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Toews, Cornelius C. F. (1867-1928)
Cornelius C.F. Toews, Mennonite teacher and prosperous farmer, was born 1 April 1867 in South Russia to Kornelius Toews (1841-1907) and Justina Friesen (1837-1909). Cornelius was the fourth of 10 children, two of which died, one in infancy and one as a child. He was eight years old in 1876 when his family immigrated to Canada, where they settled in the village of Bergfeld on the East Reserve in Manitoba. On 21 May 1888, he was baptized and in 1890 married Katharina Friesen (1870-1946) in the Chortitzer Mennonite Church. Together they had 10 children, two of which died as infants.
Cornelius C. F. Toews left Bergfeld to teach in the village of Strassburg. It was there that he met his wife and filed for a homestead 26 August 1890. His success as a farmer was evident in the large new house he built for his family in 1916. In addition to his success as a teacher and farmer, Cornelius was also musically gifted. Cornelius C. F. Toews died in 1928. He was remembered by family and students as a conscientious farmer, and a strict but compassionate teacher and father.
Plett, Elma Peter. "Cornelius C. F. Toews (1867-1928)." Preservings No. 8, Part I (June 1996):16-17.
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Kris Jones was walking along Ivy Road, heading home after work, when he saw a policeman drive by and then turn around at the 7-Eleven. "I'm talking to a friend on the phone and said, 'I bet you $5 I get stopped and harassed,'" he says.
When police announced last November that a serial rapist was at large, women weren't the only ones who became fearful of being targeted. Black males are finding themselves under increasing police scrutiny as possible suspects.
Jones, 21, did get stopped. "They said I had dilated pupils, and that was a description of the serial rapist," recounts Jones, who wonders how the officers saw his eyes from the car when he was walking away from them.
The latest bulletins picturing the rapist describe him as a six-foot-tall black male, in his mid 20s to late 30s, with an athletic build and a medium to dark complexion. After an April 26 assault, police released a sketch and noted that he has "unnaturally white" or "slightly bulging" eyes.
"That description is so ridiculous," says Jones. "That could look like anybody."
"Kris doesn't favor that description at all," says Ruth Johnson, Jones' supervisor in the cafeteria at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center. Her son, Jerry Arrington, does.
Two months ago, Arrington had just gotten into town from Washington and was walking from the Greyhound station toward the university. "I walked by this cop," says Arrington. "He spoke to me and followed me about five blocks. Then six cops came from out of nowhere."
Police questioned him and then released him. "They wanted to know why I was walking through the university," says Arrington. "They said I looked out of place."
That wasn't his last encounter with law enforcement. Police called his mother and asked him to come in and provide a DNA sample. After Arrington provided the sample, he was eliminated as a suspect.
But he still captures police attention he's been stopped two more times. Arrington, 28 years old and 5'9", acknowledges that he resembles the sketch of the suspect. "I can understand why they're messing with me," he says. "I can't understand why they're messing with other guys who don't look anything like the drawing."
One of those is a 25 year old who works at the Kluge Rehab Center and who asks that his name not be used. "I'm 6'2-1/2", 217 pounds, and my beard is closely trimmed," he says. "My eyes are brown as hell."
After missing the bus after work one day, this man was walking on the Corner near Orbit when an officer stopped him and asked for identification. He complied and continued on.
"I got to Mellow Mushroom," he recalls. "Here come three cops screaming my name. I just gave them my name, and I'm hot and tired and in my work clothes. They said they wanted to question me about the rapist. I said, "Am I under arrest? Am I in trouble?" They said they wanted to hold me until a sergeant came." When the sergeant came, according to this would-be suspect, they let him go.
"I understand they're trying to do their job, but I don't think it's right to stereotype every black male," he says.
Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo says people come under suspicion in a number of ways, most often from someone seeing the composite sketch and calling the police.
As for those African-American males who are stopped on the street, Longo says, "The suspect is a black male, so race is an objective criterion."
Still, other factors influence whether someone is questioned, such as time of day and location. "It all has to add up to a reasonable suspicion, not a gut feeling," he says. And because most of the attacks have occurred around UVA, he calls that a "target-rich area."
So far, police have eliminated over 230 people by taking DNA samples. Longo defends the practice of asking for a DNA sample, which is obtained by rubbing a Q-Tip inside the mouth, a so-called buccal swab.
"With a buccal swab, I can confirm quickly whether you're a suspect," he explains. "It's far easier to do a swab than an investigation."
Longo says he hasn't received any complaints about black males being stopped by the police, and he expects his officers to confirm or dispel suspicions "professionally and within the confines of the law."
He urges anyone who feels the stops or questioning has risen to the level of harassment to "pick up the phone and call me."
Even with apologies from police officers the third time he was stopped, Jerry Arrington says, "I feel terrible about it. I've got to look over my shoulders. I'm scared. And the cops said they were getting desperate."
Kris Jones doesn't like the suspicious looks he gets. "On the Corner, an old white woman nearly walked into a light pole staring at me," he says. Now he tries to avoid the Corner. "I don't like going there because of being harassed. I worry that they'll slap cuffs on me."


