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Making your own cat food - My vet doesn't approve
I have been doing canned for years. So I figured for after awhile I would do my own food. My new young cat loved it. The older cat didn't but was starting to get used to it. Just when things were going smooth I had happened to mention to my vet at an appointment that I was doing my own cat food. Immmediately I got a scolding (well it felt like it) of how people could not possibly get the proper balance of right nutrients needed for cats on a daily basis. I brought up the argument that would it be good for humans to eat from a cat every day with fully nutritional complete meals? She wouldn't get into it but kept insisting the cats needed the proper diet. I was so confused and bothered by the whole thing I just didn't argue and switched them back to their canned food diet.
Just wondering how everyone else feels about this? In general are most vets like this?
A lot of vets aren't taught alternatives to the foods made by the huge corporations. Even holistic foods can spark debates in the vet's office. If you have read up on feeding cats, and you make certain you're feeding them balanced meals, there's no possible way your kitties will eat anything worse than the food they sell at the vet.
As long as you do your research, making your own cat food shouldn't be a problem. Cats can not live on tuna alone.
Next time you see your vet, ask her (?) how many hours of nutritional training that she has. I would be surprised if it was much more then a semester or two out of all the years she went to college.
All the vets I know want you to feed dry Science Diet, so just ignore that.
But cats have VERY strict dietary requirements, so if you want to feed raw, please do a ton of research first.
If you cannot provide exactly what they need, better to stick to canned.
Thanks everyone! I've got some books I was following on the correct percentage of each type of ingredient (along with some recipes) so I think I'll pull it out and start doing it again. I'll just lie to my vet, can't be bothered getting into it. Yeah, I know they recommend some pretty crappy food from the vets. The cats never like it.
PS:"would it be good for humans to eat from a cat every day with fully nutritional complete meals?" That was supposed to be CAN (typo) but I think everyone figured that out.
ohhh... No, I didn't figure that one out... I was thinking your vet said it, like you were sharing your meal balanced for humans, and a cat sharing his balanced meal with you wouldn't be good for you, or something like that.
Oh wow, the "eat from a CAN" thing makes SO much more sense...LOL
I just love that sort of argument. "You just can't meet their nutritional needs." As if Purina has it down perfectly, just because "most" cats don't die before their food trials are complete
Cats do need a proper diet, but there's no reason that proper diet can't be made at home if it's fully planned and researched in advance.
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I don't have a cat so don't know much about them but...
I have Westies and two were having a lot of stool problems and one was itching.
After many $'s spent at the vets. and still they were no better I started doing my own cooking for them.
I had to cook different things but came up with a meatloaf that is working great.
The fur look is thicker, no itching, and stools ate as should be.
I do give a good vit, with minerals just to be safe.
I have a opened minded vet, she looked the meatloaf over and said don't know why it's working but keep it up.
So give them a top of the line vit, and cook away is what I would do.
Vets and pet food..
I moved to Canada with my two cats.... they have had quite a hard time adjusting to the canned pet food.. and I look at it when I open the tin and think.. omg.. what IS that?
My first trip to the local vet...... when he saw my Manx.. asked.. oh dear.. whatever happend to her tail? Even though their notes stated "Manx" he didnt know what a manx was? After a check up.. he decided we should have both cats eat their food...($$$$$) .. (obviously had a deal with the manufacturer), and said we should bring them in to be checked again after several weeks...($$$$$$) ...... needless to say, we didn't.. and we have also stopped vaccinations.. and so far... happy, healthy cats.
I'm at the stage that If i care what I eat.. I should care what they eat.. and just looking at the contents of the tinned food makes me shudder. Yes it may have some of the important essentials.. but for the most part.. it looks more like someone has been sick. Junk food for pets?
Long term, I want my cats to be healthy... bad diets don't show up overnight.. its an ongoing thing. If anyone has any good recipes to share.. please email me at *** Would appreciate it.
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Hi there, I am very new to this site, but find everything that you have all written very interesting. I have 2 male burmese cats that are 8 yrs old and am still learning about how to look after them best. These are the first cats I have ever had and I love them sooooo much......way better than dogs....hahaha. My boys have always eaten dry cat food and seem to be doing well. I know that I have switched between companies a couple of times only after seeing certain things, but they seem to be doing pretty well. The only time they get the wet nasty food is to take any kind of medicine or once in a blue moon......I feed them the sheeba as it looks sort of real. I would love to try to make them some real food, but have know idea what to make......any easy ideas????
This is such an awesome site. Thanks to all your wonderful ideas too.
Your best bet for making your own food would be to head to the book store and find a book. I dont know of any good books, but hopefully someone else on here can reccommend some.
When it comes to male cats, its usually best to feed canned rather then just dry. My male cat ended up with a blocked urethra from crystals that formed, and also a UTI. This is because they naturally dont enough water, then dont get enough from dry food. I now have dry food out at all times and feed him canned food twice a day. I would much rather make his food, but he hates anything other then pizza crust!
Thank you for that insight SaraLynn. I thought that crystals form due to seafood.....it never occurred to be about the water part. They will like to hear about that. Perhaps I will start to give them more wet food too. I know that Domi drinks alot of water, but Zets only seems to drink out of the faucet so only when I turn it on. I am sure he drinks out of the bowl too. What was it like with him having crystals??? I am sure it is very painful for them, eh. Ouch! I can't think of my boys in any pain. I will also check up on some petfood books. My boys don't seem to be picky about food which is good.
Anyways, thanks alot for the tip.
It was quite obvious something was wrong, he started by peeing outside of his litterbox and that escalated to licking himself and growling, crying while trying to pee, and trying to run away and dig away from the pain in the garbage cans. I took him in right away and they took a urine sample and tested it right away. It was caught early so he ws on canned food for a couple weeks with no dry and pills twice a day.
