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WEST—Fourteen months ago, John Crowder didn't know the difference between disaster relief and disaster recovery. He just knew his community needed help.
In the months since a fertilizer plant explosion rocked his town, the pastor of First Baptist Church in West has gained expertise in disaster response and appreciation for the roles Texas Baptist Men and the Baptist General Convention of Texas performed immediately and long-term.
"I have learned there is short-term disaster relief and long-term disaster recovery. And we need volunteers and donations for both," he said.
Crowder and his wife, Lisa, were returning from a regional track meet in Bryan involving their daughter, Ashley, when his cell phone began ringing around 8 p.m. on April 17, 2013. They soon learned about an ammonium nitrate explosion at the West Fertilizer Company, a half-mile from their home and a mile from the church building.
"We had Royal Ambassadors playing kickball outside the church who were knocked to the ground. That tells you something about the force of the explosion," he said.
Phil Immicke, associate pastor at First Baptist Church, immediately went to work helping connect parents and children. He also made the church's van available to authorities to transport nursing home residents who had to be evacuated from a facility near the blast site.
When Crowder arrived in West, he took his wife and daughter to a deacon's home outside the area cordoned-off by emergency workers. Then he went to the community center, where medical personnel had set up a triage for wounded residents.
"They wouldn't let me in the building. It was a terribly helpless feeling. I've invested two decades in the lives of these folks, and I wanted to be able to do something," Crowder said. "Now, I totally understand and agree with that decision. I had no business there."
After doing his best to comfort some of his distraught neighbors outside the community center, Crowder called Tim Randolph, director of missions for Waco Regional Baptist Association, and Chris Liebrum, who heads the Baptist General Convention of Texas disaster recovery ministry. They, in turn, helped connect him to Terry Henderson, state disaster relief director for Texas Baptist Men.
As Crowder discovered, trained TBM volunteers provide rapid response and emergency support in the hours and days immediately after a disaster.
"Texas Baptist Men were here the next morning" after the explosion, Crowder said. "They had boots on the ground, providing relief with their volunteers. They started clearing debris and made boxes available to people to pack their belongings.
"As far as the people in our community were concerned, one-third of us could not get to our houses. That meant we had no food, no showers, no clothes or a place to wash clothes. TBM set up shower and laundry units in our church parking lot and fed people from our fellowship hall."
Early on, the BGCT provided an architect and structural engineer to inspect the facility at First Baptist to make sure it was safe and sound, in spite of some superficial damage. BGCT Executive Director David Hardage and Liebrum visited with Crowder the day after the explosion, began making plans for long-term disaster recovery and helped explain the distinct roles TBM and the BGCT perform after a disaster.
"There is a big difference in relief and recovery. If you are in a serious accident, you go immediately to a doctor to get some immediate relief, help and comfort. Weeks or months later, you start your long-term recovery. Both treatments are necessary—but different," said Don Gibson, TBM executive director.
TBM provides immediate relief, he explained—a task the organization has fulfilled 47 years. TBM has more than 11,000 trained volunteers and more than 100 pieces of disaster relief equipment stationed around Texas. In West, some TBM heavy-equipment operators gained their first experience demolishing homes—a service that saved homeowners thousands of dollars.
Texas Baptists' Disaster Recovery—a program coordinated by the BGCT Executive Board staff—typically begins in earnest about the time TBM volunteers begin wrapping up immediate relief, said Marla Bearden, BGCT disaster recovery specialist.
"We are not interested in reinventing the wheel," Bearden said. "We look for places where we can add to what TBM already does."
Texas Baptists' Disaster Recovery works in the weeks, months and even years after an initial response to assist with long-term development of affected communities. In West, one key role involved coordination of volunteers who wanted to respond.
"Three days after the disaster, I started getting calls from people who wanted to come help. I said, 'I cannot physically or emotionally manage my life, my family, my church and hundreds of volunteers who want to come here,'" Crowder said.
Texas Baptists' Disaster Recovery enlisted a volunteer coordinator to work in West for several months, managing the logistics of groups and individuals who wanted to donate their labor.
Like many residents, Crowder could not enter his home for 10 days. He found the front door blown in, window glass embedded in walls and much of the ceiling caved in, with drywall and insulation hanging down.
"We moved four times in six weeks," he recalled. Eventually, he and his family settled in a doublewide mobile home a deacon set up on his property near Gholson. They have remained there while their home is being rebuilt.
Crowder appreciates the contributions Texas Baptists' Disaster Recovery made in West and continues to make as the community seeks to rebuild and begin life anew. Last summer, the BGCT sponsored "Loving West," a weeklong volunteer effort aimed at clearing debris and preparing home sites for rebuilding. About 650 members of churches around the state participated.
During spring break, more than 300 volunteers worked in West with Shalom Builders, a Texas Baptists' Disaster Recovery program that mobilizes trained and equipped construction workers to serve in areas hit by disaster.
A key component of disaster recovery involves working with local committees for long-term recovery. Crowder serves on the board of the local long-term relief committee and the nonprofit organization it formed to administer funds, the West Texas Foundation.
Short-term, the local ministerial alliance established a system enabling churches to meet immediate needs with minimal administrative slow-downs. Long-term, the group worked with the newly created foundation to administer additional funds for needs such as medical bills, which took months to process, and rebuilding.
Along the way, Crowder has learned important lessons.
"Some people like to donate gift cards, and that's great. When we were out of our house for 10 days with just the clothes on our backs from a track meet, gift cards helped," he said. But in a small community like West, gift cards to a major discount store helped stimulate the economy in nearby Waco—not in the community hit by disaster, he added.
'Gift cards are good. Money is better'
"Relief involves helping families immediately get what they need. Recovery involves helping local businesses get back on their feet," he said. "Gift cards are good. Money is better."
The committee has helped provide professional counseling for residents who need it, and Crowder and other ministers have offered their share of pastoral counseling, as well.
"There's been a pretty steady stream of folks who just needed somebody to talk to. In some cases, they just needed somebody to be mad at. That's not much fun, but anger is part of the grief process," he said.
"People who are helping are the ones who get the brunt of that anger, and you just have to be OK with that."
First Baptist has "seen revival" since the disaster, he added, noting he already has baptized more people in 2014 than in the three previous years combined, and attendance has increased significantly in the past year.
"Something like this has a way of making people re-evaluate their priorities," he said.
As a community, West residents generally have reached the "acceptance" stage of the grief process, he added.
'Permission to move forward'
"Most people have come to the point where they see it as real," he said. Crowder added a communitywide service on April 17 marking the one-year anniversary helped with the healing process, giving residents "permission to move forward with their lives."
Through it all, he expressed appreciation for the support Texas Baptists provided.
"Texas Baptists led us well through both phases—relief and recovery," he said. "I hope our people will recognize both are appropriate and important. We need to give to both phases and volunteer in ways that really help—not necessarily in ways and times that are always most convenient."