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Office sought: School Board - Lee District
Party Affiliation: NA - endorsed by Fairfax County Democratic Committee
Previous offices held; please include dates: None
Incumbents: when elected to this position:
Occupation: Information Technology Consultant
Current employment (include name and address of employers): SAIC, 6565 Arlington Blvd. Falls Church
Previous employment: Department of Defense Inspector General
Education: (please list schools attended, degrees and dates):
BA Political Science, 1983 Temple University
MA American Politics, 1985 American University
Community ties:
Lane PTA President (2002)
Fairfax County Council of PTAs Facilities Chair (2000-2003)
Substitute teacher in Lee District (2001-2003)
Served on the School Bond Committee (2001)
Cluster V Parents Advisory Council (2002-2003)
Superintendent's Community Advisory Council (1996-2003)
Superintendent's Parent Advisory Council (2000-2002)
Awarded Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Franconia Community Coalition (2001)
Previously served on Hayfield Community Coalition, Tartan Village Homeowners Board, Franconia Community Coalition, FCPS Gifted and talented Advisory Committee
List a few current endorsements you are most proud of:
Fairfax Education Association
Lee District Supervisor Dana Kauffman
Fairfax County Democratic Committee
Lee District Democratic Committee
Fairfax County Council of PTAs - rated as a "Friend of Education"
State Senator Toddy Puller
1. What is your top public-service accomplishment?
My top accomplishment is leading the efforts to bring the Island Creek Elementary school to Lee District. Four years ago, I analyzed the data and saw the need for a new school along the Beulah corridor to relieve the overcrowding at Lane Elementary. Working with community leaders we were able to get the school funded and built within four years. I served on the School Bond Committee to ensure we had funding for this project and worked with all impacted communities to help make the boundary process fair and smooth. Lastly, I served on the Principal Selection Committee for the new school.
2. Incumbents: Describe the top accomplishment of your last term. Why shouldn't voters blame you for current problems in your district?
3. What are the top five problems facing your constituents and what approaches will you use to solve them? Describe one challenge (or more) in your district that is different than other parts of the county.
Increasing Academic Achievement: Making Sure All Our Children Succeed
Reducing Class Size: Making Sure Our Children Get the Attention They Deserve
Improving Accountability: Making Sure Your Tax Dollars Are Wisely Spent
Securing Additional State Funding: Making Sure Fairfax County Gets Its Fair Share
Focusing Resources and Policy on Improving Our Classrooms: Making Sure All Decisions Are Based on What is Best for Our Children
Lee District faces the unique challenge of a diverse population and one that continues to grow. Many of our families come to our District with limited English skills. Additionally, Lee District continues to grow and grow. We must address the needs of these children but at the same find space for all our children and ensure all receive a quality education.
4. What qualities, qualifications and characteristics will you bring to this office?
I feel I have a number of things in common with the residents of Lee District. First, I am a parent and therefore understand the needs and concerns of the average parent. Secondly, I have been a substitute teacher and therefore know some of the concerns and challenges our teachers face. Third, I am a homeowner and pay my fair (or as it sometimes seems ñ unfair) share of taxes. Therefore, I understand that our residents want their tax dollars spent wisely. Fourth, I am a businessman who knows how to solve problems, manage a budget, and please my customers. Lastly, I have been a committed school activist who has a history of thoughtful analysis on school issues and a reputation as someone who gets things done.
5. How will voters best distinguish between you and your opponent(s)?
I offer solutions not slogans. I have taken the time to develop a vision and plan ñ with concrete recommendations for making our schools better. Therefore, I will be able to make an immediate impact on our schools and will not have to wait to learn what needs to be done.
6. What is the minority achievement gap? How have the schools been successfully addressing this gap? What more can they do?
The minority achievement gap is somewhat of a misnomer ñ in reality it has more to do with economics and language than ethnic origins. Those children coming from economical disadvantage homes and from homes where English is not spoken generally do not do as well in school. FCPS has taken this problem seriously and has instituted a number of programs designed to assist schools that are not performing well on standardized tests. These schools generally have a high number of children who are economically disadvantage and who have Limited English Proficiency. Foremost among these programs is Project Excel. Project Excel puts additionally resources into these, lengthens the school day, and institutes programs designed to improve reading and math for students who are struggling. While this and others are sound programs more needs to be done. For example, programs like those at JEB Stuart HS have been working and should be expanded. Lastly, a plan needs to be developed to shift recourses from Project Excel Schools once their test scores begin to rise.
7. What is your understanding of research studies into the effect of school size on student achievement? What are the implications for FCPS?
Recently, I researched and wrote a report for FCCPTA on this very subject. This can be downloaded from my web site. Essentially, it says that overcrowding can have a significant impact on school performance (student achievement and effective school management). In particular, overcrowding has an impact on learning in schools with a high proportion of students living in poverty. A recent study found that students in such schools scored significantly lower on both mathematics and reading exams than did similar students in schools with adequate space. Crowded classroom conditions can make it difficult for students to concentrate on their lessons and may limit the amount of time teachers can spend on implementing innovative teaching methods.
Research also shows that overcrowding can have a direct and severe impact on the logistics of the school day, forcing changes in schedules and making disruptions and loud noises part of normal operating procedure. Perhaps most serious, electives such as art, music, and shop classes may be eliminated, because of the need to use all available space for educational "basics." Finally, administrators must devote more of their time and energies to maintaining order, rather than undertaking the more important work of leading efforts to educate their students.
8. What is your understanding of research studies on sleep patterns of teenagers and the implications for high school start times?
Some studies point to the fact that teenager sleep patterns show that these students will perform better by having a latter start time. The research is interesting and FCPS should evaluate the possibility of trying a new schedule on a pilot basis ñ with community input and concurrence.
9. If reducing class size is a priority, how would you re-allocate the budget to pay for this change?
Reallocating class size should be one our priorities but only in elementary school and primarily in K-3. Studies indicate that this where class size makes the greatest difference. I would re-organize our Strategic Targets and use them to prioritize our budget. Using this technique we could determine our budget priorities and re-allocate money from other areas such as administrative positions or certain low performing programs or less strategically important programs.
10. Is there "waste" in the school budget? If so, where and how much? If you can't pinpoint precisely, in what specific area would you begin looking?
Yes there is most certainly waste in any large organization such as FCPS. I do not believe that it will amount to huge savings but there are some areas we could cut. Programs that have a limited audience, certain administrative positions, and referrals to Special Education may yield some savings ñ not to the extent that the recent Gibson report indicated but some nevertheless. I also support the creation of an Inspector General's Office for FCS as well to help identify additional areas to cut and improve efficiencies.
Has the cluster director system been successful? If so, give examples. If not, what alternatives should be explored?
The Cluster system has increased the ability of individual schools to interact with high level school officials and thereby clearly indicate their problems and concerns. However, I believe more needs to be done to better articulate the role and function of the Cluster offices and Cluster Directors. Many teachers and parents seem unclear on the exact function of these offices and their effectiveness seems to be somewhat personality driven.
12. What have been the advantages and disadvantages of SOLs?
The SOLs due provide a mechanism for measuring our students general progress in learning the program of studies. However, they are simply one data point and should not be used as the sole measure of success. Furthermore, the tests need to be further refined so that they concentrate on more substantive and important facts and less on trivia.
13. Explain how No Child Left Behind sets standards on categories of students and its implications for Fairfax County schools.
No Child Left Behind asks states to develop reading and math tests in grades 3 to 8. Since VA has SOLs that cover 3, 5, and 8th grades, we will only need to develop additional tests in 4, 6, and 7th. However, NCLB requires that schools not only receive a passing grade but also that each sub-group in that school receive a passing grade. Those sub-groups include minority groups, students with Limited English Proficiency and children from economically disadvantage homes. Achieving passing rates of 90 to 95 in these subgroups will be extremely tough for any school district ñ to include FCPS. Additionally, NCLB comes to FCPS as yet another unfunded mandate.
14. If you had an extra $1 million to spend on the school system any way you would like, how would you spend it?
Unfortunately, in a school system with a budget of 1.6 billion, a million dollars does not go very far ñ sad to say. However, with an extra million, I would hire as many teachers as I could and reduce that class ratios in K-3.
15. What are the hallmarks of a well-run school? Include measurable characteristics.
The best indicators of a well run school district include those achievement benchmarks such as standardized tests (SOLs, SATs, Stanford 9, reading tests etc.). However, there is more to judging a system than simply this, we must look at graduation rates, the number of students going on the college and graduate school from Fairfax. We need to look at attendance, teacher salary, teacher turn-over rates, minority achievement, and parental satisfaction surveys as well.
16. What are the hallmarks of an excellent teacher? Include measurable characteristics.
Excellent teachers produce tangible results such as well performing students. Good teachers inspire students to learn and other teachers to improve. Good teachers know their students well. There is an old saying "I can not teach your child well, if I do not know your child well - good teachers know the strengths and weaknesses of their students. Good teachers never give up on students. Good teachers help produce good people. Measurable characteristics include student test scores (over significant periods of time), positive performance reviews by their principals, and positive parent feedback.
If you were to create your own core curriculum, what subjects would you include? Place in priority order.
The subject of a core curriculum should be divided into two categories ñ 1) k - 6 and
2) middle/high school. At the elementary level the curriculum must stress language arts, computational math and word problems, history and science. At the middle and HS level the curriculum will broaden but the core curriculum will still tress language arts. The key to success in school and in the real world is reading and writing. Additionally, I would include the following subjects at the higher grades:
Math (basic computation, Algebra and geometry)
History (American and World)
Science (biology, chemistry, physics)
Foreign language skills
Music and Art
18. What are the advantages and disadvantages of public-private partnerships as they relate to Fairfax County schools?
Public private partnerships that bring mentoring programs and additional resources into FCPS are very good things to have. The disadvantage that any system must bear in mind is keeping its independence from corporate sponsorship.
19. How would you increase involvement of the general public in the public schools?
We must remove the pretense of public involvement and truly embark on a program where parents, business leaders, and the general community are given an opportunity to make real contributions. Our Strategic Targets must be open for debate as well as our budget priorities. We must create public feedback mechanisms using the web. Right now we have developed a fine outreach email program but we do not have a mechanism for getting input from the community electronically.
20. How would you increase parental involvement in the public schools?
Parental involvement can be strengthened with parent/student/teacher contracts, parent liaison positions at the Cluster level, PTA outreach (especially to minority households), brown bag lunches at or near parent work space (the Tysons area offers a prime opportunity), email, school web sites that are interactive, parental workshops and outreach programs aimed at understanding diverse cultures.
21. What additional public safety steps would you recommend in addressing gangs and violent activities on or near school property? Has the rate of violent acts increased, decreased or stayed the same in the last four years? County-wide? By pyramid in the area you live?
I would like to see the police develop a program where they regularly stop by our elementary schools so they become familiar with the exits and layout of the buildings and regularly visit with students and teachers to foster good behavior in our younger children. For our high-schools I recommend working to increase Coalition safe and drug free programs. At the same time ensuring all offenders are removed from the school grounds immediately.
22. What school-boundary strategies could be used to address the inequity of under- and over-enrolled schools within FCPS?
This problem, in part, stems from our inability to accurate predict student populations at the local (school) level. While we do a pretty good job predicting gross student population for the county we still need to improve out micro predictions. School boundaries can be used to address inequities in population but I would generally caution against this as an overall approach. Boundary changes can cause great angst with parents and can lead to significant divisiveness in the community.