You'll know right away if they develop them, I hear its quite common in male cats, poor boys!
Take care
Oh my gosh, poor baby......yes, I heard it is quite common with male cats.......this is why I have kept them away from seafood........I will definately start buying them wet food and perhaps give that to them at least once a day???? Ya think that should be good? Any suggestions on a good food or pretty much any kind is good......the only problem with wet food is that it makes the little box smell more.....but i will do anything to prevent them from having any pain.......thanks alot for the info.......
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Here are some really good kitty canned foods...
The Canidae ones:
Cat and kitten
Chicken and Rice
The Merrick ones:
The Solid Gold ones:
Blended Tuna Canned Cat Food
Chicken, Turkey, White Fish & Liver Canned Cat Food
The Natural Balance ones (scroll down for all ingredients):
Innova Canned:
Cat Canned
Evo canned
California Natural canned:
Chicken and Brown Rice Canned
Deep water fish and rice
Venison and rice
Some Wellness canned:
http://www.omhpet.com/cats/wellness_...atTurkeySalmon (the rest are in the menu on the left side)
Thanks alot Prin
WOW! That is very good Prinn. Thanks alot for that info. I saw that food, but wasn't sure how it was. I feed my guys Max, but I don't think it is as good as they say, just cheap. I don't want cheap food for my babies. I want the best food. I was going to try to make my own maybe too. I will definately read up on those websites you gave me.
Thanks again.
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(CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky.) - The eighth-ranked Thomas More College football team fell, 26-23, to Waynesburg University today (Saturday, November 5, 2011) in a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) game at The Bank of Kentucky Field in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.
With the loss, the Saints fall to 8-1 overall and 7-1 in the PAC and had a 29-game regular season winning streak and a 26-game PAC winning streak snapped. With the win, the Yellow Jackets improve to 5-3 overall and 5-2 in the PAC.
Waynesburg led 14-0 after one quarter, 14-7, at halftime and 23-15 after three quarters.
Waynesburg took a 7-0 with 3:44 to play in the first quarter when Adam Moses scored on a three-yard pass from Josh Graham and Chris Marini added the point-after-attempt.
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Jackets extended the lead to 23-7 when Mike Ferraro scored on a 69-yard touchdown pass from Graham and Marini's PAT failed with 1:56 to play in the third quarter.
Thomas More cut the lead to 23-15 with 1:00 to play in the third quarter when sophomore running back Adam Rauch (Yorkville, Ind./East Central) scored on a 39-yard run and the Saints converted the two-point conversion on an Owens rush.
The Saints tied the game at 23-23 when sophomore running back Dominique Hayden (Lexington, Ky./Lexington Christian Academy) scored on a two-yard run with 10:41 to play in the fourth quarter and Kues connected on a pass to sophomore wide receiver Corie Cartmell (Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills) on the two-point conversion.
Waynesburg took a 26-23 lead with 2:39 to play in the game on a Marini 24-yard field goal and the Saints were unable to match as Waynesburg won the game.
Offensively, the Saints were led by Rauch, who had six carries for 62 yards and a touchdown and had six catches for 61 yards. Hayden finished the game with 18 carries for 75 yards and one touchdown and six catches for 25 yards, while Owens six catches for 60 yards and one touchdown and had four rushes for eight yards. Kues was 21-of-45 passing for 183 yards and one touchdown.
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The performance parameters of nanobiosensors (Settling time, Sensitivity and Selectivity) can be estimated using this tool. The theoretical model is based on self-consistent solutions of Diffusion-Capture model (for the time response), Poisson-Boltzmann and Drift-Diffusion Equations (for electrolyte screening and conductance modulation) and the statistical properties of bio-molecule adsorption (Selectivity). However, ONLY the SETTLING TIME module is released for public domain right now and the rest will be made available shortly.
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Sensitivity: P. R. Nair and M. A. Alam, "Screening-Limited Response of Nanobiosensors," Nano Letters, (2008). P. R. Nair and M. A. Alam, "Design Considerations of Silicon Nanowire Biosensors," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 54, 3400 (2007).
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To Charles James, the 1880 presidential campaign of James A. Garfield represented a business opportunity.
In the months preceding election day, the enterprising young James trudged from door to door in his hometown, Charleston, W.Va., peddling a line of assorted political souvenirs. The election passed and the bottom dropped out of the political-button-and-banner market, but James took his earnings and bought manufactured goods and bartered for fresh produce at surrounding farms.
From this humble beginning, James soon became the proud owner of a thriving food distributorship. Three generations later -- after prospering, failing, and reviving -- C. H. James & Co. employs 30 people, and last year it grossed $5 million selling food to supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels in the Charleston area. It is one of the oldest black-owned enterprises in the United States.
Near Tysons Corner, Va., in one of those low, unobtrusively modern buildings that all technology firms seem to occupy, Robert Quinichett runs one of the newest and fastest-growing of America's black-owned businesses.
An Ohio State University graduate with a degree in math, Mr. Quinichett worked for North American Aviation, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the Department of Agriculture before striking out on his own. In 1977, he founded Sterling Systems Inc., a company that sets up data-collecting computer systems. With 1981 receipts estimated at $17 million, Sterling ranks 27th on Black Enterprise magazine's list of the top 100 US black companies.
''I worked seven days a week, around the clock. I didn't think about not succeeding,'' he says. His hard work has carried him to a top-floor suite with that whisper of elegance that says ''chief executive officer.'' But Sterling Systems, like many other companies, now faces a challenging period of transition forced by cutbacks in government aid to minority businesses.m
Over the past 20 years, as the wall of racial discrimination has crumbled, black entrepreneurs have entered increasingly varied fields. If C. H. James represents a more traditional black firm -- family-run, seller of a basic commodity, oriented to a distinct geographic turf -- then Sterling Systems, with its high-technology products, could be seen as a symbol of many new black businesses.
