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By Ken Root
"Oh boy!" That was the text of a handwritten sign held up by a young man at the recent Farm Bill Now rally in Washington, D.C. I saw it on Facebook and didn't get any profile of the author/holder except that he was too young to remember the American Agriculture Movement and the farmer's strike of the 1970s. I operate on the premise that if we don't remember history, we tend to repeat it. In the case of the farmer's strike, it was colorful and exciting but, looking back, it was bad policy. Still, the idea of making a bold statement and accentuating it by parking tractors on the National Mall has an activist appeal that is hard to deny.
Here is a news account of the timeline:
"The movement began in Springfield, Colo., where a group of farmers got together and developed the strike idea. They called on farmers across the country to stop buying or selling anything on Dec. 14, 1977, unless their demands were met. Within a week, the group had a name--the American Agriculture Movement (AAM)--and the strike had gathered enough attention that the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland met with farmers in Pueblo, Colo. He did little to placate the anger of the Movement."
The basis for the farmer unrest was high input prices and declining revenues. AAM called for "parity" between costs paid and income received. The flaw in the concept was that parity can only be established for a split second in time and farmers were bargaining like labor when they were ownership and management. The belief of the American Agriculture Movement that farmers, as decision-makers, would organize and collude on cutting production could not be put in practice.
Nevertheless, the anti-business, anti-government energy was as great as I've ever seen. I don't know if it was exasperation, aggravation or desperation but it was real, and at times, it was scary. Farmers tried to block bridges from Mexico. They tried to block trucks going into distribution warehouses, saying foreign produce or meat should not be allowed into the country. People became angry and violent in a culture that had never seen such actions by gentle and law-abiding people.
The first assemblies, or strikes, were staged at state capitols. In Nebraska, Gov. J.J. Exon was reported to have ridden to the rally on an open tractor to address a crowd of over 6,000 farmers and supporters who brought 5,000 tractors. Exon said this to the crowd:
"They said it would be a cold day in hell when farmers would get together. I can't tell you how warm it is to have you here in Lincoln. I only wish we had had such a rally two or three years ago. 'Strike' is not a usual word with farm people, these are not usual times. We need to get the message across to everyone that there is a problem. The farmer gets 31 cents of the food dollar while the labor processor gets 33 cents and the transportation and marketing segment get 36 cents. Unless we can get more than 31 cents for the farmer, we won't have our food plant sustained."*
With momentum gaining, many of the farmers set out for Washington, D.C., in the greatest showing of protest and unity in modern times. Farmers were in the capitol city in 1978 and again in 1979 and received mixed reviews. Labor supported them and liberals wooed them but even the Jimmy Carter administration doubled back on the protesters. After stopping foreclosures, it resumed them and farmers threw raw eggs at Bergland.
When it warmed up in the spring, what farmers learned was that most of their ranks would not go along with the production cutbacks demanded by the AAM. Agricultural production increased each year and corporations only paid lip service to the growers' demands. Looking back, the 1970s were the "good times" compared to the 1980s when inflation and interest rates switched places and creditors began to roll back values on machinery and livestock. By the end of the decade, many farmers found themselves insolvent and in the worst recession since the 1930s.
The 1980s brought out the best and worst of human character and there are still "walking wounded" who lost property and families due to events set in motion by the changing times. The unity of a brotherhood of protesting farmers sounded pretty good but the era showed that you really can't count on anyone but yourself in tough times. Willie Nelson sang, politicians talked, economists forecast, preachers prayed, bankers reasoned but only time brought an end to a period of history that started with unexpected prosperity and ended with uneventful recovery over 10 years later. Farmers picked up the pieces and the AAM shrank into obscurity.
The ethanol era (2006 to present) has created the longest period of prosperity in agriculture's history, and this drought year has resulted in a brief run-up to record corn and soybean prices. The cost of all inputs has risen to meet demand in the marketplace, and growers have compounded the rise by buying land at inflated prices.
Now we are at a point that looks familiar to old eyes. A rally in Washington, D.C., with some who see themselves as the "farming class" feeling that they are entitled to a profit and protesting to government to get guarantees. The symbolism of a tractorcade to threaten politicians with a food shortage. It didn't work 34 years ago but would it work today with fewer and larger farmers? Would they stand together? Would anyone stand with them? Would government relent and link farm legislation to parity? Or will these circumstances replicate the late 1970s and set up a precipitous fall that cascades into foreclosure and chaos?
