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Report, map and results Belgian relay champs 2011
Also about the forking i heard some little critics. The forking was very different sometimes (controls which were located far away from each other) which didn't create much contact between the runners. But mainly all participants were very positive about this relay champs.
Favourit KOL won in men elite class:
Thibaut Derenne was dominating the mass start and went into the forest as leader (it was the first and last thing we heard from him and his team). Ken Peeters (Trol1) was the next leader and showed up as first at the spectatorscontrol, closely followed by all the favourits. At the first change over we had Kol1 with WOC runner Tomas Hendrickx already more than 1 minute ahead of Trol1 with Ken Peeters and Gert Claes (Kol2) in 3rd position, another surprise was Hamok2 (Benjamin Anciaux) as 4th in front of Hamok1 (Dries van der Kleij as 6th). Outsiders Omega (Joost Talloen 7th), Asub (JF Krier 5th) and HOC (Joel Drygalski 12th) had to try to catch up some teams.
The gaps between the runners were still very small. For sure when Pieter Hendrickx (Kol1) made a small mistake at the 3rd control and Trol1 (Desmond Franssen) saw him running in front of him on the path towards control 4. But Hendrickx ran without mistakes and really fast during the rest of the race and succeeded to run the 2nd besttime of everybody. He ran away 2 more minutes from Franssen and the others. In the background Hamok2 (Thomas van der Kleij) overtook some teams and came in as 3rd (but couldn't get any closer to Kol and Trol). The next teams at the changeover were Omega (Wouter Leeuws), Hamok2 (Jeroen van der Kleij) and Asub (Christophe Bernard). Also Hoc (Johan Tinchant) gained some places and came in as 7th.
Yannick Michiels (Kol1) could enter the forest as anchor legrunner with 3min ahead of Sergey Fedatsenka (Trol1). Michiels made some small mistakes in the beginning of the race to make it even more tight. But in the end he was still 1min ahead and won his first Belgian title in elite class together with the Hendrickx-brothers. Trol succeeded to win the silver medal. Jeroen Hoekx (Hamok1) came into the finish as number 3 far ahead of Omega (Bart Delobel) and Hamok2 (Tom Herremans). Fabien Pasquasy (Hoc) ran the best time of everyone today and made the top6 complete.
CO Liege dominates the womens race:
In womens class the race immediately started with a big suprise. Almost all 1st leg runners made several mistakes, but specially big favourit Omega ruined their race here. Veerle Tulleneers came into the finishline as 2nd, but she didn't punch the last control. The other Omega runners (Kim Geypen and Miek Fabre) succeeded to finish as 1st, but the team was disqualified. So it was Co Liege with Muriel Vandermeulen who came into the finish as 1st after 1 leg. She was 5 minutes ahead of Vinciane Mulpas (Asub) and Karoline Andersen (Trol).
During the 2nd leg Asub succeeded to make the race exciting again. Annamarie Viriekko (Asub) ran 3 minutes faster than Fanny Tilkin (Co Liege1), who was still leading. Hamok with Greet Oeyen arrived at the changeover in 3rd position.
During the last leg we could expect a fight between Aline Hermans (Co Liege) and Catherine Hoofd (Asub). Both ran a good race, so Hermans succeeded to stay in front and took the Belgian title with Co Liege. Catherine Hoofd (Asub) finished as 2nd, 2 minutes behind Co Liege1 and 29 minutes before Co Liege2 (with Caroline Blockx).
Maps men elite: part1 and part2 (routechoices Michel Bastin)
The next important clash will be the Belgian long champs at Gruitroderbos. The participantslist is ready with 30 runners in H21E and 12 runners in D21E.


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Published: 25th October 2012
Number Of Pages: 192
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In recent years beekeepers have had to face tremendous challenges, from pests such as varroa and tracheal mites and from the mysterious but even more devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world, bees are being raised successfully, even without antibiotics, miticides, or other chemical inputs.More and more organically minded beekeepers are now using top-bar hives, in which the shape of the interior resembles a hollow log. Long lasting and completely biodegradable, a topbar hive made of untreated wood allows bees to build comb naturally rather than simply filling prefabricated foundation frames in a typical box hive with added supers.
Top-bar hives yield slightly less honey but produce more beeswax than a typical Langstroth box hive. Regular hive inspection and the removal of old combs helps to keep bees healthier and naturally disease-free.