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The stock market may not be perfectly efficient, but it is beautifully close. Monday, the S&P Ratings announced that they were anticipating being sued by the United States Department of Justice over their role in the financial crisis. S&P is part of the McGraw Hill conglomerate ( MHP). McGraw Hill's stock fell almost immediately about 13%. Yesterday, the Attorney General placed a number on the damages being sought, $5 Billion. Within hours, McGraw Hill had fallen another 5.7% on the news. McGraw Hill's total loss of Market Cap reached $2.7429 Billion by 12:00 pm on February 5 th , 2013, or 54.85% of the amount of damages being pursued by the Us Attorney General. One could say that the market participants have given the US a 54.8% chance of winning; Or to be more precise since the courts can award partial damages, the market believes that court costs and damages will add up to approximately $2.75B for McGraw Hill. By market close on Tuesday, MHP had lost over 22% of its value, losing $3.75 Billion in market cap, an astonishing 75% of the total damages sought by the DOJ. The investment opportunity, for any who doubt the efficiency of the stock market, lies in speculating upon the outcome of the trial. A settlement for anything less than $3.75B should cause McGraw Hill's stock to appreciate, with a slight premium added in for the removal of uncertainty. A full victory for the Attorney General will cause McGraw Hill to fall by another $1.25 Billion. A periphery investment opportunity arises from S&P's competitors, Moody's and Fitch. Moody's, a subsidiary of Moody Corp ( MCO), had shed $1.3 B in market cap within hours of Tuesday's announcement. By the closing bell, MCO was down over 17% in the last two days, losing $2.16B in market cap. Essentially, the market is giving Moody's a 43% percent chance of incurring the $5B liability mentioned by the Attorney General for S&P. This is essentially a 75% chance of S&P losing, and a 57% chance that if S&P loses, Moody's will also be brought to trial and lose. These percentages may understate the market odds being given to Moody's. Moody's had revenues of $2.28 Billion in the last year. This is slightly more than a third of the $6.2B in revenues brought in by the McGraw Hill Companies. $5B would be crippling for MHP, but it would be catastrophic for Moody's. If the damages are proportionally adjusted by revenues, then the DOJ, if they sue MCO, should seek slightly more than $1.75B in revenues from Moody's. Moody's already lost more than that in market share. At times, investors are seized with fear and overreact. If this is the case, then the price of MCO will correct to reflect a more rational probability of incurring a liability, giving investors an opportunity to profit by buying MCO.
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San Francisco Gap Inc. said Friday it signed a deal to allow Mexican department store chain Distribuidora Liverpool SA de CV exclusive rights to sell Gap-brand merchandise in franchise stores starting next spring, according to the Associated Press.
Gap had previously worked with Mexico's Liverpool through a wholesale agreement, introducing Gap apparel "in a limited manner" to Mexican consumers.
In a move to further drive international growth, Gap also expanded its agreement with Fawaz Alhokair Group, which recently opened Banana Republic in Saudi Arabia, to open Gap and Banana Republic franchises in Egypt and Jordan over the next five years.
The first Gap stores are expected to open in Egypt and Jordan for the 2008 holiday season. The first Banana Republic stores are expected to open in Jordan in the spring of 2009 and in Egypt for the 2009 fall season.
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WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thermo Electron Corporation and Fisher Scientific International Inc. today announced that the merger of the two companies has been completed, creating Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science. The companies combined in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction following anti-trust clearance received from the European Commission earlier today. The new company, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has approximately $9 billion in revenues and 30,000 employees. Thermo Fisher Scientific will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TMO."
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"This is a historic day for both companies, as two industry leaders join forces to create Thermo Fisher Scientific," said Marijn E. Dekkers, president and chief executive officer of Thermo Fisher Scientific. "The new company combines Thermo's industry-leading analytical instrumentation with Fisher's world-renowned laboratory reagents and consumables. As a result, we can deliver advanced technological solutions and integrated workflows to help our customers push the boundaries of scientific discovery, with increased efficiency. In addition, we have unprecedented access to our customers across the globe through the largest sales force in the industry, and through our catalog and e-commerce channels. With a seasoned leadership team in place, we now look forward to realizing the benefits of this combination quickly and seamlessly, while working toward the long-term success of our new organization."
Under the terms of the agreement, Fisher shareholders received 2.00 shares of Thermo common stock for each share of Fisher common stock they own. Thermo's shareholders own approximately 39 percent of the combined company, and Fisher shareholders own approximately 61 percent.
"With this transaction, we have created the world's only provider of fully integrated, end-to-end solutions in the life, laboratory and health sciences industry," said Paul M. Meister, chairman of the board of Thermo Fisher Scientific and previously vice chairman of Fisher Scientific. "We are uniquely positioned to accelerate earnings growth for our shareholders, enhance our capabilities for customers and multiply opportunities for our employees."
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I am a caucasian woman who is dating an African American man. He is 50 years old with a family history of prostate cancer. Recently I found out that he`s never been screened for prostate cancer and has no intention of doing so. When I tried to bring it up he said, "We just don`t do THAT." I asked, "Who are `we` and what exactly is it that you don`t do?" to which he responded, "Brothers. We don`t do that..." and he wouldn`t say anything else. I don`t get it. Can you help me to understand his concerns. Is there anything I can say or do to help him understand why it`s important that he be screened?
Yes there are some African American males who feel that prostate screening particularly the DRE (digital rectal exam) is somehow demeaning, esmasculating, and for some strange reason, an assault on their manhood. When I've been presented with attitudes as this, I tell the person that
(1) the DRE gives the doctor a sense of any irregularities on the surface of the prostate
(2) it's the person undergoing the exam who needs to assess their feelings of identity particularly when the exam is done in private and lasts all of 3-5 seconds and their are no sexual connotations present unless the examinee imagines them
(3) if left unchecked and a person does contract prostate cancer and its left to grow unchecked, sexual performance and manhood will indeed be affected but more importantly the individual may be fighting just to live
(4) if keeping up appearances of masculinity are more important than making sure that one's health is monitored, then if a radical prostatomy is needed, impotence and incontience are probable outcomes that may last longer than a simple exam.
Finally, there are individuals who should consider undergoing a PSA test, which measures prostate antigens in the blood but the DRE is often used in conjuction with the PSA to get a comprehensive picture of what's going on with the prostate gland. Finally, finally, the person should speak with his physican to get the most up-to-date information on prostate screening and treatments.
I hope this helps.
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It had never occurred to me to make rice pudding and flan at the same time. I don't mean in separate dishes and eaten side-by-side (I've definitely done that), but making a flan that was at the same time rice pudding and a rice pudding that was in turn flan. Do you follow?
It seems a natural enough pairing—like cake + ice cream = ice cream cake—but the concept of this criss-crossed dessert was somehow novel. In the panorama of sweetened condensed milk-based desserts that exist in many Latin American countries, it's a subtle way to break routine without leaving the comfort zone.