From my perspective, leave your tractor in the shed.
*The National Farmers Union puts the farmer's share of the consumer food dollar at 15.8 cents in 2012.
Editor's note: Ken Root has been an agricultural reporter for 37 years. Root now does daily radio and television programming and is a columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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There was a time when a Keaney blue helmet with curled white horns would elicit boos from UMass fans.
The Rhode Island Rams, and other New England foes, were easy to hate if you were a Minuteman. They were natural, geographical rivals. There was a history, replete with last-second heroics, parking-lot arguments and water-cooler bragging rights.
When UMass decided to upgrade its football program and leave the Colonial Athletic Conference, it also left behind its rivals. It moved into a neighborhood with decades of built-in history and tradition. Bowling Green and Toledo fight over I-75, the directional Michigan schools wrestle for the Michigan MAC Trophy, and Miami (OH) and Ohio have their own Battle of the Bricks.
On the outside of all this infighting is the University of Massachusetts. Perhaps it's the newness of the whole thing, or maybe it's because portions of the fan base can't quite get fired up about a bunch of Rust Belt schools. One way or another, UMass lacks an in-conference rival.
Eventually, however, something is going to happen to spark a new rivalry for UMass. Below are the four most-likely candidates, and the arguments for and against their status as UMass' MAC rival.
Miami (OH)
For: The Redhawks have a long tradition of excellence on the football field and serve as a model of how to succeed in the MAC. During their first matchup, the Minuteman and Redhawks absolutely beat the hell out of each other in the trenches. It was the first time UMass fans had a chance to see something resembling a ground-and-pound attack, as Mike Cox ran for 188 yards and two touchdowns. The Redhawks pulled away, but UMass came close to defeating a conference opponent. It was also the first MAC team UMass played.
Against: Miami (OH) is spread a little thin in the "rivalry" department. The Redhawks already have a long-standing, all-sports clash with the Ohio Bobcats. Further, they play the University of Cincinnati for the Victory Bell every year – a game that has taken place more than 100 times. The Redhawks seem to have their dance card pretty full at the moment, and while they are a good program to look up to, they don't seem ready to take on any more rivalries.
For: No UMass football fan will ever forget the program's first win as an FBS program. While the victory over Akron may have set football back about 30 years, there is little doubt that it was a major step forward for the Minutemen. The Zips provide UMass with a tough-but-winnable game for the foreseeable future. Both teams are almost equally down and are in the process of building behind passionate coaches. Those who watched the 2012 game will also remember the borderline unprofessional moaning and sighing from Akron's announcers, who called the loss to UMass one of the "darkest days" in program history. Those sound like fighting words.
Against: Throughout its existence, the Akron football program has been terrible. There is almost no way to sugarcoat it – the Zips have never won a bowl game, and it took until 2005 for them to win their first conference championship. With college football rivalries, it's typically good to square off against a program that mirrors yours, and – with all due respect to Akron – UMass is not interested in that image. The Minutemen were one of the best programs at the FCS level and are in the process of creating a new identity. It seems unlikely that the school wants to be a punching partner with a program that typically resides in the low-rent district of the subdivision. That's what Kent State has done for years.
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For: While UMass won't soon forget the victory over Akron, it will be equally hard to shrug off what the Northern Illinois Huskies did a week before. In the teams' first meeting, NIU never let up and slaughtered the Minutemen 63-0. On UMass message boards, fans promised payback come basketball season (not sure if the 64-59 win cut it), and several thought the Huskies were running up the score. That sounds like the early makings of a bitter rivalry. The Minutemen are still a few classes away from being able to compete against NIU, but when they're ready, I can see UMass keeping its foot on the gas long after the game is in hand.
Against: Dekalb, Ill. is nearly 1,000 miles away from Amherst. To put that in perspective, if you drove the same distance south, you would end up in Augusta, Ga. Head north and you'd hit Labador City, Newfoundland. UMass fans would be very pleased with the product if the Minutemen were on the same level as the Huskies, but it's difficult to have a rival that's almost completely inaccessible. Most UMass fans would be perfectly happy to see NIU on a special occasion – the MAC Championship Game.
