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Record 23,116,441 households on food stamps
The number of American households on food stamps reached a new record high in March, according to new data released by the Agriculture Department.
The March numbers the USDA released Friday reveal 23,116,441 households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, each receiving an average monthly benefit of $274.30.
The number of individuals on SNAP did not break any records but remained high, with 47,727,052 people enrolled in SNAP, receiving an average monthly benefit of $132.86.
The number of individuals on SNAP hit a record high in December, with 47,792,056 people enrolled.
SNAP has been in the news in recent years and months as the program's rolls have ballooned and the cost has quadrupled since 2001 and doubled since President Obama took office.


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Alright, party at Bumpers?
Congratulations! Not bad for someone who hangs around with people like us!
This is a discussion on New Lead Moderator within the Old Forum News, Feedback, Problems & Comments forums, part of the DefensiveCarry.com Forum Office category; Congrats George. Now do this (see below)... Dave....
Congrats George. Now do this (see below)...
Go beyond that which is required of you...
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Congratulations! Not bad for someone who hangs around with people like us!
"Beware of the man who only owns one gun. He probably knows how to use it."
Congrats on the new 'high paying' position...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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I'd like to add my congrats too.
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I live in New England, and have the Miata 2009 Grand Touring factory Michelin Pilot tires, great in dry, so..so in winter. After 28,000 (2.5 yrs) the tires had to be replaced, wore out too fast even when you rotate them... I read on the Miata forum that the continental extreme contacts DWS were highly recommended for all seasonal. They have been the best...
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I've 4800+ miles on these tires, including a road trip from Ohio to Flyin' Miata's Summer Camp in western Colorado & running around the hills of southern Ohio. Great steering response, excellent wet weather performance, good dry weather handling, though my standard here is an STi set up for Solo II on Dunlops. Short of an all-out performance tire, I'm quite...
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We use this tire on a Set Kosei K1 wheels for our stripped out Miata (2000 lbs) that competes in 24 hours of LeMons. The car is a 92 Miata with 99+ bilstiens and NB Slignment settings are best to be said as moderate. We are a 5 driver team, with very similar driver profiles. These tires have held up amazingly well. We run about 32psi front and 31psi rear....
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Posts on miata.net suggested this tire was not a 'performance' tire and the Miata might like a more responsive tire. Rudy confirmed this assessment. Since I have moved well into senior citizen territory the quick turn-in, more 'rigid' ride, etc. attributes I wanted in a tire a few years ago are no longer on my tire wish list.So, do I like these tires, yep,...
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I got these tires on a new Evora, not an S but the drop down doesn't allow for a base Evora. I drive these tires on twisty backroads where they eliminate the need for an S or any other more powerful car. I go through the 45mph rated curves.... well because this is on the internet... I go through them a little faster than that with great ease. The Evora is...
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I joined nappturality when I bc'd. The only useful thing I got out of that membership was info about natural hair care lines mainly QB (because the others did NADA for me lol). I let my subscription expire and my account was closed. I won't be rejoining. The atmosphere was more hostile than necessary. Honestly I think some of them were drinking some expired Black Panther juice...just sayin' (this in addition to the censorship blah)
I lurk on LHCF. I'm not joining. I'm not obsessed about growth/length. My hair grows so...whatev. I go on there to look at pics. I've noticed how too many of them are... know-it-all-know-nothings. As in too quick to give advice when based on there replies they haven't understood or even read the original post. I saw a post on there from someone looking for a silicone-free, protein-free and oil-free conditioner. They kept telling her to seal with oil. I'm not fond of know-it-alls. And some of them are rude for no reason. Just because the internet is anonymous doesn't mean you have to throw tact into the wind. At least I don't.
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Teen escapes from Pueblo Youth Center during transport
PUEBLO, Colo. - The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office is searching for a teenager who escaped while being transferred from court to the Pueblo Youth Center.
Deputies say that the teen got away around 3 p.m. He had just gotten out of a van and was about to be escorted back inside the building when he ran off.
The 16-year-old was last seen wearing a leg brace. Deputies say he ditched his Pueblo Youth Center uniform, and it's unknown what he is wearing right now.
The Sheriff's Office says his criminal history includes property and truancy charges.
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Round Up Or Bleach
Just 2 cents worth, but based on my personal experience with such areas, the cheapest and best way to maintain it for that length of time, it it is feasible, would be to keep it mowed; not necessarily as regularly as you do your lawn, but often enough to keep vegetation in check. The problem that I have seen with such areas is that there are so many differnt types of vegetation, you would most likely be spraying for something on a fairly regular basis.