I found a recipe in a Nicaraguan cookbook but, because it's written in the tradition of "cook it till it's done," the instructions weren't very specific and there were few flavor additives other than a single cinnamon stick; so I jotted down a few notes and stepped into the kitchen prepared to improvise.
One of the major tweaks I made was in the rice cooking method. I'm normally really patient when baking, but here I didn't feel like making rice pudding first and then flan, so after staring doggedly at rice grains as they simmered in milk I took a shortcut. Microwaving the rice with some water in a covered bowl for a few minutes parcooked it and streamlined the process.
Sweetened condensed milk is a backdrop flavor in this recipe, but what comes forth more readily are the floral aroma of finely grated orange zest, the tartness of golden raisins, the exotic essence of cinnamon, and the bittersweet accent of just-on-the-edge-of-burning caramelized sugar. The result is a chilled, refreshing dessert that encases tender rice in creamy custard. Though the individual components are recognizable in this new guise, the effect is far from routine.
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http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar...t_to_sign_off/Cuttino Mobley has failed the physical administered after he and Tim Thomas were traded to New York in exchange for Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins.
The delay was earlier described as a "paperwork" matter but it was revealed that the Knicks were investigating concerns about the condition of Mobley's heart.
Mobley will meet with another doctor on Tuesday.
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for a guy some here said "can't pass to save his life" JO aint doing that bad ma.
he might not score, but 3 bs and 5 ast ? in < 10 min ?
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!
The good thing is, the Pacers are playing kinda sloppy and missing shots, but they're still in the game. Once they start hitting shots, they should take over. JO's passing really well and Ike is playing great.
The Heat simply aren't a good team without Wade. And Shaq, wow. He is nowhere near as dominant as he used to be. They are very beatable tonight.
How do you guys like the Chaquita jersies?
The best exercise of the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.
Who's this broad? Veeerrry Niiiice.
I like Helio but enough please!
The best exercise of the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.
We are playing like absolute ****.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
What the hell kind of pass was that? Ugh.
Seems like we've turned the volume down on our play. O'Brien will not be too happy in the locker room.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
I like Castroneves, but that was getting a tad bit annoying when they were cutting to them as the game was being played. Girl was really hot though.
JO seems to be forcing it a little.
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Anyone else starting to get depressed?
It seems like everyone except Ike is having an off-night at the same time. They're just not finishing plays.
The Pacers should be leading this game right now.
Tins and MDJ have both returned. That should help.
Gotta finish that Jamaal...Timmy Hardaway-esque on the cross though.
Now, JO'B with a T.
3 seconds?
DunDUn and Tins out prolonged, plus the refs being absolutely blind when we have the ball, makes us behind, but I'm not worrying.
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!
Jim was right about the 3 seconds on Shaq. They missed it a couple times.
I'm a little worried about this game on league pass, supposedly they are going to cut away to show the Kings/Spurs game?
This is the first game that I've really seen this year. I'm not seeing a lot of difference here. We looked totally lost. Or is this offense just too new for me and I'm not use to it?
Ike has such a nice shot.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Wow Ike
What's this sideline reporter's name? Stacy something, right? I think she's got a thing for Danny. That's two straight games she's been flirt-mocking him about his dancing and singing. She sounds like an 8th Grader talking about him.


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Jaidyn wrote:* Do not let this be a meta-discussion by discussing other discussions.
David N. Snyder wrote:This thread sounds like a meta-discussion but if the other moderators (who have more experience than me on these matters) deem it acceptable, we can keep this thread.
PeterB wrote:I think that this a meta- meta discussion. Its the very essence of a meta discussion.
I think it behoves you Jaidyn to settle in a while before launching a reform movement .
PeterB wrote:Clarification would have been nice. As it is I have even less idea what you are on about....
appicchato wrote:Funny (to me) how every time I see (or hear) the word 'individual' these days (and many in the past) I think of Alex...
David N. Snyder wrote:Jaidyn wrote:* Do not let this be a meta-discussion by discussing other discussions.
This thread sounds like a meta-discussion but if the other moderators (who have more experience than me on these matters) deem it acceptable, we can keep this thread.
Jaidyn wrote:Summary: Discuss this very argumentative way to approach Buddhism; the benefits, shortcomings, and traps in regard to developing true understanding of the Dhamma.
This part of the forum offers an unique atmosphere where you are encouraged, if it is your wish, to rely on your arguments rather then on common opinion or on texts otherwise regarded as authoritative. You are also encouraged to pick up controversial and challenging topics.
Are these kinds of discussions important or not for spiritual development? Why, and when?
From time to time people seem to be eager in participating, but does participation in such an atmosphere help your spiritual progress, or on the contrary: is it a hindrance whereby you rather stay away? What have you learned by participating or by not participating? How do you reach your conclusion regarding these questions?
Why this question? That which starts with good intentions can lead to discussions, which the individual takes as fuel for own bad intentions and delusion. Still I think there is a value in this way of discussing when good intentions and wisdom is predominant. In my belief this can both help or hinder development, and deeper understanding about the details of this process is therefore interesting. Better understanding would also help in deciding when and how to chose this approach. So I ask for your personal reflections My post need not to be replied to in a strict sense, if I gave that impression.
Because of the very nature of this thread I want to remind about the rules; particularly:
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Jaidyn wrote:Are these kinds of discussions important or not for spiritual development? Why, and when?
mikenz66 wrote:Hi Jaidyn,Jaidyn wrote:Are these kinds of discussions important or not for spiritual development? Why, and when?
Interesting question.
Personally, I've not found heated argumentation to be particularly useful to me. In some cases it has helped me hone little details of my understanding, but in my experience the nature of forums such as this is that they tend to focus me on improving my intellectual sparring technique rather than development of my actual understanding of the Dhamma, which tends to come much more from off-line practice and other activities with like-minded practitioners and teachers, and from reading books and listening to talks from various teachers.
So, to me, these heated discussions tend to be interesting diversions, rather than real aids to development. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Nothing wrong with some intellectual exercise, and it might as well be about Dhamma...
Others might have other experiences. It would be interesting to hear them.
Ben wrote:the DFFA forum came into being as the result of the experience and observations of a number of everyone on the mod/admin team who were either mods or members of the now defunct e-Sangha. At e-Sangha, certain ideas when challenged were grounds for banning as a means of managing long and ongoing discussions such as the validity of rebirth. When we established DW we wanted an environment where members could engage in robust discussion and debate and not feel that they would be punished or excluded as a result of challenging orthodoxy.
Dan74 wrote:The Dhammic-free-for-all is also useful for those of us whose practice isn't strictly Theravadan but who would like to have some input or discuss matters with our Theravadin brothers and sisters.
Dan74 wrote:To me it's been very valuable to learn a little of how some experienced folks here view things, both for my practice and general knowledge.
Dan74 wrote:Besides strong debate and the feelings it evokes can be good practice in itself. Not necessarily "feel good" practice especially when we believe that we must always be calm, composed and detached but it's an opportunity to face things we would rather not face, which I think is vital for practice.
