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An epiphany during Mass at St. Mary's Church in Georgetown led Heidi Donovan to develop her line of inspirational 'Be strong, be true, be you' T-shirts.
Georgetown resident Heidi Donovan was in a dark place three years ago. Dealing with some personal issues, she sat in St. Mary's Church before Mass, praying quietly and asking for guidance. This was the moment her life turned around.
"I felt a hand on my shoulder, and received the message 'Be strong, be true, be you,'" says Heidi. "I felt this message was really powerful. It was my 'a-ha!' moment."
She returned home and began planning on how to share this message with other women who might gather strength from it. She began designing T-shirts in her mind, and contacted several T-shirt suppliers.
Heidi received plenty of encouragement from her family — Brian Donovan, her husband of 25 years and general manager of an industrial division of General Electric in Plainville, Conn., younger daughter Kailey, 14, a freshman at Georgetown Middle/High School, and her older daughter Kristy, now 19 and a sophomore majoring in fashion merchandising and business administration at the University of Rhode Island.
Heidi began creating a series of designs for T-shirts, all of which would have the powerful message "Be strong, be true, be you" on the back.
Having lived in Georgetown for more than nine years, with five years spent as residents of the happy extended family of neighbors on True Lane, Heidi and Brian invited their friends from True Lane over for a big lobster party to celebrate her birthday in August of 2005. She showed them a few sample T-shirts from her brand new venture.
"They just loved the shirts, and everybody wanted one," says Heidi. "I was originally only doing shirts for women, but my customers would say 'I'd like one for my daughter,' so this year I started making them for young girls and babies as well."
The original line was for women, with teens wearing the small sizes. Now there are even shirts for babies, featuring a cute little bee drawing in the middle of the slogan "Baby [bee drawing] strong." In response to demand, there will be a line of soccer mom shirts coming soon, as Heidi responds to her customers.
"I'm working for them," says Heidi. "I'm keeping my business small because I just love the connection to my customers, and I like to keep that open. I like getting to know the people. I like talking to them."
"Heidi like the small-business feel, and wants to keep that," says Brian.
Now there are T-shirts in many designs and wonderfully vivid colors. Heidi can custom-design shirts for anyone wanting at least 15 of them, or sell a single shirt from her pre-designed line.
"I can get any style, any color and any size, as long as you want 15 of them," says Heidi. "I'd love to do custom orders for anybody — for cancer walks, ladies groups going on vacation together, for a party, bridesmaids, a sports team, a 50th birthday or anniversary party, or the True Lane block party. But on the back they will all say, 'be strong, be true, be you.'"
There is something about reading a message on a T-shirt that brings it home, according to daughter Kristy.
"All my friends at school wear them," says Kristy. "You'd be surprised at how much a T-shirt can do. Being a fashion major, I'm around a lot of things. The message on a T-shirt, if it's powerful enough, you remember it."Heidi feels her shirts' message is important for teens.
"With all that's going on these days regarding image for teens, I think it's important to encourage them to be their authentic selves," says Heidi.
She applied to the government for a federal trademark granting her sole rights to the slogan "be strong, be true, be you," and then the waiting began. Finally the trademark was granted.
"I was doing a flea market on Dec. 7, when Brian walked in waving the envelope," says Heidi.
Heidi also designs hand-stamped tag necklaces and greeting cards. The baby bee strong shirts cost $10, and the price range on her entire T-shirt line is from $10 to $29."I'm happy to deliver the shirts locally," says Heidi.
If you are interested in seeing the shirts and learning how to order them, you can call Heidi on her business line at 978-500-2324, email her at email@example.com, or visit www.bestrongbetruebeyou.com.
In the meantime, glad to see her business continuing to grow after three years, Heidi plans to continue reaching out and inspiring women and girls — one shirt at a time.


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- One storey
- Sleeps 4 - 1 double, 1 twin
- Kitchen with dishwasher, microwave and cooker
- Bathroom with bath only
- Shared laundry
- Open fires
- Oil central heating
- Immersion water heating
- Fully accessible toilet and shower
For larger groups Lighthousekeeper's Cottage 2 can also be booked.
About North Ronaldsay's Lighthouses
After a tragic shipwreck in 1740, North Ronaldsay was given one of the first four lighthouses in Scotland. The original Old Beacon was built and first lit in 1789, and shone until 1809 when it was considered redundant. After some years however it was decided that the island's perilous rocks did necessitate their own lighthouse. In 1852 Alan Stevenson recommended builder William Kinghorn of Leith to the Lighthouse Commissioners and the soaring red brick tower you see today was erected, the tallest land-based lighthouse in the British Isles.
About the area
Further north than the southern tip of Norway, North Ronaldsay's remoteness has helped to preserve its traditional way of life. The Norn language survived longer here than on any other Orkney isle and you'll find many of the 60 locals have Orcadian surnames that go back for generations. Common grazing on the seashore is still the custom and the local lambs feed off seaweed, giving their meat a rare flavour highly prized by chefs. The vibrant local community (who made the restoration of the Stevenson lighthouse, cottages and Mill possible) will make guests extremely welcome and should your visit coincide with one of the many concerts, dances and social gatherings that take place there, it is not to be missed. Birdwatching tours, island tours and trips up the lighthouse can also be arranged.
Things to do
- 20 metres away from the cottages, the Lighthousekeeper's Office is a great place to learn about North Ronaldsay's maritime history.
- Dine out at the bird observatory and join in with the bird log that takes place every night. You might spot arctic terns, redthroats, red-backed shrikes and rosefinches.
- Felted and knitted crafts are available from the island's mill, where wool from the local sheep is processed.
Getting there
The houses are open all year round. Fifteen minute flight three times a day from Kirkwall operated by Loganair or a 3-hour ferry trip again from Kirkwall operated by Orkney Ferries. The ferry runs on a Friday, and therefore both properties are available Friday to Friday, though short breaks in the winter will be flexible on arrival and departure days.
Please note, during the winter months, guests are advised to fly to the island as opposed to sail as sailings can be disrupted.
Food orders can be taken (please give us two weeks notice) and it will be delivered to your fridge for your arrival. This could include local lamb, as well as general groceries.
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Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the big three Orthodox Churches in Ukraine.
In 1921 an All-Ukraine Sobor (Synod) created the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) in Kiev and ordained Metropolitan Vasyl (Lypkivsky) as head of the UAOC. The UAOC was at that point independent of all other churches. It obtained its autocephalous status a few years later in 1924 when Gregory VII, Patriarch of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch, issued a tomos re-establishing the Kievan Rus-Ukrainian) Metropolitan bishop see as an Autocephalous Church. The responsibility of establishing a new Synod of Bishops was given to the Metropolitan-Archbishop of Warsaw, Dionisij Waledynskyj.
In wake of the break up of the Russian Empire some national groups sought autonomy from Moscow. The Soviet government persecuted the UAOC; and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) also prevented the UAOC from establishing their ecclesiastical order for some time. Between the wars the UAOC was tolerated by the ROC and it was allowed to exist on Ukrainian Soviet territory.
On October 8, 1942 Archbishop Nikanor and Bishop Mstyslav of the UAOC and Metropolitan Oleksiy (Hromadsky) of the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church entered into an Act of Union at the Pochaev Lavra uniting these two church hierarchies. German occupation authorities and pro-Russian hierarchs of the Autonomous Church convinced Metropolitan Oleksiy to withdraw his signature. Metropolitan Oleksiy was executed in Volynia on May 7, 1943 by UPA insurgents.
The Russian Orthodox Church regained its general monopoly after World War II in the Ukrainian SSR. Most of the other churches were forced out as the Soviet government only recognized the Moscow Patriarchate, revived at the time of the Russian Revolution, as the only legitimate church in most of the Soviet Union. Many accused it of being a puppet of the Communist Party. After the suspicious death of Tikhon of Moscow these autocephalic churches sought to remain independent; something that Moscow tolerated until after World War Two when many Ukrainian Orthodox clergy not affiliated with Moscow fled to Germany or the United States. The UAOC in Ukraine was then liquidated by the Soviets with the assistance of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Any UAOC hierarchs or clergy who remained in Ukraine and refused to join the Russian Church were executed or sent to concentration camps. A few years later the same thing happened to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine and Transcarpathia.
Re-gaining the state recongnition in the late 1980s, the Church was initially ruled from abroad by Patriarch Mstyslav and then following his death in 1993 re-established itself as an independent church, following the brief union with the UOC-KP.
Geographically the church operates almost exclusively in the western Galcian provinces with minute support elsewhere. The church used to have a lot of parishes abroad in the Ukrainian emigre communities in Canada and in the United States. However, these parishes now form the separate churches (whom are now under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. There is a parish of the church in Canberra, Australia.