Neither roundup, nor bleach will be of much help...
Personally, I spray pure clorox, it Kills EVERYTHING, 'n disapates quickly...
Just be sure to flush, 'n clean the sprayer when yer done, otherwise in a day or 2 it'll be junk...
Either will kill what's growing, when sprayed, 'n neither will stop new seed for sproutin'...
Consider mowing until you are ready to do something else with the area.
1) saves your $$ and time- if you bleach/round up now you will have all sorts of new growth in the next year and will have to repeatedly re-apply.
2) if you do manage to kill everything off you can cause negative drainage and erosion issues in the wet and dust issues in the dry.
Does anyone know the after effects to the soil after applying it 1 year before? Will it be all disapated by then? I figure no sense applying bleach if it will mess up the soil chemical properties, that nothing will grow for years.
Bleach or roundup?
The answer interestinglbenough, will have to be neither. You've already statEd roundup is less than optimal, but bleach won't do the job right either. Because it kills all bacteria, not just bad bacteria, the bleach will damage the soil it is poured on, making it difficult for plants to grow anywhere nearby, and it won't neccessarily kill the weeds right away either. Mowing would be a good idea, though, if you own a trimmer, it will be better for a numer of reasons. The only reason worth mentioning being the fact that with a trimmer you can go much lower to the ground than a mower delaying sede growth, and, in some cases killing them.
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There's one thing I did not mention and that I have something growing across the surface of the soil and it seems to take root every 6 to 8 inches. I am not sure if they are the roots of the vines or roots of the small trees of which there are 5. A neighbor tells me that they are roots of weeds or vines that turn into a tree.
The diameter of the roots or vines are about 1/16th to 1/8th. They are scattered in all directions. These 5 trees are only about 3 inches in diameter and about a foot away from my property line.
There is one thing common to all of them and that is they are all in line with each other.
I do not think I'll have much luck using a trimmer with these vines or roots.
Once you start the roundup applications you have to continue them about every six weeks as a new round of weeds comes on thru the growing season. Like one of the earlier replies said it - kill it once and then seed it with some fescue. I did hear of this enviro friendly weed killing method for spot kills. Pour boiling water on weeds will make a good kill. Makes sense to me but I've not tried it. Would be a little to time consuming what with me out there with the wifes tea kettle killing dandilions
I plan to keep after it with roundup till "Fall". I was able to pin down what I have to three. I think its English Ivy because it leaves a trail of woody stems along the ground. This is exactly what I have.
The other two possibilities are Amur peppervine or Oriental bittersweet.
I saw both cherry colored and dark colored fruit on them that climbed bushes behind the rear of my property and on the property.
Last "Fall", I prevented my 1-1/2 year old neice from picking one of these fruits from a bush. The bushes are now gone. They will be replaced with something that I know is safe.
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I was raised a BYU fan. My grandfather took me to games from the time I was a toddler and got me hooked on BYU Athletics. One of my earliest memories of BYU football is me being irate that my parents were going to the BYU-Miami game in 1990 and I wasn't able to go with them. I was only 3 years old at the time but my parents still like to bring it up when we discuss how devoted a BYU fan I was and have become. I am still somewhat bitter I didn't get to see Ty Detmer carve up the Miami Hurricanes that night at then Cougar Stadium. As I got older, I realized that my fascination with BYU was at a level that many of my friends didn't understand. I would rather read every recap I could find and peruse the box score of the most recent BYU basketball or football game rather than go play outside. I liked to take it all in so that I could understand why BYU won or lost that particular game. That fascination with BYU continues today. I eat, read, and breathe BYU sports. I am thankful to Jedd Parkinson and Talo Steves for giving me this opportunity to work with TBS and have an outlet to express my opinions and thoughts about BYU Athletics.
When I returned from my LDS Mission to Taiwan, I realized that I wanted to make my love of sports and BYU the focus of my career. The problem at that time was that I didn't know exactly how to get into the field. In the summer of 2010, I responded to an advertisement by Greg Wrubell for an open KSL Radio Sports Internship. I was fortunate enough to land the internship and spent the 2010 football, as well as the 2010-11 basketball seasons working for KSL Newsradio and Greg Wrubell. Upon completion of that internship, I realized I wanted to stay involved in sports radio and covering BYU. I subsequently completed another internship with David Locke and the Utah Jazz Radio Network, which in turn led to an offer from 1280 The Zone to head up building a brand new daily show alongside Alema Harrington and Ben Criddle that was dedicated to the coverage of BYU Athletics. I have spent the last year and half working as the producer of "Cougar Sports with Alema Harrington" on 960AM The Zone (KOVO) and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I plan to carry this enthusiasm into this new position with TBS and hope that I can share and discuss my thoughts and feelings about BYU with all of you.
