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I got a phone call last Friday night from a person who had happened upon my name on the internet. She expressed concern about a pig scramble that was held as part of a local rodeo, wanted to know my opinion, and wanted resource materials about appropriate handling of pigs.
I referred her to the Five Freedoms, AMI Animal Handling Guidelines, National Pork Board's TQA and PQAPlus programs. I also wrote a letter for her to take to rodeo organizers outlining my views on pig scrambles. Following is that letter.
January 23, 2017
To the organizers of ******Rodeo "Pig Scramble"
My name is Nancy Lidster. I grew up on a mixed grain and hog farm in the 1950's. My husband and I raised pigs commercially from 1981 – 2001. Since 1996 I have been teaching and promoting Low Stress Pig Handling. I have been asked to comment on inclusion of a Pig Scramble in your rodeo.
I understand the tradition of pig scrambles at rodeos and sports days as a way to involve kids in an activity that – aside from a few bruises and scrapes – is relatively safe and exciting for the kids and entertaining for the audience. The thing is, this isn't the 50's or 60's or 80's and things that used to be socially acceptable aren't any more. Attitudes towards farm animals have changed. We now acknowledge that pigs and other animals experience fear and pain and that we humans are responsible for minimizing unnecessary pain, fear, and injury experienced by animals in our care. By their very nature, pig scrambles are frightening and carry an increased probability of pain or injury for the pigs involved and they are not necessary.
Every step of commercial pig production from birth through transport to slaughter is now being monitored and audited to ensure that high standards of animal care and welfare are maintained and to identify and fix situations where they aren't. The treatment of animals in a pig scramble falls far short of today's pork industry standards for animal care and handling. Pig scrambles aren't exempt from industry standards just for being "entertainment".
Today, the majority of people's exposure to animals is limited to family pets, and that human / pet relationship shapes their expectations of how farm animals should be treated. Consider their perspective if you will, by picturing a scramble in which you replace the pigs with puppies or kittens or bunnies. Whether or not you share their perspective, it is today's social reality. Rather than defending a pig scramble tradition, I'd urge you to invest your energy and imagination in creating new activities to involve and engage kids at your rodeos.
I support animal agriculture. I would be happy to discuss my views if you feel that would be useful.
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We were a major contributor to the National Pork Board's "Trucker Quality Assurance" TQA Handbook Version 5: Chapter 1 – "Pig Behavior" and Chapter 2 – "Handling".
I enjoyed the pork chop I had for supper last night. I saddled old Buckshot and went for a ride part way through writing this blog today. The stray cat that showed up yowling on our deck a couple of months ago is likely wondering why her domestic staff isn't there at her beck and call right now. Animals have always enriched my life in so many ways.
That's it for this time
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Appeal rejected for Texas death row inmate Newbury
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NEW ORLEANS — One of the so-called "Texas 7" prison escapees sent to death row for the 2000 slaying of a Dallas-area police officer has lost another appeal.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal for Donald Newbury, who claimed ineffective counsel during initial appeals. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based court on Tuesday ruled against Newbury.
The U.S. Supreme Court in June 2013 had ordered a review of Newbury's allegations.
Newbury and six other inmates broke out of the Connally Unit in December 2000. Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins was shot and killed when he interrupted a store robbery blamed on the fugitives.
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Runners-up: Williams-Sonoma and Trader Joe's
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As background, the renewable energy tax credits--which include the production tax credit and the investment tax credit--are tax incentives designed to spur the development of certain kinds (see below) of green power. Currently, the production tax credit (PTC) amounts to 1.9 cents/kilowatt hour (kWh) for power generated in the first 10 years of a facility's operation. That 10-year horizon is designed to make green power investments viable by making their production costs competitive with other generators on a per kWh basis. The investment tax credit (ITC) equals 30% of the capital costs of a project, with additional provisions for accelerated depreciation. The ITC has been a key driver for solar projects.
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- 5-10 year extension. There are many green projects in the pipeline, but these renewable energy tax credits are set to expire on December 31st, which throws a lot of uncertainty on the value of these investments. Just as problematic, past few extensions have just been for 1 or 2 years, and advocates have had to fight hard to get even those. That gives project developers only two years to install a project.
- Cover all renewables equally. The 1.9 cent/kWh production tax credit applies only to wind, geothermal, solar, and closed-loop biomass projects. Less-known types like Open-loop biomass landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, and certain hydro projects, which also have potential, receive only 0.9 cents/kWh. The 1.9 cent level should apply to all renewable resources.
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It's clear that Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs hold each other in high regard, aligning their companies, to some extent, for the ambitious new iPad-only newspaper The Daily. But Jobs doesn't just build, Murdoch says, he destroys, too.
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Stephanie joined JLL in 2019, bringing extensive financial leadership expertise and experience working in complex, dynamic landscapes. Previously, she served in CFO roles at Starbucks, Walmart and Ahold Delhaize. She has also held various finance positions at PepsiCo and UBS.
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Thx for the info sir ;D. I'm going to use it now.
After extract, can i remove png texture on Mods folder to save diskspace or keep it?
Why we need PNG texture on battle while converted it to LGP, i'm removed it and now do i copy it again?No,now graphics driver is updated,the battle scenes will be loaded of png's in modpath,the process is telling to move or remove the png's and cache of your modpath,with that the mod will work on the new version of graphics driver.
Well,Aali have updated graphics driver,it works good for me,if you guys have updated your graphics driver and are interested in use this mod to have a good load speed in battle scenes here the process.
go to your modpath and move battle folder to a separated folder in your pc,after go to cache folder and rename battle folder to battle (cache),now move to the same folder of battle with scene enhacement png's,and enjoy. 8)
If you don't download the battle scenes in png (for both FeliX Leonhart and magochocobo)you don't need worry about this,the mod will work perfectly.
If you download and installed,you need make the move process for this mod work.
this need a tutorial because can be huge.(i will prepare and post here later)
The new graphics driver works great for me so i think don't make sense continue converting .png to work in battle.lgp when battle scenes be continued.That's why i will prepare a tutorial for users later,just give me some time.
yep, i would no longer recommend this
not sure why but acts differently with .11
Sorry, I'm a bit confused about what you are saying...
I was asking philman whether modifying battle.lgp with his files showed increased performance in latest Aali's driver compared to just using the .png. He replied that he has seen no difference in performance when using both.
And you are saying that using philman's for-lgp files increased your performance? What is it that you don't recommend - modifying battle.lgp or using .png files?
