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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission today approved a number of proposed changes to freshwater fishing regulations, including the state's first measure aimed at protecting alligator gar. The prehistoric-looking predators can live as long as 75 years and are the largest freshwater fishes in Texas.
The statewide regulation on alligator gar will change Sept. 1, 2009, from no length or daily bag limit to a one fish per day bag limit. The bag will apply to both recreational and commercial fishing.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Inland Fisheries Division Director Phil Durocher told commissioners that Texas has the best remaining alligator gar populations in the country.
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Current research being conducted by fisheries biologists in Texas includes investigations into size structure and year class strength in a mark-recapture study; a seasonal movement and habitat study on radio-tagged fish; and research that looks a the genetics of alligator gar populations as well as contaminants that may be present in the fish.
Public comment on the alligator gar proposal was 167 comments against the department's recommendation and 233 comments in favor of the regulation, with the majority of concerns raised by bow and commercial fishermen.
Blue Catfish — Lake Lewisville (Denton County), Lake Richland Chambers (Navarro and Freestone Counties), and Lake Waco (McLennan County)
Harvest regulations for blue catfish on these reservoirs currently consist of the statewide limits (12-inch minimum length limit and 25 fish daily bag limit). Changes approved by the commission consist of a 25 fish daily bag limit with a 30 to 45-inch slot length limit, and harvest of only one blue catfish over 45 inches would be allowed. No harvest of blue catfish between 30 and 45 inches will be allowed.
Largemouth Bass — Lake Ray Roberts (Cooke, Denton, and Grayson Counties)
The commission approved changes will make Lake Ray Roberts consistent with the statewide limits for largemouth bass (14-inch minimum length limit and five fish daily bag limit).
Lake Texoma — Cooke and Grayson Counties
Alligator gar -The commission approved a harvest closure in May to protect spawning adults in a portion of the lake that is within the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge and a portion of the lake upstream of the U.S. Highway 377 bridge to the Interstate Highway 35 bridge.
Blue and channel catfish — The commission changed harvest regulations for blue channel catfish from a 15 per day bag limit to a 15 per day bag limit of which only one blue catfish 30 inches or greater may be harvested per day.
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No matter how hard you try to hide from them, your worst fears will eventually find you. Mine found me in what someone I know calls "the good part of the paper": the part of the Sunday Washington Post containing sales flyers, the comics, and the Sunday magazine.
There between the ads for Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart, the cover of Parade magazine read "Autism's Lost Generation." The cover story was about Dana Eisman, a 20-year-old from Potomac, Maryland, who, like many of her peers, "rocks out to Train, adores Glee, and eats pizza every week."
Where Dana differs from her peers is that she is autistic, which makes the future for her and her parents a very scary place. Dana will soon, in special-education parlance, "age out," i.e., she will turn 21. The services that made life doable for her and for her parents will, for the most part, then cease.
Instead, she and her family will be expected to make their own way with little assistance. This is why Dana's mom, Beth, says that "I want to celebrate . . . but what I feel is a knife in my heart."
Robin Heyd of New Jersey, whose son is also about to "age out," described the "knife" perfectly: "You're devastated twice: first, with the diagnosis; then, years later, when you realize that after all the interventions, you still have a kid with autism and you have to plan his future."
It's a "knife" I know well. (Actually, my preferred metaphor is that of a sword, as in Luke 2: "And a sword will pierce your own soul too.") My son, David, is graduating from high school this June. (He has never watched Glee. I'm not sure he knows what it is. His musical tastes run more to Amy Lee and Evanescence: A few years ago, he listened to "My Immortal" about seven or eight times in a row, and then said, "I'm depressed!" I laughed and replied, "No wonder.") Two years after that, he, too, will "age out."
While people around me talk about their kids' triumphs -- admissions to prestigious colleges, sports accomplishments, their precocity, even their marriages -- my thoughts about my son's future revolves around living long enough to be able to take care of him.
Recently, his mom and I went through the process of setting up a guardianship for David. Like most procedural matters connected with taking care of kids like David, it was unintentionally traumatic. You justify taking away his rights and his autonomy by rehearsing everything he cannot be entrusted to do for himself. In other words, you relive the worst day of your life.
(Mind you, in many ways, David is fortunate: He is relatively high-functioning and if, God forbid, something were to happen to Debbie and/or me, he would be provided for financially.)
Reliving that day is an inescapable part of getting your child the help he or she needs. And it gets worse as they get older. "In the next 15 years, an estimated 500,000 autistic children . . . will graduate out of school systems in the U.S. and into the unknown. Meaningful programs for them are scarce, and funding even scarcer."
"Only 20 percent" of those who age out are employed and 60 percent of the tiny minority who are employed are "underemployed" or paid "below-market wages," often "working for a company in isolation, doing piecework like shredding paper."
This is the "knife" embedded in the hearts of a half-million parents. In an effort to make sure that the Danas among us get the help they need some help, they beat on every door they learn about and often find themselves moving from one state to another in search of that help.
These folks don't want your admiration and they sure as you-know-what don't want your pity. What they want is to live in a society where doing the right thing -- upholding the values that so many of their neighbors profess, in particular, Christians -- doesn't require heroic virtue, at least not all of the time.
And that's the kind of society they live in. Barring major change in the way people like Dana are provided for, there are two likely outcomes: the more likely and less-bad is that the vast majority of them slip through the cracks. They don't receive the help they need, their families burn themselves out trying to care for them, and, eventually, many of them are institutionalized.
