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Monday, March 19, 2012
March Moola Madness - $300 Grand Prize + EdenFantasys Giftcard
Visit The WiC Project for your chance to win the $300 Amazon Gift Card Grand Prize! Want to earn bonus entries towards the grand prize? Make sure you visit and enter all of the giveaways in the hop! a Rafflecopter giveaway
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- Nikki Lynn HannaMarch 19, 2012 at 12:51 AM
thanks for the giveaway! I recently on Edens's website the other day and this gc would help! :)ReplyDelete
- Ashley T.March 19, 2012 at 12:53 AM
My favorite color is blueReplyDelete
- Michael MMarch 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM
I live in FloridaReplyDelete
Thanks to my sister, I am now addicted to Jersey Shore!!ReplyDelete
Just hopping through. Take care.ReplyDelete
So I am prob going to overshare here but my husband goes outside and decided to relieve himself the other night the windows were open since its been so pretty and my daughter could hear the sound..... lol she looked up at me and asked if it had started raining..... I kept a straight face and told her it might have lol took the hubs to the bedroom and gave him a nice long lecture of why we have bathrooms inside the home nowdays ; )ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 2:35 AM
I love to win!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 2:39 AM
i went to the Atlanta aquarium last week and was disappointed. packed,expensive and wasn't like they advertised.ReplyDelete
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- Kristie BettsMarch 19, 2012 at 6:05 AM
Thanks for the giveaway and being part of the HopReplyDelete
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My favorite color is purple! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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My fave color is redReplyDelete
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We both have daughters named Ella! (We also call her Ella Bean, Ella Rose - her actual middle name - Ella-phant, Ella-men-o-peo.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with your great blog and sponsoring great giveaways! :)ReplyDelete
Happy SPRING!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
My favorite color is Purple!
Thanks for the giveaway! Happy Monday!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM
My favorite color is yellow.ReplyDelete
i like yellow its a happy colour i thinkReplyDelete
My favorite color is green!ReplyDelete
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My favorite color is teal :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
My favorite color is blue.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!ReplyDelete
my favorite color is cerulean! :)ReplyDelete
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favorite color is purpleReplyDelete
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Thanks for the giveaway this would be great to win!!ReplyDelete
- tracy webbMarch 19, 2012 at 11:57 AM
red is my favorite colorReplyDelete
It's never too late to win a prize like this:) Yahoo!!ReplyDelete
Q: Why was the pepper considered nosey?ReplyDelete
A: He was jalapeno business!
I love the color purple :) Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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So the other night, around 9pm, my 2 year old noticed that 2 light bulbs were burnt out in the kitchen and kept telling me to turn the light off (she has her on and off switched). I told her that I had to go to the store to buy more bulbs to fix them. So she said, "Bye Mom!" I was laughing for several reasons, one of them being that she assumed she could stay home without any supervision. My husband was not home yet and I would have been leaving her with her siblings, the oldest being 8. Silly little girl!ReplyDelete
GREEN IS MY FAVORITE COLOR!!!!!ReplyDelete
Very impatient waiting for my show "Bones"to resume.Nice blog here too :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway. My favorite color is blue.ReplyDelete
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My favorite color is purple:)ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
Karen F
love their products!! thank you!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is green :)ReplyDelete
- Lee BlackMarch 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Thanks for the giveaway! My favorite color today is green!ReplyDelete
thank you for the giveaway , and my favorite color is purple:)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway. And my favorite color is blackReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Thanks for the giveaway! My favorite color is blue!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is purple. Thanks!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is Clean. Yes.. I know it's not a "color" persay, but it's the one thing I like to see the most.ReplyDelete
My favorite color is blue -- or maybe black -- or brown -- well, ok, it changes a lot -- LOLReplyDelete
Today is a beautiful day. I see green!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 6:38 PM
My favorite color is pink! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
just hopping by to say my fave color is purple, i think, wait i like pink too, and blue and green and yellow, lol. good luck everyone. thanks for the awsome giveawayReplyDelete
I'm so excited for spring! and my favorite color is purple :)ReplyDelete
I'm so excited for spring! and my favorite color is purple :)ReplyDelete
Marlena Curley
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I absolutely love the color blue!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for a great giveaway! I've heard good things about them! :)ReplyDelete
Favorite color is purple :)ReplyDelete
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Pink rocks! And so does this giveaway :)ReplyDelete
I like the names you chose for your girls!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is purpleReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 8:46 PM
my favorite color is blue!ReplyDelete
favorite color is pale pinkReplyDelete
My husband would love for me to win this.ReplyDelete
My favorite color is pink.
I'm all about the purple!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 11:12 PM
Bev ElliottReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway. I love purple.
I would LOVE to get a new glass dildo from there! Already got one and love it.ReplyDelete
Would love to have some items from Eden Fantasys!ReplyDelete
my favorite color is deep purpleReplyDelete
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have a great day!ReplyDelete
- Kathy RambousekMarch 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM
Thanks for a fun giveaway :)ReplyDelete
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My favorite color is purple.ReplyDelete
TY for the chance at this giveaway!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is black, I know it's dark, but it makes me feel very powerful when I wear it :DReplyDelete
enjoying the blog hop! i love the color purple :)ReplyDelete
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still cloudy and rainy in seattle...yukReplyDelete
What a great giveaway, would love to win. :)ReplyDelete
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- Michelle MacalusoMarch 20, 2012 at 4:17 AM
Hi! Love your blog so much! My fave color is hot pink :)ReplyDelete
I love pink!ReplyDelete
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- Rachel A.March 20, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Its going to be almost 80 degrees today in New Hampshire and its only March!ReplyDelete
- Robert FMarch 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I don't know any jokes, but blue is my favorite colorReplyDelete
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my favorite color is blue thanks for the giveaway and all your hard work that goes into the blog I enjoy and not just for the giveawaysReplyDelete
Favorite color is purpleReplyDelete
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My favorite color is pink!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for being a sponsor of March Moola Madness!ReplyDelete
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I want this giveaway! :DReplyDelete
Happy Spring!ReplyDelete
i like the color blueReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM
My favorite color is Pink :-)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Purple and pink are my favorite colors. I also like burgundy.ReplyDelete
Love the blog!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is camo.ReplyDelete
I have to run and pick up my hubby in 3.5 minutesReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 5:44 PM
found this site by accident...but a brilliant website to come across :DReplyDelete
I'm watching My Little Pony movie with my daughter while entering this giveaway ;)ReplyDelete
cherriesjessilee at gmail dot com
my fave color is blue and the weather here in Maine has been in the 70's and 80's...truly amazing for this time of year!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is Orange.ReplyDelete
Just hopping throughReplyDelete
My favorite color is orange which I guess is the least favorite color of most women.ReplyDelete
I really love Swedish fish. Thanks for the giveaway.ReplyDelete
love swedish fish also..love to flatten them so they are not so hard.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 9:04 PM
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- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 10:37 PM
michele zeller- doc says i am going to live today. now thats funny.ReplyDelete
My hands are freezing!ReplyDelete
realy grate give away i hope i win some thing and thanks for takeing .ReplyDelete
My favorite color is Green. I am engaged to a great guy,My family is my top priority. I love making homemade tamales, and eating them too, and I am excited, as my brother will be home from overseas soon, and I will be making him some homemade tamales. Thanks for the giveaway :)ReplyDelete
Cristina Wyatt
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Thanks for the nice giveaway. I like EdenFantasys ;)ReplyDelete
I stink at jokes so I'll tell you my favorite color: hunter green.
watching My Wife and Kids at 4am. I need to go to sleepReplyDelete
I love the spring and the giveaway is wonderfulReplyDelete
I have always loved blue. So happy spring is here :). Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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Well, I love chocolate and ice cream.ReplyDelete
My favourite colour is green. Or blue. Or maybe blue green.ReplyDelete
Purple is my favorite color.ReplyDelete
Oh boy would my husband love if I won this lol :-)ReplyDelete
A man has his car full of penguins. He drives past a policeman, but the policeman stops him. He says. "Hey, you! Yeah, you! You should take those penguins to the zoo!"ReplyDelete
The man does that.
