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National Ability Center salutes military heroes with annual luncheon
November 9, 2012
The National Ability Center offers an array of activities, including aquatics, skiing, snowboarding, sled hockey, horseback therapeutic riding, cycling and archery for people of all ages and abilities.
Those who participate in the experiences include children, parents, grandparents and the military.
Veterans Day is next Sunday, and the NAC wants people to celebrate past and present military personnel with its second annual Saluting Our Heroes luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City.
The event will feature keynote speaker Maj. Gen. Brian Tarbet of the Utah National Guard, Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street and Army Staff Sgt. Dan Nevins, the director of Warriors Speak, which is part of the Wounded Warrior Project, a national nonprofit organization that helps those who have been injured physically or emotionally while serving the country, said Janai Martinez, the NAC's event coordinator.
The luncheon is designed to honor these people, she said.
"It's a time for us to recognize and celebrate our veterans and current military service personnel," Martinez explained. "It is also a time for us to recognize the emerging needs of that population when they come home from their tours, and what we are doing up at the National Ability Center to help fulfill those needs."
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Wednesday's luncheon is free, but a suggested minimum donation of $150, which will cover the cost of the event, will be collected.
Registration is required and can be made by emailing Martinez at email@example.com or by calling (435) 649-3991, ex. 633.
Throughout the past few years, the programs designed for returning military personnel have grown 400 percent, Martinez said.
"We started with serving only 80 people and now we have more than 800 who participate in our activities," she said.
The NAC operates with the help of Wounded Warrior Project to set up the outreach for these soldiers, said NAC Public Relations Coordinator Claire Wiley.
"We have this facility, which is one of the very few in the nation, that has the breadth of activities here," she said. "Living in Park City is incredible. The recreational opportunities are astounding. You can ski, snowboard, cross-country ski, or come to our high-ropes course or do the biathlon or participate in our equestrian programs."
Wiley said the population of returning soldiers is increasing, as are their needs, which is something NAC can help fulfill.
"Maj. Gen. Tarbet will address this issue during the luncheon," she said. "Not only are these warriors dealing with physical disabilities, but also with post-traumatic stress disorder. It's really important for people to recognize that some of the injuries they are suffering cannot be seen.
"The NAC plays an active role in healing some of the emotional stress and physical ailments that have happened while they have been at battle, while also helping them integrate back into society," Wiley said. "We show them that it's not impossible to accomplish this goal and live a positive and happy life. We show them that they can enjoy recreational activities with their families again. But we also show them that they may have to approach the goal in a different way."
That's one of the reasons why Street, who won a gold in the Super G in the 1998 Olympics, before severely injuring her left leg during the final downhill at Crans-Montana in Switzerland, is speaking.
"We asked her to be a part of the event because she is a gold medalist and was able to come back and overcome an injury," Wiley said. "She was also in the NBC reality TV show 'Stars Earn Stripes,' so you can see she is personally invested in what's been happening to our warriors. She told us that she was honored to speak at the luncheon."
Wiley is also looking forward to Nevins' presentation.
"To have Dan Nevins there is incredible, because he can speak to the story that so many of these soldiers are coming back with," Wiley said.
Nevins was severely wounded in Iraq when an improvised explosive device blew up under the truck he was riding in. The blast killed the driver. It injured Nevins' legs, which had to be amputated.
The Wounded Warrior Project helped him start snowboarding, running and bicycling to where he can enjoy recreational activities with his family again.
"So, (when he speaks) there is this relatable link he has with the other wounded warriors where he can talk about how he overcame this dire situation," Wiley said.
The NAC is one of nine organizations partnered with Wounded Warrior Project.
"We worked really hard to solidify that, and to be able to work with these military programs is a privilege for me," Wiley said.
A few days ago, a soldier who is dealing with a traumatic brain injury and has lost feeling and mobility in his left side came to the NAC, Wiley said.
"He got on a bike for the first time since he's been back and he told us that we didn't just light up his day, but we lit up his life, because he could go back and recreate with his three boys," she said. "Jeremy Houskeeper, our director of military programs, said the definition of what it means to be healthy is to be able to come back home and feel joy with your family and friends. So, it is a huge deal when someone like that soldier, comes to us and learns to laugh and smile and get on a bike after suffering a debilitating injury and ride with their son or daughter again."
The NAC not only provides recreational experiences for the wounded soldiers, but also specializes in health and wellness programs for their families.
"We have 25 rooms in our lodge to keep them here in a safe place where they can interact with other soldiers and recreate with their loved ones," she said. "For us to be able to offer them this type of facility, and to see their joy is just indescribable."
The National Ability Center will host the second annual Saluting Our Heroes Luncheon at the Grand America Hotel, 555 S. Main St. in Salt Lake City, on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from noon until 1:30 p.m. The luncheon is free, but a suggested minimum donation of $150, which will cover the cost of the event, will be collected. Registration is required and can be made by emailing Martinez at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling (435) 649-3991, ex. 633. For more information, visit http://www.discovernac.org/SalutingOurHeroes or http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org


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Warnings: First Draft
Challenges: None
Open: Closed
In the midst of this, two young maidens, twins Elfhild and Elffled, are captured by orcs in a preliminary raid against Rohan. Their world destroyed, their fate uncertain, they face the bleak prospects of slavery in the lands of their enemies.
The Witch-king of Angmar and his fellows struggle and suffer to serve a mad God who both loves them and seeks to destroy them. In truth, they are no more fortunate than Elfhild and Elffled, for they, too, are in bondage, locked in a silent war for the freedom to live and love as they see fit.
The Dark Lord Sauron, a victim of His own lusts, wishes to possess Arda and encompass it in His twisted love. Obsessively, He craves the worship and adoration of all mankind, but His thirst for total dominion of mind and soul twists and perverts all His designs. His spirit weighed down with the frustrations of the ages, still He strives against the Valar to possess the world that He loves.
A tale of peasants and Powers; of masters and slaves; freedom and bondage; of adventure, mystery and intrigue; of wars and bloodshed; of love and loss; of spirits and magic and the unquiet dead.