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Though I generally write for non-academic audiences, I have written a piece or two for scholarly journals. (See the Spring 2009 issue of Houston Baptist University's The City) Recently, *I was afforded the opportunity and privilege of contributing an essay on Civil War chaplains to the Essential Civil War Curriculum.
The Essential Civil War Curriculum is a Sesquicentennial project Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. It is sponsored by two eminent Civil War scholars and authors, Dr. James I. (Bud) Robertson and Professor William C. (Jack) Davis both Professors at Virigina Tech. The Executive Director and Editor of the website is Mr. J.L.D. (Laurie) Woodruff of Toronto Ontario. The site content is subject to rigorous quality control with all essays and resources peer reviewed by a member of our Board of Historians who are today's foremost Civil War scholars.
My essay was recently added to the topics at ECWC. The piece is titled: A Great Deal of Good: The Work and Impact of Chaplains During the American Civil War
I begin the essay with a quote from my great-great grandfather, John Meredith Crutchfield. The quote was taken from a letter written to my great-great grandmother, Alcinda Douglas Crutchfield:
"There is a protracted meeting going on in camp. We have preaching in the forenoon and prayer meeting in the evening . . . and it is my opinion it will do us a great deal of good." ~ Private John Meredith Crutchfield, Co. I, 60th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Princeton, Mercer County, VA, 26 April 1863
You can read the complete essay by going to ECWC's website and clicking on "C." You'll see the link there. There are other excellent essays which one can read there as well.
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Dec 22, 2013 - By Bruce Tippets, Sports EditorNick Merritt and Louisa Austin swept the individual ski races on Saturday for the Lander Valley High School Tigers at the Casper Invitational.
Merritt crossed the finish line first in the 5k boys race in a time of 20:06.9.
In the girls race, Austin had a winning time of 23:19.1.
"Nick had a good day," Lander coach Emily Tilden said. "We have a pretty significant gap to the mid-20s, so we have some work to do with the rest of the boys."
Tilden believes her two skiers should be title contenders all season.
"Nick and Louisa have trained had through the summer," Tilden said. "I'm excited to see what they can do this year."
Saturday's race started the ski season in Wyoming.
"The first meet is always great to get under you belt," Tilden said. "It helps get the nerves out of the system."
The meet was postponed for a week due to frigid conditions.
"We lucked out with some unusually pleasant temps on Casper Mountain, so it was a great couple of days of racing," Tilden said. "Truly, we couldn't have asked for better racing."
Tilden thought the race officials put in the extra time to prep the ski course.
"We had good coverage, and the course was great skiing," she said.
Team competition
In the team races, Casper Natrona won both the boys and girls titles.
Laramie and Jackson finished second and third on the two sides.
The Lander girls and boys came in fourth.
"Jackson and Casper are always strong," Tilden said. "Laramie has also been coming on in the past few years, so really anything can happen."
Kelly Walsh, Pinedale and Cody rounded out the team standings.
Strong points
"Our first-year kids really showed what they are made of," Tilden said. "Our veterans show how important training throughout the year is in order to be successful in this sport."
After the two winners, Lander' Emily Schimelpfenig was third in 24:39.8.
The Tigers compete Friday and Saturday at the Jackson Invitational.
"We do yoga to help recover from last weekend's races, intervals and an easy jog," Tilden said.
Results from Saturday's race at Casper Invitational
Top 10
1. Louisa Austin, Lander, 23:19.1; 2. Riley Realing, Casper Natrona, 24:26.7; 3. Emily Schimelpfenig, Lander, 24:39.8; 4. Anna Gibson, Jackson, 24:54; 5. Anna Shilm, Jackson, 25:29; 6. Leann Beatley, Laramie, 25:29.9; 7. Ann McInroy, Laramie, 25:48.3; 8. Riley Gamer, Casper Natrona, 25:51.1; 9. Kelly Krause, Jackson, 25:51.4; 10. Kat Gruner, Natrona, 25:57.6.
Other Lander placers
13. Morgan Robins, 26:20.6; 43. Kayley Hart, 42.30.
Top 10
1. Nick Merritt, Lander, 20:06.9; 2. Trevor Wiloughby, Casper Natrona, 20:29.4; 3. Will McDonald, Laramie, 20:33.3; 4. Kolia Noah, Pinedale, 20:50.9; 5. James Pickett, Natrona, 21:01.8; 6. Trent Hover, Natrona, 21:11.1; 7. Andreas DeGraves, Natrona, 21:26.0; 8. Joe Jacobs, Natrona, 21:54.5; 9. Brady LaChance, Natrona, 22:08.6; 10. Dylan Price, Kelly Walsh, 22:39.6.
