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The Wellesley Police Department expects to hire three to four officers from this exam. Interviews will be held in July and August of 2024. Those hired will most likely attend a fall or winter police academy in 2024.
The police officer recruitment process begins with a written test given by the Wellesley Police Department. The test is given every two years.
The next test that is scheduled to be given will be on June of 2024.
The entrance test is a requirement for all new members of the department. For current police officers, who may be considering a transfer to the Wellesley Police Department, please email Lieutenant Marie Cleary for further information. This also includes candidates who have graduated from a full time Massachusetts Municipal Police Academy or who are Massachusetts POST certified.
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The department has a very well equipped gym, with both free weights and exercise machines that is equal or better than any commercial gym. Officers work a standard five day on, three day off rotating work schedule. There are additional 'split' schedules available, which have a four day on, four day off work schedule.
Wellesley Police Officers work in a positive environment, with the support of the community. The work, while challenging and demanding at times, is often rewarding, and offers a great opportunity at a career in law enforcement.

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Welsh chewing gum tax doesn't stick
A private member bill from Welsh Conservative Darren Millar was struck down in the Welsh legislature by 30 votes to 17 yesterday.
The proposal aimed to curb gum littering on streets in Wales, but had been met with criticism from leading gum manufacturer Wrigley.
Had the bill passed, consumers in Wales would have paid a 5p tax at the point of sale on each chewing gum pack with proceeds going towards improved enforcement, educational campaigns and clean-up costs.
Wrigley: detrimental effect
Wrigley welcomed the decision. A spokesperson said: "We are pleased that the Welsh Assembly has decided not to progress with the idea of a chewing gum tax."
"We share concerns over littered gum and have invested in public awareness campaigns and schools programmes in Wales to educate the public about responsible disposal."
Wrigley previously told this site that the levy would give consumers a license to litter and would damage dental health.
"Such a tax may deter some consumers from buying chewing gum and this could have a detrimental effect on the UK's oral health, as chewing gum is beneficial for dental health."
"The only effective, and sustainable, solution to littered gum is to encourage people to dispose of their used gum responsibly," said a spokesperson.
Wrigley previously thwarted an Irish gum tax in 2005 through its lobbying efforts and ended up pledging €7m to a campaign fund aimed at reducing litter in Ireland.
ConfectioneryNews.com has asked Wrigley if it will pledge a similar amount to schemes in Wales.
The industry is currently looking at other ways to prevent gum litter on streets.
Degradable gum bases that breakdown faster on pavements could go some way to addressing the problem.
UK polymer firm Revolymer has a degradable chewing gum called Rev7 that uses a disintegrable gum base which degrades between two to three months in drains and in less than two years on pavements.
Wrigley and its largest rival Mondelez International, makers of Trident gum, are both acting to find an environmentally friendly gum solution.
Wrigley has its R&D department at work, while Mondelez is looking for collaborators. See HERE.


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July 26, 2002 - New Jersey Journal: Report says Peace Corps needs to better protect volunteers as assaults against them rise
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GAO Report on Peace Corps Initiatives for Addressing Safety and Security Challenges Hold Promise, but Progress Should Be Assessed
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Report says Peace Corps needs to better protect volunteers as assaults against them rise
By LESLIE MILLER
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Assaults against Peace Corps volunteers around the world have doubled in the past decade, according to congressional investigators.
And the Peace Corps' efforts to safeguard volunteers -- many of whom are young, white and female -- are not consistent, the General Accounting Office report said.
The report was requested by Rep. Martin Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat who last year accused the Peace Corps of failing to keep track of one of his constituents, a 23-year-old volunteer who disappeared in Bolivia and was never found.
Peace Corps data showed assaults involving a weapon or serious injury rose to 17 per 1,000 years of volunteer service in 2000 from eight assaults per 1,000 volunteer years in 1991.
The data also showed major sexual assaults, including rape, fell to eight per 1,000 volunteer years in 2000 from 10 per 1,000 volunteer years in 1991.
Those numbers may mislead, though, because a recent survey of Peace Corps volunteers showed six of 10 rapes were not reported, the General Accounting Office report said.
There are about 7,000 Peace Corps volunteers, down from the agency's high of 15,000 in 1966.
