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Dallas needs some work...I don't see them going back to the Playoffs this year
I'm reminded of a certain NFC Championship game in which the Vikes were shutout 41-0 when they had the #1 offense in the league. Defense wins championships, and as such, neither Dallas NOR Minnesota should be booking hotel rooms for the Super Bowl just yet.
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Aonang Princeville Villa Resort and Spa
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An exclusive boutique resort situated in the midst heart of Ao Nang Beach, the beach is right opposite from the resort just cross the road! Aonang Princeville Villa Resort and Spa is 35 minutes from the Krabi airport and within 25 minutes to Krabi town
All guest rooms are picturesque unique with elegant style. We offer 32 guest rooms with fully amenities. Our extraordinary facilities are included Individually Controlled Air-con IDD Telephone Line, Mini Bar, Bathroom Amenity Set In-room Coffee & Tea Making, Satellite TV / 220V. Power, In-room Deposit Box, and Hair Dryer
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Date of stay:
Apr 01, 2018
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My room located at the upper floor, I have knee pain therefore problem to climb up staircase too frequent. Pls build up an elevator/lift for the elderly. In future I will indicate to request for lower floor. Hence this is 1st experience and I do not know own there s no lift in the resort. But overall we love our stay here
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Apr 03, 2018
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Feb 10, 2017
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A very nice hotel with beautiful nature garden and swimming pool. We had a nice room on the second floor with view on the pool. The hotel is situated near the beach road and in front of he see. Man restaurants etc in the direct envirmont. We hope to come again next time we visit Thailand.
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everything good and oke
Feb 18, 2017
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Theodore Uijthoven
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Nov 09, 2015
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Room need to redesign as it is outdated. Toilets are stained and mouldy. The toilet tiles are very sticky and disgusting that is the reason the tiles are coloured so that we cant see the stain. The bedsheets there are blood stains on it. Not too sure why the lamp shades has the cockroach designs on it. Breakfast need to be improved. Chose the hotel due to they serve HALAL breakfast and location as it is accessible to the shops and sea since I had my 2yo toddler with me. Previous 2 trips, stayed around Nopparathara area in 2 diff hotels, no doubt the location is 10 mins walk from Aonang, but the room are updated and the cleanliness is perfect.
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very smooth even though there s a slight misunderstanding but they manage to reinstate back the reservation
Nov 13, 2015
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Nurul Jannah Binte Jamal
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Feb 17, 2015
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Good location, just in the middle of Ao Nang - could walk either up the beach road or the other one away from the beach. Good planning and layout of the hotel - rooms are facing the pool and not the road or other hotels. Standard (Deluxe) room is quite spacious with nice design elements, it has a bath, a shower and a balcony. However, the smell was periodically blown to the balcony on the ground floor. Unpleasant as I really enjoyed chilling out in the balcony. Yes, the garden is quite jungle like, so there are mosquitoes in the evening and early morning. The service is good, room cleaned regularly, if something was missing, it was quickly amended. Breakfast was ok, would have really appreciated rice without sausages in it. Overall good experience with the hotel and as always sawadee.com booking great, everything went smoothly.
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Great as always, thank you
Feb 24, 2015
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Natia Tavartkiladze
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Feb 14, 2014
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Very nice Staff and pool area. We lived next to the resturant but it was very quiet. Perfect location in Ao nang.
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Feb 18, 2014
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Albin Marshall
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Feb 09, 2014
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This hotel has good standard. Great breakfast and frindly staff. The bed is comfortable and the rooms are big. The only negative is that the ventaliationsystem is just outside our room and that was horrible when it started in the middle of the night. Diffucult to sleep evry night because of this. Tried to have another room bur everything was full.
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Feb 12, 2014
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Anna Almqvist
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Feb 08, 2014
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Very good hotel. Perferkt place, very frendly staff. A little bit noise from the bar behind!
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Very good
Feb 11, 2014
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Ulla Petersen
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Jan 31, 2014
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Great location. Nice staff.
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Feb 17, 2014
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Jan 14, 2014
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Deluxe Room comes with a queen and a single bed. Good for 3 pax, saving the cost for an extra bed. Another great service is all items (snacks and drinks) in the mini bar are complementary!
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Immediate confirmation.
Jan 17, 2014
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Jan 07, 2014
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Very nice hotel, great location. Good breakfast, nice staff. We had a family room and was very satisfied.
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Very good as usual!
Feb 28, 2014
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Malin Andersson
Date of stay:
Dec 17, 2013
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Very bad customer service. Toilet flush did not work. We got the wrong room. We had to change rooms because they were fully booked, and our luggage was placed in the mittle of the hall. Not in the saftey room. The staff were very unhelpful.
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Dec 30, 2013
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Saman Rastegar
Date of stay:
Dec 11, 2013
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Stayed 3 nights. Having 2 big beds in a room is ideal for 2 adults & 2 kids. Room design so-so but practical. The location of hotel is very prime: just walk across to Aonang beach (we visited the beach everyday!), restaurants & shops along the stretch and yet quiet. Welcome treat is lime ice cream with caramel! Breakfast is decent too! Ordered pineapple rice, very fragrant. Took hotel shuttle to airport, vehicle is clean, new & very spacious. Will return & recommend to stay!
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Dec 14, 2013
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Wong Hwee Yi
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Aonang Princeville Resort,
an exclusive boutique resort in the center heart of Aonang Beach, Krabi. With luxurious accommodations of 50 rooms beautifully designed in both contemporary and Classic Thai Style.
Traditional warm and friendly Thai hospitality service is part of our aim to fulfill your holiday at Krabi. When you come to Krabi please visit us and relax as per your second home in Thailand.
The large swimming pool is in the center of the resort. For those who love to relax, you can be pampered with our special treatment from Princeville Spa and massage. Forgetting about the world of work! let's relax and let Aonang Princeville Resort be the ideal tropical getaway for you.
Aonang Princeville Resort, provide the 50 rooms which are 30 Deluxe Rooms, 12 Deluxe Family Rooms 6 Grand Deluxe rooms and 2 Honeymoon Suite. Guests can choose room with seaview or the pool view. The accommodation is housed in three low-rise buildings and very close to the attraction place in Aonang Beach.
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Individually controlled air condition
220 V. power
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IDD telephone line
In-room deposit box
Free mini bar for all room type
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Baby cot
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Bathroom with shower / WC and bathtub
Swimming Pool, Jacuzzi & Kids Pool:
Open daily from 08.00 hours to 20.00 hours. Enjoy tropical cocktails, cool drinks and snacks, while relaxing and sun bathing beside the pool with our magazine corner.
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Our room service is available from 07.30 hours and the last order at 21.00 hours daily.
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Daily open from 08.00 hours to 22.00 hours, located in the A.P. Travel and Tour.
White Orchid Restaurant:
Enjoy the entertainment at White Orchid Restaurant servicing international and Thai food all day and the seafood is amazing for it's varity and as fresh as can be, bought daily to our kitchen with the local fisherman. Our White Orchid Restaurant is HALAL RESTAURANT, so feel free to eat halal food & Drink at Krabi.
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Ao Nang is located approximately 6 kilometers from Haad Noppharat Thara and 20 kilometers from the town of Krabi. A large bay with scenic beaches and 83 small islands, Ao Nang has several famous beaches which include East Rai Lay, West Rai Lay and Tham Phra Nang (cave).
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Bonnie Wright: New Year's Eve Celebration in Sydney!
Bonnie Wright wraps her arms around a friend while ringing in 2013 in Sydney, Australia earlier this week.
"Happy New Year!!!!!!," the 21-year-old actress tweeted from the harbor, along with a pic of the fireworks lighting up the sky.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Bonnie Wright
After celebrating Christmas with her family in London, Bonnie took to the skies for New Year's with her Australian one.
"Salty hair, sandy toes and so many freckles…2013 is sweeeeeeet!" Bonnie added during a trip to the beach.
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Sylvester Stallone is 66 years old. Take a moment to reflect on that. Sixty-six!! We all know he's leading up the team of old fogies in The Expendables 2, which is out now, but this trailer for the new crime thriller Bullet to the Head really made me take notice… and, of course, want to dissect like a madman. So, without further ado or adieu, let us commence the cutting in half!
0:00-0:15 – Sylvester Stallone does a really great Sylvester Stallone impression. He's upping the New York accent to near-Danza levels.
0:15-0:18 – This is the copy for a Clorox commercial, right? Also, punching in movies has basically just become clothes-lining. At this point, nobody just reacts with a dazed look and wobbly knees; it's full-on falling backward onto a table.
0:19-0:24 – Okay, so this is a redux of the scene in Eastern Promises, hopefully without penile reaction shots; however, holy crap is Stallone in good shape. I hope I look half as good when I'm 66. Or, now. I wonder if you can get that physique by wishing real hard…
0:25-0:28 – Logo shooting at its best.
0:29-0:34 – Oh, wow! Homicide's Jon Seda! I haven't seen him in a while. That'll be really great to get a whole movie with him. A buddy movie, Stallone and Seda. I like it.
0:34-0:39 – Well, shit. I guess there's nothing you can do when Khal Drogo wants you dead. He velociraptor'd him.
0:40-0:47 – The family that tattoos together…. And she wants him to give up the life. That is a very original plot point. Just once, I'd like the hit man's relation to go, "You know what? I friggin' LOVE IT that you kill people for money. I'm really proud of you, Dad. Let's go get fro-yo." Fro-yo part optional.
0:47-0:50 – Stallone is the last of the great grunt-mumblers.
0:50-0:55 – This fella's the sidekick? Who is this guy?
0:55-1:00 – Let's get rid of Conan the Barbarian…. Also, did you notice that he shoots a pistol inside a hallway and a small grass hut explodes? The explanation is simple: His bullets can teleport.
1:00-1:04 – Ah, racism; exactly what you want from your lead character.
1:04-1:08 – That's completely ridiculous. There are no Asian people in Florida. #Joke
1:08-1:14 – Walter Hill has some pretty impressive action movie creds. The Warriors, anyone? Also, the fact that Mr. Eko has hired Khal Drogo to take out Rambo is maybe the coolest thing I've ever seen, heard, or imbibed.
1:14-1:20 – AND Christian Slater?!?! And a Winchester rifle?!?! And another gunshot sound effect on a cut?!?!
1:20-1:24 – What an ineffectual police officer. Also, "I just did," is a really bad line, but, delivered with Stallone's usual tough-gruffness, it works. To an extent.
1:25-1:32 – Oh, and the daughter gets kidnapped! Well, if that don't beat all; I'm ever so surprised by this! I don't think I've ever seen such a thing, nor have I been this sarcastic for such an sustained period of time.
1:33-1:40 – Foreigner sucks.
1:40-1:45 – Ha ha… they're of different ages… a-ha ha ha.
1:46-1:53 – Most police detectives just whine, it's true. They're always saying to me, "Killing people is wrong, stop doing it, don't bury them in the neighbor's lawn or dump them in the ocean." Blah blah blah, am I right? Also, just because they "don't make records" anymore, which they do, it doesn't immediately make that idiom invalid. You wouldn't just stop saying "happy as a clam" if you found out all clams suffer from crippling depression, right?
2:00-2:08 – Okay… ax fight may be something of which I haven't seen too much. I like the clever camera angles to make it look like Jason Momoa isn't really 7 inches taller than Sly.
2:09-2:14 – MORE CONTEXTLESS FIGHTING!!!!! Though, I do think any movie where an explosion causes people to turn upside down and fly away is pretty cool. I'm sorry, I meant pretty "cool."
2:14-2:18 – Ha ha, oh, I never get tired of jokes about how much better wholesale murder is than our legal system. What a gas.
2:18-2:26 – Really anticlimactic final few seconds. I'm starting to think, though, that Stallone ad-libbed many of his lines. There's no way somebody typed "Bang. Down. Boom." into a screenplay. I just refuse to believe it.
2:26-2:32 – Slow down the credits; this movie had the HELL executive produced out of it. Nine exec prods?!? That's insanity mixed with you-gotta-be-kidding-me. It's also based on a French graphic novel called "Du Plomb Dans La Tete," which actually translates to "The Lead in the Head." A rhyme title probably wouldn't have gone down well over here.
This movie looks incredi-bad. I'll probably see it.
-Kanderson loves action movies almost as much as TWITTER followers and PODCAST listeners.