Pardon me for being a little out of the loop, but is there overlap between FL's and magochocobo's packs? In other words, do they both have new versions of any or all of the battle maps?
cocoboii download most of the available 'png' battle enhancements from these:


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At the end of 2011, America, like much of the rest of the Western world, has dug deeper into a cocoon of denial. Tens of millions of Americans remain unaware that this nation is broke — broker than any nation has ever been. A few days before Christmas, we sailed across the psychological Rubicon and joined the club of nations whose government debt now exceeds their total GDP. It barely raised a murmur — and those who took the trouble to address the issue noted complacently that our 100 percent debt-to-GDP ratio is a mere two-thirds of Greece's. That's true, but at a certain point per capita comparisons are less relevant than the sheer hard dollar sums: Greece owes a few rinky-dink billions; America owes more money than anyone has ever owed anybody ever.
Public debt has increased by 67 percent over the last three years, and too many Americans refuse even to see it as a problem. For most of us, "$16.4 trillion" has no real meaning, any more than "$17.9 trillion" or "$28.3 trillion" or "$147.8 bazillion." It doesn't even have much meaning for the guys spending the dough: Look into the eyes of Barack Obama or Harry Reid or Barney Frank, and you realize that, even as they're borrowing all this money, they have no serious intention of paying any of it back. That's to say, there is no politically plausible scenario under which the 16.4 trillion is reduced to 13.7 trillion, and then 7.9 trillion, and eventually 173 dollars and 48 cents. At the deepest levels within our governing structures, we are committed to living beyond our means on a scale no civilization has ever done.
Our most enlightened citizens think it's rather vulgar and boorish to obsess about debt. The urbane, educated, Western progressive would rather "save the planet," a cause which offers the grandiose narcissism that, say, reforming Medicare lacks. So, for example, a pipeline delivering Canadian energy from Alberta to Texas is blocked by the president on no grounds whatsoever except that the very thought of it is an aesthetic affront to the moneyed Sierra Club types who infest his fundraisers. The offending energy, of course, does not simply get mothballed in the Canadian attic: The Dominion's prime minister has already pointed out that they'll sell it to the Chinese, whose Politburo lacks our exquisitely refined revulsion at economic dynamism, and indeed seems increasingly amused by it. Pace the ecopalyptics, the planet will be just fine: Would it kill you to try saving your country, or state, or municipality?
Last January, the BBC's Brian Milligan inaugurated the new year by driving an electric Mini from London to Edinburgh taking advantage of the many government-subsidized charge posts en route. It took him four days, which works out to an average speed of six miles per hour — or longer than it would have taken on a stagecoach in the mid–19th century. This was hailed as a great triumph by the environmentalists. I mean, c'mon, what's the hurry?
What indeed? In September, the tenth anniversary of a murderous strike at the heart of America's most glittering city was commemorated at a building site: The Empire State Building was finished in 18 months during a depression, but in the 21st century the global superpower cannot put up two replacement skyscrapers within a decade. The 9/11 memorial museum was supposed to open on the eleventh anniversary, this coming September. On Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg announced that there is "no chance of it being open on time." No big deal. What's one more endlessly delayed, inefficient, over-bureaucratized construction project in a sclerotic republic?
Barely had the 9/11 observances ended than America's gilded if somewhat long-in-the-tooth youth took to the streets of Lower Manhattan to launch "Occupy Wall Street." The young certainly should be mad about something: After all, it's their future that got looted to bribe the present. As things stand, they'll end their days in an impoverished, violent, disease-ridden swamp of dysfunction that would be all but unrecognizable to Americans of the mid–20th century — and, if that's not reason to take to the streets, what is? Alas, our somnolent youth are also laboring under the misapprehension that advanced Western societies still have somebody to stick it to. The total combined wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans is $1.5 trillion. So, if you confiscated the lot, it would barely cover one Obama debt-ceiling increase. Nevertheless, America's student princes' main demand was that someone else should pick up the six-figure tab for their leisurely half-decade varsity of Social Justice studies. Lest sticking it to the Man by demanding the Man write them a large check sound insufficiently idealistic, they also wanted a trillion dollars for "ecological restoration." Hey, why not? What difference is another lousy trill gonna make?
Underneath the patchouli and pneumatic drumming, the starry-eyed young share the same cobwebbed parochial assumptions of permanence as their grandparents: We're gayer, greener, and groovier, but other than that it's still 1950 and we've got more money than anybody else on the planet, so why get hung up about a few trillion here and a few trillion there? In a mere half century, the richest nation on earth became the brokest nation in history, but the attitudes and assumptions of half the population and 90 percent of the ruling class remain unchanged.
Auld acquaintance can be forgot, for a while. But eventually even the most complacent and myopic societies get reacquainted with reality. For anyone who cares about the future of America and the broader West, the most important task in 2012 is to puncture the cocoon of denial. Instead, the governing class obsesses on trivia: just to pluck at random from recent Californian legislative proposals, a ban on non-fitted sheets in motels, mandatory gay history for first graders, car seats for children up to the age of eight. Why not up to the age of 38? Just to be on the safe side. And all this in an ever more insolvent jurisdiction that every year drives ever more of its productive class to flee its borders.
Tens of millions of Americans have yet to understand that the can can no longer be kicked down the road, because we're all out of road. The pavement ends, and there's just a long drop into the abyss. And, even in a state-compliant car seat, you'll land with a bump. At this stage in a critical election cycle, we ought to be arguing about how many government departments to close, how many government programs to end, how many millions of government regulations to do away with. Instead, one party remains committed to encrusting even more barnacles to America's rusting hulk, while the other is far too wary of harshing the electorate's mellow.
The sooner we recognize the 20th-century entitlement state is over, the sooner we can ring in something new. The longer we delay ringing out the old, the worse it will be. Happy New Year?
— Mark Steyn, a National Review columnist, is the author of After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. ©2011 Mark Steyn
If the idiots in Washington and the entitlement class keep it up, it won't matter if the Mayans are correct or not, we'll be toast regardless. T-O-A-S-T.
31 December 2011
Ring Out The New, Ring In The Old
30 December 2011
Ron Paul: All Aboard! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaa! Mental Wounds Still Screaming! Driving Me Insane I'm Going Off The Rails On My Crazy Train! (And I Want To Take You Along For The Ride)
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- Signed Ron Paul, circa 1993
If you call now, Ron Paul will throw in a Ronco Pocket Fisherman©, a box of Alex Jones' Whacker Jacks, and a new roll of tinfoil in your choice of red, white or blue! Call 1.800.IAM.ANUT.
