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An old basketball rivalry will take on a new twist today as UTSA and Texas State meet for the first time as members of the Western Athletic Conference.
The women tip off at 2 p.m. in San Marcos, while the men face off at 4 p.m. in San Antonio.
It doesn't seem to matter that both schools are competing under the WAC logo.
The passion between the former Southland Conference foes will remain the same on both campuses.
"It's a big rivalry, and anything can happen," UTSA women's coach Rae Rippetoe-Blair said. "Records do not matter in this game. Our girls all know each other. I think it'll come down to the wire. I think it'll be a great game."
Last year, the men's game drew a season-high crowd of 2,895 to the UTSA Convocation Center.
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It wouldn't surprise Roadrunners men's coach Brooks Thompson to see that kind of turnout again today.
"It's always fun," Thompson said. "Our students always enjoy it and get into it. I'm glad we're playing when our students are back in session. So I would expect the Convo to be rowdy. And I think it'll be a great basketball game."
In San Marcos, Rippetoe-Blair is expected to make her return to the bench for UTSA (9-8, 3-3 WAC) against Texas State (7-9, 1-5). She was out the past three games with an undisclosed medical condition.
UTSA has been tough on the road in conference, winning three in a row away from home. It's the first time the program has won three straight on the road since 2008-09.
Both men's teams are desperate. Texas State (4-14, 0-6) and UTSA (4-12, 0-6) are mired in a two-way, last-place tie.
The Bobcats have lost nine in a row, and the Roadrunners six.
"I believe we do have a good team," UTSA guard Kannon Burrage said. "We're going to turn this thing around pretty soon."
Last season, UTSA won in San Marcos before Texas State returned the favor, silencing a big crowd with a 14-point victory in San Antonio.
"Pretty much, in this rivalry, nobody's home court is safe," Burrage said. "I remember last year going in there, it was a pretty exciting atmosphere, and that made our team more excited to steal a win on their floor. They were probably thinking the same thing when they came here."
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View hazy from atop the Hoop Summit
By Chad Ford
Monday, April 5
SAN ANTONIO -- Dirk Nowitzki was discovered here. So was Tony Parker and Vladimir Radmanovic.
Minutes after the international team got clobbered by the Team USA at the Nike Hoop Summit here in San Antonio, GMs were quick to point out the obvious. There were no Nowitzkis or Parkers here.
Despite a nice 20-point shooting clinic by Serbian forward Luka Bogdanovic and some stifling defense on much-hyped U.S. point guard Sebastian Telfair by Croatian point guard Roko Leni Ukic, GMs expressed an overwhelming sense of . . . well being under whelmed at this year's crop of foreign talent.
They had every reason to be. None of the top-10 ranked draft-eligible international players were here. Some, like Andris Biedrins, Pavel Podkolzine, Kosta Perovic, Nemanja Aleksandrov and Tiago Splitter, were delayed for legitimate team reasons. Others, like Russia's Ivan Chiriaev, claimed that "visa problems" killed his ability to play in the game.
One scout was furious at the lack of no-shows. "They must think we're stupid," the scout told Insider. "We can get a visa for a kid in 48 hours, they can't secure a 30 day visa for a month? They're hiding. It makes it tough to do our job."
What was left was a hodge podge of players, many of whom will never have a shot playing in the NBA, against a squad featuring a host of McDonald's All-Americans and future first-rounders like Josh Smith, J.R. Smith, Telfair, Al Jefferson and Rudy Gay.
The American players overcame a slow start and quickly realized in the second half that their superior athleticism and quickness allowed them to get to the basket at will.
"I knew I could take my man off the dribble and to the rack whenever I chose," Josh Smith told Insider. "It was a lot of fun."
GMs walked away scratching their heads.
"I think we're all a little bit disappointed," he said. "There may have been a couple of late-first-rounders here, but I don't know. Bogdanovic is a great shooter, but he's a little soft and doesn't put the ball on the floor. Ukic's defense was great, but he wasn't able to beat his man off the dribble and get to the basket. Those are real issues."
USA basketball estimated that they'd given out over 100 credentials to NBA teams for the event. The event played like a who's who of the NBA. Jerry West, Kiki Vandeweghe, Danny Ainge and Chris Mullin were among the headliners in attendance. Many of them skipped the Final Four and flew in just to see these kids play.
While they may have been disappointed by the international squad, several of them walked away impressed by the performances of Josh and J.R. Smith.
Josh Smith had a great shooting night, going 12-for-18 from the field and hitting 3-for-6 from beyond the arc for a game-high 27 points. The international players had no answers for his athleticism.
"You've got to be kidding me," Bogdanovic said after the game. "I've never seen a player jump like that in my life. He's unbelievable. And he's not even in the NBA. I can only imagine what those guys must be like."
J.R. Smith was impressive for his third consecutive postseason game. Even though his outside jumper was off, Smith took his defenders off the dribble and scored several spectacular dunks.
Rudy Gay (13 points) and Al Jefferson (14 points) also had great games for Team USA. Telfair posted another disappointing shooting game, going just 1-for-10 from the field. He was hounded by Ukic all game and could never penetrate into the lane. Telfair did, however, have a game-high seven assists.
Churchill Odia, a 6-foot-5 point guard from Nigeria committed to play at Xavier in the fall, and Juan Diego Palacios, a 6-foot-7 small forward from Columbia, also had good games for the international squad. Highly regarded Chinese forward Yi Jian Lian was fairly disappointing. Scouts reported that he looked very mechanical in practices and he was pretty overmatched throughout most of the game.
International head coach Alessandro Gamba said he was upset with how his team responded to the more physical, more athletic USA team.
"I told them that you have to play like a tiger -- a mean tiger -- to beat the U.S.," Gamba said. "Our team was too soft."
Assistant international coach, Marin Sedlacek, who coached Nowitzki, Parker and Radmanovic in previous Hoop Summits, was even more blunt.
"I think that these young players are making a mistake, talking about the NBA," Sedlacek told Insider. "It is a fashion right now. They have potential, yes. But they miss too much by leaving Europe so soon. He have hard practices two times a day. Two games a week. They play, they get better. They give all this up to be in the NBA. But if they are not ready, they do not play and they do not develop. I think some of them are throwing away their careers. Not everyone can be Dirk Nowitzki or LeBron. These type of players come along once in a decade."
GMs were disappointed that they still didn't have a good handle on the huge incoming class of international teenagers. "I've been to Europe twice this year," one GM said. "But for most of the best prospects, I've only seen them work out in a gym. I haven't seen them play. It's very tough to make decisions based just on that. Very tough."
Who's Going Pro?
The real question on everyone's mind was who is going pro and who's headed to college or returning to Europe. As of Sunday, there were very few clear answers. Insider talked to six prospects who are all mulling a leap to the NBA. Here's what they, and NBA scouts, are saying about their prospects.
Josh Smith, F, Oak Hill Academy: Smith had, by far, his most impressive postseason performance. He was aggressive on both ends of the floor and did a nice job of hitting his jumpers (a big question mark). He ended the game with three 3-pointers. For those of you who like the Smith-Darius Miles comparisons, that's three more 3s than Miles hit for the entire season last year.
In other words, Smith is a better shooter. The 27 points, however, may be a bit deceiving. There was no one on the international team athletic enough to stay with Smith. In the NBA, that will change. Smith also took several terrible shots, including one three that must of missed the basket by five feet.
Smith sounded like a kid ready to come into the NBA. In fact, he many not even be eligible for college this year. Smith may have already played in too many postseason all-star games, putting in jeopardy his freshman eligibility.
"It's tough to pass the league up," he told Insider. "College is great, but when your family has bills and stuff, it's tough to say no to the money. I'm not saying it's all about the money, but you've got to talk care of your family, you know what I'm saying?"
Smith said he'll make his announcement around mid-April, but with most NBA scouts claiming he's a lock for the top 10 (and could go as high as top 5), it looks like he's in for sure.
