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So, you may have noticed that is is nearly April. That means that very, very soon, Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night will be hopping from the shelves into your hot little hands. And those better be bookstore shelves and not library shelves, 'cause I got bills to pay, yo.
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- For the first time ever in one of my books, hot, male/male love scene.
- Zombies.
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Am I the Only One Who Cares? Probably
|Local Color: The Colors of Yingge: May 2, 2011
Well, it's time for the Pathetical Analyticals for 2011. I call it "Pathetical Analyticals" because I think it's kind of pathetic that I have to take this blog apart and analyze every aspect of what happened in it for the year. It's not so much that I feel a need to understand why I posted one thing or another. I posted what I posted because it was interesting to me and I figured, if it was interesting to me, it might also be interesting to some other people who don't know that much about Taiwan. But what is pathetic is my need to break everything down into some kind of statistic: To try to gain some meaning for the blog by examining the minutiae. I wish that I was above that, but, once again I have fallen victim to my baser nature and did it anyway, so what follows is Pathetical Analyticals 2011 or by the alternate title: Am I the Only One Who Cares? Probably
What's it all about?
First a bit about the Taiwan Adventure Blog: In the beginning it was written purely as an informational tool for my family and friends. I was leaving my home country and didn't want to be writing separate emails all the time to dozens of people who might possibly be interested. It was intended to chronicle our life in Taiwan as well as the church we came here to build. But after a while, I separated the church website from the Taiwan Adventure. I needed a website for the church and I felt after a while I was duplicating my efforts, so I split them. The church website is at www.pottershousetaoyuan.blogspot.com. The Taiwan Adventure, became a stand alone culture, history, travel, and food blog. It has evolved into what it is, and probably there is more of the evolutionary process that will still take place.
|Taiwanese Traditions: The Planting and Growing of Rice: April 4, 2011
I think the blog has improved this year. It has a better look for one thing and readership has increased dramatically. I have also included a weekly feature, Photo Glimpses of Taiwan, which features photos that have been used or supplement the photos in the blog. The really great part is that my posts have been picked up by We Blog the World and Go! Overseas. These two websites have enormous readership and I believe they have really helped to increase traffic to the Taiwan Adventure. In addition to these we have been featured a number of times in the feed aggregation, The Best of Taiwanderful and iTainan and a number of others.
|Eating My Way Through Taiwan: The Stink of Adventure: July 11, 2011
The Taiwan Adventure is based in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Taoyuan is a city of about 380,000 people in Northeastern Taiwan. During the winter it's cold and during the summer it's hot. The other two seasons are superfluous because it's either hot or its cold, there are only a few days in between. Taoyuan is not a beautiful place. But the people are warm and friendly and if I have to live somewhere I'm glad I live here. I can drive to a pretty place, but as I've always said, people are where it's at. The Taiwan Adventure is really my look at Taiwan. Everything is examined through the filter of an expat American. I really try to understand the culture, and the things that cross my eyes, but sometimes I'm wrong because I look at through the filter of my life. I can't escape that. So it is what it is. So far no hate mail, so I guess I'm on the right path most of the time, but who knows, there's not a lot of love mail or comments, either.
Statistically Speaking
The rest of the post will be made up of numbers and stats; some of them may even be meaningful.
Total views of the blog this year: 26,167
Average Views per month: 2365.4
The Taiwan Adventure has readers in 129 countries.
The Taiwan Adventure has readers in 129 countries.
|Taiwanese History: Sun Yat Sen: Sept. 13, 2011
Over the course of the year the readership increased from 1,150 readers in January to 2,897 readers in December resulting in an average monthly increase in readers of 158. This is a net gain of 151% for the year. Of course there were peaks ad valleys, some months readership went down only to rebound the next month. One of the biggest affects on readership was the number of posts. An increase in the number of posts resulted in an increase in the number of readers; correspondingly a decrease in posts meant a decrease in readership. Lesson for bloggers: Consistency results in higher readership. If you post regularly readership will always increase. Inconsistent posting results in lower readership.
The RSS feed did well as well. We added the site to Feedburner in February and in 10 months there were 2,433 views on the feed with 917 clicks back to blog. That means that about 38% of the views resulted in readers being driven to the blogsite. This is the main purpose of a feed so that people will see your posts and want to go back to the original to see others.
This year I posted 42 different posts under 8 category headings. I don't usually break them into categories in the way a wordpress blog does. Actually I categorize them through the use of a "header" in the title. I use eight headers
Taiwanese History
Taiwanese Traditions
Cultural Unawareness
Traveling with M13
Taiwan Travelogue
Random Asianess
Eating My Way Through Taiwan
|Local Color: Taoyuan City Ghost Festival Parade: August 23, 2011
Something new this year is the use of a header titled Local Color. The Local Color posts are photo essays of some place or topic I find visually interesting. Rather than describe them, I just take a series of photos and include them.
