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Carters named a Minnesota Farm Family of the Year
By Jean Ruzicka
Carter's Red Wagon Farm – the agricultural enterprise that's enriched diets for decades – has been honored by the University of Minnesota.
Current owners Tony and Linda Carter are among 74 families to be named a Minnesota Farm Family of the Year, chosen for their "demonstrated commitment to enhancing and supporting agriculture" – while adding whimsical fun to the mix each fall.
Their signature pumpkin parties, now in the fourth year at the farm, draw thousands.
Russell and Maxine Carter, who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this summer, arrived in Straight River Township just after their honeymoon to serve as rural missionaries.
To augment their income, Russ, who'd grown up on a farm in Michigan, began growing tomatoes in 1955 on the original 200-acre, mostly wooded site.
The first year, Russ sold the tomatoes on a self-serve basis, berry boxes filled with the plump, rosy fruit sitting in a stand alongside the road. A paint pail served as the cash register, the tomatoes selling for 50 cents a quart.
"The wagon entered the picture a few years later," daughter-in-law Linda said of the antique red carriage that became the family's trademark.
Russ grew up on the Prayrie Orchards family farm in Michigan, his entrepreneurial spirit inherited from his father, Clinton, who started a produce-hauling business during the Depression.
Clinton and his brothers transported fruits and veggies to Chicago in Model T trucks. Come winter, Clinton headed to Florida, returning north with tropical fruit.
"He took risks," Linda said. "He saw booms and busts."
Necessity (and back- breaking labor) proved to be the mother of invention in the Carter family.
The Michigan farmer may have been the first to develop a motor-driven pickle picker, Linda said of employing the chassis of an old vehicle to harvest cucumbers with the pluckers at plant level.
And when Chicago decided to get rid of its trolleys, Clinton bought the streetcar windows to create inverted-V green houses, speeding the growth of tomatoes.
"He was a month ahead of others at getting his tomatoes to market," Linda said. "He was always looking for ways to get things to market quicker."
The pioneering Carter family traces their lineage back to the Mayflower, ancestor Priscilla Mullens Alden among the founders of Plymouth Colony.
Mullens Alden is reported to be at the center of the love triangle in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish".
"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" Mullens, by Longfellow's account, told Alden when he arrived to deliver a marriage proposal on behalf of Standish.
A debate exists as to whether Longfellow's tale about Mullens - the only single woman of marriageable age at the colony- is fact or fiction. But the venerable work with its mercurial characters adds intrigue to the Pilgrims' persona.
Off to market
Russ Carter's greenhouse, constructed in the late 1950s or early '60s, is thought to be one of the first high-tunnel structures in the county.
Eight high-tunnel greenhouses are now on the farm, aiding in early production of tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries.
With the help of the family's seven children, the farm grew to include feeder pigs and dairy cattle – "Dad fell in love with Ayrshires" – said son Dwight. The 30-year Peace Corps volunteer now has a farm in Guatemala.
In the late '60s, Russ and Maxine resigned the ministry, Russ assuming the roles of mail carrier and school bus driver.
"He did everything you could think of, except president of the United States," Maxine joked of her multi-tasking husband, who, now 90, retired two years ago.
By the late '60s, the family-run red wagon market had moved to where the Legion Club is located.
With the help of family members, the signature timber-frame barn was constructed in about 1990, its lumber originating from the farm.
When the dairy industry underwent changes, the family decided to scale back. But Russ kept one of his beloved Ayrshires.
The 400-acre site – 180 acres used for farming - is now home to beef cattle with a variety of fruits and veggies harvested each summer.
"It's a good variety of soil," Linda said of the sandy and loamy land.
Three generations at the helm
Tony and Linda Carter now own and operate the farm and market.
Linda grew up with gardening, "but not on the Carter scale." She runs the store.
"Tony is the genius behind the maze," she said of one of the farm's fall pumpkin parties' signature attractions.
"Mysteries of the World" is this autumn's theme for the 6.5-acre "amaizing" labyrinth. The creation of Stonehenge will be explored. The vanishing seafaring vessel, Mary Celeste, and the disappearance of Roanoke's early settlers will undergo scrutiny. And Big Foot and bumblebees will be investigated.
Tony's ideas evolve on graph paper. The corn field is then planted, with a tiller and hoe developing the pattern, Linda explained. By September, the network of paths and passages is ready to befuddle.
"If you get lost, Daddy throws a tomato at you," Susanna, 9, joked of trial runs in the labyrinthian creation.
Kids of all ages can set sail in the giant pumpkin boats, 300- to 500-pound pumpkins hollowed out and filled with straw. Or hitch a ride on the wagon for a Hobbit sighting. Try your hand at the pumpkin propeller. Compete in the cow milking contest or head down the giant slide.
Performances by illusionists Calvin Gunn and Imaginick and the rockin', squawking scarecrow band will entertain.
The pumpkin party premiere is Saturday, Sept. 27 with festivities each Saturday in October and Nov. 1 as well as Friday, Oct. 17 (no school). Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.


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Different prices at shelters. It cost seven dollars to adopt my cat, but I donated to the shelter as well.
Unless you can find one being given away, a lot these days. Around here the pound charged us about $100, and a rescue society close to $300---but both dogs came vetted and neutered for the price.
Thats sad. Charging that much means not as many will get homes. The shelter near me neuters/spays and chips and its not expensive at all to adopt. They care about their animals.
I know---the SPCA charges a couple hundred I think. The first dog I got when I first bought my house back in 1977 came from an actual dog catcher and cost me $15.00. Quite cost-efffective, since he lived to be almost 20. :)
Here, the cost to adopt from the local shelter is $90. That includes all of the current vaccinations and tags. I'm sure it would vary from city to city.
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Hords Creek Reservoir 2013 Survey Report (PDF 398 KB)
If you have difficulty accessing the information in this document, contact the TPWD Inland Fisheries Division for assistance.
Hords Creek Reservoir - 2013 Survey Report
Prepared by Natalie Amoroso and Michael Homer Jr.
Inland Fisheries Division
District 1-B, Abilene, Texas
This is the authors' summary from a 21-page report. For a copy of the complete report, use the download link in the sidebar.
Fish populations in Hords Creek Reservoir were surveyed in fall 2013 using electrofishing and trap netting and in spring 2014 using gill netting. Historical data are presented with the 2013-2014 data for comparison. This report summarizes the results of the surveys and contains a management plan for the reservoir based on those findings.
Reservoir Description
Hords Creek Reservoir is a 510-acre impoundment constructed in 1948 on Hords Creek. It is located in Coleman County approximately 55 miles south of Abilene and is controlled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Primary water uses included flood control and recreation. The reservoir has a history of large water level fluctuations. Water level reached conservation pool (CP) elevation in 2007, but has declined since summer 2007 to 19 feet below CP in May 2014. Habitat consisted of riprap, flooded terrestrial vegetation, and aquatic and semi-aquatic vegetation. Boater access consisted of one usable ramp with several others out of the water and unusable. Bank fishing access was good, and there were three handicap-accessible fishing piers.
Management History
Important sport fish include Largemouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Flathead Catfish, and crappie. The management plan from 2010 survey report recommended electrofishing biennially to monitor trends in relative abundance and size structure for Largemouth Bass and forage fish. The most recent stocking was Florida Largemouth Bass in 2006. Angler harvest of all sport fishes has been regulated according to statewide size and bag limits.