Last year, 86 volunteers reported aggravated assaults, up from 20 in 1990. Fourteen said they had been raped, up from 11 in 1990, according to the Peace Corps.
President Bush wants to double the number of volunteers in the next five years, at a time when Americans living abroad can expect heightened danger.
The GAO said it isn't clear why crimes against volunteers have increased. It could be because the system for collecting crime data has improved.
Though the Peace Corps has evacuated more than 1,600 volunteers between 1993 and 2001, the report said some posts still had incomplete emergency plans. Nor does the Peace Corps know how long it would take to reach volunteers in case of emergency, the report said.
Since 23-year-old Walter Poirier's disappearance in Bolivia a year and a half ago, it's still unclear how often staff visits volunteers, the GAO said.
The staff person responsible for Poirier didn't see or speak to him for several months and failed to follow up after he couldn't find him, an earlier GAO report said.
Because the law forbids people from working for the Peace Corps for more than five years, agency staff are constantly reinventing the wheel, the report said. The GAO recommended the Peace Corps ask Congress to change the law.
The Peace Corps has since clarified the staff's responsibilities and requires them to document that they've done what they were supposed to. The agency is also hiring safety officers and begun daylong safety training for volunteers.
The GAO recommended the Peace Corps director develop a system to make sure those initiatives work.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., also requested the report.
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Google's Screenwise research project announced back in February is designed to collect data on more than just Internet behavior. In addition to custom wireless routers that gather information on participants' browsing and downloading habits, the recently mailed recruiting brochure describes a device "a little bigger than a smartphone" called Screenwise TV Tab. TV Tab "captures audio signals that enables the study to identify which TV programs are being viewed."
The information TV Tab collects includes:
- Identity of person logging into the Screenwise TV Tab
- Timestamps indicating time of log-in and log-out
- Duration of television usage per session
- The total amount of time a television is used in the household
I haven't seen the device, but I think it could be based on Android and powered by this TV Tab app developed by Mobile Research Labs. Android market lists the number of installs for this app at between 10 and 50.
In addition, a different Screenwise app (which looks like a version of Lumi's AnalyzeMe) captures participants' smartphone habits. Among the more interesting things the app collects are:
- Frequency of use of device calendar
- Battery status
- Whether you are using your smartphone inside or outside your home
- How long music is played, and the title and artist for each song
- Timestamp and duration of any video viewed on smartphone
- all URL's and advertisements viewed
- When a Panelist opens or closes an application
Google, who is conducting this research together with GfK, is offering a sign-up incentive of $100 with up to an additional $50 for each month the participating household stays in the study.
Some people who were randomly selected to receive a recruiting mailer (accompanied with a crispy two-dollar bill), are concerned it might be a scam, or worse: "The money is real too! A $2 Dollar bill? SO weird man... never heard of anything like this."


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The order signed to suppress the involvement of the GCSB in the Kim Dotcom case was the only one of its kind made in the last decade.
The spy agency has stated that the certificate signed by Finance Minister Bill English as Acting Prime Minister was the only one found in "a thorough search of our files".
Mr English was asked by the GCSB to sign the "ministerial certificate" while Prime Minister John Key was overseas in August. The certificate said knowledge of the GCSB's involvement in the Dotcom investigation would damage its ability to detect or prevent serious crime.
The fact it was the only ministerial warrant in 10 years was discovered by the Green Party under the Official Information Act. Its rarity has led Green Party co-leader Russel Norman to question how Mr Key stayed ignorant of its existence until a month after it was signed.
Mr Key was only told after it emerged the GCSB's spying on the internet tycoon was illegal - a discovery which ruined the GCSB's bid for secrecy.
"It shows it was an extraordinary event. It was a one-in-10-year event. You would think he would tell the responsible minister when he returned from overseas."
Dr Norman said the rarity of the event also raised questions about the level of knowledge inside the GCSB.
"Why on earth did they get him to sign it? Was it because they already knew it was illegal?"
Mr Key ruled this out in Parliament. He said the GCSB asked for its name to be withheld because it believed it had acted legally.
"It also had the paperwork to support that. I have seen that paperwork, and the paperwork made it quite clear it believed its activities to be legal," he said.