Top-Bar Beekeeping provides complete information on hive management and other aspects of using these innovative hives. All home and hobbyist beekeepers who have the time and interest in keeping bees intensively should consider the natural, low-stress methods outlined in this book. It will also appeal to home orchardists, gardeners, and permaculture practitioners who look to bees for pollination as well as honey or beeswax.
"Reading Top-Bar Beekeeping reminds me of the classes I took with Les Crowder several years ago. He's a man who truly knows whereof he speaks, who has the gift of communicating with his small friends, the bees, and sharing his understanding with us. . . . This is the one book on beekeeping that I will recommend to my permaculture students."--Scott Pittman, Director, Permaculture Institute USA
"This is an excellent guide for hobby beekeepers who wish to keep bees using top-bar hives. Drawing on his more than 30 years of beekeeping experience in New Mexico, author Les Crowder describes in detail the special comb management techniques that this low-cost, but relatively intensive, form of beekeeping requires. Top-Bar Beekeeping also provides an eloquent appeal for beekeepers to make care, respect, and reverence the foundation of their relationships with the bees."--Thomas D. Seeley, Cornell University; author of Honeybee Democracy and The Wisdom of the Hive
"This book presents practical advice, gained from first-hand experience, on the organic management of top bar hives. This book will serve as an excellent guide to the ever-growing number of beekeepers that utilizes less intrusive management schemes such as top bar hives. Thanks to Les and Heather for their efforts to provide sound advice on natural ways to keep bees."--Dr. Jeff Pettis, USDA-ARS
ForeWord Reviews-
"Farmers who seek a guide to hive maintenance told through a thoughtful personal narrative will benefit from the discussion of this topbar style of beekeeping. The first-person style of the book allows a window into the practices of the topbar beekeeper while conveying a wealth of knowledge and a well-researched comparison of hive practices. The book is appropriate for beginning beekeepers as well as those experienced but looking for information on natural and organic beekeeping practices. The book's ten sections discuss optimal practices of an organic beekeeper juxtaposed with discussion of industry standard practices and their drawbacks. Each section contains stories of the authors' successes and failures as well as diagrams and pictures to explain everything from hive design to plant species for optimal pollination. Whether the reader is looking to start their own hive or simply increase their knowledge of honeybees, the book provides interesting and detailed discussions of all aspects of raising them. Crowder and Harrell offer not only advice on how to get started, but an in-depth discussion of all aspects of keeping a hive, from bee capture, breeding, and selection to honey processing. They have crafted a book that is both informative and engaging, filled with introspective advice and practical knowledge."
Publisher's Weekly-
"Cave drawings show beekeepers "smoking" their hives, preparing for insect interaction. Today's mass-produced honey relies mostly on the venerable Langstroth method of beekeeping, which has produced plenty of honey--but also has introduced plenty of chemicals into the process--through the years. Top-bar hives, named for the bars that run across their tops, are popular with bee beginners even though they produce less honey than Langstroth hives. But this account, the culmination of Crowder and Harrell's 40 years of top-bar beekeeping adventures, shows the reader their method's advantages: it avoids antibiotics, miticides, and other chemicals inherent to the conventional process. Crowder and his wife, Harrell, leave no comb unharvested as they take the top-bar aspirant from bee basics (stings, smoke, and hive transfers) through hive management (comb removal and feeding) to beneficial, and profitable, byproducts like beeswax. For those a bit lukewarm to the swarm, the book gives a fascinating insight into bees' elaborate organizational and geometry skills, and it may even make one reconsider buying mass-marketed, chemical-laced honey."