The 2013 vegetation survey indicated that the majority of the lake had no vegetation and was classified as no vegetation. The most prevalent vegetation encountered during the survey was flooded terrestrial vegetation. During July 2013, water level increased 2.5 feet and increased the amount of flooded terrestrial vegetation present in the reservoir.
Fish Community
- Prey species: Forage was abundant and consisted primarily of Gizzard Shad and Bluegill. Green Sunfish, Warmouth, Orangespotted Sunfish, Longear Sunfish, and Redear Sunfish were also available as prey. Prey species were of sizes that were available to most sport fish.
- Catfish: TChannel and Flathead catfishes were present in the reservoir. Relative abundance of Channel Catfish increased from 2010 to 2014 with many over the legal size limit (≥12 inch). Few Flathead Catfish were collected and were all legal-sized (≥18 inch) fish.
- Largemouth bass: Largemouth Bass relative abundance and number of large fish decreased from 2009 to 2013. Body condition of Largemouth Bass has slightly increased over the survey period.
- Crappies: White and Black crappies were present in the reservoir; White Crappie were more abundant in the survey. White Crappie were most abundant at three inches in length, and the numbers of harvestable size White Crappie was low but consistent among sample periods.
Management Strategies
- Survey Largemouth Bass and forage fish populations in 2015 and 2017. Conduct trap netting, gill netting, and electrofishing surveys in 2017-2018 to obtain relative abundance, size structure, and body condition data.
- Access and vegetation surveys will be conducted in 2017-2018.
- Deploy and evaluate artificial habitat structures to improve fish habitat and potentially boost angler catch rates of game fishes.
- Conduct volunteer creel card surveys to determine angler effort, catch, and harvest of sport fishes.
- Work with USACE on possible boat ramp extension projects on ramps that may be out of the water during lower water conditions.
- Inform the public of the threat of invasive species and their impacts.
Performance Report as required by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act Texas Federal Aid Project F-221-M-4 Inland Fisheries Division Monitoring and Management Program


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Wake County among the hot spots on the legislative map
Posted September 12, 2014
Updated September 13, 2014
Garner, N.C. — As Sen. Chad Barefoot, R-Wake, and Sarah Crawford, his Democratic challenger, have knocked on doors across their district this summer, they have run into sultry 95-degree days and voters who are cool to this year's political rhetoric.
"There's just a lot of mistrust and feeling that they're not getting the full story," Crawford said, pointing to conflicting messages over teacher pay as one source for the skepticism.
Barefoot, too, said he's meeting voters who don't feel like they're getting the truth – many who say negative ads criticizing his votes on natural gas drilling have turned them off.
"People want the truth right now more than ever," he said.
With less than two months to go before Election Day, voters in the Barefoot-Crawford race should brace themselves to hear more conflicting messages, as Wake County is home to some of the hotly contested legislative contests this year. Congressional races out of national spotlight
"Wake County is a subset of the greater Raleigh media market," said Nathan Babcock, political director for the North Carolina Chamber, a business advocacy group that lobbies the legislature and makes political endorsements.
Babcock said that voters in and around Raleigh tend to be more attuned to political news, which can help attract more candidates to run and help create more competitive races.
That "Raleigh bubble" centers on Wake County, where two state Senate races, including Barefoot's, and two state House races rate as some of the most closely watched this year.
"It's where all the growth is," Democratic consultant Thomas Mills said of Wake County.
New voters mean incumbents can't rely on name recognition to see them through.
"Also, a lot of these people who are coming into the state are more progressive than the ones that are already here," Mills said.
For Republican incumbents, he said, that means a bigger challenge in districts that were easy wins two or four years ago.
Many races all but over
The campaign is all but over in many districts.
In 20 of 50 state Senate districts, there is only one candidate on the Nov. 4 ballot. In 59 of 120 state House districts, only one candidate is on the ballot. In two other House districts, Republicans face only challengers from the Libertarian Party, which has never elected someone to the legislature.
That narrows the playing field considerably for Democrats, who are trying to wrest back seats lost in 2010 and 2012. Republicans control 77 of 120 state House seats and 33 of 50 state Senate seats. Those super-majorities allow GOP lawmakers to override vetoes and propose constitutional amendments without any Democratic votes.
Although Democrats' stated goal is to win back the legislature, in reality, their immediate objective is to trim the number of GOP-held districts in service of a bid to win back the General Assembly in 2016 or beyond.
"They might knock the Republicans under their super-majorities, but that would be a great day for Democrats," said Matt Bales, an analyst for the North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation who used to work getting House Republicans elected.
Bales, Babcock, Mills and other analysts who spoke on background for this story agree that six races in the state House and six more in the state Senate have marquis standing this year. That's either because they are open seats or because incumbents face aggressive, well-funded challenges this year. A handful of other races, mainly near Raleigh, Asheville and other growing urban centers, could become competitive depending on events this fall.
In those races, Babcock said, voters will mainly be looking at two issues.
"Education and the economy trade places as the No. 1 and No. 2 issues, depending on where you are in the state," Babcock said.
Barefoot and Crawford said their conversations with voters bear out that logic.
"I run into a lot of new families who say, 'I thought I was moving here because I heard so many wonderful things about education,'" Crawford said.
She and other Democrats have been critical of Barefoot and his Republican colleagues for not putting more money into education.
Barefoot, who points to the pay raise for teachers that lawmakers passed this year, said that economic uncertainty is increasingly on the mind of voters.
"Even though I'm running for the General Assembly, the No. 1 thing we hear is that people are really afraid about the decisions the president is making. They have a fear about the future," Barefoot said.
While education issues rank high on his personal agenda, he said, voters sometimes surprise him with the issue they're focused on.
"We knocked on one door, and the only thing the guy wanted to know was where I stood on net neutrality," Barefoot said, referring to a debate over regulations that could determine how quickly high-speed cable carriers would have to transmit different sorts of information.
Barefoot and Crawford are also in a race where environmental issues are playing a part. That's unusual for a state legislative election, but the gas drilling process known as "fracking" and the state's handling of a Feb. 2 coal ash spill in Rockingham County have frequently been on the news and are frequent topics of campaign-style ads by outside groups this year.
"A lot of people will say, 'I don't want that fracking,'" Crawford said.
Barefoot points out that Crawford is married to an advocate and said he believes voters dismiss the attacks once they learn about that.
Mills suggests that both education and environmental issues would have a less of a hold on voters if the economy was doing better. While the state's unemployment rate is lower than it was two years ago, there are also many fewer people who count themselves as part of the workforce.
"If everybody were to feel fat and happy, there would be less concern over this other stuff," Mills said.
The following are districts where those issues are most likely to make a difference on Nov. 4:
Senate 1 (Beaufort, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties)
This is a replay of one of 2012's most closely contested races. Just 21 votes out of 87,449 cast separated now-incumbent Bill Cook, R-Beaufort, from Stan White, D-Dare, a former county commissioner who was appointed to serve as a state senator in 2011.
"It was the closest race of the entire cycle outside of Dan Forest's race," Bales said, referencing the statewide contest for lieutenant governor that was settled by less than a 1 percentage-point margin.
The district covers several of the state's easternmost counties, including the Outer Banks, and was once held by Sen. Marc Basnight, the longtime Democratic leader of the Senate.
Analysts say that the number of conservative Democrats and unaffiliated voters who live there make it one of the harder seats for Republicans to hold this cycle.
Senate 9 (New Hanover County)
From a numbers standpoint, this district is a prototypical swing seat, split roughly evenly between Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters.