Categories: Book-verse
Characters: Mouth of Sauron, Nazgûl, Orcs/Uruk-Hai, Original Character, Other Canon Character, Sauron, Witch King
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Erotica, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: AU (alternate universe)
Challenges: None
Open: Closed
Categories: Movie-verse
Characters: Other Canon Character
Genres: Fantasy
Warnings: None
Challenges: None
Open: Open
Categories: Book-verse, Book Verse Slash, Movie-verse, Lord of the Rings Slash, Crossovers, Other Movies, Actor Fics, Actor Slash
Characters: Aragorn, Balrog, Bilbo, Boromir, Earendil, Elendil, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Elros, Eonwe, Faramir, Feanor, Finarfin, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod, Finwe, Gandalf / Olorin, Gil-Galad, Glorfindel, Isildur, Legolas, Maedhros, Maglor, Manwe, Míriel, Namo / Mandos, Nerdanel, Original Character, Orlando Bloom, Other Canon Character, The Fellowship, Thranduil
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Other, Romance, Suspense, Tragedy
Warnings: AU (alternate universe), Character Death, MPREG (male pregnancy), Slash (same sex pairing), Violence
Challenges: None
Open: Closed
Categories: Book-verse
Characters: Beren, Celebrimbor, Celegorm, Curufin, Finrod, Huan, Lúthien Tinúviel, Narvi, Other Canon Character
Genres: General, Poetry
Warnings: None
Challenges: None
Open: Closed
I claim ownership of none of J.R.R. Tolkien's original plot or characters; however, Elaura and her story Typically Atypical are © copyright 2006.Story Notes: Friday, 11 July, 2008: I will eventually rewrite Books One and Two of this series and break Book Three into volumes.****IMPORTANT NOTE**** Do not attempt any of the survival techniques or medical procedures described in this story. This is a work of fiction. I am not a survivalist, I have no formal medical training, and I am not a nutritionist.The following resources have been crucial to my research in writing this series:
Harold Ensles Elvish language resource site Copyright © 1996, 2002
The Grey Company Copyright © 1998
Arwen-Undomiel.com Copyright © 2003
The Encyclopedia of Arda Mark Fisher Copyright © 1997-2008
Dragon Flame 2.0 Copyright © Benjamin Babut & Didier Wilis (Freeware)
Names of Middle Earth by Colin Chapman (pdf)
Map of Middle Earth in the Third Age by Chris Taylor and Chris Guerette (pdf)
Thanks to Beleg Cuthalion for telling me about: Council of Elrond Copyright © 2001-2004
Categories: Book-verse
Characters: Arwen, Asfaloth, Aule, Beorn, Beregond, Bergil, Bilbo, Bill the Pony, Blue Wizards, Butterbur, Celeborn, Celebrían, Cirdan, Dain Ironfoot, Denethor, Diamond Took, Elanor Gamgee, Eldarion, Elfhelm, Elfwine, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Eomer, Eowyn, Erestor, Erkenbrand, Estella Brandybuck, Faramir, Faramir Took, Farmer Maggot, Fatty Bolger, Feanor, Frodo Gamgee, Gaffer Gamgee, Galadriel, Glóin, Glorfindel, Goldilocks Gamgee, Gollum, Gríma, Gwaihir, Halbarad, Haldir, Háma, Imrahil, Ioreth, Landroval, Lindir, Lothiriel, Maglor, Manwe, Morgoth / Melkor, Mouth of Sauron, Namo / Mandos, Nazgûl, Orcs/Uruk-Hai, Original Character, Oromë, Orophin, Other Canon Character, Pearl Took, Radagast, Rosie, Rúmil, Saruman, Sauron, Sméagol, The Fellowship
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Fantasy, General, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Other, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death, Rape, Torture, Violence
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Assets Leaked on EU PlayStation Store
If you're looking forward to playing Grand Theft Auto 5 and taking in the whole experience, you might want to avoid the internet for a good while, since the ending has been leaked online.
In an update on the US PlayStation Blog, Social Media Manager Sid Shuman sheds some light on the leak. It turns out that fans who downloaded the digital pre-order of Grand Theft Auto 5 through the European PlayStation Store were somehow granted access to a few of the game's assets.
As you might expect, some of these assets were posted online, which likely include the ending for the game. We would caution fans who are willing to invest their time and money into the game's narrative to tread lightly when searching for Grand Theft Auto 5 material within the coming weeks.
Sony apologized for the leak and has since removed the digital pre-order file from the European PlayStation Store.
Grand Theft Auto 5 will launch on Sept. 17 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Let us know your thoughts on this story and whether or not you were exposed to any spoiler content over the weekend.


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Defiance College to host Military Appreciation Day
January 23, 2014
DEFIANCE, Ohio –Defiance College will hold a Military Appreciation Day on Saturday,
Feb. 8, at the DC-Mount St. Joseph basketball doubleheader. All area military veterans
and their immediate family members will be admitted to the men's and women's games
free with a military ID.
The women's game will tip off at the Weaner Community Center at 1 p.m., with the men's game following at approximately 3 p.m. Veterans and family members will also receive free popcorn and a drink.
The WCC is located on 1100 Webster Street, just south of Stadium Drive.
The event is sponsored by the Defiance College veterans service committee.
Defiance College, chartered in 1850, is an independent, liberal arts institution in Northwest Ohio offering more than 40 undergraduate programs of study as well as graduate programs in education and business. Defiance College has received national recognition for its educational experience of service and engagement. The college website is www.defiance.edu.


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DAVIE, Fla. -- After days of highly publicized meetings with the Denver Broncos and Arizona Cardinals, Peyton Manning successfully escaped the spotlight for his third free-agent visit, this one with the Miami Dolphins.
It required some covert operations to do it.
On Monday afternoon, several key members of the Dolphins (most importantly new coach Joe Philbin) boarded a flight to Indianapolis, where Manning recently has been staying, according to a team source.
Philbin spent nearly six hours with Manning, a meeting that rarely -- if ever -- strayed from football strategy, the source said. Other details, including who attended the meeting other than Philbin, were limited. The team remains very sensitive about letting out any details that could irritate the former Indianapolis Colts quarterback.
Although strictly speculative at this point, the length of the meeting suggests the Dolphins still remain very much in the hunt for Manning's services despite widespread concern that they'd fallen out of favor.
On Friday, a Dolphins source said a meeting with Manning would take place "potentially Sunday, Monday or Tuesday," but because of the fluid nature of Manning's schedule, they hadn't been able to lock down an exact time or place for the meeting. It ended up happening Monday.
On Monday afternoon, a source also said the Dolphins had scheduled a meeting between Manning and Philbin -- but the source was unwilling to say when and where. Secrecy in the details of the plan has been important to the Dolphins, and Monday, they successfully orchestrated a meeting while preserving that secrecy.
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After 30 years of marriage Vivian Pitts Dowers, age 75, was having a hard time coping with the death of her husband, David Dowers, age 65, a man she had loved for years during their childless marriage. When she finally got around to going through his things she was shocked to discover divorce documents which showed that her husband had divorced her, eight years earlier!
The divorce order from the Manhattan Supreme Court was granted to Mr. Dowers based on his allegation that she had abandoned him due to financial difficulties. He also lied to the court by providing the Judge with a fake address for Ms. Dowers and swore he had served her with the divorce documents at her new residence. The truth was that they had lived together all along in their New York apartment, never having even separated.
Mr. Dowers fraud was devastating to her as it meant that she could not receive any inheritance or benefits from his death.
His survivng heirs, his children from an earlier relationship, were not at all sympathetic, as they fought to deny their step-mother her rightful entitlements and deprive her of a $44,000 life insurance payout and monthly pension income from his long tenure as a janitor at Columbia University.
Happily for Ms. Dowers a New York legal aid lawyer persuaded a judge that her husband's tale of abandonment was false, the divorce order was nullified, and she got her money. So sorry for his kids…
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Rich Internet App Improves Lab HealthBy David F. Carr | Posted 2007-11-30 Print
Ameripath's investment inPathway, a Java-based lab data and billing system, starts to pay off.
The Application: AmeriPath took several wrong turns en route to Pathway, the new billing and lab information system for its network of pathologists and testing facilities.