|Notes from Les Crowder
|p. vii
|p. viii
|To Them Both
|p. ix
|p. xi
|Top-Bar Hives
|p. 1
|Pros and Cons
|p. 3
|Top-Bar Hive Design
|p. 8
|The Supercreature
|p. 14
|Worker Bees
|p. 15
|The Queen Bee
|p. 16
|p. 18
|Beekeeping Basics
|p. 21
|The Sting
|p. 22
|Lighting a Smoker
|p. 25
|Hive Placement
|p. 26
|Obtaining Bees
|p. 28
|p. 29
|Catching Swarms
|p. 31
|Hive Removals
|p. 35
|p. 38
|Local Nucleus Hives
|p. 39
|Transferring Bees from a Langstroth Hive to a Top-Bar Hive
|p. 41
|Moving Bees
|p. 42
|Hive Management
|p. 45
|Removing Old Comb
|p. 60
|Killing Bees
|p. 62
|To Feed or Not to Feed
|p. 64
|The Seasons
|p. 69
|p. 69
|p. 71
|Making Divides
|p. 73
|The Two-Queen System
|p. 81
|p. 82
|Bearded Hives
|p. 84
|Mixed-Origin Divides
|p. 84
|Fall and Winter
|p. 85
|Combining Hives
|p. 86
|p. 57
|Hive Insulation
|p. 88
|Honey, Beeswax, and Other Products
|p. 90
|Harvesting Honey
|p. 90
|Processing Honey
|p. 94
|Comb Honey
|p. 96
|Varietal Honeys
|p. 97
|Marketing Raw Honey
|p. 98
|p. 100
|p. 104
|Royal Jelly
|p. 106
|Evaluating Your Queen
|p. 107
|p. 109
|Requeening Aggressive Hives
|p. 111
|p. 112
|Intercaste Queens
|p. 113
|Drone-Laying Queens
|p. 113
|Laying Workers
|p. 114
|p. 117
|p. 117
|p. 119
|Tracheal Mites
|p. 121
|Varroa Mites
|p. 122
|p. 126
|Finding Good Genetics
|p. 126
|Symptoms of Insecticides
|p. 128
|Colony Collapse Disorder
|p. 129
|Wax Moths
|p. 130
|Raising Queens
|p. 132
|Selection Criteria
|p. 133
|Creating Favorable Conditions for Queen Cells
|p. 135
|p. 136
|Mating Nucs
|p. 137
|Mating Nuc Placement
|p. 138
|The Cell-Builder
|p. 139
|Setting Up the Graft
|p. 140
|The Graft
|p. 143
|Managing Mating Nucs
|p. 148
|Caging Queens
|p. 149
|Queen Banks
|p. 152
|Planting for Bees
|p. 154
|p. 156
|p. 156
|p. 157
|Cover Crops
|p. 158
|p. 158
|p. 160
|p. 162
|Selected Bibliography
|p. 165
|p. 166
|p. 167
|Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.37
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Bayer Ag, a name known for its original brand of aspirin, is ready to take on a new kind of headache that is flaring up on crop farms: glyphosate resistance.
For years, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, has been a favorite. It is easy to use, relatively inexpensive and kills weeds. Yet, because of its widespread use, a growing number of weeds have become resistant to the chemical (see "Weeds rebound," page 51).
Bayer CropScience, a division of chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer Ag, sees the gap in glyphosate as an opportunity to grab a larger share of the herbicide market. In October the company brought a group of U.S. crop consultants and journalists to its headquarters in Monheim, Germany, to show the results of its research efforts.
Third in sales
Bayer CropScience was formed in 2002 following Bayer AG's purchase of Aventis CropScience. In 2006 the group generated sales of 5.7 billion Euros, giving it a 17% share of the crop protection market. According to Chairman of the Board Friedrich Berschauer, the company ranks third in the world for herbicide sales, behind Monsanto and Syngenta.
Although the company ranks number one in the world in insecticide and seed treatment sales and second in fungicides, herbicides are the largest segment in the crop protection market. "It's no secret that herbicides account for 47% of the estimated 25,460 million Euros in crop protection sales," Berschauer says.
Hermann Stubler, head of herbicide research at Bayer CropScience, says that 75% of the herbicide market is dominated by only six modes of action, the main one being glyphosate. "Glyphosate-resistant weeds are now a reality in all major crops, including corn, cereals and soybeans," Stubler says. "So we have now to find new weed management tools that can manage those weed shifts with new chemistries."
New active ingredients, safeners
Between 2000 and 2006 Bayer CropScience launched 17 new active ingredients, which is the highest innovation rate in the industry, according to the company. Bayer expects to launch a total of 26 active ingredients by 2011 with a sales potential of 2 billion Euros.
Three of these new active ingredients are scheduled for launch in 2008: tembotrione and pyrasulfotole, the active ingredients in the new Laudis and Huskie herbicides, and flubendiamide, the active ingredient in Belt insecticide.
"If we look at the competitive situation, Bayer is leading the herbicide innovation and research role," Stubler says. "Not far from 50% of the global herbicide pipeline in recent years is coming from our company."
He says the herbicide brands with the highest success rate have contained safeners. As a result, most of the new compounds being launched by Bayer, including Laudis and Huskie herbicides, are safener-based. These allow for the use of strong, broad-spectrum active ingredients — such as tembotrione and pyrasulfotole — without the risk of crop damage.
