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China's Social Media Suppress China's Nobel Prize Winner Announcement
It seems the Norwegian Nobel Committee is controversial no matter who they select to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, it was U.S. President Barack Obama for lack of international experience and this year it's Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned Chinese dissident. Igniting a fury amongst Chinese politicos, the award was criticized harshly for what the Chinese view as a violation the Committees' core principles in honoring "a criminal."
Xiaobo, who played a role in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, and helped to draft a call for human rights initiatives in 2008 was sentenced to an 11-year term based on subversive charges. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, news of the award is almost non-existent in any China's media and has been blacked out from international news broadcasts on the BBC and CNN. Here is an ITN News video released in London.
Restrictions from appearing on any of China's major commercial Internet news portals, dissidents are taking great risks to disseminate the news through social media Web sites including Twitter. Wang Zhongxia, a friend of the Xiaobo family issued the following tweet that celebrated the decision made by the Nobel Committee.
Translated, this message reads: "Norway is badass [??], I'm crying in
the car right now [on the way to visit Liu Xiaobo's wife]." Hundreds of
similar tweets were dispersed into the Twitterstream over the course of
the last few days, since the announcement was formally made on Friday,
October 8.
The announcement quickly became a trending topic also on Sina Weibo's, the Chinese version of Twitter, although according to a ChinaGeeks report, it was quickly deleted from the microblogging site. And in Beijing, text messages with the name "Liu Xiaobo" in Chinese were blocked on Chinese mobile phones.
These protests mirror a similar reaction to the Chinese government's Big Brother control of social media and news outlets when the authorities expelled journalists and six Hong Kong broadcasters from Tibet in 2008.
According to the Chinese ministry's Web site, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu announced the following: "This is an obscenity against the peace prize. Liu's actions are diametrically opposed to the aims of the Nobel Prize. Nobel's behest was that the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to somebody who promoted peace between peoples, promoted international friendship and disarmament."
In the West, several Facebook pages have been established. A few are in Chinese titled "??? Liu Xiaobo (???)" and "Free Liu Xiaobo! ?????!" and one established on October 9, 2010 has already attracted 2500+ followers and includes such status updates as "Thank you so much for your support. I will make sure Liu gets to see this page."
From an AP press release, it appears that Xiaobo has not learned of the honor that was bestowed on him by the Norwegian Nobel committee. Authorities escorted Liu's wife from Beijing to the northeastern city where he is imprisoned but will not let her see him to deliver the news until Sunday, October 10 a family member said.
China's human right violations in the eyes of international communities is viewed as archaic, yet the government refuses to waver, Even though the Tiananmen Square massacre has set back relations with peoples from around the world, the Chinese censorship of social media and news outlets appears to be firmly in place - and unfortunately when reminders like this surface - the Chinese government seem to dig their heels in even more so.
It's a travesty that the majority of people on mainland China are still not privy to the award or when they eventually do learn cannot celebrate in the acknowledgement that one of their native sons is the recipient - in fear of reprisal from their government.
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very funny the committee of NP.
I agree it really violated the Chinese Goverment and its people.
by Anonymous
Why not give the NP of Peace to Ben-laden?
Why not give the NP of Peace to Ben-laden?!!!!
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Comments above by brainwashed commies.
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yes, right, it is commies.


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Post subject: Do you remember the first time?
Much like a first child or a first love your first jibe sticks with you
For a lifetime...A true milestone in any sailors career ....
Where was yours?
1998 San Louis res. kinetic slalom board
Rails sharp enough to cut yourself on.
Not sure I could turn it now actually lol.
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For me, it was my first waterstart. I was like a miracle. I'd been windsurfing for over a year before I even tried one, so I was very comfortable planing, jibing and tacking. Suddenly up out of the water and instantly starting to plane up. I couldn't believe it, and all it took was the first one. After that, waterstarting was a snap. It was just like riding your first bike. Another miracle of sorts in one's life.
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I still have the 1998 KineticFreeSlalom276 as my lightest wind board, in my van right now. But it's too voluminous for good jibes at my 152 lbs. It's as fast as ANYthing now, for ligher winds and flatter waters, but it's high strung and needs tuning for extended performance.
Best learning moment, when I sailed from the docks at LakeMerced to the bridge on the East end and back on two tacks, Alto200 liter board with a 6.0 sail.
Not quite so fun, sailing a rainy windy day from the bridge heading NNW to the docks, broad reach all the way, winds 5-32mph, on a 85 liter poly glass slalom board.
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I still have ,y big slalom Kinetic, swapped it for a Mistal Synchro 115 and it made all the diff. Bought the K on clearance at Berkeley Boardsports for $600 over the protests of Kevin Kan probably that it was an older generation design. Had fun with it though. I had some sweet sessions on the bay with my 7.3.
First time planing on Narraganset bay in Rhode Island, 1989, on the original Windsurfer. I got an erection.
First jibe was off Bahia Honda State Park in the Florida Keys, on my Electric Rock. Key was to grab the mast versus the boom to help the sail swing around.
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First Water Start was more memorable for me
It took me something like 6 months of trying as
weekend sailor do to conditions. It was in Kanaha on
an Astro Rock. But it took another two years to make it automatic.
Jibes took a long time but at least I was up and sailin,
and could come out dry even if not planning.
It took a long time to get into the straps as the boards were
are small tailed and I am 220lbs to you had to get the board
to go screaming fast before you could even attempt it .
And the nose was heavy and bounced wildly when you tried
to go fast in anything but flat conditions.
The No Nose Bic Veloce helped as they wouldn't bounce wildly
through the chop.
After that I was content to go fast and jibe for a long time, 8 or 10 years.
When I was bored with that, Duck jibes were next step the first one of those I made was pretty memorable. Although the ones after it were better.
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I think in hindsight the Bic techno did more for my sailing skills than any other board. It truly was ahead of its time if you think about it , many new shapes too this day have adopted the same wide format in there shaping. It was early to plane & staple, allowing plenty of time for a struggling jibe artist to perfect his craft.....Gman.
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1984, Lopez Lake, Ca., using a new O'Brien Sensation, out in the middle of the lake, trying to figure out water starting, sick of uphauling like a wuss. I've got everything lined up the way I should (I'd been studying), plenty of wind, but I wasn't getting pulled up onto my board. Some guy comes sailing by and yells out "straighten out your arms!", I did, and then boom, I was up onto the board. To this day I don't know who that was, but it opened up a whole new level for me.