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Just recently I found the arm to get a 175 champion Wraith (fairly beat, I found it) to start getting some high speed turn and I'll even flip it from time to time.
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A New York Times article made me take notice of how all the legal fighting about patent infringement is affecting high-tech industries, specifically the smartphone and software industry. But I also started thinking about the crop genetics cases currently in the courts and wondering when patent infringement cases related to precision agriculture technology might become much more common place.
The New York Times writers noted that "federal judges, economists, policy makers and technology executives" say the patent system is "so flawed that it often stymies innovation."
"In the smartphone industry alone, according to a Stanford University analysis, as much as $20 billion was spent on patent litigation and patent purchases in the last two years—an amount equal to eight Mars rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to public filings," the authors of the newspaper article, Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr, wrote.
The threat of litigation has some small companies backing off attempting to find innovative technology and new answers because U.S. court litigation would drain the company dry if a big gorilla company challenged them. Some companies back off real early to avoid a challenge. Many persons knowledgeable of patent rights suggest that standards for granting patents are too loose in this day of digital products and intangible creations and system concepts rather than mechanical products.
A vague concept is turned into a patent filing just in case someone might figure out how to use a concept in actual practice or product development, even though the company filing the patent might deep six the whole idea.
The New York Times writers determined that the biggies of the digital world have filed an outrageous number of patent applications since 2000, many of them to allow the big companies to challenge other companies in court. The writers quoted a source as reporting patent applications, computer-related and otherwise, filed at the U.S. patent office in 2011 totaled 540,000, which represents an increase of more than 50 percent during the last decade.
Reported examples of company filings and patents received include Google, 2,700 patents since 2000; Microsoft, 21,000 in that same period; and Apple, 4,100 patents since 2000.
It appears to me that the patents, whether they are in genetics or digital agriculture, will lead to more and more emphasis on court fighting instead of investing in agricultural research and development. Budgets are set based on sales and profit and split according to the squeaky wheel, and it might be court challenges that companies decide protects their future income instead of R & D finding new solutions to old questions.


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The prices being paid for farmland across Illinois continue their upward spiral with the tops being in the $10,000 to $13,000 per acre range across the state. This is according to the 2012 Farmland Values and Lease Trends Report released today by the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers at its annual Land Values Conference held here.
The top price of $13,000 per acre was for a November 2011 sale of 37.7 acres in Christian County. The property was listed as having Excellent quality land. Sales in the $10,000 per acre range were common across a number of regions in the state.
"A good part of this tremendous move in Illinois crop land values is based on increasing farm income returns, and expectations of strong income into the future," says Don McCabe, AFM, general chairman of the Land Values Survey and Conference. McCabe, with Soy Capital Ag Services, is also licensed as a Real Estate Broker in Illinois and Indiana.
Respondents indicated that farmland values increased between 20 and 21 percent across land classes during 2011, says Gary Schnitkey, Ph.D., Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois. "Prices of excellent productivity farmland was estimated at $8,690 per acre price on January 1 and $10,460 per acre price on December 31st, an increase of 20 percent during the year. Good quality farmland price was estimated at $7,490 at the beginning of the year and $8,980 at the end of the year, an increase of 20 percent. Average farmland's price was $6,080 per acre at the beginning of 2010 and $7,330 at the end of year, an increase of 21 percent. Fair productivity farmland's price was $4,880 at the beginning of the year and $5,900 at the end of the year, indicating a price increase of 21 percent."
Land price increases in 2011 were large compared to averages. Average yearly increases in land prices have average 6.7 percent across all of Illinois between 1970 and 2011. Yearly increases have averaged 12 percent from 2005 to 2011.
Rents Rising As Well
"Given the variability of land quality and regions, and the aggregation of data over many sale and rent observations, the traditional relationship of the market to price land at levels where income results in a "cap rate" of 3 percent to 5 percent continues to hold. Rents drive the rate of return in relation to land values; land prices do not trigger or cause rental returns," McCabe explains.
According to survey results, traditional fixed cash rent leases increased for 2012 to 32 percent of all farm operating arrangements. All other types, totaling 68 percent, include a variety of crop share and variable cash rent leases, and custom farming contracts. This 68 percent majority of farm operating agreements include features where the landowner shares, in some way, in the farm's crop production and/or price risk, and is rewarded when yields and prices are good.
Cash rents increased a great deal between 2011 and 2012, Schnitkey explains. "For excellent quality farmland, rents increased $60 per acre from $319 per acre in 2011 to $379 per acre in 2012. Increases were $60 per acre for good quality farmland, $50 per acre for average quality farmland, and $35 per acre for fair quality farmland.
Following are selected examples and overview…
1. Both Land Values and Lease Trends continue higher into 2012, and are expected to stay strong as long as crop income levels hold or increase.
2. Price and rent levels both increased steadily through 2011, and consistently among different productivity classes of land and regions of the state.
3. Land values maintain support from investment capital seeking alternatives to other financial assets. Among major issues are interest rates, U.S. and foreign sovereign debt, stock market performance, the dollar value relative to other currencies, and growth of consumer economies around the world.
4. Long leasehold interests, extended Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts, deed restrictions, etc. that negatively impact ownership control penalize land prices.
5. As supplies of land tightened buyers were less concerned about one year leases, and receiving partial interests in current year crop or leases in progress, looking beyond a few months toward long term investment value.
6. The annually renewable USDA Farm Program appears to have very little effect on land values in 2011, eclipsed by other more dominant factors.
7. Current crop genetics increase yields while reducing year-to-year variability, which improves earning potential for lower classes of land.
8. Recreational tracts and transitional development land have been hardest hit because of struggling non-agricultural economies.
9. Some areas or counties carry name or reputation prestige, showing stronger prices than land with similar productivity and attributes in nearby areas or counties. However, undiscovered "pockets of prosperity" where land can be typically purchased at lower prices relative to its productivity are fewer and further between.
10. Regardless of the means of sale – public or sealed bid auction, broker listing, private transactions – excellent and good productivity tracts needed minimal marketing time, with a generally shorter period from exposure-to-market through sale to closing.
11. Not only are farmers the majority of buyers, but adjoining/nearby landowners and current tenants often lead the way.
12. Areas with higher concentrations of livestock – dairy, hogs, poultry – had generally more favorable markets for their production in 2011.
13. Pasture rents have not moved significantly over several years, and can vary widely from $5/ac to more than $60/acre depending on quality or carrying capacity, water source, and contribution to upkeep and maintenance of the land and fences.
14. Variable cash rent leases grow in popularity and pay landowners competitively higher returns in 2011 due to higher average prices and excellent soybean yields.
15. Wind farm activity, where already planned or under construction, continued to impact land values and add to total return in 2011. However changes in tax, policy, and funding have slowed the progress of many wind tower projects.
16. In some areas larger percentage increases for lower productivity land were noted, based on expectations of improving crop returns, and absolute increases on lower values resulting in larger percentage growth.