The black economic community has made much progress since the 1960s. But, along with the problems faced by all small- and medium-size enterprises, black-owned businesses still face obstacles their white counterparts don't have to scale.
''These businesses have established that they are around, they are going to survive, they are going to be part of the free-enterprise system,'' says Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise. But it's still ''a day-to-day effort to convince people that doing business with a minority firm is not some kind of adventure.''
From 1972 to 1977, the latest period for which Census Bureau data are available, the number of black businesses increased 22.9 percent, to 231,000.
From 1972 to last year, total sales of companies listed in the Black Enterprise 100 rose 81 percent after inflation, to $1.9 billion. These larger black-owned firms expanded three times as fast as the US gross national product.
But compared with the largest white-owned firms, black businesses are mostly small- and medium-size concerns. Motown Industries, first on the Black Enterprise list, with 1981 sales of $91.7 million, wouldn't even make Fortune magazine's second 500. And small business in general is suffering under the burden of high interest rates.
In addition, two-thirds of black companies are types of businesses highly vulnerable to the economic cycle. Thirty-nine percent of total receipts come from retail trade -- one of the first areas to go flat in a recession. Twenty-nine of the top 100 black concerns on the Black Enterprise list are auto dealers or garages. Many black businesses cater to black consumers, whose purchasing power, as a group, has been slashed by 18.7 percent unemployment.
Combined, these facts indicate that black businesses suffer disproportionately in any recession, black economists say.
''Even on the upswing, they won't feel a recovery as quickly,'' says Dr. William Bradford, professor of finance at the University of Maryland.
But the traditional black business is changing. The result could be a business sector more resistant to recession and better positioned for long-term growth.
''On balance, by the end of the decade I see stronger black-owned companies, '' says Dr. Alfred Osborne, head of the MBA program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
For one thing, the black consumer is becoming a less important market for these companies. In 1969, blacks spent 13.5 percent of their income at black-owned firms. By 1977, the figure had fallen to 9.9 percent.
Since the 1960s, white companies have discovered the black market, says Andrew F. Brimmer, president of Brimmer & Co., an economic consulting firm, and a former governor of the Federal Reserve. Black consumers have moved away from the inner-city neighborhoods where black-owned businesses are traditionally located, he adds.
''Discrimination cuts both ways. It served as a kind of protective barrier for black professionals,'' says Mr. Brimmer. For black businesses to prosper, they must ''look to markets beyond the black community,'' he says.
Some black leaders have a different view of the situation. Black consumers should band together and actively support black businesses, they say. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the Chicago-based Operation PUSH, is taking such an approach.
''Black Americans must trade with each other,'' says Rev. Frank Watkins, a PUSH spokesman.
More black entrepreneurs now have high-level technical and managerial training. In 1965, only 25 blacks were enrolled in accredited MBA programs in the US, according to a study by the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. In the fall of 1980, 7,521 blacks were studying for MBAs or PhDs in management, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Many blacks have percolated through the ranks of large corporations, gained valuable business experience, and struck out on their own.
''Black business leaders have had the opportunity to get in business and simply experience it. That in itself has been a tremendous help,'' says Mr. Quinichett of Sterling Systems.
Slowly, the black business community is weaving a web of networks to provide support, advice, and role models for those who want to start a business. Quinichett himself says he receives daily requests for help.
''I take the time to give whatever advice I can,'' he says.
Perhaps most important, a cutting edge of black businesses is entering high-growth fields and expanding their opportunities through joint ventures with white companies. In 1978, there were two firms on the Black Enterprise 100 list that could be classified as high-technology. Last year there were nine.
Two firms in the Washington, D.C., area alone are attempting to form national black-oriented TV networks. And black-owned firms are bidding on cable TV contracts across the country. At least one black company has applied at the Federal Communications Commission for a license to operate the cheap, plentiful mobile-phone service known as cellular radio.
But it takes a lot of money to open a business at the forefront of technology. Very few black concerns can afford the cost of stringing cable TV wire across a major metropolitan area, for instance. Many minority cable companies are thus joint ventures with white firms.
''While there may not be that much outright ownership by blacks[in areas of complex technology], we'll probably see a number of businesses with a high percentage of minority ownership,'' says Herb Wilkins, head of Syncom, a venture-capital firm specializing in minority-owned communications.
In general, black businessmen say obtaining adequate capital is their thorniest problem. Along with the financing problems faced by all small business owners, blacks say they often undergo extra-careful scrutiny by banks and venture-capital companies.
Black business experts are also concerned about impending changes in government aid. Washington bought $4.1 billion in goods and services from minority contractors last year, with purchases prompted under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act accounting for almost half the total. The 8(a) program sets aside small contracts to be awarded on a noncompetitive basis to minority companies The Reagan administration says it will tighten the eligibility rules, forcing many concerns now on the program to graduate into the open market.
Seventy-five percent of Sterling Systems' business, for example, comes from the federal government - with much of that accounted for by 8(a) set-asides. Without the government's help ''we would not have grown as fast, though I would certainly still be in business,'' Mr. Quinichett says.
The administration is also proposing to eliminate the Small Business Administration's appropriation for direct loans. Some fear that the cutbacks could freeze businesses not ready for the cold winds of the free marketplace.
''If the cutbacks continue, six of the firms at the top of the BE 100 won't even be there next year,'' says Earl Graves of Black Enterprise.
But critics say the 8(a) program doesn't breed strong businesses.
And, for now, the most compelling concern of all businessmen - black and white - remains the recession.
''It's a tough period for anybody in any business,'' says Herb Wilkins of Syncom.


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Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance.
Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It's a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated.
Her roommate Renee will do anything to nab the plum job of beauty editor at Gloss. But snide comments about Renee's weight send her into an emotional tailspin. Soon she is taking black market diet pills—despite the racing heartbeat and trembling hands that signal she's heading for real danger.