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The building that is now the Bartlett Pear Inn was once one of the grandest homes in downtown Easton. Its storied past includes a U.S. Congressman, a bishop, a love story* and even a treasure chest. There are still further connections to a state governor and a War of 1812 hero.
(*the love story involves neither the bishop nor the Congressman.)
Built in 1790, the mansion was constructed of pink brick by Benjamin Stevens, the son of a prominent Eastonian and the brother of future Governor of Maryland Samuel Stevens, Jr. Benjamin died only four years after completing the house, which then went to his father, John Stevens. John Stevens also passed away a short time later.
The house changed hands several times before being bought in 1845 by Samuel Hambleton, an Easton lawyer who would become a U.S. Congressman (1869-1873). He was the nephew of a famous U.S. Navy purser (also by the name of Samuel Hambleton) who played a vital role in the U.S. War of 1812.
The house remained in the Hambleton family for more than 100 years. Samuel Hambleton passed away peacefully in one of the upstairs bedrooms in 1886, according to a hand-written account by his son James in a family history book.
Col. Samuel Hambleton was a Southern sympathizer and his son James fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy. James was captured at Gettysburg and released from Fort Delaware a short time later.
James also was a central player in a love story connected with the property. According to an article in the Easton Star-Democrat, James fell in love with Ms. Anna Jones of Howard County, Md., after Anna came to Easton to visit her sister, who lived behind the Hambleton home. "It was quite a romance, it is related, and the engagement was one of the social affairs of Easton at the time," states the article.
James P. Hambleton passed away in 1888, followed by his wife in 1921. Their daughters, Nannie and Amy, then inherited the property. Nannie, who lived in the home, passed away there in 1962. Shortly thereafter, a small black chest was discovered underneath one of the staircases in the home. It contained the personal papers of Purser Samuel Hambleton and his medal for bravery during his service in the War of 1812.
After Nannie's death, the house left the Hambleton family and was converted into apartments. It was known as the Hambleton Apartments from then until the 1990s, when the building was converted into a bed and breakfast.
At one point, according to the Easton Star-Democrat, a Bishop Adams resided on the property shortly after being named bishop of the Easton diocese. This was probably Bishop William Forbes Adams, second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton, who served from 1887 to 1920.
The property was included in the 1967 Historic American Building Survey, which described the home as a large, dignified Georgian mansion with very elaborate cornices and crown molding. The survey notes, "The brick work is excellent … It is a fine and well-proportioned structure." The property at one time had a frame addition used as a law office by the Hambletons, but this was moved across the street before the addition that exists today was built.
A huge thank you to the staff at the Talbot County Free Library Maryland Room and at the Historical Society of Talbot County — both are worthwhile stops in Easton. Also thanks to Alice and Jordan Lloyd at the Bartlett Pear Inn for the chance to work on this project!
UPDATE: read and see more about the Hambleton House at these subsequent blog posts:
Un-Tombstone Tuesday: A Stone's Throw from the Bartlett Pear Inn
Wordless Wednesday: The Hambleton House Over Time
A Real Treasure Chest for Treasure Chest Thursday
Scrappy Saturday: How I Made the Bartlett Pear Wall Prints
For God and Country — The Hambleton Family of Maryland, September 10-October 30, 1988, The Historical Society of Talbot County, binder: "Family Genealogies Haddaway – Harris"; Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland.
Harrison, Samuel Alexander. History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861, Volume 1. 1915. Digital images. Google Books. http://books.google.com : 2007.
Historic American Building Survey Inventory, 29 August 1967, folder: "Easton-Historic Houses," vertical files; Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland.
Ludlow, Cynthia Beatty. Historic Easton. Easton, Md.: Historic Easton, Inc., 1979.
Maryland, Talbot County. Land Records. Office of the Clerk, Circuit Court, Easton.
Maryland, Talbot County. Will Book 13. Office of the Clerk, Circuit Court, Easton.
Maryland, Talbot County. Will Book 14. Office of the Clerk, Circuit Court, Easton.
"Some Early Views of Easton Taken Over Half a Century Ago," Easton Star-Democrat, 23 May 1936; folder: "Easton-Historic Houses," vertical files; Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland.
The Political Graveyard. Index to Politicians. http://politicalgraveyard.com : 2009.
Weeks, Christopher. Where Land and Water Intertwine. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.


