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Exodus: The Journey Continues
Season 36 Episode 4 | 1h 54m 47s
This film picks up where our 2016 documentary "Exodus" left off, telling the intimate, firsthand stories of refugees and migrants caught in Europe's tightened borders, and facing the rise of nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment. Amid the ongoing migration crisis, the film follows the personal journeys of those who seek safety and a better life in the West as countries become less welcoming.
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Historians and "the Public"
As I wrote yesterday, that group is different from the many types of history buffs. Sure, buffs might buy some of those bestselling books, but they (we) will also buy $75 university-press or out-of-print titles on the topics they study. Buffs aren't afraid of footnotes as "the public" supposedly is. Buffs don't need the narrative structure that I think the general public looks for. [I'll get to that topic someday.]
If buffs watch history documentaries on cable television, it's usually to spot friends in the slow-motion footage of historic reenactments and then to complain about the simplification and sensationalism. Academic historians might lament the public's knowledge when they teach the freshman survey course, but so do buffs who volunteer at reenactments and historic sites.
An academic historian watching the H.B.O. miniseries John Adams might say:
The smallpox inoculation scenes showing Abigail and the children alone in their house—with no sign of the servants, the extended family, or the trip to a hospital in Boston—are an anachronistic reflection of America's post-WW2 idea of domesticity centered on the nuclear family.A history buff might say:
They showed Henry Knox hauling the cannon from Springfield to Cambridge by way of Quincy! And when he went past the Adams farm, he wasn't even headed in the right direction!And members of "the public" might say:
Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney were so good—the whole story made me want to watch Lincoln!Okay, I'm purveying broad stereotypes here. But my point is that academic and historians and history buffs are allies in the struggle for solid sources and accurate information. Individuals may vary widely in their interests, knowledge, and level of analysis, but the basic effort is similar. Therefore, assessing the public through contact with buffs is a mistake.
Unfortunately, there aren't enough professionals, and buffs to make history books into bestsellers. For that, a book also has to connect with "the public."

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VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have done the expected and tendered qualifying offers to restricted free-agent goalies Cory Schneider and Eddie Lack.
The moves are a formality as both netminders figure prominently in the Canucks' plans for 2012-13, especially with Roberto Luongo on the trade market. The deadline for tendering qualifying offers is June 25. Fourth-line winger Dale Weise was also qualified.
Schneider, of course, is the big fish as coach Alain Vigneault has already indicated the redhead from Marblehead, Mass., would be his starting goalie next season. Schneider made $900,000 in 2011-12 and is in line for a whopping raise.
Canucks assistant GM Laurence Gilman, who negotiates player contracts, declined to comment Monday on the next stage in the Schneider talks.
"Well, typically we do not discuss contract negotiations in the media so I can't answer your question," Gilman said cheerfully.
Schneider, Lack and Weise all have salary arbitration rights. The Canucks can also take one of the three to club arbitration, which they are doing with Mason Raymond. They are allowed two per season.
"The Canucks did send a 'QO' and it is as perfunctory a move as there is in pro sports," noted Schneider's agent Mike Liut. "There is no news in any of this."
IN LIMBO: The Canucks still have four other restricted free agents — Marc-Andre Gragnani, Mike Duco, Victor Oreskovich and Ryan Parent — to either qualify or release by the June 25 deadline.
"It is possible that one or more could receive a qualifying offer between now and next Monday," Gilman said cryptically.
Based on last season, it doesn't appear that Parent and Oreskovich are the possibilities.
GAMES ON? Although a lockout is looming, NHL teams are still planning their pre-season schedules, including the Canucks who announced a seven-game slate Monday.
The Canucks will start Sept. 24 with split-squad contests against the Flames both in Vancouver and Calgary. They'll entertain the San Jose Sharks on Sept. 26, the Phoenix Coyotes on Oct. 1 and the Edmonton Oilers on Oct. 5. They play on the road in Edmonton on Sept. 29 and in San Jose on Oct. 3.
SO LONG, SAMMY: Checking centre Sammy Pahlsson, a Feb. 27 trade deadline acquisition by the Canucks, ended his NHL career Monday when he signed with Modo of the Swedish Elite League.
According to Gilman, the team had already determined Pahlsson wasn't in their plans. The 34-year-old vet was an unrestricted free agent.
"As we do annually, we sat down with our staff and analyzed our season and began making our plans going forward," Gilman explained. "We looked at various scenarios, some which involved Sammy and some which did not, and we decided to go in a different direction. We informed his agent of that."
The Canucks surrendered a pair of fourth-round picks for Pahlsson plus minor-leaguer Taylor Ellington, a 2007 second-round pick who had fallen deeply down their depth chart.
"It's both inspiring and exciting to go home to Modo Hockey," Pahlsson said in a release translated from Swedish to English. "It is a big step to decide to move back from the NHL but now that I made the decision, it feels good."
Pahlsson appeared in 24 games for the Canucks, including five in the playoffs, and collected three goals and four assists. All told, he spent 11 seasons in the NHL with Boston, Anaheim, Chicago, Columbus and the Canucks. He won a Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007.