Other Lander placers
26. Marten Baur, 25:22.6; 28. Duncan Gans, 25:34.2.
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Putin sacks Russian defence minister amid scandal
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin fired Russia's defence minister over corruption allegations on Tuesday, the latest twist in an unfolding saga of power, money and suspected adultery at the heart of the Kremlin.
Putin announced on television that he had fired Anatoly Serdyukov, once seen as one of the president's most loyal courtiers but lately a liability amid allegations that the military sold off assets cheaply to insiders.
"Taking into consideration the situation around the Defence Ministry, in order to create conditions for an objective investigation into all matters, I have decided to remove Defence Minister Serdyukov from his post," Putin said.
Serdyukov's replacement will be Sergei Shoigu, recently named governor of the Moscow region and known as a popular and loyal Putin ally during nearly two decades as head of the Emergencies Ministry.
The defence minister wields immense power in Russia, channelling billions of dollars every year through the country's powerful defence industry, the second largest arms exporter in the world. Putin has promised to spend 23 trillion roubles ($726.30 billion) on the military by the end of the decade.
Corruption has been endemic at the defence ministry for decades. The country's top military prosecutor said last year that a fifth of the budget was stolen or embezzled.
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Heaven. Hell. The End of the World. For Christians and non-Christians alike, these topics provoke a variety of emotions and reactions: curiosity, confusion, joy, hope, fear, anticipation, or maybe even anger. Sadly, these critical topics are often embellished, fantasized, diluted, abused, or altogether avoided in our day. So what does the Bible say about these things? Is the Apocalypse upon us? Do we know what heaven will be like? What about hell? Is it literal? Is it eternal? How do we even begin to think about these mind-blowing realities?
During this Secret Church, we will explore God's Word in search of answers to these questions and more. In the end, we will discover that despite of all the controversy surrounding heaven, hell, and the end of the world, several things are clear: Christ will come back, Satan will be defeated, all men will be judged, and the glory of God will cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. And by the end of the night, hopefully and humbly we will walk away with a cry on our lips and a testimony in our lives that echoes the final cry of the Scriptures: "Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!"
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This thesis introduces a collection of new real-time rendering techniques and applications for focus+context visualization of interactive 3D geovirtual environments such as virtual 3D city and landscape models. These environments are generally characterized by a large number of objects and are of high complexity with respect to geometry and textures. For these reasons, their interactive 3D rendering represents a major challenge. Their 3D depiction implies a number of weaknesses such as occlusions, cluttered image contents, and partial screen-space usage.
To overcome these limitations and, thus, to facilitate the effective communication of geo-information, principles of focus+context visualization can be used for the design of real-time 3D rendering techniques for 3D geovirtual environments (see Figure). In general, detailed views of a 3D geovirtual environment are combined seamlessly with abstracted views of the context within a single image. To perform the real-time image synthesis required for interactive visualization, dedicated parallel processors (GPUs) for rasterization of computer graphics primitives are used. For this purpose, the design and implementation of appropriate data structures and rendering pipelines are necessary. The contribution of this work comprises the following five real-time rendering methods:
The rendering technique for 3D generalization lenses enables the combination of different 3D city geometries (e.g., generalized versions of a 3D city model) in an single image in real time. The method is based on a generalized and fragment-precise clipping approach, which uses a compressible, raster-based data structure. It enables the combination of detailed views in the focus area with the representation of abstracted variants in the context area.
The rendering technique for the interactive visualization of dynamic raster data in 3D geovirtual environments facilitates the rendering of 2D surface lenses. It enables a flexible combination of different raster layers (e.g., aerial images or videos) using projective texturing for decoupling image and geometry data. Thus, various overlapping and nested 2D surface lenses of different contents can be visualized interactively.
The interactive rendering technique for image-based deformation of 3D geovirtual environments enables the real-time image synthesis of non-planar projections, such as cylindrical and spherical projections, as well as multi-focal 3D fisheye-lenses and the combination of planar and non-planar projections.
The rendering technique for view-dependent multi-perspective views of 3D geovirtual environments, based on the application of global deformations to the 3D scene geometry, can be used for synthesizing interactive panorama maps to combine detailed views close to the camera (focus) with abstract views in the background (context). This approach reduces occlusions, increases the usage the available screen space, and reduces the overload of image contents.
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Comment: Another challenge for our amateur's sleuths to investigate terrorists computers systems.
By/ HNS Staff/ Posted on 01 August 2014.