Although Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, is technically an incumbent, he was appointed to fill Sen. Thom Goolsby's term after the legislature adjourned for the year. He faces Democrat Elizabeth Redenbaugh, a school board member who could capitalize on the front-and-center attention given to education issues this year.
Senate 15 (Wake County)
This district runs from inside the Raleigh Beltline to the very northern tip of Wake County, taking in some of the area's most affluent and fastest-growing communities. Republican Sen. Neal Hunt's retirement leaves this as an open seat sought by a pair of well-known community leaders.
Republican John Alexander heads his family's trucking company and has been active in local civic efforts, such as the Triangle Flight of Honor that flew World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., when a new monument opened. He faces Tom Bradshaw, a former Raleigh mayor and state transportation secretary who has a section of Interstate 40 named in his honor.
Wake County Republicans put Alexander's name on the ballot after Rep. Jim Fulghum, who won the May primary, died of cancer in July.
Both Alexander and Bradshaw began sending direct mail in August, and the campaign is likely to be an expensive one. The district is closely divided between Republicans and Democrats.
Senate 18 (Wake and Franklin counties)
Barefoot ran what was the most expensive state legislative campaign of the 2012 cycle, easily besting then-Sen. Doug Berger, D-Franklin.
Although Democrats outnumber Republicans here, GOP candidates have typically fared well in this district. However, this is an area where new residents, particularly in the northeast portion of Wake County, could provide some ballast for Crawford's campaign.
As well, this is a district in which outside groups, including environmental advocates, are putting campaign-style ads on the air attacking Barefoot and giving Crawford a boost.
Senate 19 (Cumberland)
This is another district where the number of Democratic voters outnumbers Republicans, but GOP candidates have historically fared well.
Sen. Wesley Meredith, R-Cumberland, was swept into office along with the 2010 wave that brought Republicans control of both the state House and Senate for the first time in more than a century. He faces Democrat Billy Richardson, a former prosecutor and active civic volunteer.
Bales said Richardson has good name recognition for someone who has not been in office recently.
Babcock said Richardson will likely force Meredith to spend his money at home, rather than farm it out to others – the fundamentals of the district favor the GOP candidate.
Senate 25 (Anson, Richmond, Rowan, Scotland and Stanly counties)
Of all the state Senate seats, this is the one currently held by a Democrat where Republicans could realistically seek to expand their majority.
Sen. Gene McLaurin, D-Richmond, is defending a district that has a majority of Democrats but has had some GOP leanings, particularly in statewide elections.
McLaurin faces both Republican Tom McInnis, a school board member and small-business owner, and Libertarian P.H. Dawkins.
Other state Senate races to watch
Aside from the six races listed above, analysts will be following the money elsewhere in the state.
For example, Republican Sen. Ron Rabin, R-Harnett, has been targeted in ads by environmental groups criticizing his votes on fracking. If those ads begin to sour voters on Rabin or the Republican Senate majority, it could give Democrat Joe Langley an opening.
Urban Senate districts where there new voters have been moving are also worth keeping an eye on, if not for this election cycle then as bellwethers of future close contests.
Seats held by Sens. Jeff Tarte, R-Mecklenburg, and Tamera Barringer, R-Wake, fall into this category.
Senate District 42 is home to one of the more unusual campaigns of the year.
State House Rep. Andy Wells is running to fill the seat long occupied by Sen. Austin Allran, R-Catawba, who opted not to run. He faces an unaffiliated candidate, Pat Hensley, who gathered signatures to get on the ballot.
As with state Senate races, House seats in urban and suburban areas are some of the most likely to be closely contested this election cycle.
Asheville and Raleigh in particular anchor some of the most competitive races for these 120 seats, although a handful of more rural seats are also being closely watched.
House 2 (Granville and Person counties)
Rep. Winkie Wilkins, D-Person, is retiring, leaving an open seat. Wilkins, a retired newspaper editor, was a conservative Democrat who generally focused on economic development issues at the legislature. While Democrats hold a registration advantage in the district, they are of a conservative strain, which gives Republicans an opening.
This year, Republican Larry Yarborough, a Roxboro businessman and former county commissioner, faces Democrat Ray Jeffers, a sitting county commissioner.
House 6 (Beaufort, Dare, Hyde and Washington counties)
Much like state Senate District 1, there are more Democrats than Republicans registered in this eastern North Carolina district, but voters here are more conservative than their party registrations would indicate.
Rep. Paul Tine, D-Dare, a first-term Democrat and insurance agent, faces Mattie Lawson, a retired systems engineer who has been active in Republican politics in a rematch of their 2012 race. Although not quite as close as the Cook-White race from that year, Tine edged out Lawson by only 458 of 41,054 votes cast.
House 41 (Wake County)
Of all the state House seats currently occupied by Republicans, this district may be the hardest to hold, analysts say, and an early bout of outside spending could drive up the overall cost of this campaign.
Rep. Tom Murry is a second-term Republican who has largely focused on business and health care issues during his time in the legislature. Murry, a pharmacist, faces Gale Adcock, a Cary Town Council member and nurse practitioner who serves as the chief health officer at SAS Institute.
This district is anchored in Cary and runs along Wake County's western border with Chatham County. A swing district by nature, outcomes here are getting harder to predict due to immigration from outside North Carolina.
"He would have been smart to set down roots as a moderate," said Mills, who thinks Murry will be hurt by some of the legislature's more conservative moves.
House 49 (Wake County)
As with Senate District 15, this Wake County House seat runs from inside the Raleigh Beltline north through some of the areas more affluent neighborhoods. Fulghum was elected to the seat in 2012.
Babcock described it as "very competitive," both because voters here are very attuned to debates over state government and because it is closely divided between Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters.
Republican Gary Pendleton, a retired brigadier general who has served on the Wake County Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, faces Democrat Kim Hanchette, the founder of a diabetes management nonprofit who has been involved in civic affairs.
House 51 (Harnett and Lee counties)
Outside groups are already targeting Rep. Mike Stone, R-Lee, and analysts say the two-term incumbent faces a rocky election season.
Although Stone's district should be fairly friendly to Republicans, it sits at the heart of North Carolina's fracking debate. Stone has played a central role in crafting legislation to open the state to the controversial drilling process.
It's also worth noting that, in 2012, Stone won by fewer than 250 votes out of more than 30,000 cast. He faces Brad Salmon, a lawyer and farmer from western Harnett County who has been critical of Stone's work on fracking.
House 116 (Buncombe County)
This district takes in a piece of Asheville and much of rural Buncombe County. By the numbers, it appears to be something of a slam dunk for Republicans, but consultants who have seen polling numbers say Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, appears to be lagging.
Moffitt has been at the center of several stories in which local officials have battled lawmakers over control of local resources, most notably Asheville's water system. He faces Democrat Brian Turner, who made waves earlier this year when he said Moffitt offered to help him get a state job if he withdrew from the race.
Other state House races to watch
Along with Moffitt, fellow western North Carolina Reps. Michelle Presnell,R-Yancey, and Nathan Ramsey, R-Buncombe, have been targeted by the liberal Aim Higher campaign that is airing a television ad against the three of them. Although Moffitt is the most vulnerable of the three, Ramsey and Presnell could face tougher re-election bids as a result of the spending.
Among seats held by Democrats, House District 44, currently occupied by Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland, is consistently mentioned by analysts as one that could be competitive under the right circumstances.


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Former Gators center Patric Young never heard his name called on Thursday night as everyone expected.