17. Continuing fixed cash rent rates generally showed a tendency to lag other lease and operating contracts as income returns and commodity markets have been in a general up trend over several successive crop years.
18. By year end 2011 price paid per productivity index (PI) point per acre was running in the upper $60s to mid $70s. One central Illinois region's data calculated excellent soils averaging $73/PI, good soils $64/PI, and average and fair soils at $60/PI.
19. In many areas of the state it was a challenging crop production year in 2011, with wide variations in conditions from too much rain at times in some locations, to very hot and dry conditions in some areas later in the summer.
20. Calhoun County peaches are seasonally very popular and exceptionally good. (Region 7 slipped in some product-placement advertising.)
21. The generally wet spring throughout the state accentuated the importance of good drainage and much drainage tile and waterway improvement work was done throughout the year. Well-drained or pattern-tiled land will sell for a premium, especially if there are well-documented and accurate maps of drainage improvements.
22. Land value for crop production continues to gain on values for development land, as cropland increases and development land declines or holds steady.
23. The number of tracts and amount of acres transacted was generally more than previous years, as higher prices pulled supply onto the market.
24. In some local instances proposals for underground gas storage, recent discovery of production volumes of oil, and continuing coal mining has sensitized the market to the value of mineral interests and rights.
25. Irrigated land returned proportionately higher income due to higher commodity prices and improved yield from irrigation.
26. Farm operators continued and expanded the trend of bringing current landlords and other absentee investors to the farmland market.
27. In 2011 there have been several notable expansions or new construction of high capacity grain rail-loading facilities, mostly destined to move Illinois grain to cattle, hog, and poultry operations out of state.
28. Some areas benefit with strong grain prices from grain market outlets on navigable rivers, rail terminals, local area end-users and specialty food product processors.
29. Another year in 2011 where corn following soybeans, rather than one or more years of corn, performed significantly better.
30. Almost every county in the state had instances of a record new high price per acre for farmland.
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Regional officials on Friday announced a second lawsuit against Metropolitan Water District over its rates, saying they could cost county residents more than $100 million in unfair expenses over the next two years.
The San Diego County Water Authority filed its latest complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court to challenge MWD's charges for 2013 and 2014, and expand the scope of scope of an earlier lawsuit.
The new suit relies on arguments similar to those in 2010 litigation for which a trial date has not been set. It alleges that Metropolitan has illegally structured its wholesale water rates so that San Diego County customers pay a disproportionate amount and other residents across Southern California benefit.
The water authority said it filed its latest suit now to preserve its right to challenge rates approved by Metropolitan in April. It includes allegations that Metropolitan's decisions are illegally influenced by a shadow government of other member agencies.
"At the urging of self-interested member agencies, MWD's governance has allowed the setting of invalid rates," said a water authority news release on Friday. "MWD is not following the clear industry standards and California law that apply to its water rates."
A Metropolitan spokesman on Friday said the new suit isn't a surprise because the water authority had sent two warnings. In an earlier interview, Metropolitan general manager Jeffrey Kightlinger said his agency's rate-setting approach was legal and within industry norms.
Outside of San Diego County, water districts have defended Metropolitan's budget practices and said San Diego officials are using litigation to draw attention away from their decision to invest in costly supplies from Imperial County. Local leaders said their deal with Imperial irrigators has nothing to do with Metropolitan's improper rates.


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The following letters are in response to Gustavo Arellano's Sept. 28 feature story, "Bad Moves," about the sex-abuse scandal involving the Diocese of Orange.
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Well, once again, you have been able to shed some light on the truth of some of what happened in Bishop [Tod D.] Brown's diocese. I feel some sympathy for [Monsignor John] Urell. He had a direct hand in some of the sexual crimes committed against young people in the diocese, and although it seems he tried to put an end to some of it, the desire to protect his position in the hierarchy of the church won out over his conscience. That is unfortunate and sad, but he, too, has to be held accountable for his part.
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In spite of the fact that he pushed for some of the priestly predators to be kept away from children and young people, he did not push hard enough. Would it have meant consequences for him? Certainly. However, if Urell really were a shepherd for his flock, they—and not himself—would have been his main concern. It seems very obvious that both he and Brown are ultimately interested in protecting their privileged positions and their own reputations. If I knew that about myself, and I had a part in ruining the lives of so many innocent people, I guess I would break, too. In spite of the sympathy I feel for him, as a survivor, I also feel repugnance and disgust that both he and Brown knowingly allowed this to continue.
I would also ask Bishop Brown if he thinks his "embarrassment" is worse than the lives of deep depression, panic attacks, addictions, and suicidal thoughts and/or actions that each of us survivors has to live with.
Gabrielle Azzaro
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Your work is deserving of an award. You are one of the best investigative reporters.
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This letter responds to "Faster Format," Hobey Echlin's profile of the band VHS or Beta from the Sept. 14 issue.
These guys might as well be a Cure tribute band. There is nothing original about them or their music. Their claim to be forerunners of the "disco punk dance" movement is a laugh. They put out their first EP in 2000; the Rapture had put out an LP in 1999. Credit is given where credit is due: That's why they don't get any. And telling people that you deserve it in an interview is pathetic. It's quite audacious they would even think of comparing themselves to The Rapture or !!!
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The hits keep on coming in response to our 2007 Best of OC issue, published Sept. 21.
I originally pulled up your website to make a comment on your naming Wiliam R. Mason Regional Park as Best Park in Orange County and stumbled onto the Fire Hunk Bachelor Auction dated Sept. 27.
I will get back to the park in a moment. First, let me say I was embarrassed for the fire service, as I am a full-time firefighter/paramedic for a city in this county. I was appalled to see one individual so-called Fire Hunk stating that his hobby was "jackhammering." This reflects poorly on the fire service in general, and I feel that it is in poor taste to have placed that factoid on your webpage.
Back to my original reason for sending you feedback, and that is the topic of Best Park according to your weekly publication. I agree that William R. Mason is a fine park, but I wonder if whoever wrote the piece actually went out and looked at it. The part about the gorgeous shimmering lake could not be further from the truth. The lake has been in such a sad state of disrepair for years. It is virtually a mini Salton Sea in the middle of Irvine. Nothing lives in it, and it emits a horrid odor. It is a disgusting lime green with no filtration of any kind. It wasn't always that way—in fact, they used to stock it some years back with DFG catfish—but these critters have also perished from the dismal conditions. Just thought you ought to know.
Knucka, please! OC Weekly, you trippin'. Why half yo list in the LBC? Last I checked, the county line was the 605. Stop frontin' on me, or I'ma bust a drive-by from Seal Beach to Mission Viejo, recognize! You ain't a real place, and you never will be. You can't front culture, or, in yo case, just jack it. To quote the homey, Leche: "You want the coolness of a real city but not its trappings (crime, gangs, graffiti, black people, etc.)." THAT IS CALLED FRONTIN' IN MY HOOD, HOMEY! Watch yo back.