Dotcom: law suit to red suit
Kim Dotcom has been signed up for a Christmas pantomime called Mega Christmas. The name is a tribute to Dotcom's filesharing business.
Oliver Driver, Dave Fane, Mia Blake, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Kimberley Crossman are among well-known names starring in the adult-themed panto. A character has been cast to play Dotcom with the tycoon filming a segment to be shown during the performance.
Basement Theatre's Charlie McDermott said it was hoped Dotcom would appear live on the opening night.


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Thanks to Anna Chan of Sugar-Inc-Cake for allowing me to post her recipe over here ! :) I've made some modifications to her recipe by including some wholemeal flour and reducing the sugar slightly. I loved this recipe because it does not required to chill the dough as normal cut-out cookies dough!! The dough is very easy to handle and not sticky to the hands so I let my boy joined me in cutting out the cookies and he had great time messing up the dough heee....and as usual waited eagerly in front of the oven for the cookies to be ready!
First time try 'sticking' the cookies on an ice-cream stick (bought at Daiso) After cutting out the shapes, I pressed lightly the shaped unbaked cookies over the ice-cream stick & it managed to 'stick' on it after baking. But next round when baking this, I will stick some more dough to cover the stick to make it more firm.
Happily savouring a stick of cookie :) crunchy & great texture cookies 'cos of the wholemeal flour added!Ingredient
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If you aren't hearing back after you've applied for a job, these may be the reasons why.
People often wonder why they never hear back after they've hit "send" on the email with their resume attached or after they've submitted an on-line job application. If you're very lucky, you might have a preliminary email exchange with a recruiter — and then never hear from them again.
It's a depressing experience, and one which also casts a shadow on the hiring company's reputation. So why does it happen? Is it you, is it them, or is it just something every candidate must prepare for in the hiring process?
An oft-cited recruiter complaint is that as many as 50 percent of people applying for a given job simply aren't qualified. Adding to the challenge, most large companies — and many smaller ones — use talent-management software to screen resumes, weeding out up to 50 percent of applicants before a human even looks at a resume or cover letter. The deck is definitely stacked against the job seeker. So how do you breakthrough?
Here are the top five reasons you're not hearing back after applying for a job, with five suggestions for ways to avoid the resume black hole.
1. You really aren't qualified
If a job description specifies a software developer with three to five years of experience and you're a recent graduate with one internship, it's unlikely you'll get a call. Avoid disappointment by not applying for jobs where you lack qualifications. Most job descriptions are written with very specific requirements. Yes, the company is trying to find the most qualified candidate, while also trying to weed people out. It's not personal — it's business.
2. You haven't keyword optimized your resume or application
Job descriptions are salted with keywords specific to the skills or attributes the company seeks in applicants. A close read of the job description is a necessity, as is keyword optimizing your resume, cover letter (if you're using one), or email. If the job description lists words in a certain order, like a list of programming languages required, use the same order in your resume.
3. Your resume isn't formatted properly
You might think distinctive formatting will set your resume apart, but automated programs don't care if a document is pretty. Help a machine out; be consistent in formatting and consider using separate lines for former employer, job title, and years worked.
4. Your resume is substantially different from your online profile
LinkedIn, Dice, and other online profile sites can be useful tools, so it's important to make sure they match what's on your resume. This may seem to be a contradiction since I advised keyword optimization, but it's really common sense. Jobs worked, employers, years on the job, and other details should match. The subtext here is to be consistent and accurate.
5. The company received 500 resumes for one job posting — and yours was 499th
Looking for a job is a job. Do your research — know which companies and organizations you want to work for where you have a sense of culture fit. Every morning scour the job postings and jump on anything for which you're qualified and in which you're interested.
Being early with your resume or application does matter. Check back often in the first few days to make sure the listing hasn't changed. Often a company will post a job and halfway through the process change the description.
It's hard to game the system. Your best bet is still a personal referral, and even that may not be enough to get a call. A guy I know gave his resume to a woman who worked at a company where his friend worked and a good job had been posted. He received an automated email noting his resume had been received, but never heard another word.