He had 199 points in 798 regular-season games and 29 points in 86 post-season contests. Pahlsson played for Modo prior to coming to the NHL in 2000-01. Modo is based in Ornskoldsvik, the hometown of the Sedin twins as well as Pahlsson himself, and is managed by former Canucks captain Markus Naslund.
Pahlsson said he enjoyed his brief stint with the Canucks.
"It was really fun to have the opportunity to come to Vancouver," Pahlsson continued. "It was also the first time that I represented a Canadian team, and it is special. We had high expectations for the playoffs but, unfortunately, it was a big disappointment. It was tough to go out in the first round against the L.A. Kings, but in retrospect, you can see that it was a good team we faced."
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Bollywood celebs share their Holi plans
Some of these stars will go all out to celebrate the festival of colours and brightness, while some of them will stay at home or perhaps celebrate a working Holi! Find out what B-Town's celebs are upto this festive season.entertainment Updated: Mar 26, 2013 17:03 IST
Some of these stars will go all out to celebrate the festival of colours and brightness, while some of them will stay at home or perhaps celebrate a working Holi! Here's finding out what B-Town's celebs are upto this festive season.
Actor Amitabh Bachchan seems to be in favour of a dry Holi this year. The star of many hit holi numbers like Rang barse and Holi ke din sab mil jaate hai, has asked his fans to save water on Holi as Maharastra is facing a great deal of water shortage.The 70-year-old actor took to his Twitter to request his millions of followers to play dry Holi as the state is experiencing one of its worst droughts in the last 40 years.
In fact, Hrithik Roshan too, has has refused to celebrate the festival this year. "He won't be celebrating Holi as a mark of solidarity with those who are suffering from the acute water shortage in Maharashtra. Instead, he will only use only a small amount of gulaal to apply a shagun tika as part of the traditional ritual," says an insider close to him. In fact, like Hrithik, even the other members of the Roshan family will reportedly keep the celebrations low-key. They will take part in the morning puja and then spend some some quiet time together.
Unfortunately, actress Sonam Kapoor, too, won't be playing Holi this year. She tweeted, "Happy holi my darlings!! Love laughter and lots of colour.. Can't play holi unfortunately as I've been under the weather for the past three days! (sic)"Shabana Azmi said, "At my parental home in Janki Kutir, playing Holi is a tradition started by my father (Kaifi Azmi) and now followed by my brother Baba. We play with organic dry colours. There will be family and friends from theatre and cinema. Lots of naach-gaana and khaana."
Irrfan Khan said, "This Holi I am far away from the madding crowd in the forests of Uttarakhand.
Honey Singh has a working Holi as he says, "This Holi I perform in Dubai for a crowd of 20,000 people. For the concert of mine, the gates are being flung open for families and children as well. Through this festival of colours and happiness, I want my fans to know my music is for everyone and for all occasions."
Kalki Koechlin too, said she'll be working this Holi: I am shooting for a film in Delhi for Holi.Raunchy starlet Poonam Pandey, who has been promoting an ad campaign tweeted on her account saying she'll be celebrating the festival with 'chaddi buddyz'. The actress has even shot an exclusive video for the campaign, which is about gifting colourful undergarments to your best buddies on Holi.
Pavitra Rishta and Kai Po Che! actor Sushant Singh says, "I will not waste water and only use natural colours. Maybe a lathmaar Holi, which is very famous in north India (laughs) would be a great idea."
Busy Varun Dhawan, who's busy shooting these days says, "After packing up, I'll play a bit with my crewmembers, including Anurag Basu (director), Ayananka Bose (cinematographer) and Kunal Rawal (designer)."Student Of The Year actor Sidharth Malhotra plans to celebrate Holi with his friends. He says: I am preparing for my film (that's why I am not going to my hometown, Delhi) but still, I'll celebrate Holi in my own way with my close friends.
Television actor Nakuul Mehta no longer plays with colours either. He says, "Every year, I end up working. Besides, these days, it has become a nuisance. People go overboard wasting water; even the folks in my apartment call for a water tanker to have a rain dance. Kids throwing water balloons on passers-by is also not in the correct spirit."
Other stars like Aditi Rao Hydari, Shiamak Davar and Malaika Arora Khan will all be celebrating a working Holi.
Bollywood wishes on Twitter
Most celebs urged fans and followers to have a happy and play a safe Holi:
Abhishek Bachchan: Throwing water balloons on pedestrians. Never liked all that. Try playing a safe holi. HAPPY HOLI EVERYONE!!! HOLI HAI!
Bipasha Basu: Happy Holi!Enjoy d festivities 2day bt also b very careful!Colors r not safe n the practice of throwing balloons on strangers is not fun!Shilpa Shetty: Hey tweetos been off Twitter a while bt missed ya.May the holi fire burn al the negativity n light ure lives with only positivity.Happy Holi
Madhuri Dixit-Nene: Happy Holi everyone!!
Karan Johar: i was 10 and someone threw a rotten egg at me on holi!!!! That was one of my last happy holi's'...i wish you colour and an egg free holi!!!