Editor's Note: Perhaps, at this very moment, the gentle reader is perusing a copy of this paper obtained from one of our numerous Long Beach distribution locations . . .
Thank you guys very much for the write-up as the best Dance Club. We've worked hard for it, and we appreciate your kindness. Only one thing: You are showing our website as ClubVegas.com, but it isn't .com. It should be changed to www.clubvegas.us (like in United States!). Thanks very much for correcting this.
Vickie Chang's critique of that long-ago Details article [Trendzilla, Sept. 21] is spot-on, but she should have gone further. That magazine's "Gay or (some other group)" feature is the worst column in American print today. Asian-American advocacy groups should've taken a stand for everyone and demanded that Details scrap the entire concept. Instead, we got an apology and the continuation of that gay-or-not bullshit.
Let's see what's been hanging around in Gustavo's mailbag. This first letter is in regard to a comment made in the Sept. 14 edition of Letters, in which a reader rants about negative letters about ¡Ask a Mexican!
On Miguel's comment, I'm actually surprised that OC Weekly would print such a racist, hateful diatribe! If this were reversed and a white guy were so disturbed as to wish death to ANY other race, you never would have printed it! The entire letter was written by a very disturbed individual regarding a letter written six months ago to ¡Ask a Mexican! I felt physically ill after reading 'Miguel's' rantings—it's sad to know that hateful, creepily-disturbed people like him actually exist in the world, much less in this country! We can only hope he commits a crime (hopefully not a violent one—yeah, right!) and gets deported SOON!
The following letter is in response to Pocha's e-mail about the Aug. 16edición of ¡Ask a Mexican!
About the so-called study in which they sent Americans who were collecting unemployment to pick strawberries, and they all quit within a week. I don't recall a study to that effect. However, when I was a senior in high school back in 1981, I remember watching a news item on a local TV channel similar to what Pocha was describing. In the news segment, "la migra" had just rounded up a group of illegal immigrants from a field, and Americans drawing unemployment were put in their place working the field. As I recall, by the end of the day, ALL of the Americans had quit! What made this ironic is that during the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan promised to do something about both illegal immigration and unemployment, and this "program" of having unemployed Americans taking jobs that were being done in the agricultural fields by illegals was going to be Reagan's way of keeping those two promises.
We just got this one regarding an olllld ¡Ask a Mexican!—May 5, 2006—in which a light-skinned Mexican lamented the "racism" he experienced from darker-skinned Mexicans.
I, too, am a light-skinned Mexican, pale with light eyes, and I have noticed that we are the minority in the USA. But not on Mexican television. So many ignorant people think all Mexicans look the same, but if they had any education, they would know of our mixed race! Yes, a lot of dark-skinned Mexicans don't like light-skinned Mexicans because they've always been portrayed as more beautiful, and that's what you see on Mexican television. Don't hate on us. We are all Mexican. We just all have different mixtures. Mine and others just happen to be more Spanish. But we are all Mexican and loving it!
In the article "Bad Moves" in the Sept. 28 issue, the name of Monsignor John Urell's lawyer was given incorrectly. His name is Patrick Hennessey. The Weekly regrets the error.
In the article "Recall Madness!" in the Aug. 24 issue, the year of Orange Unified School District Trustee Steve Rocco's arrest was incorrect. He was arrested in 1980. The Weekly regrets the error.
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Poor harvests in the northern hemisphere mean commodity prices will continue to rise. Pressure on resources will be compounded by consumption by emerging markets, whose populations, life expectancy, economic output and spending power will continue to outpace that of more developed economies.
Rising obesity levels will prompt increased legislation in the use of salt, fat and sugar and the marketing of 'healthy' foods, LFR predicts. It anticipates reviews of the European food framework PARNUTs and nutrition facts labelling in the US this year.
Despite this gloomy outlook, LFR predicts that the continuing trend of health and wellness offers opportunities for food manufacturers in the following key areas:
'Natural' trend beds in
The march to all things 'natural' is likely to persist as consumers increasingly buy into the perceived healthiness of the additive-free or 'natural' proposition. LFR believes manufacturers will continue to adopt a 'natural' or clean-label policy.
The future of functional foods
There will be considerable interest in how the European functional food market performs in the wake of the enforcement of European Food Safety Authority's article 13.1 general health claims. The legal enforcement of health claims will have little impact and the market will continue to grow. Manufacturers that can show consumers proof, verified by independent science, that the product lives up to its promise will see continued market growth.
'Free From' to build on success
'Free From' was the success story of 2012, and LFR expects the "unbounded growth" of 'Free From' foods to continue into 2013. It anticipates more activity from big brands and predicts that products will be moved out of the 'Free From' aisle and positioned next to category competitors.
Salt, fat and sugar: pushing technological boundaries
Interest will not wane in the effort to reduce salt, fat and sugar. Incremental reduction will continue and compliment breakthrough technologies and processes to achieve step-change reductions.
Ageing population opportunities build
As the average age of the global population rises, a key opportunity for manufacturers is developing products that help to ameliorate escalating health concerns. But health is not the only focus, so too is packaging adaptation and segmented communications that appeal but don't patronise. LFR also thinks the time is right to redefine age and separate the needs of the over 55s from those aged 75 and upwards.
No compromise on ethics
Sales of Fairtrade foods have continued to rise throughout the global economic downturn and more kite marks are used to designate qualities such as higher welfare standards, provenance and bio-diversity. This proves that consumers will not compromise on ethical issues.
Ingredients take centre stage
The presence of certain ingredients can transform the value proposition of a product, if the consumer perceives them to deliver tangible benefits. LFR believes that how consumers perceive certain ingredients will have even greater influence on their overall preference for the product as ingredients take more of a centre stage.


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As longtime readers will know, I watch both the time and price axis of the market to help determine when a move may be ending, even if only temporarily. Currently, Priceline (PCLN) is flashing technical signs of both kinds that its current rally may be coming to an end.
On the price axis, I watch for Fibonacci extensions of prior swings as well as symmetry projections -- that is, 100% projections, or "measured moves" of prior swings in the same direction. Fibonacci price extensions are essentially retracements of prior swings beyond 100%. The extension ratios that I typically use are 1.272, 1.618 and 2.618, and I will watch for possible support or resistance when one of these ratios is approached.
On the Priceline chart, one example of this would be the 1.272 extension of the Sept. 18 high to the Oct. 23 low, which comes in around $675.23. Note that the actual high was hit just a bit beyond this area, at $679.23, followed by a $82.08 decline.
More to the point, take a look at the $125.26 rally swing from the Oct. 23 low to the Dec. 3 high. I projected 100% of this prior swing from the most recent low at Dec. 27, which gives us $722.41 as possible natural resistance level to the stock's most recent rally. This just happens to overlap a 1.618 extension of another major swing, as well as a 0.786 retracement of a larger swing.