Most are self-explanatory. Cultural Unawareness are my mistakes at the culture that resulted in funny or embarrassing moments. I'm hoping to phase this out this year; that it will become obsolete. Traveling with M13. Mordeth13 is a friend of mine, and I have done a few things with him and his family. These posts are the result of some interaction with him. I hope to do more of these in the nest year.
Top Five Posts
1. Taiwanese History: Sun Yat Sen
Total views since September 1,059 or 353 per month.
2. Taiwanese Traditions: The Dragon Boat Festival
Total Views since June 2010 3,112 or 172 per month.
3. Traveling with M13: Custom Scooters of Taiwan
Total views since February 501 or 50 per month
4. Taiwan Travelogue: The National Palace Museum
Total views since March 437 or 49 per month
5. Taiwanese History: Double Tenth day
Total views since October 2010 468 or 33 per month.
Sun Yat Sen is considered to be the Father of Modern China. This post has been the single most popular post I have written on this blog. It will be interesting to see if it has the kind of staying power that the Dragon Boat Festival has had. The Dragon Boat Festival is still popular after 18 months.
|Taiwan Travelogue: The North Coast: September 20, 2011
My Personal Favorite Posts
For various reasons I like the following posts the best. I think they are the best written and I've had the most fun talking about them with other people. They're listed in order according to how well I liked them.
1. Eating My Way Through Taiwan: The Stink of Adventure
A very funny post on Stinky Tofu, that also appeared in Zite magazine for iPads.
2. Taiwanese Traditions: The Planting and Growing of Rice
A post on Rice Planting in Taiwan, contains my favorite picture of Taiwan ever.
3. Local Color: The Colors of Yingge
Photo essay: I think Yingge is a cool place…It's also very colorful
4. Random Asianess: Oh Sure, Now We Decorate
Talks about decorating for Chinese new Year. It is the next post after my complaining about not decorating for Christmas.
5. Taiwanese Traditions: The Dragon Boat Festival
I'm only including this because everyone else reads it.
|Taiwanese Innovation: Magic Click Shoes: December 13, 2011
Top Traffic Sources
Of course some people, just go straight to the blog. I know it sounds hard to believe but there are a few faithful readers. In fact, 11% of the readers on the blog have visited more than 101 times. So, I guess some people are regulars.
Google 7,764 referrals
Expat Blogs 299 referrals
Taiwan Bloggers 188 referrals
The Google referrals breakdown like this:
Google.com 5,225
Google.com.ca 603 Canada
Google.co.uk 579 United Kingdom
Google.com.ph 578 Philippines
Google.com.au 292 Australia
Google.com.tw 250 Taiwan
Google.com.sg 237 Singapore
Top Keywords
Taiwan Flag 416
Dragon Boats 182
Taiwanese Traditions 121
Mordeth 13 99
Sun Yat Sen 54
Other Places where the Taiwan Adventure can be found (or at least a link):
There are some other places but some of them are really temporary.
Finally, The Taiwan Adventure won first place in the category of General blog in the popular vote at taiwanderful.net's 2011 Top Taiwan Blog Awards. We appreciate the support of our readers and would like to welcome new readers as a result of the competition. Thank you for your votes. We also want to congratulate the other winners. It always amazes me how many excellent English language blogs there are in Taiwan.
Here is a link so you can see the results first hand. Taiwanderful


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Ni relief in sight. The Catholic league is ever at the ready to offer up excuses and blame victims.
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How many of you included "have a proper and healthy breakfast every day" among your New Year resolutions?
I did. In the morning chaos of getting three kids out of bed and dressed and ready, I often end up having breakfast consisting of just a cup of coffee and perhaps a tiny piece of leftover cake or a small tub of yoghurt. Yet that's never enough, and I feel sluggish and peckish by mid-morning already. I know a hot cereal (especially oatmeal) would be the best choice, but I don't really want the basic oatmeal porridge first thing in the morning.
I need to pimp up my porridge, so to say.
There's a great Scottish company, Stoats, that began serving freshly cooked oatmeal porridge at the music festivals and farmer's markets back in 2004, and became a huge success. One of the items on their menu both at the Edinburgh Farmers' Market and at their Meadows porridge bar was Cranachan porridge, or oatmeal served with raspberries, cream and toasted oats. I LOVED that one (there's a recipe on their website!), and this opened my eyes to the possibilities of different and delicious oatmeal. Here's a different "pimped up" porridge, served with buttered spiced apples - just as lovely and delicious.