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Portsmouth woman pleads guilty to hindering murder probe, will testify against boyfriendBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
July 25. 2013 4:47PM
BRENTWOOD – Kathryn McDonough began serving a 1 ½- to 3- year prison term Thursday as part of a negotiated plea deal that turned her into a key state witness at her boyfriend's upcoming first-degree murder trial.
McDonough, 19, of Portsmouth, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that she blocked efforts of state and local police to find out who killed Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, a University of New Hampshire sophomore who went missing on Oct. 9.
Seth Mazzaglia, 30, of Dover is facing charges of first- and second-degree murder, felonious sexual assault and hindering apprehension in Strafford County. State prosecutors said they've proposed a May trial date for Mazzaglia.
McDonough's plea deal outraged Marriott's family members who said that New Hampshire should have stronger laws on its books to punish those who aid in murders after the fact.
"Accessory to murder would be much more fitting as it relates to Kathryn McDonough to the death of my daughter and does not suggest some victimless crime," Bob Marriott, the victim's father, said Wednesday.
He was among roughly a dozen family members who attended McDonough's plea-and-sentencing hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court.
McDonough received 3 ½- to 7-year sentences on three charges - hindering apprehension, conspiracy to commit hindering apprehension and witness tampering - but she received a reduced sentence for her expected cooperation in Mazzaglia's upcoming trial.


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Morgan Davis, one of Sam Houston State's premier multi-event performers in track and field, is a prime example of the truth in those commercials.
The senior from Waller, Texas, became the first Bearkat in the 25-year history of SHSU women's track and field to win Southland Conference indoor pentathlon championship at the annual league indoor meet at Norman, Oklahoma, March 23.
But, after receiving her Sam Houston degree in May, Morgan looks to become a professional in the field of dentistry.
A biology major and chemistry minor major and Dean's List student with a 3.63 overall grade point average, Davis already has interned a semester for local dentist Scott Logan. Following graduation she plans to enter dental school.
"Everyone at Dr. Logan's office was so helpful during my internship," Davis said. "Becoming a dentist is my career goal."
As a student-athlete, Davis took first place at the Southland indoor women's pentathlon with a point total of 3,641, the second highest score in the event in school history.
The pentathlon is a grueling test of athletic skill in which student-athletes compete in five events all in one day - the 60 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and 800 meter run.
"Definitely it's a long day," Davis said. "But I really like it. Training is fun because you always are doing something different. Other athletes are working on the same event every day. But in the multi-events, we focus on a couple or so events daily. There's never a dull moment because you're always doing something different."
Winning the Southland pentathlon championship is special for Davis because 2012 marks her senior season at Sam Houston State.
"It's amazing. I came here as a walk-on and things just worked out," Morgan said.
Davis has build each year towards her success as a senior. She placed ninth in the pentathlon as a sophomore in 2010 and was the runner-up at the 2011 indoor meet. What pleased the versatile athlete most about her victory was that she equaled or bettered her personal best performance in each of the five events.
"I had never broken the nine second barrier in the hurdles, so when I ran the 60 meters in 8.9 seconds, that set the tone for the rest of day. When I tied my best high jump mark in the second event, I knew there was a chance to win the whole thing."
She jumped 5' 5" then went on to throw the shot put 11.11 meters, another personal best.
"Next was the long jump, the event I really need to work on," Davis said. "I could have done better but I still tied my indoor best. I knew then I had to go out with a bang in the 800 meters."
Davis almost tried too hard.
"I was so excited I went out faster than I was supposed to," Davis said. "I knew I had to push harder than ever before. It was really close and I left everything on the track. But, gosh, it was so exciting to receive the gold medal."
The senior was the only Bearkat competitor to earn a first place finish at the 2012 indoor meet. She credits her teammates and her coaches for pushing her.
"We all peaked at the perfect time," Davis said. "Allyson Pettit, our sophomore who finished eighth in the pentathlon with her share of personal bests, pushes me in practice every day. And Josh Sigmon, who medaled in the men's heptathlon with a third place finish, helped light a fire under both of us with his encouragement before and during the meet. Our coaches are doing something right. We all were ready at the right time."
Clint Blinka, a former Sam Houston decathlete, is extremely familiar with Davis's work ethic. Now the Bearkat assistant track coach who tutors the multi-event competitors, Blinka also coached Davis at Waller High School.
"Morgan is a true student-athlete," Blinka said. "She is a hard worker in both the class room and in the arena. Her progression as an athlete has been phenomenal. As a freshman walk-on, Morgan was viewed by the coaches as an athlete who could contribute some points at conference as a senior. But she is such a hard worker, she built herself into a conference champion. She is amazing."
Davis also is active in campus life at Sam Houston. She is a member of the Bearkat student-athlete advisory committee and has represented Sam Houston State at regional NCAA meetings on current student-athlete welfare issues.
While her career in dentistry beckons, she still has one more athletic challenge in front of her.
"Outdoor season is beginning," Davis said. "With a gold medal in the pentathlon, the next prize is even harder,"
Davis will compete in the Southland Conference heptathlon at the conference meet in May. She finished fourth in the heptathlon outdoors both as a sophomore and a junior.
"The heptathlon adds more events and, again, makes for a couple of long days of competition," Davis said. "But earning another medal would be a great way to end my career at Sam Houston."
And, after that ... like the NCAA ads say, she'll turn professional in something other than sports.


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Royals, White Sox game postponed
Game to be made up on Monday afternoon
Royals, White Sox game postponed
Game to be made up on Monday afternoon
Friday's game between the Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox has been postponed due to inclement weather, the team announced.
The teams will make up the game on Monday afternoon at 1:10 p.m.
The Royals said in a news release that tickets for Friday's game will be honored for the rescheduled game. Fans unable to attend Monday's game do have some options.
The team said ticket holders for May 2 and May 3 games who cannot go to the rescheduled games can redeem those tickets for any of the remaining 2013 regular season games, excluding the following dates: May 11, May 27 and May 28.