The next day in the same spot, the man still has the penguins. Once again he drives past the policeman. "Hey, I thought I told you to take those penguins to the zoo!"
"I did," replies the man. "We had so much fun that were going to the beach today!"
Happy Spring! :)ReplyDelete
My favorite color is Blue.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Where do bees go potty?ReplyDelete
At the BP station!
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Hello thanks for the giveaway. I could use a little spice in my life LOL.ReplyDelete
I love to tell you a joke but I suck at it so my fav color is red......Thanks for the giveaway!!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway ~ my favorite color is green and I love spring flowers!ReplyDelete
- Holly S.March 21, 2012 at 7:37 PM
My favorite color is purple!ReplyDelete
i love yellow.ReplyDelete
My favorite color is red.ReplyDelete
fave color is green!ReplyDelete
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender takes out a shot gun and shoots it just missing the man. The man thanks him, puts a tip on the bar and leaves. Why did the man thank the bartender and leave a tip???ReplyDelete
He had the hiccups :)
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My favorite color is redReplyDelete
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Awesome! Thank you! :)ReplyDelete
Great giveaway!ReplyDelete
- danielle foutsMarch 22, 2012 at 6:17 PM
my favorite color is pink :)ReplyDelete
I love fuchsia and purple!ReplyDelete
its storming hereReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the giveaway =) I'm looking forward to seeing the Hunger Games tomorrow!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway! I hope you have the same beautiful Spring weather that I do!ReplyDelete
Great giveaway! Thanks!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the great giveaway. I like this store.ReplyDelete
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What did the french chef give his wife for Valentine's Day?ReplyDelete
A hug and a quiche.
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my favorite color is green .....like moneyReplyDelete
thanks for the great giveaway...favorite color is pinkReplyDelete
I'm a pink girl (breast cancer survivor)! :)ReplyDelete
great giveaway, thanks!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the giveaway! :)ReplyDelete
- HeatherMarch 23, 2012 at 3:54 PM
My 2 yo says the word "Please" like "Pee" - very cute and quite confusing during potty trainingReplyDelete
favorite color is purpleReplyDelete
Had a tough day with the 4 month old. She may be teething ... :/ReplyDelete
thank you for having a fantastic contestReplyDelete
My fav color is pink!ReplyDelete
my fave color is purple. then probably green!ReplyDelete
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My favorite color is hot pink!ReplyDelete
Brown is my favorite color. Weird, huh?ReplyDelete
Thanks for offering something on the 'adult' side of things - fun!ReplyDelete
thanks for the contest. I just did my room in my fav color... purple. just in time for springReplyDelete
Horses lack a gallbladder.ReplyDelete
i made chili today for lunch.ReplyDelete
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Aaron BretveldReplyDelete
I got an early birthday present this last Wednesday from my brother, we drove the 3 hours to Indianapolis to see the Adam and Jamie from the Mythbusters show on their "Behind the Myths" tour.
Thanks for the giveaway!!! Trying to enjoy my last weekend of laziness before school starts back up on Monday!ReplyDelete
Periwinkle rocks!ReplyDelete
thanks for the chance! EdenFantasy rocks!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is green :)ReplyDelete
I'm excited about this bash!ReplyDelete
My favorite color is green.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this giveaway my favorite color is purple lol!ReplyDelete
-Rachael Henzman
"In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!" Dr. SeussReplyDelete
Betsy BarnesReplyDelete
Just hopping by to tell you my favorite color is pink :)
- heather loftusMarch 25, 2012 at 7:07 AM
i love pink!ReplyDelete
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According to The Institute of Incomplete Information, 9 out of every 10.ReplyDelete
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Thanks for a great giveaway!
Thanks for a great giveaway! My latest funny story. Because I look younger than I actually am, I was at the store with my 18 year old son who is 3 times my size. He caught some guys checking me out SO he decided to put his arm around me and give them a dirty look. I guess they thought he was my boyfriend because they high tailed it out of there. DANG kids! He's ruining my game! lolReplyDelete
Angela Michels
I'm still laughing my butt off at Cari's joke!! I actually just scored a GC from Eden's so I'm just hopping on through wishing everyone GOOD LUCK and wanting to say THANK YOU for the opportunity and giving us all the opportunity with these awesome giveaways!!ReplyDelete
My favorite colors are green and red, but not together unless it's Christmas! ;)ReplyDelete
- nikki berginMarch 25, 2012 at 5:17 PM
I love my daughterReplyDelete
it was cold todayReplyDelete
I'll go with a very cheesy joke, lol!ReplyDelete
What concert costs 45 cents?
50 Cent ft. Nickelback
I told you it was cheesy!
Thanks so much for the chance to win!!!
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I love my 4 sons!! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for making the day brighter!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the great giveaway! I love following all these great blogs!ReplyDelete
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My favorite color is Kelly Green. Perfect for spring! Thanks for the great giveaway!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the giveaway :) Black is my favorite color.ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the fabulous giveaway! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for the giveaway :)ReplyDelete
Roses are RedReplyDelete
Violets are Blue
I want to win
and dive Big Thanks to YOU
Christ fed the multitudes with only one loaf of bread...coolest song by Damian Marley, Bob's son.ReplyDelete


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Hilary Duff has grown into quite a beautiful young woman. She was a star as a teen and hopefully that will carry forth into adulthood because we'd all like a chance to see the beautiful blonde naked. To see her doing a sexy scene in one of her movies would be tremendous. To see her breasts some sort of dream come true.