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What are demands on hosting for multiplayer strategy game like Empire, Travian?
(memory for application, memory for database)
- in flash
- in .net
- in php ?
Comments says there is no response for this question .., but I wrote concrete examples. So some tips, which could be near to reallity would be helpful for me.
For example:
Empire is in flash it could need about xxx GB memory for the application + about xxx MB/GB memory form database. (for one world)
Travian (it is probably in php) it could need xxx GB for engine and xxx MB/GB for database.(For one world).


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Mugshots: Spring break antics land 30 in jail on Bolivar Peninsula
Spring break crowds on Bolivar Peninsula were not as large this year, but that didn't keep the jail cells empty, with alcohol- and drug-related crimes topping a list of offences.
Deputies report they answered 90 calls for service over the 10 days of spring break. Complaints ranged from loud music, reckless driving and the inevitable underage drinking.
Thirty people were arrested and 140 citations were issued with arrests ranging from public intoxication, possession of drugs, evading arrest and assault.
The majority of citations were for a minor in possession of an alocoholic beverage with tickets for speeding, glass containers and open containers in a motorized vehicle all close behind.
The Galveston County Sheriff's Office report extra deputies will patrol Bolivar from now until Labor Day to promote safety for residents and tourists.


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Now that is sweet, I wish I was into 5.7
Now that is sweet, I wish I was into 5.7
looks like they have the ar-15 upper in 5.45x39 too.
But I did notice in that ad a Russian DP-28 machine gun. What the hell is that thing. Damn. Just when ya think you have seen them all something new pops up.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
What is the fascination with the 5.7? its about the same balistics as a freakin 22 magnum.
yea but the original ammo could punch through 48 layers of kevlar.
so can a 223 or a 763x25
with select ammo
honestly i dunno why people are nuts over 5.7 its about .50c a round. i like it cause it's a hot lil round and i like the pistol that shoots it,and with the ps 90 i think the 50 rnd mag and the way it loads and ejects is sweet. i guess that why i like it. cant speekfor anyone else.
I like that upper because it uses the P90 50 round mags, anything hi-cap for me.
4th the DP28 is kind of like the BAR to the Russians, it shoots the 7.62X54R
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I carved two goat pumpkins in the last few days, and I learned a valuable lesson – it is impossible to carve a goat pumpkin without making them look evil. But I'll let you be the judge. (If you missed the goat saga, you can read about it here and here.)
Although I have to admit, it's tail is rather cute.
Still, evil though.
And if you want to look at something truly terrifying, here is my first attempt at goat pumpkin. This image is not suitable for small children or people with heart conditions.
I warned you! Happy Halloween!
UPDATE: I was just informed by the husband that the pumpkin above leaked pumpkin sludge on the floor and he slipped on it. It's already trying to make its first kill.


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Ask seven different experts about how to choose a wedding dress and there will likely be seven different answers. The fact is there is no one right way to choose your dress. There are a number of guidelines you can use as you see fit. All of them will help you determine the type of dress you want and make it easier to find the perfect dress for your perfect day. Here are some suggestions that will aid you in the search.
What Kind of Wedding Are You Planning?
Think of the type of ceremony and reception that you want. Perhaps you like the idea of a formal affair that includes all the traditional elements. Maybe you want something with a casual theme that does not require your guests or you to dress up. Your idea of the perfect wedding could be a simple ceremony by a river or lake with a minimum of ritual.
The type of wedding ceremony you are planning provides the inspiration for your wedding dress. Think of where the ceremony will be held, the time of year, and even whether the ceremony is inside or outside. Those factors will help you focus on dresses that strike you as suitable for the occasion and the setting.
How Much Can You Afford?
Wedding dresses can be simple and affordable or they can be ornate and expensive. Before you set out to look at any of the NYC fashionable wedding gowns currently on the market, determine how much you can pay for the dress without creating any financial distress. Remember to allow for things like having the dress altered in some manner or arranging for it to be shipped to a specified destination. Having that figure in mind will narrow the range of choices into something that is more manageable.
How About Colors?
Even if you are planning a traditional ceremony, there are options other than white for your dress. What color do you think fits in with the occasion and also happens to look great on you? Take cues from your skin tone, hair color, and other features. You may find that a light blue, ecru, or even a bold color like red will work best.
What Design Elements Do You Like?
Focus on dresses with design elements that truly appeal to you. Perhaps you like the idea of a bridal skirt that accentuates your legs. If so, go with something simple with a nice slit along the calf. Full skirts are also a wonderful option when you want to call more attention to your shoulders, waist or features other than your legs. There are other elements to think about. Do you want a lot of lace? Perhaps a certain type of neckline appeals to you. Make a list and see how many dresses you can find with those qualities.
Remember that your wedding dress is intended to be something you treasure for a lifetime. Don't rush and be open to exploring ideas that were not part of the original plan. The day will come when you come across a dress that you know was made especially for you.


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Nokia just announced a new low-end phone aimed at music lovers around the globe the Nokia X1-00.
The X1-00 is made with music lovers in mind, and sports a loudspeaker rated 106phon. According to Nokia, 106phon is enough to rattle your window frames!
The phone also comes with a 3.5mm audio jack, hardware keys to control to music playback, FM Radio and a microSD card slot, which supports up to 16GB memory cards. The handset also features a dedicated torch!
A special feature of the X1-00 is that it comes with five phonebooks. According to Nokia, the X1-00 might be shared between an entire family and even neighbors and thus five phonebooks will help them all save their contacts, separately.
The X1-00 runs on Symbian S30 which is enough to suffice to the basic needs of the people. The handset will hit the retail stores of some regions of the world by April. The handset should retail for around €34 before taxes and subsidies.


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Rays unable to rally after short Hernandez start
Righty allows five runs in four frames; club gets first baserunner in fifth
ST. PETERSBURG -- Pitching continued to be the difference between winning and losing for Tampa Bay on Friday night as David Phelps held the Rays without a baserunner until the fifth inning while Roberto Hernandez struggled again as the Yankees drubbed the Rays, 9-4, before 17,825 at Tropicana Field.
"Pitching won the game for them -- and not for us," said manager Joe Maddon as his Rays dropped to five games behind the Yankees in the American League East. Tampa Bay has now lost a season-high three games in a row at home.
"We have to pitch better if we're going to win," Maddon admitted. "We have to pitch better as a group. We're slugging, we're hitting the ball well. But you still have to pitch well. You have to pitch better than the other team, and we just haven't done that with any consistency."
Hernandez, now 2-5 with a 5.73 ERA, departed after four innings, trailing 5-0. In his last two starts, the Rays' right-hander has worked a total of six innings, allowing 10 runs on 14 hits. In 12 career appearances against the Yankees, Hernandez is 1-6 with a 7.50 ERA.
"It just wasn't his night -- again," Maddon said. "He's not throwing the ball where he wants to with any consistency. His pitches are just not where he wants them to be."
However, Maddon said he has no intention of dropping Hernandez from the Rays' starting rotation at this time.
"I don't anticipate talking about Hernandez, I really don't," the manager insisted.
"A lot of bad pitches," Hernandez acknowledged, when asked the reason for Friday's poor showing. "It's a little bit frustrating."
Hernandez declined to blame his troubles on the fact that Jose Lobaton was behind the plate rather than starting catcher Jose Molina.
"If you throw bad pitches, it don't matter who's catching," the righty said.
Hernandez needed 36 pitches to get through the second inning, as the Yankees batted around, scoring three times on four hits and leaving the bases loaded.
Lyle Overbay knocked in New York's first two runs with a double off the wall in right and Jayson Nix singled in another. Walks to Brett Gardner and Robinson Cano loaded the bases with two outs, but Vernon Wells popped to second to end the rally.
Hernandez then retired six Yankees in a row before Chris Stewart singled with two out in the fourth, setting up a two-run homer to right by Gardner.
"The home run by Gardner really hurt, and I didn't think it was going to get any better," Maddon said in explaining why he lifted Hernandez after the fourth inning.
Trailing 5-0, Maddon called on reliever Cesar Ramos to keep the Rays in the game.
"I felt that if we kept it at five, we had a chance to come back," Maddon said. "It's tough mentally to come back from further behind than that. I felt really good about Ramos pitching against that group and keeping it at five. I thought Cesar could right the ship. But that didn't happen."
Instead, the Yankees batted around again and pushed three more runs across the plate against Ramos in the fifth.
"I really thought Ramos could go once through their lineup -- but not all in one inning," Maddon said. "We really have to do a better job keeping them in check and giving our offense a chance to come back."
Although the Rays didn't get a hit or put a runner on base against Phelps until James Loney doubled down the right-field line with one out in the fifth, Maddon said, "I loved the way we swung the bat. I thought we had some really good at-bats."
The Rays ended the shutout with three runs in the sixth when Lobaton and Yunel Escobar singled, Matt Joyce doubled to right, Ben Zobrist grounded out and Luke Scott lofted a sacrifice fly to center.
The Rays made it 9-4 in the seventh when Kelly Johnson tripled and Sam Fuld flied to right.
Phelps, who worked a career-high 7 2/3 innings, left the game with two outs in the eighth when he was struck on his right forearm by a hard-hit ball off the bat of Zobrist, suffering a contusion.
Evan Longoria, who had reached base in 45 of the Rays' first 46 games, went 0-for-4 to snap his career-high 16-game hitting streak.