Mind you, that's the less-bad outcome. The worse outcome is that if and when it becomes possible to identify people at risk for autism in utero, they, like children with Down Syndrome before them, will be "targeted for elimination." If this happens, it won't be because people have a "defective worldview," at least not entirely. It will be because the prospect of raising a child with these kinds of needs with little or no help for most of his and your life, only to have him institutionalized after you're gone, would scare the you-know-what out of anyone.
I doubt that such a genetic test will ever come about, but the point remains: creating a society that honors the sanctity and dignity of human life costs money. It can't be done on the cheap and it requires a collective commitment.
To be clear, by "collective," I mean government. There are volunteers doing wonderful things to help people like Dana and their families, but calling it a "drop in the bucket" not only would involve invoking a cliché, it would also exaggerate the impact.
Expecting the private-sector and voluntarism fairies to build a society worthy of being called "pro-life," at least in this case, is as realistic as the Japanese counting on the various Kami to repair the damage done by the earthquake and tsunami. In the words of Jiminy Cricket, "it's a lovely thought but not at all practical."
How you pay for this society is an obvious question, one whose answer is inseparable from the answer to another question: What kind of society do we really want, as opposed to imagining ourselves, to be? As I have said elsewhere, part of the answer lies in understanding the difference between being a good society and a messianic nation.
Whatever we decide, people like the Eismans will keep on loving their kids and doing all they possibly can for them. They understand something most people don't: the truly lost generation isn't the one whose members "rock out to Train, adore Glee and eat pizza every week."
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The top-ranked Indiana Hoosiers are shooting for the college basketball mountaintop and it likely won't come just with full-throttle play. There's always a team — say Wisconsin or Northwestern or, on Thursday night, Nebraska — that wants to force a half-court, slow-it-down style.
Sometimes you win with basketball as art, with fast-paced, rock-the-rim action. Sometimes you have to grind it out until somebody's will is broken.
Indiana, Crean said, is now fully prepared for whatever is necessary.
"We are trying to make sure our team continually understands that to win big, to win really big, you've got to be able to play a lot of different ways."
The Hoosiers, as the 76-47 win over Nebraska showed, have bought in.
"To get where we want to go," forward Christian Watford said, "we know we have to play multiple styles of basketball."
Sure, Crean prefers to turn basketball games into track meets, to bring fatigue to the game, as he likes to say. The Hoosiers do that better than anyone in the Big Ten with their conference-leading 83.1-point scoring average, seven points better than second-place Illinois.
But some opponents strip away the speed and fast-break, until all that's left is focus and execution, and if you can't adjust, you won't add another banner to Assembly Hall's total.
"As much as we want to set the pace and tempo," Crean said, "sometimes you don't have to have patience, but you have to wait for your opportunity. As long as you're playing solid, as long as you're sticking with what you know works, sometimes those opportunities come when you least expect it, or they come when you force the tempo just a little bit more defensively because you can."
IU did all of that against Nebraska. It started slow and finished fast. It thrived with a second-half ruthlessness that, if sustained for 40 minutes Saturday against Purdue, will lead to another blowout victory.
"There are certain things we'd really like to do defensively and offensively," Crean said. "I don't know if they'll be records, but they'll be things that could really make us better.
"At the end of the day, if you want to win big, you've got to play a lot of different ways, and our guys did that. They stayed true to the game plan."
In other words, IU did what it always does when it's at its best: attack the rim and draw fouls.
"No matter how we had to do it, we needed to get to the foul line," Crean said.
Mission accomplished. Nebraska (12-13 overall, 3-9 in the Big Ten) had 22 fouls — forward Brandon Ubel fouled out; guards David Rivers and Shavon Shields each had four — which led to 29 Hoosier free throw opportunities. They made 24, which is 82.8 percent.
"They're always on the attack," Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. "That's just how they are."
Indiana is shooting 86.2 percent from the line in its last five games.
"We were in foul trouble most of the night," Miles said. "You get to a certain point and it feels like you're on the Titanic. It's just one guy after another after another."
IU dominated even with forward Cody Zeller a first-half no-show because of foul trouble. He bounced back with a big second half that left him with 16 points and five rebounds. Victor Oladipo was again a force of basketball nature with 13 points, eight rebounds and three steals. Watford recorded his fifth double-double of the season — and 17th of his career — with 13 points and 11 rebounds.
But while offense gets the glamor, it's defense that gives IU a national title chance. It held Nebraska to 18 first-half points. The Cornhuskers' 47 total points are the fewest the Hoosiers have allowed a Big Ten opponent since holding Iowa to 43 in 2008.
"Defense is what you should lean on from the start regardless of whether your offense is going or not," swingman Will Sheehey said. "There's a direct correlation to how well we're playing on defense and how well we're playing on offense. If teams are getting easy baskets you can't run as well. If we get stops we're going to score on the other end."
And so Indiana is 22-3 overall, 10-2 in the Big Ten. It is tied with No. 8 Michigan State atop the conference standings. Next Tuesday those teams will battle at the Breslin Center and it will almost certainly be a track meet.
And if not, well, the Hoosiers, as we know know, can handle it.
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Just very specific talk. Does he set better screens, shoot better, defend better? I'll let some of you guys reply and then I'll chime in.
What does he do better from last year?
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Just very specific talk. Does he set better screens, shoot better, defend better? I'll let some of you guys reply and then I'll chime in.
What does he do better from last year?
EDIT:Wait, how did I read josh? lol
Hansbrough I have absolutely no idea because he barely played. He seems about the same.
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He's done really well avoiding crazy inner ear infections/vertigo IMO.
He looked lost on Offense last season and early this year. He's more comfortable now, and isn't afraid to shoot the ball or drive it in.