After a month he asked his friend to check with the recruiter. It turned out the job description had changed, but the recruiter never bothered to let the referring employee — or the applicant — know. This isn't unusual, unfortunately. So what can you do?
How You Can Get Noticed:
1. Research interesting companies on social media
Find out who the recruiters are and follow them. Many will tweet new postings, so watch their streams and jump on anything for which you are qualified. If they post news about the company's great quarter, share the news with a positive comment.
2. Consider starting a blog in your area of interest or expertise
It's a social world; time to build a trail of breadcrumbs leading to you. Include the blog, and links to any especially relevant posts, in your emails to recruiters with whom you're working.
3. Get professional help with your resume
Either a resume writer or an SEO expert can help you increase your odds of getting through the talent-management software. If you can't afford this step, read the top career blogs for advice.
4. Don't wait until you're out of work to find your next job
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5. Network
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Brief Setup Instructions
1. Download and install Minecraft
2. Download the one-click installer: polycraft-installer-1.4.11.jar file
3. Make sure your Minecraft profile is edited to use version 1.7.10.
3a. Ensure you have a mods folder in your minecraft installation directory (Mac users, you may need to create one!)
4. If you have a previous version of Polycraft World installed or non-compatible mods, you must navigate to the mods folder and remove those.
Full Setup Instructions - Windows & Mac
Mac users, there is a known bug with our current installer that we are diligently trying to fix (as of 8/23/2018). To fix the freeze while booting Minecraft for the first time after installing PolyCraftWorld, try turning off and on your wifi, rebooting your computer, or re-installing Minecraft.
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Drones are a threat to both military and public safety, whether flown by a terrorist or just a reckless pilot. SkySafe's radio wave technology can detect and stop rogue drones from entering unauthorized areas like military bases, stadiums, prisons and airports. SkySafe's radio frequency signals are projected from a perimeter of nodes or even a Jeep, and force unapproved drones to leave or land while allowing permitted drones to fly.
Now just two years after launch, SkySafe has raised an $11.5 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, whose partner Lars Dalgaard will join the board. It adds to the $3 million seed led by Andreessen last year.
Meanwhile, SkySafe has secured a $1.5 million Department of Defense contract with Naval Special Warfare to provide counter-drone tech to the Navy Seals. SkySafe's mobile defense vehicle can accompany armed forces in the field to protect a moving perimeter from drone attacks or surveillance.
SkySafe CEO Grant Jordan started SkySafe after graduating MIT and working on anti-drone technology for four years in the Air Force Research Lab. He writes that "we are rolling out a series of demonstrations, tests, and exercises for DoD customers over the next year and plan to have systems in the field in 2018."
SkySafe's radio wave solution could prove simpler to deploy than alternative drone defenses. Laser-based weapons that shoot down drones may be dangerous and complicated to operate. Net guns that ensnare stray drones may have limited effective ranges. SkySafe claims its RF waves can detect and deter drones at the same maximum range a drone can travel from a pilot.
Defense technologies like SkySafe are an important check against the inevitable democratization of violence. As technology improves, the destructive power available to any single human increases. From hand-to-hand combat to firearms to drones and nuclear weapons, the rapid progress of weaponry will pose new challenges for our species. Defense technology must keep up in order to maintain public safety.


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In Roll Bounce, homosexuals are called "Fruity,� Black children are "Niggers,� dark-skinned people are "Skidmarks,� the gainfully-employed are "Uncle Toms,� and kinky hair is "bad,� because, as one character explains, "Chicks only go for the good hair, not your naps.� And Africa is equated with the primitive, with lines like, "Put some clothes on. This ain't Africa.� Black Americans are portrayed as borderline retarded by dialogue suggesting that they don't understand what words like "indefinitely� mean.
Roll Bounce comes courtesy of Malcolm Lee, a once-promising young filmmaker who struck out on his own following a brief apprenticeship with his cousin, Spike. In 1999, he made quite a splash with a sensational directorial debut, The Best Man, an ensemble drama revolving around a bourgie, battle-of-the-sexes among a clique of college grads reunited in New York City for a wedding. A few years later, his Undercover Brother, a retro comedy set in the Seventies, was just as well-received, leaving the wunderkind heaped with both critical acclaim and commercial success.