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Portland considers charging shoppers for paper bags
PORTLAND, Ore. - The city of Portland is considering charging you for paper bags every time you don't bring a reusable bag to the store.
Currently larger stores, grocery stores, and some pharmacies are affected by the city's plastic bag ban.
A new report says during the first year of the law reusable checkout bag use increased 304 percent, but paper bag use rose 491 percent.
Stores have complained about the cost of supplying paper bags to customers who don't bring their own. So the city is suggesting a 5 cent charge for shoppers who need a bag.
"What happened is that by banning plastic bags, people just switched to paper," a spokesperson for Fred Meyer said in a statement to KATU News. "Paper bags cost us between four and eight cents a bag. Plastic bags had only cost us a penny. Imposing a five cent fee on paper bags in important."
When asked why the City Council did not enforce a paper bag fee with the plastic bag ban, mayor's office spokeswoman Caryn Brooks said they wanted to test one concept and "then evaluate whether to include things such as a paper bag fee."
Shoppers had mixed reactions when asked about the idea.
"I think I would start to remember my reusable bag if I had to start paying for them," said shopper Lara Stone.
"Five cents doesn't mean that much to most people, but if they have to pay an extra five cents it seems to tip their behavior in another direction." said shopper Noel Studer-Stevek.
"I really like the fact that they got rid of plastic bags, but how dare them try to charge for the paper," said Cynthia Sims. "In this economy, I mean come on, five cents is five cents."
The city is also considering a mandate on smaller size stores to ban plastic bags as well. City commissioners will discuss the issue on Wednesday.


text: Yeah in the old days of Castle, Lego seemed to use fairly open or vague but at least decent names, Black Falcon, Black Monarch etc. I actually think they should avoid naming them with proper names as the owner should be able to name them as they will. I really do not mind them making such general names though, especially titles, as Good King, but Giant Troll is just silly.


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This week, LogMeIn suddenly announced that it was discontinuing its LogMeIn Free remote desktop service and will move to a paid model instead. I've long used and recommended various LogMeIn services, and I'm certainly comfortable paying for services I actually use. But in this case, I think it's time to move on, mostly because my usage of such things has evolved along with the technology.
A post on the LogMeIn blog describes the change but doesn't really explain the "why" bit.
"This product will be a paid-only offering, and it will offer what we believe to be the best premium desktop, cloud and mobile access experience available on the market today," the post explains. "Starting in January, we will gradually migrate users of LogMeIn-branded remote access offerings and Ignition-branded remote access offerings to a single, premium access product."
OK. The issue is that LogMeIn Pro is $99 a year. Which I wouldn't mind paying if I needed this kind of thing frequently.
Indeed, when I started using LogMeIn, years ago, I did so because I needed to regularly access content on my home-based server while I was on the road. What's changed is that most of the data I need to access is no longer on that server for the most part, it's in SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro. And that data is available anytime, from virtually anywhere.
That said, I do occasionally need to access data on the home server. And you may too. So I have a couple of ideas about how you might replace LogMeIn Free if that's what you've been using.
TeamViewer. A key LogMeIn Pro/Free competitor, TeamViewer still comes in a freebie version for individuals. If you've been using LogMeIn, this should be a straightforward rip and replace. Best of all, TeamViewer has clients for Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and even Windows 8/RT. It's really well-supported regardless of which platform(s) you prefer.
Hamachi. If all you need is access to your files, you might want to skip remote desktop access, and just get Hamachi, which is very inexpensive ($29 per year). This is a virtual private network (VPN) solution, so you can just access the files on the remote machine via File Explorer ... or use the built-in Remote Desktop Connection software in Windows.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 9:57 AM
Charles "Neal" Bordner, 77, of Fort Wayne, and having family members in Huntington, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at his home.
Mr. Bordner owned Bordner Automotive for 37 years, retiring in 2000. He was a past president of the Automotive Maintenance Association's Fort Wayne chapter, a member of the Baer Field Raceway Hall of Fame and a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Rods Car Club.
He was born in Fort Wayne to Andrew and Edna Bordner. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Marcella Shady Bordner.
Additional survivors include two sons, Mark Bordner, of Raleigh, NC, and Steve Bordner, of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Laura (Jeff) Bordner Adams, of Richmond, VA; a sister, Patricia Ulrich, of Huntington; a brother, Dean (Jeanne) Bordner, of Fort Wayne; mother-in-law, Gaynell Shady; and two grandsons, Stephen Bordner and Andrew "Drew" Bordner.
Calling is Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at D.O. McComb and Sons Pine Valley Park Funeral Home, 1320 E. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. A service will be held at the funeral home on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at 11 a.m., with calling one hour prior to the service. Chaplain Karen Kosberg will officiate. Burial will be at Highland Park Cemetery, Fort Wayne.
Memorial gifts may be made to Parkview Home Health and Hospice.
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New Iberia Teen Dies In Car Crash
A two car crash in Iberia Parish last night claimed the life of one of the drivers involved.
Louisiana State Police Troop I spokesman Trooper Stephen Hammons says 17 year old Erin LaSalle was driving east on LA Highway 677 when she apparently failed to stop at a two-way stop sign and turned left on to LA Highway 344. A pickup driven by 33 year old Jared St. Martin of Kaplan struck the left side of LaSalle's car.
LaSalle was not wearing a seat belt and she died at the scene as a result of the crash. St. Martin was not injured.
Routine toxicology samples were obtained and the accident remains under investigation.
A lack of seat belt use continues to be a factor in fatal crashes in the Troop I area. State Police say wearing a seat belt may not save your life in every crash it will reduce your risk of injury in most crashes.


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Barksdale Thompson, a 65-year-old man hospitalized for pneumonia, died of burns received at Druid City Hospital when his oxygen tent caught on fire. The patient was assumed to have struck a match, starting the fire in the oxygen.
Barksdale Thompson, a 65-year-old man hospitalized for pneumonia, died of burns received at Druid City Hospital when his oxygen tent caught on fire. The patient was assumed to have struck a match, starting the fire in the oxygen.
A baby girl was under care of Druid City Hospital nurses after she was found abandoned on the steps of the First Wesleyan Methodist Church on Greensboro Avenue.
Jimmy Mills was named Tuscaloosa Jaycee of the Year.
Owners and agents of rental properties in the city appeared before the City Commission objecting to requirements of a proposed housing code scheduled to be adopted by the City of Tuscaloosa the following week. The code was designed to make each dwelling in the city meet certain standards and requirements for the general health, welfare and safety of occupants, requiring that each dwelling unit have adequate plumbing, lighting, heating and ventilation facilities. This applied to existing properties as well as future construction.
Attorneys for University of Alabama Coach Paul W. Bryant asked Atlanta Journal Sports Editor Furman Bisher to name the sources he used in a Saturday Evening Post article. Bryant was suing Bisher and the Curtis Publishing Co. for $500,000 in connection with the Post article entitled "College Football is going Berserk."
Georgia's Wally Butts and UA's Coach Bryant kicked the lid off an alleged Southeastern Conference fix even before it hit the newsstand. Each emphatically denied allegations contained in an upcoming March 23 issue of the Saturday Evening Post that Butts gave Bryant game plays, defensive patterns and all the significant secrets Georgia's football team possessed. Alabama won the game 35-0.
Six former employees of the Tuscaloosa City Public Works Department were indicted on drug charges by the Tuscaloosa County grand jury as a result of an undercover investigation.
A $2.5 milllion expansion of HPI Inc. of Fayette, a surgical glove manufacturing plant, was announced.
JVC America was expanding to produce VHS-C cassettes, a small cassette that was gaining popularity for use in hand-held video recorders called camcorders.
Rumors of devil-worshipping cult activities in Mount Olive area of Northport surfaced, but Northport Police Chief Dempsey Marcum expressed skepticism though his department was investigating an incident relating to alleged cult activities.
Prosecutors were attempting to block the call by the defense of about 80 elementary students at a preliminary hearing for James L. "Bud" Harvey, 42, who faced 84 counts of kidnapping in the 12-hour hostage siege Feb. 2 at West End Christian School.
The Tuscaloosa City School Board pulled money set aside for renovating Central High School West to pay for
$7 million in project overruns at the system's two high schools under construction, Northridge and Paul W. Bryant high schools.
The Tuscaloosa Sister Cities Commission canceled two summer trips to Schorndorf, Germany, because of safety concerns over a possible war with Iraq.
Plans were unveiled for a Publix supermarket to be built near the University of Alabama campus.
Local black leaders postponed an economic boycott of Tuscaloosa businesses as the city school board showed it was willing to consider rebuilding Central High School in West Tuscaloosa.
In spite of Jeana Rice's 10 on the vault, the UA gymnastics team lost to Georgia.
Parole was denied for inmate James Michael Hayes, who was convicted of murder in the 1978 strangling death of 18-year-old Regina Quarles of Fosters.
The downtown YMCA and Focus on Senior Citizens revealed a design for a joint building as they continued to urge community support for the multi-million-dollar project to be built on city-owned land.
After three rocky years at the helm of the UA women's basketball team, Stephany Smith was informed that she would not be retained for the two remaining years of her contract. Wendell Hudson was named the new coach.
UA President Robert Witt postponed plans to expand Bryant-Denny Stadium because of the challenges of raising money to pay for it during an economic downturn.
Jurors found Jamie Witherspoon guilty of felony murder and first-degree robbery because his actions during an attempted robbery caused the death of his accomplice, Eric Baggett, who was shot and killed by the clerk of a Raceway convenience store.
Gov. Bob Riley appointed Brad Almond, 42, to fill Tuscaloosa County's vacant circuit judge seat.
The Cotton Patch, the landmark Greene County restaurant, was sold and would close indefinitely.
The UA men's basketball team made the NCAA Tournament as a No. 9 seed and faced No. 8 seed Creighton in Greensboro, N.C., where Alabama lost 58-57.
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum greeted supporters in Dreamland Bar-B-Que in Tuscaloosa.
Former Tuscaloosa County judge and longtime attorney Jerry Baird died at 70.
Jerry Tingle won the Republican nomination for the Tuscaloosa County Commission District 2 seat, defeating Gary Youngblood Jr. and former county road and bridge supervisor John Crocker. Political newcomer Stan Acker won the four-way race in the Republican primary for the District 1 seat. Gary Mims unseated incumbent John Hinton for the County Board of Education District 3 in the primary.
The Central High School choir, the Central Singers, were invited to perform at the invitation-only 2012 Choral Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Demolition began on the remains of Alberta Baptist Church. The church was damaged by the April 27, 2011, tornado.
Compiled by retired news librarian Betty Slowe.