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text: First Steps to Starting "High-Risk" Feeder Calves to Reduce BRD April 19, 2013 05:05 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Drovers Editors Email South Dakota State University Extension's online teaching platform, iGrow.org recently introduced a risk categorization strategy for cattle producers that is based upon the potential for sickness and death in feeder calves and addresses Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD). A link to an article on this categorization strategy can be found at igrow.org/livestock/beef/brd-risk-categorization-for-feeder-calves-part-1/. "This tool addresses BRD which is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality through the first 30 days following arrival to feeding programs," said Roger Ellis, SDSU Extension Beef Feedlot Field Specialist. "As widely documented in research and field reports, the calves which meet the criteria of "high-risk" experience increased disease incidence, costs and profit losses; by assigning a BRD risk level allows cattle feeders to manage calf health according to the degree of risk." Ellis says many cattle producers ask what levels of BRD are commonly expected with "high-risk" feeder calves? He says reported incidence rates for calves treated for BRD regularly exceed 15 percent and often are greater than 50 percent. "Death losses greater than 2 percent and case fatality rates greater than 20 percent are commonly experienced. Chronic BRD cases (non-responders to treatment) may exceed 25 percent. BRD at these reported levels has devastating economic and emotional effects on stocker and feeder operators," he said. "The challenge remains to understand these risks and implement sound health management programs to minimize the losses." Many contributing factors have been identified which increase the risk for BRD in weanling calves. Ellis says within the established marketing avenues, calves are exposed to environmental and management stressors and challenged by infectious agents that are associated with BRD. Factors associated with BRD in calves include (Acquired Factors) Weaning stress Handling and transportation stress Movement through cattle markets or congregating facilities Commingling of calves from multiple origins Delays in direct movement to the feeding operation ("holding") Excess shrink (body weight loss) during transit Weather stressors Conditions as nursing calves associated with BRD include (Pre-existing Factors) Immunological deficiencies (insufficient colostrum-derived immunity) Previous disease (nursing calf health problems) Presence of PI (persistently infected) BVD calves Lack of or insufficient pre-marketing vaccinations for BRD agents Failure to castrate bull calves and dehorn nursing calves Nutritional deficits or imbalances Parasitism Designating newly received feeder calves as "high-risk" should heighten the level of management upon arrival. "Cattle that have shrunk more than 7 percent can be assumed to be highly stressed and at high risk for health problems," he said. Ellis encourages cattle feeders to establish a designated receiving program with the guidance of their herd health veterinarian. "Specific BRD prevention practices are recommended and have been widely utilized. However, before all the recommended procedures (vaccinations, treatments, supplements, etc.) are implemented, the basic "3 R's" of the receiving program are most crucial," he said. R-1. Rest and recuperation Calves should be closely inspected upon arrival for their physical well-being. Early treatment of sick or injured calves should be provided. They should be handled in the least stressful manner as possible and placed in a clean, dry, isolated and easily accessible pen and provided the appropriate weather protection for the season. Holding pens should have 150 to 200 square feet of pen space per animal and 12 to 16 inches of bunk space per animal and located close to the processing facility. These calves should be allowed to rest for up to 24 hours prior to further processing. Frequent inspection to access behavior, appetite, water consumption, and health status should be provided. Quiet movement around and through the pen may be necessary to adapt the calves to human handling. The objective is to allow recuperation, reduction of stress and recovery of immune system function. R-2. Rehydration Clean, readily accessible drinking water should be available. Ideally, the watering system should provide fresh, flowing water and be placed in the fenceline. Newly received calves generally walk the perimeter of the pen for some period of time and will find the water source during their passing. Addition of water-soluble electrolytes or medications should be avoided until assurance that the calves are drinking adequate water for rehydration and shrink recovery. R-3. Rumen restoration Depending on the time in transit, calves will lose body weight -shrink- and have a disruption of rumen digestive activity. Metabolic needs for energy, protein and essential vitamins and minerals will need to be restored via reactivation of rumen microbial digestion. Initially, fresh and high quality dry hay should be provided to entice appetite and provide effective fiber for rumination. Hay should be limit-fed in feed bunks or racks with small quantities of hay on the ground in the pen. Free choice access to hay is discouraged as it limits the ability to assess appetite and health of individual calves. Trace mineralized salt may be offered ad lib to the pen. Within 6-18 hours, a high quality, highly palatable and concentrated (greater than 50 percent concentrate) starter ration should be offered in limited amounts (0.5 to 1.0 percent of body weight) by top-dressing on a small amount of hay. Self-fed rations again would be discouraged. The receiving feeding program and rations should be formulated with the aid of a qualified ruminant nutritionist. The objective is to restore the metabolic status of the calves, activate the digestive process and initiate the detection of sick calves. Ellis points out that this is a very general review of best management practices which is applicable for receiving all feeder calves with the recommendations being especially crucial for high-risk calves. "Further health management practices in the form of vaccinations, treatments, parasite control, other medications and procedures should not be delayed past 48 hours following arrival under most circumstances. The objective of the 3R's is to allow the calves to rest, recuperate and recover function of their digestive and immune systems and optimize the effectiveness of the other preventative health measures. The basic 3R's go a long way in helping to reduce the BRD wrecks that often loom for high-risk feeder cattle," he said. For more information on this and related topics, contact Ellis at firstname.lastname@example.com or contact other SDSU Extension Cow/Calf Field Specialists or Beef Extension Specialists. Contact information can be found at iGrow.org. Back to news


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Welcome Back In today's post I will be reviewing;
Product Details
- Manufacturer/Brand; Staedtler/ Triplus
- Item number: 323 SB20
- RRP at time of writing: £24.50 but cheaper on Amazon 😉
Reason For Buying
I wanted some colours to use with Doodling and struggling with my dexterity I wondered if the triangle-shaped barrels of these pens would help.
- Good selection of colours
- Triangle shaped barrel comfortable in the hand
- The caps fit very well but are easy to remove
- The plastic case is robust and folds back on itself to act as a stand as you use the pens
- Case stays closed for travelling with your pens
- 1.0 mm fibre tip pens, work well on cartridge paper and cover well
- The option of more colours would have been nice, but the range is still good for general doodle style of art
Build Quality
Excellent! The nibs are robust and seem to last well. The firm fitting caps mean if you travel with these pens there is much less risk of the caps dropping off. The case being able to be used as a stand is a nice feature and like the lids is a secure closure but still easy to open.
Value for Money
TBH I would be a bit tight and not want to pay £25 but these were a bargain at just over £11 on Amazon and at that price I am very happy. They are quality and are worth their higher price, I'm just on a tight budget at the moment.
Would I buy it Again?
Yes, they have a finer nibbed version of these pens and I'm looking to get a set of those for working in smaller areas and for lettering.
Summing up
Superb pens, love them a lot. Great for bold lettering or doodling. Bear in mind they are water based so not ideal for mixed media if you plan to use wet media over the top but that a niggle. Great pens, try them see if you love them too.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon Billie 🙂


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Luhr Park basketball action
Around 80 players have been taking part in this year's Luhr Park basketball league, which is geared toward boys entering 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. Teams were randomly selected at the beginning of the summer and play twice a week, with games being held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Park staff member Ben Daghir remarked that the park is "overjoyed to have 10 teams this year," adding that playoffs are currently underway in the form of a double elimination tournament. In addition to the regular league games, an all star game was also held in mid-July.
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Who hasn't asked themselves that question?
photo © 2007 Reiner Schubert | more info (via: Wylio)
On an increasingly frequent basis, I find myself utterly at a loss for what movie I saw last week or where I put my cell phone. I've even accused my phone of teleportation – and then seriously questioned the health of my brain.
How is it I can remember some trivial and insignificant detail from 20 or 30 years ago and not what I had for dinner two days ago? Am I losing my mind – is this the first dreaded sign of Alzheimer's?
Life is a challenge for most people because they have never been this age before, at least not that they remember. I am an expert at being 40 (and unfortunately at being 50), but 55 remains a mystery, although not for long.