He needs to be setting better picks and pass better thoes would make him a really good all around player.
As the year has progressed he has done a much better job at picking his spots. This may also be due to him getting better at passing because now when he doesn't have a good shot he can pass out. But he knows what he can and can't hit jump shot wise and does a better job at driving to the basket without there being defenders hanging off of him.
I think he's more under control.
Other than that, we haven't seen much of him. He's got to defend better, rebound better, pick his spots better. But he's wildly effective with his hustle.
-I think Tyler is better with his back to the basket this year. His half hook looks very weird, but he has to be hitting like 60% of his shots with his back to the basket.
-Tyler's jumpshot is ridiculously improved. He used to brick wide open jumpers, and now he is hitting them with hands in his face.
-Tyler has a very solid turnaround jumpshot.
-Tyler is getting better at defensive awareness every game.
-He's been more healthy
-He is showing more emotion and it rubs off on the other fellas.
-He isn't getting blocked as much. Not even close.
-He is having less of those, "omgzz Tylah iz a beast he gots lyk 7 off rebs and putback dunkz mad hustle," moments. He still has them, cue the game vs. Detroit, but last year he had those moments all the time.
I dunno if this is a pro or a con:
-He doesn't play like a chicken with his head cut off as much anymore. He's under more control. That can be a good thing or a bad thing, but last year it was almost always a good thing because we were very soft last year.
His jump shot is money and he is learning to trow the one handed awkward shot.
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Face up jumper and the pick and pop. Also improved on pissing off the other teams' bigs.
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Learning how to get to the offensive boards when initially blocked out versus giving up and running back down the floor because of being blocked out. Learning the Larry Bird method of rebounding offensive boards and picking up some stuff it seems to me from Jeff Foster along the same line.
Driving the ball and getting to the free throw line more.
Shooting the jump shot and hitting it more consistently generally speaking.
He's fantastic at gathering loose balls... he's a good rebounder. He's a good screen-setter. He brings energy. He draws contact on the front-line and hits free throws. He's hitting his outside shot. He runs the floor well.
I think he's improved at all those things this year. We knew that's what he was when he came in, and there is a very valuable need for those skills in the NBA.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
He has settled his offensive game down and now picks his spots. This has resulted in a significant jump with his FG% which was the greatest knock on his game last year.
Otherwise I don't see a significant difference. Yes, his defense has gradually improved and he's fouling a bit less...but these developments are minor improvements compared to his shot selection improvement.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
I feel like his midrange jumper is much better, and I think in general he's more poised. While he always will play like a wildman out there, I think he's playing like a smarter wildman, and the game has slowed down for him a bit.
Not really a fair question. How can you improve much when doctors don't allow you to workout or do anything until training camp for your second season is almost there? He's much more comfortable though. You could tell he wasn't right last year just from his FT%.
Next year is when you should see some improvement. He will actually have time to work on things this offseason.
kinda difficult to answer since he only played 29 games last season. things i would like to see hansbrough improve on for next season is:
*pump faking then driving to the basket. he is very quick for a PF, though undersized. he does pump then drive from time to time but not consistently, he will get fouled the majority of the time.
* continue to improve on his jump shot from 15 in. once his jumper is money consistently, the pump fake and drive will benefit him even more.
* i have no idea what hansbroughs ceiling is, maybe a poormans boozer.? but i would like to see him get rippped up. i think he will get stronger.. i envision hansbrough in 3-5 years with 25lbs more pounds of muscle and experience and think it would be fun to see dale davis and tyler hansbrough play together on the pacers in their primes. not built like antonio was, but similar.
* his passing could improve but he will nvr be mcrob.
one thing that surprised me about hansbrough when i did see him play last year was how much athleticsm he has. i was not a fan of his at unc, and i immediately thought hansbro would be the replacement for foster, but foster nvr has had tylers ability to get up and dunk.
i was not a fan of tyler being selected but i knew he was a bird guy, guts and hustle and willing to get bloody. ive been a fan since watching him play last year, love the guys tenacity on the court.
the one area hansbrough will nvr improve on his height, if he were 6'10 like Foster, no doubts he would be an all-star in this league.
comfortable is a good word. he is starting to see more of the game, i think.
He's 6'9". 1" isn't gonna kill his chances at being good. The myth is he's undersized. Fact is, he's the same height and 5 lbs heavier than Antonio Davis was. His arms are huge. He plays with a controlled fire that is rare. The thing with Tyler isn't that he's HUGE... it's that he's got massive heart and motor. He will flat-out out-battle people his size and even larger for rebounds, loose balls, etc. He needs to learn Jeff Foster's savvy on the defensive end, but he's already a superior offensive player to Jeff.
I've been saying all along -- he's Jeff Foster with an offensive game. That is nothing to sneeze at.
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It's no myth. I don't know how he's listed at 6'9". He has to be 6'8.
Obviously I'm a Tyler fan. But Foster is a man. A true, stud big man who can guard true centers.
Tyler is more like Jeff Foster's aggressive, muscular little brother who can put it in the basket.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
draft express has tyler at 6-8.25. that plus his lack of hops limits his possibilities as a PF. but he has nice skills. and best of all seems to be seeing more of the floor when he plays than before.
he does seem to be complaining more to the officials. wonder how that's working for him?
pacers need more guys like foster. be nice if one of them could shoot though.