For: Buffalo and UMass have a few things in common. Both are Northeast schools and are relatively new to the FBS scene. In an odd twist, Buffalo and UMass are also situated in an Amherst, and both towns are named after British Commander-in-Chief Jeffrey Amherst, who, by all accounts, was a bit of a jerk. Both schools also play second-fiddle to more established programs in their respective states – Buffalo lives in Syracuse's shadow, and UMass deals with similar issues with Boston College. History and geography aside, Buffalo and UMass are also in a situation whereby they are vying for some of the same recruits. During the past few years, UMass has won its share of recruiting battles, and Buffalo put together decent classes. These teams are going to play every year, and each has an interest in seeing the other stick around. While the drive isn't easy, it's the easiest for UMass fans looking to see an in-conference game.
Against: Much like Akron, Buffalo has had a rough history at the FBS level. Granted, the Bulls only joined the top division in 1998, so there isn't a huge sample size by which to judge them. While the Bulls are an East Coast team, there isn't much hatred between the schools, and very rarely do you come across a Bulls fan in Massachusetts or a UMass fan in Buffalo. That being said, of the four viable options, the Bulls seem to be the most logical potential rivals for UMass. The outcome of their yearly matchup could sway recruits, fans can actually get to the game without paying air fare, and both schools are likely rooting for another eastern team for travel purposes. The games may not be marquee just yet, but maybe a trophy and a few close match ups could create a rivalry. What should the trophy be? Hopefully something other than a blanket.
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no•et•icnoʊˈɛt ɪk(adj.)
of, pertaining, or originating in the mind.
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1645–55; < Gk noētikós intelligent =noē-, var. s. of noeîn to think (v. der. of noós, noûs mind, wit) +-tikos -tic
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intellectual, rational, noetic(adj)
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
"intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
The science of the intellect.
A purely intellectual entity.
Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect.
Originating in or apprehended by reason.
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Two weeks ago, the Pennsylvania General Assembly completed work on a 2011-12 state budget that achieved Governor Tom Corbett's primary objective — to meet a target spending number of $27.3 billion or lower, regardless of the impact.
The budget spends $27.249 billion, the lowest amount since the 2008-09 enacted budget, with cuts totaling more than $960 million.
Still trying to piece it all together? Well, the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has you covered. On Wednesday, we released a detailed analysis of the new budget. Check it out and get all the details.
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- The budget uses only $200 million of a $786 million 2010-11 year-end surplus. The year-end surplus was 10 times the $78 million surplus projected in the Governor's March budget proposal.
- The budget suspends a legally required transfer of 25% of the year-end surplus to the Rainy Day Fund. Lawmakers say this was done as a condition of receiving funds through the American Recovery Act (ARRA). With 2010-11 lapses, perhaps as much as $1 billion is carried forward and unappropriated in 2011-12.
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- Public schools and universities bear the brunt of the cuts in the 2011-12 budget. Grants to school districts, including the basic education subsidy, reimbursements to school districts for the loss of students to charter schools and other program cuts total more than $860 million. Higher education institutions, including Penn State and the other three state-related universities, community colleges, and the 14 State System of Higher Education universities, are reduced by $245 million.
- Several programs administrated by the Department of Public Welfare are also cut, including welfare-to-work and human services. While the overall reduction from current year spending is relatively small, less than 1%, the budget underestimates hundreds of millions of dollars of spending in the Medical Assistance program, which will either be addressed through supplemental appropriations later in the fiscal year or through program savings.
- The Welfare Code bill enacted in concert with the budget gives DPW broad authority for one year to make program changes to cut costs. This includes the ability to sidestep formal rulemaking processes and to change program eligibility, modify benefits and provider payments, and to eliminate presumptive eligibility. This authority is granted with the goal of keeping DPW expenditures, including expenditures on entitlement programs, within budgeted amounts.
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1 cup old-fashioned oats
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The Los Angeles chapter of Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS) ran like a well-oiled machine at Sunday's much-anticipated Adoption Festival held at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. i Love Dogs had the opportunity to spend the day there talking to potential adoptive pet parents about the best vitamins for their new pups.