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An enormous variety of rivers are found in Chile's geography, of characteristics, size and shape that are splendid habitats for different species of trout and salmon brought over to Chile almost a hundred years ago. It's why Chile is considered one of the best venues for enjoying fly fishing – the quality of the fish, the purity of the waters and the awesome natural surroundings in each fly fishing area are a still clarion call to all lovers of this sport.
Fly fishing can be practiced from the 2nd Region up until the limits of Tierra del Fuego. However, it is Patagonia that is deservedly famous worldwide among the practitioners of this art. Its waters have captivated fly fishermen from all over the world who traverse the planet to be photographed with a fish, then throw it back into the river, in the modality called "catch and release flyfishing."
Some of the species normally caught in Chile are rainbow trout, from the Central Zone to the south; brown trout, from the 5th to the 12th Region; Coho salmon, in rivers and lagoons from the 10th to the 12th Region, and finally, with luck, you can fish Chinook or King salmon, a true monster of Chilean waters that mainly inhabits Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
Rivers and Fish
Lonquimay: The spectacular natural surroundings of this municipality offer many possibilities for practicing fly fishing. There are diverse alternatives within a radius of 100 kilometers – the lakes of Galletué, Icalma, Mariñanco, Jara and the Bio-Bio, Rahue, Polul and Lonquimay rivers.
At the start of the season, streamers and nymph imitations are most effective. From mid-December onwards, dry flies take the lead, a more technical style of fishing that puts the fisherman's knowledge and experience to the test. At all times, the very powerful fish struggle to get free of the deception.
There are several areas where wading in can be done without difficulty. However, to access the best fishing spots, it is necessary to use a catarraf, a comfortable boat that nimbly navigates in difficult places, where the best specimens are hidden.
Lonquimay is located 156 kilometers from Temuco, along the Lautaro-Curacautín Highway, and 186 kilometers along Victoria-Curacautín Road. Both routes are completely paved up to Lonquimay.
Valdivia: The Folilco area is ideal for dry fly fishing and for using emerging patterns, excellent for lovers of the classical style. The transparent waters are very pleasant for deep wading; there are rivers with constant hatchings aside from good-size trout, very selective, not easy to fish since they have already seen many lures in the channels through the years.
Río Maullín: This is the only drainage of enormous Lake Llanquihue, in the heart of the Lakes District. It is a long river that winds through the region's grazing and farmlands. Sometimes it is entirely covered up on its shores by the vegetation, of myrtle forests and other species that thrive in an aquatic environment.
The river has a large population of extremely healthy and feisty trout, mostly brown or brown trout and, to a lesser extent, rainbow trout. Sometimes it is also possible to fish salar salmon and the rare and showy peladillas or farionelas. One of this river's greatest attractions is the possibility of fishing trophy browns without having to travel to remote sites. It is not uncommon to catch fish weighing 5 or more kilos in the deeper parts of the river.
Fishing is mostly done with large streamers and to a lesser extent with nymphs. As for dry fly, it can be done at dusk and from the same beach.
Coyhaique: The city of Coyhaique is surrounded by innumerable bodies of water, most of them with excellent fishing. The fishing areas are on average one hour away by land.
Río Simpson: This river is 40 kilometers long and is probably the best known in the Region. Its population of brown and rainbow trout varies between 35 and 55 centimeters in size. The river is famous for its large hatches of caddis and mayflies. In January, February and mid-March, large backs of Chinook salmon are observed, most of them over a meter long.
Río Emperador Guillermo: This river has an incredible stock of trout, possibly more than a hundred a day.
Río Ñireguao: Has been catalogued by experts as "the best river for fishing resident non-migratory fario trout in South America." Their average size varies from 40 to 45 centimeters, even reaching 60 to 70 centimeters.
Río Cisnes: More than 80 kilometers long, the river originates on the Argentine border and flows out to the Pacific Ocean. A large population of fario trout is found in its upper reaches. Chinook salmon swim up its waters in February and March.
Río Paloma: This river is born in Lago Desierto or Desert Lake and flows into Lago Caro. Beautiful Coho salmon and rainbow trout are found here, with average sizes between 35 and 55 centimeters.
Los Fiordos: Offers fascinating fishing. In the zone of the fjords there are numerous rivers that flow out to the sea where large rainbow trout can be fished that normally weigh 2 to 3 kilos. There are also beautiful brown trout.
Tierra del Fuego: Rio Grande is considered the best river in the world for migratory brown trout fishing. Each year hundreds of fishermen from around the world fill the guest lodges along both sides of the Chile-Argentina border. The river is born in Las Turbas and is also fed by Lynch Lakes, Rio Rivero, and Rio Blanco. It is 220 kilometers long and its waters are a clear light brown. The first half of the river runs through Chilean territory in the interior of the enormous Cameron Ranch.
Since John Goodall introduced eggs in the early 1900s, and thanks to a successful conservation policy in both countries, the trout that migrate each year to the sea in search of food return and climb the river from September until May to spawn. Thousands of enormous brown trout swim up the curves of this typical steppe river, and hover in the pools with pebble bottoms to mate and breed.
The prevailing winds in this part of the Island are an ally for fishermen, since calm, sunny days usually are not accompanied by good catches.
Rio Grande has deservingly earned its international reputation. It suffices to recall that the largest migratory brown trout ever captured there weighed in at a record 16 kilos. Resident brown trout can also be caught, the juveniles that don't migrate and that retain their characteristic color.
Wading into a river during a normal day of fishing, it is possible to catch resident trout that weigh between 500 grams and 2 kilos. Most of the catches are brown trout. Rainbow trout are rarer but can be found in Rio Grande.
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Play ball. That's finally what's in store now for Ryan Howard and the Phillies. The arbitration panel made a decision and for the last time Ryan and Ruben Amaro fielded contract questions along those lines today.
Ruben answered media questions around 9:30 a.m. after we received the news. Ryan met the media following the workout. He was seated on a picnic table outside the batting cages at Bright House Field, surrounded by 23 media types plus seven TV cameras.
There was so much media focus on the contact and hearing . . . how distasteful, disruptive, distracting, damaging . . . on and on and on. The hearing wasn't ugly and a decision was made. We've always tried to reach settlement as witnessed by the fact yesterday's hearing was the second in the last 12 years for us.
Arbitration is simply a collectively bargained element designed to resolve salary disputes and it has been around for over 30 years.
While today's schedule was similar to yesterdays, the morning was a bit different as it was MLB photo day. Every big league camp has such an event.
There were 13 photography stations set up in two batting cages and outside the cages: Phillies, Associated Press, MLB, ESPN TV, Baseball Digest, Topps Chewing Gum, Photo File, Getty Images, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Baseball Magazine (Japan), Delaware County Times and Baseball America.
We began parading players through the stations at 7:45 a.m. and were finished at 9:30. We had to provide the pinstripe jerseys and an-season cap as opposed to the uniforms worn in spring training.
30 years ago photo day involved the AP, United Press International and Topps photographers.
On March 4, we will have a small photo day ersion in the minor league camp, small in the number of stations. But, bigger in another way…150 players to photograph.
LHP Matt Smith underwent Tommy John surgery last July 3 on his pitching elbow. It generally takes a year before a pitcher can pitch again.
Rehab is a long, tedious process, one that can't be rushed. When the other 61 players take to the field, Smith heads for the weight room. "It stinks," he said wiping sweat from his forehead. "But, it comes with the job and I've got to do this so I can get back on the mound."
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Congrats to Ryan on a well deserved raise. Patience is a virtue. It appears this will be a recurring issue the next three years, but as long as he remains a Phillie thru 2011 I'm happy. Best momemnt I've been apart of was his Rookie year against the Dodgers. In 4 ab's he struck out 3x and grounded out to the pitcher. He looked terrible. But in the bottom of the 10th down 3-2 he blasted a walk off 2 run homerun. Hopefully there's a lot more of that to come.
Nice job Ryan,This is going to be money well spent,now that he's going to be playing without this issue on his mind all season long.No negetive thoughts during the season about ryan not giving 100% and we all know that stuff like that can take the whole club down mentally. I see nothing but good things for the club this year. GO PHILLIES NL EAST CHAMPS!!


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State adds funding for summer jobs for Baltimore youth
Funds support wages for almost 2,300 summer jobs
Gov. Martin O'Malley and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake are highlighting summer jobs for Baltimore's youths.
The governor and the mayor announced funding for the jobs on Wednesday for the initiative called YouthWorks.
It places young people between the ages of 14 and 21 in six-week summer jobs with private sector, nonprofit and city and state government employers throughout the city.
The state budget includes $1.4 million to create more than 1,100 jobs. Baltimore is investing $1.5 million for 1,200 jobs. The Maryland State Department of Human Resources and the Baltimore City Department of Social Services provide an annual $1 million grant to the program to create more than 900 jobs.
"There is no progress without jobs. By making better choices to support initiatives like YouthWorks, our state continues to expand opportunity and give teens a work experience that will serve them not just this summer, but on the way to the next step of their careers," O'Malley said. "Together with our local partners, we continue to provide our youth with job opportunities that will strengthen their skills and prepare our workforce for the 21st century economy."
"Baltimore is grateful for the strong investment by Governor O'Malley, and the state of Maryland, to help fund our 2013 summer jobs program," Rawlings-Blake said. "Through our Hire One Youth initiative, YouthWorks is a worthy example of a public-private partnership that results in positive work experiences that benefit our young people, businesses, and our communities."
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Posted: May 4, 2007HONOLULU — University of Hawaiʻi Emeritus Professor Klaus Wyrtki has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2007. He is among 227 scholars, scientists, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders who come from 27 states and 13 countries. Those represented in the Academy's selection this year include former Vice President Albert Gore; former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; and Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt.
"Dr. Wyrtki's selection for this prestigious honor is a reminder of the world-class reputation of some of our outstanding faculty on the Mānoa campus," said Interim Chancellor Denise Konan.
Wyrtki was conferred University of Hawaiʻi Professor Emeritus in 1993 after having been a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for 29 years. He is most well-known for providing a key piece to the El Niño puzzle that helped to forecast such events several months ahead. Wyrtki was the first to understand that ocean conditions more than 5,000 miles away in the far-western equatorial Pacific affect the ocean temperatures off the coast of Peru. There the unusually warm current that typically arrives around late December got its name El Nino. Wyrtki's unique ability to see such large-scale connections in the ocean was based on variations in sea level measurements.
Wyrtki obtained his PhD in 1950, in postwar Germany. His career as an oceanographer took him around the world to Indonesia (1954—1957), Monaco (where he lived next door to Winston Churchill), Australia (1958—1961) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego (1961—1964) before he joined the University of Hawaiʻi in 1964.
Among his many accomplishments, Wyrtki served as chairman of the North Pacific Experiment (NORPAX) from 1974 to 1980. During this time he organized the Hawaiʻi-Tahiti Shuttle, gathering important information on sea level variations and establishing a valuable climate dataset. He set up a worldwide network of tide gauges and began the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Level Center. The center continues to monitor large-scale changes in sea level and currents around the world and contributes essential data to climate research. Wyrtki also served as chairman of the IAPSO Committee on Climate Changes and the Ocean.
Wyrtki made many significant scientific contributions to physical oceanography, among them a theory of the thermohaline circulation, a theory of the layer of minimum oxygen, and detailed oceanographic work on circulations in the Indian and Pacific oceans. His Oceanographic Atlas of the International Indian Ocean Expedition continues to be an invaluable resource to scientists. In addition, his work on the Physical Oceanography of the Southeast Asian Waters spawned lasting interest in the climatically important Pacific-to-Indian Ocean flow through Indonesia.
Wyrtki's numerous awards include the UH Excellence in Research Award, the Rosenstiel Award, the Maurice Ewing medal from the American Geophysical Union, the Sverdrup Gold Medal from the American Meteorological Society, the Albert Defant Medal from the German Meteorological Society, the Prince Albert I Medal from the International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Ocean, and the Alexander Agassiz Medal from The National Academy of Sciences.
The Mānoa campus is also home to three distinguished scholars in the Arts and Sciences — Institute for Astronomy scientists George Herbig and David Jewett and American Studies visiting professor James Oliver Horton.
The Academy will welcome Wyrtki at its annual Induction Ceremony on October 6, at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected as Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 170 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. An independent policy research center, the Academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Current Academy research focuses on science and global security; social policy; the humanities and culture; and education.