Understandably, then, expectations were high for Lee's third flick, which is why Roll Bounce might be the biggest disappointment of the year. Besides taking place in 1978 and featuring another expanded cast, this picture bears little resemblance to either of his earlier offerings.
The film stars Bow Wow as Xavier Curtis Smith or "X�, the 14 year-old ringleader of a rag-tag, roller skating team from the South Side of Chicago. The formulaic front story has this posse of poor boys venturing to the city's upscale North Side after their local rink closes. When they arrive at swanky Sweetwater's, their shabby outfits and outdated gear are ridiculed by their relatively well-off cross-town rivals, led by a trash-talking, ladies man nicknamed Sweetness (Wesley Jonathan).
Predictably, rather than by resorting to violence, the gangs decide to settle their differences by competing in the annual Roller Jam Skate-Off. But because this familiar underdogs overcoming-the-odds premise is set up in the first five minutes of the movie, this leaves about two hours of celluloid to fill. Unfortunately, the overambitious script throws in far more subplots than the audience cares to keep track of.
For instance, X has two potential love interests, Toni (Jurnee Smollett), a tomboy with braces who has just moved in next-door, and Naomi (Meagan Good), a blossoming who Sweetness also has his eye on. Then, there are several sidebars having to do with the fact that X's mother died less than a year ago. His baby sister is still having nightmares, his father (Chi McBride) is unmotivated and unemployed, and X is just angry at the world. The Smith family should consider itself lucky that Toni's scantily-clad, sexy mom (Kellita Smith) likes kids and is on the make, having been abandoned by her husband for a white woman.
Worse than this dizzying array of plot twists is the dumb dialogue which has its characters incessantly exchanging insults, even with friends, implying that they know no other way of conversing. For some reason, teasing people about their skin color and ethnicity has become a big theme of brainless black comedies like this. So, it is repeatedly pointed out that Mixed Mike (Khleo Thomas) is half-black and half-white, and he is derided as an "albino punk� although, curiously, his Caucasian mom is considered okay, because she has a black woman's body.� Asians are fair game, so they become the subject of stale karate jokes.
Females fare the worst in this film, with the tone being set early on when a teenager complains about unwanted touching when X, who she doesn't know, squeezes her hiney. Instead of apologizing, he laughs it off, and has all of his homeys take a turn at rubbing her buttocks, too, as if her feelings don't matter because her purpose is to pleasure males. It is sad that this misogynistic message, a staple of gangsta' rap videos, is spilling over into African-American cinema.
On another occasion, X kisses a girl who doesn't want to be kissed, and then he walks away congratulating himself for getting away with another sexual assault without any consequences. Throughout the film, Toni is tortured mercilessly about her braces, as "Heavy Metal,� "Chompers,� and elsewhat.
In Roll Bounce, homosexuals are called "Fruity,� Black children are "Niggers,� dark-skinned people are "Skidmarks,� the gainfully-employed are "Uncle Toms,� and kinky hair is "bad,� because, as one character explains, "Chicks only go for the good hair, not your naps.� And Africa is equated with the primitive, with lines like, "Put some clothes on. This ain't Africa.� Black Americans are portrayed as borderline retarded by dialogue suggesting that they don't understand what words like "indefinitely� mean.
To add insult to injury, Roll Bounce unfolds like one long Pepsi ad, with dialogue extolling the cola's virtues and placements of the product being prominent in virtually every scene. Trust me, I could continue ad infinitum with this litany of complaints about this disgraceful exercise in dehumanization, but I think I'll rest my case, since I've already given this trash far more attention than it deserves. My only hope is that Malcolm Lee will give me an interview, because I'd love to hear what he has to say in his own defense.
Poor (0 stars)
Rated PG-13 for profanity,
underage sexuality, non-stop misogyny,
crude humor and ethnic slurs.
Running time: 112 minutes
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
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Music biz presses BT to block The Pirate Bay
Chuck it in the Newzbin2, er, please
BT has been asked by music industry outfit BPI to voluntarily block BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay.
"For too long The Pirate Bay has been allowed to attack the livelihoods of individual artists and session musicians. We hope that BT will voluntarily block this prolific, illegal site," wrote the BPI in a missive yesterday.