Chitrangda Singh: Happppieeee holi !!!! Fill your days with colors
Preity Zinta: Happy Holi 2 all my friends in India & all over the world ! May this festival of colour brighten ur lives with happiness, laughter & love !
Riteish Deshmukh: "The drought situation in Maharashtra is extremely serious this year. Need of the hour is to save water. This holi say NO 2 water. #DryHoli."
Neil Nitin Mukesh: Happy holi everybody. ! Be safe and play well. May the colors of joy and happiness rub ur lips and bring a smile Forever! Lots of love.Mallika Sherawat: HAPPY HOLI, MY LOVELIES!!! xoxoxo with all the colors of the rainbow! :) RT @abhilashaab: happy holi to u n ur family :)
Anupam Kher: When our faces are covered with beautiful Colors of Holi we have no caste, religion, no rich, no poor. We are just INDIANS. Happy Holi.:) May all the colors of life make you Happy, Joyous, Content and Peaceful. HAPPY HOLI.:)
Dilip Kumar: The blue of the sky, the golden orange of the rising sun, the pink of roses.Happy Holi. Enjoy the colours you love.
Sophie Choudry: #Holi tom.. If ur gonna play, make sure it's with eco-friendly colours, don't waste water & don't rub colour in ppl's eyes! Its NOT funny!
(With inputs from HT Cafe and IANS)
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Pre-K education gets seat — in center
Expanding access to high-quality preschool has joined government dysfunction as a familiar campaign talking point — with a twist.
Though it's an issue traditionally loved by the left, pre-K has recently planted itself solidly in the center with more federal, statewide and local Republican and Democratic candidates extolling its benefits and calling for more on the campaign trail.
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The issue has permeated races across the country, and it is likely to have at least some kind of role in the 2016 presidential race.
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For example, pre-K has featured prominently in the high-profile New York City mayoral race. The fundamental difference between Republican and Democratic support for pre-K programs has also played out in the race — how to pay for early education.
Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio has proposed increasing income taxes from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent for New Yorkers earning $500,000 or more to pay for universal, full-day preschool for all 4-year-olds. This five-year surcharge is expected to yield $530 million in new revenue. His Republican opponent, Joseph Lhota, has proposed paying for universal, full-day pre-K without higher taxes. He has argued that the money for pre-K already exists; the city just has to find "efficiencies" in government to pay for it.
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Why has the issue shifted to the center? For one thing, for Republicans willing to work out a revenue source, running on early childhood education polls really well, said Sara Mead, principal at Bellwether Education Partners. She said the issue draws female and Latino voters, groups the Republican Party struggled with during the last presidential election. A First Five Years Fund bipartisan survey from earlier this year found that 60 percent of Republicans, 64 percent of independents and 84 percent of Democrats supported a federal investment in pre-K, like the plan proposed by President Barack Obama in his 2013 State of the Union address. The majority of Republicans polled were even on board with Obama's proposed funding source — a doubling of the federal tobacco tax that has stoked the ire of conservatives in Congress.
"There's no downside of advocating for it except for the expense," said First Five Years Fund Executive Director Kris Perry. "If you're opposed to new taxes, you can look at things in the budget that you like less."
For another thing, pre-K is a safe zone for politicians looking to talk about education and not alienate those who disagree with reforms like vouchers and charter schools or Common Core State Standards. Nearly everyone agrees that more early education is a good idea, said Megan Carolan, policy research coordinator at the National Institute for Early Education Research.
"'Education reform movement' can be an explosive term, but pre-K doesn't necessarily fit neatly into any of those holes," she said. "It's a whole different animal."
Support for pre-K can work as a conciliatory issue, Mead said. In his campaign for the Senate, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, supported charter schools, vouchers and other policies that match him more with Republican Gov. Chris Christie than some of his Democratic supporters. Pre-K support cooled some of the heat generated by Booker's education ideas, Mead said.
Pre-K even became a feel-good Republican talking point during the government shutdown when the House voted to temporarily fund Head Start, the federal preschool program for children from low-income families. The shutdown threatened 100,000 Head Start seats and closed several programs. Bill sponsor Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky called the program "indispensable" and Rep. Candice Miller of Michigan said, "You don't need some scientific study to tell you that this program, an early intervention, is absolutely critical to making sure that children can optimize their individual potential."
Democrats agreed on the program's value but emphasized that the sequester cuts supported by many Republicans were the real problem and largely voted against the bill. The first round of across-the-board spending cuts eliminated about 57,000 seats.
A key result of the local and state attention on the issue: action. While Obama's plan is stalled, in San Antonio, Democratic Mayor Julian Castro implemented an eighth-of-a-cent sales tax hike to pay for a program that aims to educate 22,400 4-year-olds from poor and working-class families over the course of eight years. And Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has overseen a massive $65 million expansion of the state's Great Start Readiness Program, with the goal of helping 10,000 more 4-year-olds attend preschool.


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By MIKE BAKER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Republicans who had lofty ambitions for taking over governors' offices this year fell short in another one of their targeted states Wednesday and clung to diminishing hope in another.