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"In the little world in which children have their existence...there is nothing so firmly perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only a small injustice that the child be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small." These words written by Charles Dickens over a century ago are still as true today. Only in today's society most of the injustices done to children are cloaked behind well meaning gestures and loving parents. No longer are children eating dinner with their parents around a table or playing outside until the crickets start chirping. Parents are too busy making sure that children are doing all the things their peers are doing. And making sure they have all the things their peers have. Or unknowingly checking their cells phones to make sure they themselves aren't missing out on something. Almost all parents love their children unconditionally and would die for them in an instant if necessary, but are you willing to give them these:
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Children grow more quickly than any young mother or father can ever realize. When they are babies and you're caring for them night and day it almost seems as if you are in the Twilight Zone and a full night's sleep is eons away. The grown children in the picture are mine. I wouldn't trade a moment, but I would spend more quality time with them if I could. Quality Time can take on many different themes. Adventurous-Bold-Cuddle Time-Snuggle Time-Reading-Listening. Paying attention to what your loved ones are saying. Taking in every detail. Making sure you praise more than you criticize. The basic need of every individual is to feel unconditional love by those that are closest to them.
Take time today to do something with your family. Visit your parents. Build a snowman with your kids. Take a walk with your spouse. Because when it comes down to it ---- what is more important?
Every spring the promise of new life surrounds us. First we notice little green shoots from dormant plants. Or we see reddish buds bursting forth from bare trees. But in a country barn you'll find the cutest and cuddliest new life. Last winter a stray striped kitten showed up at our back door. We named "him" Terrence. "He" was very shy at first, but soon became friendly. Kittens are like that.
This spring before we could take Terrence to the vet "he" started look like "he" was really putting on weight. Finally, my 21-year-old son, who happens to be a farmer said, "Mom, I hate to break this to you, but Terrence is a female and is going
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The Big Ten may well be the best league in the nation. It has certainly been one of the most fun to watch this season.
The depth of the conference - which has three top 10 teams, five in the Top 25 and eight with at least 15 wins - has led to dozens of high-profile matchups and the most entertaining season in recent memory. It's all whetted the appetite for what should be a fascinating stretch run.
"There's a buzz. You stop at the grocery store or fill up your car with gas, everybody is talking about it." Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said.
The buzz is backed up by the numbers.
The Big Ten is on pace to lead the nation in attendance for the 37th year in a row, easily topping the other high-major leagues with an average home crowd of 12,704. The league's BTN network said January was its highest-rated month ever in prime time, a bump it credited largely to high-profile basketball games.
The league has certainly offered some thrilling programming - and last week featured some unforgettable games.
Michigan knocked off 13th-ranked Ohio State on Tuesday when Tim Hardaway Jr. blocked Aaron Craft's shot under the basket in overtime. The following night, Wisconsin won in double-overtime against Iowa, 74-70.
The Badgers and Wolverines hooked up on Saturday, and Wisconsin won in OT after Ben Brust's 45-foot heave tied things up at the end of regulation.
Unranked Illinois stunned top-ranked Indiana on an inbounds pass with less than a second left. The Illini then beat Minnesota in Minneapolis and received 26 points in the latest AP poll despite a 4-7 league record.
Oh, and Indiana bounced back with an 81-68 thrashing of No. 13 Ohio State on Sunday to keep its No. 1 ranking.
"It's always been an entertaining league," Purdue coach Matt Painter. "I think getting some upsets and having some wins on the road makes it even a more entertaining league."
With the exception of winless Penn State and perhaps 3-8 Nebraska, every team in the league has enough talent to be considered dangerous every time out. Seven of the 12 Big Ten teams are 31st or higher in RPI, and only the Nittany Lions have a losing overall record.
"I think the league gets branded as the best league in the country for a lot of different reasons. But I think one of the key components of it ... the execution that goes on in this league is really, really strong," Indiana coach Tom Crean said.
With a month to go, five clear title contenders have emerged in Indiana, Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin. Lurking below that group are Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Purdue and Northwestern, any of which can have a huge say in who captures the league crown.
The Gophers were ranked No. 18 before a pair of losses last week, and Iowa's seven defeats in the Big Ten have come against the league's top seven teams.
The youthful Boilermakers are a surprising 5-6 in conference, and Northwestern is 4-7 with four games left against the Big Ten's top five teams.
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+0 votes Jeff Kaluk › June 29, 2011
Could use tee pads a distance/direction signs. Challenging holes along a creek with 20' drop offs.
+0 votes David Edmondson › February 28, 2011
not too exciting, but playing by the creek in the trees can be challenging. It takes a while to figure which way to go since the front nine seems to overlay the back nine. If you get creative, you can essentially play two holes at once for only one lap around the park instead of two. There are some avid players that gather there regularly.
+0 votes Tyler "Shanko" Raemhild › October 10, 2010
I think this course could be so much nicer if it was taken a little bit better care of.
+0 votes saylor s › February 27, 2012
course went in 1986-1987 ish. Was originally 9 holes. I saw racher ace #5, then we played 6, then he aced #7. True story. - Saylor
+0 votes Sean Steele › January 30, 2014
Friendly local the day I played which was a Thanksgiving. Without him helping I would've been lost. Super confusing to navigate as an 18 holer but he explained that it was expanded. If they changed it back to nine maybe that would make it easier but I still had a fun round. A few challenging holes mixed with some wide open easy ones. Lot of walking paths and people with dogs that could come in to play so be careful where and when you throw.
+0 votes Alex ferreira › August 16, 2017
+0 votes Daron Shiflet › January 19, 2015
Layout is beyond confusing. Course has some decent shots, but the overall design is mind boggling. With the amount of PDGA level courses in DFW, I can't imagine coming back here.


