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T-fal Easy Care 10" x 15" Non-stick Roaster with removable rack.
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All non-stick coatings contain PTFE, the abbreviation for polytetrafluorethylene, a plastic polymer. It is a slippery ingredient, made up of molecules of tetra fluoro ethylene that only contain carbon and fluorine. The non-stick coating is not attacked by acid or alkaline bases and remains stable on cooking. The French, European and American health authorities have approved the use of PTFE non-stick coatings for kitchenware. In fact, it is a substance that does not produce any chemical reaction when it comes into contact with food, water or cleaning products. In the event of absorption, it is completely harmless for the body. It passes through the body without being absorbed, like any other fibre. In fact, the non-stick coating is so safe from a health point of view that it is often used by the medical profession to coat pacemakers and tiny tubes replacing arteries.
NO. Cookware items with Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating do not contain PFOA. This is regularly checked by independent laboratories, which verify the absence of PFOA in the finished products. Since 2003, tests have regularly been performed by independent laboratories in many countries (INERIS in France, ASAHI GLASS FLUOROPOLYMERS in the UK, FABES Labs in Germany, MB Labs in Canada and SGS in China). These tests have systematically proven the absence of PFOA in products with Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating.
It is very rare for the non-stick coating to wear off under normal household use. Proper use and care will allow for better performance over time. Most cases of non-stick wearing have evidence of overheating, scratching and/or abrasive cleaning. Excessive overheating can cause the pan's surface to dry up and flake. This type of damage is not covered by the guarantee. If you occasionally use high heat or have over-heated your pans, we recommend that you season your cookware more often.
The SEB Group, as part of its commitment to Quality, has included "Health and Environment" Eco information on its non-stick Tefal/T-fal products. This commitment guarantees the absence of PFOA, lead and cadmium in Tefal/T-fal coatings and the guarantees that our non-stick products are harmless for the environment and the consumer. This Eco information is based on the regular analysis conducted by independent laboratories in many countries (INERIS in France, ASAHI GLASS FLUOROPOLYMERS in UK, FABES Labs in Germany, MB Labs in Canada, SGS in China) (link to the lab sites).This commitment can be found on the website of the Tefal/T-fal brand, as well as the packaging of cookware with non-stick Tefal/T-fal coating.
There is, at the moment, much confusion about non-stick coatings, which are sometimes related to PFOA. However, Tefal/T-fal non-stick coatings are made of PTFE, the abbreviation of the scientific name Polytetrafluoroethylene, and this material is recognised as harmless by public health agencies in Europe and in the United States. PFOA and PTFE are two completely different elements. In summary, cookware with Tefal/T-fal non-stick coatings are made of PTFE and do not contain PFOA. Furthermore, for more than 20 years, Tefal/T-fal made a commitment not to use lead or cadmium in the whole of its cookware range in order to serve as a guarantee of the harmlessness of all its products. You will find this commitment through Eco information set up by the Group SEB.
PFOA is the standard English abbreviation of perfluorooctanoic acid. PFOA is used in the manufacturing process of many products such as non-stick coatings, compatible microwave packaging, some textiles, stain resistant carpet, pizza boxes which do not absorb fat, etc. On its finished products, Tefal/T-fal's commitment is to guarantee the absence of PFOA, lead and cadmium and to guarantee that its products with Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating are harmless for the environment and the consumer.
There is neither cadmium nor lead in the non-stick coatings and enamel of our Tefal/T-fal cookware. We noticed that these harmful substances can leak out when the product is washed in the dishwasher, then re-settle on all the utensils in the dishwasher. Using these utensils for eating or cooking causes you to ingest cadmium or lead, which then stays in the body. For that reason, all of our cookware has been designed and manufactured without lead or cadmium for more than 20 years. You can find this Eco information on the packaging of all our products with Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating.
Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating is a technical coating made from a polymer name polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). It is PTFE which gives the cookware the non-stick properties. Public health authorities in Europe and in the USA demonstrated that PTFE is an inert substance which does not chemically react with food, water or domestic cleaning products. It is totally harmless in case of ingestion. These Public health authorities confirmed the harmlessness of PTFE non-stick coatings in cookware. In fact, PTFE is so safe that it is frequently used in the medical profession to coat pacemakers and the tiny tubes made to replace arteries. It is also used for surgical procedures for the benefit of patients with severe kidney disease, and some joint prostheses are also partly coated with PTFE.
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AS A SENIOR IN 2011: Named CCAA Newcomer of the Year and NCAA All-Tournament Team... Led the Tritons with 11 goals, 27 points and four game-winners in her only season with the women's soccer team... Started the final 17 games of the season after appearing as a substitute in the squad's first eight matches... Scored two goals in the NCAA Tournament, both game-winners in 1-0 victories over St. Edward's and St. Rose on November 20 and December 2, respectively... 24 of her 51 shots were on frame, a .471 clip... Registered three goals, six points and six shots in her first two collegiate matches of her career on September 2 and 4.
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AS A SENIOR IN 2009-10: Earned a spot on the All-CCAA Second Team after she finished second on the team in scoring (12.4), assists (2.27), steals (1.97) and third in rebounding (4.9)... Poured in a career-best 25 points in her final basketball game at the collegiate level, a season-ending 76-72 loss to Humboldt State in the NCAA West Regional.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2008-09: One of four Triton players to start all 32 games... Ranked fourth on the team averaging 9.8 points per game... Was one of UCSD's top three-point shooters, hitting 32 of her 92 attempts, 34.8 percent... Dished out 73 assists, the third-highest total on the squad... Concluded the school year on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll at the Silver Level (includes GPAs from 3.300 to 3.499).
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2007-08: Made a total of 34 appearances off the bench during her second season with UCSD... Averaged 2.7 points and 1.2 rebounds in 10.0 minutes per game... Led the team in three-point shooting at 54 percent (7-13)... Finished the year on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll at the Silver Level.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2006-07: Appeared in eight games for the Tritons, playing a total of 28 minutes... Scored six points and grabbed five rebounds on the year... Earned a spot on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll at the Silver Level.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2006 graduate of Avon Lake High School in Avon Lake, Ohio... Lettered in soccer, basketball, and track and field... Played basketball for coach Amy Manco... Earned all-district honors twice in soccer and once apiece in basketball and track... Was a state qualifier in track and had personal bests of 12.5 seconds in the 100 meters and 58.8 seconds in the 400 meters... Scored 17 goals and had 12 assists as a senior in soccer... Was her class representative on the student council and was the Spanish Club president.
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I need to compute the Drazin inverse $A^D$ of a singular M-matrix $A$, i.e., a matrix in the form $A=\lambda I -P$, where $P$ has nonnegative entries and $\lambda$ is the spectral radius (Perron value) of $P$. I already know the right and left eigenvectors $v$ and $u^T$ of $P$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$ (that is, the vectors in the left and right kernel of $A$).
1) Is there a Matlab subroutine around for computing Drazin inverses? I can't seem to find any, so I had to create my own (which is probably very inefficient)
2) Is there a way to exploit the knowledge of the two nullspaces (and the fact that they are 1-dimensional) to speed up this computation?


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VANCOUVER - Former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong says new allegations accusing him of physically abusing a former spouse and sexually assaulting another are "completely unfounded."
Furlong issued a statement Tuesday through the Twentyten Group, the consulting company he works with, saying he will respond in court to the latest claims made by reporter Laura Robinson.
"While John is confident he will ultimately be vindicated by the court, his primary concern right now is the irreparable harm being caused to his family by this unfounded attack on his character and reputation," the statement said.
Furlong is suing Robinson for defamation after she wrote a story for the Georgia Straight newspaper that included allegations from former students who claimed he was physically and verbally abusive while he was a volunteer teacher in British Columbia in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Robinson filed her statement of defence on Monday and included the new claims.
None of the accusations has been tested in court and Furlong said in his statement Tuesday that his legal team will be filing a formal response in court in the next few days.
The statement called Robinson's statement of claim an unfounded attack on his character and reputation.
After Robinson's story appeared in the newspaper in the fall, Furlong sued, insisting in a statement of claim filed last November that the story was false and accused Robinson of waging a personal campaign to discredit him. He held a news conference the day the article was published denying he had ever abused any students.
In her statement of defence, Robinson stands by her story, insisting she was diligent in verifying the allegations and attempted to contact Furlong to seek his side of the story. She also argues the article amounts to fair comment and is protected by a relatively new legal defence known as responsible communication.
But the 22-page statement of defence also adds to the allegations that have haunted Furlong's reputation since the story was first published.
Robinson's statement of defence says that since her article was published, she was contacted by a former common law spouse of Furlong's, with whom Furlong lived with in Nanaimo, B.C., from 1979 until 1982.