He, Josh, and Danny are about the same height.
danny granger - 6-7.5
tyler hansbrough - 6-8.25
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I also agree that he has been complaining more, but I was just remarking to myself within the last couple of days that Tyler does a pretty good job of getting to the line. I think it stems from the level of hustle and emotion he shows when he's playing. I think the refs generally are going to call more favorably for the players who are attacking and aggressive, and have the most energy. Tyler fills that bill, and even though he is still relatively a rookie, I feel like he DOES get to the line pretty well.
My only wish is that he would get the ball and drive to the lane MORE OFTEN. Good things will ALWAYS happen if our athletic and plenty capable players would simply use the talent they already have in a better way. Every player on our roster needs to be more aggressive taking the ball to the rack. Start setting league records for shots taken inside the paint in a regulation game, that sort of thing....you know, SMASHMOUTH basketball?? What happened to that?!


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Impressive Stroman lifts Toronto to fourth straight
Rookie stifles Sox for second consecutive start; Rasmus goes deep
BOSTON -- Moving from Triple-A to the Major Leagues is usually the toughest transition a professional ballplayer will ever have, but so far Marcus Stroman has made it look easy.
Toronto's rookie right-hander hasn't just succeeded at the big league level, he has flat-out dominated. Since joining the rotation in late May, he's been everything the Blue Jays could have hoped for and more.
Stroman continued to impress Tuesday night as he tossed seven strong innings, while Colby Rasmus homered as the Blue Jays won their fourth consecutive game with a 4-2 victory over the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
"He's on some kind of roll right now, but the kid is good," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "He believes in himself, he has all the confidence in the world, and he has the stuff for it, too.
"It's not easy, facing the same team in a week. In 14 innings, he has given up one run to them. That's hard to do. I tip my hat to the guy, he's pitched a lot better than I thought he was going to if you want to know the truth."
Stroman's strong outing vs. Boston is even more impressive considering he faced the same team in back-to-back starts -- taking a no-hitter into the seventh while striking out eight against the Red Sox at Rogers Centre on Thursday. Boston had time to make adjustments, but instead it was Stroman and the pitch selection from catcher Dioner Navarro that once again had the Red Sox feeling overmatched.
The 23-year-old improved his record as a starter to 6-2 with a sparkling 2.12 ERA and a 1.00 WHIP. He has struck out 63 batters compared to 16 walks as a starter and certainly hasn't shied away from attacking opposing hitters early and often.
Along the way, Stroman has done his part to redefine the meaning of a quality start. He has tossed at least six innings and allowed two runs or fewer in all but three of his starts. A quality start is when a pitcher goes at least six innings allowing three runs or fewer, and Stroman has nine of those as well.
"It's been a ride," Stroman said. "I just look forward to going out every fifth day and doing everything I can to put my team in a position to win. To be completely honest with you, Navarro has been huge. I can't express how unbelievable he's been.
"It's at the point now where he's throwing [the sign] down, I didn't shake once today. ... There's no thinking when I'm out there, he's doing all the thinking. I'm just trying to execute the pitches, and he has been huge."
The only rough start Stroman had this year came prior to the All-Star break, when he allowed six runs (five earned) to the Angels. On Tuesday, he battled early but got stronger as the game went on and cruised through most of the outing.
Boston's only run came in the third, when Brock Holt hit a one-out single and came around to score on an RBI double by Dustin Pedroia. That snapped Stroman's streak of consecutive scoreless innings at 16 after he tossed back-to-back starts of seven scoreless innings vs. the Rangers and the Red Sox in Toronto.
Stroman also clearly has earned the trust of Gibbons. He threw 96 pitches by the end of the fifth, but Gibbons brought him back for two more innings despite a slim 3-1 lead. Stroman responded by getting through two scoreless innings as he allowed a total of six hits and two walks on 115 pitches.
"I faced him coming up in the Minors, but he's a really different pitcher right now," said Red Sox infielder Xander Bogaerts, who hit a solo home run off Casey Janssen in the ninth inning. "He's got that slider and that cutter right now, and he didn't have that. He's pitched us good. We saw him twice, so hopefully we see him again."
Rasmus put the Blue Jays on the scoreboard in the second with a solo shot to straightaway center field. Rasmus' 14th of the year came on a 3-2 pitch, and he now has a four-game hitting streak after struggling through most of July.
Toronto added two more runs in the fourth. Juan Francisco and Rasmus led off the inning with back-to-back singles and then came around to score later in the frame on a double to right field by center fielder Anthony Gose. All three runs were charged to right-hander Rubby De La Rosa, who allowed nine hits and issued two walks.
"I was just trying to work myself to get more fastballs," Rasmus said. "Tonight, he's a fastball pitcher, so I thought I was going to have a good chance, caught a couple of balls late."
After taking the final two in New York and the first two in Boston, Toronto is 9-3 and has yet to lose a series since the All-Star break. The Blue Jays will be going for the three-game sweep on Wednesday before finishing their lengthy road trip with four games in Houston.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I recently voiced my 2 cents on the current WWF product as an Attitude Era Fan who has began watching wrestling agin after a few years away from the tv shows.
I got a lot of reactions over my comments surrounding the weaker aspects of the attitude era that history seems to overlook, and highlighted some of the glaring similarities between the product then and now,
And my, OH MY do some modern fans have a selective rose-tinted memory!
I'm quite new to the old blogging thing, but have enjoyed reading a lot of the entries and thoughts of fellow pro-wrestling fans, a thought I'd give it a whirl. What I want to say is simple - wrestling today, particularly WWE, gets a lot of criticism, especially in contrast to bygone times of golden ages of wrestling


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We may run a bit more next season, but as long as Rick is the coach of this team, AJ will probably be his ideal backup PG. A solid vet who is careful with the ball that he can turn to if Jamaal gets a little too wild and crazy.