AmeriPath conducts specialized laboratory testing to guide the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Pathway allows pathologists at different, often highly specialized locations, to collaborate on producing a single report about a given patient. In addition to including statistical results and diagnostic imagery, reports can include diagrams of an area of concern-a cervix, for instance-that the pathologist annotates with an "organ map" user interface widget. Reports can then be e-mailed, faxed or delivered over a Web portal. Previously, a physician who ordered a series of tests that had to be performed by several AmeriPath labs would get back multiple reports that needed to be pieced together to provide an overall picture.
To simplify deployment, Pathway is designed as a rich Internet application, meaning it is accessed through a Web browser but provides the rich user interface of a desktop application. Achieving that goal was not easy.
The Problem:
The project was too much of "a programmer's paradise," according to Tim McGuire, vice president of enterprise development for AmeriPath. The developers had locked themselves in a room and were working on the system in isolation. "There was no interaction with the business, just coding, so it was not on a path toward success," McGuire says. That project was also limited to creating a new application for one facility, so it didn't address the issue of integration across the company.
In early 2006, AmeriPath started over, determined to produce a new system that could be used companywide, with delivery of the first release in about six months. The ongoing Pathway Project, which represents about a $25 million investment, according to a recent job posting for developers, still embraced Java as a base technology, with JBoss as the application server and a Java-based user interface. But this time project managers decided that working directly in Swing required too much low-level coding and too much time.
The Solution: To simplify development, AmeriPath adopted NexaWeb's Enterprise Web 2.0 suite of rich Internet application tools and components. McGuire says NexaWeb offers a more "declarative" development style, which is to say developers can specify the general layout and behavior they prefer without as much detailed coding other applications demand. Using NexaWeb helped developers progress more quickly and produce a leaner, faster application, McGuire says.
The Results: The project relaunched in early 2006, with the first lab implementation in November. The new system should be in place at about 10 labs by the end of 2007, with the other 30 labs coming online next year. Each lab presents its own challenges because of the degree of specialization. "If every [lab were] doing the same thing, it would be an easier task," he says. Still, it was a victory to identify the common functionality that could be used companywide yet was tailored to individual labs.
Dr. Stephen Aldred, an AmeriPath pathologist, remembers AmeriPath had already recognized the need for such a common system in 1997, the year it acquired his practice. "It's proven a lot more complex, taken more time than anticipated, but we have a system we can use across all lines of the company," he says.
In fact, it may wind up being used even more widely. In May, Quest Diagnostics completed its acquisition of AmeriPath, paying $1.23 billion in cash and taking over a debt of $770 million for a total deal value of about $2 billion. AmeriPath helps give Quest, best known for bloodwork and other routine clinical tests, a fuller range of diagnostic testing services. It also gives Quest access to Pathway.
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Survey favors Halvorson for Congress
A recent poll of 500 registered voters in the 2nd Congressional District favor former Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson in the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.
Halvorson holds the number one position with a little more than 21% of the likely-vote. Former State Rep, Robin Kelly was second with 17.4%.
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First of all, I must congratulate you for a magnificent project you have in your midst, I haven't played the mobile version, because, I saw the gameplay and doesn't call my attention at all, but galaxies, will be hell of a game.
The SUGGESTION I have is to include weapons and armor, for example, a Heavy Machine gun that spits volleys of lasers, but need to be set-up, or assault rifles, that will be better than the standard pistol. Swords for improved melee, or even a Sniper Rifle (I think it doesn't need explanation). Armor could help to reduce incoming damage, but at a mobility cost.
And for having your crews using that you will need an Armory.
Thanks for your time.
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If only we could hear you scream in space, now on PC!
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Has anyone posted anything about say a way to hook your engineer up to say a room and walk him over to a knocked down wall so he doesn't fly out the ship and repair it ?
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By Russ Britt
The Obama administration on Wednesday released January enrollment figures for Obamacare that showed another 1.1 million people signed up for insurance on federal and health exchanges during the month, but officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services left one fact out: That number is down from December's total by more than a third.
HHS said Wednesday that it enlisted 1,146,071 people in health exchanges from Dec. 29 to Feb. 1, increasing the overall total of signups by 53% and bringing the cumulative to 3.3 million. Trouble is, that's down 641,929 from the 1,788,000 signed up during December, according to HHS's report for that month, which was released in mid-January.
For those without calculators, that's a 35% drop month-to-month.
HHS Spokeswoman Joanne Peters addressed the drop in enrollment in an email: "We always expected that enrollment would surge in December, with people wanting to have coverage that would begin Jan. 1, the first day when the protections and assistance offered by the law begin."
She went on to say: "So we always assumed that December enrollment would be higher than January. We are thrilled that 1.1 million people enrolled in January and are committed to reaching as many people as possible during open enrollment."
Not to put words in Peters's mouth, but in the sense of fairness there probably are a few more caveats that should go with the December numbers. For one, there was pent-up demand to sign up for coverage in December after HHS's disastrous October and November spent trying to fix the troubled HealthCare.gov Web site. The site was supposed to serve 36 states but was essentially not functioning.
Still, there remains the question of whether enrollment should have dropped that much from December to January. Further, does a seemingly slowing pace of enrollment still put Obamacare on pace to reach 7 million signups within the next two months? March 31 is the absolute deadline to get coverage without tax penalties for 2014.
Regardless, the HHS numbers show that the 1.1 million enrollees for January increased overall signups by more than half, and that they're seeing an increase in the percentage of young adults getting coverage. Consumers ages 18-34, a key demographic if insurance risk is to be adequately spread, comprised 27% of all Obamacare enrollees for January. For the October-December period, that figure was 24%.
Further, 81% of those in the 18-34 age group were signing up for higher-priced silver, gold or platinum plans. Many expected these so-called "invincibles," or young, healthy consumers, to pick cheaper bronze plans.
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I have mentioned in some of my previous posts that I am a Dietitian/Nutritionist by profession, the maximum number of people I meet in my practice are overweight and want to lose weight "fast" even to the extent of near starvation!, they tell me about the pathetically low number of nutrient deficient calories they are consuming, and in a desperate voice tell me that they are -"still not losing a single pound", another frequent visitor is that person who has invariably managed to lose some pounds but after a few months has regained the lost pounds and added some more!!I have been seeing an alarming number of these kind of cases so was prompted to write down this post today, now most of us are fighting a forever going on battle with weight loss, some have expressed their thoughts very lucidly like Lynn, and some of us just continue silently with a yo-yo like pattern picking up snippets from magazines, the net, newspapers anything which gives a shortcut to weight loss.To understand why these people are not losing weight we first need to understand that why eating less doesn't always work-If you cut out 1000 calories per day from your maintenance level, that will add to a 7000 calorie deficit in a week, there are 3500 calories in a pound of stored fat so cutting out 7000 calories should give you a weight loss of 2 pounds per week, Right ?, No wrong! It rarely happens that way!!There is a very simple explanation to this- The body has a survival mechanism that kicks in the minute it senses that the number of calories it is getting is lesser than normal, since the human body cannot distinguish between "dieting" and "starvation", it naturally thinks that you are starving and will hold onto it's reserve of calories, thus dieting actually makes you "fat"!