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Zigzags on a Shell From Java Are the Oldest Human Engravings – "The early human Homo erectus also made the oldest known shell tools half a million years ago." — see also: The art of Homo erectus – "What we can say is that these artifacts carry information about the capabilities of their makers. The few non-perishable marked objects also speak to the likely presence of design in perishable elements of material culture. Clothing, however rudimentary, was likely to have been decorated in some way. Wooden tools were also probably notched and zigzagged — as the occasional bone and ivory implements suggest. They lived for the first time in a world that they could change." – from john hawks.
Genetic diversity of Sub-Saharan Africa revealed – [T]he researchers also found that there were more genetic similarities across Africa than they had thought. Dr Sandhu said: 'The diversity among populations is not as diverse as we expected it to be….' The researchers found that many Africans have some Eurasian DNA within their genetic ancestry, which suggests that Eurasians migrated back into Africa many thousands of years after they first left. And several of the populations were descended from the Bantu, a group that spread across Africa about 5,000 years ago." — see also: The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa.
and here is dienekes on the above study: African Genome Variation project paper – "In too many papers to count, decreasing genetic diversity from East Africa was taken as evidence of an origin of H. sapiens in that locality and its expansion from there to Eurasia. This 'East Africa=cradle of mankind' theory has, as far as I can tell, nothing really to stand on. Granted, the oldest anatomically modern human remains have been found in East Africa 200-150 thousand years ago. But, the fact that old sapiens have been found in East Africa and not elsewhere is easily explained by the excellent conditions for preservation (as opposed, e.g., deserts or rainforests of Africa or elsewhere), and by the extraordinary effort by palaeoanthropologists in that area. One also needs to overlook a century of physical anthropology that concluded that East Africa was a contact zone between Caucasoids and Sub-Saharan Africans. We now know that there is no deep lineage of humans in modern east Africans. Take out the Eurasian ancestry and only a paltry Fst=0.027 remains with other Sub-Saharan Africans, a fraction of the Fst between, say, Europeans and East Asians."
Living African group discovered to be the most populous humans over the last 150,000 years – "New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living humans during most of the past 150,000 years. Only during the last 22,000 years have the other African ethnicities, including the ones giving rise to Europeans and Asians, become vastly most numerous…. 'This and previous studies show that the Khoisan peoples and the rest of modern humanity shared their most recent common ancestor approximately 150,000 years ago, so it was entirely unexpected to find that this group apparently did not intermarry with non-Khoisan neighbors for many thousand years….'" — see also The Least Bottlenecked Humans of All from razib.
Ants, altruism and self sacrifice – "It's the selfishness of genes that makes us unselfish…. 'Group selection' has always been portrayed as a more politically correct idea, implying that there is an evolutionary tendency to general altruism in people. Gene selection has generally seemed to be more of a right-wing idea, in which individuals are at the mercy of the harsh calculus of the genes. Actually, this folk understanding is about as misleading as it can be. Society is not built on one-sided altruism but on mutually beneficial co-operation. Nearly all the kind things people do in the world are done in the name of enlightened self-interest. Think of the people who sold you coffee, drove your train, even wrote your newspaper today. They were paid to do so but they did things for you (and you for them). Likewise, gene selection clearly drives the evolution of a co-operative instinct in the human breast, and not just towards close kin." – from matt ridley. — see also: E.O. Wilson's The Social Conquest of Earth from jason collins. h/t billare!
Genetic Variation in Human DNA Replication Timing – "Replication timing, a driver of locus-specific mutation rates, varies among humans…. Replication timing associates with common polymorphisms near replication origins…." – whoa.
Genetic and environmental exposures constrain epigenetic drift over the human life course – h/t casey brown! who tweeted: "Worth repeating: DNA methylation is more genetic than epigenetic."
IQ is in the genes – "How parents raise us has no impact on how smart we become, a new study finds."
Link discovered between fathers' criminal history and sons' intelligence – "Sons whose fathers have criminal records tend to have lower cognitive abilities than sons whose fathers have no criminal history, data from over 1 million Swedish men show. The research, conducted by scientists in Sweden and Finland, indicates that the link is not directly caused by fathers' behavior but is instead explained by genetic factors that are shared by father and son."
Are bright people normal? – "'We found no support for the genetic Discontinuity Hypothesis that nonadditive genetic variance is greater for high intelligence….'" – from dr. james thompson.
Booze culture may date back 10 million years say scientists – "A new study suggests that primates may have begun drinking alchol 10 million years ago, as fermented fruit on the forest floor…. Experts at Santa Fe College in the US studied the gene ADH4 which produces an enzyme to break down alcohol in the body. It was hypothesised that the enzyme would not appear until the first alcohol was produced by early farmers. But scientists were amazed to find it 10 million years earlier, at the end of the Miocene epoch." – (them's *my* ancestors right there! (~_^) )
Psychiatry: End of the Road for "Endophenotypes"? – "In a nutshell, the researchers ran seven different genetic studies to try to find the genetic basis of a total of seventeen neurobehavioural traits, also known as 'endophenotypes'…. Essentially an endophenotype is some trait, which could be almost anything, which is supposed to be related to (or part of) a psychiatric disorder or symptom, but which is 'closer to genetics' or 'more biologica' than the disorder itself. Rather than thousands of genes all mixed together to determine the risk of a psychiatric disorder, each endophenotype might be controlled by only a handful of genes – which would thus be easier to find…. Over 89% of the searches came up null in this way; for eight of the seventeen traits, the researchers found no associated genes using *any* strategy." – from neuroskeptic.
Unequal fates for maths superstars – "The fates of US child prodigies of the 1970s reveal great accomplishments but strong gender differences…. [B]oth genders reported unusually high levels of satisfaction with their lives and careers. 'It seems that both sexes got what they wanted from life, even if those things were somewhat different….'" – h/t charles! – see also: Sometimes men and women want different things from ben southwood.
Are Chinese babies more docile? – peter frost on the freedman studies.
Inferior Faunas – from greg cochran.
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 released this week.
Domestication and Human Evolution Symposium @
getCARTA sessions now available to watch online.
Does evolution need a revolution? – from jerry coyne.
Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds – birds have culture.
A Magisterial Synthesis Of Apes And Human Evolution – "[Russell H.] Tuttle's tome is a grand synthesis of all the latest research and data about apes and their relation to us…. He believes that bipedalism preceded the development of the brain in early humans –and was likely something inherited from smaller apes already used to using their feet to move laterally along branches in trees. Although chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest relatives on the evolutionary tree, they do not represent in their own locomotion good proto-models of what led to human upright posture and walking."
'Superbugs' Kill India's Babies and Pose an Overseas Threat – "A growing chorus of researchers say the evidence is now overwhelming that a significant share of the bacteria present in India — in its water, sewage, animals, soil and even its mothers — are immune to nearly all antibiotics." – h/t razib!
The RNA World: molecular cooperation at the origins of life – "The RNA World concept posits that there was a period of time in primitive Earth's history — about 4 billion years ago — when the primary living substance was RNA or something chemically similar. In the past 50 years, this idea has gone from speculation to a prevailing idea. In this Review, we summarize the key logic behind the RNA World and describe some of the most important recent advances that have been made to support and expand this logic. We also discuss the ways in which molecular cooperation involving RNAs would facilitate the emergence and early evolution of life."
Tool to edit DNA revolutionizing research in Boston area – CRISPR.
Thomas Docherty on academic freedom – "Managerial fundamentalism has taken hold in universities, with scholars viewed as resources that must be controlled…. A creeping incremental assault on academic freedom threatens not just what can be spoken aloud, but also what it is permissible to think: thought itself is to be subjected to management, so that its critical power is neutered or constrained…."
The Dark Enlightenment for Newbies – "So what is dark about the Dark Enlightenment? Absolutely nothing. The Dark Enlightenment only looks dark in contrast to the blinding (as in, it blinds you) optimism of flash in the pan of blank slate equalism. The things that the DE contend about human nature — that parents naturally favor their children, that sexual attraction is a biological phenomenon, that some people are naturally smarter than others — were all accepted as common sense for most or all of human history. It is the unrealistic utopianism of modern liberalism which is ridiculously absurd. The Dark Enlightenment might be better termed The Return to Normalcy. So the phrase "Dark Enlightenment" might not be the best, but it has received enough attention that I don't think we should abandon it." – very nice post from empedocles.
Tanzania evicting 40,000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal family – "It will become a private hunting reserve" – =/ (i'm linking to salon!) – h/t john durant!
bonus: Why Some Mosquitoes Spread Malaria and Others Don't – "Sequencing the genomes of numerous Anopheles mosquito species from locations around the world has shown why some can carry and spread the deadly disease malaria while others don't." – h/t srikant mantri!
bonus bonus: Humpback Whales in the Arabian Sea Have Been Isolated for 70,000 Years
bonus bonus bonus: A diet to die for – "One bird feasts on food that would leave most other animals stone dead."
bonus bonus bonus bonus: Insect Swarms Go Critical – "Scientists have found tantalizing evidence that diverse biological systems, including the human brain, gene expression networks, bird flocks, and fish schools, behave as though they are near the 'critical point' of a phase transition, like correlated spins in a magnet on the verge of ordering." – h/t jayman!
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Weird Physics Can Make an Invisible Cat Visible – "These cat pictures are brought to you by quantum entanglement as discussed by Einstein and Schrödinger."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Now Completely Online
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Tette per la Scienza – boobies! (it really IS this time! (~_^) )
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This month, FSD moseys down to Austin, Texas, a place where weirdness is the norm, bats are not uncommon and food, be it Mexican or barbeque, is as authentic as it comes.
In September, the Society for Foodservice Management (SFM) held its national conference in Austin, Texas. The conference's theme, "Cool City, Hot Topics," was designed to inform and entertain the more than 250 foodservice professionals that attended the four-day event.
The "Hot Topics" covered such varied fields as health and wellness, sustainability and Texas cuisine. A session titled "Triple E's: Energy, Efficiency and Equipment," informed operators about the importance of choosing efficient equipment as it translates into saved dollars in energy costs, as well as looking at waste as an indicator of inefficiency. Attendees also learned how tracking waste, dollars can also be saved. Another session, "Mobile Work Force," educated operators on how to deal with the 25% of U.S. employees who worked from home at least once a week in 2007. Tactics included making food the glue that brings workers together, encouraging desk food and drink and offering take-out and take-home options. Keynote speakers included Andrew Zimmern, host of The Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," who spoke of maintaining your sense of adventure, and Andy Ford, WaveMaster and Chief Insights Officer for CultureWaves who spoke about knowing your customer.
Austin, cool city that it is, proved to be a place where foodservice operations embodied some of these "hot topics," so FSD decided to check out three of them.
Kicking Styrofoam to the Curb
As part of Founder Michael Dell's goal to make Dell Computers the greenest technology company on the planet, Dell's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas—about 20 minutes north of downtown Austin—recently switched from Styrofoam disposables to all paper. Judy Stone, district manager for Eurest Dining Services, a division of Compass Group, says all of the 13 eateries on Dell's Round Rock campus used only disposable serviceware because none of the cafés are equipped with dishwashers. So starting in August, all disposables were switched to biodegradable paper products.
"Dell, especially at this location, has a really young workforce," Stone says. "They really wanted to get rid of the Styrofoam, so they received the change very well. We're now completely paper, and all the products are biodegradable and compostable. Since we have always used all disposables, making this switch is going to make a big impact."
The process was challenging for Stone and her team because of the arduous process of looking for suitable paper products that were still cost effective. Stone says the biodegradable products are about twice as expensive as the polystyrene. The dining program at Dell is completely P&L-based, so the company wasn't subsidizing any of the changes. To cover the biodegradable cost, as well as to help combat the overall higher cost of doing business, Stone says her department recently increased prices, something Stone says Dell had not done in many years. However, instead of a blanket increase, Stone and her team decided to raise prices on unhealthier items and keep the prices on healthy items the same or even decrease them.
"For example, baked chips are 79 cents and regular potato chips are 89 cents," Stone says. "Another example is our very popular breakfast tacos. We have a healthy taco that is made with a whole-wheat tortilla, egg whites and turkey sausage, which costs 99 cents. The regular taco made with a flour tortilla, eggs and sausage is $1.49. We decided to do it this way as an effort to encourage Dell's employees to lead healthier lifestyles. In the big picture of things, a healthier workplace also helps Dell with its insurance costs and in making up lost time for its employees."
The price increase on unhealthy items also plays right into Dell's wellness program, "Well at Dell."
"'Well at Dell' is what we call our healthy eating program," says Laura Lozano, facilities manager for Dell Global Dining. "Basically, it's our vendor's wellness program [in this case Compass' Balanced Choices] with our name on it, so we can use it in corporate communications and everyone will know what we're talking about."
"Well at Dell" uses menu identifiers at each station to show which items meet the program's requirements. Identifiers include FIT, which means the item has less than 600 calories for a meal, 30% or fewer calories from fat, 10% or fewer calories from saturated fat, 80 mg or less cholesterol and 600 mg or less sodium; Organic, which notes that the item contains at least 95% organically produced ingredients from a USDA certified source; and Local Favor, which are items grown or produced locally, among others.
"We haven't had a chance to really track the data yet, since we just made the price increase in August, but we've definitely been seeing an increase in the amount of healthier items sold," Stone says. "We're seeing a very positive reaction and nothing negative has come out of the price increase."
Another way Stone says her team tries to encourage customers to eat healthier is with their "Got $5" program. Stone says for the "Got $5" program, customers can choose between two healthy meals both priced at $5, including tax.
"The items change every month but it is always two healthy meals for $5," Stone says. "So right now, we have a large salad bar container and a bottle of water for $5. We're also doing a garden burger, fruit and a bottle of water for $5. It's great because we're assigning value to the healthier meals."
Each café also has at least one chef's table per month—the larger cafés have two—where the chef prepares a more upscale healthy option. For example, during a "sustainable seafood around the world" chef's table, they offered items like Tahitian lime-marinated Blue Nose sea bass with a taro, chickpea and sweet potato curry over rice or a Spanish seafood stew. Also on a monthly basis, Stone and her team choose one "superfood" to highlight and educate customers about.
"We have a table set up explaining the benefits of whatever our superfood of the month is," Stone says. "This month is winter squash, so we set up a display telling the customer all about the nutritional value of squash and then we try and feature squash in some of our menu items."
At Dell, the variety of the menu changes with the size of the café, says Gary Hooker, regional chef for Compass Group. The larger cafés have more room for made-to-order stations where they are able to offer such special items as made-from-scratch stir-fry with fresh vegetables, a tandoori Indian concept with lots of variety (chicken, tofu, fresh Naan bread) and sushi. Hooker says he's also done an assortment of small bites to create smaller meals for customers—items such as super sliders, which can be either mini-hamburgers, mini-chicken or fish sandwiches that customers can mix and match.
"Customers grab one of each and make up one portion," Hooker says. "Usually we try these kinds of specials as promotions first to see how they go. It also depends building to building because the demographics of all the locations are different. So we try to make programs that are flexible and display variety for the customers. Our biggest struggle is just with space."
Buying local is another priority, but it's not easy, Stone says. They have been able to buy from a local tortilla company, Stone says. They are especially interested in seeking out minority vendors.
"Especially with that vendor—Fiesta Tortillas—we wanted to be help them get their name out in the community more," Stone says.
Overcrowding Leads to Innovation
When 2,300-student Westlake High School, part of the 7,300-student Eanes Independent School District, needed more instructional time, the district decided to go from three lunch periods to two. This presented Director of Child Nutrition Steve Stracke with the challenge of serving 1,200 kids per lunch period instead of 800.
"It was crazy. Our participation at the high school is about 100%. We knew we needed to have additional points of service, so we began the year with seven points of service—four downstairs and three upstairs," Stracke says. Then, we opened up another one upstairs, which gave us four in each area. That alleviated a lot of the pressure and our revenues increased about $500 per day compared to last year."
To draw more kids to the upstairs serving lines, Stracke switched pizza vendors and also brought in Chik-fil-A, which he says has been a huge success. Another draw to that area is the school's smoothie/coffee bar called The Blend. Stracke says because so many more kids are using the upstairs serving lines, the smoothie bar's sales have increased by $200 per day.
"We serve about 125 smoothies per day," Stracke says. "We also carry bagels, muffins and other pastries from a local bakery at the smoothie bar. We serve gourmet coffee from Mozart's Coffee Roasters, which is located at Lake Austin. The kids love it."
Another tool Stracke hopes to use to control long lines and short lunch periods is a biometric purchasing system. He says his entire department has all the equipment necessary to start a pilot in one of the district's six elementary schools; he's just waiting for the set-up to be complete.
"I'm hoping it will be ready to go in our pilot school by mid-fall," Stracke says. "Speed of service is the biggest reason I want to go to a biometric system. We use keypads right now where the kids punch in their own numbers. The biometric system will be much faster. Once everything is working, we're going to implement it district wide. The pilot will probably last until at least the end of this semester. It will really help manage the increase in the number of kids we're serving per lunch. We are going to cover the costs in the extra sales we expect to earn. We're able to shift labor around a little bit so the impact labor wise is negligible."
Stracke is excited about the different menu choices that he has been able to add this year, which have accounted for some of the increased revenue. The most successful has been the introduction of Chik-fil-A.
"We worked with a local Chik-fil-A franchise and they've been great to work with," Stracke says. "Only our elementary schools are on the National School Lunch Program, but we still meet and sometimes even exceed the nutritional guidelines set by the state. We also took part in a state recipe survey. We tried out different recipes at the high school and one of the middle schools. Some of the recipes we tried were unusual and not real pleasers but there were some that worked out really well for us."
Stracke says they buy all local produce and are participants in the farm-to-school program, which makes for a very popular salad bar. The school also makes its own croutons.
"A lot of the administrators and faculty go through the salad bar every day," says Stracke. "It's just an amazing variety of fresh produce for a school salad bar."
Another big change for the district was the elimination of polystyrene trays and disposable cutlery, which were replaced with washable trays and stainless steel cutlery. The process began in the spring of 2008 at one of the elementary schools.
"During one of our committee meetings at this particular school, the topic came up and we said 'we could do that,'" Stracke says. "The manager of that cafeteria and I got together and determined what we would need and how we could set it up so it would work on a daily basis, with limited negative results. It was a change and any change is a little difficult at first, but now the students have got to the point where it's just routine."
The washable trays have been added at all the elementary schools and the two middle schools. The transition at the high school will be a little trickier because of the two service levels. Stracke says there is no dishwasher at the upstairs servery, so the plan is to implement the washable trays just at the lower-level cafeteria.
"Because of the amount of business we do on the upper level, switching to washable trays up there would force us to add labor," Stracke says. "We're doing stainless cutlery at two elementary schools right now. We're rolling the silverware out one school at a time during the course of this semester. It has really been a pleasant surprise at the elementary schools. Yes, we have lost some of the new silverware but not to the extent that we thought we would."
Making the Case for Trayless
As hundreds of college campuses make the decision to go trayless in all-you-care-to-eat dining halls, those that haven't made the switch yet, like the 50,000-student University of Texas at Austin, are making a case to their students to give it a try. Scott Meyer, associate director of housing and foodservice, says his department conducted a waste study that found that 112 tons of edible food waste was thrown away during last school year.
"Seeing the amount of waste we generated last year was eye-opening," Meyer says. "So we decided to make trays optional first and then measure that to see how we did. I think it has to come from the customers. Our tagline for going trayless is "Friends Don't Let Friends Waste Food." So we want to see if education and peer pressure can help reduce food waste. We have signage up that encourages students to forgo taking a tray. Four different times we've done an actual promotion where we asked them to not take a tray. As they entered the dining halls, we let them know about the promotion and then when they went to the dish drop off, if they didn't have a tray, we gave them a coupon for a free iced tea. Each time we've done those promotions, I'd say about 20%-25% didn't take trays." Meyer says they also made a display of trash bags, which represented how much waste the dining halls generated to promote going trayless. The plan is to do another waste study in October to see how the "trays are optional" effort is working.
Another effort to reduce waste has already begun for Meyer with the switch to biodegradable and compostable take-out items made from corn or sugar.
"We've already started making the switch to these new biodegradable items," Meyer says. "They cost about 30% more but we are planning to offset some of those costs by changes in the way we package. It used to be you'd have people get a plate and they'd put that big clear plastic lid on it if they wanted it to go. Well, that lid costs 40 cents. So what we are setting up now is what I'm calling 'to-go stations.' So if you want your food to go, you take your plate over to these stations and you wrap it yourself."
Although the new products are biodegradable and compostable, the university doesn't have a composting program in place yet. However, Meyer says that is the ultimate goal. Currently, the department uses pulpers in all the dish rooms. Meyer says they recently purchased a machine that takes the pulped material and cooks it down to a drier mixture called "soil amendment."
"We're testing this new machine for 60 days," Meyer says. "It's called a eCorect Waste Reducer. The pulper alone reduces waste by 88% and then when you put the remaining amount in this machine, it reduces it another 90%. So when you're done, you've got 3%-5% of the original mass to deal with, so it's very green just as it is. Our ideal would be to get our landscape crews to mix it with the soil they use on campus."
Meyer's team has also worked to address waste created by plastic bottles and plastic bags. As part of the university's "Bleed Orange, Think Green" campaign, Meyer's department gave out aluminum water bottles to the 107 resident assistants.
"Typically if our resident assistants are putting on a program for their floors, we would provide bottled beverages," Meyer says. "Now our policy is to not pay for anything in a plastic bottle. So we gave the resident assistants the aluminum bottles to get them to encourage the students on their floors during those meetings to bring their own drinking container. We also sell the aluminum bottles in our c-stores for $7.99."
Another part of the "Bleed Orange, Think Green" campaign is encouraging reusable bags at the c-stores.
"To promote the bags, we created bag tags that worked like a punch card," Meyer says. "When the student uses his bag, he gets a punch. After five punches, they get a free aluminum water bottle. After 10 punches, they get a free T-shirt." The campaign is most evident on Go Green Tuesdays when all the retail employees wear green T-shirts to promote these initiatives.
Purchasing locally is another important aspect to Meyer's operations. The department participates in a Texas Farm Direct program in conjunction with the Austin Sustainable Center, which acts as a vendor to small local farms, to purchase produce from local farmers. Meyer also has worked with his prime vendor, U.S. Foodservice, to make sure it tries to source as much local product as possible.
"I don't know if it's because of the efforts we've been making, but our prime vendor partnered with a local grower recently, and I'll say it was just in time. Our main local provider was a farmer that doesn't use pesticides—he's organic but not certified organic. All of the fields that surround his fields are cotton and they sprayed the pesticides on the surrounding lands so all the worms came over and got in his crops, so he had to plow his fields over. We were not going to have anything from him for five or six weeks. Just in time, U.S. Foodserivce was able to provide us with locally grown bell peppers, zucchini, sweet potatoes and jalapeños. So we'll still be able to have some Farm Direct product through this trying time."
Meyer also runs a featured Texas Fresh Focus program, where he chooses a locally grown item such as watermelon, strawberries or pecans to feature in all the dining operations. The department also hosts a Texas local dinner once a semester where the entire meal is prepared using local foods.
However, one of the most apparent changes to the resident dining operations this year was the addition of daily specials to some of the stations. Meyer says he had his executive chefs hire sous chefs in order to improve quality and variety as much as possible.
"We always want to enhance the variety of the items we're serving," Meyer says. "This push was aimed at more trendy items such as specialty burgers and pizzas. Whereas in the past, we had three pizza options every day, now we've added a specialty pizza that changes daily. It's the same with the burger station. You can get a hamburger or a cheeseburger, and then on a certain day you can get a burger with Cheddar and caramelized onions. It's just more variety within the three-week cycle menu."