Gold? Silver? Oil? 9mm rounds? Canned goods? Prefabricated fallout shelters? Probably all of the above.
A few points: Unlike his newsletters, which were written in the first person and bore his name, we are told he didn't write them. Well, he might have written them, but only because Murray Rothbard invaded his body as a snatcher and wrote them when the good doctor was sleeping between "birthin' dem babies." Like his books, which were also written in the first person and bore his name and unlike his newsletters, which were also written in the first person and bore his name, these statements are obviously his. Lew Rockwell did not brainjack him and force him to spout these idiocies using psychokinesis. I mean, duh, Paul Pot's not wearing his tinfoil hat! How could he pickup the transmissions from the Wizard of Lew behind the curtain?
Hold on! What am I thinking??? This is a double-face palm moment! He didn't need the tinfoil hat. Paulsamic Vinegar Mom obviously failed to kill all of the "chemtrails" and Lew'Oz was able to hijack them and circumvent the MK-ULTRA codes. So, the barium and aluminum found in the aerosol of the chemtrail was manipulated and the mindcontrol programmes were reset so that Lew'Oz could communicate to Dr Paul through the air unseen by anyone in the room nor detected by electromagnetic fields, wireless internet, satellite signals, microwaves, cable channels and Transformers' walkie-talkies. Look, Mum! No tinfoil needed!
Sheesh! Sometimes, I can be so weapons grade stupid!
Of course, if you really want a tinfoil hat-worthy eye roll, queue up the clip to the 8:40 mark of the video clip above for a chance to hear Paul Pot literally say, verbatim and without irony:
"Yeah, well, that sure is a sign that [Rick Perry] is very much involved in the international conspiracy!"
Paul might be a borderline paranoid schizophrenic, himself, or he might just be a cynical, old crank, who likes the veneration of and the money he receives from paranoid schizophrenics, but he isn't stupid. He realises that his conspiracies do not play well with the mainstream of the American public. Sex sells. Crazy? Not so much. He knows how crazy his conspiracy theories about Bilderbergers, the New Money is gonna git ya!, the Illuminatus, blah, blah, blah, are. He has to, doesn't he?
Anyhoo, Alex Jones initially asks him to what nefarious shenanigans might the Bilderbergers be up behind the scenes. At first, the "good doctor' demurs and gives a typical Ron Paul non-answer answer, but if you have ever listened to Alex Jones, you would know that only Obama's Massive Radio and Internet Kill Switch can get him off of a tangent. He asks him again and again, to the effect, "What do you think the Bildersbergers are doing?" "What is the elite up to: are they trying to set up a dictatorship or have they so drunkenly overspent that they can't stop eating Goyim babes?" "Don't you think that George Bush is getting ready to impose a totalitarian dictatorship upon the country just like Hitler and Stalin did?" When he can no longer evade with his filibustered bullshit, Paul Pot offers up the old stand-by: the Illuminatus conspiracy and then goes for the red meat ring!
George Bush is coming to take every patriotic American's guns away and, if they are surrendered, he will -- personally -- pry the weapons out of the descendant of Washington, Jefferson and Madison's cold, dead hands!!!
By the way, is it just me or does Alex Jones always sound like he is a panting dog?
We know that Ron Paul is the King of Non Sequiturs. Just take a look at his batshit crazy debate response to Michelle Bachmann in Iowa. Watch his flapping arms and darting eyes. Sheesh, if his hair could have stood on end, I think that it would have:
BACHMANN: And with all due respect to Ron Paul, I think I have never heard a more dangerous answer for American security than the one that we just heard from Ron Paul. And I'll tell you the reason why.
And the reason — the reason — the reason why I would say that is because we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will use it to wipe our ally, Israel, off the face of the map, and they've stated they will use it against the United States of America.
Look no further than the Iranian constitution, which states unequivocally that their admission — their mission is to extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate. We would be fools and knaves to ignore their purpose and their plan.
PAUL: Obviously, I would like to see a lot less nuclear weapons. I - - I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I would like to reduce them, because there would be less chance of war. But to declare war on 1.2 billion Muslims and say all Muslims are the same, this is dangerous talk. Yeah, there are some radicals, but they don't come here to kill us because we're free and prosperous. Do they go to Switzerland and Sweden? I mean, that's absurd. If you think that is the reason, we have no chance of winning this. They come here and explicitly explain it to us. The CIA has explained it to us. It said they come here and they want to do us harm because we're bombing them.
Can someone point out where she said anything about declaring war on 1.2 billion Muslims? Does Ron Paul know that not all Muslims live in Iran? Does Ron Paul even understand why the one, the only, the Grand Poobah himself, the Ayatollah Khomeinei, banned the group known as The Hojjatieh Mahdatieh Society* in Iran?
PAUL: If she thinks we live in a dangerous world, she ought to think back when I was drafted in the 1962 with nuclear missiles in Cuba. And Kennedy calls Khrushchev and talks to them, and talks them out of this so we don't have a nuclear exchange.
Yikes! I am not a conspiracy theorist and I have poked fun at some of the Pauliacs for their well-known love of conspiracy theories with my claim to have solved the mystery of the man on the grassy knoll in Dallas on 22 November 1966, but I'm beginning to wonder if L. Ron Hubbard didn't write all of the history books and newspapers that Paul Pot has ever read. President Kennedy didn't call Khrushchev and talk him out of a nuclear exchange. First of all, obviously, Paul has no clue as to the fact that Khrushchev thought that Kennedy was a joke and had made a complete fool of him the previous year in Vienna. Secondly, there was never any phone call. In fact, while there were negotiations between emissaries, it was not dialogue that prompted Khrushchev to issue a message on Radio Moscow on 28 October advising the world that the USSR was stepping back from the precipice. Rather, it was the United States' advisory to NATO that "the situation is growing shorter... the United States may find it necessary within a very short time in its interest and that of its fellow nations in the Western Hemisphere to take whatever military action may be necessary" in the early morning hours of 27 October, followed by the CIA's notification that missiles in Cuba were ready and the American Navy's dropping of depth charges on a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear-tipped missiles at the quarantine line that caused the shoe-banger to blink. Following Moscow's statement, the Kennedy administration agreed to withdraw the Jupiter missiles in Turkey in exchange for the removal of the Soviet bombers from Cuba. While it appeared that Kennedy emerged victorious at the time, it was later felt that Castro was strengthened by the crisis. For certain, there are some liberals that do not consider JFK a brilliant president nor either the Vienna or the Cuban Missile Crisis a détente coup ... or should that be a coup détente? :-)
Those, who refuse to learn history and the law, are doomed to fall for Ron Paul's bullshit.