The company plans to use its safener technology to commercialize existing herbicides that were considered too damaging in the past. It also will continue to research new safeners that are even better at protecting crops. The company expects that about 50% of its herbicide income will come from safened products by 2015.
Three to survive
In 2006, Bayer Ag spent 614 million Euros, or 27% of the company's total research and development budget, on its crop science division. Bayer hopes that investing heavily in herbicide safener and active ingredient research will produce products to build herbicide sales.
According to Stubler, Bayer CropScience has been alone in safener research in the past five years based on the number of reported patent applications. Industry-wide the number of patent applications for herbicidal substances has declined by 80% in recent years. "In 1989, there were 250 herbicidal substance patent applications among agrochemical companies," he says. "Today there are only 50 or 60.
"The companies with the most herbicide patent applications in the last five years are Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and BASF," Stubler continues. "This points to an apparent dropout or retreat of some key players in research for new herbicide active ingredients, such as Monsanto, Sumitomo, DuPont and Dow."
Because Bayer is one of the few companies still investing in basic research, its fungicides, insecticides, safeners, seed treatments and herbicides have important market potential. Stubler predicts that only three significant herbicide companies will survive: Bayer, Syngenta and BASF.
"Because we have the leading position in herbicide innovations, we estimate we will have the largest portfolio by 2012," Stubler argues. How well this commitment to research translates into real market gains in the United States will be the central question confronting Bayer in the next few years.
Although a major player in cotton, cereals and canola, Bayer CropScience has been seen as a minor player in the corn herbicide market. The company plans to change that by introducing four new corn herbicide brands in the next two years.
"We've had some products out there in the past, like Balance, Radius, Option and Equip," says Jeff Springsteen, market manager for the company's corn herbicide products. "But some of those brands were 'me-toos' or had problems with crop injury. Now we are basically reinventing Bayer in the corn herbicide market."
Four new brands will be added to the company's existing corn herbicide lineup. These are Laudis herbicide, which the company anticipates launching by 2008, along with three additional corn herbicides to be launched in 2009. "Two of those products are postemerge and two are preemerge products," Springsteen says. "So we will have a product that fits any program a farmer has, whether it is pre, total post, or pre followed by post."
The products will be sold in addition to Radius, Balance, Option and Autumn corn herbicides. However, with the exception of Autumn and Option, these older brands will be phased out over time.
"The key thing now is that we will have a full herbicide portfolio that will be second to none," Springsteen says. "We can compete with anyone now, including Syngenta and Monsanto. Growers will be able to use our products to fill all their herbicide needs."


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I am indeed the first documented case
Dear Dr.Bob
I am crying while I send you this in hopes to be supported. I had protected vaginal sex with a very very very skanky girl. In my defense She lied about being skanky. She told me she only had sex 3 times with protection. She also told me she gets tested every 3 months. When it's all said and done she is a liar and, she had sex more than 15 times some protected some unprotected. I had protected vaginal sex(no breaks condom worked fine) and, unprotected insertive oral sex. I came in her mouth. No visible cuts or blood in her mouth. Another factor is that I did not shower untill the next day(I was tired) so, vaginal secretions were on my thieghs over night. There were no cuts on my legs(visible). I inspected my thieghs the next day. Since then I know I am infected my symptoms are beyond real. They are so real I still feel them now. 1.Swollen lymph nodes in groin and neck(I mean very swollen and very noticable and i'm a communications student).
2.Sinus pressure in ears and facial pressure.
3.Skin pealing on hands and feet.
4.A serious case of constipation.
5.Darker color urine(I only drink water and juice soda is bad for you).
6.New pimples everywhere and also new moles.
7.Finally my muscles and joints ache so bad I can barelly walk,no joke I mean that.
I am only 20 years old and,I am a very healthy heterosexual young man. I work out and eat right. I always practice protected sex (except oral insertive). I get tested every three months and always have been negative for anything. I am very selective with women, this one slipped under radar(college slut). She has ruined the rest of my life and I can't stop crying. All of these symptoms have happened within the last month and i'm 100% sure its hiv. what will I tell my parents or my family. I don't want too die. The only way I could have got it is if it got thru intact skin or, if I got it from the bj. I have ruined my life and I will never forgive her. Please Dr.Bob tell me this can be related to something else. Will I be able too yell woo hoo in two months(highly doubt it). I will donate 150$ of my own money for helping me. I am scared too death please help me. You are a good person and, I know you want too be the first person too document a new transmission of hiv. Thank you for your help ahead of time. I know u are a very busy man, I hope you can find time for me. I will send the money first thing in the morning. Thanks alot I love you Dr.Bob.