Oatmeal porridge with buttered apples
(Kaerahelbepuder praetud õuntega)
Serves 3-4
250 ml water (1 cup)
250 ml milk (1 cup)
250 ml old-fashioned rolled oats (1 cup)
1-2 Tbsp sugar (optional)
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
a pinch of grated nutmeg
a pinch of salt
Mix all ingredients in a heavy saucepan and bring into a simmer. Simmer gently over moderately low heat for 7-8 minutes, stirring regularly, until cooked.
Buttered apples:
2 large crisp apples (Granny Smith, Antonovka)
2 Tbsp butter
0.5 tsp ground cinnamon
a pinch of grated nutmeg
2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Peel and core the apples, cut into thin wedges. Heat butter on a small frying pan, add apples and sauté gently for a few minutes. Season with cinnamon and nutmeg and continue frying for another 5-6 minutes over a low heat, until apples are nicely soft, but not mushy! Drizzle lemon juice on top, heat through.
Spoon the buttered apples over the oatmeal and serve immediately.
Need more oatmeal inspiration? Check out these recipes:
Oatmeal with peanut butter @ Nami-Nami
Oatmeal with banana and maple syrup @ Nami-Nami
Oatmeal with grated apple @ 80 Breakfasts
Savoury oatmeal with Parmesan cheese @ 80 Breakfasts
Steel-cut oats with Muscovado glazed bacon @ 80 Breakfasts
Christmas oatmeal @ 80 Breakfasts
Oatmeal basics @ Kitchen Parade
Peanut butter oatmeal @ Kalyn's Kitchen
Brown sugar roasted fig oatmeal @ Joy the Baker
Whipped banana oatmeal @ Kath Eats Real Food
English porridge and Vanilla bean oatmeal @ Amateur Gourmet
Heavenly oat bran porridge @ Lottie and Doof via The Kitchn
Slow-cooker spiced porridge @ The Kitchn
Chai porridge oats with rhubarb @ Not Quite Nigella
5 comments:
- Pene said...
There is a very big difference between 'pimp' & 'primp' which is the word you mean.
- 10:50 pm, January 10, 2013
- Jeff @ Cheeseburger said...
This is an excellent recipe to help me cut back and shed a bit of that weight added from the holiday season.
- 12:34 pm, January 11, 2013
- Pille said...
Oh, Pene. How I miss your comments about the food and not just about a missing comma or a typo :) But here I do mean "pimp up", which also means "to get dressed up; to decorate; to prettify" , so I stand by my words.
Jeff - well, you might go easy on those buttered apples then :P
- 3:36 pm, January 11, 2013
- ChichaJo said...
I love oatmeal and never tire of it! If you are looking for new ways to have it I have a bunch of recipes on my blog...just search for oatmeal :) This looks delicious!
- 5:56 pm, January 15, 2013
- Pille said...
Joey - FoodBlogSearch didn't give me any recipes from your blog :( I've now updated the post!
- 6:43 pm, February 01, 2013
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Random demographic household surveys in highly mobile pastoral communities in Chad
Daniel Weibel a, Mahamat Béchir b, Jan Hattendorf a, Bassirou Bonfoh c, Jakob Zinsstag a & Esther Schelling a
a. Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstr. 57, PO Box, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland.
b. Centre de Support en Santé Internationale, N'Djamena, Chad.
c. Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Correspondence to Daniel Weibel (e-mail: email@example.com).
(Submitted: 01 March 2010 – Revised version received: 13 February 2011 – Accepted: 14 February 2011 – Published online: 04 March 2011.)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:385-389. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.077206
An estimated 50 million pastoralists live in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Extensive mobile livestock production systems in sub-Saharan arid and semi-arid zones are important drivers in national economies as fundamental and ecologically sustainable food providers.2,3 However, these mobile pastoralists are politically and economically marginalized and must be fostered. Social and health planning relies on accurate data for fertility, mortality and causes of death.4 Countries in the Sahelian region of Africa face considerable challenges in sampling and registering mobile pastoralists. No demographic surveillance system includes data from these mobile communities and few other approaches account for these people either. Water point and cross-sectional sampling methods for nomadic groups were discussed by Kalsbeek.5 Watkins and Fleisher draw from experiences in establishing a migrant tracking system in Ethiopia. However, overall, few studies on demographic indices among mobile pastoralists are available.6–10 In this paper, we report on our effort to establish a demographic and health cohort based on reported data among mobile pastoral women in Chad (Box 1).
Box 1. Summary of main lessons learnt
- Determinants for the planning and implementation of demographic and health surveys among mobile pastoral communities include: environmental and climatic factors, availability of women for interviews, the need for informed consent of husbands in typically patriarchal societies, the importance of information-education-communication campaigns, and difficulties defining a woman's "own" children in mobile pastoral societies.
- It was not possible to establish a demographic cohort due to the low numbers of re-encountered individuals in random transect surveys among highly mobile pastoralist communities.