So I guess it makes sense to stay away from very low-calorie diets as these affect your life in many ways like-
- maybe initially you will lose weight but it will become progressively more and more difficult
- binging and cravings will go up
- your metabolic rate will slow down
- you will feel weak and tired all the time
- chances of rebound weight gain are high
- Decrease only a small number of calories (for your RDA see here).
- Start exercising a lot more to burn that fat, weight training is highly effective.
- Divide your meals into 6 smaller meals so that your metabolism is high throughout the day, increase intake of protein(calculate the number of calories and macro-nutrients in your diet here).
- Refrain from both fasting and feasting.
- Remember it is more important to be fit and healthy.
- Be patient!.
- Healthy wholewheat (atta) soft bread
- Tangy pineapple rasam
- Homegrown turmeric and a healthy burfi
- Peach Upside down vegan cake
- Healthy Sugarfree Cookies
- High protein dal ke kebab
- Double protein Besan cheelas with swiss chard
- Tomato Soup
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ATLANTIC CITY - Nick Charles, working ringside at the small room inside Boardwalk Hall, called his last boxing match Saturday night. He won't ever do it again.
It's not because Charles is retiring. It's not because he's being fired and drummed out of the broadcasting business.
Charles, 64, has Stage 4 bladder cancer and literally has a few weeks at most to live.
Working one last boxing broadcast was a dying wish from a man whose fight with cancer has led him to epitomize the strength and bravery that he has witnessed inside the ring in more than three decades of calling matches.
Charles did most of his play-by-play work for Showtime, but it was its rival, HBO, that granted him his wish, allowing him to call the first match of a doubleheader on its "Boxing After Dark" broadcast Saturday night. Mikey Garcia (25-0, 21 KOs) stopped Matt Remillard on a 10th-round TKO after Remillard (23-1, 13 KOs), who was knocked down three times in featherweight the fight, failed to come out for the 11th round in Charles' bout. In the main event, Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KOs) knocked down Jorge Solis (40-3-2, 29 KOs) four times before stopping him at 1:31 of the fourth round to retain the IBF featherweight title.
Charles' participation came about when Rick Bernstein, the executive producer of HBO boxing broadcasts, was on the train heading into work one morning and read a story on the announcer and his battle with cancer in Sports Illustrated. He was touched by a comment from Charles in the article that he'd like to cover one more fight for television before he died, but that it probably wouldn't happen. Bernstein and Charles were acquainted because Charles had been the host for some of the HBO pay-per-view shows in the 1990s.
Bernstein was so moved by the comment that he went to Ross Greenburg, HBO Sports president, and told him he was going to use Charles on the Garcia-Remillard fight. Greenburg agreed that they should. After determining that Charles would be available and strong enough to work, they finalized the details.
Charles last worked a fight on Dec. 4 in Anaheim, calling the match between Humberto Soto and Urbano Antillon on a Top Rank Promotions pay-per-view. It was an all-action bout that many thought was the 2010 Fight of the Year.
There are very few acts of kindness in boxing, because the business is so cutthroat. Bernstein and Greenburg are to be applauded for granting Charles a dying wish. It is truly a humane act in a cruel world.
It was an exhausting weekend in Atlantic City for Charles, who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., with his beloved wife of 14 years, Cory, and cherished 5-year-old daughter, Giovanna. He had to take two flights and an hour-long car ride to reach AC. On Friday, he went through a day of interviews with the fighters and production meetings.
He threw himself into the work, doing all the necessary research and planning to make the broadcast go smoothly. He was exhausted, but happy to be back in the mix for one last time.
Charles is the ultimate professional, even when he's thrown a curveball.
I witnessed that firsthand. Before Mike Tyson fought Julius Francis in England, his PR people had set up a few one-on-one interviews with Tyson in a hotel ballroom where he was working out a few days before the fight. I was the only U.S. newspaper reporter that Tyson would talk to during that session. Charles, as part of the Showtime broadcast team, was also slated to interview Tyson.
Tyson talked to me first. The interview went well, until the end. An innocent question about sightseeing in London sent Tyson on an emotional roller coaster. The last stop was screaming anger as Tyson had to be restrained by his handlers as he unleashed a torrent of expletives my way.
Charles, who was setting up for his interview just across the room, witnessed the end of the tirade. He walked over to me and said, "Thanks for warming him up for me."
It is easy to feel sorry for Charles. You wouldn't be human if you didn't. But we should all celebrate his bravery, his courage and his strength in the face of the finality of the dreadful disease that has stricken him. And we should applaud those who are willing to grant a dying man an opportunity to live out his dream one last time.
n For more on the HBO bouts, go to nydailynews.com/sports


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A Dumb Bitch is that girl who is just wrong and think's she is right. She is that girl who is annoying and everyone think's she is this stupid annoying girl, but she is completely oblivious to everyone's complaints. She's that girl who will go out of her way to over exaggerate and attempt to make herself look cute when she actually looks like a stupid skank. She's crazy and no guy will take her seriously. She's that girl who makes you shake your head. She is that dumb bitch.
"Hey, I heard Jane Doe hates you."
"I've never even met her, I don't even know what she looks like. What a dumb bitch."
*shakes his or her head*
"I've never even met her, I don't even know what she looks like. What a dumb bitch."
*shakes his or her head*
by shankinmyhead April 19, 2011
annoying ass fucking bitches that can't take a joke and ruin everyone else's good time. They fucking act like they are the hottest shit and are better than everyone else. In reality they are fucking ugly as hell and stuck up hoes. Everyone knows that one bitch who is too good for everything and everyone and thinks her shit don't stink. She is the dumbest bitch around and hates having fun and a good time. Beware of these cunts
"That dumb bitch is totally ruining our awesome time"
"Who the fuck invited that dumb bitch?"
"I want to choke that dumb bitch"
"Who the fuck invited that dumb bitch?"
"I want to choke that dumb bitch"
by Kenaynay2020 January 02, 2012
Wow, how did you get 1+1 wrong? You're such a dumb bitch
by The Truth23 January 04, 2014
Bitch who is irrelevant to a subject. Thinks she's better than everyone else, but she's actually just irrelevant and no one cares what she has to say ( may have nothing to do with actual intelligence )
She's just a dumb bitch, who cares what she has to say
by Kcolelog January 10, 2015
The opposite of Smart Bitch.
See Smart Bitch.
See Smart Bitch.