So we are looking at a price-cluster zone for possible resistance between $722.41 and $729.96. This does not mean Priceline will definitely make a high in this zone, but it does tell us to watch for sell signals if the stock fails to clear it! Many moves tend to terminate at extensions of prior swings, and Priceline is currently pretty close to this key area, so I have to watch for a potential termination of the current rally. In general, I always suggest putting in trailing stops close to the current price when a stock trading close to these extension, as it's better to be safe than sorry.
As for the time axis, I'm looking at the confluence of key Fibonacci time relationships around two different sets of dates. You can see two time windows illustrated on this chart -- from Jan. 24 to Jan. 31 and from Feb. 5 to Feb. 7. The latter zone is slightly more compelling due to the 100% time projection of a couple of the prior swings on the chart, which respectively lasted 26 and 27 trading days.
In fact, if you look at a few of the other swings I've labeled, you'll see swings lasting 24 to 27 trading sessions quite a bit. Note, for example, the three declines that lasted for very similar time frames: 24, 26 and 25 days (illustrated in blue). The counts of those prior declines helped me to identify the Oct. 23 low as key and pivotal once we started to see a reaction off the timing cycles, as projected by those prior declines. A healthy rally followed this time-cycle low.
So, given the key forthcoming price and time resistance, I strongly suggest that you trail up stops closer to the current price.
Also note that, between now and Jan. 31, I'm seeing a nice confluence of timing cycles in the S&P 500 that could terminate the broad-market rally. If I start to see sell signals in the indices, it will be time to exit the long side there as well -- at least for the time being.


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This remarkable film features field recordings of work chants of Gandy Dancers including aligning songs and chants to knock out slack in the rail. The accompanying visual shows men working with cross ties, aligning the track, and spiking. The film focuses on the changes brought about by mechanization of railroad building.
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2. Boxing/wrestling
3. Paintball/Airsoft
Mojo wrote:I have a friend who is a an amateur MMA fighter. I haven't been to a fight due to proximity and bad transportation - but even if that wasn't the case, I'm not sure that I'd wan't to go.
Mojo wrote:It would be less bothersome if there was headgear and more padded gloves. Even better, would just to be submission only grappling - no striking.
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:There are some grey areas here. Sports that inflict pain and injury on others is not wholesome exercise, even if human beings are able to consent to being hit or injured by participating in such sports.
Take a look at this extract from the Venerable Sayādaw's Gonasūra Dīpanī, and contemplate the motivation for wanting to engage in martial arts or other potentially aggressive sports.
The Evils of Horse-racing and Gambling
Many countries allow horse-racing, camel-racing, dog-racing, and so on. These race courses are centres for gambling. The jockeys who ride in such races should take heed of the following Pāli Text:
"Friend, I saw a hungry ghost when I descended from the Gijjagutta mountain. This flying ghost bore sharp, thorny hairs. Many thorns, like iron spikes, penetrated his body. They assailed his body, piercing him repeatedly. So this hungry ghost screamed aloud due to the pain. Oh monks! This victim is receiving the due result of his kamma. In the past existence he drove draught animals without mercy. He struck them with whips and spikes when he drove carts. So he is now suffering as a result. That person, when he was about to die, saw rebirth signs of pointed spears, iron sticks, thorny sticks. When he passed away he was reborn as a hungry ghost with thorny, sharp-pointed hairs on the body." (Pārājika Atthakathā)
So jockeys competing in horse-races, camel-races, equestrian sports, etc., should heed the Buddha's warning. Kamma has its just results. Drivers and riders must suffer for their evil deeds, either here or hereafter.
Gamblers and Spectators
In every evil deed, four factors incur guilt and blame. In the Book of Tens, four factors are mentioned for each of the ten evil deeds such as killing sentient beings:
"Attana ca pānātipāti hoti, parañca pānatipāte samādapeti,
pānātipāte ca samanuñño hoti, pānātipātassa ca vannam bhāsati." (A v 305)
These four persons share the guilt and blame, and the corresponding consequences.
- He does the misdeed himself.
- He helps or urges others to do it.
- He allows it to happen or approves of it.
- He speaks in praise of it.
Those who harm animals, either in competitive sports or in transportation, make evil kamma. Gamblers belong to three of the four above-mentioned categories. All Buddhists should shun the ten evil kammas, such as killing, stealing, etc. Each evil has four factors. Spectators who consent to or approve of cruel and harsh treatment of animals, suffer in hell or are reborn as hungry ghosts. Many such cases are mentioned in the Pali texts. So spectators and gamblers should avoid all four factors of evil deeds by controlling the body and mind. Gamblers must give up the evil deed of betting that encourages, supports, and condones evil deeds done by others.
Mojo wrote:I have always enjoyed martial arts as a form of personal development and self defense.
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:There are some grey areas here. Sports that inflict pain and injury on others is not wholesome exercise, even if human beings are able to consent to being hit or injured by participating in such sports.
However, the debts paid for akusala (unwholesome) deeds are immense! They can be extremely
severe, punishing, drastic, intolerable and deadly. If we study the earlier lives of the Bodhisattva we
will see that, due to his immaturity during those existences, He harboured the defilements of greed,
hatred, delusion, stinginess, jealousy and conceit which put Him into debt. It was even up until when
He had already attained Enlightenment and, even up to The Buddha's final parinibbàna that debts
had to be paid in full! There was simply no way of getting out of it. The Buddha's afflictions of
backache, of headache, of diarrhea were such repayments.
In one of his past lives, the Bodhisattva was a well-known wrestler. Although he had already retired
due to age, his arrogance and conceit in thinking he was the only one still capable of retaining the
country's honour, he went into the ring and broke his opponent's back. Thus, even in His last existence
as the Enlightened One He suffered severe backache as a means of repaying His akusala kammic
In yet another one of the past lives, our Bodhisattva was a resident of a fishing village. During one
session he happened to take great delight in watching his relatives and fellow villagers beating in the
head to kill the fish that had been caught and hauled ashore. That debt of evil delight borne of lobha
was repaid by having to suffer headaches during the life as The Buddha. The Bodhisattva had merely
been enjoying the sight of the fish being killed. He had not taken part in the slaughtering itself. This
goes to show that even silent approval of akusala deeds will surely put you into kammic debt. Just
imagine the intensity of akusala being developed by the spectators at a boxing match or a bullfight!
They shout, they applaud, and they cheer the contestants to fight, to hurt, to beat and, sometimes even
to kill each other. They want one side to win; they wish the other side to lose. How appalling! How
horribly frightening! They are accumulating akusala and kammic debts. Do you wish to be a participant
in such activities? As long as you have those defilements, which are the disciple within, you will
be encountering evil all the way. You will not be able to escape it. So, beware.
EmptyShadow wrote:Here is an excerpt from the Bhikkhu Revata's book "The Disciple Within".
