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A Sweet Tooth in the Philippines
Manila-based Lori Baltazar covers all things sweet on her blog, Dessert Comes First, which she has operated since 2005.
Ms. Baltazar, 38 years old, writes from experience, having once worked as a cheesecake baker. Her professional tips are succinct: "Just beat the cream cheese to death using a stand mixer," she says. "The final batter should be silken and lump-free, and keep your oven temperature low in order to avoid that nasty crack that so many cheesecakes seem to suffer from."
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Whether you think global climate change is a serious concern that warrants an international corrective effort, or you contend it's all a bunch of hooey dreamed up by Al Gore and a bunch of pointy-headed liberals, the incontrovertible fact is that regional climate changes — both natural and man-caused — are proceeding apace.
As rainfall patterns shift, desertification claims hundreds of thousands of additional acres; as more and more rain forest acres fall to bulldozers, erosion increases and the water cycle from plant transpiration is reduced.
These changes are focusing more attention and research on development of crop plants that can grow and produce acceptable yields with less water.
For too long in this country water has been considered an inexhaustible resource. But as with petroleum, we're finding that isn't the case, and we're beginning to pay the piper in terms of scarcer, more expensive water.
Even in areas where yearly rainfall is traditionally ample, deficits are occurring (much of the Mid-South is 15 inches to 20 inches below normal thus far in 2007), droughts have been increasingly frequent and severe, and water tables have fallen. Major lakes, rivers, and streams, once water rich, have in many cases shrunk to the point that supplies are in a crisis situation for urban and rural uses alike.
The anti-agriculture folks are quick to denounce crop production as a disproportionately large user of water. The USDA says agriculture accounts for 80 percent of the nation's consumptive water use, and over 90 percent in some western states (where many farmers are finding it more profitable to sell their water to cities than to use it for farming).
Confronted with increasing cost and scarcity, farmers have quickly adapted conservation/recovery practices and irrigation systems that use less water and distribute it more efficiently.
But that can only go so far. Developing crop plants that need less water to produce acceptable yields will be another key to keeping agriculture viable.
As genome projects for major crops provide complete maps of the plants' chromosomal makeup, gene manipulation techniques become more sophisticated, and plant growth modeling becomes more powerful, scientists foresee crops that not only need less water, but offer tolerance to salt, temperature stresses (both heat and cold), and other environmental factors.
Significant strides are being made. In 2002, Cornell University researchers announced the development of a hardier strain of biotech rice that offers drought resistance and is more adaptable to marginal soils.
Shortly after that, USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists announced two new lines of salt-tolerant plants related to wheat (in the U.S., saline soils reduce crop yields by about 25 percent).
It takes about 125 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat. Researchers in Egypt have been working toward commercialization of a wheat variety with a barley gene that has enabled them to cut irrigations from eight to only one.
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Sally and I headed up Good Canyon yesterday. I have never seen so much water in Good -- it was beautiful.
Normally we head straight up the canyon, but due to the fast flowing water, we hiked up the sides and crossed the creek as needed.
We usually exit the canyon at the "crux" -- about 7.5 K. Unfortunately, the approach to the crux was buried under snow with a massive amount of water running underneath.
We exited the canyon early, which involved clawing our way uphill through loose dirt, scree, pine needles, lousy rocks, etc. It took forever to gain 1.5 K feet. Once we reached the Ski Hut trail at 9 K, we called it and started down. Enjoyed lunch before donning microspikes and making our way down the slippery mess to the base of the bowl.
The only downside -- some trashy scum placed graffiti on the rocks at the entrance to Good Canyon
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Families of Missing Iowa Girls Await IDs of Bodies
EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) - Five months after two cousins vanished while riding their bikes, residents of the Iowa community where they were last seen are waiting to hear whether two bodies found by hunters are those of the girls.
Investigators say the families of 9-year-old Elizabeth Collins and 11-year-old Lyric Cook asked for privacy after being told that the bodies were discovered Wednesday in a wooded area.
Black Hawk County sheriff's Capt. Rick Abben wouldn't say where the bodies were found. He says more information could be released Thursday.
He says the bodies will be identified by the state medical examiner's office.
The cousins disappeared July 13 near a popular recreational lake in Evansdale in northeast Iowa. Investigators found their bicycles and a pink purse near the lake, but no sign of the girls.
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Steganography Application Fingerprint Database Now Contains Over 1,150 Applications
Fairmont, WV (PRWEB) February 28, 2013 - Backbone Security, the global leader in advanced digital steganography detection and hidden information extraction tools, is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of their Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains over 1,150 steganography applications.
Developed in Backbone's Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB is the world's largest commercially available hash set exclusive to digital steganography applications.
The database is widely used by US and international government and law enforcement agencies, the intelligence community, and private sector digital forensic examiners and network security professionals to detect digital steganography applications on seized digital media and within inbound and outbound network traffic streams.
Discovery of a steganography application during a digital forensics examination is a strong indication the application has been, or will be, used to conceal evidence of criminal activity. Detecting a steganography application in the inbound network traffic stream is a strong indication an insider will use the application to steal sensitive information.