Dumb Bitch, wheres my dinner!
by NADROJ January 21, 2004
Any girl who has dated your boyfriend at one time.
by Sam Yellek May 16, 2006
a girl who decides to get drunk at a party. wants to throw up but decides to shit all over herself instead.
by soooperdooperdood August 04, 2009


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12:00 pm
French In Action "Think Vacation I" Robert and Mireille look at camping gear. Mireille rushes off to have lunch with Hubert and runs into the incorrigible Jean-Pierre. They talk about broken glass, spilled salt, and other superstitions.G
12:30 pm
French In Action "Think Vacation II" Mireille tells Hubert she's won the lottery. Hubert strongly disapproves although he has been known to play the horses. And Aunt Georgette tells about the one that got away.G
1:00 pm
Unfinished Nation "Pressures from Within" War of 1812 magnifies need for internal improvements and stronger national government. Distinct patterns of American growth and expansion: areas of fur trading, plantations, and farms. Monroe elected president; "Era of Good Feelings." War with Indians and economic depression of 1819. The Missouri Compromise temporarily resolves sectional differences; Monroe Doctrine asserts U.S. preeminence in hemisphere.G
1:30 pm
Unfinished Nation "He Brought The People with Him" The controversial presidency of John Quincy Adams. Changing party politics ushers in "Age of Jackson." Struggles between the establishment and the Washington outsider. South Carolina's Nullification challenge, and Jackson's response.G
2:00 pm
Biography of America, A "Contemporary History" The entire team of historians joins Professor Miller in examining the last quarter of the twentieth century. A montage of events opens the program and sets the stage for a discussion of the period -- and of the difficulty of examining contemporary history with true historical perspective. Television critic John Leonard offers a footnote about the impact of television on the way we experience recent events. D
2:30 pm
Biography of America, A "Redemptive Imagination" Storytelling is a relentless human urge and its power forges with memory to become the foundation of history. Novelists Charles Johnson (Middle Passage), Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha), and Esmeralda Santiago (America's Dream) join Professor Miller in discussing the intersection of history and story. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. D
3:00 pm
SciGirls "Star Power" SciGirls Avianna and Miranda help cut light pollution in their neighborhood. D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Businesses Going Green" Going green is worthwhile and good for the bottom line. Explore the profitable side of going green, and learn how to distinguish between what's hype, and what's hip. Meet two college grads who learned how to make a profit from the coffee grounds up. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "The Great Compromise" The Electric Company and the Pranksters have to work together to preserve their ability to use their special powers in the neighborhood. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "The Secrets of Symmetria" The kids must master the properties of symmetry to stop Hacker from destroying all of cyberspace.G
5:00 pm
It's Sew Easy "Insider Tips" We're going to let you in on some very important secrets. The experts are on hand to show you some of the tips they use for specialty garments. Did you ever see a dress on the runway and wonder just how did they do that? Jim Suzio is here to show you - with fabulous insider tips for totally amazing gowns. D
5:30 pm
Scheewe Art Workshop "Spring Blossoms" Bring a touch of spring into your home to enjoy all year long. Blossoms of tulips, primroses and narcissi, can be painted using delicate hues or bright jewel tones the choice is yours. Paint the same subject several times for gift giving by creating and customizing accent colors to meet your friends' tastes. D
6:00 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Simply Elegant" Joanne greets her student Sarina with a bruschetta salad and it is quickly apparent Sarina is the perfect student for dishes that are simple enough for a weeknight, yet elegant enough for Saturday night. They recreate the vinaigrette from the salad, discover how easy it is to cook clams, and finish with a warm blueberry maple compote melting over vanilla ice cream. Recipes: Bruschetta Salad with Prosciutto di San Daniele and Greens, Clams with Chorizo and Orange, and Vanilla Ice Cream with Blueberry Maple Syrup Compote. D
6:30 pm
Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Grains" By now we all know that eating whole grains is an integral part of a healthy lifestyle, and supermarket shelves are stocked with a greater variety than ever before. Martha provides an overview of the most popular grains, including quinoa and bulgur wheat, and teaches different cooking methods. Be inspired to prepare her recipes - which can be tossed together in no time - for breakfast, lunch or dinner. D
7:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Installing A Toilet/Patching A Lawn with Grass Seed" Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey heads to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to help a homeowner install a toilet. Then, Richard, along with landscape contractor Roger Cook, host Kevin O'Connor and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What Is It?" Afterward, Tom shares a viewer tip about driving eye screws. Roger and Kevin patch a lawn with grass seed. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe Classics "West Turkey" Rick visits the ancient sites of Ephesus and Aphrodisias, meanders up the Meander River, eats Turkish pizza and discovers a blend of ancient and modern cultures.G
8:00 pm
Rudy Maxa's World "Nova Scotia & Newfoundland" From the charming fishing towns of Nova Scotia to the vast wilderness of Newfoundland, these are the last great. open spaces of Eastern North America. A touch of New England, a dash of Germany, here a British fort, there an Irish brogue, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are mixed-up worlds peopled by the descendants of hardy colonists who came to fish and trade fur. D
8:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "Chicago: Chicago's Italian Beef Sandwich" NULL
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Grilling" Bridget shows Chris how to make Grilled Thin-Cut Pork Chops and Grilled Potato Hobo Packs. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for grill tongs. Next, Chris shares the test kitchen's top new gadgets, and finally, Julia uncovers the secrets to Grilled Lemon Chicken. D
9:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Wild Mushroom Lasagna & Grilled Pepper Salad" Joanne unlocks the mystery of preparing lasagna using dry pasta for her student Aggie, and gives a hands-on lesson on grilling peppers over the gas stove. Recipes: (1) LASAGNE WITH WILD MUSHROOMS, LEEKS, AND GORGONZOLA, (2) GRILLED SALAD WITH PEPPERS, OLIVES, AND CAPERBERRIES. Student: Aggie Gettys - Music Industry Promoter. D
10:00 pm
Pati's Mexican Table "Tomatillos" Meet the tomatillo - this small, plump, green fruit was a favorite of the Aztecs and stars in any number of Mexican dishes today. Its tart flavor is worlds apart from the taste of tomatoes, but is just as juicy and unforgettable. In this episode, Pati will show you where to find tomatillos, how to cook with them and offers tips and tricks for creating amazing dishes. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe Classics "West Turkey" Rick visits the ancient sites of Ephesus and Aphrodisias, meanders up the Meander River, eats Turkish pizza and discovers a blend of ancient and modern cultures.G
11:00 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Reunidos" Arturo arrives from Argentina and meets some members of the Castillo family.G
11:30 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Que Estaran Haciendo?" The Castillo family deals with a number of problems, including the hospitalization of don Fernando.G


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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Return of the Blackwing Pencil
These pencils were standard in the animation industry for years. I first encountered them at Zander's Animation Parlour in the 1970s. According to the Boing Boing link, original pencils are going for as high as $40 apiece on Ebay, so you know that some people really value these things. Personally, I always found them impossible to erase, but they did make a beautiful dark line that worked really well when photocopying drawings onto cels, the technology of the time.
No word yet on whether the new manufacturer is able to match Eberhard Faber's quality or when the pencils will be generally available, but Mark Frauenfelder promises to review the advance pencils he will be receiving.
5 comments:
- Jim Caswell said...
This may be the new normal. Apparently it erases for a while.
- August 24, 2010 9:43 AM
- Floyd Norman said...
They were great if you worked on the Disney shorts or television programs.
Only the great Iwao Takamoto could master the Blackwing on Disney feature films.
- August 24, 2010 5:14 PM
- Harry said...
That's fascinating--I didn't know they were gone, but I always had trouble finding them.
When I drew more, I loved Blackwings--which were recommended to me by Chuck Jones. (No, we didn't have many heart-to-hearts about art implements--I went to a gallery show in Boston in about 1985 that he attended, and he pulled one from his pocket and extolled its virtues to those of us who were flocking around him.)