As they say, the rest was history.
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First water start, Barbados in 1983. It was survival on a big Mistral board at SilverStrand and I either water started or died. Ocean swell was a real enlightening experience for a guy from Nebraska who thought he could sail.
First time in the straps was Lopez in 1986. Moved from Nebraska and bought a Bruce Jones board that finally got up and planed versus the plastic POS that I had been trying to work with. Once in the straps, I was hooked forever.
First jibe was shortly after as you have to be going fast to be able to jibe.
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first planing ride on a rocket 99 at Oneil Forebay in 1987 and first waterstart in 1987 at forebay after 2 months of uphauling!!!
Still love the forebay on windy days and high water, but my local watering hole is Coyote.
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Interestingly enough I to spend the majority of my season sailing coyote....
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Man of business, toiling and striving in this world, he will not quench you when you are like smoking flax; he will not break you when you are like the bruised reed, but will deliver you from your troubles, you shall swim across the sea of life, and stand on the happy shore of heaven, and shall sing, "Victory" through him that loved you. Young people! I speak to you, and have a right to do so. You and I often know what the bruised reed is, when the hand of God blights our fair hopes. We are full of giddiness and waywardness, it is only the rod of affliction that can bring folly out of us, for we have much of it in us. Slippery paths are the paths of youth, and dangerous are the ways of the young, but God will not break or destroy us. Men, by their overcaution, bid us never tread a step lest we fall; but God bids us go, and makes our feet like hind's feet, that we may tread upon high places. Serve God in early days; give your hearts to him, and then he will never cast you out, but will nourish and cherish you. Let me not finish without saying a word to little children. You who have heard of Jesus, he says to you, "The bruised reed I will not break; the smoking flax I will not quench." I believe there is many a little prattler, not six years old, who knows the Saviour. I never despise youthful piety; I love it. I have heard little children talk of mysteries that grey-headed men knew not. Ah! little children who have been brought up in Sabbath-schools, and love the Saviour's name, if others say you are too forward, do not fear, love Christ still.
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By Jonnelle Marte
The Internal Revenue Service believes it doesn't need a warrant to search through taxpayers' emails, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU reviewed 247 pages of IRS records in an effort to see if the agency gets a warrant before reading people's email, text messages and other digital communications. The records didn't provide a clear answer but suggested that the IRS often doesn't bother with a warrant before sifting through digital records during criminal investigations. "It's been very clear under the law for many, many years that when the government wants to read the content of our letters, diaries or listen to our phone calls they need to get a warrant," says Nathan Wessler, a staff attorney with the ACLU. "And the content in our emails is just as private."
Part of the issue is that the law regulating how the government can access emails, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is outdated, the group says. Enacted in 1986, the law only protects unopened email or email that has been stored on a server for 180 days or less. That means any email that's been opened or stored for more than 180 days doesn't require a warrant.
The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, a measure that was tested in a 2010 decision in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Warshak. The court found that the government needs probable cause before asking email providers to release messages. The ACLU review found that it was the IRS's policy to read emails without a warrant before that ruling and that the IRS contends the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to email. But it's not clear if the agency changed its policy after the ruling– something the ACLU is calling on the IRS to clarify. The agency declined to comment.
The IRS can also check Facebook and Twitter accounts for signs that people may be lying on their tax returns, though the agency says it conducts audits based on the information taxpayers put on their returns, not on postings on social media sites. And agents cannot deceive people or use fake profiles to obtain information. Still, it's a reminder to those playing fast and loose with their tax filings not to boast on Twitter about it, experts say.
The ACLU made similar document requests to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice. It expects the findings to be ready by the end of the month. "It's really amazing to us that in 2013 the American public still doesn't know what the legal standards are for the government to read our digital records," says Wessler.
Update: The IRS said in a statement Thursday that "respecting taxpayer rights and taxpayer privacy are cornerstone principles" of the agency. "Contrary to some suggestions, the IRS does not use emails to target taxpayers," the statement said. But the IRS would not comment on the ACLU's specific allegations.


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Math Emporium offers new style of learning
Liberty University is using an innovative learning environment to help students in mathematics. The Math Emporium recently opened in Green Hall, allowing students in lower-level math courses to take computer-guided lessons while teachers and tutors are just steps away, ready to help.
"Traditionally math is one of the subjects least loved by students, so we wanted to focus on improving the math experience for them," said Brian Yates, Dean of Liberty's Center for Academic Support and Advising Services (CASAS).
Students are required to attend a weekly class at a separate location to help guide them in their coursework, with a minimum of three hours per week at the Math Emporium. The emporium is open 80 hours a week.
Ashley Jones has been teaching math at Liberty University for five years and said the emporium is a change from the "traditional lecture" classroom environment, allowing students to see immediate results and feedback.
"It is the reverse from what we have done in the past," she said. "The students are here with us in the emporium as they do their homework so they can ask us questions."
Class assignments are delivered on one of the emporium's 252 computers through "MyMathLab" software. Lessons include a short video, a concept quiz, homework exercises and tests.
Candace Beckner, a nursing student, said she has enjoyed the flexibility and ability to work at her own pace in the course.
"The coolest thing is you can move fast so you can actually finish your class early," she said. "Once you finish the class and you get your final grade, you don't have to come back to the Math Emporium even if the semester isn't officially over."
Yates said Liberty modeled the emporium after other universities that are using this new learning style and is hopeful for the success rate.
"We are really excited and we think this will really enhance the instruction of students," he said. "We hope it will instill a love of math amongst students. We are thankful for the vision of the Chancellor and the Provost."


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A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the path to wisdom better than Ken Wilber."
Wilber examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind, including the higher stages of spiritual development where Spirit becomes conscious of itself. In each of these domains, there are recurring patterns, and by looking closely at them, we can learn much about the predicament of our world—and the direction we must take if "global transformation" is to become a reality.