SAFDB is an integral part of the Steganography Analyzer Artifact Scanner (StegAlyzerAS), a digital forensics application that searches for steganography applications on suspect media and forensic images of suspect media, the Steganography Analyzer Field Scanner (StegAlyzerFS), a rapid field triage toolthat detects the presence or use of steganography on suspect comptuer systems, and the Steganography Analyzer Real-Time Scanner (StegAlyzerRTS), a network security appliance that detects the presence or use of steganography in the inbound and outbound network traffic stream in real-time.
Existing customers may download an updated version of StegAlyzerAS, StegAlyzerFS, and StegAlyzerRTS that contains SAFDB v3.16 by logging into their account on the SARC Customer Portal at http://www.sarc-wv.com/customer_portal.
For additional information about Backbone's steganalysis tools, please visit the SARC web site at http://www.sarc-wv.com.
About the SARC - The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the world's largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications.
About Backbone Security - In addition to being the leading provider of digital steganalysis tools, Backbone is a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) that conducts automated PCI-DSS compliance assessments with their industry leading 1 Stop PCI Scan service. Backbone also provides real-time intrusion monitoring, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and business continuity and disaster recovery planning services.
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As Education Programme Director, Nancy Barr oversaw the global Animal Action Education Program, which engages more than 5,000,000 educators, young people and their families in 18+ countries each year.
Prior to joining IFAW in 2006, Nancy worked as an independent documentary producer, features editor for the United Nations, and international reporter for Time Magazine and CBS News. She holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California and a BA in Communications from Williams College.


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EmpyreLounge needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 106 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
We are looking for a t-shirt design that primarily will be used on the back of a t-shirt and one that could potentially be used in further marketing
The EmpyreLounge.com is a online music site that focuses primarily on concert photography in the Boston area. The site can be found at http://www.empyrelounge.com.
I am looking for more of a collage feel that showcases some photo samples that can be found here, as well as convey the sense of Boston. My initial thought was to have the Zakim Bridge winding through the design, but am open to really anything that can convey the photographs & the feel of Boston.
The front of the shirt will be my brand logo, which can be found here, only without the gradient background.
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- Simple coloring. This design should be done mostly in black, but also have the ability to easily be changed over to have all the elements in another color (like white) to be placed over a darker background color.
- Proper marriage between photos and a touch of Boston
- Photography samples should be more focused on the individuals in the photo and have a more artistic feel and not using the actual photos.
- Only a handful of photos used....3 - 4 would probably be preferable
- "EmpyreLounge.com" incorporated across the bottom of the design
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Re. "Commentary: It's time to arm school personnel," (Jan. 9): Chuck Cassity has the gun issue about as upside-down as a person can.
To begin, he cites "the hysterical pleadings from the gun-haters." The only hysteria I've heard is from his side of the issue: Citizens like Ted Nugent claiming gun-owners are America's new oppressed Rosa Parks; a host of others raising the specter of Stalin and Hitler, while Newport Beach barflies maintain the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings were really done by a government black-ops team; all this World Wrestling Federation-worthy wrath capped by Tennessee's Tactical Response Chief Executive James Yeager posting, "I'm not letting my country be run by a dictator. I'm not letting anybody take my guns. If this goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people."
I guess I must hate freedom or something, because I find myself thinking more about the recent years' maimed and dead, so many of them so young, and with so much still to discover in life. It isn't a hatred of the 2nd Amendment that has me and other of your neighbors thinking about them first, and about what we can do to please, for Christ's sake already, find a way to minimize such horrors happening again.
You have to be crazy not to be thinking about those kids first, but if you saw Alex Jones on Piers Morgan, you got a master class in crazy. He wasn't thinking about real dead kids. He was thinking about "internationalists" plotting to rob American men of their Precious, just like Hitler, Stalin or Bilbo Baggins did.
If, as they argue, it is only our Constitutionally granted guns that keep us secure in our homes and persons, why is it that the most insecure, ranting, aggrieved, paranoid, bullying guys in the room are the ones with all the guns?
On the side of the room where they're not throwing chairs, you've got people with a genuine right to be furious — parents who have lost their children; Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the brain — who instead are addressing this needless carnage with the gravity and deliberation it deserves.
No one is taking your precious guns away! With some 270 million guns in play in the U.S., the Kenyan-U.N. hovercrafts simply don't have magnets big enough to scoop them all up. All anyone is talking about is beginning to limit a gun's capacity for carnage, and making it harder for predators and demented folk to get them. That's not us beginning a slippery slope to tyranny, it's just us acting like the human species is still capable of compassion and reason.
If dingoes were killing your children, when looking for a solution, you would probably want to include a discussion about limiting the number of dingoes in your community. Same thing with guns.
Yes, guns don't kill people; people do. It generally requires a person to detonate a nuclear weapon as well, yet somehow humanity has arrived at the conclusion that endless nuclear proliferation is not a good idea.