- Moi
Now, remember, this is the man, who wants to be the Commander in Chief of the United States' Military. Shouldn't he, at least, know something about military history? Seriously, it is embarrassing. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened long before I was born and I know more about it than the guy, who was drafted during it. If he wanted to use an example of a President that used dialogue to diffuse a situation with the Soviet Union, he could have used Reagan. Of course, that would be problematic since he once compared him to Stalin.
It is not merely that Paul Pot gets vexatious in his ill-fitting, cheap suit when he fundamentally disagrees with the underlying premise posed in a question. Just as his devotees, he goes out of his way to to try and embarrass or humiliate the questioner. You'll also notice something else about him: He doth project too much. He said this about Michelle Bachmann (I am not a supporter so please spare me the "shilling" emails) to Jay Leno:
"She doesn't like Muslims. She hates Muslims. She hates them. She wants to go get them."
But, have you ever paid close attention to how Ron Paul speaks about minorities or other groups -- other than the newsletters that he didn't read or write or know about for 10 years even though he was hawking them in 1995? He says that he doesn't see people in "collective groups" -- that it is something that is an anathema to his ideology. OK. Well, let's see:
"Maybe this is part of the 'knock down Ron Paul' (effort) because he's gaining grounds with the blacks. I'm getting more support right now, more votes from the blacks because they understand what I'm talking about and they trust me."
- Ron Paul
Whoa! Wait! "The blacks"?!?!?! Isn't that like a "collective group"? Isn't "them" a group?
"I don't see people in collective groups." - Ron Paul
"The blacks." - Ron Paul
Where have I heard the phrase "the blacks" used in connection with Ron Paul? Hmmm. Let me scratch my head and think here. Since Paul Pot has no "record" of racism, according to the Paulistinians, it might take a while. Give me a few moments ... or hours ... or days ... it might even take years or forever because the Paulistinians swear nothing exists and they could be right. Not! Psych!
"Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began."
Another thing that you will notice about Paul Pot is that he does shuck-and-jive interview performances worthy of Ahmadinejad (paraphrasing):
In the West:
"Iran is a homonym country. No, no, no! We don't have any homosexuals in Iran. I said HOMONYM. We believe under the "Religion of Peace," but because we follow the Qur'an and the Hadiths, we -- just rarely and occasionally, you see -- have pieces of bodies as a result of beheadings, stonings, hangings to decapitation, if such happens, which it does on occasion, and what have you. We also have to cut off the hands and feet of 'thieves,' as proscribed by the Qur'an in 5:33 and 5:38. Yes, yes, yes, we do have to cut off the penises of criminals, but that is only if the organs are 'vile or impure.' No, the clitoris and vulva are not considered necessary body parts. When your baby's fingernails and hair grow, do you not cut them for they are unhealthy?"
In Iran:
"Death to the Great Satan and let's wipe the Little Satan off of the map. A wink, a nod, and a little maslahat-e nizam, Inshallah!"
And, Obama...
To Iowa voters:
"I believe in the power of prayer. Through prayer, not only can we strengthen ourselves in adversity, but we can also find the empathy and the compassion and the will to deal with the problems that we do control. What I pray for is the strength and the wisdom to be able to act on those things that I can control. And that's what I think has been lacking sometimes in our government. We've got to express those values through our government, not just through our religious institutions."
To his liberal, elite, swanky donors in San Francisco:
"And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
If someone asks him,
"Should heroin be legalised?"
"I know that you claim that the Constitution requires that Congress must declare war and I agree, but can you point out the clause in the document where it says the words 'The Congress of the United States hereby declares war on XYZ' must be used rather than 'The Congress of the United States hereby authorises the President of the United States to use any and all legal force, including warfare, against XYZ organisation' and, if it is a terrorist organisation armed with a nuclear weapon -- just humour me here for the sake of argument -- on whom would you serve this declaration and where? At the United Nations? The XYZ organisation's de facto embassy in neutral Switzerland or Kandahar?"
"Congressman Paul, you know, even the Turks and Saudis are getting a little nervous about that nutter, Ahmadinejad, getting nukes and have pledged that they, too, will seek to acquire nuclear weapons, if Iran breaks out. What do you think that we should do about the possibility of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and, for your comfort, just go ahead and assume that the 13th floor of the Middle East, Israel, (technically, it exists, but is labeled the 14th floor a/k/a Palestine) is non-existent, which is what the textbooks in Palestinian schools already do. Oh, and one more thing, we have already gone down the, 'Let's be friends and talk it out route' with Obama and we've seen how 'productive' that's been."
"Listen, Dr Paul, I understand that you believe that that Prog tyrant, Woodrow Wilson, was one of the proximate causes of World War II. Gotcha. I couldn't agree more. But, dude, do you really believe that Germany wasn't our enemy in WWII even though it declared war on us first and would you have turned away the US St Louis like Franklin Delano Roosevelt?"
He is more than happy to give you answers that he knows will not only disappoint you, but downright piss you off and I actually thinks he likes doing it. Yet, you have to see him tip-toe through the fruit loops to really get an appreciation of his "inner lawyer" -- and being a lawyer, I know a good "inner lawyer" when I see one. He may have delivered 4,000 babies, but Allah knows how many conspiracy theories he has helped midwife with his nuance, doublespeak, dog whistles, non sequiturs, and out-and-out speculative lunacy.
He might be more than willing to tell a group of Jewish students that he would not have lifted a finger to stop the Holocaust, but he will go on and on about the "concentration camps" in Gaza:
"It's our money and our weapons. But I think we encouraged it. Certainly, the president has said nothing to diminish it; matter of fact, he justifies it on moral grounds — 'Oh, they have a right to do this!' — without ever mentioning the tragedy of Gaza! You know, the real problems are there. To me, I look at it like a concentration camp, and, people are making homemade bombs, and [it's] like, they're the aggressors?"
- Ron Paul, interviewed by Press TV*, 01.05.09
There are no "concentration camps" in Gaza. No one is living on, at most, 300 grams of bread per day.