Wilber offers a series of striking and original views on many topics of current interest and controversy, including the gender wars, modern liberation movements, multiculturalism, ecology and environmental ethics, and the conflict between this-worldly and otherworldly approaches to spirituality. The result is an extraordinary and exhilarating ride through the Kosmos in the company of one of the great thinkers of our time.News & Reviews
"In the ambitiously titled A Brief History of Everything, Wilber continues his search for the primary patterns that manifest in all realms of existence. Like Hegel in the West and Aurobindo in the East, Wilber is a thinker in the grand systematic tradition, an intellectual adventurer concerned with nothing less than the whole course of evolution, life's ultimate trajectory—in a word, everything. . . . Combining spiritual sensitivity with enormous intellectual understanding and a style of elegance and clarity, A Brief History of Everything is a clarion call for seeing the world as a whole, much at odds with the depressing reductionism of trendy Foucault-derivative academic philosophy." —San Francisco ChronicleReader Reviews


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LITTLE ROCK — A second phase of enrollment has begun for the state's medical home program, the state Department of Human Services said Tuesday.
The program is part of the Arkansas Health Care Payment Improvement Initiative, which seeks to lower health care costs and improve outcomes for patients. Key elements of the program, which is being phased in gradually, include paying health care providers in certain areas of treatment for episodes of care rather than for each service provided and rewarding providers for high-quality, cost-effective care.
DHS said 637 primary care physicians are currently participating in the medical home program, which uses financial incentives to encourage physicians to focus on management of chronic medical conditions, prevention and empowerment of patients through health education.
Participating physicians receive supplemental monthly payments to help them coordinate care and are able to share in savings generated by the program.
The first phase of enrollment ended Dec. 16, but a second phase is underway and will run through May 15. Physicians who enroll during the phase will begin participating July 1.
Enrollment for participation in 2015 will open on Oct. 1 of this year.
"Arkansas Medicaid and private insurers have been working aggressively over the last two years toward a more efficient and effective health care system," Dr. William Golden, medical director for the state Medicaid program, said in a DHS news release. "We recognized that investing in our state's primary care physicians through medical homes was a fundamental part of moving the system forward."
Golden said the medical home program also enhances the patient experience and should lead to better patient health. Participating physicians, for example, will offer more same-day appointments and provide 24/7 live voice access for patients, he said.
The state Medicaid program also is initiating a pilot project in 39 Delta counties called the Delta Primary Care Case Management program. The program, created by Act 1453 of 2013, serves as a second option for primary care physicians looking for additional support so they can better serve their patients.
Rather than paying physicians directly as is done in the medical home model, Medicaid will contract with a vendor to provide care coordination for physicians enrolled in the pilot project, DHS said. Medicaid issued a request for proposal for those services Tuesday.
"The pilot project really gives the state an opportunity to see what aspects of both models best support physicians so that they can empower their patients to be healthier and more proactive when it comes to their health care needs," said DHS Director John Selig.


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Have you ever wondered what you'd look like if you were old, fat, a punk… or Asian?
That's the premise for a series of Android apps developed by KimberyDeiss and available from the Google Play store. Now nearly 2,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org demanding that the Mountain View company remove them because they're offensive.
The apps — which also include "Make me Indian," "Make me Russian" and "Make me Irish" — take a photo and alter it with stereotypical facial features and accessories. The Make me Asian app, for instance, changes the shape of the person's eyes, adds a rice paddy hat and "fu manchu" mustache. The "Make me Indian" app adds a bird feather and "war paint" on the person's cheeks, and modifies the person's eyes so that they appear angry.
Started by Peter Chin in Washington, DC, the petition says, "These racist and offensive portrayals of Asians and Native Americans perpetuate damaging racial stereotypes and should not be distributed on the Google Play store."
Adds the Asian American group 18 Million Rising, "They say there's an app for everything, but an app for racism goes too far."
So far, according to apps analytics site App Annie, both the Make me Asian and Make me Indian apps have had 50,000 to 100,000 downloads each.


text: It's been quite a few months since Microsoft touched the SkyDrive application on Apple's mobile platform, but today, after some well-documented delays, the company's finally delivering an update to its iOS offering -- a pretty hefty one, no less. Included in this new version is, most notably, added support for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini, while a refreshed overall user experience, new app icons and enhanced saving options are also in tow with this release. In addition to these tidbits, SkyDrive will now allow iDevice users to easily grab their full-res photos from within the app, as well as determine the size of uploaded and downloaded picture files. Better yet, the long-overdue update just went live in the App Store, so it's about that time for Redmond's cloud surfers to savor what they'd been patiently waiting for.


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Put down the Belgian waffles (or maybe boycott them altogether like the Waffle House?). Stop munching on those delicious hand-made chocolates. And by all means, turn off that Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. Today is not the day to be adoring anything from Belgium, given the little European country's players hold the key to Team USA's success in the World Cup.
No one — well, except American fans — believed the U.S. team could survive the "Group of Death" in the early rounds. At this point, any success is a cause for surprise and celebration — much like the stock markets, as heedless optimism drives the bull run forward.
Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has already hedged himself against explaining a potential defeat in tonight's game. He doesn't like the choice of referee. Who speaks French. Just like the Belgians. But other than that, is from a whole different continent. But as a trigger for a downside, it's as sensible as any reason we're seeing out there in sentiment land. For more on correction fears, see Call of Day below.
If Team USA wins, it'll be the first time since 2002 the U.S. has made it into the quarterfinals. Excited yet? Good thing the game is played after the markets close at 4 p.m. Eastern Time — this snoozer, low-volatility trading environment could hardly take another setback in volumes.
Key market gauges: The U.S. stock market looks set to kick of the second half of the year in style — futures for all three major benchmarks are on the rise, with S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/11777331/delayed SPU4 up 3.7 points, and Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/21524673/delayed DJU4 poised to open 38 points higher. Asian markets were in a bit of a mixed mood, but with Japan's Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735/delayed JP:NIK ending up 1.1%. European markets showed broadbased gains, and stayed higher after PMIs and unemployment data. Crude oil /quotes/zigman/2196851/delayed CLQ4 also had a positive start to the month and climbed closer to $106 a barrel, boosted by a pair of solid Chinese factory reports (Translation: easing fears of a hard landing in the world's No. 2 economy).
The quote of the day: "We are currently on a journey to the outer reaches of the monetary universe," market analysts Ronald Stöferle and Mark Valek said in their latest "In Gold We Trust" report. "Gold, as the antagonist of unbacked paper currencies, remains an excellent hedge against rising price inflation and worst-case scenarios."
The economy: There's a raft of economic data out on Tuesday that could snap investors out of their World Cup/soon-fourth-of-July mode. The economic report that some think has the second-biggest impact on markets (after the monthly jobs report) is set for release at 10 a.m. Eastern, and indications are that the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing report for June will show an economy in good health.