I grew up reading and rereading my dad's 1940s Marine Corps manual, and, boy, did I want a flamethrower. As an adult, though, I can see where it is not beneficial that we all walk around with flamethrowers. I'm willing, for the common good, to lay that dream aside, and I do not feel I've made the 2nd Amendment any weaker by doing so.
Both nukes and guns are force multipliers, vastly increasing the amount of damage an individual or entity can accomplish. We need laws to limit the destructive capabilities of personal firearms and their accessibility by the crazed or criminal. What we don't need are still more guns in play to supposedly thwart killers.
Want an example of how well that would work? Consider the police. They are far better trained in weapons and crisis situations than most folks, yet the police, bless their hearts, do shoot an awful lot of the wrong people. Consider the incident this past August outside the Empire State Building when police moved in on a shooter. All nine of the bystanders wounded in the skirmish turned out to have been shot by the police. So tell me again, Cassity, how much safer schools will be with a NRA volunteer returning fire in a crowded classroom?
Veteran journalist JIM WASHBURN previously worked as an editor at OC Weekly and regularly contributed to the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Costa Mesa.


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It is Michael Young's contractual right to reject any trade proposal presented to him by the Phillies. Young earned that ability when he gained 10-5 rights with Texas and maintained it as part of a stipulation in last winter's trade to Philadelphia.
Young is 36 and felt marginalized in Texas, where he was a popular figure. He accepted the trade to the Phillies because they promised regular playing time at third base. That role will disappear with the promotion of prospect Cody Asche.
If a report by FOXSports.com is true, that Young will accept a trade only to Texas, that severely limits the Phillies' chances at moving him. The Phillies do not expect to fetch a top prospect for Young. The best they can do is receive salary relief (Young is owed $2 million) and a marginal minor-league player.
So if Young is reluctant to go anywhere unfamiliar for two months, where does that leave him on this non-contending team? If the Phillies put Darin Ruf in left field, Young could play some first base while Ryan Howard remains sidelined from his knee surgery.
But once Domonic Brown returns, the team would have too many outfielders unless they cut ties with Delmon Young and shift Brown to right.
So Michael Young could be relegated to a bench role in the final two months of the season. That could force him to rethink his reported stance. If he wants to play, it may have to be elsewhere.
Part of Young's consideration could be his ailing young son, Antonio. He left the team for five days in June to be with his family. They are residents of Dallas.
"I don't know," Young said Sunday when asked if he would waive his no-trade clause. "The first thing I want to do is talk to the Phillies about that. Ruben has been very upfront with me since Day 1. The entire organization has. What I went through back in May, they stood by me the entire time. I certainly appreciate it. Any conversation that has to do with trades will be with them first."
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MONTPELIER — State Sen. Claire Ayer used an apt metaphor on Tuesday in describing the 2009 legislative session.
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MIDDLEBURY — As Middlebury College students dove into final exams, college officials this week unveiled a second round of major budget cuts made necessary by dwindling donations and a $300 million hit that the institution's endowment has taken in the recent economic downturn.
ADDISON COUNTY — It's not just bricks-and-mortar bookstores — which have long faced competition from online booksellers like Amazon.com — that are in trouble these days.
Books themselves could be on the way out.
Last week's tech buzz swirled around the Kindle DX, Amazon's electronic reader that some technology enthusiasts predict could mean the death of the book as we know it.
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Each element of All Are Welcome was recorded in one take. Each musician was assigned a time to show up, had the option of listening to the tracks that founding members Mjolsness and Krohn produced the first day, and recorded. Jeremy Lemos (White/Light) lent his expertise in the recording and mixing process, but, aside from cutting incidentals, the songs remained the same. All Are Welcome is the product of two reference points coalescing at an unknown synthesis. They wanted to create a forum for ideas to meet open interpretation; tones that meet texture, voices that meet structure, knocks and whirls that color a laid-back, anxious roll-call. The act of creating this piece was the purpose; the hope is that the ensuing product may provide others a conduit to some other place or feel.
All Are Welcome players: Jonathan Krohn – key; Benjamin Mjolsness - guitar; Jason Adasiewicz (Exploding Star Orchestra) - vibraphone; Josh Berman (Exploding Star Orchestra) - cornet; Steven Hess (Lociran, Pan American, Haptic) – percussion; Todd Mattei (Joan of Arc) - guitar; Mike Reed (Exploding Star Orchestra) - percussion; and Hometapes recording artist Nick Butcher - tape. Recorded by Jeremy Lemos and mastered by Bob Weston.
"despite the fact that the album is essentially a canvas of white noise, otherworldly drones, and astral dissonances, it achieves a remarkable sense of poignancy that holds things taut..." -Delusions of Adequacy
"All Are Welcome is a welcoming cluster of avant-jazz and improvisational rock on the verge of existence, like a fuzzy memory of a childhood Xmas morning where your parents stayed up all eve long drinking and smoking opium." -PopMatters


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Oregon produces quite a small amount of wine but an awful lot of noise. Which is not at all to say that the state's wine industry is overrun by brash publicists - rather the reverse. The typical Oregon wine operation consists of relatively neat, high-trained vines round a few old wooden shacks manned by a highly educated loner who revels in the contrasts between his wine region and California.