- Prospective cohorts are the most accurate method to assess basic demographic indices, but effective ways to establish such a cohort in a highly mobile setting remain to be tested.
The study area in the semi-arid Sahelian belt covered a surface area of 4275 km2 with a north–south extension of 45 km and an east–west extension of 95 km at the southern shores of Lake Chad in the region of Hadjer el Hamis, Chad. It covered the Gredaya zone where human and livestock vaccination campaigns were done from 2000 to 2007 by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Centre de Support en Santé Internationale in Chad.11
One survey round of about two weeks consisted of several random transects and randomly selected headlands and islands on Lake Chad. Sequential random compass directions (cardinal and intermediate points) and distances (10 to 100km in 10km increments) were generated to select starting points and to establish series of transects. The reference point was the village Gredaya (geographical coordinates: 12° 57' 28.40" N, 15° 3' 51.55" E). On these random transects, all visible feriks (mobile pastoralists' camps) were visited. Average visibility was about 1 km depending on weather conditions (e.g. dust and sand in the air) and vegetation.12
Local setting
Whenever our team arrived in a ferik, we were always received by a group of men to whom we presented the scope and the implications of the survey. We asked for consent for the participation of all women older than 12 years. In such typically patriarchal societies, informed consent of a male relative was crucial. Women participants were interviewed and their fingerprints were registered with a biometric fingerprint scanner for re-identification in a subsequent survey round.12 Demographic data reported by mothers or female caregivers (year of birth, ethnic group, number of children who had died, age when child died and cause of death, and number of children alive at time of the interview, including, sex, age, date of death if deceased between survey rounds) have been collected by questionnaire interviews. The questionnaire was pre-tested on its feasibility with regard to time, staff requirement and comprehensibility. The interview team asked the questions in Arabic and answers were translated into French. In total we registered and interviewed 1081 women with 2541 children (1336 boys and 1205 girls). The number of individuals re-encountered is shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Women and children encountered in five random transect demographic household surveys of mobile pastoral communities conducted from March 2007 to January 2008 in Chad
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The five survey rounds took place from March 2007 to January 2008. In this period, the main ethnic groups of Arab, Fulani and Gorane were gathered in the study area after transhumant movements of several hundred kilometres between rainy and dry season pastures. These highly mobile cattle breeders use the dry season pastures on the shores of Lake Chad or in proximity of accessible ground.3
Ethical considerations
The Chadian Ministry of Health and the Ethical Committee of the Cantons of Basel and Baselland in Switzerland approved this study, including the collection, storage and analysis of biometric data. Participation was voluntary. To preserve the anonymity of participants, all fingerprint-related information, demographic and health data and geographical coordinates were stored in three separate databases and were only linked for final analysis via unique identification numbers. All data were treated confidentially.
The goal of the surveys was to establish a demographic and health cohort using biometric fingerprint registration of the mothers. Success of this approach relied on re-encountering individuals reasonably frequently and accurate reporting of deaths. The applied biometric fingerprint tool was crucial for unique identification of individuals, who did not have identification cards.12 Due to the low numbers of registered women (5%, 56/1081) encountered twice, it was not possible to establish a cohort to capture changes in demographic and health parameters in this highly mobile community.
It is likely there was a sampling bias of under-representation of women without children due to stigma of infertility. The proportion of these women in the feriks and the number of women that did not participate in the survey was unknown. Some women in the oldest age group presented their grandchildren or children from other family members as their own children. This reflects the difficulty in defining a woman's "own" child in pastoralist cultural settings.
Accompanying health service provision including information-education-communication campaigns involving pastoralist chiefs and spiritual leaders were crucial in obtaining permission to participate in the surveys. However, given the lack of existing health services, the interviewed women may have slightly over-reported deaths of children in the hope of receiving more health services for their community. The same child may have been reported by different individuals between different rounds. However, since we only encountered 5% (56/1081) of all registered women twice, we expect that the double-reporting would have been low.
The most accurate method to obtain robust and consistent mortality information is demographic and health surveys with a prospective cohort rather than estimates based on retrospective and reported data.13 A prospective cohort requires visiting the same households at regular intervals. In a mobile pastoralist context, this requires local assistance and knowledge from people such as community health workers, chiefs and other authorities on locating the households and their members (the composition of a household varies according to the season). If the establishment of a cohort were feasible, the visits would require greater resources to reach a meaningful number of representative households from all three ethnic groups. Our survey showed that the high proportion of Fulani people (61%; 659/1081) in the sample was mainly due to the selection of the study area on the shores of Lake Chad, which is predominately populated by Fulani pastoralists in the dry season. The presence of Goranes and Arabs was much more variable between survey rounds and their transhumance into the study zone was not as consistent as for the Fulani. Because there was no data available on population sizes for different ethnic groups of mobile pastoralists in the dry season at Lake Chad, it was impossible to make any statement on the representativeness of the sample.