At 9:45 a.m. Eastern, the Markit PMI for June is due, followed by construction-spending data soon after and car-sales data throughout the morning.
Earnings: This is probably not where you'll get most of your fun today. Only Acuity Brands /quotes/zigman/294255/delayed /quotes/nls/ayi AYI is scheduled to report earnings before the bell.
The Buzz: Ouch. General Motors /quotes/zigman/1466682/delayed /quotes/nls/gm GM sent put a new safety recall on Monday, just piling up on the bad news. The car maker has now recalled more than 20 million vehicles this year so far. Shares were bruised a bit ahead of the bell, slipping 0.7%.
And GM could get another knock today when June car sales are revealed. The car maker is forecast to report a drop in June, and the big question is how badly the loooong list of recalls are hurting sales. Not that the picture looks much brighter for Ford F , which is also expected to post a drop in June sales.
Also on the radar is the whopping penalty France's BNP Paribas /quotes/zigman/132292/delayed FR:BNP has agreed to. The French banks has pleaded guilty to two felony counts and will pay a fine of nearly $9 billion over violations of U.S. sanctions against Sudan, Iran and other blacklisted countries.
Back in the U.S., a peanut-butter maker turns milk producer. Hormel Foods /quotes/zigman/227790/delayed /quotes/nls/hrl HRL — the Minnesota-based maker of Skippy — said late Monday it is taking over privately held Muscle Milk maker CytoSport. Shares haven't budged premarket, but moves may come later.
GoPro /quotes/zigman/34007695/delayed /quotes/nls/gpro GPRO is on a roll. Shares climbed 7.5% premarket after ending Monday — its third day of trading — with an impressive 14% gain.
Bernstein has given up on its outperform rating on Goldman Sachs /quotes/zigman/188479/delayed /quotes/nls/gs GS and according to media reports late Monday downgraded the bank to market perform. Shares were 0.6% lower ahead of the bell on Tuesday.
The chart of the day: It seems like BlackBerry has broken out of its "share-price death spiral", as John McDuling from Quartz points out in this blog post. After a significant dive in the spring months, the stock is now up around 30% year-to-date, outpacing most other companies and beating the 6% gain for the S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX .
The call of the day: Position yourself for a late-stage bull market. Equity markets are still close to all-time highs, but correction fears have started to creep into the market. Portfolio analysts at Oppenheimer Asset Management see the back half of 2014 as one of the last stages of this upbeat market, so plan ahead:
"Our research shows that energy, industrials, and info tech have a distinct historical tendency to outperform during the latter stages of bull markets, and we believe investors should position their portfolios accordingly," they said in a note.
More specifically, this translates into stocks such as Apache /quotes/zigman/218137/delayed /quotes/nls/apa APA , Devon Energy /quotes/zigman/204018/delayed /quotes/nls/dvn DVN and Marathon Oil /quotes/zigman/292008/delayed /quotes/nls/mro MRO within the energy sector. In industrials, Oppenheimer suggests Caterpillar /quotes/zigman/221644/delayed /quotes/nls/cat CAT and Con-way /quotes/zigman/415081/delayed /quotes/nls/cnw CNW , while identifying Cisco Systems /quotes/zigman/20039/delayed /quotes/nls/csco CSCO and Juniper /quotes/zigman/202982/delayed /quotes/nls/jnpr JNPR in technology.
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Malin Akerman and Carla Gugino lock lips for charity
Actresses MALIN AKERMAN and CARLA GUGINO had a make-out session right before they were doused in water for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
The actresses have become the latest celebrities to take part in the viral video challenge to raise funds for the ALS Association, and Akerman and Gugino, who were nominated by their Watchmen director Zack Snyder, decided to put a twist on the task.
Gugino used the opportunity to upload her very first post on Twitter.com, sharing a video of herself and the blonde beauty sitting on the rooftop of a building and locking lips.
Their makeout session is interrupted when a bucket of ice cold water is poured over their heads, and they each hold up signs revealing their nominations to take the challenge next, with Gugino calling out her pal Danny DeVito and Akerman challenging her former Trophy Wife co-star Bradley Whitford, before both erupted in a fit of giggles.


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Cosmetologists Chicago Announces Competition Winners
Finished look: CeCe Augustine, Stars Salon Makeover Award.Photo 2 of 14
Before: CeCe Augustine of Ladies and Gentlemen in Mentor, Ohio winner of the Stars Salon Makeover Award.Photo 3 of 14
Winning look from Salon Visage Team, winner of Stars Urban Edge/ Street Fashion Award.Photo 4 of 14
Before: Salon Visage Team, Salon Visage, Knoxville, Tennessee, winner of Stars Urban Edge/Street Fashion Award.Photo 5 of 14
Winning look: Kaia Hurd of Fresh Salon, Stars Red Carpet Glamour Award.Photo 6 of 14
Before: Kaia Hurd of Fresh Salon in Charlotte, North Carolina. Winner of Stars Red Carpet Glamour Award.Photo 7 of 14
Winning look: Leo Passage Gold Trophy Award from Jennifer Price of Zanos Salons & Spas with make-up by Ashley Stephens and Photography by Kosta Sobevski.Photo 8 of 14
Before: Jennifer Price of Zanos Salons & Spas in Naperville, Illinois, winner of the first Leo Passage Gold Trophy.Photo 9 of 14
Winning looks from Nail Stars winner Viktoria Evtushenko of Iryna Giblett Nail Academy in Kiev, Ukraine.Photo 10 of 14
Nail Star winner Viktoria Evtushenko, Iryna Giblett Nail Academy, Kiev, Ukraine.Photo 11 of 14
Winning look: Samantha Gribble of Steven Papageorge Hair Academy in Chicago, Rising Stars (student) Award.Photo 12 of 14
Before: Samantha Gribble of Steven Papageorge Hair Academy on Chicago, winner of Rising Stars Award.Photo 13 of 14
Nail Stars winner Viktoria Evtushenko, Iryna Giblett Nail Academy, Kieve Ukraine.Photo 14 of 14
Cosmetologists Chicago, producers of America's Beauty Show, is a venerable organization of salon professionals that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. The association has a long and storied history of participating in competitive hair styling, and the tradition continues with the annual Stars Photo Competitions and, this year, the inaugural Leo Passage Gold Trophy Award.