The brain of most people weighs about three pounds – even Einstein's. It is made of something like 100 billion neurons. Each neuron connects to hundreds of other nerve endings. The connections in your brain number roughly 1 quadrillion (that's 1000 trillion or 10 to the 15th power). My brain hurts just thinking about that number.
A fatty substance called myelin insulates these connections and acts like the plastic coating on a wire. Short circuits are called seizures. Fortunately, you don't need to understand the brain's owner's manual to operate one.
With aging, some neurons die. You start with all you get and go down from there. What a completely depressing thought. There is a tiny but measurable decrease in brain mass with increasing age. As these cells die, their connections are lost, resulting in some data loss. The brain continually rewires itself, constantly establishing new "work-around" for the lost cells. It is actually more remarkable what we remember, rather than what we forget. Remember this is a biological system, not a supercomputer.
Studies have shown that as brains age, long-term memories are maintained the best. Recent or new memory formation is the most affected. Several long philosophical ruminations occur at this point, but you may peruse that on you own.
Now it gets interesting. Everyone has heard we live in a small portion of our brain, something like 30 percent. There is a huge range of "normal" among adults with healthy brains. What feels like normal to me might feel like the mother of all hangovers to some master mathematician or particle physicist.
We have been collecting vast amounts of data our whole lives. Much of the data is meaningless. Do you really need to remember every parking space you selected in your life or every word you've spoken or heard? The data is there, somewhere. Since it is never used, it is given low priority by the brain. The less unique the memory, the harder it is to retrieve. The less a memory is used, the harder it is to recall. Use it or lose it (your mind that is).
The sheer mass of data makes us all feel like an Alzheimer's candidate. Everyone forgets where he or she parks, but no one forgets the color of their car.
Brain health is a lot like body heath. The brain likes to be exercised (Sudoku anyone?). It's utterly dependent on good blood flow and oxygen, so we want to keep atherosclerosis away. Everyone talks about classical music exposure in utero, but it's hard to fix that now. Personally, I think rock works better – it makes mom move, which keeps the blood flowing.
These mental glitches are part of the human experience. One study of neurologists found 60 percent had what they considered real symptoms of brain disease – and these guys are pretty smart. They could lose a few neurons and miss them less than I would.
Fortunately, dementia is not hiding behind every lost car key or car. In fact, considering the complexity of the brain, it is perhaps more amazing that it works as well as it does.
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For the past couple of weeks, a slight fragrant aroma has been accompanying the movements of the wind throughout the streets of Berlin. Outdoor enthusiasts from the southeastern US would immediately recognize the scent of the native black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) as an ephemeral summertime smell. Bees are also attracted to the pea-like clusters of blooms and black locust honey has a unique and much sought-after flavor which is even more appreciated due to the short blooming season of about two weeks.
In Germany, as elsewhere in Europe, introduced plants are differentiated by the rough date of the Columbian Exchange: those that appeared after 1500 AD are considered neophytes. Initially, the hard long lasting wood was used for making poles in the wine-growing regions of Germany. Black locust made its first recorded appearance in Berlin in the late 17th century as a rare ornamental, and it wasn't until the late 18th century that the vigorous tree was advocated for cultivation in the Brandenburg area. Forgotten shortly thereafter, black locust only became noticeable again in Berlin after the Second World War when it began to colonize heavily bombed areas of the city.
The close shot of the specimen featured in our photograph was taken near Ostbahnhof, along the banks of the Spree river next to East Side Gallery. Although most of the strip is a large patch of mowed grass, the visitor will notice cherry trees (reminiscent of the Sakura campaign) and wild growing bushes of black locust and elderberries growing alongside the river. Just like elderberry, black locust blooms are edible and an easy way to prepare them is to dip them in your favorite batter and fry them. Childhood memories of the delicate taste of fried black locust flowers in a sweet batter are shared by many Southern Europeans. We also wanted to try them fried, but the recent heat wave in Berlin made us reconsider this method of preparation. Instead we made a simple infusion drink that was quite refreshing! Just steep the flowers in iced water, and then add your favorite syrup. This time we got carried away with a bit too much strawberry syrup (which can easily overpower the delicate fragrance of the black locust flowers) but it still tasted delicious.
Besides having delicious blossoms, black locust is an excellent building material and is often used as an alternative to the more exotic and less sustainable ipe wood. Black locust wood is so durable that it is a preferred material for posts and other outdoor structures. A great place to observe black locust trees in Berlin is Suedgelaende: a derelict train switchyard that has been taken over by urban nature and is now a protected reserve. This is a wonderful place to visit but there is definitely no plant-picking of any kind allowed!


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IPv6 uptake still slow despite looming address crunch
Funding and expertise hard to come by
Analysis Even though many ISPs have begun offering IPv6 services to customers, uptake and use of the next-generation internet technology remains low, according to a European Commission-funded study published last week.
The most comprehensive survey of the subject to date found that misconceptions about the cost of deployment are delaying adoption of the next-generation internet technology, according to the Number Resource Organisation (NRO), one of five regional agencies that administer the allocation of IP addresses.
IPv6 was established as a replacement for IPv4, the current generation of internet protocol, in 1995. IPv4 has a 32-bit address space offering up to 4.3 billion addresses. IPv6 offers 128-bit addresses and therefore offers a vastly increased address space.
The migration to IPv6 is needed for this increased address space and because it offers advantages in mobility and security (at least in theory - the transition could be painful, as an earlier El Reg article explains).
The EU-backed study comes when the available list of IPv4 address is diminishing. Networking experts have warned for years of a looming IPv4 crunch. The use of Network Address Translation technology - which means corporate systems sit behind a firewall that displays only a limited number of IP addresses to the world - have helped to stave off this evil day. But with millions of consumers in countries such as China coming online, and widespread use of smartphones from the likes of Apple and HTC, the IPv4 exhaustion problem has become a reality.
Less than six per cent of the current form of IP addresses, IPv4, remains. This remaining number of 14 from a total poll of 256 address blocks might be exhausted in as little as 244 days, according to a counter maintained by Hurricane Electric.
The study, which polled more than 1,500 organisations (58 per cent of which were ISPs) from 140 countries, found that 84 per cent of organisations already have IPv6 addresses or have considered requesting them. Only a minority - 16 per cent - of those quizzed have no plans to roll out the technology.
Half of all questioned said the cost of deployment was a major barrier for IPv6 adoption, a stance NRO reckons is likely to lead to greater cost in the long run. Three in five (60 per cent) of those polled cited shortcomings in vendor support as a major barrier for deployment, despite the fact the latest generation of network kit and computing systems all support IPv6. Cisco, for example, began supporting IPv6 on its routers and switches back in 2001. Mac OS X has supported IPv6 since 2006, and Windows has offered baked-in support of the technology since the introduction of Vista.
Finding suitably knowledgeable technical staff was cited as a barrier to IPv6 roll-outs by 45 per cent.
Organisations need to make sure that their ISP offers or plans to offer services over IPv6, or else end-users will be unable to enjoy the benefits of the technology. Most of the ISPs polled (60 per cent) either already offer IPv6 to consumers, or plan to offer it within the next year. 70 per cent plan to offer IPv6 services to businesses over the same time period. Only one in 10 ISPs quizzed marked themselves out as technology laggards by saying they had no plans to offer IPv6 technology, a group one industry expert said would be like being a "home-building contractor with no empty lots" once the IPv4 address pool dries up.
Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO, said more organisations are waking up to the need to deploy IPv6 services while noting that actual use of the technology is still low.
"There is still a distinct lack of Internet traffic over the next addressing protocol, with not enough ISPs offering IPv6 services and 30 per cent of ISPs saying the proportion of this traffic is less than 0.5 per cent," said Pawlik. "It's critical that ISPs now take the next step in the global adoption effort by offering IPv6 services to their customers to help boost traffic over IPv6."
Per Blixt, Head of Unit in the Information Society and Media at the European Commission, said in a statement: "It's critical that those who are still sitting on the fence act now on IPv6. Only by ensuring that all organizations adopt IPv6 can we ensure the sustainable growth of the digital economy worldwide."
The 2010 edition of the study is a follow-up to a study last year that focused on Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia and the Pacific. A complete copy of the more comprehensive 2010 edition of the survey can be found here (pdf).
Advice on how organisations might go about trying to plan and support IPv6 roll-outs can be found on the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) website here, along with ARIN's stats on IPv4 and IPv6 address requests here. ®
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Don't miss the Tremec Stick Shift Shootout, which will be held as part of the 20th Annual NMRA Nitto Spring Break Shootout—March 6-9, 2014 in Bradenton, Florida.
Do you have a stick-shift street car? Would you like to upgrade your transmission to a Tremec Magnum XL? Then you don't want to miss the Tremec Stick Shift Shootout, which will be held as part of the 20th Annual NMRA Nitto Spring Break Shootout—March 6-9, 2014 in Bradenton, Florida.
Last year, the NMRA, Tremec, and MM&FF teamed up to bring you the Stick Shift Shootut. This special event took place alongside Tremec True Street, and stick-only TS competitors were able to qualify. The quickest two faced each other head to head in a best-of-three format. The winner, Jeff Smith, took home a Tremec Magnum six-speed transmission.
As one of the largest Tremec True Street events on the NMRA tour, the Spring Break Shootout is also the season opener for the all-Ford series. According to the NMRA:
"The staging lanes at Bradenton Motorsports Park will be bursting at the seams as over 100 entrants will battle for top True Street honors, with the fastest 8 stick cars receiving a special shootout plaque to recognize their prowess. From there things will heat up as the quickest two manual-equipped vehicles will have an all-out slugfest with a 'winner takes all' best 2-out-of-3 heads-up finale! The winner will go home with a brand new Tremec Magnum XL 6-speed transmission system valued at $3,500! The system fits all S197 Mustangs, easily handles up to 700 lb-ft of torque, and even comes with an SFI-certified bellhousing!"
Team MM&FF will be on hand for the festivities, so we'll see you there!
For more information on the NMRA Bradenton, Florida event, or for True Street class rules please log on to www.nmradigital.com/fl or call 714/444-2426. For more information on TREMEC or the Magnum XL transmission system, visit www.tremec.com or call 800/401-9866.


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The Missouri House has endorsed a bill that would allow motorcyclists over the age of 21 to forgo wearing helmets while travelling on the road.
Current law requires motorists to wear helmets or face a fine of up to $25 for each offense.
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Supporters say adults should have the freedom to decide whether to wear a helmet and argue Missouri misses out on tourism because of the current law.
Opponents say the helmet law protects riders during accidents and that the measure would cost the state in higher medical bills.
The measure given first-round approval Wednesday needs one more vote before moving to the Senate. Lawmakers adjourn May 16.


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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Anti-government protesters stormed into the Bosnian presidency and another government building in Sarajevo and set them ablaze Friday as riot police fired tear gas in a desperate attempt to stop them.
Smoke was rising from several Bosnian cities as thousands vented their fury over the Balkan nation's almost 40 percent unemployment and its rampant corruption. It was the worst social unrest the country has seen since the 1992-95 war that killed over 100,000 people following Yugoslavia's dissolution.
As night was falling Friday, downtown Sarajevo was in chaos, with buildings and cars burning and riot police in full gear chasing protesters and pounding batons against their shields to get the crowd to disperse.
Nearly 200 people were injured throughout the country in clashes with police, medical workers reported.
Bosnians have many reasons to be unhappy as general elections approach in October. The privatization that followed the war decimated the middle class and sent the working class into poverty as a few tycoons flourished. Corruption is widespread and high taxes for the country's bloated public sector eat away at residents' paychecks.
In the northern city of Tuzla, protesters stormed the local government building, throwing furniture and files out its windows Friday before setting it on fire. The local government resigned. By evening, protesters also burned the city's court building.
Protesters also set upon local government buildings in Zenica, Mostar and Travnik. The crowd in Zenica pushed several cars belonging to local officials into the nearby river and city authorities announced they will resign.
In the northern town of Brcko, the crowd took the mayor hostage briefly before releasing him.
The protests began in Tuzla earlier this week with a clash between police and the unpaid workers of four former state-owned companies. The companies' new owners were supposed to invest and make them profitable but instead sold the assets, stopped paying workers and filed for bankruptcy.
In an unprecedented move, hundreds gathered Friday in the capital of the Bosnian Serb part of the country, Banja Luka, to back the protesters in Bosnia's other mini-state, which is shared by Bosniaks and Croats.
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WASHINGTON (December 23, 2013) – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell blocked a proposed road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge today. Earlier this year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) determined that the road would have caused severe damage to the refuge's sensitive lands and wildlife. After many months of deliberation, Secretary Jewell upheld the Service's determination, reaffirming the vital importance of protecting designated wilderness lands in a world class national wildlife refuge.
The following is a statement from Jamie Rappaport Clark, President, Defenders of Wildlife:
"Secretary Jewell made the correct call in rejecting a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. A road would have severely damaged Izembek refuge's internationally recognized wetlands and irreplaceable wilderness that the American people agreed to permanently protect long ago. Such a construction project would have set a devastating precedent for the future wellbeing of all of our country's wildlife refuges and designated wilderness.
"Secretary Jewell stood up to unrelenting political pressure. She based her decision on sound science and the laws that protect wildlife refuges. In upholding the Service's decision, Secretary Jewell has affirmed her role as the nation's chief wildlife steward and ensured protection for this irreplaceable resource for generations to come. "
As part of the Senate confirmation process for the new Secretary of the Interior, Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, extracted a promise from the Obama administration that Secretary Jewell would visit the state before making a final decision about a proposed road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, which is home to a diverse array of wildlife species and migratory birds, including five species of salmon, wolves, foxes, wolverines, caribou, moose, brown bears, shorebirds and seabirds. Congress previously had resolved the issue of the proposed road through Izembek back in 1998. In lieu of a road, the small community of King Cove accepted $37.5 million of federal funds for improved local health facilities and easier access to additional medical care. Despite the agreement and the tens of millions of dollars the federal tax payer paid to live up to its end of the bargain, the community of King Cove continued to press for a road through internationally important wetlands in the refuge. The largest Alaska Native organization, the Association of Village Council Presidents, opposed the proposed road, which is more likely to function as an industrial fish-hauling road in summer than an emergency evacuation route in winter. A former Alaskan health director claimed the road would be a "death trap," in winter, so dangerous more people would die using it than would benefit from it.