Then there's Abby, whom they take in as a third roommate. Once a joyful graduate student working as a nanny part time, she abruptly fled a seemingly happy life in the D.C. suburbs. No one knows what shattered Abby—or why she left everything she once loved behind.
Pekkanen's most compelling, true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate the complications of careers and love—and find the lifeline they need in each other.
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winstonw wrote:Whereas, racing year after year in the same grade is proof of what exactly?
To me its proof they are enjoying themselves. Its proof they have reached a level of fitness they are able to maintain year after year. Due in most cases to choice, they decide how much time and effort they are willing to put into bike racing. Without these people clubs would struggle to exist and there would be less racing for those who like to plan every pedalstroke in advance.
I started racing in D grade a couple of years ago, there was almost a year gap between my first and 2nd races and most have been in the last 6 months or so. I'm an unashamed fair weather racer mostly, I just race when I feel like it. I have never won a race, got a couple of 2nds. I have just moved myself up when I think I can hang on, had my first race in B a few weeks ago.
If I can race the next 40 years[I am 35] in B and C grade I will be a happy man. Hell if I am still racing when I am 75 I won't give a rats what grade I am in! We have one bloke in our club who is 74 I think and he is a E grade stalwart.


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Your doctor can use several methods to estimate how long
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likely to deliver your baby (due date). The due date is only an estimate of
when you will deliver. Most women deliver within 14 days of their due
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CitationsLund KJ, McManaman J (2008). Normal labor, delivery,
newborn care, and puerperium. In RS Gibbs et al., eds., Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology, 10th ed., pp. 23–42.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2007). Antepartum care. In Guidelines for Perinatal Care, 6th ed., pp. 83–137. Elk Grove
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Despite a slumping economy and a significant dip in vehicle sales nationwide, local automotive dealers say they are in good standing and are excited about what the next year may bring.
Annette Gause, owner of H&H Chevrolet in Kershaw, said over the last year, she's had to cut expenses at the dealership to offset the 20 percent decline in sales.
However, sales are picking up and Gause believes the worst of the economic recession has passed. The dealership has not downsized at all and is at no risk to close, she said.
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A job that takes a person several minutes has now been reduced to 30 seconds – thanks to a device known as an automatic dispensing system, or ADS.
For about a year now, Mobley Drugs Inc. has been using an ADS made by the Raleigh, N.C.-based company Rx Medic. The computer-run machine can store more than 200 different medications and dispense them instantly to fill a prescription.
The scent of freshly baked cookies greets you as you walk through the doors of Mahaffey Funeral Home & Cremation Center.
Those tasty treats are some of the small things Joe Wilson has introduced to make his business friendlier.
Wilson is the new owner of Mahaffey Funeral Home, which is Lancaster County's oldest continually operating funeral establishment. With his purchase in May, the business is now locally owned for the first time since the early 1990s.
A local company has played a role in helping reshape the residential landscape in Uptown Charlotte.
Majestic Landscaping & Palms, based in Lancaster, was hired earlier this year to deliver and plant windmill palm trees on the rooftop terrace of The Garrison at Graham, a new six-floor loft-style housing development that offers its residents close views of the Charlotte skyline.
Dennis Donahue, owner of Majestic Landscaping, said his business was contacted in July and did the job on Sept. 25, all in one day.
A new pediatrics practice in Lancaster marks the return of a Heath Springs native turned doctor.
Lancaster Pediatrics opened in July with Dr. Katie Fine. She was joined by Dr. Darniya Powe Belton last month.
Belton, 31, was born in Lancaster County and is a summa cum laude graduate of Johnson C. Smith University.
Robert Starnes got his start as a chef at a car dealership of all places.
Starnes, one of the three guys in Lancaster's 3 Guys Bistro and Catering, said he created gourmet meals for customers at a Kia dealership in Gastonia, running a full-service restaurant there.
"It was hysterical – people loved it," Starnes said.
He eventually contracted with Kia of Monroe and Greer and Toyota of Greer.
FORT LAWN – Fresenius Medical Care Fort Lawn, an advanced dialysis clinic that will serve the area's growing population of patients with chronic kidney disease, is now open.
Because of last year's success, the Lancaster Street Market is coming to downtown for its second series of Saturday events.
The street market gives vendors a chance to sell their handmade and handcrafted goods. Jewelry makers, bakers and craft workers are some of the artisans who participate in the market, which will be held on the first Saturday of each month.
It will run from 10 and 4 p.m. those days on the green space at Main and Gay streets.
The street market dates for 2009 are May 2, June 6, July 4, Aug. 1, Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7 and Dec. 5.
INDIAN LAND – Listen up – Hear USA has moved into Southend Plaza to help local residents improve their hearing health.
The audiology clinic was started in West Palm Beach, Fla., 20 years ago and now has 200 clinics nationwide.
HearUSA moved to the Carolinas recently, and the Indian Land office is its first new location. Other area offices are former audiology clinics that were bought by HearUSA.
The business provides hearing screenings, as well as hearing aid fitting and maintenance services.
INDIAN LAND – Students of all ages have a new place to turn for help.
One on One Learning Center in Southend Plaza in Indian Land offers tutoring, workshops and other educational services to children and adults.
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Cavendish not included in GB squad
Mark Cavendish has not been selected in the Great Britain squad for this month's Road World Championships in Spain.
Cavendish, the 2011 world champion, required shoulder surgery after crashing out of the opening stage of the Tour de France in Harrogate and would not be suited to the hilly Ponferrada road race course which hosts the World Championships on September 28.
The eight-man British team in the event, which features 28 climbs in 254.8 kilometres, has options, with 2013 Tour de France champion Chris Froome, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Geraint Thomas, Ben Swift and the Yates brothers potential leaders, depending how the race develops.