Sebastian Telfair, PG, Brooklyn: For the second straight game, Telfair played good defense and showed an ability to run his team, but his shooting was awful. Ukic held Telfair to 1-for-10 shooting from the field. Scouts who have watched him practice the last week in Oklahoma City and San Antonio think that Telfair isn't ready to go pro.
"He's just no ready, period," one GM said. "He's not even the best point guard in his high school class. I think he's talented but he's still got a lot he's got to learn. How many coaches in the league are going to be willing to turn their team over to him right now? I can't think of any."
That fact may end up weighing heavily in Telfair's mind. The speculation for weeks has been that he's in the draft. He's gotten a big-time shoe offer and even the scouts who don't like him concede that he'll be taken somewhere in the first 20 picks.
However, Telfair told Insider that he won't enter the draft unless he's drafted high and only if he's assured that he'll be drafted by a team that will play him his rookie year.
"I don't want to go to the NBA and sit on the bench," Telfair told Insider. "I want to play. The most important question for me, is who's going to take me? Are they going to play me? If I can't get comfortable with that, or get the right assurances, I'd rather go to college. I know I'll play in Louisville and improve my game."
If Telfair really believes that, he better go back to school.
J.R. Smith, SG, Newark, NJ: He's been the best high school player in the country over the past two weeks and did little to hurt his status in San Antonio. While he shot only 3-for-11 from 3 on Sunday, scouts claim that he shot the lights out the past two days in practice. Smith told Insider that he gets his shooting touch from shooting 500 jumpers a day. As we reported on Friday, there is a growing consensus among NBA scouts that Smith would be a lottery pick if he declares. Here's how one Western Conference GM described him to me on Sunday:
"He's Vince Carter with a jump shot. He has a great body, great athleticism. He needs to play better defense and work on his ball handling a bit, but we can teach those things. The shooting and the athleticism, you can't teach that. Unlike most of these big kids who are flirting with the draft, he could come in and contribute right now."
Another scout compared Smith to the next Paul Pierce. Another to a taller version of Fred Jones. It was tough to find anyone in the place who didn't like him. Is that weighing on Smith's mind?
"It don't know what it does, honestly," Smith told Insider. "I've got to go home and try to get some information and talk it over with my parents. If you're a lottery pick, you can't turn that down."
Al Jefferson, PF, Prentiss (MS): Jefferson had the dunk of the night, slamming a power jam over the head of 7-footer Yi Jian Lian. One scout in attendance who knows the high school players better than most said he believes that Jefferson would go in the late lottery if he stayed in the draft. Others, concerned about conditioning issues and his so-so athleticism, claim that the late first round is more like it. Jefferson claims that he's still deciding what to do. "I'm going to make a decision soon," Jefferson told Insider. "I just got to figure out what's going to be best for me."
Luka Bogdanovic, SF, Red Star (Serbia) "My agent (David Bauman) told me that if I play well here I go first round this year," Bogdanovic told Insider. "If I don't play well then I must wait until next year. No pressure."
Bogdanovic had the most impressive performance of any of the international players. In addition to going 3-for-5 from behind the arc in the game, scouts claim that Bogdanovic made virtually every shot he took in practice on Saturday. "He's a special, special shooter," one GM said. "He's got a beautiful stroke."
However, questions about Bogdanovic abound. He clearly needs to add another 20 pounds of muscle to play small forward in the league, and by his own admission, he's a little soft. He also doesn't put the ball on the floor much. Scouts right now think he's closer to Bostjan Nachbar than Peja Stojakovic.
In other words, his status in the first round, despite his stellar play in San Antonio, still isn't assured. Like Telfair, Bogdanovic doesn't want to go to the NBA and sit at the end of the bench. He's getting good minutes in Serbia and doesn't want to take a step backward.
"I don't want to go to the league and just sit," Bogdanovic said. "My dream is to go to the NBA and play. There aren't very many good shooters in the NBA. I like to work. I like to practice. I think these things will help me in the NBA."
Bauman will likely keep Bogdanovic in the draft looking for a promise from a team. If he can't get one, he'll pull him out and put him in the draft next year.
Roko Ukic, PG, Split (Croatia): Ukic answered a major question in scouts' minds on Sunday when he came out and stopped the quicker Telfair from penetrating. Ukic is known as a very good athlete overseas, but he'd never played against a player like Telfair before.
"I really wanted to show that I am quick enough," he said. "I know what people say and all I can do is come out and show them."
Ukic's long arms helped extend the floor for them. Despite so-so numbers (7 points, 2 assists), the international team fared much better when Ukic was in the game. While it's clear that Ukic could use more experience and needs to get strength, it's also pretty clear that he's got the head to lead a team. He's the youngest player on Split this year, but also serves as a team captain.
Like Telfair and Bogdanovic, Ukic wants to be in the NBA only if it means that he'll play. "I've played many minutes since I was 16," he said. "I don't want to come to the NBA and just practice. I think maybe I will not come to the NBA right away until I know this."
Ukic helped his stock at the tournament, but probably does need another year or two in Europe. Look for Bauman to try and broker a deal with a club in the second half of the first round. A team with multiple picks like the Celtics or Jazz may be willing to draft him and leave him in Europe for another season or two to continue his development there.

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|February 23, 2013, 05:04 PM
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45ACP Question
So I started loading some .45acp today with 230gr lead RN. Never loaded lead for my 1911 before. Well my book calls for 5.1-5.8gr of Unique @ 1.270" OAL so I loaded a dummy to see if it would work and it will not feed in my 1911 properly. So I seated my dummy round deaper to see if that would fix it and got down to 1.230" OAL and it functions fine now. My question is do I need to back off of my powder Load that the book recommends for Unique? Will this increase the pressure to much?
|February 23, 2013, 06:26 PM
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My lyman manual shows a 225gr LRN Unique 5.5-7.3max at 1.272oal.
If anything the charge sounds a bit light. Nice thing about 45acp is the case has more volume than it should, so it allows you to play with seating depths.
I'm not going to say 'go ahead', but I personally wouldn't have a problem with it.
|February 23, 2013, 06:27 PM
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Any deviation from the published reloading data puts us into unknown territory.
All the warnings say to definitely begin any creative loads with the low end of powder and then try to figure things out from there.
Since it's not possible to know what the real pressures are, without some expensive gear, we have to judge by the looks of the fired brass and the velocity, as measured by a chronograph.
Since you aren't changing things by a huge amount, only a slightly shorter cartridge, velocity should give you a good idea of what's safe.
And how far to go to get the load you actually want.
Do you have a chronograph?
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|February 23, 2013, 07:37 PM
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I will share my pet load with you. 5.3 grains of unique with an overall length at 1.190. Now for the disclaimer. I dont consider this a hot load in my gun and only for my gun but when sharing load data i will say to be careful.
|February 23, 2013, 08:24 PM
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How about this for an idea? Cut your starting load down to 10% below listed starting load (@ 4.5 gr.) at your desired OAL and increase charges 2 to 3 tenths-of-a-grain til gun functions how you want. That's called "working up" a load, a concept that seems to be lost in this day and age. I'm guessing you'll get to fishbones' load and have room to spare. And 1.240 or so is what I load with 230 gr LRN in both my 1911's.
BTW, loading dummies to check for function doesn't necessarily tell you what happens when you actually shoot the load.
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|February 23, 2013, 08:54 PM
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Unique is a pretty forgiving powder. I normally load a little shorter OAL than is often listed in .45 apc and 9 mm because I need to for certain pistols. The magazine and chamber will determine the max OAL you can use. Not all pistols are equal.