The Stars Photo Competitions streamline the involved and costly world of competitions with before and after photo submissions sent to Cosmetologists Chicago and representing talented professionals in the categories of Red Carpet Glamour, Urban Edge /Street Fashion and Salon Makeover. A panel of celebrity guest judges including Luis Alvarez of Aquage and Jan Arnold of CND selected the winning entries this year. The winners of the 2012 Stars, Nail Stars, Rising Stars and Leo Passage Gold Trophy awards were presented at Cosmetologists Chicago's Beauty Bash, a gala evening held March 3 during America's Beauty Show at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago.
The Stars winners in each category received $750 from Cosmetologists Chicago, a trophy, and free admission to a 2012 Aquage Academy in Chicago.
Kaia Hurd of Fresh Salon in Charlotte, North Carolina won the Stars Red Carpet Glamour award.
The Salon Visage Team from Salon Visage in Knoxville, Tennessee won the Stars Urban Edge/Street Fashion award.
CeCe Augustine of Ladies and Gentlemen in Mentor, Ohio won the Stars Salon Makeover award.
The Nail Stars winner, Viktoria Evtushenko of Iryna Giblett Nail Academy in Kiev, Ukraine won the Nail Stars trophy and $500 from the International Nail Technicians Association.
The Rising Stars Award honors student entries. The 2012 winner is Samantha Gribble of Steven Papageorge Hair Academy in Chicago. She received a trophy, a gift bag of beauty products and free admission to ABS 2013.
All winners received recognition at ABS and on Americasbeautyshow.com.
Cosmetologists Chicago honored the late Leo Passage, founder of Pivot Point International, with the creation of the Leo Passage Gold Trophy presented for the first time this year. The Gold Trophy is awarded to the cumulative point-winner of the Stars Photo Competition. Jennifer Price of Zanos Salons & Day Spas in Naperville, Illinois is the first to have her name engraved on the Leo Passage Gold Trophy, which will be displayed at Pivot Point Academy in Evanston, Illinois. She received a replica of the trophy and a cash award of $1,000. She was assisted in creating her entry by make-up artist Ashley Stephens and photographer Kosta Sobevski.
It's never too early to being thinking about entering next year's Stars Photo Competition. The 2013 ABS will be held March 9-11 at Chicago's McCormick Place. Visit americasbeautyshow.com.
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Big Spender: The $35,000 Hammock
If you want to take the backyard hammock to a whole other level, luxury specialist Hammacher Schlemmer says it has just the thing: a $35,000 space-age bed-sunshade. Charles Passy has his take on Lunch Break.
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By Barbara Kollmeyer
It's San Fermin week here in Spain. That means the brave and foolhardy, many after partying all night, have been hightailing it down the streets of Pamplona every morning. Slip or trip in that two-and-a-half-minute run and you could end up gored by a 1,300-pound bull. That was the fate of two runners on Thursday, one of the most dangerous days in this year's classic run.
Madness, you say? Some would say investors are doing much the same these days, running alongside a market bull, and risking a potential goring down the road. Some say Thursday's European-bank-crisis flashback, sponsored by Portugal, was a glimpse into what kind of tumult could await investors as QE dwindles away.
Talk of a bear-market around the corner is nonstop. Cautious talk was heard from billionaire investor Carl Icahn who said Thursday that "it's time to be cautious" about Wall Street, while a conversation with Marc Faber this week found that Dr Doom still sees a 30% drop coming … at some point. But then there are pundits like James Paulson, who says worrying too much about getting stabbed by a heavy bull could mean missing out big gains.
"Should investors really be worried about whether the S&P 500 index will soon suffer a 10% correction (e.g. from 2,000 to about 1,800) if it eventually rises toward 3,000 sometime in the next few years?" asks the chief strategist at Wells Capital. Sure, a pause is coming, but that's a blip on his radar screen, which calls for this bull run to last several more years.
Read more in our Call of the Day about Paulson's thoughts on a second-half correction and what investors should do about it. And two bull markets? That's the theory behind this great read from Capitalist Exploits.
Meanwhile, time to feast your eyes on banks, with Wells Fargo getting the earnings show on the road. Citi, J.P. Morgan and Goldman are due next week. Overall, revenues are headed south for banks, but as WSJ's MoneyBeat points out, there are a few reasons to believe the slump may be temporary.
Key market gauges: Futures for the Dow /quotes/zigman/21524673/delayed DJU4 and the S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/11777331/delayed SPU4 are up, but have pared back from earlier. Check out the early action here. Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860/realtime XX:ADOW has been a mixed bag, but nothing overly dramatic, while Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150/delayed XX:SXXP is rebounding a little after stumbling to a two-month low on Thursday.
The economy: No data, but plenty of Fed-speak from the Rocky Mountain Economic Summit in Jackson Hole, Wy0ming. Philadelphia Fed's Charles Plosser, Chicago Fed's Charles Evans and Atlanta Fed's Dennis Lockhart are all on the sked. Meanwhile, the latest survey of 50 economists find most don't expect a recession.
The buzz: More buzzkill from the retail sector. Gap /quotes/zigman/227242/delayed /quotes/nls/gps GPS posted an unexpected drop in June same-store sales, which could ding shares premarket.
PriceSmart /quotes/zigman/63839/delayed /quotes/nls/psmt PSMT fell 4% in late trading after coming up short on profit.
A retail bright spot was Joe's Jeans /quotes/zigman/108198/delayed /quotes/nls/joez JOEZ . The fashion favorite for at least one of the Kardashian clan could add to a 12% late-session bump after surprising analysts with a profit instead of a loss.
Another in the retail world to watch is American Apparel /quotes/zigman/1511249/delayed /quotes/nls/app APP . Its shares closed above the $1 mark for the first time on Thursday after a 19% jump on financial support from a hedge fund.
London's Imperial Tobacco /quotes/zigman/167179/delayed UK:IMT said it's in talks to buy assets and brands from Reynolds American /quotes/zigman/334469/delayed /quotes/nls/rai RAI and Lorillard /quotes/zigman/511272/delayed /quotes/nls/lo LO , the WSJ reports. Reynolds and Lorillard are already looking at a merger, which would combine the industry's number two and number three. FT says the deal is being finalized and will be announced next week.
Watch for TRW Automative Holdings /quotes/zigman/335843/delayed /quotes/nls/trw TRW to rise after it got a buyout offer from Germany's ZF Friedrichshafen.