This was Auschwitz:
This is the new Gaza Mall that opened on 17 July 2010:
This was Buchenwald Hospital:
This is Gaza Hospital:
This was Bergen-Belsen:
This is Roots Restaurant in Gaza:
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My laboratory explores the molecular mechanisms of replication of positive-strand RNA animal viruses. Positive-strand RNA viruses are interesting because they replicate exclusively via RNA intermediates. Considering the "RNA World" view of the evolution of life, RNA viruses represent modern day organisms with evolutionarily ancient replication strategies.
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There won't be many games that this blog complains about the refs - but they literally just handed the Sharks an empty net goal.
A lot of questionable calls tonight. Avalanche radio announcer Marc Moser had a golden line:
"I mean, really, they're [the Sharks] just the most well-behaved team in the National Hockey League"
Some analysis tomorrow probably, but mostly just a sour grapes at this point. Avs are going to feel like this one was robbed from them, but they just couldn't put pucks in the net. They had several opportunities but couldn't cash in.
Broken sticks, questionable penalties, and a fluke empty net goal.
Not a great night.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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I'm glad to hear someone else is upset with the calls against the Avs. I was afraid I'd have to fashion my own tin foil hat.
I wonder if Stewart's Game Misconduct penalty was for verbally dressing down the refs, cuz that would be awesome.
- October 22, 2010 at 2:12 AM
- Geoff Rosenthal said...
I hate going after officials, but I thought the phantom hook/slash on Dutchy in the 2nd was awful. He barely tapped him.
I'm just happy Stewie didn't pull a Rick Rypien on the ref. Can't afford lose him.
- October 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM
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The New England Revolution and Comcast SportsNet are happy to announce that the regional sports network will be the team's exclusive 2010 television partner in New England. All Comcast SportsNet telecasts will be delivered in high definition and begin on April 3 when the Revolution travel to face D.C. United in Washington, D.C.
"We are very excited to partner with Comcast SportsNet to bring the Revolution in high definition to our fans across New England," Revolution Chief Operating Officer Brian Bilello said. "Having high-definition television telecasts was one of our priorities this year, and Comcast SportsNet has been a market leader in sports programming for many years. Comcast SportsNet is a true regional player, reaching 4 million homes throughout New England, which allows us to expand the geographic distribution of our matches to more fans. Comcast SportsNet also has an impressive lineup of ancillary sports content. Taken together, this is a tremendous partnership for both the Revolution and Comcast SportsNet."
"The Revolution have been competitive year after year in Major League Soccer, and we are excited to bring them to Comcast SportsNet," said Bill Bridgen, Comcast SportsNet executive vice president and general manager. "There is no shortage of soccer fans in the region and working with the Revolution will allow us to reach new audiences and help expand the Revolution's brand."
Veteran soccer broadcaster Brad Feldman returns for his 10th season with the Revolution and will handle play-by-play duties for all matches airing on Comcast SportsNet. He will be joined in the booth by Revolution legend and Longmeadow, Mass., product Jay Heaps, who begins his first season as color analyst after retiring from the Revolution in December following a stellar 11-year MLS career.
Kraft Sports Productions will again produce every regionally-televised Revolution match. In 2010, Comcast SportsNet will broadcast 27 of the Revolution's 30 matches, beginning with the team's April 3 match at D.C. United.
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The Revolution is the Northeast region's premier professional soccer team. Operated by the Kraft Family, which also owns the New England Patriots, the Revolution is based at the state-of-the-art Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., where the club plays its home games. A founding member of Major League Soccer in 1996, the Revolution has played for the MLS Cup four times in the last decade, while advancing to the Eastern Conference Championship game in six straight years (2002-07), an MLS record. The Revolution also won the 2007 U.S. Open Cup and the 2008 SuperLiga title. The Revolution roster features a mix of top U.S. stars, as well as up-and-coming international talent, highlighted by the 2005 MLS Most Valuable Player and scoring champion, forward Taylor Twellman, and 2009 MLS MVP finalist Shalrie Joseph. The Revs' roster also includes players from all over the world, including Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Honduras, Lithuania, Senegal and Zimbabwe. Visit www.revolutionsoccer.net for more information.
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Sat. 3 at D.C. United (Washington, D.C.) 7:30 p.m. CSN
Sat. 10 Toronto FC (Foxborough, Mass.) 7:30 p.m. CSN
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Sat. 10 LA Galaxy (Foxborough, Mass.) 7:30 p.m. CSN
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Wed. 22 at FC Dallas (Frisco, Texas) 8:30 p.m. CSN
Sat. 25 Columbus Crew (Foxborough, Mass.) 7:30 p.m. CSN
Sat. 2 Real Salt Lake (Foxborough, Mass.) 7:30 p.m. CSN
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View his stats against others in the pl last season
I just think think even watching how pedestrian and slow we are now with literally only vlasic who can carry the ball forward...and still some don't rate Barkley.He can pass short or long, dribbles more than anyone on our team, create chances from open play and bang goals with either foot...and yet?
What's he done this season .oh wait (tried to leave didn't have the stones then what ).....what game was he stand alone last season go on im all baited breath and that .....hes wasted more than created by miles ....plus without lukaku he'd be just as shite as klassen or Sig or Rooney .Stats only serve the statistician proven.He's shite 90 % of the time.imho.Aside the Newcastle season befote last I really can't think of any game where he was the alleged massiah people make him out to be .
Got as far as stats only serve the statistician proven and imo he's shite 90%of the timeYou either very ironic or stupidOh and I don't really see anyone calling him a messiah just that he's better than what we have
How though .the fact he wants out ??.The fact he hated pressure The fact he's allegedly injured The fact he's been a let down most games ...still no answer to the standout game I see Shows true knowledge by the way commenting on stupidness when your entire argument seems to be based on couldve been a great player ?.
Compare him to other players in his position in the plI'm not saying he could have been this or could have been that, we seem to be having different discussions hereStand out game? I am not sure what the point of that is? Are we judging players on a game?
You can compare him to whoever you want ....the prem isn't the strongest for amc players It's a simple question name one game where has been electrically awesome for 90 mins ..since he broke through ...shouldn't be hard if he's so good .No difference in discussion either you think Barkley is awesome I think he's another want away who never reached his true potential at all ...so really two sides to a player discussion.