The request comes after the High Court ordered BT, which now has six million subscribers on its books, to stop its punters from accessing Newzbin2 and any other sites or end-points it uses.
The national telco was given 14 days to implement the measure and must pay for the cost, estimated initially at £5,000.
"We can confirm we are now in receipt of a letter from the BPI [requesting that BT block the Pirate Bay site]. BT is considering its response," said the company.
"In line with the Newzbin judgment, a court order will be needed before any blocking could begin. BT is currently focused on implementation of that order." ®


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Martha Kosa has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University since 1993.
She has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, published research in the area of theoretical distributed computing, and presented posters and papers at CS educational conferences. She has served every year as advisor for TTU's programming teams in ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest, and she was the founding faculty advisor for TTU's ACM-W chapter. More recently, with her colleague Ambareen Siraj, she has co-organized the TTU Tapestry workshop for high school CS teachers, the First Tennesee Celebration of Women in Computing, and the Tennessee Affiliate of the NCWIT Aspirations Award.


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Mr. Speaker, my riding will be the host of two very significant sport and cultural events this summer. These are always fun for the participants and spectators and offer the people in our community an opportunity to demonstrate their wonderful spirit of volunteerism.
First, we have the Seniors' Games in the City of Fort Saskatchewan from July 26 to 29. This is a time when people my age and older compete and show that they are superior in mind and body. There will be about 1,200 participants and we are all looking forward to this time of challenge for mind and muscle.
Then we have the Western Canada Summer Games in Strathcona county from August 3 to 11. This will involve over 2,300 athletes, coaches, officials and performers, plus about 3,000 volunteers.
I offer my congratulations and thanks to all the volunteers and their leaders, people like Margaret Marciak the team leader, because without them such events just could not happen.
I say way to go to Sherwood Park and Fort Saskatchewan.


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Forage Focus: Pasture And Hayfield Renovation
US - Sampling and analysing forage stands is good practice for farmers worried about drought stress on fields last summer, advises Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Wayne County.As a result of last summer's drought, I am getting questions about pasture and hayfield renovation. What can be done to thicken up forage stands that have been thinned out?
The first step is to evaluate the forage stand to determine renovation options. Use a one-foot square as a tool to help quantify the stand density. Take 10 to 15 random one-foot square samples per hayfield or pasture to provide an estimate of the average stand condition.
If the stand is a grass or grass legume pasture or hayfield evaluate the stand based on the percentage of bare or open soil plus the presence of legumes if the stand is a mixed grass/legume stand. There should be less than 10 per cent open or bare soil.
There should be 2 legume plants per square foot in a grass/legume mixture. If these conditions are not met, then partial renovation should be considered.
In the case of an alfalfa hay stand, there should be 10 to 15 plants per square foot in a second year stand and at least 5 to 6 plants per square foot in a 3rd year and older stand.
A partial renovation can be defined as adding forage seed to an already existing forage stand with the goal of increasing the stand density of desirable forage plants. No-till seeding is the typical method used for partial stand renovation; however March often offers an opportunity to utilize frost seeding as a renovation method if certain conditions are met.
Frost seeding involves broadcasting seed over a pasture or hayfield area and letting the natural freeze/thaw cycles of late winter and early spring help to move the seed into good contact with the soil.
A basic requirement for frost seeding success is to make sure that the sod cover has been opened up, so that some bare soil is exposed. Last year's drought may have caused the loss of enough desirable plants that there is sufficient bare or open soil without any additional preparation.
Another twist to frost seeding that sheep producers can use to their advantage is to combine frost seeding with hoof action. Under this seeding scenario, let your sheep begin to graze the paddock or hayfield that is to be frost seeded.
Let the sheep graze down the forage, scuff up the soil and open up bare areas in the sod. At this point, broadcast the forage seed across the paddock. Keep the sheep in the paddock another couple of days and let them continue to graze and trample or hoof in the seed. This method seems to work well with sheep because they don't trample in the seed too deep as could happen with cattle.