What, another "first documented case" submitted by someone crying into their laptop???? Jeeeeeeez . . . it must be a full moon or something, because you are like the 5th one today.
Dude, protected sex is protected, no matter how "very, very, very skanky" your skank was. Unprotected insertive oral carries a negligible risk for HIV transmission. Vaginal secretions on intact skin are not a risk. Your symptoms are not suggestive of or worrisome for HIV ARS.
You're 100% sure you have HIV. I, on the other hand, am 100% sure you don't. Care to make a bet on who's right? Will you be able to WOO-HOO when you get your definitive three-month HIV-antibody test? You say you "doubt it." I say absofrickinlutely.
So, first documented case??? Nope! You'll have to look elsewhere for your 15 minutes of fame! Thanks for your willingness to make a tax-deductible gift to help others who were not so lucky to dodge the HIV bullet. Your one gift will touch many lives and rack up some excellent cosmic karma for you. I'll add my good-luck karma to that (even though I honestly don't believe you need it!) in hopes that your three-month definitive test confirms my very strong suspicion that you are HIV negative.
I'll be waiting for that WOO-HOO!
Dr. Bob


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ADDIS ABABA, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has reiterated that Africa's economic transformation must be anchored on industrialization to achieve sustainable and inclusive development on the continent.
Over the last six years, ECA has focused a lot of efforts in support of Africa's industrialization agenda, whereby the continent has a comparative advantage through commodity-based industrialization towards addressing poverty, inequality, and unemployment, said Abdalla Hamdok, Acting Executive Secretary of ECA.
Hamdok made the remarks on Thursday at the opening of a two-day meeting, the 3rd session of Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development organized under the theme, "Ensuring inclusive and sustainable growth and prosperity for all."
The Acting Executive Secretary told Xinhua in particular that Africa's growth over the past years has had little impact on poverty and unemployment, underlining the need to industrialization.
Hamdok noted that lessons should be drawn from successful experiences from other countries such as China, which he said has addressed poverty significantly through industrialization.
"Over the years, particularly over the last 6-7 years, we have been focusing on the transformation agenda through industrialization; we believe Africa's transformation must be anchored on industrialization that is linked to Africa's main sectors, particularly the agriculture sector to provide forward and backward linkages," he noted.
"The assurest way of moving the continent forward on this is to embark on industrialization process that will allow us to create jobs, allow us to address other challenges of poverty, unemployment, and inequality," he said.
"China's experience of lifting more than 600 million out of poverty went through this industrialization," said Hamdok.
He also highlighted that trade plays a vital role in Africa's economic growth performance, and it has the potential to promote trade induced industrialization.
Speaking during the opening of the Forum, Mothae Anthony Maruping, AU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, reiterated the need for investment in strengthening production capacity and in the private sector development towards attaining inclusive and sustainable development.
The Commissioner also underlined the need to enhance trade, both intra-Africa trade, and trade between Africa and the rest of the world.
African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development brings together government representatives, private sector, and civil society among others to exchange views and ideas and sharing lessons in the implementation of the agenda 2030 on sustainable development goals, and also Agenda 2063 for Africa.
The forum is expected to come up with an outcome document that will be shared in the UN high-level political forum in New York in July.


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Some may call him mischievous, but we call him romantic. Cupid is busy this time of year, and he has his arrows pointed right at Kennebunkport. With its picturesque views, delicious food and quaint atmosphere, it's the perfect place for a romantic getaway. Plus, Valentine's Day falls on the Friday of President's Day weekend, so you could come visit us for a three-day affair!
Here are 14 Cupid-approved Valentine's Day weekend activities in and around Kennebunkport:
1) Find a special gift for your sweetheart at Dock Square in Kennebunkport. Head there for an afternoon of shopping and sight-seeing.
2) Start up some friendly competition at Sugarloaf during an afternoon of downhill skiing and snowboarding on Maine's Western Mountains.
3) Declare you love for one another in the pristine sand of Goose Rocks Beach during a quiet stroll.
4) Reenact a scene on the very same pond Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington skated on in the movie, "The Preacher's Wife," during an afternoon of ice skating at Portland's Deering Oaks Park Pond.