Twitter /quotes/zigman/23556538/delayed /quotes/nls/twtr TWTR has not escaped a shakedown for momentum stocks this week, down over 8%. Enter Goldman Sachs, which says it's sticking to a buy rating on the Internet heavyweight and a $52 price target. That's based on Twitter's tweaks in product innovation and engineering, which analysts say are yielding fruit.
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Shares of industrial safety and construction supplier Fastenal /quotes/zigman/71860/delayed /quotes/nls/fast FAST is down 3% after margins weakened some and revenue fell short.
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"Did you just hit yourself in the face with the newspaper?" my husband asked me.
We were sharing a quiet moment (teenage sons yet asleep) with coffee, a dozing labrador, and the Sunday New York Times. Quiet, anyway, until the thwacking sound.
I was idly browsing a story about a trendy cosmetics company when – in the very first paragraph – I read this phrase: "a line of chemical-free mineral powders." Whereupon, I smacked myself in the face with the Style section.
"Can you believe this?" I demanded. "How can anyone use chemical-free and mineral in the same sentence? Can you believe…"
I don't know why it is but he suddenly felt the need to leave the room for another cup of coffee. Of course, everyone in my family has heard me out before (okay, maybe, many times) on the complete wrongness of the term chemical-free.
Why do I harangue my family, and just about anyone else who will listen, on this subject? Well – just in case you haven't heard me say this before – I do understand that the phrase is just an advertising gimmick, implying a product's freedom from mysterious but toxic industrial chemicals. I also understand that it's basically ridiculous since everything, and I do mean everything including ourselves, is, in fact, composed of chemical compounds.
From that perspective, consider also this picture of a sign in Princeton, N.J. kindly shared with me by Carmen Drahl, an associate editor at Chemical & Engineering News. One would think "chemical-free" bug spray couldn't be written with a straight face, especially in a highly-educated community. But, this is after all a world, in which I get 44 million hits on Google when I type in the phrase, concerning everything from chemical-free mattresses to chemical free chicken. Not to mention the fact that one of our country's leading newspapers just happily printed the rather hilarious phrase"chemical free minerals" in a straight-faced kind of manner.
But to finish answering my earlier question – why do I think this is an issue worth repeating to the point that my family flees the room. Because, unfortunately, our careless promotion of "chemical-free" contributes to public misunderstanding of the chemical-everything nature of our world. It plays to overwrought fears, making "chemical" synonymous with "evil." And by doing so, it cheats people of a real appreciation of the wonderfully complex, beautiful and fundamental chemical design by which our universe exists.
Just can't say that often enough, actually. And so that, folks, is why I smacked myself in the face with a newspaper this morning. And why I decided that exchanging the Style section for the comics would be a less painful way to finish off the day. In more ways than one.


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Miami Man Says Girlfriend's Body, Found In Closet, Is Blow-Up Doll
A man was arrested Saturday after officers discovered the mutilated body of his girlfriend in his Miami home.
Miami-Dade Police says they were called out to a house at Northwest 23rd Avenue and 62nd street for reports of a foul odor.
Upon arrival, officers discovered the body of 52-year-old Deanna Clendinen in a closet, covered under several sheets.
Despite the discovery, Jerome Wright, 32, denied that there was a body in his closet, instead choosing to tell police that "whatever was in his room was not real," according to an arrest affidavit.
Wright told police that the body was a "life-sized blow up doll with real flesh" that he bought off the internet.
According to police, Wright's mother said Clendinen, who frequently stayed at the home, was the only visitor in the last week. Wright's mother said she hadn't seen Clendinen since she went into Wright's bedroom last Tuesday.
A few days later, Wright told police, her son ran out of his room complaining of stomach pain. When she asked her son about the foul smell coming from his room, he told her that he "saw a rat in his room, had diarrhea and the dog defecated on the floor."
Wright's mother pointed out that her son "smelled like blood." Later that afternoon, she smelled a foul odor coming from a garbage can in the kitchen, so she took out the trash without looking at what was inside the trash bag.
Wright's mother told Local 10 News reporter Carlos Suarez that her son has suffered from schizophrenia since he was 15. She said he has been hospitalized under the Baker Act dozens of times.
He had recently been placed on probation for an aggravated battery case involving the same woman.
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text: URMC / Encyclopedia / Content Understanding Eating Disorders An eating disorder is an unhealthy obsession with food and weight. People with eating disorders eat—or avoid eating—in extreme ways. At least 8 million people in the U.S. are living with an eating disorder. The overwhelming majority—about 90%—are female. These are the three main types of eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa. People with anorexia severely restrict calories to the point of starvation. They are obsessed with being thin and have an unhealthy and distorted body image. They may refuse to eat at all or only eat tiny amounts of food that has few calories. Anorexics are extremely thin. Yet, they constantly think of themselves as overweight. Bulimia nervosa. Bulimics binge on huge quantities of food. They then force themselves to vomit. They may also exercise compulsively and take laxatives to help rid their body of the calories they've eaten. Bulimics continue this cycle of binging and purging. They may also diet excessively in between binges. Bulimics aren't necessarily extremely thin. In fact, they may often seem to be of normal weight. Binge-eating disorder. This is also known as compulsive overeating. Binge eaters eat excessive amounts of food without purging. They often eat uncontrollably despite feeling full. Binge eaters may feel guilty or ashamed after a binge. They then go on an extreme diet as a result. Binge eaters may be of normal weight, overweight, or obese. Anorexia and bulimia aren't common in men. But binge eating disorder does affect about as many men as it does women. Other eating disorders don't quite fit into any of the above categories and are usually classified as "eating disorders not otherwise specified." Managing eating disorders Eating disorders can be treated successfully, but the answer isn't as simple as changing eating habits. This is because eating disorders are about much more than food. They stem from emotional issues that must be addressed. Therapy, including cognitive behavioral therapy, is a crucial part of treating and managing eating disorders. Some people may also be prescribed medicines, such as antidepressants, to help overcome an eating disorder. Those with binge eating disorder may sometimes need appetite suppressants to help manage their condition. No one-size-fits-all treatment is available for eating disorders. Rather, treatment is specifically tailored to each individual. Preventing eating disorders Experts don't truly understand what causes eating disorders. It's thought that the pressures of society may play a role. Other causes may include personal stress and perhaps certain personality traits. Fortunately, you can take steps to help prevent eating disorders, both before the first symptoms appear or in the early stages. Programs that teach children and adults about healthy eating habits and a healthy body weight are one prevention method. A better understanding of how unrealistic society's expectations regarding body weight are can also promote a healthier body image and prevent eating disorders. Medical Reviewers: Ballas, Paul, DO Nelson, Gail A., MS, APRN, BC


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With the proliferation of herbicide-resistant weeds in crop fields, Larry Steckel has some not-so-good news for Mid-South farmers: "Nothing about weed control is going to be as easy as it once was. Even with the new technologies in the pipeline, weed control is going to be much more complex."