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Most biographies of literary figures are a wonderful substitute for actually having to read the work. Instead of wrestling with Leaves of Grass, you can speculate about how many bastard children Whitman fathered. Plodding your way through Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is for some a less enthralling pursuit than looking into the question of whether its author was a gay Roman Catholic. In the eighteenth century, Dr. Johnson published his magisterial Lives of the Poets; nowadays, it would have to be Sex Lives of the Poets.
Things are different, however, with William Butler Yeats. Because Yeats was a public poet, in a way that is impossible now and was difficult even then, there can be no clear division between the life and the work. This was not true of his English contemporaries. Somewhere between Shelley and Tennyson, poetry in England ceased to be a public affair. As we moved toward the modern age, art, like religion and sexuality, shifted from the public domain to the private one. All three became more like personal hobbies than affairs of state. Penning a lyric, going to church or wreathing your partner in chains and padlocks were now, like collecting beer mats or butterflies, nobody's business but your own.
Yeats's Ireland, however, had a venerable tradition of the poet as public figure, all the way from the early medieval bards to the nineteenth-century nationalist literati. For both good and ill, the distinctions between art, politics, religion and culture were less marked on the colonial island than in the metropolitan nation. Yeats spotted with his customary canniness that the post of public bard was still vacant around the turn of the twentieth century. The Irish revolution of independence was stirring, and the movement needed what Gramsci would have called its "organic" intellectuals. The middle-class Anglo-Irish Protestant poet from the west of Ireland applied for the position, so to speak, and was granted it to general acclaim. (In this, he was rather more successful than in his application for a post of professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, which was turned down on the grounds that he misspelled the word "professor.") Soon Yeats would be not just poet and mystic but sage, theater director, cultural commissar, public man of letters and clandestine member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. If the Celticizing, poetic part of him was away with the fairies (an Irish expression for madness), the hardheaded Protestant part took naturally to chairing committees and organizing demonstrations.
The Gaelic Catholic nationalist movement, to be sure, produced a robust intelligentsia of its own, from Daniel O'Connell to James Connolly. But the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy to which Yeats belonged had an honorable tradition of supplying that movement with some of its most distinguished leaders, all the way from Wolfe Tone to Charles Stewart Parnell. Governing classes enjoy more leisure, resources and education than their underlings, and will always produce deviant sons and daughters who hop over the class barriers to put their intellectual talents at the service of the common people. Yeats himself was hopelessly in love with one of those dissident daughters, Maud Gonne, and close to another, Countess Constance Markiewicz.


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triad dj profile
DJ handle: Lord Walrus
What it means: I don't remember how I came up with it, but it was like 11 years ago. I hate it now, but it's probably too late to change it. If I could pick a new name, I don't even know what I'd pick, but it'd probably be something that's funny for a year before I regret again.
Real name: Jason Maddox
What I play: The standard that everyone plays: rap, electro, house, electronic, dubstep and all the subgenres that fall under those broad umbrellas.
Catch me at: Wilmington, Raleigh, Greenville, Charlotte and Chapel Hill monthlies with my party Dirty Mega (a Permanent Vacation joint). I'm looking to add Greensboro to that list. Also, catch me Thursdays at Red Dogs in Wrightsville Beach and some other places weekly that come and go.
Got in the game: Around 1998 after watching Roc Raidas part in Mixtape.
Why I do it: Prior to seeing Raida in Mixtape, I was super into scratching on albums. I was always deep into hip hop, skating, graffiti, etc. After that 90-second routine in Mixtape, I set out to buy tables and a mixer. It's not like today where you're a DJ just because you have an internet connection and "love music." I had to save up money, buy equipment, get records and actually learn a skill that took time. It was a process. I didn't DJ outside of my bedroom for well over a year. That was the norm. Now it's dumb. It's flooded with terrible DJs, but that's an old-man rant that everyone over the age of 25 has. I got into DJ-ing for turntablism and that led to being a well-rounded DJ in general.
Influences: Then: X-Men, rap music, my friends, not wanting to work a real job. Now: Money, hanging out in different cities, not working a real job, my friends and being extremely famous.
First pro gig: No idea. Depends on what constitutes professional. Maybe a house party.
Studio work: A bunch of mixtapes. My mixtapes are really the only mixtapes I listen to. I don't have patience for other people's mixtapes, but mine are like a collection of my favorite songs. They are on the internet. There's like 10 going back years. I have original songs as well, but I never like them so I don't flood them out there. Slowly I grow to like my stuff more and more so maybe in the next 10 years.
Favorite technique: I guess quick-trick mixing when appropriate. It's sad, but techniques almost don't even exist in DJ-ing now. It really is all automated for most kids. So I guess my favorite technique is all of them. All the techniques and skills I've learned that 90 percent of "DJs" don't even know exist.
Signature mix: The last mix is up at soundcloud.com/lordwalrus. I also go off on tangents though and play weird songs at the ends of them all. Also on the SoundCloud are two tracks by the new NC artist Princess.
Personal playlist: Hardcore, pop music, pop-country. IDM (lots of the japanese variety), Stranger Day.
Favorite albums: Hardest question ever.
Everything But The Girl — Amplified Heart. Reversal of Man — This Is Medicine (always) Crucial Unit — The 7ins. Tim McGraw — Greatest Hits. The latest Rist and Haruka Nakamura albums. New Minority Unit. Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood. New, not yet released Stranger Day album. Africa Heat freestyle sessions. My new Straight Edge rap group's album whenever that comes out, Jaheim.
My gear: Technic 1200s. Rane 56. Serato. Magic.
Website: www.lordwalrus.com, www.deepfriedfamily.com (permanent vacation website) I'd like to add: Clubs, you need to book your boy in Greensboro. They don't call me the World's Greatest DJ for nothing. I can play whatever format you need and crush it. Also, everyone come to my monthly party Dirty Mega!
If it's not in your city, let's make one happen there. Support Permanent Vacation. Add me on the Facebook so i can spam you with event invites: facebook.com/lordwalrus. Later.