I would still use the listed starting point for the OAL you need to use. Since it is shorter than the one used in your data I would not try any at the max level. I would stay at least .1 grains under the max level since using a shorter OAL will increase pressures. If you were going to have to load .060" shorter I would suggest adjusting the max and min levels .2 grains less. This should keep you out of those +P loads. I do this with powders that allow me to to have a 1 grain or more spread from min to max levels. Powders with narrow spreads I try to avoid in pistol loads.
|February 24, 2013, 01:08 AM
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Published OAL is pretty much useless with cast or jacketed bullets in the 45acp because of all the various bullet profiles. Best way to determine OAL is with a dummy round and a barrel removed from your 45. If it "plunks" in and the base is flush with the rearmost surface of the barrel you're good to go. If it's shy, seat it a bit longer. If it's proud seat it a bit deeper. Record your OAL for this bullet and use it for future loading sessions. Your listed load won't blow up any guns in good condition, even if compressed a bit. I've gone a little heavier and still have all my OE body parts, barrels looking good too! A 45acp doesn't like hot loads, BTW. Anything that cycles the slide and flies true is good to go!
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A Leader Among Children's Charities
In a perfect world, every child would be nurtured by a loving family, attend a challenging and exciting school and live in a supportive community. But the sad reality is that not every child has these opportunities.
Helping Children Succeed and Thrive
The Children's Aid Society helps children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We have been serving children for more than 160 years, a longevity that is a testament to our ability to adapt to the always changing needs of today's youth. After all, you don't succeed for 160 years by being old-fashioned.
Children's Aid meets or exceeds all standard for compliance and best in class performance with respect to dollars going towards direct services to children and families, part of its record of 14 consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator, which rates the financial responsibility of non-profit organizations. Children's Aid is also one of Charity Navigator's "Top 10 Charities with the Most Consecutive 4-Star Ratings".
The Children's Aid Society adheres to the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York's Standards for Charity Accountability.
Children's Aid's fiscal responsibility and ability to adapt to the changing needs of children and their families has kept us a relevant and vital component in the lives of New York City's children for 160 years. Our future, and the opportunities we will provide, are truly limitless.
Serving More than 70,000 Children and Their Families
Today Children's Aid serves more than 70,000 children and their families at more than 45 sites throughout New York City. Our caring begins even before birth, through prenatal counseling and assistance, and continues through the high school years with college and job preparatory training programs. All aspects of a child's development are addressed as he or she grows, from health care to academics to sports and the arts. And because stable children live in stable families, a host of services are available to parents, including housing assistance, domestic violence counseling and health care access.
A History of Firsts
Children's Aid has continuously been at the forefront of children's services.
- The first free school lunch program,
- the first industrial school for poor children,
- the first day care program for working mothers; and
- the first visiting nurse service
...were all Children's Aid initiatives.
Even today, Children's Aid remains on the cutting edge of children's services. The Carrera Adolescent Sexuality and Pregnancy Prevention Program has been replicated or adapted at over 50 locations in 21 different states. The community school model has been adapted by public schools throughout the U.S. and as far away as Vietnam. Children's Aid's concurrent planning approach to foster care became the basis for the federal 1996 Adoption and Safe Families Act, which defines today's modern foster care system.
Our Mission
The Children's Aid Society helps children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive supports to children and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods.


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Here are the rules.
1. The person who answered the last puzzle HAS to ask the next one. If you don't want to play, then don't reply.
2. Show your work.
3. Please try to keep math out of high level topics (this is mainly directed toward me). Comp Sci and Math problems are both acceptable.
4. The current question must be answered and validated before moving o to the next one.
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Someone showed me this problem on Tuesday. Aside from an answer, I'd be interested in how you figure out the problem.
This was from my 'revolt of the lab rats' series and it was sent in interestingly enough by a fellow named Andrew Magliozzi, who happens to be my son! I thought the name looked familiar. (Web lackey note: Andrew insisted that we shamelessly promote his commercial enterprise, Veritas Tutors, in exchange for this mediocre brain teaser. Though it sounds sleazy to us, he is the boss' son, so we do what we're told.)
Imagine this: It's the eve of the annual Car Talk 'We Haven't Been Canceled Yet' Banquet. John 'Bugsy' Lawlor has procured the food and the wine for the following evening's gala, and he's extremely pleased with himself because he knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, and he's obtained for $50, thirteen one-half gallon jugs of the finest red wine. He's very excited about the following evening's festivities until Doug 'Punkin Lips' Berman informs him that he received a note suggesting that one of those 13 bottles of wine contains a deadly poison. In fact, it's one that kills within 24 hours. 'Is someone out to get us? Who could be out to get us? Why? Why not? But why the whole staff?'
Anyway, because they're hopeless cheapskates and unwilling to discard 12 bottles of perfectly good cheap wine, they head off to MIT to consult with a scientist friend of theirs. 'So let's see,' he says, 'you have these thirteen bottles of wine and one of them contains a poison that will prove fatal within 24 hours after it's been consumed. And the Car Talk Extravaganza is when?'
'Tomorrow night.'
The scientist goes on to suggest that from his knowledge of poisons, even the smallest sample is usually enough to cause certain death, even if mixed and diluted with the wine from the untainted bottles. 'Hmm,' he says, 'I'll be right back.'
In a flash, he returns with four small cages, each one containing your standard lab rat. What a moral dilemma, they think, we have to sacrifice lab rats to save Car Talk? 'But wait, wait,' they say. 'We have 13 bottles of wine. How are we supposed to save the entire Car Talk staff and empire, with just 4 rats?'
'You can do it,' he says and then disappears into the inky shadows.
So, you have 4 rats in little cages, 13 bottles of wine and one of them has got poison in it. Now you can obviously take samples from any of the bottles and you can give as much or as little as you want to any of the rats. And don't forget, you're not going to know if the poison is fatal until the night of the banquet because it takes 24 hours to kill human or rat. So, how do you do it?


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Gov. Scott Walker has raised more than $30 million since he took office, including at least $5.8 million in the last five weeks.
Walker reported his latest fundraising totals on Tuesday, a week before he faces Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in the recall election.
Walker reported raising $5 million between April 24 and May 21. Additional reports show he has brought in another $800,000 since then.
Barrett reported raising about $3.4 million over the same five-week period and about $4.2 million since getting into the race.
Walker reported several large donations, including $100,000 from Richard Pieper of Pieper Electric in Milwaukee. Walker also got $50,000 from Richard Roberts, president of URL Pharma in Philadelphia and $25,000 from Max Carney, chief executive officer of Midwest Insurance Co. in Springfield, Ill.


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Tonight's game is the biggest game of the Sabres' season, since the last one. And until the next one. I actually started writing this last week, but never finished it, yet it still can be considered correct. One new positive is that the Sabres can now narrow their focus down to two teams, as they are 6+ points clear of every club below them. It's all about Washington (tonight's opponent) and Ottawa (4 points ahead, Buffalo with a game in hand).
Nathan Gerbe and Patrick Kaleta are both cleared to play tonight, though it remains to be seen if either gets back in tonight. I think it's pretty safe to assume Marcus Foligno is going nowhere, so some combo of Tropp, Turnbull or McCormick would be sitting or sent back to Rochester. Barring any oddities like sitting Boyes or whatever.
7pm tonight, appointment television. Recording it, kicking the wife off the big TV, the whole nine yards. I'm finally feeling some excitement. Let's do this.


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Bills would allow in-state SC tuition for veterans
By SEANNA ADCOXAssociated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Legislators want to make it easier for veterans to go to college in South Carolina by paying tuition at in-state rates.
But bills differ on how to do that.
A bill the House passed last week would waive the 1-year residency requirement for veterans and their dependents who prove they intend to make South Carolina their permanent home. It would allow them to enroll immediately in a public college without paying up to $18,000 extra.
The director of a veterans group prefers the Senate version that's stalled in subcommittee. It allows the in-state rate for anyone attending college on the GI Bill, mimicking a U.S. House proposal.
Jim Lorraine of the Augusta-Aiken Warrior Project says lawmakers shouldn't throw up residency roadblocks for veterans who want to go to college.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- Jonah Berkowitz has a come a long way from the kid that started playing tennis with a wooden racket rescued from a Dumpster.