Hes never held his place? How he manage to start 68 of the last 76 games he was available for in our previous two seasons?Dont be shy now either, surely you could offer us an idea of whos better if youre so certain we have better players than Barkley.
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Irina Mironova Christopher Lopez
NEW YORK, NY - May 1, 2013 - Baruch College student Irina Mironova and Baruch recent graduate Christopher Lopez have been awarded the Jonas E. Salk Scholarship, in support of their studies in the natural sciences.
The Jonas E. Salk Scholarships were created by the Board of Estimate of the City of New York in 1955 to honor the City College graduate who developed the first anti-polio vaccine. They are awarded annually to eight graduates of the senior colleges of The City University of New York who have demonstrated sound character, outstanding scholarship and the promise of significant contribution to medical research. The scholarship winners receive a total of $8,000 ($2,000 per year for four-year medical schools) to help defray the expenses of study for the M.D., Ph.D. or D.Sc in Biomedical Sciences or D.O. degree.
Irina Mironova, born and raised in Russia in the small town near the Black Sea, immigrated to the United States eight years ago and has been living in New York City ever since.
Irina, who is graduating in May with a major in Biology and a minor in Spanish, said she first decided to attend Baruch to study business, but changed her mind after completing her first science class taught by Dr. Emil Gernert a professor in the Natural Sciences Department.
"I switched my major to Biology and joined the small but incredibly welcoming and supportive science community at Baruch," she said. "Because of the small class sizes, I developed close ties with all of my professors, all of whom reinforced my desire to study science and medicine. I'm very grateful to Baruch for the opportunity to explore my potential and succeed at achieving my goals."
Irina has been accepted to the Penn State at Hershey College of Medicine, where she is planning to pursue a medical degree and explore medical research in the fields of human physiology and biochemistry.
Christopher Lopez, from Great Neck, graduated from Baruch in May 2012. He double majored in Biology/Chemistry (ad hoc) alongside English Literature. Christopher graduated with honors in English literature and submitted his honor thesis titled, "Medicine and Disease as Metaphors in Shakespeare."
His thesis tied for first place in 2012 for the Kanner Award for outstanding thesis, and it was also the research project that he submitted for the Jonas Salk Scholarship. Christopher said he is grateful for the help he received from Baruch English professor Dr. Paula Berggren and science professor Dr. Emil Gernert, Dr. Ramzi Khuri, and Dr. John Wahlert, who helped him develop his passion for scientific research alongside his interest for English literature.
"I'm confident that I will be a far better physician and problem-solver thanks to what I've learned [majoring in] English literature and Chemistry," he said. "I'm extremely grateful for my time at Baruch."
Since graduating from Baruch, Christopher has been working as an adjunct lab instructor for biology at Baruch and tutoring students for the MCAT (the standardized test required for entrance to medical school) through Kaplan Test Prep. In August, Christopher will be attending medical school at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
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Enrique Kahle Creates The Dvelas Upcycled Sail Cloth For Contemporary Furniture
Enrique Kahle, the architect of the award winning design DVELAS by Enrique Kahle points out, DVELAS promotes the recovery of used sails to transform them into contemporary designs, emerging as a creative reaction to harness the vast amount of material disposed from sailing ships, taking their aesthetics, materials, techniques and forms as a new way and inspiration for design. DVELAS produces in Limited Editions and Unique Editions: These series originating from a specific sail, are identified with a tag with data about the source of the sail as the homeport, the sailboat, the type of sail and the original sailmaker. .
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Wafik El-Deiry is feeling cautiously optimistic. As the new associate director for translational research at Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute (PSHCI), he is charged with furthering the impact of personalized medicine at the region's only comprehensive cancer center. One way to do that, it turns out, involves counting.
"People generally don't die from their primary tumor," explains El-Deiry. "Cancer cells detach from the primary cancer site and travel throughout the body, forming new tumors and causing metastatic disease." These circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, can be found in extremely small numbers in the bloodstream. Recent research has shown that by capturing and counting each cancer cell present in a vial of blood before patients begin chemotherapy—and at intervals during treatment—oncologists can gain a more accurate picture of how metastatic breast, prostate or colorectal cancers are responding to therapies.
This kind of knowledge is key to tailoring treatments to each patient's specific needs, El-Deiry notes. "The number of CTCs a patient has in one 7.5 ml of blood is significant. If a patient with advanced cancer has fewer than three circulating cells, their survival is twice as long as those with more than three cells."
Knowing the CTC number aids both in predicting survival and in assessing treatment benefit, he adds. "If we see that a patient isn't responding to one chemotherapeutic agent, we can change our approach and use another modality. The earlier we know that, the better."
Another advantage? Current methods for monitoring patients with metastatic cancer—including radiology studies, such as CT scans and ultrasounds; surgical biopsies and bone marrow aspiration—are typically painful, expensive, and detrimental to the patient's quality of life. "Getting a tumor biopsy before and after therapy is the more difficult route," says El-Deiry, "compared with a blood test that is a relatively simple and much less invasive way to track the quality and quantity of cancer cells in a person's body."
Adds El-Deiry, with evident excitement, "When treating advanced cancers, we need to look for all available information about the specific tumor. Tumor cell analysis, including—but not limited to—CTCs, is rapidly becoming part of a new standard of care for the diagnosis and treatment of this disease."
From Bench to Bedside
Defining a new standard of care for cancer patients is precisely what senior leaders at PSHCI had in mind when they recruited El-Deiry from the University of Pennsylvania in March of 2010. His reputation preceded him: Among the top 40 most-cited researchers of the 1990s, he is also one of "America's Top Oncologists," an American Cancer Society Research Professor, an elected member of the Association of American Physicians, and editor-in-chief of the journal Cancer Biology and Therapy. With a prestigious career in full swing, what was it about the opportunities at PSHCI that drew him to the position?
"A person comes to a certain stage in their professional life when they think of what they'd like to accomplish," explains El-Deiry. "What really impressed me about Penn State was the major institutional commitment to cancer on this campus as well as a genuinely collegial environment. I felt like I needed to move on to the next stage of my career, work in a collaborative environment and actively guide the best ideas from the laboratory to the clinic. Being at PSHCI allows me to do that very effectively."
Cancer medicine is in the midst of a paradigm shift, El-Deiry observes. Today, cutting-edge work is happening at the interface between clinic and lab. "Ideally, basic research will be brought into the practice of medicine, and clinical outcomes will feed back into basic research—but this all depends on open lines of communication between researchers and clinicians, as well as a commitment that this is of paramount importance to our mission," he says.
