Apple Crop Rebounds

The United States Department of Agriculture predicts the apple crop across the country will be nearly 20 million bushels above average.

New York is the second largest apple-producing state behind Washington. This year's New York harvest should be more than double the nearly 16 million bushels the state produced last season.

"The New York apple crop statewide this year is just completely opposite of last year. We had a great bloom, great return bud, very good pollination weather and then the growing conditions since that point forward have been excellent, just excellent," said Jim Allen, New York Apple Association.

Last spring's deep freeze stunted New York's crop, particularly in growing regions along Lake Ontario.

At Orbaker Farm in Williamson, Wayne County, the 2012 harvest was about 50 percent less than average. Gary Orbaker expects a yield anywhere from 90 to 100 percent this fall.

"We're on the road to recovery, but it's not something that's going to be one year, it's going to be several years to get caught up on this. That's just the nature of the business that we're in," Orbaker said.

Fruit farmers like Orbaker were able to do okay last year. That's because the smaller yield forced the price of fruit to increase.

"This year, we got a big volume crop, prices probably won't be quite as strong but you'll make up some of that with the volume," said Allen.

Last year's freeze meant there wasn't a lot of work for those who harvest the crops. Now that volume has rebounded, there's a concern over a shortage of workers.

Orbaker says workers didn't want to come to New York last year because they knew there wasn't an abundant crop. Many of of them have returned, but it appears there may not be enough as they are also needed in other states.

"Pennsylvania has apples, Michigan has apples, Massachusetts and all other surrounding states all up the east coast, Virginia and the Carolinas. They'll pick maybe a few apples there but they want to come to New York State, they'll work their way up but they could stay in Pennsylvania and not come to New York also. There's plenty of opportunity for them to go, last year they didn't have that opportunity," Orbaker said.

Despite that concern, apple growers say this year's crop will not only be bountiful, but the fruit will be large, sweet and juicy.

Source: http://batavia.ynn.com/content/news/695535/apple-crop-rebounds

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SIMPLE SOLUTIONS Private Sector Innovation Helps Africa's Kids Learn

Many children grumble about having to go to school, but 95 million children in Africa truly have something to complain about:?They don?t have desks in their classrooms.

Millions don't even have chairs, leaving them to sit on the floor or outside, trying to write on paper or notebooks balanced on their legs or on the ground. It makes studying uncomfortable at best, and painful at worst.

"Sometimes you see them going outside to do an experiment," said Constance Moru, a senior teacher in South Africa. "They need to observe something and write, and they need to write on their legs."

In an example of where the private sector is stepping up to fill a gap where government can?t or won?t provide, South African public relations executive Madelain Roscher has started producing book bags with hard flaps that double as portable writing tables.?The student sits on the floor, places the bag down in front of him or her, and opens it up, with the flap then sitting across the legs or flaps to become a writing surface.?Roscher is getting corporations she works with like mining company Anglo-American to finance the bags, which cost $10 each to manufacture.

?We decided instead of just publicizing what everyone else is doing, we needed to come up with our own initiative to actually address the struggles children in South Africa face with regards to education,? Roscher told Fox News.

Her DeskBags are made of recycled vinyl from advertising billboards.?The material is not biodegradable, so the project puts the discarded boards to good use, finding a home for something that would otherwise be tough to get rid of.?This also creates jobs for the seamstresses who stitch them up.

Each bag is different, in terms of color and decoration.

?Very often it?s the only ?new? item that a child would receive in these rural areas," Roscher said. "If they do have school shoes, they are hand-me-down school shoes.?If they do have school clothes, they don?t completely match or they?re a little big because it?s a hand-me-down item.?

Many of the DeskBag recipients live in shanties without tables or desks as well, so the bags are useful in the evenings for homework. They are a step toward tackling some of the hurdles that exist in South Africa, where 78 percent of state schools lack computers or libraries.

In a quarter of those schools, there isn?t even running water.

Roscher is keen to see the problems facing education tackled.

?I really believe that education is the vaccine to poverty in South Africa.?Lots of people complain about the crime situation in South Africa and I honestly believe that only through education will we be able to sort that out.?