Instead, Florida's most draft-worthy prospect went undrafted in this year's NBA Draft. The results come as a shock to many considering the league's 2014 Defensive Player of the Year was projected to go late in the first round or early in the second after performing well at the NBA Draft Combine where he bench pressed 185 pounds 25 consecutive times (two short of the record) and impressed scouts. 6-foot-10, 250 pound Young also impressed a number of NBA officials during his 13 workouts throughout the past few weeks. ESPN's Chad Ford even projected the San Antonio Spurs would select Young with the final pick in the first round, leading up to the draft. But teams bypassed Young for foreign talent instead late in the second round.
Young spent Thursday night at an NBA Draft party back home in Jacksonville, Florida. According to Gainesville reporter for GTN News, Phil Byrne, who attended – Florida's star left the party midway through the second round.
Things are starting to get stressful here at the Patric Young draft party. Hard to watch each pick pass and Pat isnt on the phone. — Phil Byrne (@Phil_Byrne) June 27, 2014
Pat left his draft party midway through 2nd rd. Was probably getting on the phone talking to teams in case this scenario played out. (1/2) — Phil Byrne (@Phil_Byrne) June 27, 2014
University of Florida teammates Scottie Wilbekin and Casey Prather also went undrafted Thursday night- leaving a senior-laden Final Four team without one player selected. This was the first time that a Gator has gone undrafted since 2010.
Young, Wilbekin and Prather, who helped the Gators win 120 games, 3 SEC championships, and went 36-13 during the 2013-2014 season must now wait for free agent opportunities and hope to latch on an NBA roster as a free agent. The trio as well as Will Yeguete started their journey at UF as friends but ended as brothers, and there's no doubt in my mind they won't fight through adversity and earn a spot on a roster with the support from each other.


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Studying membranes at the nanoscale
The composition of lipid membranes, similar to those that surround living cells, can now be mapped at the nanometer scale. The work, by researchers at Stanford University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Davis, is published in the Sept. 29 issue of the journal Science.
All living cells are wrapped in a double-layered membrane of fatty lipid molecules. Components of the membrane can move sideways and organize into patches or other structures. This organization can affect, for example, important cell functions and vulnerability to viruses.
But it is very difficult to study these structures because they are so small, measured in tens of nanometers, said Marjorie Longo, professor of chemical engineering and materials science at UC Davis. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or about a thirty-millionth of an inch. Scientists want to address questions such as how dynamic or active the membrane is and how small the lipid patches are, she said. An atomic force microscope, which uses a fine needle to probe surfaces, can give a contour map of the surface but without chemical information.
The research group, led by Steven Boxer of Stanford University, used a highly focused beam of charged particles to scan the surface of artificial lipid membranes containing lipid patches developed in Longo's lab. Components of the membrane were previously labeled with heavy isotopes of carbon and nitrogen, mounted on silicon wafers and flash-freeze-dried to preserve structure.
Fragments blasted away by the beam were caught and analyzed, reconstructing the chemical composition of the surface. The process is called Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry or SIMS. The NanoSIMS instrument, located at the Livermore lab, is one of a handful of its kind in the world, Longo said.
A comparison of AFM and NanoSIMS on the same sample showed that both methods saw the same structures, and NanoSIMS yielded extra information about chemical composition.
Ultimately, the researchers aim to look at actual cell membranes.
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Bishop Dwenger continued its dominance of postseason opponents on Friday, blowing out No. 8 New Haven 42-7 on Friday to win a regional crown and advance to host East Chicago Central (11-2) next week in the Class 4A North Semistate.
The result will surely have many buzzing about the debate that has raged all season in the battle between the SAC and NHC. Yes, the SAC third-place Saints owned NHC champion New Haven on Friday, but no one involved with Bishop Dwenger really cares at this point about such things.
Instead, the Saints are one more win away from their first state finals appearance since 2010.
Three years doesn't seem like a long time between championship games, but for Bishop Dwenger, it may as well be three decades. The overriding question regarding the Saints entering this season was about the struggles of the past two seasons, including the first under-.500 campaign since 2000 one year ago.
Every intelligent person that follows Northeast Indiana football knew that Bishop Dwenger would not stay down for long, that its 12 losses over the last two campaigns was more the result of overly talented classes graduating and injuries than spotty coaching or the overall decline of a program.
You know you are an established program when going 13-12 over two years has people wondering what has happened to a particular program.
On Friday, the Saints continued to show that not only has Bishop Dwenger not gone anywhere, it is still as fundamentally sound and skilled in its execution as any program in the area.
New Haven had absolutely no answer for senior quarterback Mike Fiacable, who threw for 200 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 62 yards and three more scores. His ability to extend plays with his feet while Bulldogs defenders chased him out of the pocket was almost comedic to watch, while equally excruciating for New Haven fans to witness.
As he has been all season, Ryan Watercutter was a matchup nightmare, notching six catches for 137 yards while completely outclassing the New Haven defensive backs assigned to defend him. He even made an interception in the end zone look easy in the third quarter that killed all hopes of a Bulldogs comeback.
New Haven's success this season has come primarily on the backs of two players - Vasquez and wide receiver Jordan Hogue. Even when not at the center of the offense, opposing defenses had to scheme against the duo, opening up opportunities for other players.
But Bishop Dwenger frustrated both of them. Hogue was held to six catches for 71 yards and was blanketed on nearly every play. Vasquez finished with 201 yards rushing as the do-everything back showed his skills again. But the Saints made him work for every yard, with 31 carries needed for those 201 yards.
Consider that Vasquez's first two carries went for 95 yards, while his next 29 went for just 106 yards, good for 3.6 yards a carry. This for a player who entered Friday averaging 11 yards per rush for the season.
More than any previous season, Bishop Dwenger Coach Chris Svarczkopf's team has taken on his personality. It is not flashy or excitable, but goes about its business on an even keel. When something good happens, the team celebrates and moves on to the next play. When something bad goes down, there is no panic or dissention, but rather the same approach in terms of moving forward.
There are no sure-fire Division I prospects on the Saints roster, or standout players that clearly lead the way. It is rather a team that works together and shares the load for a common goal.
That common goal, a state title, is now only two victories away.


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A federal judge says the Army Corps of Engineers can operate the Missouri River without changes sought by environmentalists to save endangered fish and birds.
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson ruled in favor of the Corps Monday on all counts.
His order comes nearly one year after a different federal judge ordered the changes and cited corps leaders for contempt when they refused to make the changes.
Magnuson is a Minnesota judge, and he blocked the contempt citation after taking over the river litigation.
Conservation groups say they are weighing whether to appeal to a higher court.
Environmentalists have denounced the Corps for giving preference to barge shipping down river over creating an ebb and flow to protect dwindling fish and bird populations.


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Jury for 2012 Intercultural Innovation Award Announced
NEW YORK and MUNICH--November 21, 2012:
Over 500 organizations from 92 countries have applied for the Award co-sponsored by the UNAOC and the BMW Group
The five international members of the jury panel for the 2012 Intercultural Innovation Award, a joint initiative of the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group, have been appointed.
Scientific expertise, a high international standing, and experience on the global stage are among what characterizes the three women and two men who will now evaluate 514 applications from 92 countries. The Award ceremony is scheduled to take place as part of the 5th Global Forum of the UNAOC in Vienna, Austria, on February 26, 2013.
At the event, ten finalists will present their projects to the public. Subsequently, high-level representatives of the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the BMW Group will give the Award to the five top organizations. The winners will not only receive prize money, but also individual support and consulting services for the duration of one year, which are intended to strengthen the success and sustainability of the award-winning projects.