Democrat Steve Bullock was elected governor in Montana in a race that had been too close to call until returns from key counties were tallied. Washington state remained the only undecided governor's race, and Democrats there were in position to extend nearly three decades of control.
Republicans did pick up the governor's office in North Carolina – as expected – and defended the seats they already held. But the party had used its substantial cash advantage to target four particular contests, since most of this year's races were in states held by Democrats.
Still, a spokesman for the Republican Governors Association was pleased to see the party gain North Carolina even as it lost seats in Congress.
Mike Schrimpf said the GOP sees governors as somewhat of a firewall against President Barack Obama's policies – a potentially important function as states make major decisions on the implementation of the president's health care law in the years ahead.
"Over the last few years, since Obama took office, you've definitely seen governors play a leadership role in pushing back against the Obama administration when it overreaches and really trying to encourage federal restraint," Schrimpf said. "You'll see them continue to play that role."
Republicans now hold 30 governorships after holding just 22 a few years ago. The North Carolina victory, in which former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, is the first GOP win in that seat in almost a quarter-century.
Colm O'Comartun, executive director at the Democratic Governors Association, was pleased with the results. He noted that the math wasn't in the party's favor this year: Only 11 seats were up for vote, and eight of them were held by Democrats, meaning they were expected to be on the defensive.
That could change two years from now, when the nation will have three-dozen governor's races, many in states currently led by Republicans.
"It's a very different dynamic," O'Comartun said.
In Washington state, Republican candidate Rob McKenna held out the possibility that late votes would swing his direction. Because the state votes entirely by mail, and ballots only need to be postmarked by Election Day, many votes were still to be counted.
McKenna had been a major GOP investment, as both sides combined to spend more than $40 million in the race.
In Montana, Democrat Steve Bullock defeated Republican Rick Hill. Bullock had run promising to build on the budget successes of departing Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
New Hampshire's race was expected to be competitive but turned out not to be on election night. Former state Senate Majority Leader Maggie Hassan comfortably kept the governor's seat in Democratic control after she beat Republican Ovide Lamontagne, an opponent she said was too extreme for the state.
Democrats also held their power in Delaware, Missouri, Vermont and West Virginia. Republicans remained at the top of state government in Indiana, North Dakota and Utah.


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This was supposed to start today, but NHK has announced it is being preempted for disaster news. Eps 1-3 are now scheduled for Saturday afternoon, with 4-6 on next Monday, and the rest one a day from Tuesday to Friday, for a total of ten episodes.
So this is not, as I expected, really a spring show, but will complete its run within the winter season, by going at a rate of one a day rather than one a week. They are still full-length episodes, though.
In fact, this is the winter show I had the most hopes for, and still do.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Moshidara is something that I am looking forward to, largely due to how much Peter Drucker has had an impact on my own view towards the corporate-nonprofit-governmental relationship. I think I would derail the topic if I were to lament about this too much, but the existence of Moshidara is very much related to the impact this management guru has had.
|2011-03-24, 19:55
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: British Columbia
Moophase and the Fansubwiki list this as starting April 25th. Just a few posts up though... There's a (*) but I have no clue where to read what the asterisk means.
|2011-04-25, 22:10
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Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 27
Well the first episode is out so shouldn't this be moved the newer series section?
First episode was alright, but I felt it was paced a bit too slow. Though it has the potential to get more interesting, but we'll see.
|2011-04-26, 03:04
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Spoiler for Episode 1:
Besides this and [c], this season is gonna be the best season for business and economics students. Seriously, i bet the otakus will be scoring 100% marks for their Economics/Commerce tests in college this spring!
Is anyone surprised that Peter Drucker himself can get himself his own anime, and not Ayn Rand?
|2011-04-26, 04:10
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
Honestly, these overly silly long names need to die out.
|2011-04-26, 04:26
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|2011-04-26, 04:29
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 28
Is that Fujibayashi Ryou? I'm pretty sure that's Fujibayashi Ryou...
Anyway, I couldn't help but think the first episode was rather bland. I can't say I'm particularly interested in any of the others on any real level. It would've helped of they had better comedy to give it more charm.
|2011-04-26, 04:39
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 32
The first episode was interesting. The two main characters are very likable. The artstyle is simple but pleasing to the eyes. I'm very curious to find out how exactly a simple manager will be able to lead a baseball team to victory, and how Peter Drucker's management techniques are going to help.
|2011-04-26, 05:16
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Planet Earth
Age: 28
Moshidora - Episode 01
Heck yeah, an educational anime! We need more of these.
It's interesting how Minami tries to translate the business-centered phrases to fit baseball management. This show encourages us to think out of the box and use educational resources that are available in different possible situations than the obvious. Of course business management is the largest field of management, but Moshidora shows us that a lot of useful knowledge in general management can be filtered out from it. The only possible issue is that I hope this show is realistic or plausible in its application of management, which any business students here could easily tell better than me.
Of course, we aren't just left with hard management here. We've gotten a decent amount of character background to garner our interests and care about what happens next. We also are getting an idea of the characters' goals and expectations, which will surely play a direct part in the management aspect of this anime. But what is Yuuki's medical issue that has been hampering her all these years? Is it a nervous system disorder?