The statement of defence says the woman alleged Furlong "felt that he had a licence to have sex on demand, which resulted in her being forced to have non-consensual sexual relations on many occasions." The woman is not named.
"The plaintiff had a habit of exposing himself to her, which caused her to feel sexually debased," says Robinson's statement of defence.
"The plaintiff raped her many times. On one particular occasion, he forcibly raped her while she was taking a shower, without saying a word. He continued to force himself on her, even though she was hitting him and trying to get him off her."
The statement of defence also says Furlong was controlling and routinely made derogatory, belittling comments, on one occasion threatening to throw her cat off a balcony.
Robinson's statement of defence also alleges Furlong physically and emotionally abused another woman, his former wife Margaret Furlong, when they were living in Prince George, B.C., and working at the same school between 1970 and 1972.
The statement of defence says on one evening, students outside their living quarters could hear John Furlong yelling at his wife inside. The next morning, "Margaret Furlong had a huge bruise on her face and her eyes were red and swollen," the statement of defence says.
On another occasion, the statement of defence says, students heard Furlong slap his wife.
The allegations are included in Robinson's response to defend emails she sent staff at Own the Podium, an athlete development agency, of which Furlong is chairman. The emails, sent in November of last year, suggested she had received new allegations and described Furlong as "violent and a racist."
Robinson's statement of defence says she wrote the emails while attempting to seek comment about two additional stories, which have yet to be published.
She also denies Furlong's claim that she is waging a personal vendetta against him, insisting that she repeatedly sought his side of the story but was either shouted at by Furlong or given a blanket denial by his lawyer.
The Georgia Straight newspaper, its editor and its publisher filed their own statement of defence earlier this month, denying the story was defamatory and, like Robinson, arguing the article is protected as fair comment and responsible communication.
Most of the allegations in the Georgia Straight article involved Furlong's time as a volunteer teacher at Immaculata Catholic School in Burns Lake. Immaculata was a religious school run by the Oblates, a missionary order, but it was not an Indian residential school. Students, including non-natives, attended by day.
After teaching and coaching at Immaculata for 14 months, Furlong moved to another religious school in Prince George.
Furlong said he never hid or purposely omitted speaking about his time teaching in Burns Lake or Prince George. He said it didn't appear in his biography because it wasn't related to the Olympics and because it was brief and uneventful.
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I was so excited when I found out that 7/11 sells these Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie ice cream by Selecta. Just bought a small tub today.
Chocolate chip cookie dough is my favorite ice cream flavor (the Ben and Jerry's kind to be exact). I was expecting this to have cookie dough bits, unfortunately there wasn't enough! So I decided to make more cookie dough for my ice cream.
Note: Don't ever eat raw cookie dough with eggs in it. There could be Salmonella.
Found this eggless recipe somewhere on allrecipes.com
This recipe is enough for the whole tub that I bought.
- 6 tbsp white sugar
- 5 tbsp brown sugar
- 4 tbsp butter softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 cup flour
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Combine everything and wrap the dough with cling wrap then let it chill in the freezer for about 2 hours. After that, you can scoop and roll them into small balls, and serve them with your ice cream.
Easy peasy, right?
Now I can enjoy my ice cream while I chew on these yummy cookie dough balls. :)


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"Walking down the memory lane, I realize I definitely made the right decision to do my degree here. The bachelors of Business Administration programme offered at this institution allows me to be a competent candidate in my field of work"..
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Teaching at Nirwana Education Group is nothing less than a mesmerizing experience, students here have the passion to learn to strive hard, to make it worth the while. They aren't the rote learners from 90's they are the catalyst of change.
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"Today, as a criminal lawyer, I pay my regards and gratitude to my lecturers at Nirwana college, words can't express my emotions as they were my mentors, they taught me in and outside of the institution to ensure I was successful candidate upon my graduation.


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We hold multiple lines of fashionable clothing to suit any style possible, at the lowest rates and fastest shipping options.
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Welcome to the "Cosmo Catch Up," Cosmopolitan.com's daily news show. Today's topic: supermodels! Watch the video to find out why Chrissy Teigen is kind of a badass and what the most amazing grandma on the Internet is doing (twerking — it has to be seen to be believed).
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Our weekly session for children, held at Newington Green Primary School during our Sunday Gathering.
The children begin their time in the service. After 'a Time for All Ages' (a short story that introduces the theme of the day), the children and accompanying adults adjourn to a bright, comfortable upstairs room. There, the group divides into 2-6 year olds and 7-12 year olds. For under 2's, we provide a creche.
Each week the group explores different themes that help the children make ethical decisions and discover their own way through life. These themes are approached through arts & crafts projects, stories, and music & movement. Sessions are non-dogmatic and encourage the children to think for themselves.
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Despite me having a blog on Blogger already, my site of choice having a blog is an idea made of win. I won't post rants like I do on Brit Blogging Baloney but I will post progress on, things, with this nifty thing. More posts coming soon. Oh yeah, want to know my reaction to this feature?
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The Ionic order column originated in the mid-6th century BC in Ionia. The Ionic order column was being practiced in mainland Greece in the 5th century BC. The first of the great Ionic temples was the Temple of Hera on Samos, built about 570 BC–560 BC by the architect Rhoikos. It stood for only a decade before it was leveled by an earthquake. It was in the great sanctuary of the goddess: it could scarcely have been in a more prominent location for its brief lifetime. A longer-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Annual Notice to Students
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Annually, Northwest Technical Institute informs students of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (FERPA). This act, with which the School intends to fully comply, affords eligible students certain rights with respect to their educational records. (An "eligible student" under FERPA is a student who is 18 years of age or older or who attends a postsecondary institution.) These rights include:
1. The right to inspect and review the student's education record within 45 days of the day the School receives a written request for access.
A student should submit a written request to the Registrar that identifies the record(s) the student wishes to inspect. The Registrar will make arrangements for access and notify the student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. If the records are not maintained by the Registrar, the student shall be advised of the correct official to whom the request should be addressed.
2. The right to request an amendment to the student's education record when the student believes the record is inaccurate, misleading or otherwise in violation of the student's privacy rights under FERPA.
A student who wishes to ask the School to amend a record should write the school official responsible for the record, clearly identify the part of the record the student wants changed and specify why it should be changed.
If the School decides not to amend the record as requested, the School will notify the student in writing of the decision and the student's right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the student when notified of the right to a hearing. Note: FERPA is not intended to provide a process to be used to question substantive judgments that are correctly recorded. The rights of challenge are not intended to allow students to contest, for example, a grade in a course because they feel a higher grade, or withdrawal, should have been assigned. FERPA is intended to ensure the factual and accurate nature of the information in students' education records and students' rights to verify that information.
3. The right to have some control over the disclosure of information from education records.
The School discloses educational records without a student's prior written consent under the FERPA exception for disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an educational record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibilities for the School. Examples of people who may have access, depending on their official duties, and only within the context of those duties, include:
The School may also make the following disclosures without student consent:
Release of Information
Students who wish to file a standing request to release information to a particular person or agency may submit the Consent to Release of Academic Information Form to the Student Record's Office (2nd floor Student Center). Students must show their photo ID when submitting this consent. If a third party is returning this form on behalf of the student, the form must include the student's signature and be accompanied by a photocopy of the student's photo ID. This authorization will allow the designated person or agency access to the information identified on the form and will remain in effect until the date stated on the form.
Directory Information
Items defined by the School as "directory information" may be released without a student's written consent. FERPA permits the School to limit the disclosure of and to use its discretion when choosing whether or not to release directory information to specific parties, for specific purposes, or both. The School designates the following as directory information:
4. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the School to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the office that administers FERPA is:
Family Policy Compliance Office
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Chasing UFOs DVD-R
Chasing UFOs DVD-R
Chasing UFOs DVD-R
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A team of investigators sets out to uncover the truth about UFOs. Paranormal researcher Erin Ryder, Geologist Ben McGee and UFOlogist James Fox are on a mission for the truth. Risking it all, this team investigates and dissects some of the most mysterious sightings on the planet.
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- 2 discs; 360 minutes
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- © 2012
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Two-goal Romelu Lukaku fired Belgium's golden generation into next year's World Cup finals with Germany and Switzerland also sealing their tickets to the Brazil extravaganza on Friday.
Belgium, boasting one of the most talented squads in Europe, will return to the global showpiece for the first time since 2002 after a 2-1 win in Croatia guaranteed top spot in Group A.
Perennial finalists Germany's 3-0 home win over Ireland, with goals from Sami Khedira, Andre Schuerrle and Mesut Ozil, put them through from Group C while the Swiss won 2-1 in Albania to wrap up Group E.
The Netherlands, with Robin van Persie hitting a hat-trick in an 8-1 demolition of Hungary, and Italy had sealed their passage to the finals before Friday's penultimate round of qualifiers.