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The storied American eel was once one of the Vineyard's most valued resources.
Even though the eel now faces hard times, memories are still fresh of the role the American eel played in Vineyard waters, where it was shipped to the mainland in barrels. Generations of native Islanders regarded it once as a staple food. Locally harvested eel was as familiar and as local as boiled lobster, stuffed quahaugs and bay scallops sautéed in butter.
Linsey Lee, oral curator for the Martha's Vineyard Museum, marvels at the eel stories she first heard from Vineyarders while researching a college paper on the subject. "There is wonderful folklore about the eel," Ms. Lee said. "But you know, it isn't lore at all. It is the stories about how they caught eels. They knew what they were doing. They had done it for so long. In fact, they knew more about the eel back then than the scientists seem to know now."
Bettina Washington, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has childhood memories of her father Donald Malonson, then chief of the tribe, taking her bay scalloping in Menemsha Pond and hauling onboard eels.
"This was among the foods we ate. You ate what was available," said Ms. Washington, the tribe's historic preservation officer.
No one thought back then that the eels would come close to disappearing.
Once abundant all along the Eastern seaboard, the eel today is thought by some to be on the brink of extinction. Today, the eel is hard to find in any of the Island ponds.
It has already dropped off the Vineyard menu and is about to drop off the state's list of commercially viable fisheries.
The Vineyard and most of the rest of the country now import eel from Canada and Maine. Its scarcity in Europe and Asia is driving up the cost of elvers, juvenile eels (the Tsunami in Japan is partly to blame for the rising value).
To most, the eel is a slimy, ugly creature to avoid, let alone consider as a meal.
For the second time in five years, the federal government is looking at whether to list the American eel on the endangered species list. New science indicates that global warming has introduced a parasite that is killing 70 per cent of the adults before they can reproduce.
This spring the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) characterized the eel as commercially "depleted," like the river herring. There is some debate over whether it is on the verge of extinction.
Regardless of how it is classified, the eel is precious, so valuable in some places, that the juvenile elvers were being bought this spring for as high as $2,000 a pound in Maine, so that they could be shipped by air to Asia to be raised in eel farms. No one yet knows how to get adult eels to spawn in captivity.
The eel is worth gold in Europe, where countries are spending a considerable amount of resources trying to protect the animal. Eels remain a valuable treat on the dinner table throughout Europe, especially in Italy and Portugal, along with Scandinavian countries..
Part of the problem is tied to its mysterious life cycle. Scientists still don't know how these diadromous creatures reproduce in its primary spawning ground, the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. The American eel is a slightly different variety from the European eel, but their life cycle is believed to be the same. By the time these tiny larvae reach the coast, they have the nickname "glass eels" because they are without pigment, as transparent as glass.
In the spring, they migrate into inshore waters and head upstream as elvers, less than three inches in size. They reside wherever freshwater streams and rivers meet the ocean. They cover the Atlantic from Greenland to Brazil.
In the country's early history, eels constituted the most abundant biomass in freshwater ponds and streams, according to Bradford C. Chase, a diadromous fish biologist with the state Division of Marine Fisheries. It is Mr. Chase's technical committee that will draft any future regulations aimed at saving the creatures by curbing eel fishing.
Not too long ago in Massachusetts commercial fishermen landed between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds a year, Mr. Chase observed. "Since I have been with the state," he said, "it is less than 5,000 pounds a year."
Of the 100 commercial permit holders in Massachusetts today, only 20 of them report any landings at all, Mr. Chase said, adding: "It is almost not even a fishery."
Anyone in Massachusetts can catch an eel if they can find one (The recreational bag limit is 50 per day and the minimum size is six inches).
Today eel is used largely as bait. Steve Morris of Dick's Bait and Tackle Shop in Oak Bluffs, who won first place in 1983 and again in 2000 and last year in the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, used live eel as bait each time.
Dick Hopwood, 76, who owns Maco's Bait and Tackle Shop in Buzzards Bay has shipped 400 to 500 of pounds of eels to tackle shops so far this spring. He said most of his eels come from Canada and Maine, though he does have eel farm suppliers farther down the coast.
Mr. Hopwood said he knows how effective commercial harvesting of eels can wipe out a local population. He saw it happen in Buttermilk Bay, when two commercial fishermen, brothers, depleted the resource in just one year. But the biggest threat to eels in this region, Mr. Hopwood believes, is a bird, the cormorant.
"When I first opened my business 42 to 43 years ago, I didn't know what a cormorant was. Now there are so many in this area. They not only wipe out the baby eels, I have seen them drift in the tide into Buttermilk Bay, picking up all the small fish, particularly baby flounders," Mr. Hopwood said.
Mike Armstrong, an assistant director with the state Division of Marine Fisheries, said: "Eels are like river herring. There has never been a species that has been more widely impacted by human activity." He cited overfishing and habitat degradation.
Earl Peters and Kerry Alley, both of Oak Bluffs, remember John Ferreira, a neighbor, walking County Road, carrying a burlap bag full of eels he'd just caught.
"He carried a burlap bag over his shoulder and an eel spear. He did that every single day in the winter," said Mr. Peters.
Mr. Alley said he remembers Mr. Ferreira, too. "He sold his eels to the Portuguese ladies on the street. That is what he did. If he came down our street, we knew we would all have eels for supper tonight."
Mr. Kerry recalls his mother cooking them in a frying pan. "Skin it first," he said, then cut it in two- or three-inch lengths and fry. "They tasted a little like chicken," Mr. Kerry said.
Norman Benson of Lambert's Cove and his son, Franklin Benson, harvested eels. Ms. Lee has recordings of the Bensons and their stories at the museum.
Mr. Morris Morris remembers visiting with the Bensons in 1983, to purchase eels to sell as bait at his shop. It was a big year for Mr. Morris, the year he won the fall derby, for the first time. "The eels were all in a galvanized wash basin. I'd go up there in the afternoon. He fished the eels out of the ponds. There were no worries in those days," Mr. Morris said.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received a petition to list the eel as an endangered species in 2004. The request was declined. A second request was made in 2010, by a Sacramento nonprofit organization called Council for Endangered Species Act Reliability. That review is underway.
Martin Miller, chief of endangered species for the Northeastern region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sees a long road to the eel becoming listed as endangered. "Nationally there are 200 candidates [for the endangered classification], " he said.
Rob Roy Ramey, a science advisor with the council, said: "The eel has slipped out of the public consciousness of the American people. [The eel] was incredibly abundant, and now it is going extinct."
Mr. Chase, who sits on the American eel technical committee under the ASMFC and has been reviewing that assessment, said: "I think this time around, we will have to do something."


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Advice: My mom died unexpectedly and my dad is already dating
Adapted from a recent online discussion.
Dear Carolyn:
Four months ago, my mother died unexpectedly and suddenly at 53. She had been ill (with my dad as caretaker) but was expected to make a full recovery.
Two months later my dad was going out on "dates" with a few women -- bike rides and coffee. He acknowledged it was too early but was asked and wanted to get out of the house. I was supportive.