"The good old days of weed control with two or three shots of Roundup over the top are gone and are never coming back," he said at the annual conference of the Mississippi Agricultural Consultants Association at Mississippi State University. "We're just running herbicides into the ground one after another."
The Mid-South "has the distinction of having the most glyphosate-resistant weed species anywhere," says Steckel, who is associate professor/row crop weed specialist, University of Tennessee Department of Plant Sciences, Jackson. "Mostly, the problems are with marestail and Palmer pigweed, but there are others.
Giant ragweed, in Tennessee and Arkansas, is becoming a huge problem. It's very competitive, and once it's growing in a field, it's hard to deal with. Up and down the Mississippi River, there's a lot of concern about common water hemp. Italian ryegrass is increasingly a problem.
"We don't have glyphosate-resistant johnsongrass in Tennessee yet, but it's a problem in Louisiana, has been documented in Mississippi, and there are some spots in Arkansas. At the Southern Weed Science Society meeting, Louisiana researchers confirmed they have johnsongrass that is resistant to both Select and Fusilade."I don't think glyphosate-resistant johnsongrass will spread like marestail or Palmer pigweed have, but we need to keep an eye out for it and do all we can to limit its spread."
An increasing problem in Tennessee, Steckel says, is two glyphosate-resistant weeds in the same field — pigweed and marestail. "Generally, we're seeing marestail following pigweed, and sometimes those are followed by giant ragweed, making a three-way problem. This makes control much more complex.
"I had a lot of calls last year asking what to do with fields that have both Palmer pigweed and marestail. I told them to forget the marestail and go after the pigweed, because it's a lot more competitive. It's the one we've got to try and control. It's going to be the main weed we've got to deal with going forward. Just one pigweed per 3 meters of row can reduce soybean yield by 17 percent. If you have a greater number of pigweeds, yield losses can mount significantly."
Pigweed, a native of the desert Southwest, "is an unbelievably competitive plant," Steckel says. "From an agronomic standpoint, you can't help but admire it — its taproot can go 5 feet deep, it can tolerate very high temperataures, and it's amazingly drought- and stress-tolerant. Work at the University of California-Davis back in the 1980s showed it had the highest photosynthetic rate of any plant they had measured.
Pigweed: "An amazingly resilient plant"
"Our county agent in Crockett County sprayed some 8 to 10-inch Palmer pigweeds with glyphosate and nothing happened. He sprayed them with Ignite, which will control pigweeds if they're less than 6 inches tall. Ignite burned them, but they came back. He sent in a chopping crew — but if you leave any root stump at all, it'll send out auxiliary buds that will re-grow. If you pull them up and stack them at the end of the row or the edge of the field, more often than not they'll re-root. It's an unbelievably resilient plant."Resistant pigweed is "on the move," he notes. "We're seeing basically a three-year progression from just a few plants to major infestation. Three years ago, you could hardly find one anywhere in middle Tennessee. In 2009, we found them in a few fields. Last year, we had them a big way.
"A single 5-foot plant can produce 500,000 or more seeds, which are easily spread by wind, animals, equipment. You may have just a few plants in a field this year, and if you run a combine or a picker through them, you're spreading seeds everywhere, and next year you'll have pigweeds galore.
"In Tennessee this past year, growers generally did a better job of managing Palmer pigweed in cotton than in soybeans. Of course, we had a lot more soybean acres, and it's harder to get around timely with postemerge applications in soybeans. Also, with 38-inch rows, you can run hooded sprayers through the field, it's easier to chop out weeds in cotton than in soybeans, and in cotton many growers have moved to an Ignite system.
"With Flexstar in soybeans, the cutoff for pigweeds is 3 to 4 inches, whereas for Ignite in cotton its 6 inches, 7 if you're lucky."
A key component in controlling pigweed, Steckel says, is residual herbicides, including Authority, Fierce (a new experimental material), Prefix, Optill, Prowl H20, Valor XLT, KIH485 ("which we were hoping would get labeled this year, but didn't, so we're looking for it in 2012"), and Valor SX.
The amount of control is important, he notes. "If you get less than 90 percent control, pigweed is going to get away from you. It can grow from 0.21 to 0.18 centimeters per growing degree day. If you go out in a middle Tennessee field mid-June, when daytime temperatures will hit the mid-90s and the nighttime low is about 70, if you have 2-inch Palmer pigweeds early morning, they can grow 2.5 inches that day.
"Twenty-four hours later, they can be 4.5 inches tall, too big for Flexstar to control. In 36 hours, can be too big for Ignite to control. At that point, you don't have enough postemerge spray power to control these weeds. Two days can make all the difference in the world.
Timely preemerge, postemerge applications important
What does work? A preemerge application that gets enough rainfall (or irrigation) for activation, followed by a timely postemerge application, Steckel says.
"You may or may not have to come back with a second postemerge application, depending on how quickly your beans grow and shade the ground. A high rate of Envive followed by Flexstar on 3-inch Palmer pigweed works well. Boundary, a premix of Dual and Sencor, followed by Flexstar, also works well.
"What I am worried about is that this weed will begin developing resistance to the herbicides we're plugging holes with now, like Flexstar and Ignite. If that happens, we're sunk. I don't think growers realize just how close to the end of the rope we are on modes of action for this weed. It's scary."
For postemerge applications, he says, "Flexstar is my pick of the litter for 1-inch to 4-inch pigweeds. Cobra and Blazer don't have the residual that Flexstar does, and 2-inch pigweed is about the cutoff for them. With LibertyLink beans, Prefix followed by Ignite on 1-inch to 3-inch pigweeds works well. Envive followed by Ignite works well on weeds up to 6 inches. Warrant is a new herbicide, comparable to Dual Magnum, that is labeled for postemergence in soybeans up to R3 and in cotton post-cotyledon to first flower."