Holders Spain moved to the brink of qualification from Group I after captain Xavi and substitute Alvaro Negredo struck in a labored 2-1 win at home to Belarus.
Group F leaders Russia, with a 4-0 victory in Luxembourg, and England, who beat Montenegro 4-1 at Wembley, remain in pole position in Group H ahead of Tuesday's final round of matches.
Victory on a wet night in Zagreb prompted joyous celebrations from the Belgian players in front of a sizeable and vociferous contingent of travelling fans.
Lukaku broke the deadlock from Steven Defour's defense-splitting pass and doubled the lead seven minutes before the break, racing away from the halfway line before lifting the ball over prone goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa and walking the ball into the net.
Sweden captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic struck a late winner to earn a 2-1 victory over Austria that secured second place behind the Germans and one of the playoff spots.
The eight best group runners-up advance to a two-legged playoff next month to fill the last four European places.
Goals from Xherdan Shaqiri and Michael Lang clinched Switzerland's passage with their successful campaign built around a rock-solid defense that has conceded just six goals.
Iceland or Slovenia will finish second in the group.
Iceland, 2-0 winners over Cyprus on Friday, will secure that spot if they can win in Norway on Tuesday while Slovenia, who face the Swiss in Berne, stayed in contention thanks to Milivoje Novakovic's hat-trick in a 3-0 drubbing of the Norwegians.
Spain's win in Palma de Mallorca put them three points clear of France with one match to play and a point against Georgia in Albacete on Tuesday will secure a berth in Brazil.
Russia need a point from their final game away at Azerbaijan to qualify after brushing aside Luxembourg to move three points ahead of Portugal.
A late blunder from goalkeeper Rui Patricio gifted Israel a 1-1 draw in Lisbon to leave Portugal, who led through a first half goal from Ricardo Costa, staring at the playoffs.
England will win their section with victory at home to Poland. Roy Hodgson's side had to remain patient to overcome stubborn Montenegro.
Wayne Rooney eased England's nerves when he struck soon after the restart and a Branko Boskovic own-goal, a stunning third on his debut by Andros Townsend, and an injury-time penalty from Daniel Sturridge secured victory.
Ukraine remain one point behind and must hope England slip up against the Poles. Andriy Yarmolenko scored the only goal as the Ukrainians edged Poland 1-0 in Kharkiv which all but ended the Euro 2012 co-hosts' hopes of progressing.


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I have a VPS. I might be able to encrypt my partition but I havent tried. My VPS company I believe can reset my root password although the only SSH key I see is my own. With all my data I have it encrypted with
encfs. Just in case a hacker gets some kind of access,
encfs can only mount the drive if my password is correct (SSH keys won't mount it, resetting root password will not mount as the new password is an incorrect passphrase)
My question is can my VPS host break into my box? Physically the data is encrypted. I believe root can be changed without resetting the box? If so then they can have access to my already mounted filesystem? If another user with no permission is logged in can the user do something to access the ram and dump sensitive data? can the VPS host easily read the contents of my RAM?
Note: This is hypothetical. I'm thinking about if I have big clients I want to know how much security I can promise and this popped into mind. I'd rather not host a box at home nor have the pipes to support it.


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Australian Floral Pendant
Use this unique shape in your next necklace creation! Pendant features original artwork by me.
What is Faux Tin? I created these to mimic recycled tins but they are actually images on stainless steel sheet metal. The image is permanently part of the metal, it will not scratch off and is water-resistant. The metal is light-weight but incredibly strong. All edges are satiny smooth.
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text: ConditionsHealth Supplements To Ease Aging By Lindsay Moore August 1, 2002 0 comment 0 Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Google + Pinterest Print Supplements won't stop the aging process, but they can help you avoid some of the biggest problems associated with aging. Recommendation RationaleAdvertisement Notes Calcium 1,000-1,200 mg/day Calcium is crucial for strong bones and teeth. If intake is too low, our bodies will take it from our bones. Too much calcium can interfere with the uptake of other nutrients, such as magnesium and zinc. Chondroitin 400 mg 3x/day This is an important antiosteoarthritis projoint supplement that belongs to a family of complex sugars called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Chondroitin for supplements is commonly derived from bovine and shark cartilage. Coenzyme Q10 (Co-Q10) 50-200 mg/day This vitaminlike substance may help treat obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Best food sources for Co-Q10 include organ meats, spinach, sardines and tuna. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) 1-2 g/day Researchers suggest that CLA has many possible benefits related to atherosclerosis, body composition (improving lean body mass and decreasing body fat), cancer and glucose control (Type II diabetes). CLA is found in beef, eggs, milk fat, poultry and yogurt. Glucosamine 500 mg 3x/day A critical amino monosaccharide that may fend off—or help you cope with—osteoarthritis, it can be used alone or in conjunction with chondroitin sulfate. Unless you like to chew the shells of lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans, you probably need to supplement. Lutein 250 mcg20 mg/day Green leafy veggies are good sources of this vision-boosting relative of beta-carotene that protects against age-related macular degeneration. Other factors aside, egg yolks are also great sources of this carotenoid. Each yolk has 290 mcg of lutein. Vitamin C 2002,000 mg/day (to bowel tolerance) Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant necessary for healthy bones and tissues. Our bodies cannot synthesize vitamin C; therefore, we must get it from foods or supplements. Best food sources include brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, citrus fruits and juices, kale, peppers (sweet green, sweet red, hot red, and green chilies), spinach and strawberries. Vitamin E 400800 IU/day Vitamin E heals the skin and helps slow degenerative aging processes. Because vitamin E acts as a natural anticoagulant, avoid it if you are taking prescription anticoagulants, such as warfarin. Some experts suggest suspending supplementation one month before a surgical procedure and resuming supplementation upon recovery. Best food sources are unrefined vegetable oils (wheat germ, safflower, sunflower, canola and olive oils). Sources: The National Academics Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Board, www.iom.edu; PDR for Nutritional Supplements (Medical Economics Co., 2001). 0 comment 0 Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Google + Pinterest Print Lindsay Moore Related Posts Too much salt: The top health risks August 20, 2010 Hey guys! April 1, 2008 10 foods to recharge your libido February 1, 2001 Time to end the pasta guilt April 3, 2018 Cold-Tamer Tea February 1, 2003 Is Certified Naturally Grown an alternative to USDA... September 13, 2012 What causes premature aging? September 1, 2010 The gluten question October 1, 2007 Bare Essentials July 1, 2007 Stay centered October 1, 2008


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SANE fun walk/run supports exam services for sexual assault victims
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In honor of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the St. Anthony Summit Medical Center Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) team is hosting its fifth annual fun walk/run on April 27.
Funds raised for the event will go to support the SANE program, which provides specialized care to sexual assault victims. The program is supported by funds from grants and fundraising such as the walk/run.
SANE has been around since August of 2010, the result of collaboration between Advocates for Victims of Assault, the District Attorney's office and the St. Anthony Summit Medical Center. Trained and certified nurses are on call 24/7 to respond to cases of sexual assault, providing not only specialized care but assisting in evidence gathering should the need for prosecution be necessary.
"We feel very fortunate that as a rural community we have the SANE program," said Amy Jackson, director of Advocates for Victims of Assault. "A lot of rural communities don't have the resources or the manpower to staff a program that requires the 24-hour ability of the SANE nurses."
The walk/run will take place in Frisco, starting behind the hospital on the recpath at 11 a.m. for runners and 11:15 a.m. for walkers. This year the event will also be timed for those wishing to record their speed. The 5K will loop from the hospital down into the town of Frisco and then back again. There will be a water station, provided by Advocates for Victims of Assault, as well as a light lunch afterward at the hospital cafe. Dogs and strollers are welcome. Those interested will have the opportunity to tour the SANE exam room at the Emergency Department open house and learn more about the program.
In addition to raising money, the event aims to raise awareness and educate about sexual violence. Statistical information will be found at each marker throughout the race to spread information.
"It's a great event and it's super fun," Jackson said.
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Wasting Homeland Security Dollars
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In a first of its kind, a report from The Heritage Foundation provides a fresh look at the billions of dollars in homeland security grants handed out to state and local governments. The report details the federal, state, and local spending from 2000 to 2007 in 26 states, the District of Columbia, and 85 cities and counties that make up Urban Areas Security Initiative jurisdictions.
Among the key findings:–States and localities spend a lot more every year then the federal government. The billions of federal dollars distributed have had a marginal impact on national preparedness.
States and localities spend significantly more money, have substantially more people, and are in a much better position from which to act.