The most obvious difference is the climate, which in most of Oregon is distinctly cool and cloudy, especially in the Willamette (with the emphasis on the short A) Valley just south of Portland, where most of the wineries are clustered. The Willamette Valley is already being carved up into smaller appellations, so local are reputations here. Wine producers like to follow the Burgundian model of growing their own grapes. Much is made locally of the fact that Oregon shares the 45th parallel with Bordeaux - although Burgundy would have been more convenient, given the determination with which Oregon wine producers have pursued the Holy Grail of Pinot Noir. This supposedly fickle grape is the state's most planted by far, and there has been much experimentation with different clones, especially so-called Dijon clones from Burgundy. Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Riesling follow. Oregon has no such thing as cheap, bulk wine of indeterminate pedigree, although it is now productive enough to have spawned a negociant business, A-Z.
The vine has spread south from the Willamette however to the drier Umpqua Valley, where the first Oregon vines were planted, and the much hotter Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon, a conveniently large AVA almost on the California border (though many miles from any California vineyards). There are also a few vineyards which are effectively extensions of Washington state wine regions. (The Seven Hills vineyard, for example, which is in inland Oregon, is actually part of Washington's official Walla Walla AVA.) The southern part of the state, the Umpqua and Rogue Valleys are also warm enough to ripen even Cabernet vines consistently, although producers such as Abacela suggest that Tempranillo may have a future here. Basically, the further north you go in Oregon's coastal vineyards just one mountain range in from the foggy coast, the more open it is to ocean influence, the cooler the vineyards and the more delicate the wines. But only a little further south, in the heart of the Willamette Valley, summer drought can be a problem, strangely enough. Rain at the wrong time is Oregon's lament.
The perennial challenge for most Oregon wine producers has been to persuade their grapes to ripen fully on the vine before the autumn rains arrive, bringing rot and spoiling the colour and flavours of the delicate Pinot Noir grape especially - although summers seem to be becoming warmer and wines stronger. So variable are the vintages here that the grape harvest may take place at any time from early September to November. Heat stress and drought are not unknown in high summer, however. Despite relatively high rainfall in such a high proportion of the state's vineyards, organic and biodynamic viticulture are more widespread in Oregon than in any other wine region of its size.
Wineries tend to be small family affairs (although Montinore Vineyards and King Estate in the south of the Willamette Valley are exceptions). Winemaking equipment has therefore tended to be fairly homespun, with steel-lined open fruit boxes commonly used as fermentation vats for example. Perhaps the most significant winery is Domaine Drouhin, the only Oregon outpost of a Burgundian merchant and, quite rightly, a source of great local pride.
There is more evidence of Oregon's appeal to outsiders in Argyle, a sparkling winemaking venture spearheaded by Brian Croser of Petaluma, arguably Australia's most influential winemaker, and Beaux Frères, a small but successful Pinot Noir producer owned by American wine critic Robert Parker and his brother-in-law.
Long-serving members of the Oregon wine community (and it is very much a community rather than an industry) include Adelsheim, Bethel Heights, The Eyrie Vineyards, Knudsen, Ponzi, Sokol Blosser and Tualatin. Cristom is a noteworthy newcomer which makes a particularly fine Viognier as well as Pinots of distinction. Other superior producers include Archery Summit (owned by a refugee from the Napa Valley), BrickHouse (which is somehow managing to produce concentrated and interesting wines using organic viticulture), Bergstrom, Chehalem, Domaine Serene, Hamacher, Lemelson, and Ken Wright Cellars. All these and more are involved in a uniquely friendly annual winefest known as the International Pinot Noir Celebration at McMinnville in Yamhill county, just south of the Red Hills of Dundee, Oregon's most famous wine terroir.
For many years Oregon growers depended on Swiss and California clones of Pinot Noir which tended to produce wines that were respectively either too facile or too jammy. The big leap forward was taken in the late 1990s when more recently planted Burgundian clones (known here as Dijon clones) came onstream, resulting in more depth of flavour, some savoury notes and better structure for the long term. But Oregon Pinot Gris has long shown real distinction and is really becoming interesting now that new Burgundian clones are demonstrating their superior flavour and structure.
There have been experiments with using Oregon oak for wine maturation and it seems unlikely that the idiosyncratic inhabitants of this characterful wine region will stop their quest for ever greater wine quality.
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There is nothing as relaxing to me as the sound of waves. (Real waves – not New Age CDs with wave sounds, mind you). But when I stand by the oceans these days, I can't relax entirely. I cannot but think of the wild west exploitation "out there" that is destroying the livelihoods of small-scale fisherpeople, fish stocks and global biodiversity.