As former Secretary General of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundations and the initiator of study centers at five renowned universities, Muna AbuSulayman enjoys an excellent reputation as an expert in management, education, sustainable development, Islam/West and Female Empowerment. She is best known in the Arab world as award-winning media personality and co-host of Kalam Nawaem, the number one Arab TV program on social issues which led her to be chosen as one of the influential Arabs and Muslims in the world in numerous lists.
Heather Johnston holds more than 20 years of international experience in the field of intercultural communication. At present, she is sharing her expertise gained in Malawi, Honduras, Egypt and Ghana at the Centre for Intercultural Learning, a leading Canadian institution in intercultural training. Previously she has worked for the University of British Columbia, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Cairo American College, and the Canadian International Development Agency.
Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is the founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada, an award-winning leadership incubator investing in high-achieving young African women from underprivileged backgrounds who are passionate about social change. She is on extended leave from her position as Assistant Professor in the Politics department at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Kamau-Rutenberg is passionate about the intersection of rigorous analysis and committed social activism.
Dr. Barry van Driel , who holds a graduate degree in Psychology of Culture and Religion, is the Vice-President of the International Association for Intercultural Education and the International Director for Teacher Training and Curriculum Development at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In this role, he conducts numerous interviews on current topics such as xenophobia, racism and discrimination. He is a member of the UNAOC initiative Global Experts and has also been a member of last year's Award jury.
Professor Fethi Mansouri is the Director of the Strategic Research Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation as well as Chair of Migration and Intercultural Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies and has served as Global Expert advisor to the UNAOC on cultural diversity and international relations.
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People are waking up to the con job the green taliban have pulled regarding "green energy".
Is the love affair between Silicon Valley and green energy coming to a close? The Wall Street Journal reports that Silicon Valley venture capitalists are learning what the rest of us have known for some time: most green energy projects simply aren't profitable. A recent survey of venture capitalists suggests that these investors are preparing to pull their money out of green ventures in record numbers in 2013 to invest in more traditional enterprises.
This reversal has been catalyzed by a number of embarrassing IPO failures in recent years, especially in companies associated with an investment firm blessed by the participation of Al Gore:
People are waking up all right.
It's about time. For years, it has been painfully clear that most green energy projects were not ready for prime-time, and major debacles like 2011′s Solyndra collapse are only the most visible examples. Most green investments have been political rather than business investments: the assumption behind them was less that their products were economically viable on their own than that government would provide subsidies or force people to buy what they made. As the global green agenda fell to bits, America's new energy boom dispelled peak oil fears and the Obama administration threw cap and trade under the bus, the economic prospects for green tech investments steadily dimmed.
Year after year, hundreds of millions of dollars were sunk into ambitious green enterprises, yet the expected return on these investments never quite materializes. Most of the investors in these projects are smart individuals and successful businessmen in their own right, and there's only so long that they will accept the repeated failure of their investments.
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Brief: Wrestling wins dual meet against Cupertino
January 21, 2012
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The Palo Alto wrestling team defeated rival Cupertino High School this past Thursday in a league duel meet.
The team went into Thursday's meet with confidence, but the results were closer than expected. Despite the close score, the Vikings still came out with a victory.
"We expected to win but I don't think it should have been as close as it was, Nick Ortiz ('12) said. Certain matches went well, and others were close but didn't go our way."
With a lot of young, developing wrestlers in the lower weight classes, the varsity team looks to it's senior experience for leadership.
"We are really young in our lower weight classes and that's just something we have to deal with as the dual meet season goes on," Ortiz said. But our varsity's more experienced guys have been able to pick up falls in the duals which are big points for Paly."
Senior captains Kalen Gans ('12) and Ortiz each had a pin, followed by another pin by Trenton Marshall ('13). Their performances all contributed to the 15 point defeat over Cupertino High School.
Fresh off a victory, the team continues into the Mid Cal Tournament at Gilroy High School this weekend where they are hoping to stay on their current winning streak.
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By a 68 to 31 vote, the Senate has confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the country's newest Supreme Court Justice–putting a fan of the televised adventures of Perry Mason on the nation's highest court.
Sadly, most of the articles about Sotomayor's love for Mason focus on television episodes, rather than the work of author Erle Stanley Gardner, the Ventura, California civil rights lawyer turned pulp fiction scribe who created the series. This year the U.K. publisher House of Stratus resurrected a number of his books, including "The Case Of The Restless Redhead." Amazon.com doesn't list any recent American reprints of Gardner's massive output, but perhaps the confirmation hearings will stoke readers' interest.
Here's more about the Sotomayor and Mason, via the NY Times: "Once sworn in, Justice Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic named to the court. And perhaps its biggest fan of the old Perry Mason shows. Fitting then that Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, was presiding over the Senate's vote at one point today, since he and the judge shared their fond memories of the series during her hearings."


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The news was a jaw-dropper: Astronomers studying photos from the Hubble Space Telescope had shown that a central tenet of modern physics--that space and time are fuzzy and foamy rather than smooth--could not be true. Media outlets ranging from The Times of London to Astronomy magazine reported that the entire notion of quantum gravity might be in trouble. Now, though, the conventional wisdom is striking back, as physicists say the astronomers' reasoning is fundamentally flawed.
The original argument, as Richard Lieu and Lloyd Hillman of the University of Alabama stated it in the 10 March issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, ran like this: The linchpin of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg's uncertain principle, implies that space and time are riddled with "bubbles," which are far too small and fleeting for earthbound experiments to detect. The cumulative effects of the fluctuations, however, could alter light traveling across vast reaches of space in ways that should show up in images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
A Hubble image of a distant star or galaxy is ordinarily slightly blurred and may have a ring around it. This effect arises because light waves must travel slightly different distances from different parts of the telescope's main mirror to its detector. As a result, light waves get out of step, canceling each other out in places and reinforcing each other elsewhere, in a pattern that creates a ring. For that to happen, though, the light waves reaching different parts of the mirror must start out in step.
That shouldn't happen if space is as foamy as quantum gravity theories predict, Lieu said. Quantum uncertainties make it impossible to know the exact speed of a quantum wave of light, or photon, so some photons from a star should travel slightly faster than others. If so, they should get increasingly farther out of step as they travel, just as a pack of runners spreads out more in a marathon than in a 100-meter dash. This spreading would destroy the interference patterns in Hubble images of distant stars and galaxies. But the patterns are there. Ergo, no foam. Roberto Ragazzoni of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Florence and colleagues report similar observations in a paper to be published in the same journal.
But others aren't buying it. Lieu's argument assumes that each photon maintains its speed all the way from a distant galaxy to telescope, says Y. Jack Ng of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, so that photons get steadily more and more out of step in proportion to the distance they travel. But in fact, he says, foamy space and time should make each photon speed up and slow down randomly. In that case, the amount the photons are out of step increases only with the square root of the distance they travel. Over cosmic distances, that square-root sign produces an effect roughly a million billion times smaller than the one predicted by Lieu, Ng says, leaving the Hubble images unscathed and quantum gravity alive and kicking.
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On September 20th, Libya, Egypt, Chad, and Sudan agreed to a UN-backed Strategic Action Program to share use of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) that stradles the four countries. The program reguires the organization of a joint authority to manage the aquifer, which is the largest of its kind in the world.
This somewhat optimistic news of cooperation comes on the heels of two stories from Egypt and Libya that portend less than favorable outcomes for these water-scarce countries.
Just last spring, Egypt was up in arms over an Ethiopian plan to build a dam on the Nile. Some Egyptian officials even threatened to respond with military action.