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Community sports calendar
Benjamin Barnes YMCA: Dixie Youth League registration runs through March 31 for ages 4-12. Cost is $60 for Y members, $70 for nonmembers.
Cottondale Dixie Youth Baseball: Spring registration will take place every Saturday through March 2, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Cottondale ballpark. Players can also register online at www.eteamz.com/cottondalebaseballandsoftball. Cost for ages 3-4 tee-ball is $60 and $110 per initial player for the rest of the ages 5-14. Each additional child in the same family pays $95. Call 205-799-1829.
Men's Senior Baseball League: The 35-and-older Tuscaloosa team is seeking players. Games will be Wednesday nights and Sunday afternoons in Birmingham. Wood bats are league requirement. Call Michael Jacobson at 205-394-0451 or 205-553-7372.
PARA Youth Leagues: Tee-ball for ages 3-6 and baseball for ages 7-16. Cost is $15 per child (if team provides uniforms) or $30 per child (if PARA provides uniforms). Practices and games held at McDonald Hughes Community Center. Deadline is March 15. Register at any PARA office or online at www.tcpara.org. Contact Brandon McAway at 205-562-3215 or email@example.com.
Baseball Country: Baseball Country Summer Camp registration is under way for ages 7-12. Camps are held in June and July and cost $475 per session. Visit www.baseballcountry.com or call Kenny Burns at 205-454-3641 or 205-333-8393.
YMCA Adult Fellowship Program: The Benjamin Barnes YMCA holds an Adult Basketball Fellowship Program for ages 18 and older on Sundays at 4 p.m. and Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-8 p.m. Cost is $3 per person or $10 for a monthly membership and is free to YMCA members. Call 205-759-4284.
Woodland Forrest Country Club Spring Fling: The four-person scramble is March 2-3 with tee times at 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Registration ends at 5 p.m. March 1. Cost is $125 per player. Contact Debbie Price at 205-556-1232.
Alabama Adapted Golf Tournament: The fundraiser will be held at The Links at Tuscaloosa on April 12. Registration is $100 per person. Call Ford Burttram at 251-599-9986 or visit alabamaadapted.com.
Senior Open at TCC: The Country Club of Tuscaloosa holds a Senior Open tournament the first Thursday of every month. Cost is $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Call 205-759-5535.
Senior Open at WFCC: A Senior Open will be held at Woodland Forrest Country Club on the fourth Thursday of each month with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. Cost is $25 for WFCC members and $30 for nonmembers. Contact the Golf Shop at 205-556-1232.
The First Tee of Tuscaloosa: PARA and Ol' Colony Golf host this program for junior players ages 6-18. Applications and registration are available only at Ol' Colony Golf Club.
The Links at Tuscaloosa: Tournament benefitting University of Alabama adaptive golf program is April 12. Registration at noon, shotgun start at 1 p.m., $400 per team or $100 per person. Hole sponsorship $300. Call Ford Burttram at 251-599-9986. Make checks payable to University of Alabama Adaptive Athletics 1025 Moore Hall, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 35487.
WFCC Spring Fling: Four-person scramble March 2-3. Cost of $125 per person includes dinner and dance. Call Debbie Price at 205-556-1232.
Miracle League of Tuscaloosa: Miracle League of Tuscaloosa, which serves physically and mentally disabled children and young adults, will hold its spring season on Saturdays, April 6 through May 25. Registration will be March 2 from 10 a.m.-noon at the Fire and Logistics Building on McFarland Boulevard in front of Belle Foods (2015 McFarland Blvd.). Fee is $30. Registration is also online at www.miracleleagueoftuscaloosa.com. Call 205-523-8040.
Tuscaloosa Half-Marathon: Registration is through Feb. 28 for the Tuscaloosa Half Marathon, which will be held at 8 a.m. March 2 and will benefit Read Bama Read and the Kiwanis Club of Greater Tuscaloosa. Visit www.tuscaloosahalfmarathon.org. Cost is $75 for the half-marathon, $50 per person for the Two-Person Relay, and $25 for the One Mile Fun Run.
PARA SCOREKEEPER POSITIONS: PARA is taking applications for scorekeepers for its spring/summer athletic programs. Individuals are responsible for keeping current and accurate records of the event. Depending upon sport, events may be held indoor or outdoors. Individuals much be able to work nights and weekends. Call the PARA Human Resource Department at 205-562-3220, or, at that same number, Kameca Webb. Applications are also available online at tcpara.org.
South Tuscaloosa Soccer Club: Spring registration is under way for Developmental league (boys and girls, U5-U8) for $65, Recreational (boys and girls, U9-U12) for $115 and Division III (boys and girls, U10-U14) for $225. Division III travel registration closed Feb. 22. Deadline for other two groups is March 1. Call Bruce Smalley at 205-361-0181 for questions or visit www.southtuscaloosasoccerclub.org. Register online at www.al.affinity.soccer.com.
Cottondale Dixie Youth Softball: Spring registration will take place every Saturday in February from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Cottondale ballpark. Register online at www.eteamz.com/cottondalebaseballandsoftball. Cost is $60 for ages 3-4 tee-ball and $110 per initial player for ages 5-14. Each additional child in the same family pays $95. Call 205-799-1829.
PARA Adult Softball: Registration is under way at any PARA office or at tcpara.org. Games will be played at Bowers and Morrison softball complexes. Cost for Men's Church and Independent is $575 per team with postseason tournament or $505 without; Men's 50-over is $380 with tournament, $310 without; Coed Independent and Church or Ladies Church is $485 with postseason tournament and $415 without. Mandatory managers meeting for all men's leagues is March 11 at 6 p.m. at the Belk Activity Center. Mandatory managers meeting for ladies leagues and coed is April 2 at 6 p.m. at the Belk Activity Center. Contact PARA at 205-562-3200 or email Wendy Harris at email@example.com.
Aquatics for Adults: PARA offers aquatics for adults, including Arthritis AquaFlex Classes, water aerobics and personal hydrotherapy lessons. Cost is $70. Call Mark Harrison at 205-758-0419.
Ladies Tennis Day: Tuskaloosa Racquet Club, adjacent to Country Club of Tuscaloosa, holds round-robin play from 9 a.m.-noon every Wednesday for all levels of play. Nonmembers fee is $5, members play free. Call Jean Foster Herron at 205-759-4464.
Lessons at Bowers Park: PARA offers private and semiprivate tennis lessons at the Jack Evans Tennis Complex at Bowers Park on Saturdays from 8 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m., Sundays from 1-6 p.m., and weekday evenings from 6-8 p.m., weather permitting. Cost is $30 per session for private lessons or $40 per hour for semiprivate lessons. Call 205-562-3230.
PARA Therapeutic Recreation: PARA offers Therapeutic Recreation in bowling at AMF Bama Bowl on Wednesdays from 2:30-5 p.m. for $4 per person per game; swimming on Wednesdays from 4:30-6 p.m. at the Miller Center for $20 per person per month; water aerobics on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. for $30 per person per month, twice per week or $20 per person per month once a week. Call Keith Jenkins at 205-562-3200.
Water exercise classes: The Miller Center pool hosts several swimming classes for adults. Small group sessions are $60 a month. One-on-one swim lessons are $65 per person for four 30-minute sessions. Aqua Flex classes, designed for participants with arthritis, are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10-11 a.m. at the McAbee Center Dockery Pool. Cost is $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers per person per month. Aqua Flex Plus classes are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8-9 a.m. at the Dockery Pool. Cost is $30 for members or $35 for nonmembers per person per month. Aqua Power and Flex classes are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9-10 a.m. at the Dockery Pool. Cost is $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers per person per month. Call 205-562-3235.
Druid City Bicycle Club: The Druid City Bicycle Club offers a diversity of riding experiences, including road rides, hilly courses, long rides and mountain bike rides. Visit www.druidcity.org.
Tuscaloosa Rhinos: The Tuscaloosa Rhinos, affiliated with the Gridiron Developmental Football League, are looking for players (ages 19-35) and coaches. Cost to play is $150 and includes uniforms and insurance. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call team owner Catario Young at 205-246-3096.