Edit: It turns out that there is a brief Economist article on the original novel. The breakthrough popularity of the novel has led to significantly increased sales of Drucker's Management - Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices textbook.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Singapore
The episode didn't really stand out.. and at times seem flat. It doesn't help that I'm not really interested in business and economics stuff. But I will continue to watch since it's a best seller. Hopefully the next few episodes will change my opinion
|2011-04-26, 11:11
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Learns that Minami started baseball management because of a childhood friend... yay!
Learns that said childhood friend is female... aww.
Learns that Jirou played baseball together with Minami (thus childhood friend)... yay!
Learns that Jirou is not the pitcher (usually its the pitcher that 'wins')... aww.
Oh well, Moshidora is interesting enough to have me keep watching it (high school girl uses a book about management to take her team to Koushien?), despite me highly doubting there's romance in it. Damn you Adachi, got me addicted to baseball stories! Making me watch it despite romance is almost non-existent lols... :Heh:
To be fair though, Minami herself is the draw to the show. From wondering to how she'll apply Drucker to baseball, to wondering why she hates the sport itself (big guess its about women not allowed to play baseball with men, but that's just speculation), it's her character that's the driving point of the show. Thumbs up for that.
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on: In Search of Moderate Taliban, by Martin Gerner
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In the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. cotton farmers were able to procure seed from a variety of sources. And until the early 1990s, university breeding programs were responsible for a sizable percentage of the cottonseed planted. Now, all of that is finished and the pool of seed companies is shrinking.
Whether that bothers cotton farmers or not, they should know a merger proposal is currently sitting on a desk in the U.S. Department of Justice. While the DOJ studies the proposal, antitrust considerations surely top its list of concerns since the merger is between industry giants Monsanto and Delta and Pine Land (D&PL).
Last Aug. 15, Monsanto announced it would acquire D&PL for $1.5 billion in cash. "Both companies see today's announcement as a great opportunity to pair Monsanto's trait technology with the strong genetics and brand offerings of D&PL," said Ernesto Fajardo, Monsanto's vice president of U.S. crop production.
D&PL was already well-known among cotton farmers when transgenic cotton varieties were introduced in the mid-1990s. Since then, the Scott, Miss.-based company has continued as a major cottonseed player. This is especially true in the Southeast — as an example, 75 percent of Georgia's cotton acres are planted in DP 555.
Monsanto is a massive influence on U.S. agriculture. In 2005, 83 percent of U.S. cotton was transgenic and 81 percent involved Monsanto traits. Those percentages have only grown and Monsanto's GM traits are being utilized in, among other "traited" crops, Bollgard cotton, Roundup Ready cotton, and the new Roundup Ready Flex cotton — all things farmers often laud.
This isn't the first time the companies have tried to merge. In 1998, such a move failed. Why is this attempt different?
"The market has changed dramatically in the last seven or eight years," says Tom Jagodinski, president and CEO of D&PL. "Back then, our germplasm was on 75 percent to 80 percent of the acres. Now, we're on about 50 percent.
"There have been new market entrants into the cottonseed business, mainly FiberMax and Phytogen. FiberMax has gone from zero to 30 percent share in seven years."
And on the trait side, "Bayer, Phytogen and others have launched new traits. So there have been new entrants in both the seed and trait business."
While there has been strong pushback against the proposed merger, some say positives could result.
"When you have a giant in the technology arena merging with, at least in our area, the number one cottonseed company, there are advantages as far as research, technology and seed breeding," says Eddie McGriff, Extension agent in Coffey County, Ga. "When those resources are brought together, it could mean the development of better seeds and technology."
Agreed, says Ron Smith, Auburn University entomologist. "New technology could be delivered faster after a merger. And coming off last year, we're excited about things like drought-tolerant varieties. There's a real need for them. Further down the road, we'd like to see some genes that would deal with the plant bug/stink bug complex."
Recent developments in the cotton industry along with the backdrop and uncertainty of the farm bill mean "the U.S. farmer will need every advantage he can get to be technologically ahead of the competition overseas," says Jagodinski. "We've looked at what other companies — Bayer, BASF, Dow, Syngenta, Dupont, you name them — are working on for cotton. And the simple fact is Monsanto has the best technology in the market today and they're working on new technologies for tomorrow that we believe will give the U.S. farmers a further advantage.
"Our thought is we should put the best cottonseed company with the best cotton trait provider. That would allow certain efficiencies to be gained by being in the same house, so to speak."
One reason speed-to-market is so important is "the need we have to compete in a global environment," says John Raines, Monsanto director of public affairs.
"The second thing that's extremely important is (Monsanto's) commitment to cotton. Look at companies that support and are in the cotton business. We're solely focused on agriculture as a company. Many of the other companies that support and service cotton producers today don't have an ag-only focus."
Despite such assurances, support for the merger often comes with caveats.
"Those opposed say a merger would create a really dominant force in the marketplace," says Smith. "And I don't think there's any question about that. My argument isn't on the business side — I understand the opponents have legitimate concerns."