The federal intrusion into what is traditionally and rightly the responsibility of state and local governments undermines the principle of Federalism laid out in the Constitution, while doing little to keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks or natural disasters. (Heritage)


text: A feel-good, heart-warming story about how music can inspire you. Song for Marion stars Terence Stamp as Arthur, a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton) sees something special in the reluctant Arthur and refuses to give up on him. As she coaxes him out of his shell, Arthur realizes that it is never too late to change.


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Colorado Symphony Orchestra plays in the Fourth of July
There's something truly special about the communal Independence Day celebration that has evolved in Civic Center. It's one of those rare times everyone in the city comes together. Families, kids on dates, the fine arts crowd.
This year, the event takes place on Tuesday, July 3 and the main attraction is the CSO, playing for free for the city it calls home. The CSO sets up a temporary band shell and mixes it up, a little classical, a little pop, a lot of patriotic.
This year, resident Conductor Scott O'Neil leads the way with Aaron Copland's "Hoe Down," from "Rodeo", selections from Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" and Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." Hey, it's the Fourth of July.
Local rocker Jake Schroeder, from Opie Gone Bad, joins in on stage. Start time is 8 p.m.
It's a great, no-cost, night on the town. Unless it rains. In which case, you can catch the whole thing on TV. KTVD-TV, Channel 20 will broadcast an hour of (commercial-free1) highlights at 8 p.m. July 4.


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Here, you will find yourself on an art journey that will hopefully inspire you spiritually. Feel free to take a look around at the artwork of Stacy Lee. Stacy shares her Christian journey through art in hopes that it will bring hope, healing, and beauty to the masses. She can only create by the gifts and talents that God has given her so all the Glory goes to Him! Have fun on your visit and enjoy your stay!
Stacy Lee is a self-taught Christian digital artist. She mostly compiles her work together in Photoshop. She loves to explore the beauty of God and reveal it in her creations. Life is often a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Stacy explores these highs and lows in the art and hope it reaches out and touches her fans. Each artwork is an experience in and of itself and has an experience behind it. Her faith shines through each piece as the solid foundation in her life. She recognizes that all life comes out and through her Savior, Jesus Christ. She is happy to share her faith with anyone who asks. Please see the contact page to talk to Stacy.


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Good news! I've been asked back to guest at Pop Candy again for the week of Nov.26! For convenience's (and self-promotion's) sake, here's a post grouping all my posts for last week into one big turbo-post.
First-Person Videos of Discontinued Amuesment Park Rides from Disney World, Cedar Point and More!
Interview with the Actors of the Audiobook of Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL!
John Hodgman Talks His Love of Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes!
Jeffrey Brown Talks About His Favorite Weird Children's Book, SMALL IN THE SADDLE!
Guest Logo by SAGA's Fiona Staples!
Crazy Halloween Specials You Can View Online!
JG Quintel of Cartoon Network's REGULAR SHOW names his favorite 1980s pop culture!
SUPERNATURAL's Writers Reveal What Scares Them!
OWLY Guest Logo by Andy Runton!
UNBORED and SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS Author Joshua Glenn Talks About MATTHEW LOONEY and Gahan Wilson!
Help Out Indy Bookstore Books of Wonder!
Interview with the Head of The Movie Spoiler and Moviepooper!
Interview with He-Man Contest Winner Daniel Benedict on Castle Grayskullman!
ADVENTURE TIME Creator Pendleton Ward Talks the 1980s!
Last Guest Logo: ALL-NEW Bone Illustration by Jeff Smith!
The Carolina Theatre's Jim Carl Shares His Amazing Movie Ad Collection!
Shout! Factory's Brian Blum Talks Making DVD Sets!
SIMPSONS Writer David Mirkin Talks About Making GET A LIFE with Chris Elliott!
Patton Oswalt, Brad Meltzer, Jodi Picoult and More Recommend Children's Books to New Mother Whitney Matheson!


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Taking a lost bull by the horns
Male moose on the loose is tranquilized and sent safely back to the bush
The large, furry brown beast sighted in southern Saratoga County over the past week was captured on Tuesday morning.
Bigfoot? No, big all over — with antlers.
The 600-pound bull moose was tranquilized in the backyard of a Dunsbach Road home just before noon by Department of Environmental Conservation officials after a week of sightings in the Clifton Park-Halfmoon area.
The moose first appeared in the yard at sunrise and lumbered around aimlessly until it was shot with a dart. Just after noon, a 10-person team loaded the sedated creature into a trailer for a ride to the Adirondack Mountains.
"The reason we did this is for the safety of the moose and of the public," DEC wildlife biologist Ed Reed said. "Moose-vehicle accidents can be nasty."
The animal had been glimpsed in various spots, but on Tuesday it was roughly a mile from the Exit 8 area of the Northway. Besides being a driving hazard, Reed said this is moose mating season and the youngster could have been more aggressive than usual, as is often the case with males of any species that are competing for females.
On Tuesday morning, it lay calmly under a large tree as DEC team members inched toward it. When they closed in, the moose stood up and it was shot in the neck with a bright orange dart. About two minutes later it began to stumble and then stagger before lying down again.
The animal was hooked up to an oxygen tank and its eyes were covered as it slowly drifted into unconsciousness. The team then used a tarp-like carrier to lift the moose into a waiting trailer. It was tagged, its antlers shorn for safety — DEC Police Lt. Chris Ruckert said they would have been shed anyway — and the wait began for the sedation to wear off.
Reed said that would take 80 to 90 minutes. Then another drug would be injected by Ruckert (who used a shaking hand to show his nerves during another time he had injected a moose) to counteract the drug in the cocktail used to knock the moose out.
Once it was able to stand, the moose was to be transported to the southern Adirondacks. Reed said it may have come from that area, where 90 percent of the state's 800 to 1,000 moose live. Most of them grow to between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds, he said.
Reed estimated the animal's age at 2 1/2 years. He said that because the bull is young, it may have wandered off on its own — as young bull moose tend to do — or it may have been driven away from its home by a mature bull moose that was competing with it for a mate.
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The country's leading automobile company Tata Motors will halt production at its block here for three days from today, following poor demand.
Confirming the development, a Tata Motors spokesperson said the block closure had been planned keeping in mind the weak demand of commercial vehicles.
"We do not want inventory pile-up at the dealers' end and wanted to adjust our production as per demand," a company spokesman said.
Chandrabhan Singh, general secretary of Telco Workers Union, said the block closure was undertaken as a precautionary as well as cost control measure in view of slump in demand caused by the prevailing slow-down.
The company had produced 5,000 units of vehicles last month against general production figure of 10,000 units per month, Singh said.
He said no production had taken place after November 26.
This was the third block closure undertaken by the company this year including the three-day closure observed early this month from November 12-14.
The Jamshedpur plant of the company produces heavy commercial vehicles, besides engine and, cab and cowl.
The demand for commercial vehicles in the country, especially that of the medium and heavy segment, has been on a decline in the past few months.


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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
A Post-WW II Non-Gay History of Popular Music
As one of the non-Californians on this blog—though my college girl friend graduated from Barstow High School and my wife's side of the family live in Albany,
First, there were the Fifties. Everyone was straight in the Fifties; gays hadn't been invented yet. Certainly, a gay man would not have been the soundtrack of choice for more First Experiences than anyone this side of Barry White. And certainly the people of that time would not have made a Greatest Hits collection by a gay man the best-selling album of that generation, it's longevity on the Billboard charts only supplanted years later but a bunch of English guys singing about their Brain Damage and a Total Eclipse).
And lesbians didn't exist at all. So we certainly would not let our children know about them, or have them appear on something called "Teen Age Music International"
They would have no immortality.**
And then there were the Sixties, where people discovered gays existed, but we try to forget about that. By the late Seventies and early 1980s, Americans hated gays again. Indeed, the only people they hated more were Iranians.
So the last thing they would ever have done is made a gay Iranian into a multi-platinum recording artist who still gets treated as if he were a G-d today. Most especially, we would never use his song at Manly Sporting Events.
Or headlining—and stealing the show—at the worldwide broadcast of a concert for hope, charity, and food.***
By the Nineties, of course, the rise of rap music to the point where white kids were listening to it—and especially "Gangsta Rap"—just reaffirmed that there is no place for gays—and especially not gay men—in music.
And certainly even if there were gay men allowed near rap, they would have no lasting influence.
I hope it's clear from the above that ignoring gays throughout history will not at all negatively impact one's understanding of American popular music.
Now, if you'll excuse me, Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods is playing at Shakespeare in the Park this year, and I have to find a way to see it. Though I may first have to check what Alex Ross says about it in The New Yorker.
*Oops. Full disclosure: the relative who is generally finishing a stint of indentured servitude at UC
LJSD is currently out of the country.
**I would have written this entire post just to get this one in. It's still one of my favorite recordings, and I can't bloody find a copy either.