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Extended partnership builds on success of soft ARM7 family processor for FPGAs
MOUTAIN VIEW, CA AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Oct. 4, 2006 – Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (NASDAQ: ARMHY)] today announced at the ARM Developers' Conference, Santa Clara, Calif., that Actel, a leader in single-chip field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), has licensed the ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor. The agreement further strengthens the partnership established in March 2005 between the companies, which resulted in Actel's CoreMP7, a soft ARM7™ family processor core optimized for implementation in Actel's FPGAs. The combination of ARM and Actel technologies brings the flexibility, fast time-to-market, and low implementation cost of FPGAs to ARM users and others who previously could not justify the expense of ASIC implementation for their application.
"Since its introduction last year, we have seen a great deal of interest in our CoreMP7 processor from companies across the globe, reflecting the desire for FPGA flexibility combined with an industry-standard processor architecture," said Dennis Kish, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Actel. "Moving forward, we are committed to exploring current and next-generation ARM technologies that will continue to benefit our customers, thereby increasing the choices available and enabling designers to reduce costs and improve performance."
The ARM Cortex-M3 processor is designed to provide a high-performance, low-cost solution that meets the needs of minimal memory implementation, reduced pin count and low-power consumption, while delivering outstanding computational performance and exceptional system response to interrupts.
"The ARM architecture, ARM quality and the ARM Connected Community has long been the choice of ASIC/ASSP designers. Through our partnership with Actel, we are successfully offering these advantages to FPGA designers, a previously unaddressed embedded community," said Graham Budd, EVP and general manager, Processor Division, ARM. "Our continuing partnership with Actel further solidifies ARM's commitment to building on its success in the FPGA market."
About Actel
Actel Corporation is the leader in single-chip FPGA solutions. The company is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655. For more information about Actel, visit http://www.actel.com.
About ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from mobile, home and enterprise solutions to embedded and emerging applications. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, 3D processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
About the ARM Connected Community
The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.arm.com/community.
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There is no "one size fits all" method for achieving effective breastfeeding with a high-risk baby Each baby and each situation is different. Give your high-risk baby extra time to learn to breastfeed, and let the baby set the pace for learning. Learning to breastfeed effectively is a process that may take days or weeks for premature and many other high-risk babies. However, you and your baby can become a breastfeeding team if you are patient, persistent, and maintain a healthy perspective.
Let the doctor and your baby's nurses know that you would like to breastfeed as soon as your baby is ready to begin feeding by mouth. In general, a baby must be able to suck-swallow-breathe in a coordinated way to take food by mouth. Some of the signs that a baby is getting ready to do this include the following:
Physical stability. A baby's condition should be stable so the baby can physically handle being held and fed.
Non-nutritive sucking. A baby first displays rhythmic sucking on a pacifier, feeding tube, etc., in brief bursts of more than one suck per second.
Gestational age. At about 32 weeks gestation, a baby will begin to display bursts of sucking, and around 34 weeks a rhythmic suck-swallow-breathe pattern develops.
Wakeful state. A baby must remain awake--from drowsy to quiet alert to active--for brief periods, to feed by mouth.
Oral reflexes. A baby must be able to tolerate touch to the mouth area and demonstrate the reflexes needed for oral feeding. This includes rooting, sucking, cough, and gag reflexes.
Breastfeeding is usually less stressful for a high-risk infant, because the baby sets the pace. A baby's heart and respiratory rates, oxygen saturation level, and body temperature tend to remain more stable, and often improve, during breastfeeding. This stability of physical systems means breastfeeding takes less energy and it is less "work" for the high-risk baby. Of course, a baby must actually latch-on and actively suck to get milk during breastfeeding. This may take time for a baby to learn. When bottle-feeding, milk drips in the baby's mouth and a baby must swallow it, ready or not.
The stages listed below describe a baby's progression to direct breastfeeding. They are meant only as a guideline. Progress varies among high-risk babies. A baby might move quickly from one stage to another, or skip a stage altogether. On the other hand, a baby may sometimes seem to get "stuck" at one stage for a few days or weeks.
Practice feedings. During the early stages of learning to breastfeed, your high-risk baby may not take much milk during breastfeeding. The baby is only practicing the motions. Neither you nor your baby should ever feel any pressure to perform.
Skin-to-skin contact (Kangaroo Care). A baby is likely to begin rooting or nuzzling at the breast, and may latch-on, when held skin-to-skin.
"Empty breast" feeding. A mother may want to pump before skin-to-skin holding sessions once rooting and nuzzling are noted. Then, the baby can latch-on and practice without being overwhelmed by the let-down of lots of milk at once. Being overwhelmed can affect a baby's physical state, and your mental state.
Progressive non-nutritive sucking sessions. A baby will advance at the breast from latching-on, to sucking in bursts, to occasionally coordinating suck-swallow-breathe. As your baby shows more ability, you will want to see what he or she can do with more milk in the breast. Pump until the let-down flow slows and then offer the breast. This prevents large amounts of milk that often come with let-down from overwhelming the baby, yet leaves plenty of milk in the breast for a feeding.
Expressing some milk onto your nipple or the baby's mouth may encourage licking, latch-on, and sucking.
The "football" hold (clutch hold) is often the easiest to use when breastfeeding a premature baby.
If your baby latches on but keeps letting go, or if the baby's suck is weak, you may find the "dancer's hand" hold to be helpful. A nurse or a lactation consultant can show you how to support the baby's chin under the breast in one hand.
If your baby is gavage-fed (tube-fed), it may be possible to practice breastfeeding as the baby receives food through the tube.
You may find certain breastfeeding devices help your baby make progress at the breast. Since most devices also have disadvantages, they should be used with guidance from a certified lactation consultant or your feeding team. Devices that may be helpful include:
A thin silicone or latex nipple shield. This is centered over the nipple and areola and helps baby latch on. It encourages a more effective sucking pattern and better milk intake during breastfeeding.
A feeding-tube system may be taped to the breast in such a way that a baby receives additional milk through the tube when the baby sucks. You or a helper can gently press the plunger to deliver a few drops of milk in the baby's mouth even if the baby "forgets" to suck. Commercial feeding-tube systems are also available.
Your baby probably will do better for some feedings. Do not be discouraged if he or she seems to "forget" how to suck from feeding to feeding, or if he or she is too sleepy for more.
Some feedings will last longer than others. Your baby may need time to "get going" at the breast for some feeds.
Try to be available to breastfeed for as many feedings as possible, especially when feedings must be kept brief to prevent your baby from overtiring. Frequent, brief feedings can be very helpful.
Continue to pump your breasts regularly during the baby's learning process. Milk removal is not the purpose of these "practice feedings," and milk production will fall if you are not removing milk in some manner.
Ask the NICU staff if there are other mothers who are expressing milk and learning to breastfeed their high-risk babies on the unit. It can help to talk to other mothers who understand your experiences.
Nutritive feeding means your baby is able to effectively remove milk from the breast and swallow enough for continued growth and development. This requires nutritive sucking. During nutritive sucking, a baby consistently coordinates suck-swallow-breathe. If you watch, you should notice your baby is sucking at a rate of one suck per second, with a pause for a breath after every few sucks. To take in enough milk, the baby must be able to continue with this pattern for at least 10 to 15 minutes. Quite likely, you will hear your baby swallowing milk, which sounds like a "k" sound in the back of his or her throat, for at least part of the feeding.
In addition to nutritive sucking, a breastfeeding baby must wake and cue to feed eight to 12 times in 24 hours. This ensures that your baby will take in enough calories to grow. Usually, there is a progression of feeding cues and the baby becomes hungrier. Some feeding cues include the following:
Early feeding cues:
Making sucking motions
Bringing the arms and hands to face or mouth
Later feeding cues:
More intense crying
Your high-risk baby may need extra time to learn cueing when ready to feed. Many mothers find their high-risk babies are too sleepy and sometimes do not seem to know that they need to eat frequently.
Usually a baby is doing more nutritive sucking for hospital discharge to be considered. When your baby is getting close to discharge, you may want to breastfeed for several feedings in a row. (Many mothers "room in" for 24 hours the day before discharge.) After observing several breastfeedings, the NICU staff should have a better sense of the baby's ability to cue for feedings and sustain nutritive sucking, and his or her response to milk "let-down." They can chart the effect that breastfeeding has on the baby's diaper wet and dirty diaper count. You may be asked questions about signs of milk "let-down" during feedings and whether your breasts feel any softer after feedings. They might also suggest using the opportunity weigh your baby before and after a feeding session. This will let the staff know how much milk is being swallowed by your baby.
Test weighing allows the NICU staff to monitor the amount of milk your baby takes during a breastfeeding. The baby is weighed immediately before and after the feeding using an electronic scale that can measure very small amounts (one to five grams) of weight. Your baby will be weighed fully clothed, and no clothing is changed until after the baby is weighed after the feeding, as any change could affect the result. Babies do not take the same amount of milk in at every breastfeeding, and test weighing gives the staff a good idea of how much milk the baby takes in over a period of time.
Your baby still may not be able to consistently demonstrate feeding cues or breastfeed effectively at discharge, but after observing feedings for eight to 24 hours, the NICU staff will be able to work with you to develop a better discharge breastfeeding plan. Since you and your baby are unique, your discharge plan should be designed with your situation in mind, but it may include all, or some, of the following:
Waking the baby to breastfeed every few hours if he or she has not yet mastered feeding cues
Monitoring latch-on, nutritive versus non-nutritive sucking pattern before, during, and after milk let-down, and the length of feedings
Charting the number, amount, and color of urine and stools for wet and dirty diapers on a daily record
Test-weighing before and after one or more daily feedings
Using breastfeeding devices to encourage nutritive sucking or to provide your baby with additional nutrition during the learning to breastfeed process
Offering additional expressed breast milk or a prescribed infant formula, which should be based on baby's progress at breast and changed as sucking ability improves
Introducing alternative feeding methods that ensure your baby gets enough food, yet are least likely to interfere with long-term breastfeeding. These may include the following:
A feeding tube system taped to a breast or a finger (finger feeding)
Cup feeding
Syringe feeding
Bottle-feeding with slower flow bottle nipples
Bottle-feeding with faster flow nipples
Continuing pumping for milk removal until you and the baby's doctor are satisfied that your baby no longer needs additional expressed breast milk or formula via an alternative feeding method. The number of pumping sessions may vary as your baby's ability to breastfeed improves
Follow-up care by the baby's doctor, nurse, or a certified lactation consultant to help you monitor breastfeeding progress and revise the plan as needed
Skin-to-skin contact is not just something you do with your baby in the NICU. It continues to be beneficial once you are home. Many mothers report that it seems to help babies get to the breast more effectively, and that it helps them maintain milk production. Plus, it just feels good to cuddle this way.
If your baby sometimes chokes during breastfeeding, he or she may be having difficulty controlling the milk flow during let-down. Most babies do learn to handle let-down as they mature. Until then, you might try pumping until your milk lets-down, then having your baby latch and nurse. Another option is to take the baby off the breast until the milk flow slows. Some mothers find it helps to position the baby so that the back of his or her throat is higher than the nipple. The milk then travels "uphill" during a let-down, which slows the flow of milk into his or her throat.
When your baby has the basic idea of nutritive sucking but cannot seem to do it consistently, try pumping one breast while nursing your baby on the other.
You may want to halt a breastfeeding if you or your baby gets too frustrated or when feedings are taking more than 40 to 45 minutes. It is not uncommon for the high-risk baby to latch-on and then let go of the breast repeatedly, or for a mother to have to keep waking a baby who quickly falls asleep after sucking for two or three minutes. By stopping when frustrated, or limiting the time of feedings, you will have more time to pump and remove milk effectively, and you may find it is easier to remain patient through the learning process.
You may want to let your baby's father or other family members and friends handle alternative feedings, so you do not become overwhelmed. This frees you to concentrate on the breastfeedings, maintain pumping sessions, and enjoy periods of cuddling skin-to-skin with your baby.
Plan to continue to pump your milk for several weeks. How often or how long you will need to pump varies; it depends on how quickly your baby learns to breastfeed effectively.
Do not throw away any breastfeeding device or an alternative feeding method because you did not like it or it did not work when first suggested. The device or method that did not help one week may work great next week, and vice versa.
Stay in touch with a certified lactation consultant who can describe and demonstrate alternative feeding methods, and help you figure out which one to try. He or she can also help you revise your breastfeeding plan as often as needed as your baby's nutritive sucking continues to improve.
If your baby is growing and developing properly, and the nutritive sucking ability is improving, ask your baby's doctor when you might eliminate test weighing. Ask when you can stop waking your baby for feedings and begin to wait to see if there are feeding cues. You will also want to know when it is safe to start decreasing supplementary breast milk or formula.
Keep thinking positive. It is normal to get frustrated and think your high-risk baby will never learn to breastfeed effectively. It is normal if some days seem an eternity of breastfeeding practice, alternative feedings, and breast pumping sessions. It is normal for your confidence to rise and fall.
Try to maintain perspective by having a sense of humor. You will have lots of good stories to share about your experience. Think about how far your baby and you have come since his or her birth rather than how far you still may have to go.
Get support. In addition to staying in touch with a certified lactation consultant contact a representative of a breastfeeding support organization. Many communities have groups of mothers that gather, practice nursing, share stories, give advice, and provide emotional support.
You can relax and breastfeed without pumps, devices, or alternative feeding methods when your baby consistently demonstrates the nutritive sucking associated with effective breastfeeding. Your baby should be doing well and getting enough from only breastfeeding when your baby:
Wakes and cues to breastfeed at least eight, and up to 12, times in 24 hours.
Produces six or more soaking wet diapers in 24 hours.
Passes at least two or three stools a day.
Gains weight consistently. Your baby's doctor will follow your baby's weight and let you know that the growth is appropriate.