Ethiopia maintains that the dam is needed to supply electricity to East Africa and will not decrease the amount of water flowing into Egypt.
An initiative brokered by the Gulf states has yet to result in a resolution of the conflict.
Although in all four countries local privately owned wells tap into the NSAS, Libya is the only state that currently exploits the NSAS's water on a large scale.
In 1993, the Man-Made River, a $20 billion dollar, 3000 km long network of pipes, began operating in the country. For the last twenty years, the network has successfully pumped water from southern Libya to the northern coastal cities. According to current plans, Libya plans to use 70 percent of the water it consumes to expand irrigation and farming.
On September 3, however, water was cut off to Tripoli after the Magraha tribe stormed a pumping station and demanded that the daughter of former Qaddafi spy chief Abdullah Senussi, who had been kidnapped the day before, be released.
This forced residents in the capital to rely on bottled water for ten days and sparked protests over what was viewed as government incompetence.
While the event underscores the ongoing security issues in Libya, it also highlights the ease with which conflict can affect access to water.
In light of these developments, the NSAS agreement comes at a time when the governments of both Libya and Egypt feel less than confident about water security and are eager to lay claim to this shared resource.


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This is his job and he is taking it very seriously.

I have just bought the DVD "The haunted airman" and the book "The Haunting of Toby Jugg" by Dennis Wheatley and I am trying to find out more about the actor and this brilliant personality "Robert Pattinson", who keeps me up again and again searching for the reason why I am so addicted. He is so fascinating - being a humorous and quite normal boy who changes completely when the melodramatic pose is demanded of him...

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If youre looking for a window into another culture, a good place to start is with its folk tales and childrens stories after all, the yarns that we weave for our children carry the essential cultural data that we want to pass on. To that end, its hard to imagine a more convenient cultural jumping-off point than Cuéntame un Cuentito (Tell Me a Story), a joint venture of Modern Muse Theatre Company and Stories on Stage.
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Like all Stories on Stage productions, this one calls for actors (for this performance, theyre all from Modern Muse) to read stories on stage. In this case, though, the stories are bilingual some in English, some in Spanish and they come from Hispanic folk traditions. Probably the most recognizable is Prietita y la Llorona (Prietita and the Weeping Woman), by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, based on the fantastic Mexican ghost story about a woman who is denied entrance to heaven after drowning her children and killing herself, and is doomed to wander the earth for all eternity looking for them.
The performance leans toward the educational its primarily for kids but if that synopsis of La Llorona is any indication, it should be pretty interesting for parents and adults, too. The stories start at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 29, at Su Teatro at the Denver Civic Theater, 721 Santa Fe Drive, and tickets are $3 for children, $5 for adults. For more information, visit www.storiesonstage.org or call 303-494-0523.
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Bouncing Puppy Wants to Play Fetch With Baby [VIDEO]
This cute puppy can't wait to play fetch with the new arrival. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize the baby can barely sit up, let alone toss a ball. Still, the little guy is determined to get on the bed to play. Hang in there buddy. You're almost there!
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When it comes to attacking cameras, people tend to do it because they don't want to be filmed. When you see a dog going after a camera though, that's usually because he's looking for a new friend.
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Ouch! Bike Racer Completely Forgets About Hurdle
When it comes to traditional forms of bike racing, staying on the bike is rule number one. With Cyclocross on the other hand, dismounting and dodging obstacles is par for the course. While we're sure Cyclocross is tons of fun, from the looks of this video, it can also be pretty painful if, like Joey, you don't see an upcoming hurdle and take a spill on the track.
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Headed down an escalator at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Dallas-based hairdresser Isis Brantley (who counts neo-soul singer Erykah Badu as a client) was stopped by TSA agents who insisted on checking her ample Afro hairstyle for explosives.
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If you think breaking in a wild horse is hard, wait until you try to guide a train of speeding shopping carts around a mall.
Filmed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, this video shows an intrepid employee of the Iscon Mega Mall wrangling several carts in a pretty creative way. Though it may look like quite a challenge (it's hard to put away one shopping cart, let alone a few dozen) apparently this shopping cart slide happens a few times every day. Just another day at the office.
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Are you looking for a cheap and spacious place to stay in sunny Burbank, California from October 10 – 13? If so, Conan O'Brien may have just the place for you.
O'Brien recently listed his 25,000 square foot TV studio for rent on Airbnb, a popular online marketplace where home owners can offer up short-term rentals to travelers looking for alternatives to a hotel.
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You're bound to meet a few interesting people when you take a year-long hitchhiking trip across the country.
Artist, traveler and self-proclaimed 'lover of people' Benjamin Jenks met exactly 930 when he and his raised thumb journeyed 5,000 miles from Los Angeles to Maine. Artist that he is, Ben put together a time-lapse video of his trip complete with photos of all 930 people he met along the way.
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Japan's expansion of the international terminal at Haneda Airport in the Tokyo metropolitan area bolsters route expansion plans by its two major carriers, ANA and Japan Airlines (JAL). Of the two domestic carriers, ANA won twice as many international day-time slots Japan's transport ministry awarded last year, giving it capacity for more planned flights to the U.S.
Tokyo International Air Terminal Corporation is expanding the international terminal building's main hall at Haneda and building a new satellite facility with eight boarding gates and aircraft parking spaces, according to Airport News Japan. The airport, which is located eight miles south of central Tokyo, added a fourth runway and opened the new international terminal in 2010. With the latest expansion, Haneda's annual international day-time flight slots will double from 30,000 to 60,000 starting in March.
In October, Japan's transport ministry granted ANA 11 new international day-time slot pairs and JAL five in the slot allocation at Haneda, Tokyo's main domestic airport and Japan's busiest for passenger traffic. The ministry distributed 15 slots to foreign carriers, Bloomberg reported. The slot allocation doubles Haneda's current day-time international capacity. "But the existing day-time international services are only for regional Asian services, so this expansion program will be the first time in three decades there will be long-haul day-time flights into Haneda," according to market analysis firm CAPA Centre for Aviation.
During a recent interview at ANA's offices in Tokyo, Kohei Tsuji, the airline's director of network planning, said ANA will operate 34.7 percent of its international flights from Haneda once the airport opens the expanded international terminal, some of them shifted from Tokyo's Narita International Airport. In terms of available seat kilometers (ASKs), ANA's international capacity will increase from 18.6 percent to 36.9 percent at Haneda, without adding U.S. destinations. The countries are still negotiating U.S. slots; depending on how many U.S. slots ANA receives, the ASKs will increase to nearly 50 percent, he said. Meanwhile, Narita, located some 35 miles outside of Tokyo, will remain important to ANA for international connecting flights, he added.
JAL protested the "inequitable allocation" of day-time international flight slots at Haneda and sent a "proposal for rectification" to Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau. "They replied that considering the size of impact on the competitive environment, they would carefully and restrainingly judge the launch of new routes by JAL…until Fiscal Year 2016," airline president Yoshiharu Ueki told a press conference on January 22. "Our understanding is that our application for new routes using late night and early morning slots at Haneda Airport is not applicable to their so-called restraining judgment."
Ueki said JAL plans to expand its international network using the late night and early morning slots at Haneda and increasing flight frequency to and from Narita.


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|Aruneshwar, Sushil win gold
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Bhopal, December 11, 2005
ARUNESHWAR SINGH Deo, RK Gupta and Sushil shared the gold medal of the district-level rifle shooting competition organised by Bhopal Rifle Club and Bhopal District Rifle Club in the City today.
The competition was organised in three categories including women, men and junior. Five participants from each category participated in the contest.