***Or on movie soundtracks as possibly the greatest karaoke song of all time, even down to its use of bismillah in the lyrics. Or as the creator of a love song the rest of the world likes much more than I do. Devotees are offered the full twenty-plus minutes here:
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big twitter is watching you
well, it turns out that it was twitter itself that alerted nbc to adams' tweets:
...in an email to the daily telegraph, christopher mccloskey, nbc sport's vice-president of communications, said twitter had actually contacted the network's social media department to alert them to mr adams's tweets.
"our social media dept was actually alerted to it by twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it," he wrote.
as of now, adams' account has not been reinstated.
update: the account has been restored, including the tweet w/the nbc exec's email adress, which is firstname.lastname@example.com, in case you'd like to email nbc and let them know your feelings.
tuesday night music club
remember the year netflix really screwed the pooch? here's an insider's look at that disaster
five things you don't know about food stamps
14 reasons why this one is worst congress ever
Monday, July 30, 2012
irony alert: network showing the olympics is a bad sport...
sure, everyone on twitter hates nbc's lame-ass, tape-delayed, ignorant and racist coverage of the olympics.
but one journalist got his twitter account suspended...after nbc cried how mean he was:
you can see some of his cached tweets here. the ultimate irony is that twitter's explanation for his account suspension was that he tweeted personal information about someone...the corporate email of an nbc exec in charge of the broadcast.
moral: don't remind nbc how rotten they are, and tune in for matthew perry's return to television this fall on go on!
monday morning
whenart meets science: ants turn colors when eating colored sugar
increasing the minimum wage helps the economy
the 50 cutest things that ever happened
when matt taibbi says to read a book
what i found most compelling about this book was the material in the beginning chapters, in which israel, through lawson, describes his early career as a trader on wall street. it's this experience in the deeply corrupt netherworld of endless, relentless insider trading that warped israel's mind to the point where he could become perhaps the biggest dupe in the history of con artistry - rolling stone
Labels: banksters, matt taibbi, wall street
Sunday, July 29, 2012
skippy's sunday night music club
Labels: music, olympics, skippy's music club, youtube
environmental news stories sunday
bee protection group under fire for failing to fight pesticide "armageddon." - a major bee conservation group in scotland has become embroiled in a bitter row for failing to back a ban on nicotine-based pesticides blamed for killing bees - glasgow herald
california ranchers hit by midwest drought. - california ranchers may be hit harder by the drought in the nation's heartland than farmers in the corn belt - sfchron
extreme drought areas in us nearly triple in one week . - the us drought monitor reports that areas on the nation under extreme drought conditions in key agricultural states has tripled in the past week. - treehugger
midwest crops, fish, water supply punished by drought. - temperatures heading north of 100 degrees fahrenheit and scarce rain portended another blistering weekend for much of the u.s. widwest, where the most extensive drought since 1956 is devastating crops, evaporating rivers, and threatening to push world food prices higher - reuters
on the missouri river, drought's effects are diluted by tapping northern reserves. - in times like these, you might have to dip into your savings. that's true even for the missouri river. the big muddy has run through this year's supply of snowpack and rain and is now drawing on reserves held in lakes upriver in north dakota and montana - kansas city star
in dallas area, high water use can be tied to affluence. - the biggest drain is water for landscaping. and that will come at a steep cost. state experts say that in the next 50 years, north texas will need an estimated $21 billion of new reservoirs and infrastructure to sustain the region's water use as the climate gets hotter and the population grows. - dallas morning news
the london array: the world's largest offshore wind farm. - as britain strives to meet european renewable energy targets, the world's largest offshore wind farm is rising from the waves off the coasts of kent and essex. - the telegraph
nationwide insurance won't insure fracturing. - after nationwide insurance publicly announced it wouldn't offer coverage for property damage caused by hydraulic fracturing, the aftermath that ensued lit up a firestorm of anti-fracking rhetoric - sydney herald
north korea floods kill 88, leave thousands homeless. - flooding across impoverished north korea this month has killed 88 people, left tens of thousands homeless and devastated swathes of farmland, state media said. - afp
why science is a non-issue in the us presidential election – again. - in the face of a massive drought and climbing sea levels, are the presidential candidates going to talk about climate change? why is science always at the bottom of the list of campaign issues that resonate with the public? - talk of the nation
forgotten tragedy: timor sea oil spill. - it's been called the forgotten tragedy. fishing communities in indonesia's west timor region say their livelihoods have been contaminated by one of australia's biggest oil spills, the montara disaster in the timor sea - australia abc news
paraguay opens doors to unregulated foreign investment. - in his first month as president of paraguay, federico franco has thrown open the doors of his country to foreign investments that have raised questions about environmental safety - interpress service
Labels: australia, bees, california, climate change, drought, energy, england, floods, fracking, london, mississippi, north korea, oil spill, rivers, science, scotland
hand held rocket launchers
...scalia's across-the-board defense of weapon-carrying laws is not new, having been at the heart of his majority opinion in district of columbia v. heller, which protected an individual's right to possess firearms. however, his nonchalant suggestion that private citizens could legally carry rocket launchers so long as they're "hand-held" suggests just how willing he is to protect an armed nation. - think progress
Labels: 2nd amendment, guns, scalia, supreme court, violence
like a sunday afternoon
us lags behind 15 other countires in median income
love can come from lust, says study
can't get to london for the olympics? why not try brunsbuttel, germany, for the mud olympics?
and rip the star of kevin drum's cat blogging friday, inkblot. we know how hard it is to lose a pet, they are like family. our condolences, kevin.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
skippy's saturday night music club
Labels: england, music, olympics, skippy's music club, youtube
one republican tells it like it is
in the deposition, released to the press yesterday, [jim] greer mentioned a december 2009 meeting with party officials. "i was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting," he said, according to the tampa bay times. he also said party officials discussed how "minority outreach programs were not fit for the republican party," according to the ap - salon
Labels: criminal, florida, gop, voting rights
saturday come slow
robert frost: comfortable americana, or terrifying exixtential angst? or both?
chronicling mitt's mendacity vol. xxvii
my cats are beatles fans
and rip dr. who's first romana, actress mary tamm
some peeps are freaking out
and, to those talking heads on nbc who opened up the ceremony on the telly by asking if london was "ready" to host the olympics, i say "shut the f** up."
Labels: olympics
Friday, July 27, 2012
skippy's friday night music club
Labels: england, music, olympics, skippy's music club, youtube
the true olympic spirit
Labels: olympics
pobre españa ... literal y figurativamente
with spain on the brink of bankruptcy, its olympic committee decided to save money this year. it got its olympic uniforms for free, from the russian designer bosco, which also provided kit for the russian and ukrainian teams.
but several spanish athletes have taken to twitter to express their distaste for the freebie clothes they're required to wear. after an outcry over u.s. olympic outfits made in china, spain's olympians have a different gripe about their uniforms: they're just plain ugly.- npr
Labels: bankruptcy, fashion, olympics, spain
it's friday night
for the first time, canadians are richer than americans
portugal decriminalized all drugs 11 years ago
and just in time for the olympics: the stupidest injuries in the history of sports
Thursday, July 26, 2012
thursday's child
kids explain science
if the wizard of oz took place in china
bridges over freeways built for wildlife
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
From Tolstoy to Tinkerbell...
It's been five days, and so far nothing is working. So I'm going to throw up a fun ditty and leave it to the Blogtopia(tm, Skippy) Readership to find the post chez DeLong and the original quote. For extra credit, explain that the reason for the editing is that it's judicious, not malfeasance.*
Meanwhile, have some fun with this possibly-irrelevant tune.
*I haven't seen anyone else mention it directly, but I've been offline much of the past week. So probably I'm wrong.
living the meme...orandum
neither does chicago
newsweek owner barry diller tells staff dead trees mag will soon cease publication. oddly enough, staff panics.
peter bogdonovich is is sick about having made a movie about violence. we agree, at long last love was a bomb.
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wednesday week
america's overseas base empire and a dangerous new way of war
alaskan town votes in cat as its mayor
and rip george jefferson, actor sherman hemsley addendeum and dr. joe gannon, actor chad everett
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
skippy's tuesday night music club
tuesday night fever
how washington is wrecking the economy
greenland glacier loses chunk twice the size of manhatten
and rip first woman astronaut sally ride
quote of the day
"including as many americans as possible in our electoral process is the spirit of our country. it is why we have expanded rights to women and minorities but never legislated them away, and why we have lowered the voting age but never raised it. cynical efforts at voter suppression are driven by an un-american desire to exclude as many people and silence as many voices as possible."get ready for michele bachmann to denounce the former republican governor of florida as some
voter suppression is as close as you get in democratic politics to mortal sin. and it's going to be one of the prime features of the 2012 election. it is shameful, cynical and frankly disgusting.
sort of whack-a-doodle kenyan loving muslim brotherhood joining socialistic pinko commie.