Volunteers clad in orange t-shirts swarmed about vendor and rescue vans in the parking lot as everyone arrived. They approached i Love Dogs' purple van like a well-coordinated dog pack and had the product at the booth in no time. The morning's set-up went smooth as ice, and then the real business began. Hundreds of dogs were being made comfortable in their crates and play pens. Many were being prettied up with a nice orange or yellow "Adopt Me" bandana wrapped sweetly about their necks. Other pooches enjoyed some last minute grooming from their rescuers, and all pooches put on their best smiles as Los Angeles animal lovers made their way through the gates.
Potential adopters ran the gamut, from children, doting adults, and first-time owners to long-time pet parent veterans. One couple that stopped by the i Love Dogs booth to pick up some Omega 3, TJ's Health Bites, and Glucosamine samples laughed and explained that they had SIX dogs. "We started out fostering them and before we knew it we had six!" explained the wife.
Another couple was just "feeling things out" as one of the men explained, "We just lost our 10-year-old cat this past summer to a stroke, so we'll have to see…" The man was noticeably choked up, but cheerful about the event. They had rescued their little chihuahua mix named London and their two cats at the same time several years ago, and were now coping with having lost one of their happy bunch. They weren't sure if they were ready to commit, but were definitely keeping their eyes open.
Pups strolled about with volunteers who were trying to get the dogs more "face time" and exposure for potential adopters to see. One big guy named Scrappy with Strangest Angels Animal Rescue was in the next booth over from i Love Dogs. A Mastiff mix, there's no gentler giant than Scrappy. He quietly cuddled with his foster mom as potential adopters fell head over heels in love with his kind and gentle demeanor.
Across the way were friends Karma Rescue. In tow were some of our featured Adopt-A-Dog Month dogs, including Skylar, Katie Fay, Shay, and of course Chocolate Charlie and Sweet Ginger Cookie, snuggled close together in a single crate. The pretty Pits were quite popular and Karma Rescue's booth was happily swarmed by pit-lovers looking for a new pooch to take home.
Entertainment was first-class as BFAS brought festival-goers "Dancing with the Dogs," a group of professional trainers and their canines doing Musical Canine Freestyle. From social dance to sports dance, the woofs and wags were abundant as families cheered the dancing doggies on.
This is a dog blog, but let's not forget our cat friends who were also looking for the purr-fect home. Kittens, rabbits and other animals were also up for adoption at the BFAS festival.
Though the event was an overall success, as the day wound down the sad reality settled in: not all of the pets had been adopted. Many of the booths present were rescue organizations, but scattered about were the city and county animal shelters. Many of the animals there on that day were looking at their last opportunity for a full, happy life. If they were not adopted they'd be returning to the shelters and to death row.
Rescuers and animal lovers scrambled about urging rescues to pull animals from these shelters. The Jason Debus Heigl Foundation (Founded by actress Katherine Heigl and her mother, Nancy Heigl) offered financial support for each dog that a rescue pulled from one of these shelters. Others offered to pay for pulling fees and the rallying cry to save as many animals as possible continued throughout the end of the event.
Always looking to save as many dogs as possible, Karma Rescue left with nine more dogs at the end of the day and are currently looking for donations to help get these pooches into forever homes.
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She's always been a fan of kooky antics, and Chelsea Handler is up to her old tricks on a new sneak preview of "After Lately" Season Three.
The 37-year-old comedienne dressed up as Lady Gaga for a new sketch, though she definitely seemed less-than-excited about the ordeal.
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NRC convened the Committee to Assess the Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion, which prepared this report.
In 1985, the Region 9 Office of EPA raised concern about potential perchlorate contamination at Superfund sites in the San Gabriel Valley in California (see Figure 1-1 for timeline of selected perchlorate-related regulatory activities) (Takata 1985). No validated analytic method was available to measure low perchlorate concentrations, and little information on their possible health effects was available (EPA 2002a). As a result, attention was focused on other chemicals at the California sites.
In the early 1990s, perchlorate contamination in monitoring wells at a California Superfund site was confirmed at concentrations greater than 1 part per million (ppm) (1 milligram per liter [mg/L]), and a provisional RfD was issued by the EPA Superfund Technical Support Center in 1992 (EPA 2002a). A revised provisional RfD was released in 1995. The RfDs were considered provisional because they had not undergone internal or external peer review. However, they were used to derive guidance levels for groundwater remediation (see Table 1-1).