AJ isn't that bad if we have slashers on the bench alongside him. Fred, Saras (if signed), and Danny can all do that.


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Cain gets in enough work despite queasiness
PHOENIX -- Matt Cain felt that he benefited from Sunday's outing against the Milwaukee Brewers, though a mildly upset stomach limited him to his third three-inning performance in a row.
"I was in pretty much every situation," said Cain, acknowledging that he probably would have worked a fourth inning without his queasiness. "I had guys on base in every inning and I got to throw enough from the windup."
Cain, who allowed one run and four hits to Milwaukee, still has three weeks to prepare for his April 1 Opening Day start against the Los Angeles Dodgers. But he doesn't want to fall into the trap of thinking that he can pace himself too much. He'll begin throwing sliders in his next appearance or the one after that, which will represent another step in his progress toward regaining regular-season form.
"It can't be in your mind, 'Hey, we've got three weeks left,'" Cain said. "You have to start getting your mental side right and start ramping it up."
Chris Haft 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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Last week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA will accept 3.9 million acres offered under the 43rd Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up. During the extended five-week signup, the Department received nearly 48,000 offers on more than 4.5 million acres of land.
The agency expects to accept another 1.75 million acres this year through a continuous sign-up program targeting highly-erodible land and sensitive wildlife habitat including grasslands and wetlands. These additions will nearly compensate for the 6 million acres USDA expects to fall out of the program this year as contracts expire and farmers return the acreage to production. Vilsack expects this year's enrollment to total 29.2 million acres, close to the current cap of 32 million acres.
During a time of severe budget deficits, the program understandably falls in the cost-cutting crosshairs as Congress works toward a new Farm Bill. But unlike some government programs, CRP produces measureable benefits, both directly and indirectly.
Any program involves tradeoffs, and CRP has downsides besides its direct costs. By reducing tilled acreage and total crop yields, the program potentially contributes to higher commodity prices and loss of some agricultural employment in rural communities.
However, the list of program benefits is long and compelling. According to the USDA, during 2011 CRP reduced nitrogen and phosphorous losses from farm fields by 623 million pounds and 124 million pounds respectively. The CRP has restored more than two million acres of wetlands and associated buffers and reduces soil erosion by more than 300 million tons per year. The agency also stresses that CRP provides $1.8 billion annually to landowners—dollars that make their way into local economies, supporting small businesses and creating jobs.
Also, by placing vulnerable cropland into conservation, CRP sequesters carbon in plants and soil, and reduces both fuel and fertilizer usage. In 2010, CRP resulted in carbon sequestration equal to taking almost 10 million cars off the road according to USDA.
Besides farmers, the program is extremely popular with sportsman, who benefit from the habitat CRP provides for fish and game animals, and pursuit of their sport generates considerable revenue for rural communities. According to a 1999 study from the USDA's Economic Research Service, improvements in wildlife viewing and pheasant hunting due to the CRP at that time generated $700 million per year, plus over $35 million per year from improved water-based recreation.
Anecdotally, I've seen this effect first-hand, staying in small Midwestern towns during pheasant season, when hotels, motels, restaurants and bars are packed with free-spending hunters. For pheasants in particular, CRP land accounts for much of the nesting habitat and available hunting acreage, and significant reductions to the CRP would discourage many hunters from travelling to these destinations.
Speaking with Field and Stream magazine last week, Vilsack said "(Sportsmen) should take some confidence or relief in the numbers we're announcing today, because it shows this administration is committed to CRP and to the outdoors recreational opportunities CRP creates and enhances. (But) they ought to be engaged in encouraging members, especially in the House, not to reduce our commitment to conservation in the future - mainly because it works."
Most of us agree that deficit reduction is critical, and that significant progress will require tough choices and sacrifices, including cuts to programs we actually like. But in the case of CRP, one would hope Congress will consider the long-term direct and indirect benefits, balanced with the costs and the need for robust agricultural production.


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If you live in Wilton or Gansevoort, or even anywhere in the U.S., and you're not struggling financially in at least the slightest bit, congratulations. I'm serious; I'm genuinely happy for you. Because in the last few years I haven't met anyone who isn't going through a hard time with money.
However, hard times call for creative measures, especially when it comes to gift-giving.
This year, my family is getting more inventive than ever. First of all, my mom and I developed a system of gift-giving among my siblings so that we don't each have to buy presents for every other person. It's quite a necessity. There are six of us -- need I say more?
How it works is simple: Each of us is assigned another sibling so that each of us gets a gift. For example, Tony has to get me a gift, and I have to get Noah a gift, but Noah is getting Caitlin a gift, and Caitlin is getting Tony a gift. So we all get one gift and give one gift. Then all of us are collaborating to buy a collective gift for our parents.
We knew this was going to make the holiday season a lot cheaper for all of us, but the unanticipated benefit has been the amount of involvement this has required of all of us.
For the first time, Christmas shopping has become an intensely involved family affair. Whereas before we would all go secretly on our own to buy presents, it's forced my brothers, sister and me to put our heads together, as well as our piggy banks, and to go shopping.
It's really humorous, actually. My little sister, who is 3, wants to buy anything and everything that is pink and sparkly, and we have to remind her that Dad might not like a frilly pink tutu with purple sequins on it or a stuffed Goofy that's bigger than me.
My 12-year-old brother just nods in agreement to anything I hold up to ask his opinion on because all he wants is to go home and play "Call of Duty."