Another change growers need to make, Steckel says, is in spraying procedures. "We need to get away from AI sprayer tips and booms that are 5-feet above the ground, bouncing up and down, and going through the fields at 18 miles per hour with an 18 mph crosswind; that just is not ideal for effective coverage with contact herbicides like Flexstar, Ignite, or Gramoxone."
In Tennessee, for marestail control, the primary recommendation is dicamba mixed either with glyphosate or Gramoxone, he says. Kixor, a burndown product that can be applied all the way up to planting.
"There are a host of preemerge materials — Valor-based products and Dual-based products do a pretty good job of residual for marestail and Palmer pigweed. Dual or other products as an early postemerge can give you overlapping residual when the preemerge is starting to play out.
"Once pigweed hits 2 inches, it can get away from you in a day's time. I can't stress strongly enough that it's critical that you keep an eye on your fields so you'll know if your preemerge is working and if you're getting an overlap of residual.
"If you're in an area that doesn't have a lot of resistant Palmer pigweed, I'd at least put out a preemerge, if not an early postemerge — $12 or $13 worth of preemerge can be worth $30 to $50 the following year. Anything you can do to delay spread of this weed in your fields will be money ahead."
A longer window of vulnerability
With Palmer pigweed, Steckel says, "We've got to start thinking about weed control as 30 days before we plant the crop to 30 days after we cut the crop — there's a much longer window of vulnerability now. From the time you cut your corn until the first frost, your fields can build up a heavy load of pigweed seeds.
"One thing I tell growers who have a pigweed problem in soybeans is to rotate to corn; there are a lot of herbicides that will do a good job of controlling pigweeds in that crop."
Clarity herbicide has done a good job of controlling marestail, he says, "but from walking fields in west Tennessee, I'm wondering if we aren't beginning to see some tolerance for this product. The 8-ounce rate isn't as consistent as it was a few years ago. A lot of farmers in west Tennessee are no longer using the 8-ounce rate; 10 or 12 ounces is fairly common now.
"We've looked at Sharpen for five or six years, and in research work it has been outstanding on marestail in some years, not so much so in others. Integrity, which was a premix of Sharpen and Outlook, was more consistent. It has been renamed Verdict and will be labeled at a 5 ounce rate on soybeans preplant and preemergence. If you're going to look at a Sharpen product, this would be the one to go with."
The LibertyLink technology is being readily adopted by farmers, Steckel says, "but I have concerns about its stewardship and management. The way we're going, I'm afraid we could see resistance in three to five years." Down the road, he says, the Dow Herbicide Trait (DHT) can be used with 2,4-D in cotton, and with Fusilade, Assure, and 2,4-D in corn. "The ETA for approval in corn is 2013 and cotton/soybeans 2015. In our research, the crop tolerance is outstanding.
"Glytol LibertyLink is also going to be a useful tool in cotton. Looking at new technologies, I think the dicamba trait and the 2,4-D trait will be useful tools to help bail us out of this glyphosate-resistance quandary.
"But," Steckel emphasizes, "my take home point about herbicides is this: We must — we must — keep Ignite and Flexstar and the PPOs in play for Palmer pigweed for the next three to five years until we can get to these new technologies.
"If we can manage these two herbicides so pigweed doesn't develop resistance to them, we may be able to ride herd on this weed long term. If we use rotation, different modes of action, and don't rely on just one herbicide, I think we have a chance."


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Several members of Mount St. Joseph Academy's talented junior class couldn't attend last Wednesday's outing in the Lou Cappiella Summer Basketball League, but the Magic still proved thoroughly capable of taking care of business. Topping Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, 46-9 after going up by 20 points before halftime, the Mount completed the regular season schedule in Cappiella competition with an 8-0 record, clinching the top seed for the league playoffs.
Forward Meg Geatens, a rising senior who has been a steady producer on offense all summer, led the winners with a dozen points in the contest, while junior forward Carly Monzo added 10 points to the winning cause, and freshman guard Caitlin Cunningham had nine.
As game time approached, Plymouth Whitemarsh only had four players warming up, but the Colonials ended up with the full complement of five plus a few reserves. The previous game on the evening's agenda hadn't been played at all because one of the teams was a no-show. Unfortunately, that's not an unusual problem at this late stage of the season, as some athletes opt to enjoy some down time during the last few weeks before the start of fall sports practices at their respective schools.
A bucket from the paint by Geatens got the Magic's side of the scoreboard rolling. The Colonials recouped one point on a free throw, but didn't score again for more than a dozen minutes. Mount St. Joe had zipped out to a 15-1 lead before Plymouth Whitemarsh converted an offensive rebound for what would be its only field goal of the first half. The Colonials played better than their point total indicated, but they couldn't seem to figure out the stiff, tricky rims on the Kenrick Rec Center court.
The Magic were up 25-3 at halftime, and they started off the second period with lay-ups by Monzo and junior classmate Gen Hagedorn. PW registered two field goals and a pair of free throws after the intermission, not enough to keep the Mounties from expanding their lead.
Hagedorn wound up with seven points for the winners, who got four apiece from senior Adrienne Cellucci and sophomore Mary Kate Ulasewicz.


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Have you heard of this organization? If you were my friend on facebook you would have...
Anyways, my friend Kirsten told me about Smile Train a while ago. She told me that they made a documentary that I had to see. Smile Pinki won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 2008. The documentary follows the story of several children in India (including Pinki) who have cleft palates and how it affects their lives. These children can't even go to school, because they are shunned and misunderstood. They meet social workers from Smile Train, then travel to the city to have a simple operation that fixes their cleft palates. It is really an amazing story and you can get it free from their website.
Smile Train and Operation Smile are both organizations that fix children's cleft palates around the world. Recently they have come together to form Operation Smile Train. You should visit the websites to learn more. I had no idea that cleft palates are such a huge problem for children around the world and that they can be fixed with a simple hour long surgery.
There are many ways to help, even if you're not a surgeon. One way is through Campus Textbook Rentals. They are donating a portion of every rental to Operation Smile with a goal of 1,000 surgeries. When they contacted me and told me that they were donating 1,000 surgeries (and offered me candy) I jumped at the chance to help. I hope you can help too.
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Operation Smile Train
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That sounds like a lovely idea. :)ReplyDelete
What a great program, helping out lots of kids.ReplyDelete
Smile Train is a great organization! They've been posting updates and letters from some of the children on their blog...here's the link .. Smile Train Stories ? you really get a sense of how important this organization is!ReplyDelete
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