Labels: florida, gop, governor, quotes, voting rights
my hands didn't build this
star of romney 'my hands didn't build this' ad received millions in government loans and contracts - abc news
Labels: advertising, liars, romney
Monday, July 23, 2012
skippy's monday night music club
Labels: guns, mass murder, music, skippy's music club, youtube
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monday monday monday
this isnwhat passes for investigative journalism on the right
here's a girl doing her impression of all 151 pokemon characters
the very first picture uploaded to the internet was of a comedy band of employees at the cern large hadron collider. we couldn't make this up
michele bachman's words
huma abedin, the deputy chief of staff to secretary of state hillary clinton and the wife of former rep. anthony weiner (d-ny.), has been placed under police protection after receiving a threat, according to a report in the new york post.
the report, which cites unnamed law enforcement sources, says abedin was threatened by a man after rep. michele bachmann (r-mn) last week claimed the state department official had family ties to the muslim brotherhood and called for a probe.- the hill
Labels: bachmann, hate mongering, violence
Sunday, July 22, 2012
skippy's sunday night music
environmental news stories sunday
dry as a bone: drought's wide impact is likely to last for years. - of all natural disasters, drought is the most common and the least understood. around kansas city, drought creeps — first claiming the missouri crop grower, then the kansas cattleman who can't afford grain to feed livestock. - kansas city star
scientists discover pacific ocean contains higher than normal levels of caffeine. - if you've ever fancied a quick pick me up at the beach, you may not have far to look. scientists said they have found elevated levels of caffeine at several sites in the pacific ocean off the coast of oregon - london daily mail
baltimore's aging water system needs makeover. - nationwide, water system managers have awakened to the need to keep tabs on the condition of underground pipes and replace them before they fail, sometimes with catastrophic results. but many local officials have been unable or unwilling to confront the staggering cost and scale of a comprehensive overhaul. more than 60 miles of lines are deemed at high risk of breaking. - baltimore sun
dupont facing 30,000 claims for tree deaths. - a year after it became clear that a new and highly touted lawn herbicide called imprelis was killing and damaging many thousands of trees around the country, the manufacturer, dupont, is busy processing claims for compensation. some 30,000 homeowners, golf courses, municipalities and landscapers have submitted claims - new york times
record summer temperatures, by the numbers. - the weather this summer has been so extreme that it has rivaled the most destructive and unbearable summers in u.s. history, years that are infamous in weather lore. those years include 1988, which was the year that nasa scientist james hansen first warned the u.s. senate about the consequences of manmade global warming. - climate central
sen. merkley, citing climate fears, wants big study of coal export plans. - sen. jeff merkley (d-or.) is pressuring the obama administration to conduct a sweeping environmental review of proposals for coal export facilities in washington and oregon - the hill
drought affects large swaths of u.s. - a devastating drought has taken over areas of the rocky mountains and midwest. author and conservationist william debuys tells renee montagne that one of the shocking things has been the number of new high temperature records. - morning edition npr
massive southeastern oregon wildfires: did weather, cows or grazing policies fuel the flames? - on one thing ranchers, federal land managers and environmentalists can agree: the long draw fire that devoured an area more than six times the size of portland in a week will take years to heal - the oregonian
fukushima workers told to lie about radiation exposure. - a japanese subcontractor working for the stricken fukushima nuclear plant has admitted it asked workers to lie about radiation exposure. - australia abc news
louisiana senator seeks faster permits for oil drilling. - continuing the lengthy battle with the obama administration over complaints it is still taking too long to approve new drilling permits, sen. david vitter, r-la., proposed legislation switching permitting decisions from the interior department to the department of energy - nola times picayune
green groups target new mexico senate race. - new mexico's senate race has turned into a key test of political strength for the environmental movement, which is spending heavily to block former-rep. heather wilson's (r-nm) bid - the hill
lobster catch bottoms out. - prior to a massive die-off in 1999, connecticut's lobster fishery was worth more than $100 million a year. now, it's a fraction of that, and researchers from the state department of energy and environmental protection are embarking on another study looking at the effect pesticides may have played in the die-off - bridgeport ct post
Labels: climate change, coal, drought, energy, global warming, gop, louisiana, new mexico, nuclear power, ocean, oil, oregon, pollution, toxins, water, wildfires
bill moyers and chris hedges
Labels: capitalism, disaster capitalism, moyers
lazy sunday afternoon
national insurer won't cover fracking
occupy bohemian grove
eldery bees discover the fountain of bee youth
Saturday, July 21, 2012
skippy's saturday night music
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
the outsourcer in-chief
in march 1999, shortly after romney left bto take over the troubled winter olympics in salt lake city, brookside capital investors inc., a bain-related entity wholly owned by romney, filed a report with the Securities and exchange commission that listed dozens of companies in which brookside held a stake the previous quarter. the roster included investments in singapore-based flextronics International ($13 million) and florida-headquartered jabil circuit Inc. ($41 million), two companies that were leaders in the fast-growing field of outsourcing electronics manufacturing and offshoring production to low-wage countries. together, these two investments represented almost 10 percent of brookside's $559 million portfolio. - mother jones
Labels: bain, outsourcing, romney
aurora might have been stopped
the ar-15 rife carried by holmes, a civilian semi-automatic version of the military m-16, would have been defined as a "semiautomatic assault weapon" under the violent crime control and law enforcement act of 1994. if the law was still in force, semiautomatic assault weapons would have been outright banned - think progress
Labels: 2nd amendment, colorado, guns, mass murder
canadian adoption
the city of vancouver has designed a climate change "adaptation" strategy to tackle a potential increase in street flooding, sewer backups, damaged forests and heat-related illnesses by 2050.
.."you either pay money to deal with extreme weather events now or pay money to deal with the after-effects of not having a plan in place," reimer said. - vancouver sun
Labels: canada, climate change, global warming, vancouver
saturday clothes
ohio cuts back on early voting
the 401(k) scam
religious fanatics destroy school in mexican town
Friday, July 20, 2012
june 20, 1969
I got another letter from Ronnie's teacher at school
Look, I'm as much of a people person as any cranky, middle-aged, ready to fight you at the slightest provocation guy from Jersey could be, but I just don't like Mitt Romney. Yes, I know the issues. I have been a politics and government junkie for forty years (yes, forty years--at the age of fourteen I watched the entire 1972 Democratic Convention, gavel to gavel---the words "Ohio passes" still bring a smile to my face, and no, it has nothing to do with BMs). I read everything I can about the issues, about economics, about political history. I took probably 20 or 30 political science and political history credits as an undergrad. I know you shouldn't vote for someone just based on likability, but I just don't like that guy. He seems the most insincere politician I've ever seen, which is weird because faking sincerity is the most valuable tool in a politician's arsenal.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest as an excuse for posting this vid. This is one of my favorite very obscure songs from one of my favorite very obscure groups. If you've heard of this group...how are things in Baltimore these days?
down the penrose lane
more @ penrose on politics!
good morning, black friday
the computer programmer that developed the '80's video game was a woman
zimmerman's cop comnection in the treyvor martin case
fox news pressures romney to let palin speak at the convention
and rip former snl writer and al franken's partner, tom davis
Thursday, July 19, 2012
You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape...
While I can't find the most famous sketch he wrote, here's Jacques Pepin explaining the real-life version of it:
And here's my wife's old friend, Stephanie, sharing stories about Julia. (Stories about Tom's old writing and performing partner are ongoing, as he—unlike David Bowie in Todd Haynes's imagination—really did become a Statesman.)
you're so bain
limbaugh speaks --- and the internet notices!
thursday night blues
staying home in november is not an option
carbon - it's freaky
pz myers refuses to ride the the chariot of the gods
mccain shows some class and character
on the floor of the senate wednesday, sen. john mccain (r-az) repudiated rep. michele bachmann's (r-mn) mccarthyesque witch-hunt to root out the alleged muslim brotherhood infiltration of the u.s. government. the flap started when bachmann all but directly accused secretary hillary clinton's top aide huma abedin of working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood in a letter with four colleagues to the state department's inspector general demanding an investigation.- think progress
Labels: bachmann, mccain, mccarthyism, muslim, witch hunt
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
wednesday night prayer
you deserve a break today -- unless you're gay
conservapedia's most over rated sports stars
10 of the world's most infamous cults
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
when you're a tuesday girl
6 million people can't vote due to felon disenfranchisement laws
stoned mice leads to breakthrough in understanding memory
and rip country music legend kitty wells; also passing, deep purple keyboardist (and writer of smoke on the water) jon lord
Monday, July 16, 2012
monday monday blues
nbc and microsoft complete their web divorce
genetically modified foods not served in monsanto's cafeteria
romney and son investigated for $8 billion ponzi scheme
Sunday, July 15, 2012
king of bain (reprise)
it's just all of the jobs that i threw away
there's a little pink slip that i'm thinking of
because firing folks is the one thing i love
canned 'em in california, let 'em go in maine
on my way to my gop white house reign
and you all watch your paychecks going down the drain
'cuz you know that's why they all call me the king of bain
words & music: stung, a. winters, s. dopeland
and here's the music, if you want to sing along:
lazing on a sunday afternoon
out-of-control cop sued for abuse
more gop calls for romney to release his tax returns
and rip producer of every great film you ever saw, richard zanuck
Saturday, July 14, 2012
happy bastille day!