At one point, I hold up a pair of hideous, huge black socks and ask him if he thinks Mom would want these. He just nods his head and says, "Yeah, sure," with his hands in his pockets. He failed the Are-You-Really-Paying-Attention-Or-Just-Appeasing-Me Test miserably, but I'm just happy he has a good attitude about being dragged to Target with his embarrassing older sister who won't stop gushing about the Christmas displays everywhere. (Sometimes I feel like Buddy the Elf when I go to stores during the holiday season because I get so excited at how beautiful everything is decorated that I'm sure it must be annoying to some people. But I don't care.) Scrooges.
For extended family and friends, my mom, our friend Amy, and I are getting creative, too. We took a girls' trip to Michael's the other day and bought the most adorable tins with snowmen and Christmas trees on them, took 20 minutes picking out just the right ribbon, and spent another hour picking out holiday fabric and jars and tinsel.
In a couple weeks, our kitchen is going to look like a cookie bomb went off. Rumballs, hot cocoa cookies, roasted chickpeas, and other spiced goodies will be on the menu, and I'm sure there will be plenty of laughs and hilarious mishaps. There always is when I try to help out in the kitchen.
So, like I said, there's always an upside to everything that seems bleak, and the positive side to these hard times is that they force us to get into the true spirit of the holiday season -- thoughtfulness and doing things together as a family.
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Derby winner to have minor throat surgery
The surgery is to be performed by Dr. Patricia Hogan at the Ruffian Equine Medical Center just outside Belmont Park. Mine that Bird is co-owned by veterinarian Leonard Blach of Roswell, N.M.
The throat condition, caused when the membrane below the epiglottis moves upward and covers the epiglottis, making breathing difficult, was detected during a routine scope after a workout this morning at Saratoga Park, where Mine That Bird ran the slowest time of a dozen horses going five furlongs. Trainer Chip Woolley later took the horse to the Ruffian facility.
The corrective procedure is considered to be minor, Blach says. As to whether the horse will compete as scheduled in the $1 million Travers Stakes Aug. 29 at Saratoga, "we'll just have to see how it goes," he added. Woolley says he hopes the horse can recover sufficiently to compete there in two weeks.
Mine That Bird ran second in this year's Preakness and third in the Belmont Stakes. He was third in the West Virginia Derby, his latest start.


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text: Boy meets girl; boy falls in love with girl; boy loses girl... when they discover they are brother and sister! Such is the fate for Gilly Noble and Jo Wingfield, who, after falling in love at a Indiana hairdressing salon, find out from a private investigator that they are siblings. Jo's acquisitive mother Valdine is overjoyed at the news and promptly convinces Jo to marry Jack, a multimillionaire who relocates his new fiancee to Oregon. When Gilly finally realizes that he is the victim of a case of mistaken identity, he heads to Oregon to win back his love -- only to be impeded by Valdine every step of the way.


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This week's Economist magazine has a special report on the "the data deluge." The report points out:
"According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. This year, it will create 1,2000 exabytes. Merely keeping up with this flood, and storing the bits that might be useful, is difficult enough. Analysing it, to spot patterns and extract useful information, is harder still. Even so, the data deluge is already starting to transform business…"
The article notes that the retailers are one of the leaders in amassing this data. For example:
"Wal-Mart, a retail giant, handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes." (A petabyte is 1m gigabytes)
Of course, this article fits nicely within IBM's Smarter Planter. Smarter Planet's big ideas are that the world's systems will be instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent.
In IBM, the group behind this blog works on solutions to help firms make more intelligent decisions with this data. Often, due to the number of possible choices, optimization-based technology is the only way to get value from the information you've collected.
For example, for retailers we've worked with, they have taken advantage of the data in a variety of ways:
1. Determining what items should be stocked at a store, how the store should be laid out, and where the SKU's should be on the shelf—this helps retailers increase store revenue and profitability.
2. Determining how the warehouses and stores should best be replenished, how the workforce should be scheduled, how products should flow through the supply chain, locating the warehouses, and routing trucks--- this helps retailers take costs of their supply chain.
In each of these cases, simply analyzing the data was not going to be good enough to extract value from it to give the retailer a strategic advantage.


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We could never find a worthy solution w/o knowing what the true problem is.
I know many will think I'm crazy but one day you will find this to be true, if you haven't already. Especially if you ever get to the point where you become so depressed you find it hard to leave your home. Depression and the diseases it causes are merely principalities from a darker world and spiritual forces of evil trying to control us by attempting to weigh us down. They want us to feel all that they feel (absolute misery), and they love to wreak chaos amongst friends and family. Why? Because although our higher power is the creator of ALL things in ALL worlds ..it is us that he loves. They HATE US and know he wants us to keep a happy heart and be spiritually wise. It is our best weapon. They want our soul and our lives and will do anything to get it. Most importantly, envy and jealousy are the most wicked of evil. It is the num 1 reason why so many commit murder in disadvantaged communities around the world. It is said to be a sign of possession. Don't ever let yourself go there. Now you know the problem, seek your solution...
wow, well now i know!!
bored of opinions
Eat a lot and then act like nothing happened, but when I'm alone I'm crying like there's no tomorrow.
Give me all of you.
many people has different reactions to depression but my is alittle for some reason i get really depress of little but something inside pushes me to fight it like I absorb the depression turn it to energy all that energy that i have i have to let it out and for that to work i do anything to let lose of that energy i have when i take my mma classes or working out or any activities. The point here is no matter how small that hole gets you will find the light you just can't give up or let it overwhelm you. Absorb it and power yourself and live. Just look deep in your heart that will to fight.
i take anti depressants but they barely work, just get out more and try to enjoy life


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Representatives of the California Public Utilities Commission, meeting Thursday night in San Clemente, heard two sides of a $473 million plan by San Diego Gas & Electric to upgrade power lines in San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente and tear down and replace a 95-year-old substation in San Juan Capistrano.