It is difficult to achieve same time intervals between survey rounds in a highly mobile setting because one cannot predict availability of guides or the time needed to encounter the required number of households. In addition, the surveys were interrupted by climatic (e.g. heavy rainfalls) and political events (fights between the national Chadian army and rebel armed forces on the outskirts of the study area in January/February 2008). The randomly sampled women per survey round varied between 103 and 365 and the number of children between 310 and 916 according to the days spent in the field (from 7–23 days).
On average, we could interview 14–15 women per day because the women had a high workload and their availability was limited. In addition, the team often needed male consent (usually the woman's husband, who commonly was absent from the ferik during the day), further delaying the interviews.
In conclusion, the random transect surveys are appropriate. However, many resources were required to maintain several survey rounds and did not lead to a follow-up cohort. Tracking technologies such as global positioning systems and mobile phones could be used to follow up nomadic households. Health cohort surveys and demographic surveillance could also integrate with multisectoral interventions and infrastructure services such as domestic markets and water, finance and social services. Future interdisciplinary research needs to target innovative methods and tools to include marginalized communities such as mobile pastoralists in health surveillance.
We thank M Tanner, director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, DM Daugla, director of Centre de Support en Santé Internationale, the Chadian authorities and the nomadic communities for their support to this study.
The research was carried out within the Transversal Package Project "Pastoral Production System" of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North–South: Research Partnerships for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change, co-funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the participating institutions. The author had full control of all primary data.
Competing interests:
None declared.
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Colony Turns From Geese to Hogs
Franz, Peggy. "Colony Turns From Geese to Hogs." Walsh County Record, 15 October 1985.
Birds of goose feathers no longer flock together in the building they called home on the Forest River Colony farm.
Their space has been monopolized by hogs.
"The cost of a goose was so high there was no way we could keep up," explained Paul Mandel, who manages the geese-turned-hog operation. "We made $3,000 out of 14,000 geese last year, and that doesn't include electricity. We didn't make anything."
Forest River Colony decided to relinquish their geese operation for something more profitable. They chose hogs. "This spring was the first year we started with hogs," said Mandel. "Already we've doubled our profit that we had on geese. At the end of the year we'll have a total profit for as much as we got for the complete geese operation."
Paul Mandel works to make the Forest River colony's hog operation a money making venture.
Forest River Colony farmers, who had contracted the geese with Northern Goose in Canada, produced the geese but were finding that it took too long for the killing plants to butcher the geese, making it necessary for the colony to keep the birds an extra two months. The added length of stay meant more costs in feed.
Mandel explained that because there are only two killing plants in Canada, there is not time to butcher approximately 400,000 Canadian geese in one month. The butchering, which starts in late fall when the weather is cold enough so the birds no longer shed their feathers, usually lasts until the end of December.
Mandel cited that the feed conversion, or converting the feed into meat on the bird, was significantly out of proportion so that they were not seeing the return on their investment. "They eat too much," said Mandel. "They're not moneymakers. It took us 84 lbs. of feed to put out one 14 lb. goose. It's ridiculous. The feed conversion isn't there."
Said Mandel, "We used to always have geese, and then we stopped for three years. Then a Canadian contractor wanted us to keep it up, so we've had them for the past six years. But it isn't worth the hassle, and the building was tied up. We were more or less feeding them out."
Last year was the last geese producing season at Forest River Colony. This year, the farm keeps 1,000 duck for their own purposes and for a few customers. "We can't always eat geese. Our people think duck are better. They're not as dry as geese." Next year, the colony will switch to producing 1,000 geese, and the year following plan to keep both geese and duck on hand for their own purposes and for a few customers.
Forest River Colony believed the killing plants were seeing too much profit on the geese, which was another reason they decided to no longer produce the bird.
"They were making too much profit and they weren't handing it back to the producer," said Mandel. "If we would sell feathers, we'd make more money than we did raising geese."
Mandel said they believed it was unfair that the killing plants were charging so much to butcher geese, between $9 and $12, and then sold the goose feathers for $6 to $7 per pound. Each bird has approximately three fourths of a pound of feathers. Cited Mandel, "The most money you can make is off the feathers."
He noted that butchering of geese is costly because of time and labor involved in the killing operation. "It takes a lot of hard labor to kill geese. You can't do it by machine, you have to do it manually, otherwise the feathers rip easily."
For Forest River Colony farmers, cost of feed and labor involved was not worth the small profit they received for producing the bird. They hope to see a substantially larger profit from the hog operation.
According to Paul Mandel, pigs are particular animals that thrive on clean water and feed and a clean place to sleep.