The Roosevelt High senior recently earned his 65th straight victory in Mid-Hudson Athletic League play, which netted his fourth consecutive MHAL boys tennis title. But it hasn't always been as easy as it might seem. And it almost didn't happen at all.
"I never thought I'd play tennis," Berkowitz admitted. "I was always in team sports -- soccer and baseball. But there was something pure about the competition, the responsibility of the individual sport.
"It's been an incredible run. It's gone so fast," he added. "I started playing seriously at 10. My first racket came out of a Dumpster, and I went down the street and hit balls against a wall. I got into it and got a real racket after that."
The choice was a bit of an adjustment for his family, too.
"My family is very active, but tennis was new to my immediate family," he said. "(But) they've been so supportive and they're the reason I'm here now. They've driven me to the lessons, the practices.
"They've been so enthusiastic about it. They don't put pressure on me."
The specter of never having lost a league match could become too much pressure for some players. Not Berkowitz. He has taken things in stride -- especially as he's gotten older -- and didn't even know how many matches in a row he had won until someone mentioned it to him.
"I just go out there each time and try my best," Berkowitz said. "It doesn't seem like it's been that much of a smooth ride. There's been so many tough matches. The main strategy is adapting to the situation, no matter what I'm doing well or poorly.
"I had a lot of great coaches along the way," he added. "It's taken a lot of hard work."
Roosevelt coach Bob Mayerhofer saw Berkowitz's commitment to excellence right away -- in the required fitness test athletes take to join a varsity team.
"I remember seeing him in the mile and a half run," Mayerhofer said. "I saw such determination. It's been nice to see him develop. He sees every match as an opportunity."
The win streak was never a distraction for Berkowitz, according to Mayerhofer.
"He didn't expect to run the table," Mayerhofer said. "In fact, he's come very close to losing. He just has a refuse to lose attitude."
Berkowitz also was the beneficiary of being around other top players on the Presidents' team.
"From the day Jonah got here, he was lucky to join a group that wanted to win like him," Mayerhofer said. "(Former star player) Kevin Ackerman was a great influence on him."
Mayerhofer mentioned several other great players over Roosevelt's storied tennis history -- including his own son, Jack -- but said he'd have to give Berkowitz the edge as the best to ever play for the program.
"You can't argue with Jonah's record," Mayerhofer said with a smile.
Another thing that has impressed Mayerhofer is Berkowitz's desire to make others around him the best they can be, too.
"He's much harder on himself, but he's generous with other players," Mayerhofer said. "He's taken others under his wing."
And he's so much more than just a tennis star.
Roosevelt's senior class valedictorian was the lead in the school play and will attend prestigious Brown University in the fall, joining older brother Isaac at the Ivy League school. He's not ready to say just yet what his major will be, but Brown's open curriculum style means he won't have to decide anytime soon.
"I'm not undecided. I want to study everything," Berkowitz said. "I'm so excited."
He said he's not sure whether he'll go out for the tennis squad.
"Brown has a fabulous international team," he noted. "I hadn't given a lot of thought to it, but I have a hard time giving things up. And I do love it."
Before that, though, Berkowitz has a little more scholastic tennis left in him. The Section 9 boys tennis tournament is May 20 and 21 at Match Point Tennis Center in Goshen, and the state tournament could be in the cards afterward. That runs from May 30-June 1 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
"Sectionals is a new frontier," Berkowitz said, "It's a step up. There's so many new faces and great players.
"I finished third last year, and the two players that were ahead of me aren't back," he added. "But it's no sense of comfort, because they always put out great players.
"I'm going to go there and play my best tennis and hope for the best."


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Snowden Asylum Hits U.S.-Russia Relations
U.S. Blasts Move as Leaker Leaves Moscow Airport
Russia granted asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday, defying and embarrassing an Obama administration that threatened to scale back diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In the U.S., lawmakers across the spectrum heaped scorn on Moscow, branding the move as a slap in the face and calling for retaliatory measures from the White House.
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The Global Food Challenge Explained in 18 Graphicsby -
This post is part of WRI's blog series, Creating a Sustainable Food Future. The series explores strategies to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050. All pieces are based on research being conducted for the 2013-2014 World Resources Report.
The world is projected to hold a whopping 9.6 billion people by 2050. Figuring out how to feed all these people—while also advancing rural development, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and protecting valuable ecosystems—is one of the greatest challenges of our era.
So what's causing the global food challenge, and how can the world solve it? We begin to answer these questions through a series of graphics below. For more information, check out the interim findings of Creating a Sustainable Food Future, a report produced by WRI, U.N. Environment Programme, U.N. Development Programme, and the World Bank.
What's Causing the Global Food Crisis?
Feeding an Exploding Population
The world's population is projected to grow from about 7 billion in 2012 to 9.6 billion people in 2050. More than half of this growth will occur in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where one-quarter of the population is currently undernourished.
Shifting Diets
In addition to population growth, world's per capita meat and milk consumption is also growing—especially in China and India—and is projected to remain high in the European Union, North America, Brazil, and Russia. These foods are more resource-intensive to produce than plant-based diets.
The Food Gap
Taking into account a growing population and shifting diets, the world will need to produce 69 percent more food calories in 2050 than we did in 2006.
It's Not a Distribution Problem
We can't just redistribute food to close the food gap. Even if we took all the food produced in 2009 and distributed it evenly amongst the global population, the world will still need to produce 974 more calories per person per day by 2050.
Agriculture's Environmental Footprint
But we can't just produce more food in the same way as today—we also must reduce food's environmental impact. Agriculture contributes nearly one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, uses 37 percent of landmass (excluding Antarctica), and accounts for 70 percent of all freshwater withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and aquifers.
Climate Change and Water Stress Exacerbate the Challenge
Climate change is expected to negatively impact crop yields, particularly in the hungriest parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa.
Growing water use and rising temperatures are expected to further increase water stress in many agricultural areas by 2025.
The Energy-Food Nexus
Another major challenge is biofuels' competition for land and crops. Producing 10 percent of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2050, as planned by some governments, would require 32 percent of global crop production but produce only 2 percent of global energy. It would also increase the food gap to roughly 100 percent. Conversely, eliminating the use of crop-based biofuels for transportation would close the food gap by roughly 14 percent.
Food's Role in Economic Development
Around 2 billion people are currently employed in agriculture, many of them poor. We need to close the food gap in ways that enhance the livelihoods of farmers, especially the poorest.
The "Great Balancing Act"
Achieving a sustainable food future, then, requires meeting three needs simultaneously: closing the food gap, supporting economic development, and reducing agriculture's environmental impact.
What Are Some Solutions?
Reduce Food Loss and Waste
Roughly one-quarter of world's food calories are lost or wasted between field and fork. Cutting this rate in half could close the food gap by about 20 percent by 2050.
*Includes all crops intended for direct human consumption, animal feed, industrial uses, seeds, and biofuels.
*Includes all crops intended for direct human consumption, animal feed, industrial uses, seeds, and biofuels.
Shift to Healthier Diets
Beef is the least efficient source of calories and protein, generating six times more greenhouse gas emissions per unit of protein than pork, chicken, and egg production. Shifting just 20 percent of the anticipated future global consumption of beef to other meats, fish, or dairy could spare hundreds of millions of hectares of forest and savannah.
Achieve Replacement Level Fertility
Reducing population growth can help hold down food demand. While most regions are projected to reach replacement level fertility—or the rate at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next—sub-Saharan Africa's population is on course to more than double between now and 2050.
Boost Crop Yields
Boosting yields is particularly important in sub-Saharan Africa, which currently has world's lowest cereal yields but will account for one-third of all additional calories needed in 2050.
Improve Land and Water Management
Conservation agriculture—such as reduced tillage, crop rotations, and mulching—increased maize yields in Malawi. Combining these techniques with agroforestry—intercropping with trees—further increased yields. These practices could be scaled up on more than 300 million hectares in sub-Saharan Africa.