The project hasn't attracted many objections from San Clemente, but many residents and city leaders in San Juan Capistrano are upset with the proposal to demolish the old substation on a 2-acre site off Camino Capistrano. The San Juan Capistrano City Council adopted a resolution in February opposing changes to the station "without proper mitigation."
SDG&E says the project would boost electrical capacity and reliability in south Orange County, partly by upgrading electrical transmission lines along an 8.26-mile corridor in San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente and replacing several wooden power poles with steel towers.
Thursday's public meeting at Bella Collina Towne & Golf Club, which followed a similar one Wednesday night in San Juan Capistrano, was intended to gather input for an environmental-impact report for the project being prepared by the utilities commission.
"The first issue right off the top was the ability of SDG&E to come in and demolish a historic structure downtown," San Juan Capistrano Mayor John Taylor said. "My other issue is the scale of the project. … It's way out of scale for that neighborhood."
The substation is in the middle of a residential community about a mile north of Mission San Juan Capistrano. The existing station would be replaced with a new one that could reach 50 feet tall and occupy about 6½ acres.
Duane Cave, external-relations manager for SDG&E, said the company spent two years studying ways to save the existing structure before determining it couldn't do it and achieve its goal of expanding capacity and reliability.
Cave said SDG&E has offered to work with the city on the aesthetics of the project but that the city has not invited the utility to many of the meetings where the project was discussed.
"We want the substation to fit into the community," Cave said after Thursday's meeting.
Bill Ramsey, San Juan Capistrano's assistant director of development services, aired many concerns to the utilities commission, including some regarding the look of the project and its potential effects on the city, which is already experiencing several major building projects.
Taylor said the SDG&E proposal, which would serve about 130,000 homes, would disproportionately affect his city. "For about 8 percent of the need, San Juan Capistrano will be saddled with 100 percent of the impact," he said.
The current substation serves a majority of San Juan Capistrano and a portion of Laguna Niguel, Cave said.
The utilities commission could determine that the new substation needs to be on a different site, though Cave said it would be more costly to do that because wires already go to the current site.
SDG&E's proposal must go through environmental studies and review, final EIR hearings, an administrative hearing, public comment sessions and final Public Utilities Commission approval. It could take more than a year to finish the process.
If the commission approves the plan or an amended version within a year, the project would begin in 2014 and finish before 2018, SDG&E says.
SDG&E recently opened an office in San Juan Capistrano to provide information about the project in English and Spanish. The office, at 31521 Camino Capistrano, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. It will be open for five years, the company says.
Residents also can call Cave at 949-361-8065 or email him at email@example.com.
To see a video about the project, go to youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wcrCC1XYtwY.


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If Jaimie Alexander wasn't on your radar yet, she is now. The actress (and Peter Facinelli's girlfriend) currently stars in Thor: The Dark World and made quite the red carpet statement Monday night at the L.A. premiere of the film. Alexander selected a crazy-revealing black Azzaro dress, which showed off a lot of skin and her hot bod. Cue the Gwyneth Paltrow comparisons.
"You know, it's actually quite warm because it's a long sleeve," she told PEOPLE at the premiere. "I tried on a lot of dresses, and a lot of them were actually too big, or too small, or too short, or too tall, and then I saw this dress. I saw a photo of it and I thought, 'I can't wear that because that is revealing!' Then when I put it on, it was edgy but sort of classy at the same time."
While we don't know how the actress avoided a wardrobe malfunction (she's clearly not wearing any undergarments), she did share how she maintains her toned figure.
RELATED PHOTOS: See what else the stars were wearing on the red carpet in Last Night's Look!
"I lift a lot of weights," she said, adding that she grew up in an athletic environment: "I have four brothers, and I was also on my high school wrestling team. The boys team. But as I was on it I recruited some more females because there were actually 81 schools in Texas with female wrestlers."
And with all that background, Alexander would be an appropriate choice for the role of Wonder Woman, a role to which she's rumored to be attached. "Hypothetically speaking, it would be an honor. I grew up as a huge fan of Wonder Woman. I was actually a huge fan of the comic books growing up."
Do you like the actress's dress or is it too revealing? Do you think she would make a good Wonder Woman? Sound off below!
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sraddha wrote:I know Zen Buddhists use the vajra position -- which is also quite difficult! They tuck both legs in with the heals on the behind and can meditate for hours.
That's interesting that that pose is called the "vajra pose" in yoga. In Vajrayana, they call the full lotus pose the "vajra posture." I think Zen Buddhists usually call their kneeling pose "seiza."
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Barbie Takes on DC Dating Scene in "Happy Hour" Series
The Hillyer Art Space displayed four photographs from SOC student Autumn Moran's "Barbie Happy Hour" Fine Art Photo final project last month.
The photographs are part of a series she made compositing photographs of Barbies into the DC dating scene. View the series
Professor Leena Jayaswal said what makes the series so strong is the attention to detail that Moran used. "Autumn's talent and skills shown in this project," she said. "She shot the Barbies and then the bar scenes separately and then combined them in Photoshop, playing with scale, lighting and perspective. They actually feel like these are life size women." Jayaswal added the fact that the Barbies are naked really go with Moran's theme of what it feels like to be a single woman in the bar scene.