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Getting Started
UNC offers hundreds of different programs in over 60 countries, which can make the process a bit overwhelming at first. Individual interests and academic needs mean the right choice of a study abroad program will be different for each student. If you're considering an international experience, follow these eight steps to get started in the process.
- 1. Learn about Study Abroad at UNC
Even if you are only considering studying abroad, you should come in and speak with Peer Advisors to help you understand the process at UNC. Peer Advisors are students like you who have already completed a study abroad program. Learn how to navigate and understand the website. Email, call or stop by CIE.
- 2. Determine your Timeline to Study Abroad
Download the Study Abroad Process Checklist & Timeline for a general time frame of where you should be, and when, in the process of preparing to go abroad. Of course, this is just a guideline.
- 3. Define your Goals
Use the five factors below to help focus your goals for your study abroad program experience. What do you want to achieve while abroad?
- Academics: It is important to consider how study abroad will meet requirements of each major and minor. You will meet with your Academic Advisor at several points in the study abroad process. Even if you are only considering studying abroad at this point, you should meet with your advisor to discuss what courses you should or must take while abroad and how your study abroad coursework will fit into your overall academic program at UNC.
- Cost: Before you begin the application process, you must consider how you will pay for your education at UNC and what additional expenses may or may not be incurred as a result of studying abroad. Meeting with a study abroad advisor and visiting our website will answer many financial questions. It is also important to discuss your finances with your parents and/or those who finance your education.
- Language: It is important to consider whether you wish to study language, and/or study in a foreign language while abroad. Some programs will be taught in the host country language only. Others will offer classes instructed in English for visiting students, while others will offer courses instructed in English for all students. Language requirements will be posted on according websites for each program.
- Individual Considerations: Many students have personal considerations when selecting a study abroad site. For instance, if you take medication or have specific medical or mental health needs, you may want to meet with your doctor or therapist to discuss your choices. If you are a student with a documented disability at UNC, meeting with Disability Support Services may be a good place to start. Please be aware that UNC cannot guarantee that facilities, technology, or support services will be available at each location abroad in the same range and quality as on the UNC campus. Other countries laws and procedures may be different from what you are accustomed to at UNC and in the US.
- Risk:This is the hardest factor to define. In the context of study abroad, risk is your willingness to cope with ambiguity in the study abroad experience. Some programs offer you the opportunity to take a set schedule of classes that are designed for the students that sign up for the program. Room and board are frequently arranged in advance, and sometimes organized excursions and activities are included. On other programs, you will travel as an individual student directly enrolling in a foreign university. In these programs, you are largely responsible to manage your experience and sort out your arrangements on your own. In thinking about differences in risk, consider what you find exciting and what you find frightening, and take this into consideration when making your program choice.
- 4. Research Program Options
Once you define your goals and priorities for your education abroad, identify appropriate programs. Talk with alumni, international students, and peer advisors to learn more. Search recommended programs by major.
- 5. Meet with your Academic Advisor
Discuss and determine how your proposed study abroad coursework will fit in with your UNC degree requirements. Make a plan for graduation that includes study abroad. When would be a good semester to study abroad? What courses you should or must take while abroad? Use theStudy Abroad Course Planning Worksheet to help you determine which program will be the best in meeting your academic needs.
- 6. Meet with your Study Abroad Advisor
Once you've narrowed down your program options, meet with the appropriate advisor in the Study Abroad Office to discuss your plans, get more specific details about the programs you are considering, and discuss next steps.
- 7. Build your budget, determine finacial aid eligibility, and apply for scholarships.
Work with your Study Abroad Advisor and the Office of Financial Aid to determine your preliminary budget for your study abroad program before deciding on a program. Use the Study Abroad Budget Planning Worksheet to help compare various programs. For more information, visit the Financing Study Abroad page.
- 8. Apply
Submit your application and supporting documents by the deadlines. Those students applying to an Affiliated Program or ISEP program, must complete the UNC application and an admission application directly with the program provider or ISEP.


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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has a reputation as a good listener, and he had plenty to decipher recently when he hosted his first California farm bill forum in the agricultural heart of the Golden State agriculture, Fresno County, the No. 1 agricultural state in the nation with more than $4 billion in annual agricultural income.
A parade of people representing everything from firefighters to rice growers to FFA and 4-H members sweltered in an unairconditioned exhibit building at the fairgrounds in Fresno, Calif. on the 21st day of a record San Joaquin Valley heat wave to offer two minutes apiece of what they want to see in the 2007 Farm Bill.
The most persistent message Johanns heard was that specialty crop growers want a piece of the federal farm bill pie when the new 2007 Farm Bill is written, not in the form of direct subsidy payments but in the form of help in overcoming trade barriers, in export market promotion, specialty crop research and development and phytosanitary issues.
Only about 10 percent of California's $30 billion per year agriculture industry economic juggernaut comes from federal program crop support payments, primarily in rice and cotton production. That did not surprise Johanns who was well indoctrinated on non-programmed specialty crops among the 350 commercial crops grown in California on his one-day farm visit to the state hosted by A.G. Kawamura secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Mike Chrisman, California's Secretary for Resources; three congressmen from heavily agricultural districts and a host of others representing tree and vine and vegetable crops. Kawamura and Chrisman both farm specialty crops in Southern California and in Tulare County, Calif. Two of the three congressmen, Jim Costa of Fresno and George P. Radanovich of Mariposa farm wine grapes and almonds. Tulare County, Calif., Congressman Devin Nunes represents not only the No. 2 agricultural county in the nation, but also the largest dairy county in the nation. His county also includes a majority of those 350 specialty crops.
'Cannot be ignored'
ignored," said Barry Bedwell, president of the Fresno-based California Grape and Tree Fruit league.
In California, specialty crops represent an estimated 92 percent of the state's agricultural crop production value and about the same percentage of the agricultural workforce, according to Bedwell.
Nationally, specialty crops represent about 50 percent of the nation's farm income, according to Tom Nasiff, president of Western Growers. The Irvine, Calif.-based trade group has been the driving forces behind getting more federal funds for tree, vine and vegetable growers.
Western Growers led the effort to win passage last year of the Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act, which provides federal funds to help market specialty crops nationwide and internationally. Western Growers organized specialty crop producers nationwide to successfully lobby passage of the bill.
Johanns acknowledged that the last farm bill offered some help for specialty crop producers, but he indicated specialty crop producers will have more impact this time around. He expects a specialty crop coalition to be at the table for the '07 Farm Bill final debate.
Bedwell encouraged funding within the new farm bill to increasing awareness of the benefits of consuming fruits and vegetables and fighting obesity.
"We also need to recognize the importance, from many viewpoints, but particularly that of national security, of the production of a domestic food supply," added Bedwell.
"We will require a farm bill that will help our competitiveness, strengthen our research efforts, enhance our conservation program and encourage investment and efficiency in all agricultural production sectors," he concluded.
Although the increasing economic importance of specialty crops has tree, vine and vegetable producers demanding a more prominent place at the federal farm policymaking table, it took on even greater importance when the WTO ruled earlier this year in favor of Brazil's complaint against the U.S. cotton program giving the U.S. an unfair advantage to the detriment of Brazil's cotton exports.
Brazil complained that current U.S. farm policy precluding fruits and vegetable from being planted on commodity crop program ground created an unfair advantage for U.S. cotton in international trade.
If that is removed from U.S. farm policy, special crop producers fear it could have a huge impact on the supply side of their markets. It does not take much more production of crops like lettuce or strawberries to destroy a market.
Artificial barriers
Joel Nelsen, president of California Citrus Mutual, echoed other specialty crop representatives and growers when he asked for USDA help in breaking down artificial trade barriers created over perceived pest problems.
Johanns also heard about labor, air quality and water issues impacting California agriculture.
Ivanhoe, Calif., citrus producer Richard Moss said producers "need help in meeting air quality mandates," and asked the former Nebraska governor who grew up on an Iowa farm that USDA provides research funds to address air quality issues.
Several producers asked for additional Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funds through the Natural Resources Conservation Service. This is a voluntary conservation program for farmers and ranchers that promotes agricultural production and environmental quality as compatible national goals. EQIP offers financial and technical help to assist eligible participants install or implement structural and management practices on eligible agricultural land.
Others utilizing the EQIP programmed asked that the application and approval process be streamlined.
Moss also recommended the secretary look into an EQIP program to address air quality improvement like EQIP now does for water and soil conservation.
Immigration reform
Manuel Cunha, president Nisei Farmers League, Fresno expressed frustration at the lack of federal immigration reform, despite the fact that farmers and the United Farmworkers have agreed on reform legislation, but it has not passed into law by Congress.
"If you have no labor, you have no farm bill," sad Cunha. He said Sam Joaquin Valley agriculture is facing a labor crisis. He said it takes 236,000 seasonal workers to harvest crops in the valley each year and 560,000 in all of California. This is a significant part of the U.S. agriculture labor work force estimated at about 1.6 million.
"Seventy percent of the labor force in the valley is undocumented," said Cunha.
Commodity crops may have been outnumbered, but leaders in the rice and cotton industries were not timid about telling the secretary that they believe the current farm program is providing a needed safety net for American cotton and rice production.
Fresno County, Calif., cotton producer Don Cameron, who grows a wide array of crops besides cotton, also chastised the secretary for efforts by the Bush administration to change the current farm bill to reduce federal spending.
Do not use budget cuts to rewrite farm policy in the middle of a farm bill term, he suggested.
The current farm program has served commodity crop producers well by allowing a planting flexibility safety net, he said.
California Cotton Growers Association chairman Tom Teixeira of Dos Palos, Calif., said any attempt to lower payment limits would "discriminate" against California where costs are higher and farm sizes larger. He called the current farm bill "workable."
California Rice Commission chairman Frank Rehermann of Live Oak, Calif., said the next farm bill must have a strong market orientation with farm policy and trade policy tied together.
California rice growers, like most all California commodities, are highly dependent on export markets. Fair trade policies are essential to continued California rice production.
There are no barriers to rice imports into the U.S., but California rice producers constantly struggle with trade barriers to export 40 percent of their crop each season, said Rehermann.
Johanns called the California farm bill forum "excellent--0ne of the best so far." It was the sixth forum Johanns has hosted. Kawamura expects him back for a second Farm Bill listening session.
Johanns hopes to have a new farm bill in place in early 2007.