Shift Agriculture to Degraded Lands
Shifting agriculture land expansion to degraded lands can prevent deforestation, protect resources, and curb climate change. For example, more than 14 million hectares of low-carbon degraded lands in Kalimantan, Indonesia are potentially suitable for oil palm development.
Increase Aquaculture's Productivity
As wild fish catches have plateaued, aquaculture has expanded, producing nearly half of fish consumed in 2009. To grow in a sustainable way, aquaculture will need to produce more fish per unit of land and water and reduce its reliance on wild-caught fish for feed.
Closing the Food Gap
No one solution can create a sustainable food future. A menu of consumption- and production-focused strategies, including those presented here, can close the food gap and generate environmental, health, and development co-benefits. But governments, business, and others need to act quickly and with conviction to scale these solutions up.
*Includes all crops intended for direct human consumption, animal feed, industrial uses, seeds, and biofuels.
*Includes all crops intended for direct human consumption, animal feed, industrial uses, seeds, and biofuels.
- LEARN MORE: Download our report, Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings
Sources for Graphics
Growing Population: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (UNDESA). 2013. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. New York: United Nations. Total population by major area, region, and country. Medium fertility scenario.
Shifting Diets: Bunderson, W. T. 2012. "Faidherbia albida: the Malawi experience." Lilongwe, Malawi: Total LandCare.
Food Gap: WRI analysis based on Alexandratos, N., and J. Bruinsma. 2012. World agriculture towards 2030/2050: The 2012 revision. Rome: FAO.
Food Distribution: WRI analysis based on FAO. 2012. "FAOSTAT." Rome: FAO; United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (UNDESA). 2013. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. New York: United Nations. Medium fertility scenario.
Agriculture's Environmental Footprint: WRI analysis based on IEA (2012); EIA (2012); EPA (2012); Houghton (2008); FAO (2011); FAO (2012); Foley et al. (2005).
Climate Change and Crop Yields: World Bank. 2010. World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Growing Water Stress: World Resources Institute and The Coca-Cola Company. 2011. "Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas Global Maps 1.0." Accessible at http://wri.org/aqueduct. Cropped areas from Ramankutty, N., A. T. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J. A. Foley. 2008. "Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000." Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 22: GB1003, doi:1010.1029/2007GB002952.
Energy-Food Nexus: Heimlich, R. and T. Searchinger. Forthcoming. Calculating Crop Demands for Liquid Biofuels. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
Food and Development: World Bank. 2012. World Development Indicators. Accessible at: http://databank.worldbank.org/Data/Home.aspx (accessed December 13, 2012).
Great Balancing Act: WRI.
Annual Crop Production: WRI analysis based on Bruinsma, J. 2009. The Resource Outlook to 2050: By how much do land, water and crop yields need to increase by 2050? Rome: FAO; Alexandratos, N., and J. Bruinsma. 2012. World agriculture towards 2030/2050: The 2012 revision. Rome: FAO.
GHG Emissions from Animal Products: GLEAM in Gerber, P. J., H. Steinfeld, B. Henderson, A. Mottet, C. Opio, J. Dijkman, A. Falcucci, and G. Tempio. 2013. Tackling climate change through livestock: A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities. Rome: FAO.
Current and Projected Fertility Rates: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (UNDESA). 2013. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. New York: United Nations. Total fertility by major area, region, and country. Medium fertility scenario.
Cereal Yields: Derived from FAO. 2012. "FAOSTAT." Rome: FAO; graph by IFDC.
Maize Yields in Malawi: Bunderson, W. T. 2012. "Faidherbia albida: the Malawi experience." Lilongwe, Malawi: Total LandCare.
Degraded Lands in Kalimantan: Gingold, B. et al. 2012. How to Identify Degraded Land for Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
World Fish Production: FAO. 2012. "FishStatJ." Rome: FAO.
Closing the Food Gap: WRI analysis based on Alexandratos, N., and J. Bruinsma. 2012. World agriculture towards 2030/2050: The 2012 revision. Rome: FAO.
Very clear -- excellent way
Very clear -- excellent way to communicate a complex issue in an easy straightforward manner!
We should consider population
We should consider population growth and hunger as the main ingredients for predominance of Capitalism and economical concentration, not an undesired consequence.
Without the following we will always be upside down, no matter the efforts and in spite of large company´s lobby (seed providers, agrochemicals, Investments trusts, banks) to gvmnts and influence of public opinion :
Land reform/redistribution
Planified agriculture: balance : large estate / small scale agriculture
Subsidies cut for US and UE farmers.
Plan and promote change of habits and practise with diet, food production and food waste.
Improve agriculture in a sustainable and healthy way: reduce/ stop expansion of transgenic and agrochemical use.
I appreciate the efforts to
I appreciate the efforts to explain the existing situation nicely. It needs political determination to resolve the sustainable food security.
One of the big assumptions
One of the big assumptions permeating these graphs is that it's calories that count, and not nutrition. That's a big assumption.
I agree. The problems
I agree. The problems presented and the solutions suggested are very real. But this single spectrum method of equating Food to calories consumed is faulty to the core and can yield only false numbers, and therefore lead to solutions which are not solutions at all but crucibles for the making of more monstrous problems.
I will give a simple example.
The village folk working on my few acres of agricultural land and in small plots nearby ( dryland farming, interior Karnataka, India). General diet:
Breakfast: No coffee, tea etc.
One large baseball size round of "Raagi mudde" ( cooked finger millet flour, left covered in water the previous night) with "bele saaru" (mixed dryland pulses, whatever vegetable, greens, picked from hedgerows, scattered small vegetable plots etc., some spices cooked together witha spoon of oil.)
The slightly fermented water in which the mudde was soaked is drunk either plain or with a pinch of salt and a few spoons of buttermilk. A raw onion and a green chilli to go with with the meal.
Lunch: Same as above, freshly cooked, with a change in the vegetables. Usually a side dish of stir fry greens is added.
Dinner: Red rice with rasam (thin soup made of pulses), with some buttermilk (if available). Jaggery, with roasted sesame seeds, peanuts and suchlike, when available.
Wheat flour rotis, meat from free range chicken, sweets, milk, etc. are all rare treats reserved for celebratory days.
And these people are healthier than most people like me, urban based, eating to "scientific" dictates on nutrition, quantity and variety, if we judge health by capacity for physical work in hard circumstances, capacity for adjustment to shortages and plenty, capacity to not fall ill if the cloud covers the sun, be of mental cheer even when the present is difficult and the future is promising to be the same, be willng and happy to share the little they have, and still have creativity and divinity to make music out of a string on a coconut shell, or practice for weeks to act the part of a Rama or Ravana in the annual local "jaatre" or village festival.
The problem is when these people do not get even this to eat. For which the principle cause is that I and my kind eat too much, waste too much, pay too little to the farmer for what I take from him, and charge too much for what I give him.
One chart I would like to see
One chart I would like to see would be one showing all land used for agriculture broken down into the percentages used for food, and for other less essential products, including the following:
1. Vegetable based food for direct human consumption -vegetables, grains, oil seeds.
2. Animal Feed, for cattle, pigs, chickens, including grazing land for beef and sheep
3. Sugar for human consumption (beets and cane)
4. Biofuels production, mainly corn and sugar cane
5. Coffee and tea
6. Wine
7. Beer
8. Alcohol produced from grain, potatoes, agave, etc.
9. fiber for clothing, mainly cotton
In the Pacific Northwest where I live, we are seeing an explosion of land being used for hops used for beer, and grapes for wine. We may be able to afford this, and I do not feel that we have a responsibility to feed those in other countries where their population growth is outstripping their food production capabilities. However, I do feel that we may need to make hard choices about how many fish and bird species we are willing to drive into extinction so that we can have wasteful agricultural products such as beef, beer, wine, alcohol to drink, and alcohol to run our vehicles.