Thirty years ago 119 governments came together in an attempt to start end this destruction. In Jamaica they agreed what many called a "constitution for the oceans" – the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). To this day, as David Milliband argued this week, "UNCLOS is a symbol of global cooperation, compromise, and international law... But UNCLOS will need to evolve if it is to meet twenty-first-century challenges."
The oceans constitution covers both the rights and responsibilities of States operating on the high seas - the global commons that cover over half the Earth's surface. Looking back over the past 30 years, however, governments have succeeded in exercising their right to exploit the ocean but have not taking responsibility to protect it. Specific rules have been put in place under UNCLOS for governments and corporations to enable fishing, drilling and mining, but not to deliver conservation. In particular, there is still no agreed mechanism to create Sanctuaries at Sea - putting areas off limits to exploitation – for the High Seas or to apply environmental impact assessments to ensure activities do not do damage.
Though the number of countries supporting UNCLOS has risen to 164, the gaps in ocean protection today remain shockingly large. The percentage of high seas areas that are protected is pitiful – remaining stuck at below 1%. Meanwhile, advances in technology have enabled humans to reach ever more distant and deeper waters. Areas that were once unreachable and acted as de facto Sacturies at Sea (marine reserves) are now starting to be explored and exploited.
The melting of the ice in the Arctic, for example, has seen oil firms and finishing fleets moving in, cynically abusing the devastating impacts of climate change as a business opportunity. Corporate interest in deep seabed mining, once the subject of science fiction, is also becoming a reality. In the last few years, the number of exploration licenses issued have increased significantly.
Instead of continuing this plunder, now is the time to evolve the constitution of the sea. Governments need to finally put in place globally agreed rules for protecting the High Seas. The good news is, that many governments are already calling for an agreement to end the wild west exploitation of the High Seas (through an UNCLOS implementing agreement). Brazil, Mexico, India, the European Union and South Africa are some of the champions of bringing UNCLOS into the 21stcentury. Indeed, at the Rio+20 Conference this summer, the vast majority of governments wanted to launch negotiations for the UNCLOS agreement required. They were blocked by an unholy alliance of United States, Venezuela, Russia and Canada who selfishly put their fishing, mining and fossil fuel industry interests first. What they could not prevent, however, was Rio+20 agreeing a deadline for a decision to be taken by 2014. Some, encouragingly, don't want to wait that long. The French Minister of Environment, Delphine Batho, for example recently urged governments to launch negotiations for protecting the High Seas in 2013 already. That's the right way to celebrate 30 years of the constitution of the Seas. Now is the time to make UNCLOS truly count for the Oceans.
Listening to the waves as I walk along the Pacific in Hong Kong, I am angered by 30 years of the constitution of the sea not having been enough to allow me to enjoy the relaxing force of this truly stunning phenomenon of nature. Today, to me, the sound of the waves is really a call for action.


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As worsening drought conditions continue to envelop more than half of the United States, the American Soybean Association (ASA) is pointing to the farm bill currently stalled and awaiting debate by the full House of Representatives as an essential means of ensuring the continued coverage of American farmland through crop insurance and risk management, as well as disaster assistance programs.
"As conditions deteriorate throughout much of rural America and the outlook for farmers becomes bleaker and bleaker, we are reminded that farming is subject to so many elements and risks outside of the farmer's control. This further emphasizes the need for programs to help farmers manage risks in order to stay viable and plant next year," said ASA President Steve Wellman, a soybean farmer from Syracuse, Neb.
Currently, 85 percent of soybean acres in the United States are covered by crop insurance, however Wellman says that it should not be misconstrued as a profit center for farmers. "Just as when homeowners insurance replaces valuables following a flood or a fire, crop insurance only covers farmers in the event of a significant loss. These policies often have deductibles or loss levels at 25 percent or more. They aren't there to turn a profit; they exist to help farmers survive and keep farming."
Wellman added that the current conditions point directly to the benefits provided by revenue-based risk management programs. "Revenue-based risk management tools that complement crop insurance ensure that farmers who suffer a crop loss -- and accompanying revenue loss -- receive the assistance they need to remain viable. In contrast, a target price-based program would provide no assistance to farmers affected by the drought since it would activate only if prices are low and then only on actual production.
"For these reasons and countless others," Wellman said, "ASA calls on Speaker Boehner and House leadership to schedule floor time to consider and pass a farm bill so that it can be conferenced with the Senate and a new farm bill can be enacted this year."
Additionally, Wellman, who is also a cow-calf producer, noted the importance of the bill's disaster assistance provisions to American livestock producers, who are tied closely to soybean farmers. "Our colleagues in the livestock industry, who depend on soybeans as a steady source of protein-rich feed, are facing an extremely difficult challenge. The disaster assistance provisions in the farm bill will provide these key soy allies with the disaster assistance they need this year.
"The policies that the House and Senate Agriculture Committees worked to include in the farm bill will help farmers deal with the drought, the heat and the galaxy of other real-world risks that agriculture faces," added Wellman. "It is imperative that the House acts immediately on the farm bill so that these programs can continue to benefit American agriculture."