Smith says there are certainly higher costs associated with the GM varieties. But he "was around when they weren't available and we spent more on in-season insect control than we're now spending on the technology. During much of my career, $80 to $100 per acre wasn't uncommon for insect control. We've forgotten those times."
Steve Brown, Georgia Extension cotton specialist, says a possible outcome of a merger will be superior technology getting to the market quicker. However, "the bad side is at what price? Do you trust them on price? They'll say, 'We must keep farmers in business.' But our farmers are barely holding their noses above water as it is. We've not had a great run of years."
What's really needed, insists Brown, is "viable competition" on both the genetic and seed sides. "That's what would really change the game. This merger would lead to a less competitive environment. Already Monsanto is the dominant (biotech) player and D&PL is the dominant seed company in Georgia."
But proponents again dangle elusive, coveted traits. Want fiber-quality improvement genes quicker? How about new nitrogen-utilization technology that promises to lower farmers' costs? Sucking insect control?
Those are areas "that are very important to the American cotton farmer, particularly when there's 52 cent cotton and $4 corn," says Jagodinski. And Monsanto is developing them.
Passionate detractors of the merger are easy to find.
"Don't forget: beating in the breast of every good capitalist is the heart of a monopolist," says Neil Harl, Iowa State University Charles S. Curtis Distinguished Professor in Agriculture. "In order to have a competitive environment, an alert, insightful, aggressive, well-staffed regulatory agency, or agencies, is required. You must always have oversight in every viable economic and governmental model. Without it, excesses are inevitable."
Harl, a well-known agricultural economist and analyst, has long felt competition was vital. But over the last 25 years, "I've been absolutely convinced that competition is the heart of our economic system.
"It's very clear that a country like Russia has people that work as hard as we do and are as educated as we are. In some ways, they even have more resources than we do and yet they have a pittance to show for it."
The key difference between the two economies "is that at the heart of our free market system is competition. We must be vigilant and watch every merger/alliance or other type of amalgamation of firms. Most of those are designed, in one way or another, to reduce competition. Or, if it isn't their purpose, it's still the result."
Also a staunch believer in vigorous competition is Diana Moss, vice president of the American Antitrust Institute (AAI). "Look, firms are profit maximizers. That's what everyone does and that's fine. The question is whether, by maximizing your profits, you're excluding competitors. Anti-trust laws are designed to promote and protect competition."
A merger would be bad for farmers, says Bill Freese, an analyst with the Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group generally opposed to GM crops (see http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/pubs/CFS-CTA%20Monsanto-DPL%20Merger%20Report%20-%20Final.pdf ). The merger "will mean fewer choices, less innovation and, ultimately, will lead to increased prices. Without effective competition, a company can charge what it wants.
"You can see where this is going. A company can load a seed with technology that farmers don't necessarily want. But they pay those extra tech fees to get the improved yield capacity."
What's "extremely critical" is for producers to realize their vulnerability, says Harl. "When concentration increases in the seed supply, for example, you know the farmers will end up paying more and more and more for seed. That's happened with cottonseed and will happen anywhere. It's a normal thing when concentration occurs."
D&PL currently controls 51 percent of the U.S. cottonseed market. Stoneville, which Monsanto owns, is responsible for 12 percent. To facilitate the merger, Monsanto will divest itself of Stoneville. Even then, however, the company will have four times as much cottonseed under its control.
"We'll be selling a better asset than we bought two years ago," insists Raines. "We've made a lot of investments in Stoneville and seed production, and have put a lot of focus in R and D in terms of better germplasm. And we'll sell a more robust company two years post-purchase."
Monsanto is the "800-pound gorilla" in the biotech industry, says Moss. That means "no matter how you cut it, you have to deal with them. And with Monsanto sitting on 95 percent of the market, it's hard for rivals to compete."
Don't blame Monsanto, says Raines. Long ago the company took a massive risk and is now reaping the rewards — rewards that ultimately benefit farmers.
"Monsanto began investing in biotechnology some 25 years ago. Since then, we've invested over $5 billion.
"The fact is that was a bet, a very risky bet (in the early 1980s). That's what's led to where we are today — we made a bet that panned out."
Further, Raines says Monsanto spends approximately $2 million per day on research and development. That equates to "about $700 million per year. We're very focused (on providing) the farmer the right product based on their needs.
"If we then price those products, or don't have the appropriate value-share where the farmer feels comfortable buying those products from us, then we've got a broken business model. At the end of the day, if the farmer doesn't buy our stuff, we don't stay in business."
Moss isn't convinced. Evaluating mergers, which is common for the non-profit AAI, "means you're looking forward and predicting the likely outcomes based on fact patterns in the market and what incentives the companies have to behave certain ways. Taking everything into account, this is what we see as most likely."
Monsanto "obviously wants to move into seed … so they'll be vertically integrated. They'll have the whole supply chain covered all the way from the biotechnology down through the actual production of GM seed."
Moss, an author of a white paper on the merger (see http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/archives/files/552.pdf), concedes that such vertical integration is sometimes good for consumers. But not in this case, she insists.