According to Mandel, they, along with the feed producer and contractor, each have between $60,000 to $70,000 invested in the hog operation.
Colony farmers converted the building that formerly housed geese to a hog barn where 1,500 pigs are kept. The Colony custom feeds the hogs, and receives a given amount of money per pig put on the market. Mandel said $10 per pig is the minimum amount the colony is paid.
"We've already started shipping and have been getting
good grades,"
cited Mandel. "We're averaging $14 per pig and we've upped our profits to $4 per pig."
Mandel said the type of pigs, the building and feed are the most important factors in raising pigs. "A pig is a very particular animal, just opposite of what we think. They're clean, don't mess where they sleep, and like clean water and feed. If they have that, they will really perform for you."
The colony keeps the pigs in solid confinement year around in a constant temperature of 65-70 degrees. "Pigs cannot take draft. That's dynamite for them. They just don't like it."
Mandel said because of the constant temperature and confinement, the pigs they are raising have less fat. "They produce meat instead of fat. They gain fast, but they don't put on fat."
After researching various hog operations, the colony found that
the Canadian feed and pork industry are successful and have used
Canadian techniques in their hog operation.
Profit in a hog operation, according to Mandel, is made by grading and gain. "We have to really take care of those pigs. We want to get that gain so we can get that extra money. By doing that people know they're getting the best for their money."
The Colony is paid between $10 and $14 per pig, depending upon the grade and the weight. If it is top grade, the producer receives more money. "If we want $14 per hog, we've got to do a real good job."
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In his State of the City address today, Mayor Chris Beutler lauded the citizens of the past for the bold decisions and sacrifices they made that continue to positively impact our community. And he encouraged today's residents to look ahead and consider the impact current decisions will have on future generations.
We are able to focus on the future this day because we have already made sacrifices and taken care of today's obligations," Beutler said. "We may still face some challenges with the City budget. But I am so certain of the results of our past hard work to correct the structural imbalances, that I am confident that we can end my term in 2011 without a property tax increase during my Administration. This will maintain for four straight years one of the lowest city levies in the State among comparable cities.
Mayor Beutler said being positive about the City and its relatively strong local economy is one of the keys to continued economic growth. He said projects continue to emerge because of the City's increasingly positive business environment. And he said events and entertainment opportunities will be a focus in achieving revenue growth.
The key to any sustained, enhanced entertainment-based plan is a modern arena equipped to compete," he said. "That's why the proposed Lincoln Haymarket Arena and the surrounding private development are critical to our future. The West Haymarket development coupled with the arena will be a powerful magnet to future job creation, growth and development. That project must be the major focus for our community in the coming months. We must find consensus and work hand-in-hand to finally turn the concept of an arena into bricks and mortar.
The Mayor also called on the community to focus on civility and respect in dealing with the decisions facing the City. In conjunction with the State of the City, he sent an e-mail to City employees today stressing the need for civil discourse in dealing with each other, the public and elected officials.
Shouting at each other, rather than listening to one another seems to have become the norm at the national level and appears to be filtering its way to the local scene," he said. "We cannot forget our common interests and responsibilities in respecting each other and bringing civility to the debate on the direction of our City.
The Mayor ended his remarks by calling on residents to make the choices that will be lauded by the Mayor 50 years from now.
Because of the tough choices we have made together over the past three years, no community in America is as well-positioned as Lincoln, Nebraska to move forward and to take advantage of 21st-century opportunities. "We can build a new Lincoln Haymarket Arena. We can build Innovation Park with the University, develop new infrastructure and create the conditions for accelerated growth.
The entire State of the City address and a list of Administration accomplishments are available on the home page of the City Web site at lincoln.ne.gov.
Major Accomplishments
Mayor Chris Beutler's Administration
October 2009
The City's new Development Services Center (DSC) is expected to open at City Hall in March of 2010 with Fred Hoke serving as DSC Manager, effective October 1. The DSC will be a one-stop shop for the review, permitting and inspection of projects to help developers create jobs more quickly.
A $6 million Fast Forward Fund will be used for infrastructure improvements for high-impact economic development projects.
The Beutler Administration has combined budget cuts, revenue enhancements and reorganization to correct the City budget structural imbalance. This was accomplished without increasing the City property tax rate and while maintaining branch libraries, neighborhood pools and recreation center hours. The implementation of outcome-based budgeting was enhanced with public involvement through the Priority Lincoln and Taking Charge initiatives
Progress continues on Antelope Valley, a flood control, traffic improvement and community revitalization project in the core of the City. The signature bridge across the channel on "O' Street is open and work is under way on Union Plaza, the City's newest park.