Mark Cavendish, the 2011 world champion, has not been selected in the GB squad
Lizzie Armitstead, the women's Commonwealth champion, is to lead a team of six a day earlier, on September 27, on a route half the distance of the men's.
Armitstead will be without the support of Emma Pooley, who retired following her silver medal in Glasgow, but mountain bike riders Annie Last and Alice Barnes, sister of Hannah Barnes, could make the final cut on the road after being named in the long list.
Commonwealth Games time-trial champion Alex Dowsett and Sir Bradley Wiggins, silver medallist in 2013 behind Germany's Tony Martin, are in contention for the two places in the men's time-trial, which takes place on September 24, but there will be no British representative in the women's race against the clock.
The World Championships begin on September 21 with trade team time-trials and also includes age-group events, with Britain refining selection prior to the event.
British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton said: "We're fortunate to have a strong pool of riders from which to make our final selection."
Great Britain team:
Men's elite road race (eight from) - Steve Cummings, Alex Dowsett, Andy Fenn, Chris Froome, Pete Kennaugh, David Millar, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift, Geraint Thomas, Scott Thwaites, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Adam Yates, Simon Yates.
Men's elite time-trial (two from) - Dowsett, Cummings, Thomas, Wiggins.
Women's elite road race (six from) - Lizzie Armitstead, Alice Barnes, Hannah Barnes, Anna Christian, Lucy Coldwell, Lucy Garner, Nikki Harris, Annie Last, Sharon Laws.
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To the Editor of Origins Research:
The February issue of Omni magazine contained a series of anti-creationist articles and commentary. From beginning to end, the 842,282 readers of Omni were presented with a distorted caricature of special creation and creationists. This false picture simply had to be challenged. Because I am a regular reader of Omni, I wrote an extensive letter to the editor. I do not expect the letter to be printed in Omni, but I do want you to know that such bombast, disguised as science, has not gone unchallenged.
Web note: A response to this letter was received and featured in Origins Research 10:2, along with a response by Dr. Foreman. We have included the continuation of this dialogue in the on-line version of OR 10:2
To the Editor of Omni:
It may surprise you to know, but I am both a frequent reader of Omni and a scientific creationist (yes, we do exist). For several years, I have enjoyed the intellectual and open-minded articles I found in your magazine. Your treatment of science and technology, in particular, has been excellent. For this reason I found your February issue of Omni especially disappointing. Its collection of diatribes was unworthy of a publication that prides itself in its objective quest for truth. In fact, Omni's behavior resembled that of the proverbial politician who penciled on the margin of his notes, "Argument weak at this point. Thump podium and holler louder!"
You don't have the editorial space for me to rubut your every thump and holler, but please allow me to respond with five broad questions.
The central irony of the entire Omni issue is its premise that a small group of religious zealots is conspiring to censor all the science books in America. Such an accusation is absurd when one considers the commonly understood definition of "censor": "An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to suppress them if objectionable" (Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary), By this definition, is it the creationist or the evolutionist who has a virtual monopoly on the teaching of origins? Is it the creationist or the evolutionist who has been examining textbooks and has tried, through the courts, to suppress objectionable material about origins? Is it the creationist or the evolutionist that has to fight for equal time and academic freedom? In short, who is the censor and who is the censored?
With misplaced indignation, several prominent writers speak of censorship, intolerance, Stalin, book burning, and mental straight-jackets. With manifest hypocrisy, Omni even offers to send a protest card to the White House objecting to the censorship of science. As in many a rape case, where victim and criminal seem to trade places, creationists -- the true victims of censorship -- are protrayed as censors while evolutionists are portrayed as innocent victims. This tactic of role-reversal is as repugnant in a magazine as it is in a court of law.
In her article, "Censoring Science", Kathleen Stein is never quite sure what her attitude toward censorship should be. At one point, she congratulates an anthropology professor for discussing and "debunking" creationist literature. She insinuates that young people should be exposed to anti-evolutionary propaganda as a learning tool. Yet as she concludes her article, she quotes an assistant principal as saying, "We would be in jeopardy of confusion if we said, 'Now that we've told you the earth is four billion years old, we're going to tell you that it's six thousand years old'. It would be difficult for a tenth-grader to comprehend why we're going through these two extremely different concepts. That's not science" (p. 99).
Should young people be exposed to evidence that supports special creation, or should they be shielded from such evidence because it might lead to confusion? This is the issue before evolutionists, and how they approach it is indicative of how they approach all questions of truth.
Omni asks, "Should scientific creationsim be taught in public schools?" Special creation is either true or false. If it is true (or if significant evidence supports creationism), it should be a part of the school curriculum. If it is false, (or if it cannot be supported by scientific evidence), it should not be taught under any guise. Evidence, and evidence alone, should determine the place of creation in public schools. Any argument not rooted in scientific evidence is obscurant. If this evidence supports special creation, it deserves to be taught along side of evolution. Omni's tirade of arguments based on ridicule, religion, censorship, and church/state was little more than a school of red herrings.
Omni's torrent of personal attacks was uncalled for -- especially in Ms. Stein's feature article, "Censoring Science". Is it really relevant that a certain preacher has a "bulky body in a polyester maroon jacket" (p. 43)? Or that an "old black woman" has a granddaughter who "was murdered by a jealous lover on a white lady's lawn" (p. 44)? Does special creation suddenly become less tenable if fat people in polyeter or old black ladies happen to believe it? Why does Ms. Stein waste so much ink insulting Blacks, Southerners, Conservatives, Christians, and just about everyone else who doesn't share her viewpoint? Can anyone really believe that such phrases as "the brain ceases" (p. 44), "mopping up after idiocy" (p. 94), and "pea-brained head" (p. 44), reflect her self-affirmed virtue of broad-mindedness? Indeed, her sympathetic portrayal of evolutionists and agnostics betrays a self-serving attempt to promote her own circle of "educated intellectuals" while belittling "ignorant ordinary folk".