We sat down with Moran shortly before the show and asked her some questions about her photo project.
Q: How did you come up with the concept for Barbie Happy Hour?
A: To start it all off, I was at happy hour one day and was waiting for a friend and watching people. I noticed a guy suck in his stomach, and then there was a girl checking herself out in the mirror. I started thinking about the theater that goes into dating; we never present who we are in a happy hour/public/early dating situation. And really I think that if we (as a general society) keep ourselves to who we are, we would avoid so much headache and heartache. It seems as though when people break up with someone, they always say that they 'changed and wasn't the person you fell in love with', but actually it is the same person you fell in love with, they just stopped trying to impress you and became their true selves.
Q: What is the significance of the dolls being photographed nude?
A: I guess the significance of why they are nude is just that; wouldn't things be so much simpler if we just stripped down (emotionally and physically) so you would know what you were getting when you met that person at a bar? I originally wanted to do these photos using real models in bars but due to time and legal constraints it became unrealistic. Barbies were my back up plan but I actually think they accomplish the point I wanted to make more clearly than if I had used models. The shiny plastic veneer they have (and the somewhat vacant stare) I think represents us trying to be someone we think someone else will find attractive.
Q: How does it feel to have four of your photos selected for exhibition at the Hillyer?
A: I am very flattered to have multiple pieces in the show, and it was really interesting to me, which pieces they chose out of the series. I am really excited to see what the other artists have done and how it all works together if we are talking about similar issues or what they are drawn to.
Q: Do you want to do more work like Barbie Happy Hour in the future?
A: I think how people relate to each other and how they perceive themselves has always intrigued me, and probably won't stop intriguing me. What we do, compared to what we want to achieve are sometimes so at odds with each other. I definitely want to pursue this concept in the future and am addressing it in a slightly more "internal struggle"-oriented fashion in my thesis film, An Unplanned Descent To The Ground, which I am currently finishing up.
I would also love to actually re-do these shots with real people at some point along the lines of my original plan and see how that changes and/or adds to the context.


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Reporter: Cash is king, so is property appreciation. Sometimes you just can't have both, what should buyers prioritise, especially during this time of rising prices and interest rates? Good cash flow now or hold for appreciation. It's a catch 22 situation and everyone has their opinion on it. What are buyers doing and who is right?
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Julie Kinnear: I am a big fan of focusing on cash flow versus appreciation when you are talking about investment properties. And is it replacing appreciation, I would say yes at this point, mainly because the market has been escalating. For many years, the prices of properties in Toronto have been going up and up and up, so counting on appreciation as your investment vehicle for a way to make money from your investment property is high risk I would say. I think you are in better shape if you focus on the cash flow. Cash flow also at this point because interest rates are really low, it's a really important thing to focus on because you have to remember that interest rates could go up over time and when they go up over time, your cash flow may keep you know, if you are not keeping a close eye on it, when you are actually buying the property, then you could be in big trouble at some point.
Reporter: Should buyers do what the experts say or follow their own goals?
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Adam Brind: You know I think again it just comes back to individual goals and [you may also keep] capital on hand. So if you can deploy some of the capital you have on hand and you can increase those cash flows by renovating, add in features that weren't there previously. I certainly think that there is a play, but I think with any investment you definitely have to look at your strategy, how you are going to get there, what are the goals of the property. But I think what most investors forget, what most have to remember is that, there is a time value on money, so as your investment increases, depreciation increases, you know your financing tends to go down and that gap widens as time goes on. So absolutely if the strategy is right I would say 100% consider that investment, if the cash flows aren't there on day one because eventually it will be.
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The Arroyo Seco is rich with trail opportunities for equestrians. Equestrians are welcome on most Arroyo Seco trails, although not recommended on the paved Rose Bowl Loop. South of the Colorado Street Bridge, the trails on the east side of the channel are more accessible for equestrians. Equestrians can most easily access Arroyo Seco trails from the south entrance adjacent to San Pasqual Stables or in Hahamongna Watershed Park to the north. Hitching posts and water troughs are located in Hahamongna Watershed Park and behind the Brookside Clubhouse in the Central Arroyo.
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Equestrian staging facilities are located in Hahamongna Watershed Park. The main entrance to Hahamongna Watershed Park is off Oak Grove Dr.
Information on equestrian classes and facilities is available through the City of Pasadena's Human Services and Recreation Department.
Equestrian events are available through Rose Bowl Riders in Hahamongna Watershed Park.
Therapeutic equine assisted activities for disabled riders are offered at Hahamongna Watershed Park through MACH 1 (Move A Child Higher).
Located on the western side of Pasadena near CA-134 & I-210 freeways, many roads lead to the Arroyo Seco Natural Park. Three main entrances provide automobile access to the park and numerous trails along the eastern and western edges of the park provide additional access from neighborhoods and surrounding communities.
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Families enjoyed a day in the sun at the Kennet Valley Hall family fun day at Lockeridge.
This is the second event the Kennet Valley Hall committee has organised to raise money for the village community venue.
As well as family-friendly entertainment, including birds of prey, hurdle making displays, a sheep shearing display, a dog show, climbing wall, bouncy castle and ball pool, this year the committee decided to introduce trade stands.
Throughout the day visitors enjoyed music from the Highworth Silver Band.
Carolyn Stimpson, one of the organisers, said: "It was a fantastic day.
"At first we were a bit worried because we changed the date from last year from April to June, so that meant we were competing with other events, but we had a steady flow of people all through the day.
"We were supposed to finish at 4pm but the last person didn't leave until ten to five.
"There was something there for everyone."