asthma or diabetes, pregnant women and people 65 and older. Dr. Caldas is also asking the public to put off visiting someone in the hospital if you have flu symptons.


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