Ms. Stein expended extraordinary effort ridiculing born-again toys, prime-time preachers, evangelical organizations, and Christian theme parks. But to what end? Questions of cosmogony should be resolved by studying evidence, not by ridiculing those who do not conform to her views.
Most of the Omni authors seemed to imply that scientific truth is obtainable by a show of hands. Their argument seemed to be, "If a majority of scientists holds that evolution is true, then, by golly, it must be true!" Omni presents this argument against a history of science that is littered with the corpses of theories once thought unassailable: flat-earth, geocentric universe, phlogiston, etc. Does it really matter that only "700 credentialed professionals" favor special creation? Do the solicited testimonials of Stephen King, Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, and lesser luminaries disprove special creation? Is it really relevant that 72 recipients of the Nobel Prize signed a document attesting to the truthfulness of evolution?
Questions of cosmogony must be argued from evidence and not majority opinion no matter what the reputation fo those who hold this opinion.
Several Omni authors suggested that creationism is unfit for public instruction because it affirms certain religious presuppositions. Everyone has presuppositions, including philosophers, politicians, preachers, and even scientists. To claim otherwise is false. We all bring our biases, prejudices, and expectations into our interpretation of scientific evidence. Metaphysical presuppositions undergird all of science -- presuppositions which cannot be scientifically verified. Why then do evolutionists object when creationist cosmogony conforms to creationist ontology?
Dr. Gell-Mann took pains to point out that a group of creationists adhere to a particular Christian doctrine. So what? I am sure that Dr. Gell-Mann carries around his own share of metaphysical baggage, even if he is unaware of it. Furthermore, it would not surprise me if Dr.Gell-Mann's cosmology (evolution) affirms his ontology (materialist of some sort, I suspect).
In a like manner, Bradford Smith conjectured that newly discovered particles around the star, Beta Pictoris, might be evolving planets. He goes on to state that "there must be an enormous amount of life in the universe". Such statements betray his evolutionary suppositions. Smith concludes his interview with a Spinozistic statement of faith: "I believe there is a scientific explanation as to how everything, including life, came into existence; how we as an intelligent species came into being. I believe metaphysical concepts are not required to explain it. My goal in life is to try and seek out those answers" (p. 118).
With such presuppositions, evolution becomes not possibly true, but necessarily true. It passes from science to faith. Nevertheless, it is evidence that must decide scientific questions. Whether or not an individual's view of origins conforms to a wider-held view of the universe is immaterial.
As I stated earlier, the case for evolution must stand or fall on the basis of scientific evidence (and its interpretation). The best way to accomplish this is to propose an evolution model and a creation model, and then to see which model best explains the facts. In Omni's entire 15 page mockery of special creation, actual evidence was brought up only four times; and then only to deride rather than to argue.
In "Censoring Science," Ms. Stein attacks Dr. Duane Gish of the Insititute for Creation Research. She ruefully admits that Gish usually wins debates, but attributes this to distortion and trickery which plays on his audiences' ignorance. Ms. Stein totally misses the point of Gish's whale/cow cartoon (p. 94) which is, "If evolution is true, then the whale must have evolved from a cow-like ancestor." Moreover, if this is the case, then the fossil record should be replete with a myriad of transitional forms chronicling the ungulate/whale transmutation. The Gish cartoon was merely an imaginative (and humorous) guess at what some intermediate forms might have looked like. The real question is, "Does the fossil record provide evidence of ungulate/whale transitional forms?" The honest answer is "No".
Ms. Stein also dogmatically states that "this affinity of the blood [evidence from serology] agrees precisely with evidence from comparative anatomy, embryology, and paleontology showing that whales and cows descended from a common ancestor." On this point, her evolutionary slip is showing. No one would deny that some species share more characteristics than other species. (Can we imagine a universe in which this would not be the case?) It is an obvious fact that humans resemble monkeys more than they resemble aardvarks. Likewise, one would expect human blood to resemble monkey blood more than aardvark blood. But does this resemblance prove common ancestry? No. Resemblance carries two possible causes: common ancestor or common design. How one views the supernatural will predispose how one interprets the natural.
Ms. Stein also claims that "hard empirical evidence" for evolution is occurring under our very noses. Quoting Carleton Gajdusek, she states that, "microbes have a generation time of a different order of magnitude. In the lab, during one human lifetime, the influenza virus can go through changes equivalent to a million years of human evolution" (p. 94). Unwittingly, Ms. Stein has confirmed one tenet of creationism: changes occur only within the fixed limits of kinds. The much-watched influenza virus, for all its changes, remains just an influenza virus. It has demonstrated no urge to climb the evolutionary ladder toward some higher life form.
Further, Ms. Stein denies the creationist contention that mathematical probability militates against evolution. She incorrectly attributes the following quote to Dr. Gish: Amino acids "are as apt to form themselves into chains having the right sequences, as a tornado swirling through a junk yard can form spontaneously into a Boeing 747" (p. 94). Actually, the junk yard analogy belongs to a famed astronomer, Fred Hoyle ("Hoyle on Evolution", Nature, vol 294, November 12, 1981, p. 105). In contradiction to the professsional wisdom of most mathematicians and geneticists, she dogmatically asserts, "mathematical odds, in short, have nothing to do with the origins of life" (p. 94). With apologies to Descartes, her logic seems to run, "I exist, therefore I evolved."