In general, legumes work better for frost seeding as compared to grasses. Clovers are most commonly used in partial renovation situations to improve grass pastures or hayfields. Broadcast rates for frost seeding of clover is 6 to 8 lbs. /acre for red clover, 2-3 lbs. /acre for white clover and 2-4 lbs. /acre for alsike clover.
I have been asked the question about renovating an alfalfa stand. Due to an autotoxicity condition that involves the release of a chemical from the roots and plant parts of established alfalfa plants, new alfalfa seedlings do not have a good survival rate, so it is not economically viable to thicken up an old alfalfa stand with more alfalfa seed.
It is possible however to convert an alfalfa stand to an alfalfa grass stand by no-tilling a grass into the older alfalfa stand. Good candidates for this type of renovation include orchardgrass and festulolium grass. Festulolium is a grass species resulting from the cross of a meadow fescue with an annual or perennial ryegrass or a tall fescue with an annual or perennial ryegrass.
The festulolium combines some of the desirable forage quality and quick establishment of a ryegrass with some of the hardiness traits of a fescue grass.
A final important point regarding pasture or hayfield renovation is soil fertility. To allow that new forage seeding to have a chance to thrive and be productive the soil should have the proper soil pH and nutrient level.
Critical or minimum levels include a pH of at least 6.3 for grasses, 6.5 for clovers and 6.8 for alfalfa. Soil phosphorus should be at 25 parts per million (ppm) or 50 lbs. /acre and soil potassium should generally be around 120 to 125 ppm or 240 to 250 lbs. /acre.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The closest that Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Chiefs counterpart Alex Smith got to the field Thursday night was the sideline, both teams electing to let their backups play things out in their final preseason game.
Third-string quarterback Tyler Bray took advantage of the opportunity.
The undrafted rookie from Tennessee threw for 169 yards and three touchdowns, leading Kansas City to a 30-8 victory over Green Bay as both teams rested their starters for the regular season.
Bray hit Junior Hemingway for his first touchdown pass late in the first half, and connected with Josh Bellamy and Frankie Hammond Jr. for TDs in the second half, outplaying Chiefs backup QB Chase Daniel and Packers backups Vince Young and B.J. Coleman.
"I'm so proud of him, man. He finally got a chance to play and show what he's got," Daniel said. "We all knew what he could do physically, but mentally he was on point. He played a heck of a game and I'm so proud of him."
Young continues to struggle in the Packers offense. He was just 14 of 30 for 144 yards while fumbling twice, losing one of them. Coleman was just 2 of 7 for 19 yards and an interception.
"I could have made some better throws," Young said, "but overall I feel like with the reps and the game time, there are things I can go back and watch on film and it's definitely going to help."
Packers coach Mike McCarthy said his priority was to get tape of his backups before Saturday's deadline to trim the roster to 53 players, and in that respect he got what he wanted.
"It's something we'll have to take a hard look at," McCarthy said, when asked to grade Young's performance. "There was a lot of communication going on, which is normal when you get into this fourth game. Pass protection, run blocking, things weren't very clean for us."
That could be expected with most of the big names wearing baseball caps and floppy hats.
In the race to be the No. 3 running back in Kansas City, second-year pro Cyrus Gray appeared to move ahead of veteran Shaun Draughn with a solid performance. Gray gouged the Packers several times in the first half and finished with 73 yards on 13 carries.
Hemingway likely locked up his spot on the Chiefs' roster after the former seventh-round pick out of Michigan caught his second touchdown pass of the preseason. And if it wasn't his work that solidified his job, it may have been an injury to fellow wide receiver Devon Wylie.
The Chiefs' fourth-round pick two years ago, Wylie left in the first half with a hamstring injury and never returned. Wylie missed most of last season with a similar injury.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who has missed time in practice with a left knee, hobbled off in the first half with another knee injury. The Chiefs were already thin at the position after Tony Moeaki fractured his shoulder in last week's game against Pittsburgh.
Reid said that Kelce will have an MRI exam Friday but "he should be OK."
In a bit of positive injury news for Green Bay, cornerback Tramon Williams started the game after missing practice with a bruised knee. He picked off Daniel on the game's first play as the Packers' starters spent a series fine-tuning for their opener at San Francisco.