saturday ball
number of homeless students tops one million
2012 on track to becoming hottest in u.s. history
ursula the sea witch forced to get liposuction
Friday, July 13, 2012
get 'em out by friday
romney invested millions in chinese firm that profited from u.s. outsourcing
sexual objectification, part 1: what it is
the top ten events in the romney olympics
Thursday, July 12, 2012
thursday night
florida accused of covering up worst tb outbreak in 20 years
abandoned wal-mart transformed into a public library
hard-core gamers turn out to be violent, childish and misogynist
and daniel tosh makes rape jokes about a female member of his stand-up show audience;. here's a petition to get comedy central to take him off the air
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
wednesday night hop
innocent woman spends 53 days in jail
with his new hbo series newsroom, it looks like aaron sorkin has nailed down the all-important news pundit demographic
everything you need to know about mitt romney in one venn diagram
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
happy 10 year blogiversary to skippy the bush kangaroo!
cartoon by penrose on politics! thanks, brett!
all of us here at skippy international are as pleased as a platypus to be celebrating 10 years of contiguous blogging at skippy the bush kangaroo!
who can believe that it's been 10 long and relatively unproductive years since skippy wrote his first blog post lo, so long ago?
so much has happened in blogtopia, and yes, we coined that phrase, in the intervening years.
blogtopia (y!wctp!) has grown exponentially, which is the only way to grow, if you ask us, and since you are reading our blog, we're assuming that you did ask us.
in the beginning blogtopia (y!wctp!) was simply a few malcontents switching from usernet flamer forums to pajama-clad rants in their mothers' basements on a daily basis. and now, look around you, blogging has become virtually a vitural world of millions of malcontents switching from usernet flamer forums to pajama-clad rants in their mothers' basements on a daily basis. and we helped!
we'd like to start out our over-indulgence of self-congratulation with, as is our tradition on our blogiversary, a look back at our very first blog post, lo those many years ago:
the web is one huge library full of books that didn't have to go through an editor to get published. is that good or bad? in truth, it's neither (ok, i've seen some of these blogs, you're right, it is bad). but nonetheless, as the french say, pass the fries!
i gotta start off with thoughts about mr. bush's speech. didn't work for me. not me personally, but my stock portfolio. i spent most of this morning selling at least half of my holdings. one sep-ira which i had started in 1993, and had doubled in value by 2000, had fallen all the back to original value plus $50 as of end of trading today.
i hate to tell you kids this, but we're in the middle of another great depression. that's ok, though, i'm old enough that my parents grew up during the first one, so i know some good techniques for saving money.
we couldn't have done it without our wonderful staff here at skippy international, which includes our delightful co-bloggers, both current and past:
ken houghton, jim yeager, george, mahakal, tami the one true, rj eskow, holden caufield (formerly of first draft), g.d. frogsdong, carnacki (formerly of the mystery of the haunted vampire), and of course, pudentilla.
a big thank you also to brett penrose, who provides original cartoons to this humble space, including the one above w/obama and skippy sharing a cake (makes sense to us!).
also we must needs give mad props to lauren bruce, blogger extraordinaire and html genius, who designed our blogging template. and to august j. pollack, the brilliant artist/blogger who drew our beloved roo logo.
and of course, most of all we owe this blog's very continued existence to our enviromental editor and right-hand woman, cookie jill, without whom this space would have completely disintegrated into the cybervoid years ago.
we take you through the first 10 years of the history of this humble space below, as well as thanking our good friends and supporters (as well as those we lost), also below.
Ten Years Gone
There is the most famous, Utopia. Greek for "No place," made famous in English by Sir Thomas More, now generally used to refer to any place in the word's homeland that was not given to the Jerrys for tupence in honor of the latest "bail-out" of the Fourth Reich's bankers.
The above is borderline a violation of Godwin's Law. Which I think of as a blogsphere coinage,though it probably goes back to some geeky fandom.
There is "Eutopia." Good place. Poul Anderson isn't so famous as Sir Thomas More—never had an English muffin named after him, I guess—but he used that as the title of a story published in 1967 that apparently was the first time genre readers discovered that homosexuals exist. Or something like that.
A Good Place. Not where everybody knows your name—well, at least not unless you think "Every Breath You Take" is a song about Romance—but where you can always find something to do, and generally something that is interesting.
The rule of a Successful Blog—unless you're someone with a built-in audience, such as a private-school educated Liberal who writes about how society cannot afford to keep the common weal even relatively healthy and how everything would be just great if there were vouchers instead of public education—is, first and foremost, that you write something worth publishing every day. That's generally in addition to your day job. Or jobs.
Speaking strictly for me, I've written over 20,000 words in the past week. Blogging on top of it? A rare occurrence.
And then there is Blogtopia: "Blog Place." Sounds like a street name in Desperate Housewives or Weeds.
The coiner of that coinage runs this blog, and packs quite a kick. Skippy started this blog before either of the above referenced television shows came on the air; one is now gone, and it looks as if the other might be wrapping up.
Ten years ago, the ugly domed stadium my train just passed—the one that may well bankrupt the city of Harrison, New Jersey—didn't exist. George W. Bush was still pretending he might not be determined to go to war for the second time, the first President in U.S. history to be so fiscally irresponsible as not to pay for the upfront cost—let alone the precious Human Capital associated with it—so that spending about $1,000,000 a year for each soldier would not burden the schools, the fire stations, the police stations, the roadways, or the power grid that soldier is supposed to be fighting to protect.
Ten years ago, the people who believe others shouldn't have the right to vote were at least polite enough not to say so loudly and publicly to the New York Times.
Ten years ago, no one would have believed that the primary contender for the Republican Vice Presidential slot would be someone who would seriously propose that we need to cut medical benefits so we can give the rich another tax cut. (Far too many still do not.)
Ten years ago, I only had one daughter, my property taxes were half of what they are now (for the same house), and anyone who told you people would pay $80 or more a month for internet access (figure $30 for the home, $30 more for the mobile, $20 for the tethering—all plus taxes) would have been looked at as if they were insane. Now, people who don't do it get looks of pity from their peers.
I wrote maybe a thousand words today that no one will read who does not have to. Blogtopia is the place where you write, and read, what you want to, not what you have to.
Skippy has made the world a better place, and I am happy to be a(n infrequent) contributor. I'll try to do better.
10 years of skippy: congratulations from our friends
and we are reminded of this as we look thru our mailbox, enjoying the well-wishes from our blogging buddies.
the erudite and lovely jeralyn merritt, law superstar as well as cable news regular, is not only the founder and driving force behind talkleft (which also celebrated their 10 year blogiversary last month), she is also the person who coined the phrase, "blogiversary"!
jeralyn was one of our earliest and staunchest supporters, and we are very proud to have her send us her good wishes:
Jeralyn at TalkLeft.com
rj eskow's blog, night light, was an early pioneer in blogtopia (y!wctp!). rj was also one of our early co-bloggers. he went on to bigger and better things as being a regular on the huffington post. rj sends his greetings:
"What I found there was more than a blog: It was a genuine community. What skippy and the gang did for me was more than just an act of kindness. They kept me going when I was ready to give up. They may curse themselves every day for that -- and if they don't, I'm sure I can find them a volunteer. But I'll always appreciate it, no matter how bigheaded, arrogant, neglectful and self-centered I continue to be as I follow my downward trajectory in these, my sunset years.
"Peace out, and love to the house of skippy - rje"
our good friend brad friedman, of the bradblog, is a tenacious protector of voting rights. more than anyone else, brad has documented the ever-quickening erosion of said rights in this country. we are tickled to know him personally, and even more so that he took time from his busy schedule to write us this:
but what do i know? I've only been at it for 8 and a half years, unlike mr. decade.
thanks for your unapologetic feistiness, on-target ass-kicking and unwavering whimsy for each and every one of those years, skipper! congrats! and, imagine that, you didn't even have to make shit up or lie about wearing a pimp costume even once to help make the blogosphere (and no, you didn't coin that phrase) and world a much better place over all of those years.
other than that, please quit blogging soon. i'd hate to be outdone by a kangaroo.