PSHCI's new home—the award-winning, four-story, 178,000-square-foot Cancer Center facility, completed in 2009— was designed with this type of communication in mind. Research labs are connected to the main hospital and Penn State College of Medicine to encourage collaboration between patient treatment and cancer research. "Physicians and scientists are closely and regularly interacting," says El-Deiry, "and what's more, not all pharmacology departments are interested in cancer, but this one is. Multidisciplinary interactions and collaborations are a necessary cornerstone for successful research as well as for clinical care. Our radiation oncology and surgical oncology are interested in being involved in translational research, and this is an important strength."
The ability to form strategic partnerships with scientists at Penn State's other campuses is another asset. "In the Experimental Therapeutics Program, our scientists have been awarded several grants from the National Cancer Institute in the area of nanotechnology. These projects, developed with leading researchers at University Park, are aimed at delivering new cancer treatments to individual cancer cells."
A Personal Approach
All this interdisciplinary collaboration feeds into PSHCI's ability to develop and practice personalized medicine, says El-Deiry. "An important aspect of that process is the clinical trial," he clarifies. Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to test the efficacy of a new device or drug and demonstrate that new treatments actually work to help people. "We're fortunate to be in a place that isn't already saturated with clinical trials that compete with each other for patients," he adds. "We're constantly improving our portfolio of clinical trials and want the new treatments to be known and appreciated in the community. We want to continue to make new treatments available for patients especially in those situations when they have no other options."
The Institute's growing number of affiliate relationships with hospitals and health systems across Pennsylvania—including Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Lewistown Hospital, and the Wyoming Valley Health Care System in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area—will increase convenient access to clinical trials. "This is the only major academic medical center between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh," says El-Deiry. "The reality is that patients with cancer in this region no longer have to go to the middle of Manhattan or to Philadelphia or Baltimore to access new diagnostic and therapeutic methods. We're bringing the best care and new treatments to them right here."
Novel approaches such as CTC analysis are being tested in clinical trials on an ongoing basis. "I've seen some institutions, especially overseas, adopt a philosophy of not doing trials," El-Deiry says. "Their attitude is 'We're waiting for other centers to work out the details and then we'll use the treatments that are developed elsewhere.'" But cancer patients deserve better, he adds. "Our vice dean of the College of Medicine, Daniel Notterman, expresses our institution's vision well when he asks, 'How can we harness all the knowledge we have for patient benefit?'"
Ultimately, El-Deiry reflects, personalized medicine just makes sense. No two cancer patients are the same. What works for one patient might not be the right avenue for another. "The more we know about the specific enemy we're fighting, the better," he says. "For instance, by employing genetic testing, physicians at PSHCI are individualizing treatment plans for each patient, using just those chemotherapeutic agents that will be most effective in reducing the tumor size and treating the patient's cancer. Gene mutations tell us what the likelihood is that a particular patient's tumor will or will not respond to targeted treatment therapies. Genetic tools can also be used to assess a patient's risk of cancer recurrence."
"Our task," El-Deiry concludes, "is to draw upon all the resources of Penn State in order to translate basic discoveries into new treatment approaches, discover better drugs at the right doses, and see more successful outcomes for the people of Pennsylvania who entrust us with their care."
Wafik El-Deiry, M.D., Ph.D., is the Rose Dunlap Professor and Chief of Hematology/Oncology, Associate Director of Translational Research at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) Cam Cameron has been fired as offensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, who have lost two straight and are still striving for consistency in the running and passing game.
Cameron ran the team's offense since the start of the 2008 season, when current coach Jim Harbaugh replaced Brian Billick. Since that time, the Ravens' attack has repeatedly taken a back seat to the team's defense.
The move came Monday.
Jim Caldwell, who was hired as quarterbacks coach before the season, will assume Cameron's duties. Caldwell was head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2009-11.
Baltimore (9-4) scored seven points after halftime Sunday in a 31-28 overtime loss to the Washington Redskins. Quarterback Joe Flacco passed for only 182 yards, lost a fumble and was intercepted in the third quarter.


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By Karin Calloway
Lentil and Barley Soup
From the looks of my recent posts you might think we're some big carnivores at our house. I mean I've shared recipes for spaghetti and meatballs, barbecued brisket and meatloaf in just a little over a week.
But we're actually big on meatless meals, and these high-on-the-beef menus appear pretty infrequently in our dinner rotation.
With the first crisp autumn days FINALLY arriving, this Lentil Barley Soup is more likely to appear on our menu than those meat-heavy meals. It is healthy, filling and very lowfat. I like to serve it with a big green salad and a crusty baguette.
Variations on the soup abound. Go Indian by using red lentils and brown basmati rice in place of brown lentils and barley and then add 2 teaspoons garam masala in place of the cumin, thyme and red pepper flakes. I'd add the garam masala to the aromatics a minute or two before adding the remaining ingredients.
You also can take this in an Italian direction by omitting the cumin and adding 1/2 teaspoon each of dried basil and oregano along with the thyme. Decrease the vegetable broth to four cups and then add a 1 14.5-ounce can of petite diced tomatoes in its place. Finish the soup with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and a sprinkling of grated Parmesan or Romano cheese.
NOTE: The photo above was taken without the spinach, which is an optional ingredient.
Lentil Barley Soup
Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the onion, celery and carrot and saute until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in the remaining ingredients except the spinach. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 1 hour, until lentils and barley are tender. Stir in the spinach, if using, and cook until wilted, about 3 minutes. Ladle into soup bowls and serve.
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According to figures from HMRC, a total of 2,616 people filed their self-assessment tax return on Christmas Day, with 231 sent between 1pm and 2pm.
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In a bid to sway the South Carolina vote, national evangelical leaders, meeting at a ranch west of Houston, on Saturday rallied behind former Sen. Rick Santorum for the GOP presidential nomination.
Many came into the meeting committed to other candidates, especially former Speaker Newt Gingrich. All of the candidates, except former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, sent surrogates to make a case for support.
But in the end, evangelical leaders want to use whatever clout they have to help a strong conservative advance in South Carolina's Jan. 21 primary, upsetting frontrunner Mitt Romney, who is viewed as too moderate – or too Mormon.
"There was a desire to see a true conservative emerge to secure the nomination, and the overwhelming belief was that a true conservative has the best chance of winning a direct election against Barack Obama," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, in a conference call with reporters after the Saturday morning vote.