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6/11/13 Angels at Orioles: Camden Yards
Welcome to the entry of quite possibly my worst batting practice performance ever. So I'll try to keep this entry brief and not make something out of nothing.
When I arrived from Alex Kopp's house where I had spent the night, there was already a couple people in line, but thanks to cool people I knew like Tim Anderson and Rick Gold being at the front of the line, I also got to be at the front of the line. As a result of me being essentially the first one in the gates, I found two easter eggs in left field, and actually probably should have gotten three or four, but when I got in, a person cleaning in the seats asked me if I wanted to come and get a ball with him in first base foul ground. I probably should have told him no, but I figured that if I could get an extra baseball out of it, my journey would be worth it.
Well when we got over there, someone had already gotten the baseball and I saw ballhawks pick up two easter eggs in the time that I stopped and talked to this guy that I probably would have otherwise had. But anyway, when I had my two baseballs to start the day, I was thinking about big numbers for this game. I would then go on to not snag a ball fro the rest of batting practice–hence the lack of pictures from this game. It didn't look like it was going to be that tough a day either. This was the view of the seats in left field when I got back after making the journey for the potential third easter egg, which besides having Alex and Tim in it, didn't look that bad:
And it wasn't just me either. Between myself, Alex, Tim, and Rick, we combined for a total of two hit baseballs snagged during BP and no toss-ups. It was just for whatever reason a tough BP. I almost got a ball from Dane De La Rosa, but when he asked me if I had already gotten a ball that day, I replied honestly and said yes. He then kept looking for someone to give the ball to before tossing it back into the ball bucket in center field. I'm thinking I should have replied with a clever response that reflected the fact that I still hadn't gotten a ball during BP yet, but his question caught me so off-guard that I couldn't think of anything besides just telling him what he wanted to hear.
After batting practice, I saw a ball inside of where the grounds crew stays during the games, below the right-center field seats, so I camped out there hoping to ask whoever entered there first for the ball. I didn't take a picture in my time there, but I found out that someone else did while exploring the hashtag "opacy" on Instagram, so here I am waiting right above the spot where the ball was for someone to retrieve it:
I waited there for a solid half-hour as the grounds crew people were just starting to fix up the field post-batting practice when I got there. I watched and got ready every time a groundskeeper crossed in front of me on the warning track, bu none ever actually went inside the gate. Then, a couple people who I didn't recognize as members of the grounds crew passed by me and into the gate. I was so surprised that they would be entering the area that I didn't even ask them to go get the ball. What I did do was sit on the edge of my seat and be prepared for when one of them would come back out. When one of the guys came back out, I immediately saw that he had the ball in his hand and asked him before anyone else could get to him. He then tossed it to me for my third and final ball of the day:
I would then give that ball away to an usher at the top of the section and instructed him to give it away to the first kid with a glove he saw. I like to do this because it's a win-win for myself and the usher. I get to show the usher that I am human and like to see kids go home happy with a baseball, and it lets the usher look like the hero for being the one to give the baseball to the kid and see his/her face light up when he/she gets the ball.
And that was it. I wouldn't snag another ball for the rest of the game. I would sit out in the flag court pretty much the whole game with Alex and Tim–who managed to get a Mike Trout home run ball tossed up to him–but nothing would be hit up there.
- 3 Baseballs at this Game
Numbers 559-561 for my career:
- 115 Balls in 28 Games= 4.11 Balls Per Game
- 3 Ball x 22,834 Fans=68,502 Competition Factor
- 90 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 50 Balls in 13 Games at OPACY= 3.85 Balls Per Game
- 13 straight Games with at least 1 Ball at OPACY
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shafnutz05 wrote:Gaucho wrote:What I meant to say is they look like a happy family. These kids seem to experience anything but a terrible childhood.
You don't think making your 7 year old child the centerpiece of your personal fight for transgender equality is basically robbing that child of enjoying a relatively normal and happy upbringing? I can't speak to the other children, but I find their actions self-serving.
No, I don't, but I think you make a lot of assumptions regarding the parents' motives.


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André Téchiné's adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel Unforgivable stars André Dussolier as an elderly crime author who impulsively marries globe-hopping real-estate agent Carole Bouquet, and moves with her to an island near Venice to write. But Dussolier keeps getting distracted: by the disappearance of his flaky, drug-addicted daughter; by having to take care of his pre-teen granddaughter; and by his concern with what his new wife is up to during the long hours she spends "at the office" or on business trips. That's three generations of women keeping Dussolier from his work, which may be why the writer seeks out the friendship and confidence of a man: Mauro Conte, the criminal son of a veteran private investigator, who tries his hand at the family business when Dussolier asks him to start tailing Bouquet. Soon, the young hoodlum becomes as dangerously obsessive as his employer.