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Enrollment in NEXUS shows big increase
The number of motorists in Western New York and Southern Ontario enrolled in NEXUS, a program that allows speedy transit across the international highway crossings between Canada and the Niagara Frontier in the United States, has increased by nearly a quarter in the last year.
NEXUS Niagara is a public awareness effort by the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, and customs and border agencies in the United States and Canada to encourage travelers to enroll in NEXUS.
The group announced that NEXUS enrollments increased by 23 percent in the last year and that motorists used designated NEXUS lanes on local bridges on 200,000 more trips in the last year than in previous years.
For further information about the program, visit www.nexusniagara.com.


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In August, Gov. Rick Scott received a standing ovation from a crowd of tea party activists gathered at a three-day conference in Jacksonville.
In August, Gov. Rick Scott received a standing ovation from a crowd of tea party activists gathered at a three-day conference in Jacksonville.
After Scott's reversal last week on the expansion of Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act — known as Obamacare to the tea party crowd — you would have to wonder if he would need additional security to attend a similar gathering.
Eric Erickson, the Macon, Ga., lawyer who founded www.redstate.com, the popular website for conservative opinion-makers that sponsored the Jacksonville conference, left no doubt in his reaction this week to Scott's policy shift.
He called it "a sad day for conservatives."
"I was one of the few national conservatives to support Gov. Scott in 2010 during his primary," Erickson wrote on his blog this week. "He is a fundamentally great person. I really like him. He has been a friend to this site.
"But I am terribly disappointed in his decision to expand Medicaid in Florida."
Erickson noted Scott, a former hospital-company executive, was one of chief critics of Obamacare and even before it "Hillarycare" — referring to the unsuccessful efforts by the Clinton administration to pass health care reforms.
Erickson attributed Scott's change of heart to his re-election bid and his effort to turn around dismal popularity numbers with voters.
"When politicians do what they feel they must to get re-elected instead of doing what they know is right, they often lose re-election and, even when they do not, lose their way," Erickson said.
Erickson did concede Scott a few points, including winning approval from the federal government to move most Medicaid recipients into a private managed-care system — which Erickson said "is actually a huge deal." He also gave Scott credit for limiting the expansion to three years.
But he also contrasted Scott with three governors who remain tea party favorites and who have thus far opposed Medicaid expansion in their states — Rick Perry of Texas, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina.
In fact, Erickson lifted a quote out of Haley's recent State of the State address to her Legislature:
"As long as I am governor, South Carolina will not implement the public-policy disaster that is Obamacare's Medicaid expansion," Haley said.
It's not a line you will find in Scott's upcoming State of the State address to the Florida Legislature on March 5.
Although Gov. Scott has said yes to Medicaid expansion in Florida, the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate will make the ultimate decision on the issue.
Both chambers have special committees looking at the impact of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Senate panel has already reached a consensus on deciding against creating a state insurance exchange.
And both panels are expected to have a decision on Medicaid expansion early in the annual session that begins next month.
In an interview last week, Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, summed up the situation involving the governor, Senate and House succinctly.
"To get to yes there has to be three yeses," Gaetz said. "To get to no, you only need one no."
Scott has given his yes. Gaetz said the Senate is waiting for the PPACA panel's recommendation before reaching a consensus, although the option seems to be open.
The House is also waiting for its committee's recommendation, although its leaders, including House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, have been much more skeptical in their public statements.
"If the House says no, it's over," Gaetz said.
Medicaid. Recipients and providers of the federal-state health care program for poor and disabled people could see a significant boost in coverage and funding if the Legislature backs Gov. Rick Scott's call for expanding Medicaid to cover nearly an additional 1 million Floridians under the federal health care law.
Tea party. The limited-government political movement received another blow as one of their former champions — Rick Scott — reversed his position on Obamacare, embracing the law's provision that would allow the state to substantially expand its Medicaid program.
"I cannot, in good conscience, deny Floridians access to health care," Gov. Rick Scott said in announcing his support for the expansion of Medicaid in Florida under the federal Affordable Care Act.


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STONEVILLE, Miss. – They may not be drawing the media chatter other issues have been commanding, but legal challenges to the Cotton Research and Promotion Act have grabbed the full attention of National Cotton Council leaders.
The challenges are being mounted by textile importers, unhappy that they have to contribute to the cotton research and promotion program even though checkoff dollars help fuel the demand for the rising tide of cotton textile and apparel imports they're bringing into the country.
"A number of importers have filed a lawsuit against the Cotton Research and Promotion Act, claiming that it is unconstitutional as to assessing imports," said Craig Brown, vice president for producer affairs at the NCC.
"I think we're up to around 100 separate lawsuits, which is the result of some good lawyers making sure they get enough firms involved to try to make it a class action case."
Brown said the cases have been filed with the Court of International Trade, a federal court in Washington that deals with trade disputes. Because importers brought the lawsuits, the Court of International Trade has jurisdiction.
The first case was filed by Cricket Hosiery, which sued the federal government, claiming it was violating the company's First Amendment rights by enforcing the collection of checkoff dollars under the Cotton Research and Promotion Act.
"There has been little action on the cases," said Brown, who spoke at a meeting of the Delta Council's Farm Policy Committee in Stoneville, Miss. "It took four or five months for the judge to rule on the first motion from the Department of Justice to dismiss the case.
"The Cotton Research and Promotion Act provides for an administrative hearing if someone has a grievance with the Act. The Department of Justice sought to have the case dismissed because they didn't follow the administrative route first. The judge denied the motion, as was expected."
Not leaving any bases uncovered, another importer has filed an administrative complaint against the program with USDA. The Agriculture Department has scheduled a hearing on that complaint in October.
Importers were expected to seek class action status as the next step in the Court of International Trade proceedings, but the lawsuits have been put on hold until the Supreme Court hears arguments on a challenge to the beef checkoff program this fall.
"The beef case has a lot of the same arguments about freedom of speech and first amendment issues that affect the cotton case, but it is not exactly the same," said Brown. "On the other hand, there are enough similarities that we are very interested in the Supreme Court decision on the beef case."
In the latter, a group of North Dakota livestock producers claims the mandatory beef checkoff program forces them to pay for advertising they disagree with, thus violating their rights of free speech.
Textile and apparel imports currently account for one-third and domestic production two-thirds of the $66 million in cotton checkoff funds collected annually, but that ratio is changing, according to Brown. "The assessment is made on the cotton equivalent of U.S. textile imports, and the import side of the equation is growing."
Brown said the cotton industry "is very involved" in defending the cotton checkoff program because of the increasing role it plays in helping producers operate more efficiently and promotion of cotton exports.
"The industry has asked and been granted permission to intervene in the defense of the case with the Department of Justice and USDA," he said. "You've heard of an Amicus brief or friend of the court filing – this is the next step in that we will actually have a formal part in the case."
Delta Council and some individual growers are also intervenors, working through an industry steering committee called the Cotton Research and Promotion Defense Council that was created by the NCC.
"One thing we're trying to do is to get better information on the economic impact of this program, and there's some work being done on that now," said Brown.
The Cotton Research and Promotion Defense Council has also decided to file a separate Amicus brief on behalf of the cotton industry when the beef checkoff case goes before the Supreme Court in October.
"Á number of these Amicus briefs are being filed," said Brown. "The American Farm Bureau is coordinating this effort and will file an Amicus brief on behalf of all the farm groups. But the cotton industry will file a separate brief, as well, because our attorneys believe specific points need to be made that might not be covered by other filings."
Brown said the National Cotton Council, Delta Council and other farm organizations believe defending the checkoff programs is important to U.S. farmers.
"It may become more critical than ever because of our dependence on the export market," said Brown, "And we are quite hopeful that we can join the Department of Justice and USDA in defending this program."
He told Farm Policy Committee members not to expect immediate results. "It's likely to be a long, drawn-out process. The Supreme Court will not hear the case until this fall so there will be a lot of hurry up and wait."