"If you're a rival biotech company, you're going to have a really hard time getting access to D&PL to sell your biotech traits. That's because D&PL will be integrated with Monsanto and that's where they'll get their technology. Half the market for biotech developers will just disappear."
Now consider a scenario where you're a downstream market competitor of D&PL.
"You'll have a harder time getting access to Monsanto biotech. That's because Monsanto will have an incentive to keep you out of the market. They won't want competing seed companies with D&PL.
"From a competition policy perspective, the merger would result in what's termed 'vertical foreclosure.'"
Jagodinski says such anti-trust concerns are confusing. "If they're talking about impairing competition, they're not looking at the facts. Look at what the market has done over the last seven years with new trait entrants — Dow and Bayer are launching their own traits. They also launched their traits stacked with Monsanto's."
At the same time, Monsanto has adopted "a position of broadly licensing its traits to everyone. They've done that around the world, and I don't think they'll stop now.
"And there's new seed competition coming into the market. If there's a negative comment about this, they're obviously not addressing or considering the competitive situation in the market."
What does Moss see as the merger's likely effect on consumers?
"First, Monsanto will have more market power and be able to exercise it potentially by raising prices to farmers. Seed prices could easily rise for GM seed.
"Second, Monsanto will have absolutely no incentive to promote or produce conventional cottonseed. Monsanto is a biotech company. Conventional seed can take a hike. Farmers will have fewer choices in the types of seed they can plant."
Not true, insists Jagodinski. D&PL does "all breeding work in conventional. Once we find a good variety, we put traits in it. We're still selling conventional seed. But, quite honestly, we can't run fast enough to give it away.
"I hear this complaint, but I was looking at data the other day that shows our conventional seed sales, over the last four years, have dropped to less than 10,000 units from 40,000 units. It's very expensive for us to offer it, but we still do because farmers want choice. But the fact is it just doesn't sell. And the conventional material we offer is the best we have."
As for cottonseed prices rising post-merger, "I don't see that happening," says Jagodinski. "There are a lot of efficiencies in this merger. Normally, when you have a merger, you'll see prices lower.
"I'm not saying (Monsanto) will do that. But I don't think (it's) betting on doing this merger and then raising prices."
Cottonseed prices have gone up "because the cost of production has gone up. At the same time, when people look at the price of a bag of seed, they should look at it on a per-acre basis. That's because (A) we've gotten better over the last decade on what we put in the bag and (B) that's allowed farmers to reduce their seeding rates. They used to plant 3 acres per bag. Now, they plant as many as 8 acres per bag."
Farmers' cost is just under $20 per acre for cottonseed, says Jagodinski. "They spend about $500 per acre to raise an acre of cotton. So, we're still a small portion of their total input costs."
There is a reason few are willing to publicly back the merger, retorts Moss. After even casual study "people understand this is a big, potentially problematic merger. … (Proponents) can argue the merger will reduce costs and result in better coordination or produce better seed and get it to market quicker. They can say all sorts of things."
But, to allow the merger, "they must argue there are no incentives to behave anti-competitively."
No one, says Moss, can make the case that such incentives are absent. "That's why there hasn't been as much support for this deal as there's been concern."
Awaiting a verdict
Back in Georgia, Steve Brown says the proposed merger has reached farmers' radar. "There are farmers unhappy with the merger, but there's been no collective effort to rise up to block it. Some have been vocal, and there was even some discussion about going up to D.C. to meet with the Georgia delegation. But there's no great groundswell. I think farmers believe this is beyond their control to do anything about. They've had little impact on this type of thing in the past."
Moss says the merger concerns should be couched in the larger worries over the nation's food security. "It's one thing to have a merger in the aerospace industry. But the issue takes on a new importance and dimension when it's dealing with the food supply."
Harl says the Department of Justice merger verdict is expected soon and offers a simple prediction and warning.
"Time will prevail and demonstrate to the American people that we were asleep when we allowed this concentration to proceed. That was bad policy and a bad idea. We've already made mistakes — let's not compound them."
Asked if Democrats taking power in Congress is a new factor in how the DOJ is approaching the merger, Raines says, "I don't think it's had any effect. The DOJ has a rigorous set of guidelines they use to evaluate all mergers and acquisitions regardless of whether it's agriculture- or consumer-related.
"The only dynamic that's changed is in bringing people up to speed. You do have a different Congress and when people change, there are a lot of questions to address."
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The Pew Research Center's detailed look at how we behave online and what we look like as Facebook 'friends'.
Did you know the average number of Facebook friends is 229?
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Diet for diabetic cat
This post may not end up mattering much since my mother has chosen not to take my advice with her cats up until now but, under the circumstances, it's worth another try.
She took her cat Jessie (14) to the vet Saturday. He'd been throwing up for two or three days and had lost an enormous amount of weight (he's at 11 pounds down from 25 a few months ago - yes, he is/was extremely overweight).
The vet diagnosed him with a liver infection and diabetes (I don't have a copy of the bloodwork, unfortunately). She said that he'd also lost a ton of muscle tissue. She prescribed a couple of meds to calm his stomach (which worked nearly immediately - he was OBVIOUSLY feeliing much, MUCH better within a couple of hours) and an antibiotic.