This fascination with mysteries—with wanting a complicated, even conspiratorial explanation for behavior that is easily explained—is at the heart of Unforgivable. But while the movie is masterfully acted (especially by the beguilingly aloof Bouquet) and artfully shot (with gorgeous images of Italy at its ritziest), the jumble of characters and plotlines remain indistinct and removed throughout. That's probably by design; though even if so, that doesn't make Unforgivable any more compelling. At one point, Bouquet waves off Dussolier's assertion that his daughter had taken up with a gangster, saying, "No one says 'gangster' except in your books." That seems to be one of the main theses of Unforgivable: that nothing is as dramatic as it appears, and presuming otherwise means risking unnecessary trouble and pain. Téchiné opens with a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, about how he finds it difficult to understand and explain where his ideas come from, and he ends his movie with Dussolier finally finishing his book. What happens between is little more than fodder for stories, with no greater meaning than what it inspires.


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The special master in the schools merger federal court case says his first order of business is to look at the paperwork and other documents of the case and what has been done so far in the merger.
"First I've got to review the documents and have a plan of addressing and talking to a list of individuals I need to talk to," said Rick Masson, who was appointed special master last week by U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays.
As outlined in Mays' order appointing him, Masson is responsible for reporting to him on whether the countywide school board is making progress on the schools merger on terms that all sides agreed to in 2011.
"I am trying to facilitate action," Masson said. "That's not in the order. But if you read the order you see words like 'assist' and 'coordinate' and 'monitor.'"
Masson started the job he was appointed to by Mays the same month he started as a senior director at Caissa Public Strategy LLC, a consulting and marketing firm.
Many of the political players in the schools merger court case and those affected by the merger were at a Downtown reception at Caissa's offices Thursday, March 7, to mark Masson's hiring. They included Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, Shelby County Commission Chairman Mike Ritz and countywide school board member Kevin Woods.
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"We're positioned to make those tough decisions," Woods said of recent school board votes on planning commission merger recommendations submitted to the board last August. "Any help he can add, we welcome it."
Masson was guarded in his statements about how the process will work, which is normal with special masters appointed in ongoing court cases. Usually their only specific public statements about their work come in court documents or in reports given in open court.
"I'm an officer of the court and I don't think I need to express an opinion or even a strategy until it is complete," Masson said as he talked about the two bodies at the center of the merger – the countywide school board and the Shelby County Commission.
"I'm convinced that they have the same objective I have, which is let's have a first-class school (system) ready when these kids start in August," he said. "I'm confident in the fact it's their objective and it's mine."
Masson is lead strategist on local and regional projects for Caissa, a firm that works to stimulate private investment in public projects.
He is a former city of Memphis finance director and chief administrative officer.
Meanwhile, school board member David Reaves responded to claims by Ritz in an opinion piece in The Memphis Flyer that some school board members are dragging their feet on the merger. Ritz contends the hesitation "plays well" in the Tennessee General Assembly where municipal school districts legislation is pending for the merger effort to "publicly struggle."
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Reaves also countered that the school board and schools staff have completed the "lion's share" of the merger planning.
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'Bullet to the Head' Review
In 1982, Walter Hill directed '48 Hrs.,' with Nick Nolte as a loose cannon cop and Eddie Murphy as a fast-talking criminal. The oil-and-water chemistry worked, the movie was a hit, and an entire genre -- the buddy cop movie -- was born. Hill has had a long a varied career in Hollywood, directing tough, lean action movies and Westerns and producing the 'Alien' franchise, but '48 Hrs.' and the myriad imitators it birthed will always be his biggest legacy. That fact alone makes his new movie, 'Bullet to the Head,' interesting, since it's Hill imitating himself, with his first return to the genre since 1990's 'Another 48 Hrs.' The mixed results probably won't inspire a resurgence of buddy cop movies, but they're not terrible either, with enough Walter Hill flair to make some moments quite memorable, even if the movie as a whole has its problems.
The mismatched buddies this time are sort of an inversion of '48 Hrs;' now the gruff rule-breaking older cop is the gruff, rule-demolishing older hitman named Jimmy Bobo (Sylvester Stallone), and the fast-talking criminal is the fast-talking, tech-savvy D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang). In an effectively noirish opening sequence, Jimmy and his partner Louis (Jon Seda) kill a target, but not long after, Louis is killed by a towering man with a knife (Jason Momoa). He tries to kill Jimmy too, but he survives and swears revenge. The next day, Kwon arrives in town, looking for the man Jimmy murdered -- who turns out to be Kwon's ex-partner. Through a twist too satisfying to spoil here, Jimmy and Taylor and thrown together, and agree to set aside their differences until they find the men who set them both up. They've got to kill their enemies before they kill each other, and assorted other buddy cop cliches.
The setup is standard but it's crisply directed by Hill, whose work is always marked by clean, economic shooting and cutting and an inherent knack for working over an audience. That's all evident from the very first frame of the movie -- when a bullet appears out of nowhere, jolting you in your seat as it slams through the Warner Brothers logo. Stallone, his voice registering a few octaves below a subwoofer, mumbling in voiceover about how he has no women and trusts no one in order to stay in "the game," seems like an ideal Hill hero: tough as nails, mad as hell, serious as a heart attack. And there's a bit of that old Nolte-Murphy antipathy when he and Kang first get together. This, we think to ourselves, looks very promising.