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Culture central: Ash Lawn operas spice up summer
Ash Lawn-Highland, the estate of James Monroe, has a long history of encouraging cultural development. In 1793, Thomas Jefferson coaxed Monroe to purchase the land adjoining Monticello to form "a society to our taste" in rural Albemarle County.
Nearly two centuries later, the property was bequeathed to the College of William and Mary, Monroe's alma mater, with instructions to operate it as a historic shrine for the education of the public. Today Ash Lawn-Highland hosts 100,000 American and foreign visitors each year.
Now in its 25th season, the Ash-Lawn Opera Festival has become the backbone of the property's educational and artistic offerings. Expanded from three evenings of lectures and one-act operas in 1978 to nine weeks of full-length operas and musical theater productions, lectures, Music at Twilight (classical, folk, and contemporary music), and Summer Saturdays (family entertainment), the Festival continues to grow in popularity and stature within the opera world. It ranks as one of the world's "top 20" warm-weather outdoor opera festivals, according to Money Magazine.
Elizabethean and Restoration drama devotee Emmett Boaz was an early patron of Ash Lawn's summer music offerings. "I went up there the first three seasons because they were doing the Beggar's Opera, and that's exactly to my taste," he says, adding, "The only thing wrong with the performance is somebody needs to gag those peacocks."
The 2003 Summer Season includes two well-known pieces as centerpieces, Mozart's The Magic Flute and the American classic, South Pacific, by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The former features a wicked queen, a ponderous priest, a courageous hero, his beautiful beloved, and the most comical couple in all of opera– the birdseller Papageno and his Papagena, disguised as an ugly crone.
These memorable characters added to the mix of unforgettable melodies have the makings of a perfect musical outing for a summer evening.
South Pacific is one of the best-known and best-loved American musicals. Set on a dreamy Polynesian island during World War II, the stories of the forbidden love of two couples inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein to pen some of their most memorable tunes: "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair," "Bali Ha'i," and "Happy Talk."
Add to these two productions a weekly series of concerts– the "Music at Twilight" performances– and the children's shows on Saturday mornings, and you'll see that the Ash Lawn Opera Festival provides plenty of opportunities for summer entertainment. Even more delicious: You can arrive early with your picnic basket and have dinner on the lovely grounds of the estate before the evening shows begin; the gates open at 6pm.
Throughout its history, the cultural mission envisioned by Monroe has remained unchanged: to enhance the region's and nation's vitality and quality of life. The Ash Lawn Opera Festival is doing its part. Take a trip over to Ash Lawn-Highland this summer; the peacocks that grace the grounds will welcome you, and so will the folks who make the Festival a continuing reason why summer in Charlottesville can be such a pleasure.
Visit the Festival website for a calendar of specific performance dates and times: ashlawnopera.org. Ash Lawn-Highland is located at 1941 James Monroe Parkway, near Monticello. Tickets for the shows run $5-24. 293-4500.


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John Thain: His Office Is His Castle
[Genesis Of The Financial Meltdown]
John Thain, infamously known as I Robot when he was Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is merely another avatar of the invincible, at least to himself, Chairman of a Wall Street Brokerage Firm.
Thain has outdone Dennis Kozlowski; he of the infamous ice sculpture of the Statue of David urinating Stolichnaya vodka. Kozlowski, ex-Tyco CEO was widely ridiculed for spending $7,000 for a shower curtain. Thain did not spend $7,000 for one shower curtain—Thain spent $28,000 of Merrill Lynch's money for four curtains-four times $7,000.
Thain, who owns an apartment at 740 Park Avenue where many billionaires of Wall Street reside, must have a problem with his posterior for Thain purchased with Merrill Lynch's money a pair of chairs for $87,784, a stationery cabinet for $68,179, etc.
Thain also used Merrill Lynch funds to pay $800,000 for a redesign of his office by Michael Smith, who is currently designing the Obama White House Office for $100,000. The total cost of Thain's Merrill Lynch office makeover was $1.2 million- and there was no vodka.
Thain, a mortgage bond trader who worked at the mortgage bond trading desk at Goldman Sachs and became President of Goldman Sachs prior to his ascension as Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, obviously has a sense of entitlement.
Perhaps Thain's spendthrift ways would not be so outrageous if Merrill Lynch had been a profitable firm. Merrill Lynch, which Bank of America purchased in a stock deal for $40 billion, had a 2008 fourth quarter loss of $15.4 billion; preceded by a 2008 third quarter loss of $5.1 billion and a 2008 second quarter loss of $4.7 billion.
Thain a former mortgage bond trader sold Bank of America a blind and lame horse, which Thain stated was as fast as Secretariat.
Perhaps Thain deserved the money-from those who sold Merrill Lynch short and who made billions as Merrill Lynch sank into oblivion.
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Bon Iver at Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 8 p.m.; $45 to $65; 305/673-7300 or www.livenation.com
Indie folk musician Justin Vernon's band, Bon Iver, emerged onto the music scene in 2007 with all the force of a whisper. But what an entrancing whisper it was. Like Iron & Wine's early recordings but even lighter and dreamier, Vernon's rustic folk sound has helped inspire countless musicians to turn down the volume, building a veritable subgenre on his shoulders. Recorded over three months in a remote Wisconsin cabin, Bon Iver's debut album "For Emma, Forever Ago" launched them into the stratosphere, while its self-titled sophomore released cemented its legacy last year. It wasn't long until Vernon was collaborating with Kanye West and contributing a song to a "Twilight" soundtrack, which, as any hipster knows, is the ultimate sign of acceptance. Get your tickets fast; this one will probably sell out.
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So you want to see some comedy, but Boca's New York Comedy Club is in the process of relocating, and you don't want to schlep all the way to West Palm Beach and pay $30 or more for a ticket at the Improv. Well, this event has got you covered for just a $5 admission, right here in Boca. The Funky Buddha Lounge has been a hot spot for comedy for years, but this event just might take the cake. A one-time Summer Comedy Festival hosted by local comedian Richy Lala, the event features the stylings of 20 comics: Brian Coronado, Mark Spiro, Martel Blue, Jay Maher, John Hyne, Steve Hoover, Ralph Laguerre, Scott Stern, Matt Bellak, Mack Stine, Doug Almeida, Lauren Pottinger, Rio Riley, Adrienne Airhart, Aristotle Georgeson, Devon Fox. There is a two-drink mimum, and bring your sense of humor.
Opening night of "The Edge of Our Bodies" at Mosaic Theatre at American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation; 8 p.m.; $39.50 seniors, $34 adults and $15 students; 954/577-8243 or www.mosaictheatre.com
The Mosaic Theatre closes what has been an outstanding season tonight with "The Edge of Our Bodies," a 2011 dramedy from the great and prolific Adam Rapp. Alfred Hitchcock would love the setting – the story takes place entirely on a train, where 16-year-old Bernadette is traveling from her New England private school to New York City, where she will drop a bombshell on her boyfriend. Along the way, she'll contemplate life and all that she doesn't know in a coming-of-age story that Examiner.com called "a stunning portrait." Orlando actress Lexi Langs makes her Mosaic debut as Bernadette, and Jim Gibbons, a veteran actor from Fort Lauderdale's Empire Stage, will play a maintenance man. The show runs through July 1.
WRMF-FM Party in the Park at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 6 p.m.; free; 561/750-1668 www.wrmf.com
WRMF 97.9-FM, Palm Beach County's variety station for '80s, '90s and current pop hits, will kick off the summer in style this weekend in Mizner Park for a concert that traverses the decades and styles played on its station. John Waite, the English musician known for his 1984 platinum smash "Missing You," will headline the concert; he has released 10 solo albums, including 2011's "Rough and Tumble." He will be joined by Kris Allen, winner of the eighth season of "American Idol," and Eric Hutchinson, a rising singer-songwriter from Maryland who has earned the praise of Madonna and Perez Hilton. South Florida's own The People Upstairs will get this free party started.
Opening night of "Michael Jackson: Laser Spectacular" at South Florida Science Museum, 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach; 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.; $8 members and $10 nonmembers; 561/832-1988 or www.sfsm.org
As great and trippy as Pink Floyd is, there are only so many times you can stare narcotically into the cosmos while absorbing "Dark Side of the Moon." With that in mind, the South Florida Science Museum is expanding the repertoire of its Dekelbaum Planetarium, integrating a new Michael Jackson show that has been a sell-out hit at other planetariums across the country. The show features the King of Pop's greatest hits accompanied by lasers, stars and other special effects. For tonight's opening festivities, guests that arrive dressed as Jackson will receive free popcorn and buy-one get-one admission. Be prepared to moonwalk.
The Bad Plus at Miniaci Center at Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferraro Jr. Blvd., Davie; 8 p.m.; $40; 954/462-0222 or www.miniacipac.org
Avant-garde jazz trio the Bad Plus originated in 2000 with a killer gimmick: They would record their own, deconstructed versions of familiar rock and pop hits, transforming them into bona fide jazz numbers. With fascinating interpretations of songs by Nirvana, Radiohead, Tears for Fears, Neil Young, David Bowie and many others, the Minneapolis group turned a new generation on to jazz. But here's the challenge: keeping these fans around to listen to the band's original jazz compositions. On the group's most recent album, 2010's "Never Stop," the Bad Plus eschewes covers completely for the first time, though it still showcases their range, filling the sonic spectrum all the way from swing music to techno.
Teresa Giudice at Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 2 p.m.; free; 305/442-4408 or www.booksandbooks.com
If you were guilty enough to have watched the last season of "Celebrity Apprentice" (I certainly was), then you know that "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice is a sunny and positive personality – not easy to maintain on a show that thrives on bitter rivalries – even if it also proved that she's not the sharpest knife on the block. But that's OK; in her off time, she knows exactly what to do with those knives, and the forks, spoons, pots and pans, to create great-tasting food that won't tip your scale. The voluptuous mother of four has already penned two best-selling books on eating great and keeping fit, and her newly released third cookbook, "Fabulicious: Fast and Fit," contains 60 recipes and rules that allow you to keep your beloved tiramisu. She will share tips at this special appearance.
Israeli Dance Festival at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 7 p.m.; $10 to $50; 954/462-0222 orwww.browardcenter.org
Now in its 16thyear, the Israeli Festival Yachad will conclude with this gala dance celebration. More than 500 dancers will take the stage, hailing from dance companies in Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Panama and Israel, for a nostalgic revue of Israeli folk music. Elaborate costumes, scenery and lighting designs will enhance the performance, with each choreographed routine designed to evoke a difference rhythm and cultural component.