The 2009 passage of the Urban Growth Bill, sponsored by Lincoln Senator Amanda McGill allows the City to create one or more urban growth districts near the edge of the community. Estimated sales tax revenues generated within the urban growth district or districts can be pledged for debt service on an "urban growth bond." The proceeds of the bond would be used to fund a broad range of infrastructure needs, including roads. The bonds would be backed by the City's general taxing authority.
Great progress has been made on the proposed Lincoln Haymarket Arena development. The 2008 passage of LB 912, sponsored by Lincoln Senator Bill Avery, will return about $700,000 per year in state sales tax revenues for the project. Former Lincoln City Council member Dan Marvin is overseeing the effort, and a public vote is expected to take place in May 2010.
Other legislative successes included the 2008 passage of LB 1116, sponsored by Senator Phil Erdman of Bayard, which makes the land at State Fair Park available for Innovation Park.
To improve accountability in City government the Mayor issued an executive order prohibiting Department Directors or Mayoral Aides from having City contracts. He also appointed a City Audit Advisory Board to contract for internal, financial, operational and performance audits of City government.
The Mayor has established other advisory groups to make recommendations on important community issues:
The ambulance service provided by Lincoln Fire and Rescue will is operating in the black for the third consecutive year. The City has placed a sixth ambulance into the field to keep response times low, reduce paramedic stress and maintain a high standard of care. The City also made changes in the provision of stand-by services to allow for private sector/public sector cooperation
To encourage more Lincoln residents to support City Hall, the Mayor has taken steps to reduce the City employee retirement plan to a $1 to $1 match for new employees. The City currently contributes $2 for every $1 contributed by employees to the pension plan.
The Stronger Safer Neighborhoods initiative is a partnership among City governments, non-profits and the development community to focus on revitalizing problem areas. The initiative's list of successful efforts includes a new approach to graffiti removal, the City's first smoke detector rally and more than 100 other community building and neighborhood events, includingBiketacular.
The Cleaner Greener Lincoln initiative was launched in partnership with the Nebraska Attorney General's office, which provided $50,000 from a lawsuit settlement. The initiative is being supported with $2.4 million in stimulus funds available through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program to improve energy efficiency and boost the use of renewable and clean energy technologies across the community.
In addition to the energy stimulus funds, the City has been successful in receiving other funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).


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Real deal: Kunis, Timberlake show comic chops
Friends with Benefits follows romcom formulas as if directed on autopilot, but that's not to say it isn't fun. This is the second movie this year to ask whether it's possible to have sex with someone without falling in love, and the second to arrive at a mistaken conclusion– because of course it is. It's just not possible if you're Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, and the audience likes you and demands a romantic fadeout. I propose this as a rule: No movie with big stars and a big budget can allow them to enjoy big-time sex and then split them up at the end.
The news about this movie is that it makes it clear that both Timberlake and Kunis are the real thing when it comes to light comedy. Since they earlier proved themselves in dramas (The Social Network and Black Swan), that must indicate they're the real thing in general. Now all they have left are comic book superheroes. Full review.Read more on: Friends with BenefitsJustin Timberlakemovie review


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Colt showing off the "blank spot" in his mouth with his dog Brody.
Many responsibilities befall parents; the most important, maintaining contact with and credibility for the League of Nighttime Visitors. Now don't get your knickers all in a twist. I'm talking about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
As far as I'm concerned Santa and that Rabbit have it easy. They're only on duty for home visits one night a year. But the Tooth Fairy is always on call. Even OB doctors get someone to cover them, but not the Molar Man. Yes, ever since Dwain Johnson made that movie, I KNOW the Tooth Fairy is a man!
Having a young son 14 and 15 years after our oldest children has brought this League back into our home.
Like I said, the Tooth Fairy never gets a break and struggles in our home. A line of communication between the "tooth loser" and the Fairy would also help. Colt lost a tooth about three days BEFORE I, (clearing my throat) I mean the Tooth Fairy was notified to schedule a "nighttime invasion". Colt was satisfied with my explanation that the Easter Bunny forgot to spread the word that we were back home after travelling out of town for Easter weekend.
Last night, the sun goes down. Strategic plans were in place. The tooth was in position for pick up. And the little boy was tucked in and almost asleep. After being blackmailed by this little boy, the Tooth Fairy gave strict instructions regarding the tooth/money exchange. Several months ago, Colt hid a tooth for three nights, collected money and then showed me the tooth was in fact still under his pillow. That night, the Fairy left this note…. "Put your tooth on your headboard NOT under your pillow or no money will be left. TF"
Colt heeded the instructions and the tooth was placed in a special cup ready for TF's visit. I have to admit, TF was feeling confident about the night. At 3 a.m. TF was in a panic because "he" forgot to visit Colt….but there was still time. So, with ninja stealth ability, the Fairy gathered up change in the dark and tiptoed into the little boy's bedroom. Mission accomplished. Exchange made.