It is a peculiar characteristic of many modern scientists that, in their limited area of recognized expertise, they tend to be critical of evolution, while in areas outside their expertise they uncritically accept it. Two cases come to mind: Francis Crick buys into nine-tenths of the evolutionary scenario. He believes that the universe and living organisms are evolving. Notwithstanding, in his own area of Nobel-Prize winning expertise, he believes that the standard evolutionary scenario is impossible. Francis Crick is so convinced that life on this planet could not have some from non-life that he has proposed a theory of "directed panspermia" whereby the first seeds of life came from outer space. Conversely, Stephen Jay Gould has no trouble believing that life evolved from non-life and that the entire universe is evolving. Nevertheless, in his area of paleontological expertise, he finds orthodox, gradualistic evolution impossible. Recognizing that the overwhelming majority of fossil forms are characterized by sudden appearance and stasis, Gould has opted for a theory of "punctuated equilibria" or "hopeful monsters". Compelled by the evidence, Gould has postulated that evolving species take unexpected and unexplainable leaps up the evolutionary ladder.
In conclusion, I relaize that there is no chance of this letter finding its way into your publication. Indeed, the odds of this letter appearing in Omni are probably no better than those estimated for the spontaneous generation of complex proteins. Yet, in its own way, my letter's non-appearance will speak volumes about Omni's true attitude toward censorship and bigotry -- and do so with an eloquence words could never achieve.
Editor's note: As this issue goes to press, Dr. Foreman has received no reply from Omni, and no portion of his letter has been printed.
Copyright © 1997 Christopher Foreman.
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Our students often ask "Why should I become an Intern? and 'WIIFM"? (What's In It For Me)
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- The route descriptions that follow are listed from south to north - Mooihoek, then Mt Everest and then Eagle's Head.
- On each of the major peaks, the climbing areas are listed anti-clockwise (left to right) around each mountain.
- Boulders that are more or less below one another on the slopes of a mountain are generally listed in an uphill sequence.
- Individual routes are listed, with a few exceptions, from left to right on the main faces and anti-clockwise around each boulder.
Some great multi-pitch fun on the north facing slabs of Mooinek. These climbs are for winter or for cloudy summer days or evenings. Mostly slabby but with some climbs tackling some of the steeper corner sections. Some are trad, some sport, take your pick. Fight the Feeling is the original and still very popular. Indecent Exposure is the newest and possibly the best?
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If you were watching the Grammys last night and paying attention to the commercials, you may have noticed a spot from Google showing off the Nexus 4, and the power of Google Now. Now available for viewing on the official Google Nexus YouTube account, the latest advertisement for Google Now is easily the best to date. Google puts you in the shoes of people all over the world, and shows you just how useful the constant stream of Google Now's location aware data is.
Once considered terrible at marketing, Google has found its sweet spot in the last year when it comes to advertising. If I didn't already have a Nexus 4 with Google Now, I'd be jonesing for one after seeing it action.
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Courtney La Prince lived in nine different foster homes before the age of 17, but at Moore, she found her family. "It has been such a long journey," she said. La Prince said that without generous scholarships to help her pay for her education, she would not be a part of this new family. "It has been such a blessing because I was able to complete my senior year without worrying about the hardship of finances."
"I really love the school and I'm really happy," she said. "I always wanted to feel part of a family or that people cared about me. But here I feel like they do."
La Prince, a senior graphic design major, explores the issues of foster youth and education in her thesis presentation, now on view in The Galleries at Moore. Her thesis includes four info-graphic posters and a video documentary, where she interviews students who grew up in foster care at Arise Academy Charter High School in Philadelphia.
"Only 2 percent of foster youth graduate from college nationally," she said. "My thesis is based on those statistics. Most foster youth say they want to go to college but only 10 percent actually enroll, and of that number only 2 percent finish. It's sad when you think about how important college is in order to be successful."
La Prince was born in Charleston, SC but grew up in the foster care system in Maryland. She took classes at two community colleges, studying art and design, before learning about Moore from her court appointed special advocate.
"The lady who brought me to Moore – Ann Marie Foyle Binsner – has been in my life since I got into the foster care system," she said. "She helped me get here to Moore, not only by giving me a reference but bringing me for my tour and helping me ask for more finances. She also gave me a place to stay. She has been that support system that I was very blessed to have."
Now La Prince hopes to shed light on other foster youth who may not have that support, particularly when it comes to attending college.
"Doing this project was me trying to figure out what the reasoning was (for them not going to college) – lack of finances, lack of support system, lack of drive… it's all those things," she said. "A lot of these kids don't believe they can achieve college. They're scared to ask for help. I told them about Moore and said 'if I can go to college, then you can do it too.'"
La Prince has not only maintained a solid GPA while at Moore, she's also very involved in leadership activities, from being vice president of student government to a member of the college planning committee. She's also a graphic design tutor.
When she's not at school, La Prince works as a graphics freelancer at Center City Fun Film & Video, where she completed her internship last summer. After graduation, she hopes to move to California and find a job in the film industry.
"I've struggled a lot but I appreciate every minute because it's something I've been very determined to do. I'm excited to be at that point where I'm done and I know my hard work paid off. And I'm looking forward to more hard work in the future."


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Brian James Gilbert
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Sept. 22, 2012
GLASGOW, Ky. — Brian James Gilbert, 42, passed away at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22 after a brief illness.
A long time resident of Plymouth, Brian had moved to Glasgow, Ky., to pursue his career as a jazz and big band trombonist.
Well known in music circles for his extremely high range and bold sound, Brian played in the Marshall County Church Orchestra and the Barren County Community Band (Ky.), as well as in numerous other ensembles.
After graduating from PHS in 1988, having played in the PHS Band and Advanced Jazz Ensemble, Brian moved on to become the principal trombonist at the University of Indianapolis.
Brian is preceded in death by his father, Bernard James Gilbert, and his mother, Gloria Jean Gilbert, both of Plymouth.
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Charles Vet didn't know at the time why he was being thrashed and pommeled. When he found out, the music maestro hired two of the best out of town lawyers he could find and afford. He took his attackers to Federal court and won.