Now he has started to call a couple by their first names, and the dates are less casual. He seems to be seeing these women several times per week.
I understand my dad is lonely and is an adult without minor children. But I can't help but feel perturbed by this; it feels like too much too quickly.
Additionally, he has completely eschewed any grief counseling (I haven't pushed it -- he complains that his doctors keep bringing it up). I haven't said anything negative, though I do try to change the subject after I say something like, "Well that sounds fun."
Is this something I need to come to terms with on my own, or is there a non-hurtful way to ask him to stop mentioning any women unless it gets serious? I don't want to cut myself off emotionally, but his talking about "Kathy" baking him cake is surprisingly upsetting.
-- Quiet Daughter?
I'm sorry about your mom -- what an awful shock.
Your dad is dating "too much, too quickly" for you -- and that makes it something you can't ask your father to fix, no matter how understandable your discomfort is. You're both still grieving and you're both doing so in your own ways, which is fine. The problem is only that your ways conflict.
You don't say whether you've gotten any grief counseling yourself, but if you haven't, then please do. A support group is ideal for talking about your discomfort openly, and might remove the pressure you feel to say something to your dad.
As you'll probably hear from others at such a session (readers mention it just about every time this subject comes up), widow(er)s who jump into dating often are the ones who most enjoyed their marriages; they're motivated to find that kind of happiness again.
No one can replace what your father shared with your mother, of course, but I suspect most aren't in it for that. It's more the feeling of loving and being loved that they seek. Plus, even survivors of the happiest of marriages aren't immune to the head-rush of new love; our humanity trumps all. Embracing that might sweeten your disposition toward cake-bearing Kathies.
Re: Kathies:
Possible just to be open and honest with your dad? "You+Mom has been all I've known all my life, and dealing with losing Mom and then having You+Other People at the same time is a lot for me. I love you and I just want you to understand what's going on for me, instead of hiding it from you. Please don't take this as my asking you to stop doing anything, just understand if sometimes I can't be enthusiastic about it right then or seem kinda reserved."
-- Anonymous
This is an excellent Plan B, thanks -- best saved for when a sincere effort at Plan A, acceptance, falls short.


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Kim DotCom isn't too big to cry.
In court yesterday, the MegaUpload founder choked up when he recalled how New Zealand police in January raided the Auckland mansion where he lived and when, as his lawyer said, he was "ripped him away from his family." The U.S. Attorney's office accuses MegaUpload of being a front for a massive piracy operation and lawyers there are trying to extradite him to this country to face criminal copyright, money laundering and wire fraud charges.
MegaUpload was one of the Web's most popular cyberlocker services before U.S. authorities shut it down. The U.S. government is trying to send a message that turning a blind eye to piracy can land site operators in jail. Critics say U.S officials are overreaching and at most the case is a civil dispute.
Back in court, as DotCom was tearing up, his lawyers seethed. DotCom, who has denied being a pirate, was in a New Zealand courtroom Wednesday seeking a judicial review of the search warrants served on him and MegaUpload. His attorneys argued that New Zealand authorities illegally seized data that wasn't relevant to the case and DotCom wants some of his possessions returned, according to Ira Rothken, the U.S.-based lawyer leading DotCom's worldwide defense.
But that's only one part of the U.S. government effort that has angered the DotCom side. According to Rothken, when DotCom's lawyers asked authorities to give them a copy of the data taken from him, they learned that New Zealand officials had shipped the information to the FBI for analysis.
Paul Davison, DotCom's lead attorney in New Zealand, told the media that he was assured by authorities that none of the data seized would leave the country without warning. Without the data, DotCom can't properly defend himself, his attorneys argue, and they feel betrayed.
"The court will determine whether the United States and New Zealand had the authorization to remove data from New Zealand absent a court order," Rothken told CNET. "This is a serious international issue and we believe it requires proportional remedy... It seems as though the United States is trying to win on tactics rather than on merits."
Some of the data seized from DotCom's personal computers was also encrypted and authorities have asked him for the passwords. He has refused to hand them over.
"On certain conditions, Kim DotCom would consider supplying them," Rothken said. "But not when data was secreted away from New Zealand, away from a New Zealand court and judicial supervision. His password on some of the data is his only protection against unreasonable intrusion."
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A Democratic legislator from Auburn is under fire for an error-riddled email to the Auburn Police Department in which he complained about trucks using loud compression brakes – or jake brakes – as they drive near his home.
In the email sent in November, Rep. Brian D. Bolduc demands that police establish a routine patrol near his home on Riverside Drive to enforce an ordinance prohibiting the use of jake brakes in the residential neighborhood.
"You would think the drivers would have enough common courtesy not to do this in front of residential homes but then again one look at them and you can see they probably don't have a whole hell of a lot of brains in their heads," Bolduc wrote.
The email was obtained by the Maine Republican Party, which redacted the recipients and the top portion of the missive. The Sun Journal in Lewiston confirmed that the email was sent to the Auburn Police Department and Mayor Jonathan Labonte, and that Bolduc had previously written to the city to complain about truck noise.
On Thursday, Bolduc issued a two-sentence written apology in response to media inquiries. It read, "My email was over the line. I apologize for expressing my frustration in such an inappropriate manner."
He did not respond to subsequent requests for comment from the Portland Press Herald.
Republicans pounced on his comments and members of the House were calling for his resignation. Rep. Corey Wilson, R-Augusta, who is a truck driver, as is his father, tweeted that Bolduc's comments were offensive.
Others said that Bolduc, serving his third term in the House, appeared to be using his status as a lawmaker to demand that police patrol his road. Bolduc sent the email from his private account and signed it with his first and last name; he did not identify himself as a state representative.
"I want something done about it pronto," he wrote. "I want a cruiser stationed on this road (you can use my driveway) every day between 630 am and 8pm (wich (sic) is when the traffic is running) for a week and i (sic) want to see citations stacking up or ill (sic) have every damned resident of this town who lives on a busy road in that city council chamber!"
Bolduc's legislative biography lists him as a certified secondary school social studies teacher. However, he does not have a full-time teaching job, but works primarily as a substitute teacher. He holds no seats on high-profile committees. Legislative records show that he participated in 53 percent of roll call votes this year, a relatively low percentage.
His email was laden with misspellings and errors.
"We need more police survalence (sic) to crack down on this (expletive). They rumble past our homes before they get to the bridge and to turn onto mill street (sic) especialy (sic) those god damed (sic) lumber trucks. They release those breaks (sic) and our floors and windows rumble and the sound scares pets and children in our homes. You would think the drivers would have enough common courtesy not to do this infront (sic) of residential homes but then again one look at them and you can see they probably dont (sic) have a whole hell of allot (sic) of brains in their heads."
Jason Savage, executive director of the Maine Republican Party, blasted Bolduc in a press statement.
"Representative Bolduc demonstrates a level of disrespect in this email that I believe the hard-working people of Maine will find shocking. Not only is Representative Bolduc clearly bullying the recipients of the email, he also takes a deeply offensive shot at hard-working Mainers who drive (a) truck for a living."
Bolduc's comments mark the second time this year that an elected official in Maine has been forced to apologize for disparaging blue-collar workers. In June, Gov. Paul LePage made a crude sexual remark about Senate Democratic leader Troy Jackson, of Allagash, and said that the professional logger had a "black heart" and was ignorant.