In March 1997, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), a nonprofit risk assessment consulting firm, convened an independent peer review to evaluate an RfD that it had derived for perchlorate (EPA 2002a). The peer review concluded that the scientific database was insufficient to conduct a "credible quantitative risk analysis." As a result, an independent peer-review panel met in May 1997 and developed a testing strategy to address data gaps and reduce uncertainties regarding possible health effects of low-concentration perchlorate ingestion. The panel recommended a subchronic oral bioassay in rats, a developmental-neurotoxicity study in rats, a developmental study in rabbits, a two-generation reproductive toxicity study in rats, pharmacokinetic and mechanistic studies in test animals and humans, and genotoxicity and immunotoxicity assays.
In 1998, perchlorate was placed on EPA's final version of the Contaminant Candidate List (CCL), which names unregulated contaminants that may pose a public-health concern in drinking water (EPA 2004b). Contaminants on the CCL are being considered for regulation; that is, they are not subjects of federal drinking-water standards. To determine the extent of perchlorate contamination of the national drinking-water supply, monitoring of perchlorate in all large public water systems and a representative sample of small systems became mandatory beginning in 2001 (EPA 2004c).


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Introduction: Respiratory therapists who are trained in ACLS and participate in in-hospital resuscitations may not fully use all the skills they are trained to perform. A previous study of department manager's beliefs of skills utilized by a therapist during a code situation needs to be compared to a survey of therapists who participate in in-house resuscitations.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to compare the results of previous survey of respiratory therapy department manager's assessment of skills utilized by therapists to a survey of the therapist's assessment of ACLS skills utilized in a code situation.
Methods: A non-experimental, descriptive study was conducted by the use of a written questionnaire regarding the importance of various components of ACLS performed by respiratory therapists, as well as the frequency that the components were used. The questionnaire was established by modifying a previous one that was used to survey respiratory care managers. Our instrument was modified to adapt to actual practitioners rather than their managers. The sample consisted of 260 Respiratory Care Practitioners in Ohio. The RCPs were randomly selected from a mailing list provided by Ohio Respiratory Care Board. We performed a descriptive study with a 2 group post-test design and no treatment. There were no independent, dependent or extraneous variables involved in this study.
Results: Twelve surveys were returned due to wrong addresses. There were 38 respondents to our survey. Seven of the respondents did not participate in resuscitations performed at their facility, leaving 31 responses to be analyzed and a usable response rate of 13%. Overall, 81.6% of the surveys returned were used in this study. This percentage of the population participated in in-house resuscitations, however only 50% of the respondents held ACLS certification. Fifty-five percent of the respondents felt that there was a need for respiratory therapists to hold ACLS certification. There were statistically significant differences in mean frequency and importance values between the following groups: mangers and clinicians, ACLS certified and non-ACLS certified, associate prepared and bachelor prepared, CRT and RRT, and facility bed size (0-250 and 250-450+).
Conclusions: Respiratory therapists recognize that the skills listed by the AHA are important actions to take in a code situation. However, RTs rarely perform these skills most likely due to the availability of other healthcare providers such as doctors and nurses who also perform ACLS. We believe that ACLS certified therapists and bachelor prepared therapists more frequently perform skills than the non-ACLS therapists and the associate prepared therapists because they have been trained to do them. Because ACLS certified therapists use ACLS skills more often, and have received education on ACLS, they ranked the importance of the skills higher than that of the non-ACLS therapists.


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With the dire US economy being the bust that it is and the banks paying low interest on standard investments, folks are turning to alternative methods for entrusting their savings with hopes of a healthier return on their cash. Inside the past decade, more and more people have gravitated to forms of business ventures that involve the internet. Many of these expenditure opportunities offer a range of products that involve direct marketing and pyramid schemes. They all vow the same thing; long term legal and viable income. For many this is true but others are setting people up for failure.
Chances are, if you are on the scene of internet investing you have heard of ZeekRewards.