Sophos is calling amateur security talent to turn sleuth and to investigate confiscated crime scene computer systems belonging to a cyber terrorist group as part of the latest Cyber Security Challenge.
Assignment Flag Drive is the second competition in the 2014/15 program of online and face-to-face cyber battles.
This latest program sees the introduction of a new nemesis - The Flag Day Associates - the Challenge's first recurring characters who will feature prominently in a storyline throughout this year's competition.
The fictitious Flag Day Associates first appeared at the end of last year's Masterclass' awards ceremony in March this year, via a threat video featuring three masked individuals warning of a future cyber attack on the UK. The video below and further 'secret' details embedded within revealed a possible date of the cyber attack
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text: The Maine election ethics commission has decided not to investigate allegations of improper fundraising by a Democratic state Senate candidate who came under fire from Republicans for playing the online role-playing game World of Warcraft. The Morning Sentinel, reports the ethics commission ruled unanimously Wednesday that no further investigation was needed into allegations that Colleen Lachowicz of Waterville improperly coordinated fundraising activities with ActBlue, a national group that supports liberal causes. The complaint was lodged by the state Republican Party. After Lachowicz's participation in the game became news, others gamers asked how they could support her. As a clean elections candidate, she could not accept donations, so she directed people to ActBlue's website. Lachowicz is challenging incumbent Republican Thomas Martin of Benton for a seat that represents communities in Kennebec and Somerset counties.


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I have been on a quest as of recent to try to find some aro's that I can tolerate as well as the people who may be around while I'm smoking. I am an English, VA non-aro smoker and always have difficulty in the depth of flavor compromise that comes with many aro's. Warm Up is an exception to this compromised feeling. This blend appeals to me in ways I couldn't have imagined. I love the base tobacco's very rich and nutty and the caramel vanilla flavoring is not over the top. Burns nicely but it's still an aro and has a tendency to bite if smoked in haste. Beyond this I find Warm Up flavorful and satisfying and have kept the complaints to a minimum with the room note.
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Wet weather set to hit UK food prices
Food prices look set to rise after poor UK harvests due to recent wet weather.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said wheat yields in England were down by almost 15% on the five-year average, with productivity down to 1980s levels.
The British Retail Consortium said food prices were already being driven up after a rise in grain costs following the worst drought in 50 years in the US and a heatwave in Russia.
Poor UK harvests also mean smaller fruit and vegetables than normal.
This summer was the second wettest in the UK since records began, Met Office figures indicated. The only summer - defined as June, July and August - which was wetter since national records began was in 1912.A drought across much of England during the spring followed by record-breaking wet weather has meant a poor wheat harvest for many farmers, the NFU said.
Figures suggested wheat yields were down by 14.1% - but some farmers in the wet western half of England reported even lower yields.
'Soul destroying'
NFU President Peter Kendall said: "There are many farmers who are down 25 to 30% on the wheat crop.
"In some cases you looked from the outside and you thought, this crop will do over four tonnes to the acre - and it's been struggling to do three and some cases two tonnes to the acre.
"It's been soul destroying for the farmers growing the crops."
Mr Kendall said the increase in the global price of wheat - by some 30% over the past 12 months - was also putting pressure on farmers who buy grain to feed their livestock.
He said: "The challenge for the pig and poultry market is trying to make sure that retailers pay a fair price, because in pigs 50% of the cost is grain, poultry it's 60% - and these farmers at the moment, because the prices haven't responded yet, they're actually saying I'm not going to fill my sheds with poultry or pigs any more."
The problems faced by farmers in the UK and the global increase in wheat prices are both adding to fears over rises in food prices.
Richard Dodd, of the British Retail Consortium, said: "Whilst retailers are certainly doing all they can to protect customers from the full impact of that, of course some of that inevitably will impact on shop prices."
The extreme weather has taken its toll on the amount of food produced and the quality of food and grain.
Martyn Jones, from the Morrisons supermarket chain, said that, for example, carrots were not quite as sweet as previous years, and the available volumes of some food was down - about 25% across most potatoes and root crops.
He said consumers would also see smaller fruit in the shops, and yields of fruit were also down.
'Challenging time'
Ian Johnson, south-west England spokesman for the NFU, said this year's weather had led to a "mixed picture" for arable farmers.
He said while wheat crops had suffered, winter barley yields were up 1.6%; spring barley yields were down 7.4% and oilseed rape yields were up 5.9%.
Mr Johnson said fruit and vegetable crops had also been affected, with potatoes and apples particularly badly affected.
The adverse conditions cause blight, mildew and disease to get into crops, he said.