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Sophia Eddinger, 8, watches her father, Ryan Eddinger, clean a tray used in his hydroponic greenhouse system. The Eddinger family's Two Sisters Farm sells "living lettuce" to several area restaurants and grocers.
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Two Sisters Farm is the only commercial farm in the area specializing in hydroponics, or soilless growing, and their lettuce has been catching on around Lawrence and Johnson County since their first harvest this spring.
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Nobody is ideal. Yet still we want to look better sometimes - retouch some wrinkles, remove skin defects. Indeed, what a wedding photo would bear redness or pimples on the bride's face? What about prom album or a dating site? Inpaint allows you to quickly improve your skin on photos and conceal everything you don't want to show. Just apply the Marker tool or the Magic Want tool to every problem zone and instantly see the difference!
Inpaint photo restoration software reconstructs the selected image area from the pixels near the area boundary. Remove undesirable objects from your images, such as logos, watermarks, power lines, people, text or any other undesired artefacts. There's no need to manually go through messing around with your old clone tool any more! Now you can use Inpaint to easily remove all those unexpected objects that end up spoiling an otherwise really great photograph.
BatchInpaint is a batch version of Inpaint. Now you can remove watermarks, date stamps and other unwanted objects in a batch mode.
Multi-View Inpaint allows you to remove moving objects such as vehicles, construction work, or simply other tourists from the photo by blend different areas of two or more pictures of the same scene.
Inpaint works so well! If you are needing a quick and easy way to repair old photos or remove watermarks or annoyances from pictures, it's perfect.
Inpaint makes it easy to remove objects from your photos.
The app can also easily remove time and date stamps from photos, remove blemishes from a face, or repair old scanned photos to get rid of tears or other defects.
Removing the date stamp took seconds! A great time saving program.
Inpaint does an amazing job at removing people from photos. A "must buy" for anyone that cares about their pictures enough to want to touch them up a bit!
This app does what it says it and does it well. Removing watermarks? Simple. Getting rid of date stamps? Simple. Remove people from photo? Incredible! I've been wanting a cheap and easy way to remove details from my photos and this does it really well.
Messed around real quickly on some photos to take out some complicated wires and other stuff in a zoo photo ... the results were FANTASTIC. If I would have taken my time they would have been triple fantastic!
Inpaint is a nice piece of software for those who want to retouch their home photos without the need to read thou war and peace in order to use. The installation is very straight forward. The program is a pleasure to use and the results are very good and no so quick and without having to learn how to use a clone brush. I recommend this to anyone who wants to retouch a photo and it is ideal for a beginner.
Worked beyond my expectations. Did simple removals flawlessly. I hair on the camera lens was perfectly removed, as was a person on an otherwise deserted beach. Removing a lot of complicated items from a very detailed picture kind of choked the program, but I wouldn't expect any software to be able to do that.
Don H.
If you're an amateur photographer and you want to do some basic editing of your pictures to remove unwanted objects, grab this software right now!
John B.
Wow, this works much better than I expected. I'm a Realtor so removing dirty underwear from the bedroom picture is a must. I use the Photoshop clone tool quite often for this kind of application. But Inpaint gave me almost the same result in less than 3 seconds. Very impressive. From now on, I'll use Inpaint for unwanted object removal. This is a big time-saver.
Excellent! Outstanding! Great Job! Superb! Wonderful! Fantastic! Easy! Fast! I love it!
It can easily get rid of spots, or weird objects, and if you are really patient, you can get rid of most anything you don't like in your pictures! Easy to use, really amazing results. I couldn't believe it the first time I used it.


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Lower expected U.S. cotton production has raised the outlook for prices, but cotton producers should keep a close eye on China.
Lower expected U.S. cotton production has raised the outlook for 2013-14 cotton prices, but cotton producers need to be ever vigilant about growing stocks of cotton in China that have cloaked prices in uncertainty.
According to USDA's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, released June 12, old-crop U.S. cotton exports to China are much larger than originally anticipated. Stronger exports should reduce the current season's ending stocks as well as carry-in stocks for the new-crop balance sheet, according to USDA's projections.
At the same time U.S. cotton continues to move offshore, USDA reduced projected production of new-crop cotton by 500,000 bales to 13.5 million bales due to an expected increase in abandonment that reflects continued drought conditions in the Southwest. Last year, the nation's cotton growers produced 17.32 million bales of cotton.
According to USDA's latest Drought Monitor Index, most of New Mexico, the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, western Kansas and Nebraska, and eastern Colorado continue to battle severe to exceptional drought conditions.
"The drought will have a wide impact from the Rio Grande to north of Amarillo," says John Robinson, economist with Texas A&M University. "Two million acres in Texas might not produce anything. We'll have a good feel for that in August or September. Drought has not improved in the area where there is extensive dry land and cotton."
The Chinese Dilemma
China's presence in world markets has helped raise USDA's price outlook for U.S. cotton to 83 cents per pound, up a nickel on each end of the 73 to 93 cents range.
Stronger Chinese purchases are drawing stocks out of exporting countries and constraining the 2013-14 supply outside of China, says USDA in its WASDE commentary.
"It's reasonable to expect that China will continue its stockpiling of cotton," says Robinson. "But it can't continue to do it forever." Currently China has 50.01 million bales of cotton stockpiled, or 61.6 percent of the world's stocks.
"I think China has painted itself into a corner," says Robinson. "How does it stop stockpiling cotton without depressing prices for its farmers? If China starts to use its stockpiles, world prices would weaken."
China began its program of supporting domestic cotton prices and building stocks two years ago, so some of the country's stored cotton is aging. Robinson, who traveled to China last year, says the Chinese government's stocks are stored properly, under tarps and indoors, but stored cotton is vulnerable.
"Warehouse people have told me that old bales are not good for anything but mops," he adds. "Eventually the quality of the fiber will decline." The process of decline, however, could be anywhere from two to five years.
The only way China would be able to unwind its cotton policy would be to sell its stocks into the world market during a period when global supplies are in shortfall and prices rise to $1.20 per pound or more, Robinson adds.
USDA reduced world production of cotton for the 2013-14 crop slightly from last month, based on lower production for the United States, Turkmenistan, and other countries. World consumption was also reduced slightly.
Projected world new-crop ending stocks are reduced marginally, but USDA raised China's stocks by 750,000 bales, which means projected stocks outside of China declined by about 3 percent lower.
"These projections assume that China continues current policies regulating the national reserve acquisition and release prices," cautions USDA.