August 18, 2012, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) shut down the entire operation claiming that it is a $600 million dollar Ponzi scheme. This alleged scam took money from more than a million customers from all over the globe. What originated as a complaint in North Carolina District Court began an undercover investigation by the SEC into Zeekler and ZeekRewards, the parent company known as Rex Venture Group and the CEO himself, Paul Burks. In one Reuters' report, the SEC declares that ZeekRewards took $160 million from their customers and in turn, provided them with an imaginary vestige of "extreme profitability." The company strongly encouraged investors to keep reinvesting their money back into the company. The thing is, if they cashed out at the same rate prior to the SEC stepping in, the company would have became insolvent and that house of cards would have collapsed. According to the SEC enforcement director, Stephen Cohen, he quoted, "Zeek Rewards misused the power of the internet and lured investors by making them believe they were getting an opportunity to cash in on the next big thing."
If you did have the destructive hit to your portfolio from these crooks, retrospectively, let's take a look at what some potential flags could have been and where you can turn for help with this.
When you opened the actual investment, they did not give you many details to go on as to the structure of your asset and exactly how you would be accumulating money. Flag number one right there. The facts themselves were vague and nonexistent; evidence began to mount from the affiliates regarding the dynamics of ZeekRewards payouts and the tracking of the commissions to thousands of partners. Claims were made on a regular basis that ZeekRewards was using new affiliate cash flow to pay out their daily ROI (Return on Investment). They have been pinned regularly with inquiries about this exact issue, and the retort? "The Information is Proprietary."
Proprietary? As in you take my money and what you do with it is none of my business?! What?! Another flag!
Dawn Wright-Olivares, Zeek's COO would answer questions of this nature stating that if details were disclosed ZeekRewards would be "out of compliance". She also made the claim in late June of this year that unless ZeekRewards makes more deposits into their e-wallet accounts, the company would be unable to pay commissions, stating what can go in can come back out. Wright-Olivares vanished from the public eye altogether soon after this and was replaced by Greg Caldwell in July as COO.
This investigation is in the very young stages and new developments are going to be unraveling as time keeps ticking. Thus far, Charlotte, NC based attorney, Kenneth Bell with McGuire Woods has secured a URL for the investors that have been impacted. www.zeekrewardsreceiver.com.This URL will serve as a source of centralized information, status updates and how they will start the process of getting their money back. Bell is in charge of collecting, managing and disbursing the frozen funds to the victimized investors. The amount of the frozen assets according to the SEC currently is at approximately $225 million. The site is not active yet, but may be running in as little as a few days. This is where you would need to go should you have unsettled transactions with ZeekRewards.
Remember, it is always important, especially in these troublesome times to question and investigate everything. Last year alone this nation clocked in $997 billion dollars in corporate fraud. Guess what? Investment gimmicks and fraud does not exist only in the sector of pyramid schemes, direct and affiliate marketing. Companies like ZeekRewards give hard working direct sellers a bad name. It is actually a small percentage in comparison to what is really out there. There is actually honest ways of really making money using these types of products. You have to do your homework and research who you are doing business with. Deception costs money, trust and morale, and comes in many disguises such as the mortgage crisis, banks manipulating Libor, Enron, Madoff, pharmaceuticals, etc. The list goes on.
We have to nip this greed in the bud by not being greedy ourselves. There is no free lunch. If you want it, you have to put some sweat equity into it. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. There is no way to get rich quick if you are doing something legal or moral. You get out of something what you put into it and anything worthwhile requires work, bottom line.


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Watch the video in its entirety here. If you haven't seen it, it's worth your time. And if you have seen it, watch it again.
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The Trip
I don't know what The Trip is, but this video falls into that "not local, but way too good not to post" category.


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USDA announces timeframe for committee nominations
U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Administrator Jonathan Coppess recently announced that nominations for individuals to serve on the Advisory Committee for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers are being accepted through October 5, 2009.
"As we look to build a new generation of farmers and ranchers throughout the country, this committee will work to update or develop policies and programs that will hopefully make it easier for beginning producers to enter the agricultural industry," said Coppess. "This committee will help strengthen our nation's food supply for the coming decades, and I urge qualified individuals to apply."
To qualify, individuals must belong to or participate in any of the following groups, programs, or agencies: USDA's Farm Service Agency; state beginning farmer programs; commercial lenders; private nonprofit organizations currently participating in a beginning farmer or rancher program; the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service; community colleges or other educational institutions with demonstrated experience in training beginning farmers or ranchers; and other entities or persons providing lending or technical assistance to qualified beginning farmers or ranchers. Farmers and ranchers are also eligible for nomination.