I recently went to the Broadway show Sondheim on Sondheim, which incorporates video of Sondheim talking about how he does what he does. He writes scores in longhand, using Blackwing pencils. I wonder if he stocked up?
- August 26, 2010 5:06 PM
- spokeshave said...
John Ewing told me that they very rarely used them at Disney's, even though you see lots of pictures of the animators with a Blackwing in their hands. I'm sure I've seen one of John Lounsbery with one in hand and John Ewing said he only used fat pencils, the fatter the better. Dick Purdum loved them but I had to use an F when working on his stuff because I pressed so hard the Blackwing's line looked like I'd used a 6B.
- August 26, 2010 6:39 PM
Some years ago I read that Richard Rogers used the Blackwing 602 for his Broadway musical scores. Since the young Sondheim was mentored by Rogers' lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, it's possible that Rogers introduced Sondheim to the Blackwing. I have a couple of preproduction Palomino Blackwings on the desk in front of me right now. They have the same luscious, soft line as they originals. At the moment, the slogan "HALF THE PRESSURE, TWICE THE SPEED" does not appear on these pencils, but I've suggested to Palomino that they add it to the production pencil. It's great to have Blackwings back on the market!
- August 27, 2010 5:31 PM


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Watching: Take One Step for a Healthy Heart with Larry King
Chapter 3 - Sex, Heart Attacks & Stress [5:11]
Is sex after a heart attack dangerous? Are sexual problems an early sign of heart disease? Is stress always bad for the heart?
Transcript: Chapter 3 - Sex, Heart Attacks & Stress
Is sex after a heart attack dangerous? Are sexual problems an early sign of heart disease? Is stress always bad for the heart?
LARRY KING: Sallie Foley, can you return to life as usual after a heart attack sexually?
SALLIE FOLEY: It's a good question, because some people can and some can't. They have to check with their physician.
DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN: Wait a second; we should ask him, right? [laughter] What do you think about that, Larry?
LARRY KING: Uh... [laughter] I have two boys: one is seven, one is six. It was done without Viagra. I rest my case.
SALLIE FOLEY: And not everyone is quite that fortunate. So the first thing that people think about after a heart attack or any kind of heart disease is not about their sex life, it's whether or not they're going to live. Later, as a quality of life issue, people are concerned about whether or not they can return to sexual activity with a partner. And many people avoid it unnecessarily. The problem is getting people to talk to their physicians about it.
LARRY KING: If I can speak from first-hand nature; I may be the only person here who had a heart attack. The big fear is there's a fear of it. There's a fear of what am I going to do? What if I might die? What is the strain on my heart? So you're afraid.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: There's fear not just amongst the patient but their partner as well. The partner fears that they'll--
LARRY KING: I don't want him to die on me.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: Exactly. And there's several things that we need to do. One is we've got to talk about this. And the other is physicians have to ask patients about it. So when I see a patient back after a heart attack, I ask, "Have you resumed sexual activity or not?" And if they haven't, I ask them why not. And you come up with some interesting comments like "I'm afraid I'm going to die if I do." The reality is if you can walk up a couple flights of stairs, you can begin having sex again.
LARRY KING: Dr. Roizen, what's the link between stress and heart disease? What do we know?
DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN: Stress, and especially chronic stress, is a great ager of our arteries, meaning causes heart disease. But so does acute stress. The example is after 9/11 defibrillators fired three times more in the next month after 9/11 as they did the month before, not only in New York but also in Alabama and Kansas. So we take these major stressful life events and they really affect us greatly.
LARRY KING: Dr. Johnson, is all stress equally deadly?
DR. PAULA JOHNSON: No. There are some things that are good. For example, being up here today on TV, you get kind of a dose of it, it gets you going and you perform. But the kind of stress that Dr. Roizen just talked about in terms of the chronic stress, that's the bad kind of stress, and stress that is persistent.
And I think we also make a mistake of how do we measure stress. So I think that we kind of have a working definition. But things like the stress of poverty, the stress that it's a day to day wearing and tearing, those are the types of things that we know can actually be connected with the development of blockages in the arteries.
DR. MARIANNE LEGATO: I think that there are some comments about stress that are important to remember, that a feeling of control over your life is healthy. Undergoing some kind of emotional pain, which you feel is endless and that you can't solve is not healthy.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: It's important that we not over-state this though. You know, we've got these big risk factors of cholesterol and diabetes and smoking and blood pressure, and those are the big drivers. And stress tends to make things worse. But we would do really well if we would attack those major risk factors aggressively, as you did in your own life. But we want to do it not after people have had a heart attack but before.
DR. MICHEAL ROIZEN: And that's really the key point, is that everyone knows the conditions. So it's smoking, it's a high LDL, a low HDL. It's not getting any physical activity. It's not having a friend or passion for something you're doing. It's having high blood pressure. If you have one of those and are listening to this show, you should do something about it today, not wait until you have a heart attack.
LARRY KING: Dr. Foley, is sex stress?
SALLIE FOLEY: It's good stress, but it can be if the couple are having difficulties, it could be a negative stress. An early warning sign that is often missed is problem with sexual dysfunction. People don't realize that their sexual health is actually part of their overall health. So sometimes someone will have erectile difficulties and they'll feel embarrassed or ashamed and they'll ignore it, not realizing that it often is a precursor of heart disease.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: You know, this issue of erectile dysfunction, though; it's something we need to say that's very important. Sometimes the first symptom that a man has disease in their blood vessels is difficulty having an erection. And so that really should-- people should seek medical attention. The same things that cause the blocking up of the arteries in the heart are blocking up the arteries to the penis, and erectile difficulty can in fact be a sign of heart disease and people need to know that.
DR. PAULA JOHNSON: The other area that's very important for women and is very much related to stress is depression, and depression after a heart attack is a significant problem for everybody. For women, though, it seems to really put them at even increased risk for a second heart attack. And it can be thought about as yet another type of stress.
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It's been a rough go for the Colfax-Mingo girls basketball team the past two seasons. Two years ago, it went 1-20. Last year, it went 3-18.
And while this season already may be off to a rocky start, there are things to look forward to Tigerhawk fans.
The biggest one has to be senior Nicolette Husson. The 6-foot center returns as one of the top players in the Heart of Iowa Conference after earning second-team all-league honors the last two seasons.
Unbeknownst to many, Husson led the entire state of Iowa — all classes — in rebounds per game last season at 14.5. She totaled 305 of them, which was the eighth most in all classes with playoff games included. She finished sixth in the conference in scoring at 14.3 points per game (300 total).
She has 625 career points and 695 career rebounds. If Colfax-Mingo plays 21 games this season like it has the last two, Husson will need to average 17.9 points per game this season to reach 1,000 career points, and will need to average just over 14.5 rebounds per game to reach 1,000 for her career.
Husson also led the conference in blocks per game last year at 2.1.
After Husson, the Tigerhawks have had to replace three of last year's starters. This year's roster features only nine players, but most have seen varsity minutes. Senior Sydnie Fahrney is the other returning starter. She scored 36 points last year, had 20 assists, 13 steals and 34 rebounds. Junior Anna Baldwin also saw plenty of varsity time last year. She scored 47 points, had 26 assists and 103 rebounds.