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How many user email accounts do I need to buy?
When you're purchasing an Office 365 account, you need to decide how many users you want to buy. You need to buy a separate user for each individual person who you want to have their own, personal mailbox. So, first count the number of people that you want to have their own inbox. But when you get to other addresses like email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com, there are several options for creating free addresses. These give you flexibility, without needing to buy additional users.
Aliases are a good way to make a small operation look a bit bigger. An alias is a completely different email address, that sends all mail to the original mailbox. So, firstname.lastname@example.com set's up an alias: jobs@mollysbarkandwine — all mail sent to either molly@ or jobs@ goes to the molly@ mailbox. Molly has 2 email addresses, but has only purchased 1 user. Read more about aliases.
Shared mailboxes
Shared mailboxes are a good way to provide a generic email address that many people can access. For example, Molly sets up firstname.lastname@example.com as a shared mailbox. She shares it with herself (firstname.lastname@example.com) and her partner (firstname.lastname@example.com). They can both read and reply to mail sent to questions@ but Molly only has to buy 2 users; one for herself, and one for Joe. Read more about shared mailboxes.
Distribution groups
Distribution groups are another way to extend your address count, for free. Typically, a distribution group is used to communicate with a group of people internally, but you can also have external contacts in your distribution group list. Molly could set up a distribution group for all her servers, for her vendors, and her VIP customers, all for free. She wouldn't need to buy users for any of those distribution group addresses. Read more about distribution groups.
Shared contacts
Shared contacts are people outside of your domain, who you want to include in a distribution group. These accounts are also free; you do not need to buy an extra user to create a shared contact.
Resource accounts are used for booking rooms and equipment, in your shared Office 365 calendar. You can set up an account for each room or piece of equipment you want people to book, and these are all free. You do not need to buy extra users for resource accounts. To set up accounts for rooms and equipment, see Set up a mailbox for equipment or rooms.
Next step
- Now that you know how many users to buy, check out the different Office 365 plans.


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Proposed tip Please edit this page to improve it, or add your comments below (do not use the discussion page).
I have found myself writing an installation script that will install a few Vim plugins (optionally) for the user. This task can be simplified using pathogen.vim. But what if the user already uses it?
More generally, the question can be stated as, "Is such-and-such-plugin already loaded for this user?"
In Bash, I was able to come up with the following command to check for the existence of the
g:loaded_pathogen variable. Unfortunately, the command did not seem to work in C Shell, so I had to wrap it in a small script.
#!/bin/bash vim -c ':exec ":silent !echo ".exists("g:loaded_pathogen") | exec ":q!"'
The script sends either 0 or 1 (plus mystery terminal control sequences) to stdout.
Checking the value inside a script is a bit more difficult due to those pesky control sequences. Vim even detects that it is about to hose you and emits, a "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" message.
Another problem that I have encountered occurs when the user's configuration loads plugins that contain errors. When this happens, it causes the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt but it is no longer echoing to the terminal, so we can't see it. Piping in a few newline characters allows the process to continue rather than hanging.
I suspect there is a cleaner way to do this but, for now, this is all I've got:
#!/bin/bash # ...snip... PATHOGEN=`echo "\n\n\n\n\n" | vim -c ':exec ":silent !echo ".exists("g:loaded_pathogen") | exec ":q!"' 2>/dev/null` PATHOGEN=`echo $PATHOGEN | perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' | col -b` if [[ $PATHOGEN == "1" ]] ; then # found it fi
Better yet use:
vim -nNes -i NONE -u NORC -U NONE <<-"script-delimiter" if exists("g:loaded_vimballPlugin") verbose echo g:loaded_vimballPlugin . "\n" endif script-delimiter echo $?
This will either print g:loaded_vimballPlugin value or not, than will print the command exit code.
What about using the
--remote-expr command-line argument?


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Hisanori Takahashi knows there are no guarantees for a player who walks into major league camp with a minor league contract. That's why he's happy to fill any role for the Chicago Cubs.
Bidding for a spot in the bullpen, Takahashi started Wednesday and pitched three shaky innings in a 3-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.
The 37-year-old left-hander gave up three runs and five hits, including Lance Berkman's first home run. He walked two and struck out four in his fourth appearance of the spring.
"It's been a while since I started, maybe two or three years," Takahashi said through a translator. "I'm happy about pitching those innings. There are areas I can fix, especially those two walks and the home run I allowed."
Uncertainty is nothing new for Takahashi, who went to his first major league camp with the New York Mets in 2010 after signing a minor league contract with the club.
"I've played baseball a long time and feel I had a successful career in Japan as well," he said. "I was in the same spot with the Mets, so experience will play a big part."
With the Mets, Takahashi appeared in 53 games, including 12 starts. But he's been strictly a reliever since, pitching in 112 games the past two seasons for the Los Angeles Angels and Pittsburgh.
Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Takahashi, should he emerge from the six-player scrum for three bullpen spots, could fill needs ranging from a left-handed specialist to long relief.
"If he makes the team he could be that guy," Sveum said before Wednesday's game. "He's been very durable. If the game dictates, he can pitch one (inning) or get a left-hander out. If the game dictates the other way, he can go two or three innings."
Such a role would be just fine with Takahashi, who turns 38 next month.
"The goal I set for myself is to be that lefty out of the bullpen and being able to pitch multiple innings," he said.
Rangers left-hander Robbie Ross allowed a first-inning solo homer to Scott Hairston but then retired 13 of his final 15 batters, including the last nine in a row. He gave up one run and four hits in four innings.
"That home run, I wish I could have done without that," said Ross, competing for the last spot in the Texas rotation. "After that I settled down and just threw strikes. I guess it was just that feeling of, I didn't want to do what I did in the first inning."
Ross was a non-roster invitee to camp a year ago and finished the season as the team's top left-handed setup man. He went 6-0 with a 2.22 ERA in 65 innings over 58 appearances.
"I'd like to think I've been given an opportunity and have to work hard for it, Ross said. "But it's a thing where I have to take it a day at a time and focus on what I have to do. It's not something I let linger in my mind. It's something where I'm just trying to make a job wherever it is, whether as a starter or a full-time guy."
Rangers right-hander Alexi Ogando, the team's projected fourth starter, allowed a run and two hits in three innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Ogando got himself in trouble in the seventh with an errant pickoff throw, putting runners on second and third with nobody out and Texas leading 3-2. But he escaped without allowing the tying run to score.
"He made some pitches," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He went upstairs with some fastballs, threw some sliders, then went to his changeup and it was pretty good."
Mitch Moreland had a run-scoring single and Ian Kinsler drove in the other run with a sacrifice fly for Texas.
NOTES: Rangers OF Mike Olt was a late scratch because of an impacted wisdom tooth. He was sent to a dentist and is day to day. ... Cubs 2B Darwin Barney originally was in the starting lineup even though he'd already been given the day off. "He asked and I put him in there anyway," Sveum said with a smile. Barney, who never made the trip to Surprise, was replaced by Edwin Maysonet. ... Sveum said SS Starlin Castro, sidelined with a sore left hamstring, could play Sunday or Monday. Utility man Brent Lillibridge (strained groin) could follow soon after. "Best way to put it is if it was the regular season, they'd be playing," Sveum said. ... Cubs RHP Jeff Samardzija went four innings in a "B" game, allowing five runs - four earned - on six hits with three strikeouts. Samardzjia, tabbed as the team's opening-day starter this week, also allowed a home run.