Appearing in the men's section, the spectators watched a close contest between Singh Deo, Gupta and Sushil. Such was the keenly fought contest among them that they were declared joint gold winners as they bagged 74.5 points each. Vinay stood second in the same category with 67.5 points.
In the women's section, once again, Divyanka Tripathi dominated the contest. Maintaining her splendid performance, she bagged the gold medal with 76 points. She has been dominating her category for the last couple of years. Rasleen Gupta had to content with the second position with 66. 5 points.
In the junior section, Awdesh Pratap Singh won the gold medal with 81.5 points. Aishwarya Triptahi, brother of Divyanka Tripathi stood second in the respective category with 64.5 points.
In the prize distribution ceremony, NVDA chairman AV Singh, Lokendra Singh and Rajesh Mishra and others were present. Bhopal District Rifle Club was declared overall team championship winner of the tournament.
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|Vijay, Varsha shine
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Bhopal, December 18, 2005
VIJAY CHIBBER and Varsha Verman dominated the Bhopal Open Rifle Shooting Competition that concluded in the City today. The competition was organised by the Bhopal Rifle Club (BRC).
In the men's section, Vijay with his fabulous shooting stood first in .22-bore open sight 100m (application) and big-bore rifle open category. In the women's events, Varsha Verman claimed gold in both categories. It was a disappointment for Divyanka Tripathi as she failed to continue her performance and had to satisfy with the bronze medal.
More than 200 shooters participated in the two-day competition. In the prize distribution ceremony, PHE Minister Rampal Singh was the chief guest. Addressing the gathering, he appreciated organisers for providing good facilities for shooting.
"Apart from developing good shooters, the organisers should develop others who can give their support during emergency situations", said chief guest.
Aruneshwar Singhdeo of BRC assured all possible help for this purpose. He announced that a competition on the same pattern would be organised in January in Raisen. ADG SAF Vijay Shukul presided over the closing ceremony. On the occasion, organising secretary Robin Dutta, Naeem Khan and others were present.
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Newcomer Divyanka, who features in the title role of the Zee daily Dulhann, has already had a taste of erratic shooting hours. Dulhann was launched on August 14 and the title track was not ready till August 9, due to which the actress had to shoot for 15 hours non-stop. She has already started working hard, so don't be surprised to hear one more case of a swooning actress.
Earlier, the show was to be titled Banoo Main Teri Dulhan. But the channel decided to change the name according to the dictates of numerology and added a double 'n'.
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She tried her luck at the Miss Bhopal beauty contest and emerged a winner. She soon participated in Zee's Teen Queen contest where she won the Miss beautiful skin title. "It gave me a lot of confidence and I thought of doing serials," recalls Divyanka who debuts on television next week in Zee's Banoo Main Teri Doolhan.
Of course she had donned the grease paint and emoted before the camera before for Bhopal Doordarshan in a tele-film called Gulra Ke Baba which was based on well known literature Markandey's novel of the same name besides Sahara's Saathi Re. But those were one-off short films made on a much smaller scale and lacked the glamour and glitz of the mass entertainment daily soaps.
Though she was based in Bhopal she dreamed of working in regular television serials. Luckily her co-actor from one of her tele-films came to her aid. Through his model-coordinator he did the groundwork of reaching her pictures to the production house's office which was looking for a girl to play the main lead in Banoo Main Teri Doolhan. "I was called to Mumbai for an audition and to my surprise I was selected for the role," she smiles.
The show, according to Divyanka, is based in a small town and deals with a young girl's struggle to come up in life against all odds. "Like most small town girls, Vidya is a chirpy, confident and positive girl who strives to come out of her small town existence. Destiny helps her reach her goal. It's a beautiful story with lot of masala," laughs Divyanka who feels small town girls are more smarter and ambitious than big city girls.
"That's because when you have access to a lot of stuff your ambition takes a hit because things are taken for granted. On the other hand, small town girls dream big because they have limited access to opportunities." She is really excited about her role and big television debut.
"This is my first real big exposure and I hope I live up to everyone's expectations," she adds. But then like most small cities and town girls Divyanka is also not low on confidence. "In many ways I am like Vidya. I am a positive thinking girl and can face problems confidently. I love challenges," she asserts.
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|Coming to a couch near you
The show, produced by Neelima Bajpai of Reth fame, has newcomer Divyanka playing the lead role of Vidya. Opposite her is Sharad Malhotra, another young actor who has also acted in the Sony show Kabhie to Nazar Milao. Also seen will be actors like Kamya Punjabi and Rajendra Gupta. The show will go on air on Zee TV from Monday, August 14.
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Linking 421a to Low-Income Housing
By IVER PETERSON
Published: December 17, 1989
MOST of the people in the Spring Creek Gardens complex in the East New York section of Brooklyn earn considerably less than $20,000 a year, while those in the Belaire condo minium tower, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, make whatever is needed to buy half-million dollar condominium apartments and million-dollar penthouses.
Yet the two communities, so different in resources and life styles, are neighbors in a way, linked by law and a kind of municipal symbiosis. For the people in the Belaire, probably without knowing it, paid for the housing at Spring Creek Gardens. The Brooklynites, also unaware, will return the favor over the next 10 years by reducing the expensive con dominium development's real estate tax es through the city's 421a program.
The program works like this: A builder of low- or moderate-income housing re ceives from the city five transferable real estate tax abatement certificates for each unit of new affordable housing, or 3.3 certificates for each renovated apartment.
That developer then covers much of the cost of building the low-rent housing by selling the certificates - currently for about $20,000 each - to builders of market-rate condominiums and rental apartments in Manhattan. For each certificate, the Manhattan developer gets a 10-year graduated tax abatement on one new apartment. He then recoups the cost of the certificates through the lower taxes and higher selling prices of the market-rate building.
More than 900 low-income apartments outside the prime Manhattan residential area are now in various stages of development under this program, but not entirely in the way the city had planned. When the trade-off was established in 1985, the city expected the tax abatements alone to raise enough money to pay for low-income housing, but the de velopers of big low-income projects such as Spring Creek Gardens have coupled the city program with the Federal Low Income Housing Tax credit.
Critics accuse the developers of low income housing of doubling subsidies and inflating their profits in this way, but the builders themselves insist that the city program alone does not produce enough cash to pay for the affordable housing.
Besides raising charges of ''double dipping'' by developers - one City Councilman calls it a giveaway - this practice has also meant that only housing for the lowest-income families, those making no more than $13,000 for a family of four, can be built under the rules of the Federal program. The city wanted moderate-income housing included in the 421a deal with developers, and the City Council recently amended the city law to require such housing in developments with more than 130 units.
MEANWHILE, the 421a tax-abatement certificates have quickly become big business, to the surprise of some city housing officials and the dismay of critics of the program, who fear the mounting cost - $177 million this year alone - to the city in lost taxes. With the certificates currently selling for about $20,000 each, the five-for-one formula works out to a cost to the city of $100,000 for each unit of affordable housing built.
General Atlantic Realty Corporation, which built Spring Creek Gardens, sold 184 of the 1,425 abatement certificates the development has generated to Zeckendorf Properties, which Zeckendorf then used to lower the taxes on the 184 condominiums at its Belaire at 524 East 72d Street. The Zeckendorf company then used the abatements as a marketing tool, lowering prices to draw customers while saving on taxes during construction.
''I think it's the finest program for the production of low-income housing in the country,'' said Philip E. Aarons, president of General Atlantic. ''It produces the highest quality housing at the lowest cost.''