Mr Johnson said that if a pattern of winter drought followed by unexpected huge amounts of rain continued then it would have to be addressed by changes in technology or farming techniques, such as planting in different ways or at different times.
"Farmers will engage in this provided they will see realistic returns but if they don't then they are not going to," he said.
But he said retailers also needed to have sufficient provision to cushion farmers during such times.
'Research neglected'
Paul Harris, an arable farmer in Dorset, believes the difficult times may be set to continue.
He said: "I've been farming now for 40 years and it's the worst harvest I have ever known.
"There has always been a seed time and a harvest. This year's harvest has been done, but I'm just so worried about seed time. It will come round but we've just got to work with it and fight with it."
The bad weather is also affecting the UK's wine industry - award-winning West Sussex vineyard Nyetimber is not harvesting its grapes because the quality and volume of the fruit is not up to standard.
Environmental group Friends of The Earth predicts that the situation will deteriorate in the years to come due to global warming.
Spokeswoman Vicki Hird said: "Climate change is already damaging food production and causing prices to soar - and the situation is expected to get worse without urgent action to slash emissions.
"Our agricultural system is also in desperate need of overhaul to meet the twin challenges of feeding a growing world population and protecting the planet."
Former government food advisor, Lord Haskins, warns that agricultural policy and practices must adapt to the changing conditions.
He said: "Research into food development has been neglected for a number of years, partly under pressure from people who don't think that, for example, genetically modified food is a good thing.
"We have to make sure that those lobby groups who've opposed scientific research don't run the game from now on - science has got to come into its own."


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Weddings at St. John's...
– Marriage is a sacrament of the Church and, therefore, a religious ceremony. Additions, subtractions, and the "writing of one's own vows" are not options for the sacramental form as laid down in the Book of Common Prayer. At St. John's, we use the
1928 Book of Common Prayer
as our worship form. For weddings, exceptions may be made for those who would like to use the
1549 (original) Book of Common Prayer
Liturgy or the
1979 Prayer Book
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– Primarily, we perform weddings for our parishioners and their adult children. Additionally, we may allow weddings here for those who are members of other Episcopal Churches of the Diocese of Michigan, or for those who may need more space or would like to be married in downtown Detroit. Finally, St. John's may be available to those who find their families spread far and wide and for whom Detroit would be a good central location. However, if this is the case, at least one of the party must be a practicing Episcopalian with a letter of introduction from his/her parish priest. Finally, it is ultimately for the Rector of St. John's (in accordance with Canon Law) to decide who may or may not be married at St. John's, and he may decline any outside requests without cause.
– We are not a wedding chapel, and we will not preside over the marriage of those who may be just "looking for a pretty place to be married". We receive — and turn down — about 50 such requests a year. We take our Faith seriously at St. John's, and weddings are an extension of our parish life and vitality. If you do not have a Church home, or do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ, we hope you will make St. John's the place to find these things and that you will start attending Sunday Services regularly. In such a case, a decision will be made after your commitment to the parish as to whether or not this will be the place at which you may be married.
A note to those who have previously been married and who are now divorced and seeking to remarry
– In accordance with Canon Law, you must receive special permission of the Bishop to be remarried. There is no guarantee that the Bishop will approve your request, and since the process takes at least 60 days to complete, at least 6 months notice of the impending marriage must be given to the Rector in order to initiate the process.
– Do not make the Church the last place you contact about your wedding! The caterer and photographer may be important, but there are several factors which may interfere with your preferred date:
The day and time may already be scheduled for a wedding or parish event.
Events at Comerica Park (e.g., Detroit Tiger games) limit our ability to use the parking lot and may prevent your guests from being able to get to the Church without being greatly inconvenienced.
You must meet with the priest FIRST before setting the date and making other arrangements; it is suggested that this be done at least 6 months in advance.
Once a date is set, one of the priests at St. John's will be available to officiate at the service; however, we cannot always guarantee which priest (due to other responsibilities having to do with the parish, the diocese, or their own families).
– The Rector of St. John's will have at least three meetings with the couple in preparation for the Sacrament of Marriage. If the persons being married live a great distance from the Church, other arrangements MUST be made with the couple's own parish priest for preparation, and a note must be secured stating that the preparation has been completed. "
" programs may be an acceptable alternative to those who live a great distance from St. John's.
The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
is found on page 300 of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. The Standard for this service is to have it take place within the context of the
Holy Communion
service (p. 67) since it is appropriate that the first marital act of the new husband and wife should be the reception of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. An exception to this standard may be if one of the persons being married is not baptized (as least one person being married must be), or one person and their family comes from a denomination which forbids intercommunion with the Episcopal Church (namely the Roman and Eastern Orthodox Churches). A discussion with the Rector may clear up any questions.