"What's the point if we do not get a true conservative?" he added.
But with so much at stake in the 2012 vote, it's not clear that either the GOP candidates or the voters are likely to defer to an 85-to-25 vote in a back room in Houston.
"What we are seeing today is nothing like the influence we saw in the 1980s and '90s," says Robert Jones, who heads the Public Religion Research Institute in Washington. "The days of kingmakers in a small room deciding the GOP nominee are over."
"Focus on Family laid off hundreds of people, the Crystal Cathedral is for sale, and the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition are no more," he adds.
South Carolina looms large for Christian conservatives, who see their failure to unite around a single candidate in 2008 – then, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee or former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee – as swinging the GOP nomination to Sen. John McCain, a moderate on social issues. Governor Romney is currently leading in South Carolina polls, followed by Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, Gingrich, and Santorum.
"There is hope and expectation that, with the constituencies represented here, it will have an impact on South Carolina," said Mr. Perkins. Christian conservatives account for 60 percent of the likely GOP primary vote in South Carolina. "I was amazed at the unity that was here."
At issue is how to winnow the GOP primary field, before it's too late to stop frontrunner Romney, who is viewed as not consistent on issues such as abortion rights, which he formerly supported. There are too many social conservative candidates in the race, and they are dividing the social conservative vote, they say.
The aim of Saturday's meeting is to find out whether there is a viable alternative to Romney, says Richard Land, president of the ethics and religious liberty committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, in an interview on C-Span's Newsmakers on Friday, to be aired Jan. 15.
"Most social conservatives find Romney a more attractive candidate than they did John McCain," he said. "This isn't anti-Romney, but wouldn't it be nice to find out if a social conservative is viable both in the primary and the general election?"
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The guys have been hunting each weekend from last month pretty much up until Thanksgiving.
This past weekend was the Minnesota Deer Opener. Troy called me on Saturday night to let me know he shot his first one. A big doe. Smart Buck was following doe through the woods, Troy couldn't get a shot at buck as he was hiding behind a tree. Doe trotted right out into the opening. Bam. Troy shot her right through the heart "just like I'm supposed to, Mom". He was pretty excited.
I reminded them that I would be working when they arrived home and asked what they might like for dinner. Not soup, not chili, too hot. They'd been hunting at 65F! How about Marvelous Muffeletta? One of their favorite sandwiches...
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Feds Approve Illinois Health Exchange with Conditions
Illinois has received conditional federal approval for its plan to provide a health insurance marketplace where thousands of state residents will shop for insurance beginning Oct. 1.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a conditional approval letter Wednesday to Gov. Pat Quinn with a list of six conditions.
Conditions include signing a memorandum of understanding with the federal government for how the state will monitor and approve health plans sold on the exchange by March 1 and a separate memorandum of understanding for how the state will run consumer outreach activities by April 1.
Sebelius' letter acknowledges that "Illinois is working under intense timelines.''
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Two cows and their calves should be arriving here this morning. Not ours I hasten to add but a local farmers, whose bringing them to help keep our grass down. I'm really looking forward to having them, it'll give me something to look at Over the Gate.
Two cows became three cows with two calves and one expecting. I almost feel like a real farmer.
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nice ,please be careful around them,moos with little moos can be a bit overprotective,most are fine but a few can get rather "interesting" ever so quickly.
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Relax, Bodger is quite used to mad cows. My nutters, complete with horns, came from there.
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Too true, they were right wild buggers weren't they mate! And I used to keep Longhorns too, so these newbies really are pussies
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good ,i did worry a little
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my memory must be on hold today i had forgotten you are very moo experienced.
the linky reminded me about mincey boy ,he was nowt compared to the killer kerry who was truly dangeroos. getting a hair tuft for dna to register her calf was interesting ,we made the nice young french vet lady (who thought the kk looked "playful" ) to stay out of the pen while i did "rodeo clown" and paul eventually grabbed a tuft and like a minoan bull jumper escaped the pen. after said tuft was secured to a card with sellotape the vet just looked at us and said "i zee why vous did zat, thankyou".
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I am moo experienced, but don't go into other folks cows, especially sucklers with young calves for any reason unless accompanied by the owner; they can be over protective, quite naturally, and probably more dangerous than the bull who runs with them! Good looking cows however.
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A friend insists that the phrase is a racist one, since it refers, or at one time referred, derogatorily to black people. Wanting to avoid both bigotry and political correctness, I asked the fine lexicographers at Merriam-Webster two questions:
1. Is this true?
2. If so, does Merriam-Webster's research show evidence that the phrase still carries racist meaning?
Associate Editor, Neil Serven, replied as follows:
While some construe the phrase "to call a spade a spade" to have racial allusions, its history suggests that no such allusion exists.
According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase ultimately traces back to a Greek expression appearing in Plutarch's Apophthegmata. Plutarch's phrase contained a noun meaning "trough, basin, bowl, boat," which, it seems, was later mistranslated by Erasmus, who mistook the word for a derivative of a Greek term meaning "to dig." The error was carried over into English, where the phrase came to be rendered as "to call a spade a spade"; the first citation of the phrase listed in the OED dates from 1542.
The earliest usage of "spade" to refer to a black person in English dates from 1928. Most etymologists agree that this usage stems from the comparison of such a person's skin color to the black markings found on playing cards.
The spade referenced in "to call a spade a spade," then, is clearly of the digging implement sort, and has nothing to do with the offensive racial epithet.
Of course, if "some" people construe the phrase to be racist, and there is evidence for this (as Neil's response seems to suggest), then why do you judge the phrase to be completely benign, I asked? How much evidence does Merriam-Webster require to conclude that a phrase carries racial baggage? Indeed, isn't one of Merriam-Webster's axioms that definitions change with usage?
Neil's response:
Some folks may interpret the phrase to be racist only due to their not knowing which sense of "spade" it originally referenced. We do not have any valid evidence of anyone using the phrase with deliberate racial allusion, and its contemporary meanings—"to call a thing by its right name however coarse" and "to speak frankly"—make no racial allusion.
However, Google shows a number of instances of people uncertain about whether the phrase should be considered offensive. This would suggest to me that there are a significant number of English speakers who choose to tread carefully with it despite its innocuous meaning and history. This kind of information, while interesting, really only pertains to the circumstances surrounding the phrase, and not to the meaning of the phrase itself, and so it wouldn't factor into how a lexicographer would define the phrase.