You can see most of the
You can see most of the information you seek via a Science on a Sphere visualization on the agricultural lands for feed vs for food. Check out their website: http://sos.noaa.gov/
The graphics depicting the
The graphics depicting the huge areas of water stress are particularly shocking, and offer a very compelling visual on the pressing need to improve both water and land management. Given the changing face of crop production by shifting to degraded lands is particularly compelling--although I wonder if the drying out of aquifers in many mismanaged regions, such as in the midwestern United States, which I partly reviewed at http://wp.me/p36T6t-xr, might create even greater stressors in the US, if crops planning is not shifted. Thanks for this review!
Your graphic of crop yield
Your graphic of crop yield runs from -50% to +100%. I assume the scale is linear, so a plus 10% increase in yield is represented in pink. Does this paint an accurate picture? I always associate pink with "nearly red" i.e. a dangerous reduction in yield. From my reading of the graphic most of the world will experience an increase in yields apart from Saudi Arabia, the Namibia desert and Western Australia, where you don't need many fewer crops to register a 50% fall.
Great to see you touch on key
Great to see you touch on key points regarding food challenge. Glad to see you highlight the shifting diets and consumption, especially the increasing consumption of Meat for food. Also agree that Meat and diary production is certainly more resource-intensive to produce than plant-based diets. My two cents on the topic http://www.mohanbabuk.com/2014/04/feeding-9-billion-people-can-it-start....
i agree and like it :)
i agree and like it :)
Good afternoon!
Good afternoon!
I write the Brazil, working as a researcher images to textbooks at Editora in Brazil, based in São Paulo, Capital, Brazil.
We are producing a collection of English language books for the education of students publish. For the book name Project Apoema Ingles 7th year, we would like to insert the image of Infographic Food Loss and Wast in the book of the kernels. Who can I talk to ask for authorization and budget?
Best regards
Deeply concerning - how then
Deeply concerning - how then to amend dietary behaviours in Western Europe as a start point. It begins with me?


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The best of Trowbridge's customer services was celebrated at an awards ceremony held at the Civic Centre last night.
The annual Service Excellence Awards, organised by Trowbridge Chamber of Commerce, acknowledged the town's businesses and workers who provide high quality assistance to the public with nominations coming from customers.
David Baker, former Trowbridge Chamber of Commerce president, launched the awards five years ago and he got this year's festivities started by introducing Wiltshire Council leader Jane Scott, who praised all those shortlisted.
The event, hosted by Brian Hill, from Jones Hill, financial advisors, had four categories.
Timpson won retailer of the year, The Polebarn Hotel were crowned service provider of the year, Samantha Burgess, who works at Adcroft Surgery's Boots store, was named retail employee of the year and Sue Hawkins, from Carewatch North West Wiltshire, won the service employee of the year award.
Mrs Hawkins, who provides homecare for the elderly and vulnerable, said: "I'm totally astonished and amazed to have won and this has been a very emotional experience for me.
"I do love my job so much and winning this is a lovely bonus."
All the award's winners received trophies with those who won the employee categories being given £500 cash prizes and those who were victorious in the business sections receiving a £1,000 advertising package with the Wiltshire Times.
Natasha Owen, owner of the Polebarn Hotel, said: "I have been nominated for a few years and it feels great to be a winner now.
"It is great to see that there are an awful lot of people out there who love Trowbridge and want to make it a better place."
Colin Kay, Trowbridge Chamber of Commerce president, felt the Service Excellence Awards ceremony was a great event and praised the high level of competition this year which saw over 60 companies nominated.
Mr Kay said: "I think the competition was so fierce this year and the judging panel had to make a lot of tough decisions when picking their winners.
"I'd like to say a special thank you to Emma Roberts, the chamber's vice president and head of the Service Excellence Awards committee, for all her hard work organising the event."
The Service Excellence Awards' judging panel consisted of Mr Kay, Mr Baker, James Rose, from Person May chartered accountants, Steve Davies, Office Evolution managing director, and Beverley Glover, White Horse Employment managing director.
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One of my favorite Bob's Red Mill mixes is our Gluten Free Biscuit and Baking Mix. It is incredibly versatile and easy to work with. Here is a savory recipe I conjured up in the bakery, enjoy!
Gluten Free Herb and Cheese Biscuits
2 1/2 cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Biscuit and Baking Mix
1/4 t. salt
1 T. evaporated cane juice
½ cup unsalted butter, cold and chopped
1 cup cold water
1 T. chopped fresh rosemary
1 T. minced garlic
1 T. chopped fresh thyme
½ -¾ cup mozzarella or cheddar cheese
Mix fresh herbs, salt and sugar into biscuit mix. Cut cold butter into mix until crumbly. Add water and work in cheese. Drop dough onto pan in the shape and size you like. We have done triangles and square shapes as well. Bake at 325°F in a convection oven or 375°F in a conventional oven for 18 minutes. Biscuits will not get much color, so go by firmness of biscuit. Let cool for 5 minutes and enjoy with entrees such as spaghetti or a hearty soup.
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Digity wrote:Is masturbating once in a while really that bad?
Not only masturbating, any thing you like doing again and again and again .... is bad.
For example ..... If you like eating apple to the point that you crave for it .... its bad.
Its same as the person getting addicted toward the sensation they get after drinking / smoking. Any likeness / dis likeness toward anything is BAD.
With Feeling as condition, Craving arises
With Craving as condition, Clinging arises
With Clinging as condition, Becoming arises
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CRV, Embrapa and Pfizer Animal Health join forces on genomic development in Brazil
The breeding of tropical dairy breeds will receive an innovative boost thanks to a partnership between the cattle improvement organisation CRV, Pfizer Animal Health and the Brazilian dairy cattle research center Embrapa Gado de Leite. These three parties will join forces in Brazil to develop genomic selection methods which can be used to breed Gir Leiteiro, Girolando and Guzerá cattle.
The directors of Embrapa Gado de Leite, CRV Lagoa (the Brazilian branch of CRV) and Pfizer Animal Health have signed an agreement to perform research focusing on dairy cattle genomics and genetic improvement in Brazil. The national breeders' associations for Gir Leiteiro, Girolando and Guzeráin Brazil will support this research. This collaboration will enable the genetic profiles of over 20,000 animals within these three tropical dairy breeds to be analysed.
Practical value
The three parties will create the tools, for example genomic breeding value estimation, that are necessary to identify and utilise the genetic potential of cattle for important traits such as milk production, parasite resistance, resistance to heat stress and various other economic factors. These tools will have high value benefits for dairy breeding in practice in the coming years. As a renowned research institute, Embrapa is involved in genome sequencing and genomic selection in dairy breeds. This initiative will enhance their expertise to the advantage of the dairy sector. Dr. Duarte Vilela, head of Embrapa Gado de Leite Research Center: "By creating the conditions to attract private institutions, such as CRV Lagoa and Pfizer Animal Health, we have managed to find the best way to share the research results with the Brazilian dairy sector".
International importance
Since 2008, Pfizer AH has been investing in research aimed at developing genomic tests specific to Brazilian livestock. Jorge Espanha, general manager of Pfizer Animal Health in Brazil, says: "We are really happy with this partnership, because we believe in the institutions involved and clearly see the potential growing of cattle genetics in Brazil".
In addition, the focus on tropical climate zones means the joint research is relevant not only to the growing Brazilian zebuine market, but equally to markets outside Brazil. Managing director Vladimir Walk of CRV Lagoa: "I have no doubt that this partnership will achieve more precision and speed in selection, and will deliver sustainable results to Brazilian producers. The dairy zebuine breeds also have enormous international potential to offer genetics, adapted to the tropics".
The results of this joint effort of Embrapa, Pfizer AH and CRV are expected to be relevant to tropical dairy regions around the globe, including South America and South East Asia.


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Monterey Peninsula Unified's decision to hire Lake Elsinore Unified School District Assistant Superintendent Alain Guevara as superintendent there was delayed Monday after dozens of parents and teachers spoke against his hiring at that district's governing board meeting.