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Fulton Wastewater Treatment Facility Anticipates $13 Million Upgrade
FULTON - Fulton's wastewater treatment facility will undergo a $13 million dollar upgrade within the next couple of years and it's not alone.
New regulations from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will cost public and private wastewater treatment facilities an estimated one-billion dollars in upgrades across the state.
Revisions to the current Water Quality Standards Rule will classify an additional 90,000 stream miles as "fishable/swimmable" and will require wastewater treatment facilities to disinfect their effluent (treated wastewater leaving the facility) and reduce ammonia concentrations.
According to the DNR's website, the purpose of the revised rule is to "update state water quality standards to ensure they are functionally equivalent to federal standards and to improve the clarity, specificity and effectiveness of the standards. This rulemaking is required under Section 303(c) of the federal Clean Water Act and addresses primarily federal and state initiatives, EPA disapprovals and Missouri Clean Water Commission directives."
Fulton must apply for a permit every five years to discharge wastewater into Stinson Creek, a small creek located next to the wastewater facility. "The water is clean right now and we are meeting our existing permit," said Darrell Dunlap, Fulton's superintendent of utilities. Wastewater entering the treatment facility is murky and contains particles of solid waste. After treatment, it's crystal clear and free of solid waste. However, this still isn't good enough to meet the DNR's new water quality standards.
"They're (DNR) wanting to cut back ammonia, they're wanting to cut back phosphorus and different things that they're finding in the stream down below the plant," said wastewater supervisor Joe Chism. "We're actually improving the quality of water, but yet the quality of water down the stream isn't meeting their (new) required limits." According to Dunlap, after the DNR approves the currently drafted permit with tighter requirements, "the clock starts ticking."
For Fulton, cleaner wastewater means a spike in utility fees. The city is currently considering its options for funding the $13 million upgrade. Options include a state revolving fund, revenue bonds, and a pay as you go program. According to Dunlap, a state revolving fund and revenue bonds would raise utilities but not as much as the pay as you go program. "The average bill is around 32 dollars (a month)," said Dunlap. "We would be around 57 dollars (a month) with the pay as you go program."
"I think a lot of money being spent wouldn't have to be if it wasn't for the studies we have to do, for the professional contractors, the engineering process," said Chism. "It all just makes the money, the cost, higher. It's just the evil part of it. It has to be done."
"Every time we go through a permit, it gets tighter," said Dunlap. "It comes down to how clean is clean?"
If the Water Quality Standards Rule is adopted at the Clean Water Commission meeting September 4, it will go into full effect December 30, 2013.