Fellow senior Raynee Quick, sophomore Sara Lahart and Jessica Albright look to rotate into the starting lineup throughout the season, with juniors Jena Teed and Jade Lewis also available.
The Tigerhawks opened their season Tuesday at home against Gilbert. They host North Polk next Tuesday.


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We packed into the elegantly appointed White House room. The buzzing crowd hushed as President Barack Obama stepped to the lectern. He spoke about the work of some two dozen honorees sitting before us—the winners of the National Medals of Science and Technology, the highest honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
"Thanks to the sacrifices they've made, the chances they've taken—the gallons of coffee they've consumed—we now have batteries that power everything from cell phones to electric cars," he said. "We have a map of the human genome and new ways to produce renewable energy. We're learning to grow organs in the lab and better understand what's happening in our deepest oceans." (Find my blog about the event and the winners at http://goo.gl/O3uFG. One is Robert Langer of M.I.T. and a member of the Scientific American Board of Advisers.)
From energy independence to cures for what ails us, science, technology and innovation are our best tools to address the needs of a growing population living in a finite world. The week before the White House ceremony, I was overseas at another event that noted the importance of research: the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland, the annual meeting of policy and business leaders. For my part, I moderated, spoke as a panelist, or served as rapporteur (an official commenter) for various sessions.
More important, that meeting marked the start of an exciting initiative: developing a Global Agenda for Science, Technology and Innovation. I was privileged to participate in the small session convened by the WEF to kick off this process, along with my NPG colleague Philip Campbell, editor in chief of Nature. The goal is to crystallize focus around key topics and to help bring stakeholders together, improving the flow of information as well as the policy discussions surrounding the application of problem-solving research and technology to global challenges.
At the Annual Meeting of the New Champions to be held in China this September, also called the "Summer Davos," members of related communities will gather to help shape the agenda's basic principles. We hope to present at Davos in 2014.


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Wolves, Wild Highlight Busy Sports Weekend
The Minnesota Wild are in California tonight to take on the Anaheim Ducks (8:35, WJON). The Wild (4-2-1) are coming off of wins over Columbus and Chicago this past week. The Ducks (3-1-1) were topped by San Jose in a shootout on Tuesday.
Anaheim captain Saku Koivu, the brother of Wild captain Mikko Koivu, leads the Ducks with seven points on the season. The Wild are led by Zach Parise with nine points.
The Timberwolves are at home Friday to take on the struggling Los Angeles Lakers at Target Center (8:00 PM, AM 1390-The Fan). The Wolves (17-25) have lost ten of their last eleven games, while the Lakers (20-26) had won three in a row before falling at Phoenix Wednesday night.
Kobe Bryant leads LA with 28 PPG, while Nikola Pekovic leads the Wolves' active players at 16 PPG.
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Rice is in increasingly short supply and foreign governments are taking steps to insure the diet staple remains available to their populations.
"I want to get down to where the rubber meets the road, particularly for the rice and the fundamentals affecting us," said Carl Brothers, senior vice president, international rice and partnerships, Riceland Foods, Inc.
"The world rice supply/use has beginning stocks for 2007-08 at 75 million metric tons. Production is at 421 million metric tons and imports are at 28 million metric tons. That means a total supply of 524 million metric tons."
Looking at use against supply, domestic use is at 423 million metric tons and exports at 29 million — over the past 27 years, trade has increased three-fold. Total use will be 452 million metric tons. That means ending stocks of 72 million metric tons.
"That ending stock number may not mean a lot to you," said Brothers at the Arkansas State University Agribusiness Conference in Jonesboro, Ark., on Feb. 13. "But notice it's come down (3 million metric tons) from 2006-07. It has steadily declined over the last several years.
"In 1995-96, the high point was 35.5 percent stocks-to-use ratio. We're now down to 16 percent."
There's been a reaction to this situation — "a building perfect storm," says Brothers. Vietnam banned exports last year and is just now beginning to quote and consider shipping again. India put in a minimum export price, which, in effect, banned exports. Egypt recently banned exports, as did Guyana. China has increased domestic support and has put on export duties. Previously, China had an export subsidy.
"All of this has us concerned over carryover stocks and what's happening in world markets."
The U.S. rice supply/demand numbers needs some explanation. In 2006-07, the carry-in came in at 95 million bushels. However, USDA had carried an estimate of 75 million bushels. That 20 million bushel swing "really upset the market price … it had an impact on the futures market and I was asked by many people, 'How can (the numbers) be so far off?'"
Forward into 2007-08, the USDA carry-in estimate was 93 million bushels. The stocks actually came in at 87 million bushels. "So in that case, the USDA did a much better job…
"Regardless, we carried 87 million bushels into the new year, down 8 percent from the previous year. Production was up slightly at 440 million bushels (from 430 million). Imports grew from 46 million bushels to 48 million. Total supply is at 575 million bushels.
"Domestic use for 2007-08 came in at 277 million bushels (4 million less than the previous year)."
Up some 22 percent over 2006-07, "exports are where the action is. We really got out of the gate fast."
The 2007-08 total rice use was up 8 percent, but the carryout was down 41 percent over the previous year. Also, the average farm price rose from $4.48 per bushel to USDA's mid-range estimate of $5.15.
How do long-grain versus medium-grain numbers break down? "For 2007-08, carry-in for long-grain is down 14 percent from a year ago. Production is down from 325 million bushels to 316 million bushels. Imports are up from 31 million bushels to 34 million. That leaves a total supply down 4 percent at 413 million bushels."
Looking at that supply against use, domestic use is down from 204 million bushels to 198 million. Exports are up 18 percent to 191 million bushels. Total use is up 6 percent to 389 million bushels. "All that pulls the carryout down 62 percent — from 63 million bushels to 24 million."
As for medium-grain, there's a different story. "In fact, looking at the picture, you might think it's bearish compared to long-grain. But there are some good things happening."
The 2007-08 medium-grain carry-in was 22 million bushels (up 1 million from 2006-07). Production was up 16 percent (to 123 million bushels) and most of that increase was in Arkansas. The state went from 106,000 (medium-grain) acres to 146,000 acres.
"I think that was somewhat driven by seed supply, particularly with the situation (where several rice varieties were found to harbor a GM trait). Also, there were some contracts made with cereal manufacturers."
Medium-grain imports were unchanged at 14 million bushels. The 2007-08 total supply was up 13 percent at 159 million bushels. Domestic use was nearly unchanged. However, exports were up 31 percent (at 55 million bushels) and total use was up 13 percent (at 134 million bushels). Carryout was up 14 percent at 25 million bushels.
"I'd normally say these numbers are a bit concerning. But Australia has a drought and has had for seven years running. Australians have actually been in the United States trying to buy rice, not only to feed their own people but also to take care of the business they've built over the year. They hope one day to have rain and get back into rice production. Australia is a key competitor, particularly for California-grown medium-grain.
Egypt, which has an export ban, is another key medium-grain competitor.
"As for China, who knows what it will do? But it appears to me they'll stay in a pullback mode. They're taking action to ensure rice isn't leaving the country until they feed their own people."