In the winter of 1906, Dublin's Board of Education hired Charles Vet as the school system's music teacher. The French-speaking teacher taught piano and music lessons on the side to supplement his woefully meager salary.
On the night of May 29, 1906, Professor Vet went to bed in his modest apartment contemplating the next day's musical lessons. Vet maintained that B.A. Hooks entered his room and through a clever ruse induced him to come outside because he was wanted by the Board of Education. All of a sudden, a quintette of malefactors flogged, beat and battered him with wooden clubs and brass knuckles as retribution for his alleged wholly inappropriate and highly offensive remarks directed at a young unmarried female teacher in the school. Hooks maintained that Vet drew a gun on him and his friends as they were leaving the scene. He claimed that they acted solely in self defense. Vet, on the other hand, claimed that he did try to draw his gun, but that his attackers ripped it out of his coat and stabbed him in the throat.
Vet was so drubbed that he could not get out of his bed for a week. Being an helpless outsider, the pummeled professor had no luck in having his attackers arrested on felony criminal charges. With no other place to go, Professor Vet moved to Florida. His only practical remedy was to file a civil suit in a court of jurisdiction outside the limits of Laurens County.
Professor Vet, seeking at least $10,000.00 in damages, hired Du Pont Guerry and Peter W. Meldrim to file a case of trespass and assault in Federal court in Macon. He named as defendants, B. A. Hooks, T. W. Hooks, Blount Freeman, Daniel Driggars, and Andrew A. Cowart. Guerry, a frequent gubernatorial candidate and a long time U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, left his previous position as President of Wesleyan College in 1909 to return to private practice. Meldrim, known to have been both a literal and figurative fighter in the courtroom, would later become Judge of Chatham County Superior Court.
A trial was held on May 20, 1911 in the Federal Court Building in Macon. The illustrious Emory Speer served as the presiding judge. The defendants hired Alexander and Charles Ackerman, both of Dublin to defend them. Alexander Akerman was the Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District. A year later, Akerman would become the U.S. Attorney. After moving to Florida, Alexander Akerman was named to the Federal bench by President Calvin Coolidge. His brother Charles was a practicing attorney in Dublin.
After a series of procedural maneuvers, the first day's testimony shocked those spectators who were hoping for a sensational scandal. Defendant B.A. Hooks took the stand first and professed that it was Vet, who drew a gun on him and the other defendants.
Professor Vet, speaking in broken English, took the stand and reiterated essentially the same story of the unprovoked attack on him. Courtroom curiosity seekers, the lawyers and even Judge Speer had to lean in toward Vet to understand his barely discernible testimony.
Vet testified that he had some difficulty with Miss Dew, the school's elocution teacher. According to the music teacher, Miss Dew wanted to use the piano in an upcoming school exhibition. He testified that he told the young teacher that she was "unladylike" as he took the piano into his own classroom. The Akermans introduced police reports tending to indicate that Vet had committed prior instances of insulting comments toward women.
To prove their claim that Vet's body had been seriously injured, Guerry and Meldrim introduced his broken, crushed hat along with his tattered, bloody coat, spattered with Vet's own blood. His lawyers pointed to a scar on his throat and claimed that the brutal attack was the proximate cause of their client's deafness.
Professor W.R. Lanier, a most credible and well-respected witness, testified that he heard Hooks say, "If I could get two or three helpers, I will give Vet a thrashing."
Miss Dew, described by a Macon Telegraph reporter as "young and attractive," took the stand next. A hush fell over the room as all present intensely listened. Judge Speer ruled that her testimony was irrelevant and excused the teacher from the courtroom.
One by one the other defendants took the stand. Blount Freeman, T.W. Hooks and Daniel Driggars denied that they had any part in the alleged attack. A.A. Cowart did not make an appearance, a move claimed by some to be calculated to avoid a judgment as he was insolvent. The trio placed the blame on Hooks and Cowart, who had previously plead guilty in the Dublin City Court. J.L. Robinson was sworn in and testified that Freeman, T.W. Hooks, and Driggars had no part in the fracas. Dr. J.M. Page, testifying on behalf of the defendants, stated that Vet's wounds were not as serious as he had declared.
In their closing arguments, Vet's attorneys reviewed the evidence and asserted that they had established a prima facie case against the defendants. Dublin Judge John S. Adams, one of the city's most well respected attorneys, argued that Vet had been lying about his $100.00 a month income as he had earned more than $60.00 a week. Alex Akerman pointed out the fact that Vet's straw hat was not bent on its right side, the side in which Vet stated he could not hear out of. Akerman proceeded with a grand theory that the actions of the defendants were nothing more than Southern chivalry in protecting the virtues of the young and innocent female teacher.
Meldrim, a consummate courtroom performer, rose to his feet, threw down his notes, and yelled, "Southern chivalry, bah!" He questioned whether or not chivalry was luring a simple stranger from a foreign land into the dark and beating him dangerously. Judge Speer agreed and charged the jury that all evidence of chivalry was irrelevant. Speer accented his point by stating generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the epitome of Southern chivalry, would not have shown that kind of behavior.
The jury deliberated for an hour before returning a verdict against B.A. Hooks and A.A. Cowart in the amount of $1,000.00 each and $300.00 from T.W. Hooks, Blount Freeman, and Daniel Driggars, collectively. B.A. Hooks appealed to Judge Speer for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict of the jury. Judge Speer denied the motion and Hooks filed an appeal to the District Court of Appeals. The following November, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict.
It was one of those cases when no one went home happy. Vet, partially deaf and only slightly compensated after paying his two high-priced attorneys, and Hooks and his accomplices, greatly lighter in their wallets, couldn't understand what they did was wrong. Vet, at least could take some consolation in the fact that he was still playing the piano with two good hands and listening with one good ear.


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