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A former Google engineer said he left the search titan because of its obsession with Google+ and destroying Facebook.
James Whittaker, now an employee at Microsoft, left Google this year and penned this blog post as the reason why. Basically, he says Google couldn't stomach the idea that Facebook was doing better at selling ads -- not that it was selling more than Google, because it wasn't -- but that it knew far more information about its users and advertisers wanted that . From his post:
Larry Page himself assumed command to right this wrong. Social became state-owned, a corporate mandate called Google+. It was an ominous name invoking the feeling that Google alone wasn't enough. Search had to be social. Android had to be social. You Tube, once joyous in their independence, had to be … well, you get the point. Even worse was that innovation had to be social. Ideas that failed to put Google+ at the center of the universe were a distraction.
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Gone, he said, was the innovation and wonder of Google Labs, and instead the company was focused on Google+ -- but the exodus from Facebook never materialized. Whittaker said his daughter phrased it best, "'Social isn't a product,' she told me after I gave her a demo, 'social is people and the people are on Facebook.'"
This could be sour grapes, according to Business Insider, although it had other stories from former employees that Google+ seems to be Google's primary focus.
My problem with this account, is that if he craved innovation, why didn't he just create a startup with some of that fire in his belly? Instead, he went back to the same tired, boring Microsoft job he had before Google. Wow, that's hankering for innovation.
Secondly, his whole "why I left" post was basically an advertisement for how great an employee he was. It literally could be used as a resume, since Whittaker lists all the projects he was a part of, his keynote addresses and then his offhand "but all I had to show for it was higher review scores," is nothing short of vomit-inducing.
Perhaps Google did bet the farm on Google+, but that can be easily remedied by focusing on other projects. Let's hope that Google does so.