Their No. 1 offense -- sans Rodgers, of course -- played one series but couldn't move the ball behind Young, eventually settling for Crosby's 48-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead.
Ryan Succop's two field goals and another by Crosby left the score 6-6 when the Chiefs got the ball with less than 2 minutes remaining in the first half. Bray guided them 50 yards in seven plays, and his pass to Hemingway for a touchdown gave Kansas City a 13-6 lead at the break.
The Chiefs put the game away on Bellamy's touchdown grab in the third quarter.
"We played great as a team so I think everyone's confidence is up right now," Bray said. "It was good to get some reps because I'm probably not going to get many down the road here."
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Ten years ago, Wrangell was crawling with feral cats. They roamed the streets, getting into trash and nesting in condemned buildings. Now, it's hard to even find a cat downtown. That dramatic turnaround is due to the hard work of one woman who noticed the problem and decided to fix it. Dolores Klinke runs the St. Frances Animal Rescue, a non-profit that has saved hundreds of strays.
Dolores Klinke is in her late 60s. She has salt and pepper hair and a big smile. As a kid growing up in New Mexico she had all sorts of pets (as a child.) Now, she's Wrangell's most prominent cat lady.
Klinke operates St. Frances out of two shelter locations. One is a forested lot for feral cats and the other is for adoptable cats, housed in her own garage. The first thing you notice when you walk inside is that it's spotlessly clean and doesn't smell like cats. That's surprising as it's currently home to about 20 rescues that live in kennels and cardboard boxes lining the walls.
"This is Jack. That's Benjie; that's Iji, that black and white one; and that's his brother, Lasty," Klinke said, introducing some of the cats.
Some have been turned over by past owners. Many have been live trapped around town. She works patiently with the wild ones, like Kiki, to get them socialized.
"And at first she was very aggressive but she was scared, you know," Klinke said. "She didn't want to be any place else but her own home, but slowly she's getting better and better."
It's this unflappable faith in these little animals that led Klinke to start St. Frances in 2008.
She says she was disturbed by all of the unwanted cats in Wrangell.
At first, she picked up one or two strays at a time. Then she started rescuing entire stray cat colonies. She never predicted it would turn into a full-blown animal rescue.
"I think I stopped counting at 600 cats that we've, you know, handled through the rescue program so, that's a lot of cats," Klinke said. "And that was what, a year and a half ago that I stopped counting?
"I just don't have the time…just too busy."
Once she brings a stray in, she cares for it indefinitely.
Every rescue gets a full lineup of shots and any other medical attention it needs. She's adamant that each one gets spayed or neutered, preventing accidental pregnancies and litters of stray kittens. Fixing the cats is fixing the problem.
"It seems like it's been a little over a year that I haven't had any kittens come in at all," Klinke said. "That tells me something – there are no kittens to be found in Wrangell I guess."
It takes a lot of money to care for all of the rescues. Klinke says she goes through countless bags of kitty litter and cans of wet food. She gets enormous community support. The city chips in $5,000 a year. And in 2013, Klinke raised another $14,000 through rummage and bake sales and private donations. But she says it's still not enough.
"Every 28 days we go through six bags of cat food," Klinke said. "We have the other shelter that we have cats that we have relocated. Over there we go through another maybe four bags a month."
We drive out to the other shelter about five miles out of town.
This gated outdoor colony holds the feral cats that are not socialized enough to be adopted out. Klinke says the cats here often hunt for their own food.
Cats appear left and right when they hear her walking around. She greets each of them by name. One cat, Clown, follows us around. Klinke says she was an especially difficult rescue.
"And the vet was coming into town so we got her ready to go in to get spayed, you know," Klinke said. "And I grabbed her and that was the wrong thing to do. Boy, she tore my hands all up and bit. We got her though and took her in, got her fixed and I headed for the emergency room."
But that antisocial behavior doesn't keep her from pampering them.
Dolores Klinke truly loves her rescues.
"They're appreciative. That's my favorite part of the job, I guess you'd call it. But I love doing it. It's unconditional love," Klinke said. "They don't ask for anything, you know. They really don't. They just want food and somebody to love them."
And that's why she puts in the countless hours and money, and doesn't really mind those trips to the emergency room—to give these cats a place to call home.