"People like Troy Jackson, they ought to go back in the woods and cut trees and let somebody with a brain come down here and do some work," said LePage.
The governor later apologized to loggers, but not to Jackson. He said he never meant to equate loggers with Jackson.
"It was never my intent to ever, ever suggest that the loggers of the state of Maine are in the same league as Troy Jackson," LePage said. "I owe that apology."
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- Wrath was announced in August 2007, before the Sunwell and Zul'Aman raids dropped.
- Cataclysm was announced in August 2009, before the Icecrown raid dropped.
- Mists was announced in October 2011, before the Deathwing raid dropped.
- And now we have the Siege of Orgrimmar dropping, but no expac announcement as of this date.*
I presume that Blizz is waiting for BlizzCon to make the announcement on the next expac, but given that Blizzard likes to follow patterns, this isn't a good sign.
Unless, of course, the Siege of Orgrimmar isn't the last patch in the Mists saga.
If 5.4 is the last Mists patch, then Blizzard might be setting themselves up for a big problem: a huge length of time where nothing is going on in-game. Last time, Blizzard softened the blow to subscriptions by creating the annual pass, which included access to Diablo III. What will Blizzard do this time?
- Move up any release date to Q1 or Q2 of 2014. This is the most likely solution, given that any expac Blizz is working on has been done in secret. However, after the long lead in to Mists, including the massive beta, any push to release so early will be seen by some pundits as a sign of desperation on Blizzard's part.
- Introduce a bridge raid (or two). This is IMHO the second most likely solution. The only thing that keeps this from being the most likely solution is the lukewarm reception the last bridge raid (Ruby Sanctum) received. Blizzard would need to devote a lot of time to these raids, which would impact any release of the next expac.
- Take WoW F2P. An intriguing possibility, but one that I have to question in its soundness. Blizzard makes a lot of money on WoW subscriptions, and taking WoW F2P would mean that they'd have to either eat that money or make up for it in other ways. They'd have to severely restrict access to endgame content if they wanted to keep subs up, because WoW's model is based upon "the game starting at max level". That would be at best a temporary fix, but an intriguing one nonetheless.
- Announce Titan. This is possible, but given the "back to the drawing board" announcement in August, I suspect this is the least likely of all options.
Anyway, this is pure speculation until the announcement comes at BlizzCon.
*Ha! "By the powers of Murphy, I summon the expac announcement!"


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The NFL owners are gathering today in Atlanta for a one-day meeting to cover a handful of topics, and to presumably smoke cigars while cackling and pay underlings thousands of dollars to dance while being shot at. Also on the docket today, a discussion of what is being called the "enhanced season," per NFL spokesman Greg Aiello:
On our way to Atlanta for league meeting. Key subjects: enhanced season, sale of Rams to Stan Kroenke, plans for Kickoff Week.
"Enhanced season," of course, is corporate stoolie-speak for an expanded 18-game regular season. Commissioner Roger Goodell has been an advocate of the 18-game schedule for a while now, and many view it as all but an inevitability at this point.
The football fan in me is torn on the idea. On the surface of things, what isn't to love about an 18-game season? That means MORE football, which means more fantasy and more gambling and more ignoring my children. Those are all crazy awesome things. Plus, those two extra games would come at the expense of the preseason, which is long and horrible and meaningless. Less preseason, more regular season. It's hard to argue with that.
But you sure can if you try. Here's the thing about the NFL as it stands right now: It's kinda perfect. People may complain about Week 17 laydowns and occasionally screwy playoff seeding, but those are relatively minor quibbles. The product the NFL puts out now is quite solid, and the ratings bear it out.
Football is the only pro sport that, I would argue, does not have a regular season that drags on too long. In every other sport, the regular season is endless. I'm not even sure the NHL takes more than a week off. The NFL takes just over five months to finish its regular season and playoffs. The NBA takes two freakin' months alone to get through their endless playoff rounds. The NFL, at least to me, is quite adept at leaving you wanting more by season's end. That's in stark contrast to baseball, which I can't wait to see go away.
Add those two extra games in, and you haven't extended the season a ludicrous amount. But if you think the expansion will stop there, you're wrong.
An expanded regular season will almost certainly lead to an expanded postseason. I could easily see two or four teams added to the mix somewhere down the line. Factor in player attrition, and suddenly you have an NFL season that's a six-month death march for players, with the team least injured staggering to the end to pick up the Lombardi Trophy. Hockey is like this in the postseason, and it's not always pretty.
Furthermore, this expanded season is throwing a goober in the labor talks between the NFL and the NFLPA. Players hate the idea, and won't do it without serious compensation, and I don't blame them for that. I hate the idea that an 18-game schedule could be the sticking point that leads us to a 0-game schedule. That will make me want to torch towns and punch teenagers.
So take heed, NFL. I suppose you can have too much of a good thing, even if the football nut inside me thinks that's a load.


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Haven't seen a lot of notice for a recent study of water pollution from natural gas fracking in Pennsylvania, produced by Resources for the Future and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. So far it seems only Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations has shown it much love:
The team's conclusions are fairly straightforward. They find enhanced chlorine concentrations downstream of waste water treatment facilities but not downstream of drilling sites. Chlorine is a good marker of contamination from well flowback. What the RFF analysis suggests is that leaks or spills aren't statistically detectable, at least at the watershed level, but that impacts of poorly processed wastewater are.
Let this sink in for a moment, because it means that there's very little evidence of water pollution at drilling sites; meanwhile, who's responsible for wastewater treatment? The government, in most cases. Maybe we should put the gas drilling industry in charge of that, too.
Meanwhile, I mentioned here last weekend how I thought Greenpeace deserves to be regarded as the John Birch Society of the environmental movement. Writing about Greenpeace over at the Breakthrough Institute's website, Matthew Nisbet points out, among other things, that Greenpeace is bigger than either the American Petroleum Institute, or the U.C. Chamber of Commerce. In fact, Greenpeace enjoys higher revenues than many major league sports franchises:
Greenpeace brought in global revenues of €241 million (US$336 million) and spent approximately €159 million on program activities (US$221 million) and €77 million on fundraising (US$107 million) across countries.
To put Greenpeace's global fundraising prowess in context: the organization's annual revenue is equivalent to or greater than some of the world's richest sport franchises including the Arsenal soccer club (US$336 million), Boston Red Sox (US$272 million), and L.A. Lakers (US$212 million).
Greenpeace global revenue also compares well to that of major U.S. industry associations which we commonly think of as having inconceivably large budgets. Consider that in 2009, the American Petroleum Institute generated $203 million in revenue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $214 million in revenue from its industry members.
At the global level, Greenpeace employs nearly 2,200 staff, with 1,039 based in Europe and 314 in the U.S and Canada.
So forget the John Birch Society comparison. Maybe we should say Greenpeace is the New York Yankees of environmentalism. Because everybody hates the Yankees.
JOHN adds: For what it's worth, I think the John Birch Society comparison is unfair to the Birchers. The Birch Society was never a criminal enterprise; in fact, I am not aware of the society, or even any of its prominent members, committing any crimes at all.