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Although they won a majority of the vote, senior center proponents walked away empty-handed from the special town meeting last night.
The $390,000 borrowing article to pay for an architect and project manager for the proposed Boutelle Road building won clear support from more than half the voters, but failed to amass the required two-thirds majority.
Opponents of the article said it would put Sterling into debt for a project with no definite bottom-line cost, only estimates ranging from $1.5 million to $3 million. They also said the proposed project, which advocates described as a $2 million, 7,500 square foot building, is larger than the town needs.
�The very people we�re going to help, we�re going to price out of this town,� said Kevin Beaupre, who served on the senior center site selection committee but voted against the article. �They�re supposed to come up with 50 percent of the funding (in grants and private donations) � it should not be zero percent.�
In a separate vote, however, voters narrowly rejected a proposal by the Finance Committee to cap taxpayers� obligation for the project at $1.5 million.
Also at last night�s meeting, voters approved $205,000 in borrowing to complete the town records vault project, and tabled a proposal to expand the 1835 Town Hall septic system.
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I am predicting and betting heavily on another large bank failure in the US and the Eurozone. Many on the site have probably already guessed what it is that I do. Well, I may be significantly epanding my job description if the financial system takes the hits that I expect it to.
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European Central Bank's (ECB) measures to inject necessary liquidity in the financial system had negligible on the interbank liquidity hoarding which led to sharp rise in inter-bank lending rates. Although the liquidity injections by ECB helped restore the expected overnight lending rates (EONIA) to near target level of 4%, there was little impact on the inter-bank borrowing rates for deposits over 3 months (EURIBOR), which stood at 70 basis points against the usual rate of 5-10 basis points over the target rate since banks were unwilling to lend each other. Similar phenomena were observed in US where steps taken by Fed like the Term Auction Facility were proven ineffective in reducing LIBOR-OAS spreads which were more dependent on counterparty risk factors such as asset-backed commercial paper spreads, and credit default swaps. Since term lending does not affect counter party risk Fed should consider other measures that affect LIBOR-OAS spreads. For example, some feel that the ECB's policy framework for direct open market purchases of marketable assets including high-grade mortgage-backed securities could address the ongoing stress in the market. I personally believe that these securities must be allowed to bottom out. If there is any value in them, speculators such as I will swoop in to purchase them at the right price. The point of consternation is that the right price results in explicit insolvency. The banks are implicitly insolvent now, though, and everyone knows it. I am referring to both commercial banks and the non-bank entitiies that include the investment banks and brokerages - whose fates are heavily intertwined.
Fed rate cutting has also failed to improve margins in many of this nation's regional banks, as was clearly illustrated in "The Anatomy of a Sick Bank!". This shows that the problem is getting worse despite rampant rate cuts and the wholesale swallowing of infected assets as collateral. I believe that the banks must be allowed to fail, and it appears as if the Fed and Treasury are coming to that conclusion as well. Today's headline on CNBC.com:
Paulson Wants Bank Failure without Fallout – ""In my view, looking beyond the immediate market challenges of today, we need to create a resolution process that ensures the financial system can withstand the failure of a large, complex financial firm," Paulson said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Chatham House think tank in London. "To do this, we will need to give our regulators emergency authority to limit temporary disruptions. These authorities should be flexible and -- to reinforce market discipline -- the trigger for invoking such authority should be very high, such as a bankruptcy filing," he added.
He said the perception should be avoided that an institution is "too interconnected to fail or too big to fail" and added that "we must improve the tools at our disposal for facilitating the orderly failure of a large, complex, financial institution." The United States has procedures for the orderly unwinding of insolvent commercial banks with insured deposits, in which their regulators, including the Fed for smaller state-chartered banks, administer claims and control insolvency proceedings. Paulson on Tuesday said using these procedures for larger, complex institutions such as investment banks could mitigate market disruption but would not impose enough market discipline on the private sector.
And simply subjecting investment banks to normal bankruptcy proceedings "imposes market discipline on creditors, but in a time of crisis could involve undue market disruption," he said.
Knowing that Fed support is readily available could cause institutions to willingly take on too much risk, as they did in the run-up to the subprime mortgage crisis, he said. "For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system."