BRAD FRIEDMAN of THE BRAD BLOG
you can read some other well-wishers at their own blogs:
dave johnson, whose seeing the forest will be celebrating their 10 year blogiversary in five days
busted knuckles over at onery bastard
our good friend jill at brilliant at breakfast
driftglass @ driftglass
michael j.w. stickings at the reaction
batacchio at vagabond scholar
ron beasley @ newshoggers
our good friend joe gandelman of the moderate voice
bluegal (aka fran to her friends - who is our partner along with the late jon swift in our annual blogroll amnesty day project) wishes us the best over at her gig @ crooks&liars
august j. pollack, the genius behind our goofy 'roo logo, expresses his regards at some guy with a website
skippy: the first 10 years
we at skippy international are proud of the
first and foremost among said achievements was being the very first blog mentioned by name on cnn, when daryn kagen expertly ducked skippy's assertion that she was as guilty of selective truth-telling as she accused blogs of being.
secondly and foremost among skippy's dubious achievements was getting cnn producer abbi tatton to not only start mentioning as many liberal blogs as conservative blogs on her short-lived feature, "let's sit at a computer on tv and look at the blogs! live! with abbi tatton!", but to also, finally, mention our blog as well! (also, we got a mention at columbia journalism review and a name-drop in a slate headline for our efforts!)
second and a halfly, and foremost, we also got to be the punchline for a terrific series of jokes on the daily show, thanks to the whole abbi tatton brou-ha-ha, and yes, "brou-ha-ha" is spelled with a "u":
thirdly, and foremost among our achievements, we would be remiss were we not to
we could go on.
so we will:
we have been finalists for "best blog in the entire universe" (or something like that) too many times to count, unless it's relatively easy for you to count to four.
and, we are especially proud of our final showing in the 2007 contest:
we were among the first to win the coveted golden monkeyfister award (and we won it twice!)
skippy collected over $10,000 in pledges for relief for aid to the victims of katrina.
we roused all of blogtopia (y!wctp!), left and right, to help us collect a million hits on or near our third blogiversary!
skippy corresponded with two incredibly talented mystery writers, sara paretsky and barry eisler.
we are a reference used in the wikipedia article on marcy wheeler.
but most importantly, we sold t-shirts!
ok, the t-shirts were not the most important things. of course, the blogroll amnesty day celebrations were the most important things, and we discuss that in length below in our fallen comrades post.
10 years of skippy: our fallen comrades
we teamed with jon swift in our yearly efforts to ignore the uncaring, decidedly-unliberal (at least as far as linking policy went) behemouths that several popular lefty blogs had become, and made a consious effort to not only link to blogs with smaller traffic numbers than ourselves, but to encourage all of blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, to do so, too!
tho we lost jon swift, aka al weisel, a little over 2 years ago, we like to think that his unbridled generosity lives on in our blogging philosophy: that no voice is too small to be listened to; that no blog is too irrelevant to be relevant.
we are sad that we lost other great blogging friends during those 10 years as well. this blog couldn't have survived without the kind support of jim capozzola, who graciously paid the way for our banner-less blogger platform in the literal first days of our existence.
we also miss the wonderful pithy stylings of aaron hawkins, the uppity negro, as well as melanie mattson's bump in the beltway, both taken from us far too soon.
and of course, the constant support and encouragement of the great steve gilliard was a big part of why we continue, even to this day. we are sure there are dozens of other bloggers who feel the same way about steve's love for their work.
Oh Wow...
Monday, July 09, 2012
Oh Well...
Labels: music
monday, monday
christie vetoes tax increase for millionaires for the third year in a row
protesters demonstrate outside of koch fundraiser for romney
internet troll disses girl geek icon felicia day; internet strikes back
now it's funny: archie out of context
and rip quentin mchale and marty, character actor ernest borgnine
Sunday, July 08, 2012
skippy's sunday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
environmental news stories sunday
has 'organic' been oversized? - organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for big food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. the industry's image — contented cows grazing on the green hills of family-owned farms — is mostly pure fantasy. or rather, pure marketing. Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might be called big organic - nytimes
toxic health dumping scandal. - the dangerous disposal of hazardous substances including liquid uranium and contaminated objects, the dumping of the confidential records of patients and the mishandling of asbestos have exposed a culture of mismanagement in sydney hospitals - sydney morning herald
texas seeks new water supplies amid drought. - the punishing seven-year drought of the 1950s in texas brought about the modern era of water planning. but the drought of 2011 was the hottest, driest 12 months on record there. - weekend edition
showing vultures a little love. - think of a giraffe lying on the serengeti plain. he has just died, maybe of disease, maybe he was killed by a pride of lions, but now he's a 19-foot-long, 4,000-pound mound of meat, which very soon is going to stink and rot and muck up the neighborhood. - national public radio - npr
rising temperatures and drought create fears of a new dust bowl. - triple-digit days. weeks with little to no rain. soil crumbling away. stunted corn stalks. right now the fertile fields of the u.s. midwest are experiencing corn-killing weather, with parts of five corn-growing states in the region experiencing severe or extreme drought - time magazine
torrential rain wreaks havoc across britain. - more than 200 flood warnings and alerts were issued by the environment agency on saturday as torrential rain swept the country, causing havoc in many areas - the guardian
scores killed in russia floods. - severe flash floods in russia's southern krasnodar region have killed at least 99 people and affected nearly 13,000 in the area's worst natural disaster in decades, officials say. - afp
u.s. drought sets record. - more of the nation is in the grip of drought than at any time in the past 12 years, including over half of the contiguous united states, according to the u.s. drought monitor. - orange county register
Labels: animals, australia, drought, ecology, england, environment, npr, organic, russia, texas, toxins, weather
it must be sunday
john boehner can't make you love mitt romney
five famously disengaged employees and what we can learn from them
study finds spanking leads to mental illness
carry that weight, at least across the street! it's the abby road webcam!
Saturday, July 07, 2012
skippy's saturday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
saturday at midnight
blame game going on at cnn over plummeting ratings
former irs official calls for investigation into alec
mitt romney and the new gilded age
is it bad form
oystapacolypse now
a disturbing nationwide decline in oysters and the life-giving reefs that they build is particularly dramatic in california, where the once-abundant native species has been virtually wiped out, according to a recent scientific study.the report, published in the scientific journal proceedings of the royal society b, said olympia oysters, once an integral part of the native american diet and a staple during the san francisco gold rush, are functionally extinct."essentially, today, the number of oyster reefs is zero," said rob brumbaugh, restoration director for the nature conservancy and co-author of the study. "it's the complete elimination of a key species and habitat on the west coast." - sfgate
Labels: california, food, food supply, oregon, science, washington
Friday, July 06, 2012
friday's child
bobby jindal's strange history with exorcisms
romney's bain problem
"stand your ground" laws lead to more murders says new study
does "the amazing spiderman" seem like it has a few holes in the plot? it does
san diego's 4th of july fireworks celebration
a 20 minute show....over in 20 seconds...but an awesome epic fail.
Labels: 4th of july, Epic Fail, san diego
$5.5 million an hour
duke energy ceo bill johnson resigns after one day, gets $44 million in severance - grist
Labels: ceo, employment, energy, jobs, retirement, unemployment
crime of the century
modern international bankers form a class of thieves the likes of which the world has never before seen. or, indeed, imagined. the scandal over libor -- short for london interbank offered rate -- has resulted in a huge fine for barclays bank and threatens to ensnare some of the world's top financers. it reveals that behind the world's financial edifice lies a reeking cesspool of unprecedented corruption. the modern-day robber barons pillage with a destructive abandon totally unfettered by law or conscience and on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend. - huffpo
Labels: banking, banksters, corruption, england, lawlessness, libor, wall street
raul castro, 96, gets pulled over in arizona
raul castro is a former governor of the state of arizona.
the wife and a friend of former arizona gov. raul castro are calling for changes in border patrol procedures after agents recently detained the frail 96-year-old in 100-degree heat for more than a half-hour.think progress has more....
castro said he was traveling from his home in nogales, ariz., to celebrate his 96th birthday in tucson when his vehicle triggered a radiation sensor at the border patrol checkpoint on interstate 19 north of tubac.
castro said agents sent him to another inspection area and continued to question him outside his vehicle for 40 to 45 minutes even though he explained that he had undergone hospital testing on his pacemaker the previous day, likely triggering the sensor. - az central
this is the third time the former governor and ambassador has been detained by border control. the first occurred years ago while he was repairing his own fence and agents stopped him and asked to see his work card — although they eventually desisted after castro pointed out a sign by his farm entrance that read "judge castro." the second occurred years later in san diego, although that encounter ended shortly after someone recognized castro and said "governor, how are you?"
Labels: arizona, border patrol, governor, immigration