Form AD-755, "Advisory Committee Membership Background Information," must be completed for those interested in serving on the Committee. Submission of this form constitutes a nomination, and eligible persons may nominate themselves. Letters of recommendation may also be submitted, but should not be solicited or obtained from USDA officials employed in Washington, DC. The form is available online at www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/ad755.pdf.
The Agricultural Credit Improvement Act of 1992 requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Committee. The 20-member Committee advises the Secretary on ways to support federal and state programs that administer joint financing to beginning farmers and ranchers and maximize new opportunities created through those programs.
Seven of the Committee members were replaced when the Committee charter was last renewed on March 28, 2008. Approximately one-third of the 20 existing members will be replaced when the charter is renewed. The agency is now accepting nominations of individuals to serve for a 2-year term on the Committee. Reappointments are made to assure effectiveness and continuity of operations. No member, other than a federal employee, can serve for more than six consecutive years. Members are not paid; however, they are reimbursed for travel expenses related to attending meetings, which are generally held annually. A notice requesting nominations was published in the Federal Register on September 3, 2009.


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New voting laws are unnecessary and other letters to editors
It would be interesting to know the number of people of other ethnic and racial groups who also died of cancer last year. Attempting to scare people into a study is the wrong way to go and makes them suspicious of your intent. In fact, it's a complete turn off when individuals or racial groups are constantly being told they're the sickest, most violent, most unhealthy blah blah blah. Get the point? Rightfully so, a particular racial group hasn't forgotten how they have always been used as experimental guinea pigs in the past, and will likely be used the same way again. Try a different approach if your desire is to get more people of a certain racial group involved.
EPB workers rake it in
Anyone who believes, or tries to convince others to believe, the private sector doesn't receive taxpayer money, or handouts from the federal government, is sorely naive. There is not a privately owned or established company that hasn't or doesn't receive government funding in some form.
'Song's lyrics make a difference' and other letters to the editor
I'm confused. All of this is too complicated for me. HERBERT K. LEA, Chickamauga, Ga.
Mr. Lea, it's a lot more complex than just a fast food restaurant owner expressing personal views on a matter. Anyone has the right to dislike anyone they so wishes, and for whatever reason. But when anyone use their money and influence around the world and into other country as a strategy and by proxy, where people who are gay or who are different are murdered for being gay and different, that crosses the line. That's the epitome of evil. That's not Christian or Christ-Like. That's inhumane, base and wicked. That's not carrying on the works and life of a loving Jesus. That's carrying out the works of the devil.
Eat all the chick-a-fil-A sandwiches you want. Just remember there might also be the blood of innocent victims between those buns.
With freedom of speech comes responsible.
David Cook: Opposite of 2012 Bennett Ave.
But whites do have friends, black ones in fact, who live in black neighborhoods. Whites also have black relatives who live in black neighborhoods. Long before blacks could live in white neighborhoods, poor whites lived in and were made welcome in black neighborhoods. Whites traditionally owned businesses and got rich in prediminantely black neighboods. There are some pretty well known, wealthy and respected white Chattanoogans who got their start in black neigborhoods; selling their goods to black families. The Homestore, a grocery store once on the corner of 25TH or 26Th and Broad Street. Lee Pharmacy, a drugstore on the opposite corner of Broad Street. Scholze Tannery. To name a few.
Someone once said the best drugs can be found on the mountaintop. There's no reason to travel all the way down in some poor black neighborhood to buy drugs. A belief in anything different is condoning racial stereotyping, racial profiling and modern day segregation.
Cook: Chattanooga's First Annual Samuel L. Jackson Film Festival
Well, this is off the subject, but this is a better place to ask it as any other. Has anyone heard anything about a woman dying last month after police raided her home looking for her son at a Chattanooga public housing site? She was said to have had respiratory problems and when she asked to be allowed back into her apartment to retrieve needed meds, allegedly they wouldn't allow her or anyone back in? Supposedly she later died at a local hospital. I've gone to all the local news sites, but can't seem to find anything on the story. Which is not surprising.
Underage Drinking
memphisexile said... I can tell from many of these comments that most of you folks don't know much about Signal Mountain, because according to the original story this party was on Edward's Point Road. That is not exactly an affluent area. It's definitely more trailer park than mansions and swimming pools.