Quickly, though, things turn sour. A buddy cop movie needs two equal and opposing forces; '48 Hrs.' doesn't work if Nolte overpowers Murphy, which is exactly what happens here. Stallone dominates everything; scene after scene serves only to make him look like a badass genius while making Kung look like a dopey wimp. Every time they get into a tough spot, he demands they take care of it "his way." When Kwon tries to intrude, his meddling inevitably puts both their lives at risk, and they survive only through the strength, courage, and ingenuity of Jimmy.
All the while Stallone keeps cracking jokes at Kang's expense -- they're funny at first, but the script and the wisecracks are so heavily weighted in his favor, that it quickly moves past chummy bickering to obnoxious bullying. Kang's part amounts to little more than a guy who follows Stallone around, looking things up on his cell phone whenever the plot demands, and absorbing his insults the rest of the time. Kang's been great in other movies, but here he comes off more like a sidekick than a full-fledged partner, which takes a lot of the fun out of things.
The bright spot here, to my surprise, is Jason Momoa, who makes an utterly convincing heavy in his role as the enforcer to the main villain, a New Orleans power broker whose ultimate motivations, as they're finally revealed, don't make a whole bunch of sense to me, but whatever. Momoa, who didn't bring much to the recent 'Conan the Barbarian' remake is all kinds of scary -- and even kind of charming -- as this ruthless mercenary named Keegan, and his big fight with Stallone -- with axes, for reasons which don't make a whole bunch of sense either, but whatever, axes are awesome -- is a genuine highlight. Kang, of course, spends that entire fight on the sidelines, and when he gets one big moment to be a hero, it's immediately undercut by another big Stallone moment which makes him look weak yet again.
As a child of the '80s, I do get a kick out of seeing Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger back on the big screen, grunting and sweating their way through these throwback action movies. Stallone's a few decades removed from his glory days, but he hasn't lost too many miles an hour on his fastball; in a scene like the axe fight he can still bring it (or at least Hill can cut around him well enough to make it look like he can). Nonetheless, seeing Momoa really tear into his henchman role with charisma and menace suggests it might be getting towards that time where the older generation starts letting these younger guys get more of the spotlight, instead of casting them in movies only to defeat and diminish them in order to prop up their fading careers. Make Kang and Momoa (or better yet: Momoa and The Rock) the partners in a movie like this, make them true equals, and give them another 48 hours to solve a mystery. Then you might see a movie good enough to inspire more buddy cop imitators.
'Bullet to the Head' is in theaters now.
Matt Singer is a Webby award winning writer and podcaster. He currently runs the Criticwire blog on Indiewire and co-hosts the Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit podcast. His criticism has appeared in the pages of The Village Voice and Time Out New York and on 'Ebert Presents at the Movies.' He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, dog, and a prop sword from the movie 'Gymkata.'


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CHICAGO (AP) — Davey Johnson was announced as the manager of the Washington Nationals on Sunday, three days after Jim Riggleman stunned the team by resigning.
Johnson will manage the rest of the season and his first game will be Monday against the Los Angeles Angels. He has been a senior adviser with the team since 2009, though he hasn't managed in the big leagues since 2000 with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Interim manager John McLaren ran the team for the third straight game in Sunday's series finale against the Chicago White Sox. Riggleman's former bench coach will leave the team after the game and be reassigned to scouting duties within the organization.
Less than an hour before game time Sunday, a loud round of applause could be heard coming from the Nationals' clubhouse as Rizzo thanked McLaren. At the same meeting, Rizzo informed the team of Johnson's hiring — not a well-kept secret over the last three days.
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Johnson was not available for comment Sunday and would not be returning calls, a team spokesman said. He was scheduled to join the team later for the flight to Los Angeles.
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Rizzo said he talked with several other people about the job but did not formally interview them because Johnson was easily his first choice after Riggleman bolted.
"When we got the news, you automatically go into 'Plan B' mode and try to think outside the box," Rizzo said. "We had to make decisions rationally and clearly, but quickly. We were fortunate to have such a clear-cut and easy alternative right there."
Riggleman resigned abruptly Thursday after the Nationals beat Seattle, unhappy that Rizzo declined to have a conversation about picking up his option for 2012. The departure was stunning for its timing — the Nationals have won 12 of their last 14 games before Sunday.
It was the second time in a week a manager has resigned and been replaced. Florida skipper Edwin Rodriguez quit last Sunday — under much different circumstances with the Marlins struggling — and was replaced by 80-year-old Jack McKeon.
Now, Johnson will return to a team that has played well lately and has a bright future with a young star in 18-year-old Bryce Harper, who is tearing up Class-A ball, and with 22-year-old powerful right-hander Stephen Strasburg expected to recover from elbow surgery.
"I know they've got great vision here. I know Davey Johnson is gonna do a great job here," McLaren said before his final game Sunday. McLaren said he met with Nationals players in groups to tell them about his future.
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