5) Enjoy a Valentine's Day rendezvous with our Be My Valentine special. Turn your room into an enchanted cove filled with scattered rose petals, a bottle of champagne and homemade chocolate truffles. Enjoy a three-course gourmet breakfast accompanied by two Bellinis or Mimosas.
6) Have a divine dining experience for Valentine's Day dinner at The White Barn Inn's AAA Five Diamond restaurant located inside a rustic, renovated barn.
7) See and be seen at David's KPT for a nice causal meal at the newest trendy waterfront social hub in Kennebunkport.
8) Enjoy an evening reception of cocktails and tasting plates and learn more about Kennebunkport's history at the First Families Kennebunkport Museum for the "Love Stories Exhibition".
9) Set the mood right with a burlesque show at Geno's Rock Club in Portland.
10) Board a horse-drawn sleigh at Rockin' Horse Stables for a cozy ride around Kennebunkport.
11) Walk off your Valentine's dinner with a guided moonlit snowshoe walk on the Wells Reserve at Landholm in Wells.
12) Dance the night away at Kennebunk's Family Valentine's Day at the Town Hall auditorium.
13) Savor a beer and chocolate pairing at Portland's Novares Res Bier Café.
14) Treat your sweetheart to in-room Rejuvenating Massages or a Lollia Luxury Bath Package in your room's whirlpool.
Take advantage of all of the special events and attractions taking place in Kennebunkport and the surrounding areas this Valentine's Day. With the help of Cupid's arrow, you will fall in love all over again!


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Sen. Rand Paul joins Oregon Sen. Wyden's push for legal hemp
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, is joining a Democratic senator from Oregon in supporting a proposal to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp.
Vote Hemp, a non-profit organization pushing the issue, said Friday that Paul has signed on as a co-sponsor of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden's proposed amendment to the omnibus farm bill.
The amendment would exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana, allowing American farmers to grow industrial hemp.
Under the amendment, the cultivation of industrial hemp would be regulated by state permitting programs, like North Dakota's, and would not impact the federal government's long-standing prohibition of marijuana.
Paul, whose father, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, introduced a similar measure earlier this year, could not be reached for comment. His Washington office did not return phone calls and emails seeking comment.
Wyden, in a statement, said, "Industrial hemp is used in many healthy and sustainable consumer products. However, the federal prohibition on growing industrial hemp has forced companies to needlessly import raw materials from other countries."
Wyden said his amendment would allow U.S. farmers to produce hemp for safe and legitimate products, helping both producers and suppliers to grow and improve the economy.
So far, 31 states have introduced pro-hemp legislation and 17 have passed laws.
Eric Steenstra, president of Vote Hemp, said Wyden's amendment will mark the first time since the 1950s that language supporting hemp has come to the floor of the House or Senate for a vote.
"The time is past due for the Senate as well as President Obama and the attorney general to prioritize the crop's benefits to farmers and to take action like Rep. Ron Paul and the co-sponsors of this amendment have done," Steenstra said.
"With the U.S. hemp industry valued at over $400 million in annual retail sales and growing, a change in federal policy to allow hemp farming would mean instant job creation, among many other economic and environmental benefits."
Ryan Fletcher, a spokesman for Vote Hemp, said the Senate vote on Wyden's amendment is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday.
The farm bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government. The omnibus bill is passed every five years or so by Congress and deals with both agriculture and all other affairs under the purview of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The federal government outlawed hemp farming in the United States more than 50 years ago.
Opponents of allowing industrial hemp contend it is a Schedule 1 controlled substance and is hard to distinguish from marijuana.
Hemp is a term reserved mainly for low THC strains of the Cannabis sativa plant. It would be used for industrial purposes, including paper, textiles, clothing, insulation and bio-fuel.


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The first ever wiki site was founded in 1995 as an automated supplement to the Wiki:PortlandPatternRepository. The site was immediately popular within the pattern community, largely due to the newness of the internet and a good slate of Wiki:InvitedAuthors. The site was, and remains, dedicated to Wiki:PeopleProjectsAndPatterns.
Wiki:WardCunnigham created the site and the WikiWikiWeb machinery that operates it. He chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for quick and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web. An early page, Wiki:WikiWikiHyperCard, traces wiki ideas back to a Wiki:HyperCard stack he wrote in the late 80's.