– St. John's is the oldest Church on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, the main Church having been built in 1860. The center aisle is 77 feet in length, and seating (including the gallery (balcony)) is estimated to be between 800 and 1000. The Church is NOT air-conditioned, so one might want to take that into account when scheduling the wedding date. A glorious example of
Victorian Gothic architecture
, the interior and exterior make a beautiful backdrop for the wedding service and for the photos which may follow. There is parking for several hundred cars in the gated lot next to St. John's, which is accessed off Montcalm Avenue.
– The organist at St. John's has the privilege of performing at all weddings, unless unable to do so. If unable to perform on your selected date, a suitable replacement may be arranged. NO SECULAR, POP, OR "SHOWTUNE" MUSIC will be played at the service. Only that which has been approved by the Rector and Organist, containing the proper religious inspirational tone, may be allowed. Any soloist(s) engaged for the wedding
rehearse with the organist; such arrangements must be made between the bridal party and the musicians. If you would like to have a quartet from our professionally trained Choir perform at the wedding, this can be arranged for an additional fee.
– Photographers and videographers may be engaged by the couple for the wedding, but they must be informed that this is primarily a religious ceremony, and that there are certain rules which must be followed:
Flash photography during the service is prohibited.
Non-flash photography is permitted, as long as the photographer is not intrusive or conspicuous in the performance of his job.
No supplemental lighting may be used during the service.
Portions of the service may be "restaged" afterwards, if necessary.
All equipment setup must be completed at least one-half hour prior to the
start time of the wedding, so as to not be a distraction to those guests who may wish to pray before the service.
The Church will be available after the service for pictures, but it is urged that this be completed within an hour following the end of the ceremony.
– Professional Wedding Planners may be a great help for making secular arrangements, but all such plans related to the Church and the Service shall be made by the priest, bride, and groom
the wedding planner.
– The Altar Guild shall be consulted as to the types of arrangements allowed, as well as to the number of candles desired by the family (i.e., with or without pew candles).
– Please
contact the parish office
for a schedule of fees. ALL FEES MUST BE PAID AT THE TIME OF THE REHEARSAL, or THE DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING. Arrangements may be made for those who have a financial hardship and who may be unable to pay the full fees.
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Presenters to Widgets with ActiveModel::Conversion
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Rails offers an easy way to render objects in a view that are automatically associated with their
own partials. With ActiveModel::Conversion, you can quickly build widgets out of classes (models or presenters or other).
The Problem
In a recent project, we had several little status/info blocks that we wanted to render on a page. Each block required different model data. In the controller, as we started writing code to fetch all the right data and put it together, we quickly realized that things were going to get ugly. We started with something like this:
You can see that as we added more items to put on the page, both the controller and view got bigger and more complex.
What we wanted was two-fold:
- Reduce the amount of work done by the controller to prepare data for the views
- Build an easy way to render the different chunks of data as separate widgets
The Solution
The first step is to build some presenters. Following from the above example, we write two simple wrappers (presenters) to nicely prepare our data so it's easy to access and render by a view.
At this point, we can simplify the way the controller fetches the data by leveraging these presenters
This solves the first issue, but it has not simplified the view. This is where
ActiveModel::Conversion comes in.
Renderable Classes
By mixing
ActiveModel::Conversion into our presenter classes, they suddenly know how to render themselves.
In both classes, we add:
include ActiveModel::Conversion
This adds the following methods:
#to_param, and
#to_partial_path to our classes. These methods are used by
ActionController::Base#render. We can now render the object directly like so:
render @object
Rails is effectively doing this:
render @object.to_partial_path, :<model name> => @object
to_partial_path generates a path that looks like
<model names>/_<model name>
Now that we've added the mixin, we can update the view:
And to finish it up, we need to add view partials (whose path is going to match
to_partial_path's response) for each of the presenter classes.
Now that we've got this far, we can do one more refactor:
At this point, the home page will render the two blocks, one showing hot stuff, and one showing recent activity. The partials are (for this example) pretty dumb, but you can imagine fleshing them out to pull from other methods that the presenters could offer.
- Using presenters is a simple way to compartmentalize logic that prepares model data for a view. That logic could be combining data from separate Rails models, or simple sorting, formatting or otherwise organizing the model data so that it is more easily accessible to the view in the way the view needs it.
- With
ActiveModel::Conversion, the view can be directly tied to a presenter allowing it to act more like a widget that is easily rendered in your application views.
Sample Application – Widgetize Me!