(the highlight is from me)
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:To get back to the original question of participating in such sports, if one's intention is to get healthy exercise, I think there are many much better ways such as digging an allotment to grow some organic food, or doing some manual labour to help an elderly person. There must be millions of better ways to get fit.
santa100 wrote:Combat sports are designed to "simulate" violent situations for one to train so that one's well prepared to make the best choice when "real" situations come up. As the saying goes "more sweat on the training field, less blood on the battlefield", if one trains correctly and properly, s/he'll be able to do a lot of good for the world. A typical example, with all those ongoing horrible gang rape and abuse incidents in India, it might be a good idea that the government starts training women some self defense to protect themselves..
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Lewis Hamilton has attempted to defuse a simmering feud with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg by insisting the pair remain friends.
The duo have known each other since their karting days but the relationship has been in decline since they became rivals within the same team.
Things appeared to come to a head at Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix when Hamilton failed to acknowledge Rosberg on the podium after the latter's victory, following an incident in qualifying when the German's driving error brought out the yellow flags which thwarted his team-mate's bid to claim pole position.
Mercedes non-executive chairman and three-time champion Niki Lauda said Hamilton's behaviour reflected badly on the brand and the Englishman seems to have tried to smooth things over.
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THE CAUCUS; With a War Hero at His Side, Romney Courts Veterans
By MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: May 29, 2012
SAN DIEGO - Mitt Romney warned veterans here to avoid putting America ''on the pathway of Europe'' by reducing the size of the military to pay for social programs.
Attending a Memorial Day tribute here with Senator John McCain, a former Republican rival and war hero, Mr. Romney declared that ''the world is not safe'' and criticized President Obama without mentioning him by name for proposing cuts in military spending.
''Were we to follow that kind of course, there would be no one that could stand to protect us,'' Mr. Romney said to a crowd of 5,000 mostly military families - an unusually large audience for the candidate.
Mr. Romney is banking on electoral support from veterans, who turned out in large numbers for Mr. McCain during the 2008 presidential race.
Mr. McCain, a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, received 54 percent of the votes of veterans, while Mr. Obama won 44 percent, according to an Edison/Mitofsky exit poll.
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Mr. McCain called Mr. Romney ''a great friend, a great man, a great governor.'' He added that Mr. Romney is a man who he believed is ''fully qualified to be commander in chief.''
Mr. Romney, in turn, said, ''We are a nation that has been formed and preserved by heroes.'' He added, ''John McCain is one of them.''
Mr. Romney sought to play up his commitment to the military. He recalled visiting soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as governor of Massachusetts and returning home to call 63 of their spouses and mothers to convey his appreciation for their service. At times, though, the event on Monday seemed to highlight the two men's varying levels of comfort and ease with military life. Mr. McCain joked about the Marines and received laughter from the audience.
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Several veterans in the audience said that Mr. McCain, who declined to leave a Vietnamese prison camp until other soldiers were released with him, was the main draw for them. But they also said they were impressed with Mr. Romney's support for the military. The deferments for religious service and academic studies that allowed Mr. Romney to avoid the Vietnam War - which have bedeviled past presidential candidates - did not appear to be an issue for many here. ''Governor Romney, having never served in the military, still has respect for it,'' said Bruce Parks, a 20-year Navy veteran.
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Sysco Corp. has ended use of unrefrigerated storage units in northern California after video by NBC Bay Area showed employees leaving fresh produce and other perishable foods there for hours prior to delivery.
"Syscov San Francisco's drop-site practices in the Bay Area were not compliant with company policy," Charley Wilson, vice president of corporate communications at Houston-based Sysco, said in a statement. "We reviewed with Sysco San Francisco our policy, and they have taken immediate corrective action."
That policy requires refrigeration at all times.
The broadcaster's surveillance cameras showed drivers making overnight drop-offs of chicken, pork, beef, bacon, milk and vegetables to metal sheds in San Jose, San Francisco and Concord.
The report prompted visits by California Department of Public Health inspectors in the second week of July. They went to 14 sheds not designed to store food, a department spokesman told The Packer.
The exposure of the practice called new attention to the broader issue of breaks in the cold chain's final links — whether product is left unrefrigerated at an intermediate site just before final delivery, as in Sysco's case, or at a restaurant before business hours.
In the foodservice industry when a salesman makes final delivery — instead of a driver — he normally picks up the order at a distribution center rather than a drop site, said Doug Stoiber, vice president of produce transportation operations for L&M Transportation Services, Raleigh, N.C.
"In all the situations I've been in, a salesperson would usually have to come in to the distribution center, sign an invoice and take the product to the customer," Stoiber said. "That happens when there's a shortage on a truck or a customer needs a favor."
"It's not a common practice," he said, referring to use of smaller sites. "I don't know Sysco San Francisco's operation. It's probably not the only place it happens."
Stoiber is more familiar with incidents of deliveries left unrefrigerated at their final destinations.
"I heard about Sysco and thought about the number of times distributors' trucks leave refrigerated and frozen produce at an unrefrigerated storage area for a customer who isn't open yet," he said. "Winter or summer, the truck leaves everything in a designated spot. It's not common, but it happens with the owner's agreement."
"Sysco won't let it go on," Stoiber said of the apparent violations in San Francisco. "They will probably have a top-to-bottom review of all their distribution centers and where they're leaving products. And other distributors who were lucky enough not to have the camera pointed at their product are going to react pretty quickly, too, to make sure the practice doesn't exist. Because maintaining the cold chain is absolutely essential for food safety in a heightened food safety atmosphere."
Earlier in his career, Stoiber worked for Sysco Corp.
Ernst Van Eeghen, director of marketing and product development for Salinas, Calif.-based Church Bros. LLC, said his company's cold chain education efforts with customers happen daily.
"This particular incident that the media got wind of is a good reminder for the trade that you've got to keep it cold," Van Eeghen said. "There certainly are people who are not watching this as carefully as they should."
Tim York, president of Salinas-based foodservice company Markon Cooperative Inc., saw the episode as an aberration for Sysco.
"Sysco is very well-run and well-managed," York said. "They did not get to be a $40 billion company by making this a standard operating practice."
"On social media lately we've seen a Taco Bell employee licking a taco shell and a Golden Corral restaurant employee showing product being stored outside," York said. "I look at those as unfortunate but isolated incidents. It's not standard practice for Sysco let alone other quality foodservice distributors."
Still, Sysco's misstep was reason enough to revisit the topic of food safety within the group of eight broadline foodservice companies that comprise Markon Cooperative.
"We reminded our members about the critical link they are," York said. "It underscored that cold chain management and food safety practices are a total supply chain responsibility."
Sysco contacted clients whose product had been in the sheds, Wilson said in his statement.
"We are taking the precautionary measure with those affected customers to withdraw all products from the supply chain that had moved through the non-compliant Bay Area drop-sites," he said. "These customers are being asked to examine their inventory and dispose of the identified products. In these instances, their accounts will be credited accordingly."
"Sysco's first priority is our commitment to provide safe, quality-assured products to our customers," according to his statement.
Inspectors found rat droppings, insects and other unsanitary conditions inside the sheds, according to NBC Bay Area.
State health officials declined to comment on possible penalties. Sysco could face misdemeanor criminal charges and a $1,000 fine for each violation.