See also one of these links:
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki or Wiki:FrontPage
get some answers on the Wiki:WikiWikiWebFaq
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Senate Years of Service: 1923-1947
Party: Democrat
WHEELER, Burton Kendall, a Senator from Montana; born in Hudson, Middlesex County, Mass., February 27, 1882; attended the common schools; worked as a stenographer in Boston, Mass.; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont.; member, State house of representatives 1910-1912; United States district attorney for Montana 1913-1918; resumed the practice of law in Butte; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Montana in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1922 for the term ending March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1924 on the Progressive Party ticket; reelected to the United States Senate in 1928, 1934 and 1940 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-third Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); resumed the practice of law; died in Washington, D.C., January 6, 1975; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery.


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The Sheridan Volleyball Club U14A Maroon team. They won the U14A Silver Bracket at the 1st Annual Weston Johnson Memorial Invitational Volleyball Tournament hosted by the Sheridan Volleyball Club.
The team is:
Left to Right: Baylee Clements, Mallarie Apodaca, Sydney Atkinson, Lilly Kelly, Amanda Anderson, Emma Enloe, Kristin Carlson, Tazmyn Olson, Coach Morgan Stalick
The Sheridan Volleyball Club U12B Green team won the U12B Gold Bracket at the 1st Annual Weston Johnson Memorial Invitational Volleyball Tournament hosted by the Sheridan Volleyball Club.
Front Row: Mallory Arneson, Preslee Moser
Back Row: Hailee Tellez, Addy Bolton, Katelyn Lee, Shelby Atkinson, Coach Sharon Deutscher, Karley Goss, Genna Deutscher
The Sheridan College Rodeo Team traveled to Casper for the second to last rodeo of the season. The men's team was led by Zeke Thurston. Zeke and his team roping partner Jayne Lauweryssen roped their steer in 8.9 seconds in the long round, qualifying for the short round in 8th place.
Jayne missed in the short round. Zeke was 66 points in the Bronc Riding in the long round splitting 2nd/3rd and won the short round with a score of 74 also winning the average. He earned 165 team points.
5/4 at Billings, MT Halos (DH)
5/11 Billings, MT Royals (DH)
5/17 at Rapid City, SD Post 320 (DH)
5/18 at Powell Pioneers (DH)
5/23-5/26 at Gillette (Schedule TBA)
5/29 Douglas Cats (DH)
6/6 Powell Pioneers (DH)
6/10 Cody Cubs (DH)
6/12-6/16 at Omaha, NE (Schedule TBA)
6/20 Cheyenne Hawks
6/22 Rapid City, SD Post 320 (DH)
6/25 at Casper Oilers (DH)
6/26-6/29 at Gillette (Schedule TBA)
7/1 Gillette Roughriders (DH) (Non-Conference Games)
7/2 at Douglas Cats (DH)
7/6 at Cody Cubs (DH)
7/14 Laramie Rangers
7/16 Casper Oilers (DH)
Cowboy Freshmen Ryan Wallen recorded his best-career finish at his first MWC Championship.
Freshman Wyoming Cowboy golfer Ryan Wallen led the way for UW in the final round of the 2014 Mountain West Championship after shooting a 70 (-1) on the par-71, 7,144 yard Catalina Course at the Omni Tucson National Golf Resort on Sunday. The freshman completed his conference championship debut tied for 18th in the 55-man field.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams took on Laramie Friday night the Lady Broncs played the Plainsmen to a 0-0 overtime draw while the Broncs dropped an overtime decision at Laramie 2-1.
Saturday they both picked up victories over Cheyenne South this week they have Cheyenne Central and East on the schedule the Broncs will play at home.
TRACK / FIELD - Sheridan high school hosted the annual Dan Hansen track invitational Saturday complete team an individual results can be found on the sports page at sheridanmedia.com
Girls 100 Meter Dash Varsity
Name Year School Seed Finals H# Points
1 Edeen, Gabby Sheridan Hig 12.89 13.18 2 10
2 Elmer, Kyra Laurel High 12.88 13.26 2 8
3 Seamans, Julia CAM 12.84 13.41 2 6
The Buffalo High School Bison and Lady Bison soccer teams took on the Powell teams on Friday and both Buffalo teams came away with the victories.


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Remember those days when you had to change your Facebook name so employers couldn't find you (and the embarrassing photos you'd posted there)? Well, turns out Instagram may do the opposite — help you get a job.
According to Fast Company, Instagram is becoming an important part of the hiring process for some employers, especially in more creative fields. Beyond a traditional portfolio, employers like to get a sense of a potential hire's personality and the more un-cut version of their art and style.