With Guevara in attendance, about 250 people filed in the district's board meeting in Del Rey Oaks to raise concerns about a pending sexual harassment lawsuit in which Guevara is named as a defendant alongside other Lake Elsinore Unified administrators.
"Yes, they were very concerned about him being named in a sexual harassment lawsuit and they questioned the board's choice," Monterey Peninsula spokeswoman Sharon Albert said.
After an hour of public comments, Monterey Peninsula's governing board met in a closed session, where the trustees opted to delay voting on a contract that would have paid Guevara, Lake Elsinore Unified's assistant superintendent of instructional support services, about $186,000 annually to become Monterey Peninsula Unified's superintendent.
"We listened to you; We're going to do some more soul-searching and investigation," board President Curt Parker reportedly said after Monday's closed session.
The governing board is tentatively scheduled to meet again Monday and May 7 to discuss Guevara's hiring, Albert said.
Although Guevara had not yet returned from Monterey and could not be immediately reached for comment, his status with Lake Elsinore Unified remains unchanged, spokesman Mark Dennis said.
"He is in good standing with the Lake Elsinore Unified School District," Dennis said. "While he was a candidate for another position, he hasn't done anything to specifically separate from the district and he is currently under his employment agreement."
Dennis said Guevara wouldn't have started his new position with Monterey Peninsula Unified until July 1. In fact, Lake Elsinore Unified in December renewed Guevara's contract through June 2014 at a salary of $147,000 annually.
Whether Guevara gets hired into the position in the Monterey Peninsula district now remains to be seen after an hour of public testimony brought to light the allegations against Guevara in the pending lawsuit.
In March 2011, a Lake Elsinore assistant principal filed a suit against the district that named Guevara, retired Superintendent Frank Passarella and Assistant Superintendent Kip Meyer as defendants, alleging she was retaliated against after she complained about "crude" skits performed during annual summer gatherings in the Palm Springs area.
The lawsuit alleges that over the years the retreats included cross-dressing, a video entitled "Alain's Colonoscopy" and other videos and skits that the plaintiff said was demeaning to homosexuals.
According to the lawsuit, Guevara asked colleagues to describe their sexual preferences in one exercise and once wore a hat with plastic testicles on it.
"Coming into a new job with a pending lawsuit just puts a burden on us," Monterey High School teacher Carrie Parker told ksbw.com.
Guevara, who started in the Lake Elsinore district in 1994 as a middle school teacher, also spoke with the TV station after the meeting.
"I would say that that is inaccurate that there were testicles hanging from a hat; that's all I can say," Guevara told ksbw.com. "When you're suing somebody it's about legality, right? And whether things are legal or not. I don't think there's anything illegal that was done at those retreats."
He added: "I guess I was looking forward to the opportunity to prove that I am up for the job, that I'm excited about working for them."


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Nepal does not feature often in Theravada circles. But it is probably the greatest success story in recent times. Introduced only about 80 years ago, the country now has a 400 monks and samaneras, similar number of nuns and also about 100 viharas .
It has been the subject of many studies and books and the story of its advent is dramatic, involving the imprisonment and exile of monks, and the intervention of the king and government ministers. Not only has Theravada been successful in establishing itself in Nepal, it has given fresh impetus to the older Vajrayana and local strain of Newari Buddhism in the country. Furthermore, all the schools of Buddhism co-exist and cooperate amicably. Consequently those who declared themselves as Buddhist have increased from 5% in 1981 to 11% in 2001, the date of the last census. http://www.scribd.com/doc/36717573/Ther ... dern-Nepal
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Indians rally in 11th to gain ground in Central
Brantley, Santana each drive in an extra-inning run to drop Royals
KANSAS CITY -- Whether it was the seven relief pitchers the Indians used, the three bases-loaded jams to extract themselves out of, or the one hit from the middle of the fifth to the start of the 11th, seemingly nothing went right for Cleveland on Saturday night.
Except for the final score, that is.
The Tribe remained unfazed through it all, and snatched a 3-2 extra-inning win over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
"That was one of the funner games to be a part of, it certainly helps when you win," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "There was so much that was going on and not a lot of scoring though. They had baserunners it seemed like every inning, and we found ways to wiggle out of a few."
Michael Brantley delivered the game-winning hit in the 11th, when he chopped a single over a drawn-in Kansas City infield, scoring Jose Ramirez, who ignited the rally with a leadoff triple.
Ramirez took an extra base on what looked like a routine double.
"I [just] about swallowed my tobacco when he rounded second. But he made it," Francona said. "You were going to have to lasso him to stop him."
Carlos Santana padded the lead with an RBI single.
The Royals threatened in the bottom half of the frame. Salvador Perez drove in Jarrod Dyson, but was left stranded after Josh Tomlin struck out Erik Kratz.
Tomlin was the seventh reliever Francona used, and he gutted through two innings after finishing off Friday's 6-1 win.
"He means so much to that group out there, he was wiped out, but he was going to figure it out," Francona said.
Cleveland's second straight win over the Royals closed the gap to 3 1/2 games in the American League Central with the finale of the series coming Sunday. Kansas City dropped into a tie for first place with the Tigers in the American League Central.
Yan Gomes drove in the Indians' first run with an RBI double off Royals starter James Shields in the fourth inning. Gomes returned from the seven-day concussion disabled list just one day earlier.
Kansas City tied the game in the eighth inning on a fielder's choice by Lorenzo Cain. But they squandered myriad opportunities in the last four innings.
"We weren't getting any hits with runners in scoring position. It was plain and simple," said Royals manager Ned Yost, whose team went 2-for-18 with runners in scoring position. "We had a multitude of opportunities starting in the first inning, we just couldn't take advantage of it."
Trevor Bauer twirled 5 2/3 scoreless innings, registering his second straight zero-run outing, a career first for Bauer.
An even more impressive feat was the first-inning jam he escaped.
Bauer allowed the first three runners to reach for a bases-loaded, no-out conundrum. This looked ominous at the time, particularly considering he has allowed 16 runs in the first inning this season, five more than any other frame.
But Bauer struck out the next two batters to bring up Raul Ibanez.
"Early innings for me are tough and so I was fired up just being able to get to that position, to get two outs and have a chance of getting out of it," Bauer said.
He got ahead of Ibanez, 1-2, then bounced a slider in an attempt to get him to chase. Ibanez checked his swing, ruled third-base umpire Bill Welke, which prompted an argument from pitching coach Mickey Callaway, who was ejected.
Bauer ignored the drama and struck out Ibanez four pitches later, ending the threat.
"The way the rest of the game went, turned out to be a really big inning to get out of that with giving up none," Bauer said. "Usually in a situation like that, you try to give up just one or two, just don't let it be a big inning."
Cleveland got on the board when Jason Kipnis and Gomes whacked back-to-back doubles in the fourth inning.
The seven relievers combined to toss 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs (one earned).
"Down the list, everyone did exactly what they're supposed to do," Bauer said.
Jackson Alexander is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A Missouri woman was arrested Thursday in North Platte and her bond was set at $100,000, cash, in Lincoln County Court Tuesday.
Police stopped Barr in the 900 block of West Sixth at 3:45 p.m. Thursday and questioned her about an Oklahoma drug distribution warrant. First she gave them a fake name. She struggled with the officers, injuring one of them, and then she tried to run.
She was later cited for possession of methamphetamine too.
The Oklahoma warrant is for the distribution, manufacturing and possession of dangerous drugs.
In Lincoln County, she is charged with possession of methamphetamine, resisting arrest, assaulting an officer and false reporting.
When Barr appeared Tuesday in Lincoln County Court, Judge Michael Piccolo assigned her a public defender and set a surety bond of $100,000.
A surety bond means that she cannot be released by paying 10 percent. The full amount must be paid in cash.
Piccolo also added a $5,000 bond for assaulting an officer, so if Barr somehow comes up with the $100,000 she would have to pay another 10% of $5,000 to be released.