But when you look at the names of those arrested and where they live, you'll find they actually are from the better areas of Signal Mountain. So they go down to the trailer parks to party, their parents has disdain for? Typical.
harp3339 said... Could it be that authorites on Signal are doing a better job of addressing a problem than their counter parts in other communities?
Nope! Actually, it's more like finally doing a better job of addressing a problem that should have been addressed decades ago. As anyone knows, this has been happening on these mountaintops and other better communities for decades. Only the poor are held to higher standards and undeer the microscope for scrutiny and punishments of jail prison time and paying fines they can ill afford. Why do you think the poorremain locked in a cycle of poverty? Their parents did it. Their parents parents did it. They past that self of entitlement behavior on down to jr. and missy.
'Trainer's discipline not nearly enough' and more letters to the editors
I read in the Wednesday, May 24, newspaper that the Tennessee Walking Horse trainer, Jackie McConnell, will get six months' probation! What an absolute travesty of justice
So true, Ms. McCalla. I wasn't even able to look at one micro second of that film withouth being sick. I had to turn away and never watched the rest of that video. However, humans have done that and much worse to their fellow humans. Have even gotten caught in the act on their very own video cams, and still got off by having the right connections.
'Obama leading U.S. to a socialist state' and more Letters to the Editors
Horton Herrin of Dalton needs to take his own advice and use verifiable facts before spewing off his ignorance.
Welfare misuse and drugs
What's really hypocritical and laughable are all those politicians in support of drug testing actually exempted themselves from being tested from drugs under this law.
And the Florida politician who first sponsored this bill has a big stake in the very lab that does the drug testing. He originally owned it or was some top head in the company. Then he signed everything over to this wife to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Plus, the drug testing won't prevent the individual from receiving aide. In Florida they assign the benefits to a family member as caretaker. You're all being had by these greedy lawmakers. They're laughing all the way to the bank and getting richer.
Deadly firepower
Ms. Corey said her office has handled hundreds of these self-defense cases — at least three or four every month. The law constantly challenges the authorities, with people citing it for everything from bar fights to road rage. "We've lost Stand Your Ground motions that in my experience showed the shooter should not have shot," she said. "Stand Your Ground needs a second look."


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We think of green fees as what people pay at the golf course. But more than 60 universities nationwide have another kind of green fee. They're called "campus green fees".
Students pay a few dollars per semester to help fund sustainability and climate action projects. Millions of dollars are raised nationwide.
Some schools apply it to install solar panels on dorm roofs. Others purchase renewable energy from local utilities. And some put the money toward making their buildings more energy efficient. Campus buildings account for as much as 90% of a school's greenhouse gas emissions.
But some schools are resisting. Some won't allow fees imposed by student referendum. Others require state approval, and legislators have balked at what they see as a tax increase, even if students have given the fees a thumbs up.
Most green fees have only been put in place within the last five years, so their long-term effect hasn't been seen yet. But they're a clear sign of college students' willingness to pay a little extra now to help solve the climate crisis.
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Viral labor pain simulator video a fake
It is the video that has been talked about, trending and shared since Mother's day. The 'Labor Pain Simulator' video shows 2 men seemingly going through the motions (and pain) of child birth.
Online Facebook comments on the video include:
- For men that their woman are expecting, it is a good idea for them to experience this, they would have more respect for us woman. And that in a way we are stronger then men.
- All husbands/boyfriends should have a try at this.
- I think they should do that to every single men!!!!!
- Iwish every guy would try this once in a lifetime
- Just think, their simulation was what three minutes...put them to the real test for 6+ hours
It turns out the entire video was a fake. That's right, the men in the video never felt any pain. The video team at Kensington Church in Troy created the video and since it went viral have said they feel it is important they stay 'transparent as to the reason for the creation of the video and the way it was created."
The Church released the following statement:
The video team at Kensington Church in Troy, Michigan created the simulated "Labor Pains" video as a fun way to honor moms on Mother's Day. The actors in the video were using props to depict electrical muscle stimulation and were not actually experiencing pain. The video was part of a larger celebration of moms during our weekend services. This service (and others) can be viewed at: www.kensingtonchurch.tv <http://www.kensingtonchurch.tv. Our thanks to Dr. Julie Masters for opening her office and donating her time to be a part of the project!
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