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When a new hop variety hits the market, it can take a year or two of trial and error before a brewer finally creates a beer that best expresses the new variety. But all that work pales in comparison to what goes into cultivating a new hop in the first place. Curious about the backstory of the new tropical-fruit-scented Citra hop, which is popping up in Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA and Widmer's Sunburn Ale, we asked Jason Perrault, VP of research and development at Select Botanicals, and a fourth-generation hops farmer and breeder in Yakima, Wash., to give us the dirt on how he and his company brought this intriguing hop variety to life.
Imbibe: How do you decide what you're looking for when you're creating a new type of hop?
Jason Perrault: We try to assess what the brewing industry's needs are, then we take a look at our selection of available parents and make crosses. Then we select the ones that meet the criteria we're looking for.
Imbibe: How long does it take to finally come up with a new variety worth putting out in the market?
JP: It's a very long process. In year one, we select the parents and make crosses. We'll collect seed from those crosses and plant them in Year Two. Then we'll look for any disease issues, like powdery mildew, and select for that. In years three, four and five, we'll plant the remaining plants in the field and evaluate them. Do they grow well? Do they have the yield we're looking for? What's the aroma like, what are the alpha levels? The beta levels? After those three years, we'll take all the data we've collected and make another round of selection. Those single plants we're interested in will be expanded in the field, from 10 plants to an acre or more. Then we evaluate for three more years (years six, seven and eight). Then we make another round of selection. At that point we've developed what we consider an elite line. We put them in another field test. We do some brewing tests so we know what they can contribute to beer. There will be a three-year evaluation period, but we'll be expanding plantings as we go if we see they have a lot of potential.
Imbibe: Do you test-brew all of the crosses?
JP: Testing every one isn't really feasible—in a given year we might have between 20,000 and 50,000 genotypes in seedlings alone. I work with a lot of homebrewers. Maybe I only have a few ounces that come from a single plant, but it's an interesting hop. We can hand it off to a homebrewer and say, 'Let me know what you think.' Plus, we usually get some free beer out of it.
Imbibe: Do brewers immediately jump on a new hop?
JP: It's very subjective, so it could be another five to 10 years before it has widespread commercial acceptance.
Imbibe: So that's a total of about 11 years of breeding and selecting to finally come up with a new hop variety. Is that how long it took for the Citra hop?
JP: The Citra hop resulted from a cross made by Gene Probasco back in 1990. It went through the typical selection process and was fully tested after 10 years. The balance of the time before it was released in 2008 went into the commercialization process—brew tests, marketing and other steps we take for the hop to gain commercial acceptance. In other cases, such as super alpha varieties, this process can happen much quicker since acceptance is based more upon quantitative versus qualitative factors. But the Citra has such a unique citrusy tropical fruit aroma it took longer. That aroma might not work for some brewers, but it can be really good for a brewer who wants to set himself apart.
Imbibe: Is that who you develop these varieties for? Craft brewers who want to stand out from the crowd? Or do you develop them for the big, corporate breweries too?
JP: We've increasingly put our efforts into brewing for the craft industry. The craft market is becoming a significant portion of the industry and it's growing. The macro market is in decline. It's a reflection of consumer demand and where the thriving interest is.
Imbibe: How is developing hops for the craft market different than for the big guys?
JP: With the international hop market, it's more about high alpha levels (the bittering components) and efficiency. For the craft industry, we're also looking for the uniqueness (in flavor and aroma) that we find in American craft beers. We'd like to see the variety of hops available reflect the variety in the beers themselves.
Imbibe: Even though it took almost 20 years to develop and release the Citra hop, will you keep working on bringing more unique hops to the market?
JP: Unique hops such as Simcoe and Citra have been met with such positive enthusiasm, and that's our motivation to be even more aggressive in our pursuit of the next breakout hop. The aromas and flavors from hops are so varied and complex, I think we've just barely scratched the surface.


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Evidence Released In Tavar Killing
26-Year-Old Charged With Murder Of 45-Year-Old Woman Last Year
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Investigators released photos, videos and documents Wednesday that are evidence in the killing of a Ponte Vedra Beach woman last year.
Joseph Roberts, 26, is charged with murder in the death of 45-year-old Brittany Tavar. He has pleaded not guilty.
The evidence photos contain images of Tavar's house, including a bloody mattress, and the wooded area off County Road 207 in St. Johns County where her remains were found. The photos showed plastic trash bags in the woods that held Tavar's remains, investigators said.
Others were surveillance images of Roberts in a Walmart in Oregon and other stores across the country, along with bank and credit card transactions in St. Augustine, South Carolina, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Investigators said Roberts killed Tavar in July after an argument. They said Roberts beat Tavar with a hammer and slit her throat, leaving her body in the woods.
They said Roberts was a transient who had been living with Tavar at her home.
Investigators said they found her body in October after Roberts confessed to killing Tavar.
According to the documents released, investigators said Roberts was "standing over her and she's dead. There's blood everywhere."
Roberts was arrested in Seattle on a shoplifting charge, and Tavar's remains were found days later.
Investigators tracked him for months all over the country, including stops in South Carolina and Wyoming, before he was found in the Northwest. Investigators said he had been driving Tavar's SUV.
Prosecutors are also looking into Roberts' background, perhaps getting a profile on him, according to the documents.
A woman Roberts used to work for and live with for a short time told investigators that Roberts told her he battled with depression and anger problems, according to the documents.
She went on to say, "It seemed as if he stopped bathing due to his poor personal hygiene," according to the documents. The woman spoke with Roberts about that in February 2010, several months before Tavar disappeared, and Roberts became very angry, almost threatening, according to the documents.
Copyright 2011 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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I don't know if Cinderella was redesigned recently but when it came on TV right after Christmas I noticed how cool the opening credits were. The ikat is amazeballs. And that is not a word I throw around lightly. I die over the colors and the fonts. My boys wouldn't watch it with me. Whatevs. Who knew that Cinderella was so design focused?!
So my family and I were out on a hike in Newport Coast one weekend and some other hikers called us over to have a look at these awesome fossils. A geologist that they encountered on a recent hike had shown them and said they were probably about 115 MILLION years old. WHAT! How crazy is that? And super cool that other hikers wanted to share their knowledge.
My mom gave my boys gift certificates to Ridemakerz at Downtown Disney for Christmas. If you have never heard of it, it is pretty much like a Build A Bear, but with cars. THE COOLEST. The boys had the best time. You pick out the car body that you want (most of them are Disney related), and then you choose tires and rims, etc. Although it ads on a bit more money, you HAVE to make it a remote control. The cars would still be cool if the boys were pushing them around but seeing them play for an hour at the park, literally shrieking with delight, was priceless. Once they add the remote control, you are taken to your own work station where they put their cars together. As with most things Disney, it is really well done. The entire experience was really fun.
It is good to have talented friends. Just take a look at this Pop Tart Cupcakes by Meringue Bake Shop! Um, yeah. So yummy. She gave me a few of these to try along with some maple bacon scones. For no reason whatsoever. Thanks Kristin!


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Welcome!Welcome to Kate Frey Sustainable and Organic Gardens.
- Annie's Annuals and Perennials
- Article in Ukiah Daily Journal Newspaper on our garden in Hopland
- Article on the Lyn Mar Gardens in the Press Democrat
- Bay Nature Magazine: Saying "Yes" to Habitat Gardens
- Garden Design Magazine Article written by Kate on Bee-Friendly Gardens- Spring 2016
- Kate Frey Creates Pollinator Garden for All Seasons- SF Gate
- KRCB Radio Interview on The Bee-friendly Garden Book
- Lynmar Estate Winery Blog 8/16
- Marin Independent Journal Feature on the Bee-Friendly Garden Book
- Pacific Horticulture: A California Vineyard Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. spring/summer 2009
- Pacific Horticulture: A Lively Feast. Summer 2013.
- Pacific Horticulture: An Organic Farm. Summer 2015
- Pacific Horticulture: Crevice Plantings: Gardens in Miniature. Spring/summer 2012
- Pacific Horticulture: The Melissa Garden; a sanctuary and season of honeybees. Summer/fall 2009.
- Press Democrat Newspaper Article on our garden
- The American Garden School
- The Press Democrat newspaper: March 12, 2016. A Place For Bees
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What's that you're doing, Mr. Lempke?
Mirko Lempke, 37
Maintenance technician
… has been with Lufthansa Technik for nine years, currently in Berlin
"I service the aircraft at Berlin-Tegel airport and am the go-to technician whenever there's a plane with an unforeseen problem on the apron. Normally, an aircraft should take off again within the hour – so when there are repairs to be made, every minute counts. I have just been sent to take a look at an Airbus A320 because the air conditioning system is overheating. I use my laptop to call up the maintenance manual, a kind of electronic handbook, and run through the section on locating and rectifying faults. After taking a couple of measurements inside the plane, I know the unit itself is okay. The problem is a sensor that's transmitting incorrect data, so I'm replacing it. Most repairs – on air conditioning systems, seats, coffee makers – is routine and soon completed, so that the aircraft can generally take off on time. Safety is always our top priority, however, so we always arrange to ground the plane if serious defects are found. Fortunately, that only happens very rarely."