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I wrote up a quick sample app that shows off this technique. The main page simply pulls a random set of widgets and renders them. The widgets include
- SineWave
- SquareWave
- TriangleWave
- RandomFunction
- InstagramWidget
- GithubWidget
and each one is basically a simple model and a view partial.
Easily render a ruby class in Rails using
- Given a ruby class
- mixin
- create the view partial in
- load it up in a controller
@widget = SuperWidget.new
- render it in a view
render @widget
- Presenting the Rails Presenter Pattern
- Rails Presenter Pattern
- ActiveModel::Conversion
- Rails render
- Sample App running on Heroku
- Sample App on Github
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Loverly technique!
TIL. Really great post, Jon.
Very nice, great tip!
nice one 😉
Thanks for great tip!
Is we could just do `render @homepage_blocks`?
Good call. That trims the view down even more.
In my test app, I noticed that I wrapped each widget in a div.widget. By unpacking the array and calling render on each one, i can wrap them all in the same wrapper without adding the wrapper to each of the 6 partials – but it certainly works just fine to pass render an array of goodies and it just goes to town.
Awesome tip, thanks for sharing!
Jeff, let's not forget: If ifoirmatnon is shared that is common knowledge then it will be, inherently, lost. I think what you're describing here is walking out of a speech or session with a bit more *clarity* on something that everyone already knows.My larger point is that most speakers, white papers, etc. share what is already known. And that is an insurance policy for attendees to become clear (maybe) but uninspired if not uneducated. I'm sure you understand this, of course but I want to say it. Because this is the Internet, after all.
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The newspapers and blog sites have been full of Nobu's bluefin shame over the past week or so. And quite right too. The spotlight of the imminent release of The End Of The Line which features the plight of endangered bluefin, is putting the celebrity-favourite restaurant under increasing pressure.
On Friday Greenpeace ran a full page advert in the London Evening Standard, and the story of celebrities' bluefin backlash has been reported from Hello! to the New York Post. So today seemed an ideal time to pay Nobu's London restaurants a visit too. And that's just what we did.
With a bunch of Greenpeace volunteers we took some cleverly designed 'fish sticks' – bluefin-shaped placards on long poles (just long enough to reach the restaurant's first floor windows) with the slogans 'ENDANGERED SUSHI*' and 'DON'T CHOOSE TUNA'. We wanted to let Nobu know it wasn't acceptable to sell endangered species, and encourage diners to ask what they are doing on the menu in the first place!Nobu don't think they need to have any sort of sustainable policy when it comes to sourcing seafood. Is that really acceptable from a market-leader in the sushi world?
We stayed outside both London Nobu restaurants for a few hours, engaging with as many people as we could. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people knew what the issue was all about, with many customers, and taxi drivers in the rank outside, telling us they'd already read about it in the papers.
Nobu's initial reaction to our 'fish sticks'? To pull the blinds down. After all if you just close your eyes it might all go away. But the blinds went back up within a few minutes – which we later found out was because the customers had demanded it.
We also handed out specially made-up 'new' Nobu menus, highlighting the endangered species they might think of adding to the list like Siberian Tigers, perhaps? Or maybe Californian Condor? And drawing attention to the fact that it seems Nobu don't think they need to have any sort of sustainable policy when it comes to sourcing seafood. Is that really acceptable from a market-leader in the sushi world? Our volunteers engaged with dozens of customers, many were shocked, and at least two couples told us they had cancelled reservations in disgust at the issue.
In the time we were there, comic actor Matt Lucas, Amelle from the Sugababes, and Hollywood actor Jack Black turned up at the restaurant. Jack went in clutching one of our spoof menus. As the eponymous star of Kung Fu Panda, we're sure he must have asked what on earth a fellow endangered species was doing on the menu…
It's time Nobu listened. To us, to Charles Clover, to the scientists, and to their celebrity customers. If all of the UK supermarkets can have sustainable policies when it comes to sourcing their seafood there is absolutely no reason why an elite up-market restaurant like Nobu can't do likewise.
And if you'd like them to listen to you too, why not contact them here.
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Nobu London restaurant
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Just for the sake of the argument, even though I just posted a large thread (that no one would probably read) which is strongly based on how Georgie did not kill anyone, I see a lot of notices where he confesses his murder.
Could anyone point me to the scene where he does that? Or even better, quote it. Cause the only ones I know of is when he is dying and the description by 'girl' in last scene, neither of those are really solid.
I mean was there a scene where he said something like 'I went into the apartment room, pulled her ribbon, and her head flew off'? For me it only seemed like he was too fixed on just the fact that he killed them, not details.