One such employer, Bradford Shellhammer, Fab co-founder and BackCountry creative director, told Fast Company he hired New York-based designer Hannah Perinne Mode because of her Instagram feed. After working together at Fab, Hannah now works with Bradford as a creative manager and design lead at the consultancy Shellhammer.co.
Hannah started her Instagram feed about 2 1/2 years ago. And while at first it was just for fun, she then found a new use for the platform when she began her "Drawing a Day" project. Now her feed blends together quick doodles, full-scale paintings, and random pictures with friends.
Business Insider spoke with Hannah about how Instagram helped her professionally, and this is what she had to say:
Instagram is a great way for me to share that visual component of my life, and not everything that I put out is a masterpiece by any means and it was a really good lesson to learn how to create things for the sake of creating. Things that aren't necessarily these finished large scale paintings but are just these fun day to day things.
It is really helpful for me because I've had a lot of people contact me based on that project. Even if it's a friend of a friend, seeing my Instagram is a great way to get an idea of who I am as a person, some inspiration and some basic illustrations or drawings that then can be supplemented by my website which will be more finished. I've had a lot of clients starting to ask me more for the hand drawn feeling in a way that i hadn't experienced before. Even though i didn't intend for it to be a way to get work, it's sort of a pleasant consequence of it.
A few of Hannah's recent Instagram posts:
"Channeling Cezanne with my blue underpainting! #drawingaday #aprilninth"
"Little spring things. #drawingaday #aprilseventh"
"Painting some cute baby feet for my newest @amazon#kindlesingle ! #drawingaday #marchninteenth"
"Momo reading on a striped towel + some seaweed.#drawingaday #marchthirtyfirst @momomes"
You can follow Hannah on Instagram at @hannahpmode or check out her more traditional portfolio at www.hannahpmode.com.


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Wooden Wall Shelves For Organizing
Wooden wall shelves are typically thought about when you wish to include attractive accents to your house, yet they are likewise an excellent selection for arranging. They could help you make the very best use of your room, which consequently boosts the functionality and the feel of your house.
The Adaptability Of Wood Wall Shelves
Among the great things about this kind of shelving is the flexibility. They can be utilized in any kind of living room or storage room to add an ornamental touch or to help you better organize specific locations of your house.
Wooden wall shelves for organizing are most typically utilized in closets. Organizing the storage room room with them could offer a surprising quantity of practical area in the wardrobe. Utilizing them to create different sections can aid you make use of the entire storage room room. Developing dices and varying levels of spacing between the racks will certainly enable you to quickly organize a variety and also save of items.
Whether you are utilizing them for a bed room wardrobe, office closet or pantry, creating various areas is the best method to get the most use out of them. In the bed room you might really want reduced layers for footwears or cubes for coats and arranging baskets; in the office you may want racks for binders and storage space containers to hold office supplies. In the kitchen you might want varying heights of shelves to store every little thing from tiny home appliances to spices and also tinned products.
The timber used to create these "screen cases" could take away or boost from the impression the shelf is used for. If the wood rack is a well-patterned as well as good wood after that you have the distinctive chance of permitting your compilation to be a noticeable and also well-focused display screen. Cherry is a great wood for racks.
Custom Or Manufactured
You could either acquire "off the rack" or have them personalized. Customized shelving will certainly offer you the possibility to obtain specifically what you really want as well as supply style functions you otherwise wouldn't have the ability to buy. Of course custom-made will certainly set you back even more, unless you have the ability to do it on your own. If you are refurbishing a whole closet custom or adjustable racks are most likely the very best means to go if you can swing it. Easy wood shelves of the appropriate percentages might be all you require. Could after that be repainted or discolored nonetheless you want.
Due to the fact that there is a high demand for organization devices there are a lot of options readily available in shops and also online. You can also discover a variety of shelving air conditioners nowadays to arrange a whole wardrobe.
Think of exactly what you intend to achieve with the wood shelves prior to you start going shopping. Consider some pictures and ask family and friends what they have actually done to obtain added suggestions. Utilizing wooden shelves for organization is a wonderful way to add practical room to your home.
The wood utilized to create these "screen situations" could enhance or detract from the perception the shelf is made use of for. If the wood shelf is a well-patterned and also excellent hardwood after that you have the distinct possibility of permitting your collection to be a popular and well-focused display. Cherry is a great timber for racks. Basic wooden wall shelves of the ideal proportions might be all you require. Think about just what you desire to achieve with the wood shelves before you start going shopping.