Piccolo made her bond a surety bond at the request of Oklahoma officials. Conditions of her extradition to Oklahoma have not yet been set.
This report was corrected March 21. The previous story erroneously said there were charges in another state.
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Word Temple ~ The Search For TutankhamenLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Professor History of Teaser Town, was in the middle of a school day, and teaching his students about Egyptian times. Not a few hours later did he think up an idea.
He decided to take a field trip to find the lost temple of Tutankhamen.
The next day, the arrangements were made, and the group was out on a desert and searching for something, anything that would lead them there. One of the kids soon found a stone that they thought was the answer to where the lost temple is.
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Members of Libertarian and Tea Party groups in the region have objected to city police plans to install public surveillance cameras around Victoria Gardens.
The plan by the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department is an effort to help deter crime and to focus law enforcement eyes on areas where criminal behavior may be occurring after a 911 call is made.
"It's `Big Brother' and the fact that they're taking federal grant money when our federal government is broke, and we're contributing to the problem by taking federal funds to implement this camera program," said Jeane Ensley, an organizer for the Inland Valley Patriots, a local chapter of the Tea Party.
"It's an invasion of privacy."
Rancho Cucamonga resident and past City Council candidate Anthony Rice, is also among those opposed to public surveillance cameras.
"My main concern is the trampling of our constitutional Fourth Amendment right to be secure in our person and our property," he said. "I'm against any type of government surveillance."
Rice, and others who spoke out against the public cameras voiced concern over federal government control over local government issues, with "strings attached" to federal funds used for such programs.
"If you're being watched all the time, that's not being secure in our person," Rice said.
"As a Libertarian, I like my right to privacy and the right to privacy is one of the basic founding principles of this country."
Jillian Ensley, a Rancho Cucamonga resident and vice chair of the San Bernardino County Libertarians, also took issue with the use of federal funds for the cameras.
"Anytime a public agency is taking a federal grant, there are strings attached," Ensley said. "There is an expectation that we need to do something for the federal government and the federal government has no business in our lives."
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, which serves Rancho Cucamonga as its police service, will install about 20 cameras for the first phase. Plans are to expand the number to other areas as funds become available. The cameras will be placed in public areas near intersections around the major shopping center.
"We do have crime around there," said Rancho Cucamonga Police Chief Mike Newcombe. "We do have vehicle burglaries and sometimes crimes are committed in the stores. We think the cameras will help us apprehend those people that commit crime in those areas."
The plan calls the cameras a "force multiplier" for the department, and officials said it would be no different than if an officer on the street were watching a public area.
"If there is suspicious activity that might be observed through the cameras, officers know what's happening and where to go, and that's a distinctive advantage," said Councilman Bill Alexander. "It's not a spy in the sky at all."
At the recent City Council meeting, opponents of the project objected during public comment on the basis of privacy concerns and that federal grant funds were used for the project.
A federal grant will cover the cost of the first phase of the project, Newcombe said. The surveillance camera company Leverage, which has a regional office in Ontario, is the vendor for the project.
Leverage also has contracts with Santa Monica, South Gate, Gardena, Compton, and Redlands.
In Redlands, public surveillance cameras were able to help police in a homicide investigation and prosecution.
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In comments made at the Agriculture Outlook forum last week, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack told attendees the United States needs "comprehensive immigration reform" and called on Congress to act without delay on the issue so vital to agriculture's future. However, with Washington lawmakers deadlocked in election year politics, hopes for meaningful legislation being passed in a timely manner are quickly dwindling.
"To be competitive, the U.S. pork industry needs a viable and stable agricultural workforce," according to a statement from the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). "Comprehensive immigration reform legislation should recognize the unique needs of the agricultural sector such as permanent immigrant workers for pork production facilities and processing plants."
"The good news is that agriculture has substantially made its case in terms of the need for reform," said Craig Regelbrugge, co-chair of Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform. "The need for a modern and functional agricultural worker visa program has become a major sticking point for the passage of a mandatory E-Verify bill in the House."
E-Verify is mandatory for some employers, such as those employers with federal contracts or subcontracts that contain the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) E-Verify clause and employers in certain states. More than 307,000 employers are enrolled in the program, with over 17 million cases created in the system in fiscal year 2011. There have been over 3.7 million cases created in the system in fiscal year 2012 (as of December 10, 2011).
Regelbrugge points to an impasse in Congress over the largely failed H2A program - legislation designed to allow non-immigrant foreign workers to the U.S. to perform temporary agricultural labor. NPPC supports a temporary worker visa program.
In Congress, however, there is little consensus as to what to do about it. "A bill introduced by Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., would create a new, more flexible and market-based ag worker program structure," Regelbrugge says. "Lungren's bill, or a combination of it plus some improvements to H2A, are only likely to move in the House if mandatory E-Verify also moves forward."
In the Senate, there is little sign of movement on the issue, though some conversations are underway among some reform-minded members. An H2A-only approach is not viable in the Senate, nor should the livestock and dairy sectors settle for an H2A patch as their future lifeline or safety net, according to Regelbrugge.
"Our polarized politics and weak economy are a huge challenge to overcome," Regelbrugge says. "There is no clear path for reform this year. Anything positive that does happen will need to be small, not comprehensive, relevant, and ultimately, bipartisan. However, the U.S. agriculture industry must be prepared for any window of opportunity."
NPPC supports immigration reform legislation that secures the country's borders in a way that is fair and just; allows access to a legal workforce but does not place undue burdens on employers; addresses the labor needs of specific industry sectors, including agriculture; and presents a common sense solution for the undocumented workers already in the United States.
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Milwaukee Target Corp. agreed to pay more than $500,000 to four management applicants who claimed they were victims of racial discrimination, as part of a settlement of a 6-year-old lawsuit.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa signed a consent decree Monday ending the lawsuit in which the federal agency accused the retailer of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not hiring the four in its district including Milwaukee and Madison, and not keeping documents as required under the law.
Target also agreed to revise its policies for retaining documents, to provide supervisors with training on employment discrimination and record-keeping, to report on its hiring decisions and to post a notice about the decree for employees in its stores and offices in the affected district.
Target issued a statement saying it decided to settle the case because all claims of discrimination had been dismissed except for those of the four applicants who contended they were denied interviews because of their race.
"We do not believe that any member of Target engaged in discrimination," the statement said. "Target prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination based upon race or any other characteristic protected by law."
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Jennings needs to make chances to steal
ST. PETERSBURG -- Stealing bases isn't always about stealing bases. Desmond Jennings has the speed and the ability to be one of the Majors' best thieves, but he entered Sunday's game against the Yankees with just seven.
"A lot of it has to do with getting on base," manager Joe Maddon said. "When you get a little bit cold offensively, as a basestealer, of course, you don't have as many opportunities. Good basestealers, they're getting out there on a consistent basis, and they've got that vibe going on."
Jennings entered Sunday's action hitting .233, with a .293 on-base percentage.
"He just needs to get back out there, get that on-base percentage back up there," Maddon said. "Accept his walks. Early in the year and during Spring Training, his strike zone was in good order when he was out there a lot. And that's when you see him go. That's always been the case. All the good basestealers that I've had, when they've struggled, then they get out there sporadically, [they're] not as clean on the basestealing. He needs to just get out there more."
Jennings agrees.
"It's just like any other thing," Jennings said. "When you get on, you don't want to just get on and run. You don't want to run into an out or get picked off. It's something, when you haven't been on base in a while, you have to get the timing of the pitcher. You have to get your jumps. It's different. It's about a comfort level more than anything."
The Rays have just 22 stolen bases this season. Clearly, they are not the running Rays of years past.
"We're more situational than we have been," Maddon said. "We've been OK, we've gotten thrown out on the bases way too often this year. A lot of it has been pickoffs. A couple of line drives. Sometimes that can be cyclical also. I just want us to be smart."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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