The developers of Davidson Court, a new 38-unit low-income project built by Davidson Court Associates in the Mariners Harbor section of Staten Island, sold 200 of their tax abatement certificates to a second condominium project being built by Zeckendorf and Peter Malkin, another developer, on the corner of 72d Street and Broadway.
In some cases, the developer of low-income housing uses the certificates himself, as Lawrence Smiley, a partner in Lexington Avenue Properties, did with 71 of the abatements he gained by doing a gut rehabilitation of 32 apartments in an adjoining pair of city-owned apartments at 1130 College Avenue in the South Bronx.
The abatements, at the ratio of 3.3 to 1 for renovated low-income housing, have been transferred to Mr. Smiley's 72-unit high-end condominium at 127 East 30th Street, at Lexington Avenue, where they were used as a marketing tool. Part of the saving went to the buyers, Mr. Smiley said, and part came to him as higher profits.
Once the rehab is completed, it will be turned over to the South Bronx Community Management Corporation, a nonprofit group that will own the renovated property debt-free and operate it. Spring Creek Gardens in Brooklyn is being operated by Phipps Houses, another nonprofit housing management corporation.


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Cowes Antiques & Collectors Fair
Antiques & Collectors Fair, Sunday 22 Feb 2015
10:30am to 3.00pm
Northwood House, Cowes - just 10 minutes walk from the Red Jet
Northwood House in Cowes hosts the 11th annual Antiques & Collectors Fair, organised by the Isle of Wight Motor Neurone Disease Association.
The fair is an annual event organised by Isle of Wight residents Jennie Lewis and Doreen Gant, in tribute and loving memory of their mother Mavis Summerfield, who sadly died of Motor Neurone Disease in 2002.
Items for sale include:
- Isle of Wight Books
- Silver
- Wood
- Quality Furniture
- Vintage Items
- Jewellery
- Military Art/Badges
- China
- Glass
- Garden Antiques and more...
Rex Gully from the Auctioneers Hose, Rhodes and Dickson will be providing FREE valuations in the privacy of the Library Room at Northwood House between 10:30-13:00.
Entry to the fair is £2.00 per adult (accompanied children are free of charge). All proceeds from the door takings are donated directly to the Isle of Wight branch to help local people living with MND. Refreshments and light snacks will be available to purchase.
All enquiries to Jennie Lewis – (01983) 289794 or email Jennie at email@example.com and Doreen at email@example.com
Mum's Memory Day
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a horrible disease. When someone you love is diagnosed it is difficult to understand why. Mavis Summerfield was one of life's true treasures. A loving wife, mother and grandmother who raised a caring family and had just celebrated her Golden Wedding Anniversary in 2001. Mavis and her husband Laurie had also decided to make the move to their beloved Isle of Wight to be nearer to their daughter Jennie who moved to the Island the previous year. So when Mavis was diagnosed with MND in February 2002 her family prepared for the worst. As Mavis was too ill to leave the mainland at that time she didn't have the benefit of the care and support from the Isle of Wight Branch of MND. The disease took hold very quickly and Mavis sadly died in March 2002.
Jennie and her sister Doreen, who moved to the Isle of Wight in 2002, decided to do something to help others living with MND. In the summer of 2004 the sisters had a stall at the Earl Mountbatten Hospice Antiques Fair and happened to notice another stall with the Isle of Wight MND committee raising much needed funds. During that afternoon the idea came to them to hold an Antiques fair specifically to raise money for MND and so 'Mum's Memory Day' was born!. The first step was to find a suitable venue and as they both lived in Northwood they started to look locally and the gem that is Northwood House was deemed the ideal venue.
From the onset all staff at Northwood House provided tremendous support to get this event up and running. Even during the many changes at Northwood House the event has always been well supported by its staff and visitors alike.
After the first fair in 2004 the sisters were invited to join the MND Committee by its President, Gloria Minghella. Committee members have provided hands-on support eversince by manning the entrance table, displaying posters and generally spreading the word to encourage friends and family to attend.
Fast-forward to 2015 and with a total of just under £10,000 raised from this event so far, the 11th fair is upon us. Already promising to be a great event in the Island Antiques calendar and as a vital fund raiser for the Isle of Wight (IOW) branch of MND. All money taken on the door on February 22nd will be donated directly to the IOW branch to help local people living with MND. The work of the IOW committee is outstanding in the support and care it offers to local people, their carers and families. Just by coming along on 22nd February and paying the admission fee your money will help someone like Mavis who doesn't deserve to have this dreadful disease either but needs our much needed support.
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10:30am to 3:00pm on Sunday 22 Feb 2015
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MIAMI — In Alex Sink's view of the future, homeowners could install rooftop solar panels and not pay higher taxes for lowering their electricity bills. Businesses could generate their own electricity.
In turn, meeting that demand would be innovative energy companies flocking to Florida creating jobs. And the state's giant electric companies would thrive as leaders in wind, solar and biomass energy but would not have to control the market.
That optimistic portrait is painted by Sink, the state's chief financial officer and Democratic candidate for governor, in the energy policy she released Tuesday.
Sink said the gulf oil disaster underscored "the economic threat we face if we continue our over-reliance on oil," and she scolded the state Legislature for allowing Florida to lag in renewable energy production and manufacturing.
If elected, she said, she "will move our state decisively toward a more reliable, clean, and job-generating energy future."
Sink proposes a combination of fiscal incentives, policy shifts and regulations to broaden Florida's market for alternative fuels.
Her energy plan pushes in directions that Gov. Charlie Crist and others have sought to go but failed to achieve, blocked by a Republican-led Legislature.
For starters, she said she supports a "renewable portfolio standard" that would require electric companies to use a certain amount of clean energy to fuel their power plants by a set date.
Twenty-nine states have adopted a "renewable portfolio standard" (which is being debated in Congress as the "renewable electricity standard"). And the state's Public Service Commission has recommended the Legislature adopt one, but it refused.
She would also expand the state solar rebate program, promote ''smart grid" technology to allow consumers to monitor their electricity usage, and develop an "aggressive solar program for homes and businesses with the objective of driving solar system costs to parity with conventional sources of electricity."
"There has never been a more critical moment to take advantage of a focus on a clean energy economy," she said, flanked by solar panels in a warehouse for Sun Electronics, a Miami solar appliance retailer. "Change will not come easily or quickly, but I know it has to occur."
Standing at her side was Steve Kaufman, director of renewable energy services for Kaufman Lynn Energy of Boca Raton, an offshoot of Kaufman Lynn general contracting. The company was formed to meet the demand for solar-powered buildings but "we found that it is very challenging to do business in Florida and that it's much more attractive to do business in other states, which is not our preference."
He said Florida's energy policy is focused on utility-controlled generation and has imposed hurdles on any homeowner or business that wants to generate its own power.
"Not only do we not have any incentives for solar energy, we actually have some disincentives because of our lack of good public policy," Kaufman said.
Sink followed gubernatorial candidate Lawton "Bud" Chiles in announcing an energy plan. Chiles released a "white paper" last month calling on Florida power companies to produce 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020. Also, he would create a renewable energy loan fund and require utilities to set targets to conserve energy.
Sink's Republican opponents haven't said much about their energy plans.
Attorney General Bill McCollum released an economy and jobs proposal that calls for "greater energy independence and diversification to provide Florida with affordable, renewable and safe energy sources for years to come."
Businessman Rick Scott said he doesn't believe that climate change is real but thinks "we need to build more nuclear plants, invest in alternative fuels and drill offshore."
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