Currently, DeskBags is running a campaign to supplement the donations of corporate sponsors, with an eye toward making 2,000 of the bags per month.?If you buy a bag, they will donate one to a child in South Africa.?It costs about $26.

For more information, check out www.deskbags.co.za

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/06/simple-innovation-helps-africa-schoolkids-learn/

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{.....}Yeah, well . . . no. That?s not right. As a lawyer for the Obama administration wrote in an analysis presented to the president:

Quote:The text, structure and history of the Constitution establish that the Founders entrusted the President with the primary responsibility, and therefore the power, to use military force in situations of emergency?. These powers give the President broad constitutional authority to use military force in response to threats to the national security and foreign policy of the United States?. By their terms, these provisions vest full control of the military forces of the United States in the President. The power of the President is at its zenith under the Constitution when the President is directing military operations of the armed forces, because the power of Commander in Chief is assigned solely to the President.

I know what some of you are going to say?in fact, you may have already started typing out the comment: Of course someone in the Obama administration wrote that! They?re just creating a justification to let Obama do whatever he wants! Tyranny! Thug! Authoritarian despot!

To which I will reply: I lied. No one in the Obama White House?at least as far as I know?has ever written such a thing. But those words were presented to a president?and he was named George W. Bush. This was an analysis prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel of the Justice Department?the primary adviser for all legal issues in the Executive Branch?about the boundaries of presidential authority in situations calling for military action. Point is, before suggesting a Democrat could be impeached for dispatching the military without congressional approval, perhaps it?s a good idea to review the standards that Republicans think apply when they are in power.

The analysis for George W.?from September 25, 2001?is clear not only about the fact that a president can order a military attack without congressional approval but about the fact that it wouldn?t even be unusual to do so. For example, did you know that, by 2001, presidents have commenced 125 military actions without getting an O.K. from Congress? And the first president to do so was a fellow named George Washington? {.....}

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Egypt's Morsi to be tried for inciting violence

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's top prosecutor referred Sunday ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial on charges of inciting the killing of opponents protesting outside his palace while he was in office, the state news agency said.

The military ousted Morsi on July 3 after millions took to the street demanding he step down. He's been held incommunicado since. Despite other accusations by prosecutors, Sunday's decision is his first referral to trial. No date was announced for the trial.

Morsi will be tried, along with 14 members of his Muslim Brotherhood, in a criminal court for allegedly committing acts of violence, and inciting the killing of at least 10 people.

The case dates back to one of the deadliest bouts of violence during Morsi's one year in office. At least 100,000 protesters gathered outside his presidential palace on Dec. 4, protesting a decree he issued to protect his decisions from judicial oversight and a highly disputed draft constitution that was hurriedly adopted in the Islamist-dominated parliament.

Protesters demanded he call off a referendum scheduled days later. The next day, Islamist groups and supporters of Morsi attacked protesters who camped out there, sparking deadly street battles that left at least 10 dead and sending chills among Morsi' opponents that he had relied on organized mobs to defend his palace.

The state news agency said an investigation by prosecutors revealed that Morsi had asked the Republican Guard and the minister in charge of police to break up the sit-in, but they feared a bloody confrontation and declined. The agency said Morsi' aides then summoned their supporters to forcefully break up the sit-in.

Officials from the Brotherhood and its political party deny using violence to quell critics and said supporters were defending the palace. They accused opponents of starting the battles and forcing away police that had been guarding the area.

Those referred to trial with Morsi include the deputy leader of the Brotherhood's political party, Essam el-Erian, currently in hiding. They also include leading Brotherhood member Mohammed el-Beltagy, arrested this week, as well as leading pro-Brotherhood youth leaders who were video-taped during the street clashes on the front lines.

Since Morsi' ouster, authorities have waged an intensive security crackdown on members of his group. The crackdown followed a violent breakup of a sit-in held by Morsi supporters for weeks demanding his reinstatement that left hundreds killed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-morsi-tried-inciting-violence-194331140.html

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