Rice stock numbers came out on Jan. 11. Long-grain came in "as expected," down about 5 percent (at 230 million bushels). However, going back to the 2005 number (277 million bushels), the latest number is down 47 million bushels from that high. Medium-grain stocks are up 16 percent (at 106 million bushels).
Every week any company exports rice from America it must report that to FAS. Those reports are compiled and published.
"Exports got out of the gate extremely fast early this year and they've stayed fast. Between milled and rough, long-grain export sales are up 24 percent. Medium-grain is up 22 percent. Combined, export sales are up 23 percent."
What about U.S. rice export shipments? Comparing 2006 and 2007, "you can see long-grain is up 14 percent and medium-grain is up 6 percent. Overall, shipments are up 12 percent."
So, sales are up 23 percent while shipments are up only 12 percent. That gap leaves Brothers mulling several possibilities. One, much rice has been forward-priced. Two, there's a lot of rice yet to be priced. Or, three, there's a combination of the first two.
Key Markets
Haiti is a very important market for the United States. Haitians consume a lot of rice and lately have been complaining about rising rice prices.
"The big concern among those we work with in Haiti is the government will … take actions that could be detrimental to the import of rice. We hope that isn't true because, as you look around the world, the price of U.S. rice isn't much different from anywhere else in the world."
Meanwhile, Iraq hasn't bought U.S. rice for several months. There was a tender in the last two weeks.
"I was told twice yesterday (Feb. 12), that Iraq wouldn't buy U.S. rice at this time. One report was Iraqis had bought 50,000 tons of Thai rice and 50,000 tons of Vietnamese rice. That could be the first sign that prices are beginning to ration demand."
The news is better from Saudi Arabia. "India produces 'thermal' rice — a low-quality parboil. With India pulling back, (the United States) is one of the few sources of parboil rice. Business with Saudi Arabia is up and I think we'll end up with a gain on the year."
The European Union will be harder to crack. "We've had a difficult time with the European market and the (aforementioned GM seed issue) that occurred. I was part of a group that went to the EU in December and met in Brussels to convince them of the effort and success we'd had (in removing the GM trait) and encourage them to lift the emergency measures they'd put in place."
While Brothers and colleagues were returning home, the EU agreed to lift the emergency measures. That is supposed to go into effect in the next 30 days. But don't get too excited, warned Brothers. "All we did was get the emergency measures lifted. That doesn't mean the member states can't continue to test and continue to give us problems."
The other thing happening with the EU concerns the shipping service called LASH (Lighter Aboard SHip). The service involves small barges — about 385 tons. Those are loaded in the United States and remain intact to their destination. That allows rice to be identity-preserved all the way through the shipping process.
Unfortunately, the containers have been pulled out of service. "They were worth more as scrap steel. That means we still have a lot of work to do with the EU and I believe current export levels will decline because of the loss of the LASH shipments."
Cuba is "always of interest" to U.S. producers. It has bought no rice from the United States so far this year.
"I don't see them importing U.S. rice unless there's an interruption in the supply from Vietnam. They're very close to Vietnam and the Vietnamese give them credit terms. The prices out of Vietnam have been considerably cheaper."
June report
Riceland officials have been meeting regularly with the USDA's National Agriculture Statistics Service. "We've been talking about what we can do to improve the reports and have convinced them of the need for a June 1 report."
Reports now come out on Dec. 1, March 1, June 1 and Aug. 1.
"It (used to be) a long stretch between March 1 and August 1. Our concern was a lot of rice on the farm was being missed. If true, at least by having the June 1 report, we'll pick up that business quicker and not have a surprise on Aug. 1."
There's a lot of confusion about the stocks report, said Brothers. "When a farmer is called, he may have sold the rice in his bin, but he's to report that rice as his stock. Ownership doesn't matter — if it's in your assets, you must report it. That's true whether you're a farmer, mill or warehouse."
Shortly before the ASU conference, Brothers met with Susan Schwab, U.S. trade ambassador. "She said there's still a tremendous amount of work to do. We don't have it framed up the way it needs to be. And there's maybe two months to get (the framework) done. If we don't make serious progress by then, she doesn't believe there will be an agreement.
"I'm not sure that's bad news. My biggest concern is the (Bush) administration reaches some agreement that has no benefit for rice. We were left out of the Korean free trade agreement, if you'll remember."
Farm bill
Regarding the farm bill, Brothers said he knew "right out of the gate we'd be in trouble with the three-entity rule. Direct and counter-cyclical payments came out fairly well. The marketing loan benefits are unlimited but, for the most, that was true of the 2002 bill, as well.
"I thought (the House and Senate proposals) looked pretty good, that it could go to conference and if it came out close with all that's going on — wars, budget, economy — that it would be a pretty good farm bill."
However, Brother's original optimism has dimmed. "What I heard in D.C. on Monday (Feb. 11) was that (House Agriculture Committee Chairman) Peterson is talking to the (Bush) administration about a totally different package. I don't think in my career at Riceland I've ever seen this happen. For that reason, I don't know where we're going and I don't think anyone else does."
2008 rice regulations
The Arkansas State Plant Board has ruled that Cheniere (tracing back to the 2003 foundation class from LSU) and Clearfield 131 (tracing back to registered or certified classes produced in 2005, 2006, or 2007) shall not be sold, planted or handled in 2008 (for more, see http://deltafarmpress.com/mag/farming_arkansas_rice_seed/index.html).
"(Growers) need to be aware of that. Now, other certified crops of Cheniere or Clearfield 131 that have (cleared testing) may be planted. That's a bit different than last year.
"I will tell you that Riceland — and I suspect most of the (cooperatives in the state) — will again require the same documentation as a year ago if you're delivering rice to one of our facilities."
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With the amount of noise over the unemployment number likely to get more intense the closer the election gets, it's probably time for yet another reality check. So here goes:
The unemployment number doesn't matter.
Well, it does, but only in the macro sense. But for you, reading this—maybe worried about entering the job market for the first time, or re-entering it after a period of inactivity, or weighing up whether to risk switching jobs—it doesn't matter one bit.
There are a number of reasons why it doesn't matter. Here just one: it's a national snapshot of all potential employees in all locations around the country. So it's not specific to you. The headline number (which is pretty much all you ever hear about) can't tell the difference between a temporarily-indisposed programmer whose skills are in high demand, and an out-of-work lamplighter who hasn't been able to find a job since the dawn of electricity. It treats them all the same: as a minute fraction of a percentage point.
Among the things it doesn't measure: potential. No-one from the BLS is calling to find out how many informational interviews you've conducted in the past month. It's not comparing your skills and qualifications with open positions, or assessing the strength of your network. And it's definitely not taking your ability to research and prepare for that one perfect opening into account.
Keep the following in mind: the unemployment report is a mere snapshot in time. Sure, it indicates what the general job market may have been like a month ago. But it doesn't represent the truth on the ground right now. Now for you, me or any other individual it represents. So getting hung up or discouraged by any kind of setback or slowing of job growth is pointless. Because when you only need one job, whether the nation as a whole created 120,000 or 250,000 last month is immaterial.
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