Bright and early this morning, I was proud of the mission's success. I happily asked Colt if his tooth had been picked up and got a "YES". I then asked "What did he leave you?" Colt said with a giggle "Three quarters and a beer token".
Epic fail! I'm not sure what disturbed me more. The fact that the Fairy left a beer token or the fact that Colt knew what it was. I bought the token for a dollar.
With this mishap in the books, I hereby recommend the creation of "select days" for Tooth Fairy visits. Let's just call it "Tooth-loss Tuesday" and it happens on the first Tuesday of each month. MAYBE this household's representative of the Fairy Fleet could handle that…or maybe not.
I am happy to report that OBVIOUSLY this Tooth Fairy didn't drink the beer. Hence TF's possession of the token. I wear many hats as a Mom. Just never thought it'd be the Dunce Hat on so many occasions.
Sustain good communication with your League of Nighttime Visitors so this doesn't happen to you....and throw away all unused beer tokens!
Until next time, find YOUR Wisdom.... Accidentally.


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Mayor Don Wesely today announced that 2,000 gun locks have been made available to Lincoln for free distribution to owners of firearms to encourage gun safety. An initial donation of 1,000 locks by Steve Russell of Swanson Russell Associates and B.C. Kinsey of Shooters Guns & More was matched by Project HomeSafe, a program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
"Today, with the support of local businesses and the Police Department, Lincoln is taking an important step to make our neighborhoods and homes safer," said Mayor Wesely. "Project HomeSafe will help people who own guns safely store them. Making sure that thousands of guns in Lincoln will not fire unless the owner unlocks them will hopefully prevent any future tragedies."
Citizens interested in receiving the free gun locks will be required to participate in a one-hour class on gun safety and the proper use of the locks. The Lincoln Police Department designed the class, and those interested in attending can contact LPD's Crime Prevention Unit at 441-7261.
"The message is simple: If your gun is not already equipped with gun lock, I urge you to call our police department and request a gun safety kit," said Wesely.
Project HomeSafe is a nationwide program developed to inform and educate the owners of firearms and the community on safety issues regarding gun ownership, handling, use and secure storage. More than 300 cities and counties have joined the program since it was launched in October of 1999, and Lincoln is the 100th to start distribution of the locks.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the leading trade organization of the hunting and shooting sports industry, with more than 1,600 members representing the manufacturing, distributing and retailing segments of the industry.


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ROME (Reuters) - France and Germany should be held to account over the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar because they exerted political pressure to award the 2022 World Cup to the tiny Gulf state, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday.
Blatter said financial interests prompted Europe's two largest economies to lobby for a Qatar tournament and that construction companies were ultimately responsible for the treatment of their workers.
FIFA has faced a series of controversies since it awarded the World Cup to Qatar in 2010, with the latest fuelled by reports of rife exploitation of migrant workers in the country's construction sector.
Speaking at a Rome press conference, Blatter said the vote to award the tournament to Qatar was influenced by "political pressure from European countries...because there were so many economic interests."
"Two of these countries pressured the voting men in FIFA: France and Germany...I think the heads of state of these two countries should also express what they think of this situation," Blatter said.
The European Parliament urged FIFA to pressure Qatar to address labor conditions in stadiums and infrastructure under construction for the event on Thursday.
"It's easy to say all the responsibilities lie on FIFA. No, no, we are part of this responsibility," Blatter said.
The French and German governments did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Blatter's comments come after scathing reports by Amnesty International and Britain's Guardian newspaper, which said migrant workers suffer rife abuse, live in squalid accommodation and are sometimes denied their wages or from returning home.
The International Trade Union Confederation said 4,000 workers' lives would be at risk before the tournament started.
But Blatter indicated it was unreasonable for European politicians to express concern about labor abuses, saying "most" large companies working in Qatar were European.
Construction contracts in the run up to the World Cup have predominantly been awarded to large multinational western firms. The Amnesty International report found the majority of abuses involved workers employed by small subcontractors.
"There are companies from Europe, Qatar and many other countries involved in large construction projects in Qatar. All companies must ensure the rights of workers are respected in their contractual chains," Sherif Elsayed Ali, Head of Refugee and Migrants' rights in Amnesty International said.
"FIFA must not downplay its own role and responsibilities."
Blatter said Qatar had written a 10-point plan to address labor rights, and that FIFA would decide its course of action after consultations early next year.
The world soccer body is currently examining whether the tournament should be held in the winter rather than its traditional June-July slot, to avoid summer temperatures that reach 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit).
Qatari officials have dismissed accusations that some of the 22-member committee were bribed to sway the vote. Blatter has said in the past the decision may have been a mistake.
Additional reporting by Amena Bakr, editing by Justin Palmer