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LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were spotted on a rare night out Friday in Los Angeles.
The couple was seen at West Hollywood nightclub Troubadour watching a show by Japanese singer Miyavi, who appears in Jolie's upcoming film, Unbroken.
Pitt, 50, and Jolie, 38, were joined by friends during the outing. The duo looked casual in all black outfits; Jolie was seen wearing black leather pants with a matching silk blouse, and Pitt was sporting tan pants, a black jacket and a black hat.
The couple was photographed leaving the nightclub out the back door and stepping into a black SUV at the end of the night. Earlier in April, Pitt and Jolie were also spotted sans their six children as they enjoyed a weekend getaway at a hotel in Los Angeles.
Jolie's Unbroken chronicles the life "of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II." The film hits theaters on December 25.


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LEHI, Utah – The fact that Real Salt Lake are still in contention for the Supporters' Shield is, in a word, remarkable.
At the beginning of July, the LA Galaxy held a 12-point lead over RSL in the race for the league's best regular-season record. The Galaxy were unbeaten at the time with 10 wins in 12 games, and they did not appear to be slowing down.
Since then, however, Los Angeles have stumbled, while RSL have managed to close the gap to a single point.
"At the beginning of the year, we had our goals where we had four trophies to play for," RSL midfielder Andy Williams told MLSsoccer.com. "Unfortunately, we got knocked out of the Open Cup, and so we have three [goals] right now."
[inline_node:308548]Those remaining goals include the MLS Cup Championship, the CONCACAF Champions League and the Supporters' Shield. And while some may underrate the Shield, RSL defender Nat Borchers maintains that his team is very serious about winning it.
"To win the Supporters' Shield would be a fantastic thing to put in our trophy case," he said. "It's one of the toughest things in sports to do: to say that you were the best team over the entire whole season.
"I don't think American fans really rate that as high as the MLS Cup, but I think we in the locker room do. And I think that's our goal right now – we're in contention and we're going to fight for it until the end."
With a victory against Seattle on Thursday, RSL would take the lead in the race for the honor. They currently sit one point back of both LA and Columbus, who each have 44 points on the season. A win would vault them ahead of both teams – at least until this weekend's contests are played out.
"It's already been mentioned to the players," RSL head coach Jason Kreis said. "It would be huge. There's no doubt about it, we feel a lot of pride in what we've done here over several years. And to kind of answer a lot of naysayers, and what they had to say about us at the end of last season would be gigantic in my opinion."
The head coach of the reigning MLS champions also felt that winning the Shield could send a message to the rest of the league.
"You thought we were just a good team at the end of last year," Kreis said. "We'll show you over the course of 2010 what kind of team we are."


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There are plenty of ways to keep a desktop. On the one hand, it's kind of like your default folder, immediately displayed to you on login. It's a convenient place for those things you need quick, like dozens of shortcuts. On the other hand, it's a homescreen, a homescreen, and shouldn't you keep your home clean and pristine? After all, that's what the start menu/launcher is for.
I have zero icons on my desktop at the moment, and I consider that a point of pride. I definitely find that the joy of a clean desktop outweighs the minor convenience of having icons, but they always seem to start showing up unless I keep on top of it and get rid of that random backup folder, or those four files I needed to copy off that USB drive. Are you trying to keep that sucker barren? Succeeding, failing? Any desktop-icon apologists out there? Speak up, what's your number?


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When a local judge decides a state game law is a violation of a person's First Amendment right to free expression, it has to raise eyebrows.
When a local judge decides a state game law is a violation of a person's First Amendment right to free expression, it has to raise eyebrows. That's just what Sullivan County Court Judge Frank LaBuda did when he ruled in the case of the against Robert Gabriel. While some saluted the decision, I'm not seeing this as anything but a bad precedent.
Gabriel admitted he had regularly placed piles of apples near his home in order to feed "wildlife." The apples were not near the treestand located near the house in which Gabriel lives, so he was not baiting deer for hunting purposes.
In 2009, Gabriel was fined by Sullivan Judge Kathryn Sweeney for violating state Department of Environmenal Conservation regulations for feeding deer. LaBuda had to deal with the appeal and review the conviction of Gabriel.
In his overturning the conviction, LaBuda ruled that the state law was too vague and, more importantly, violated Gabriel's free speech rights.
Some years ago, the DEC expanded the no-feeding regulations statewide to include any feeding of deer — baiting has long been illegal. This was done to reduce the chances of spreading chronic wasting disease that were found in several upstate deer at the time. CWD can be spread by deer eating and passing the disease through their saliva. You put a pile of anything in your yard and the deer are going to eat it, including apples.
LaBuda decided that the law is arbitrary, vague and a violation of the First Amendment. I have three concerns about his decision.
First, up to this case, it has been clear to almost everyone that a pile of apples in your yard is not legal because deer will eat apples and the current law forbids that. It doesn't matter whether you agree with the law, it is currently illegal to do so. And no, that bird feeder hanging in your tree is not a violation of that law.
Second, where does this kind of court decision-making logically end? Is requiring deer hunters to shoot only bucks with a minimum of three points on one side an infringement of their First Amendment rights? Or what if an angler decides that the law that restricts their ability to catch more fish per day than the law allows is a violation of some aspect of their constitutional rights?
What if we had judges around the state determining that certain aspects of any other game regulations were too vague or unconstitutional because they decided it so?
The regulation that banned feeding of deer with a pile of food has been around for some time. I can't remember anyone being confused about it. And I'm not buying any story that the apple pile was not for deer but for other "wildlife."
I hope the state decides to appeal LaBuda's decision.
David Dirks' outdoors column appears weekly. Contact him through his website at www.dirksoutdoors.com, or write P.O. Box 87, Westtown, NY 10998.


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Follow these steps to set up your system:
Place your speakers
Connect the speaker wires to the Acoustimass® module
Connect the speaker wires to your speakers. The connection will vary as shown, depending on whether you have a V30, V20 or V10 system
Connect the Acoustimass module and the display panel to the media console
Next, select and connect the video and audio connections between your V-class system's media console and your TV, and between the media console and your other home theater devices, such as your DVD player and cable or satellite box. For help making connections, see Connecting an audio/video device
This is an example using an HDMI® cable:
Connect the power supply cords and insert batteries into the remote control
Plug the media console and Acoustimass power supply cords into an electrical outlet
Choosing your display language
The first time you power up your V-class system, the Display Language menu appears.
To select a display language, press the numeric key on the remote control that corresponds with your language preference. These are in numerical order as follows: English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Dansk or Svenska.
You can change the display language at any time by pressing the System button on the remote. Press the right arrow to scroll to the Media Center icon, then using the down arrow, select "Display Language."
Using the Setup menu
after powering up your system and selecting the display language, the setup menu appears. you can also select it at any time by pressing the system button on the remote and pressing the right arrow to scroll to the setup icon. the setup menu lets you run the adaptiq audio calibration system and program your remote to control your connected components.


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