The vet put him on insulin so mom will be giving him shots twice daily. She (the vet) also recommended that she (mom) change his feeding to twice a day (she's (mom again) in the habit of leaving food for him 24 hours a day).
Now, when I say she hasn't heeded my advice up until now, I say this because she is currently feeding him Purina Indoor Cat dry food (left down all day) and a half can of Friskies canned food twice a day. She's been quite stubborn about my attempts to get her to switch them over to a canned-food diet. Since Jesse likes dry food, she hasn't been willing to force him to make the switch.
Now that he's been diagnosed with diabetes, I'm thinking diet is more important than ever. The vet told her to put him on "any senior cat food" but (and don't get me wrong, I totally my vet), she was very, very resistant to me putting Oscar on anything but Science Diet so she's not a feline dietician.
The thing is, I don't know what proper feeding for a diebetic cat is. I know it should be high fiber and low protein and I imagine that it would still be a really good idea to get him off kibble but I'm not sure what the result of that analysis is though.
Any thoughts on what food would be good? I also could seriously use some arguing material - I know why canned food beats dry food generally but any specifics regarding diabetes?
Storm (beeps and has a pink nose and toes), Misty (with big blue eyes and tasseled ears),
Anya (only ever called Honey - she's that sweet), Zander (who goes by Punkin' cause he's almost that bright)
Kasee (couch potato who thinks she's a dog)
Could you print the following page(s) off for your mom to read? Let her know how serious diabetes really is?
Assumptions do nothing but make an ass out of u and me.
We can stick our heads in the sand for only so long before it starts choking us. Face it folks. The pet population is bad ALL OVER THE WORLD!
One very important thing to know, however, is that if your mom does change her cat's food to wet, his insulin requirements may drop dramatically and it would be a really good idea if she either dropped his dose (depending on how much it is), or learned to home-test his blood glucose herself. Hypoglycemia can result otherwise. Does she know how to recognize a hypo event, and what to do in case it happens?
Gotta go back to work, but in the meantime here is some info for you and your mom to read on feline diabetes: http://www.catinfo.org/felinediabetes.htm
ETA - Doh, 14+ beat me with the link! Good job.
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
Last edited by sugarcatmom; May 20th, 2010 at 11:22 AM.
Thank you both! I've gotta start working on her. Because he lost weight, she's worried about changing his diet right now. I see her point to an extent (he looks dreadful - you can see the bones in his spine but he still has his big belly! Weird!), I remember feeling the same about Oscar but I think she ought to start moving him over anyway since it could take a while.
Anyway, this is good information and exactly what I need. Thanks again!
Storm (beeps and has a pink nose and toes), Misty (with big blue eyes and tasseled ears),
Anya (only ever called Honey - she's that sweet), Zander (who goes by Punkin' cause he's almost that bright)
Kasee (couch potato who thinks she's a dog)
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
I'm just going to second a few of the things sugarmom posted, because I've myself dealt with a diabetic kitty.
No no no on the "any senior food" thing. The vet is WRONG, and I cannot emphasize that more. Senior foods tend to be loaded with carbs, and this is BAD.
The pate formulas by fancy feast are actually pretty good for diabetic cats as far as storebought food goes. Many of the people on the forum dedicated to diabetic cats I used to read used them. You want to stay away from the formulas that are chopped up and with gravy, and the ones that that contain fish. I will post the website later in my post and they have a list of food that are acceptable.
Calories are also important for diabetic cats. Do NOT overfeed because an overweight cat will have more issues processing insulin, and you also do not want to feed a whole ton at once as it can cause a spike in blood sugar. Many people with diabetic cats feed 3 times a day so the meals are smaller, and also so that during the day the blood sugar does not drop too low due to the insulin shot.
Do please find out what kind of insulin has been recommended by the vet. Many vets mistakenly prescribe caninsulin, which is actually for dogs, or even humalin, which is for treatment of people, because they believe there isn't a difference or is not anything else available. Caninsulin is actually indicated for treatment of cats by the manufacturer, but it is NOT the best treatment.
I was going to recommend PZI, but I see from an article that it's being discontinued . That is quite unfortunate since many people had great success with it.
There's an article here on insulin http://www.felinediabetes.com/starttreatment.htm
This website, http://www.felinediabetes.com/ , is a great source of information and has a message board with a licensed veterinarian that has extensive experience with feline diabetes. I would suggest your friend go to it and do plenty of reading if she wants her kitties treatment to go smoothly.
A cat with diabetes can live a long time with the right treatment. My aunt had a siamese who lived until 19 years old taking pills for his diabetes most of his life.
I forgot to mention one very crucial thing: testing for ketones. If your mom isn't doing this already, she needs to pick up some Keto-stix or Keto-diastix from the pharmacy. They're test strips that you dip in the kitty's urine which indicate whether ketones are present. Trust me, you don't want ketones. They can quickly develop into a life-threatening condition called ketoacidosis, and treatment is very expensive (24hr emergency care for several days). Unregulated diabetics are more prone to this. Here is more info:
And along with the felinediabetes.com website that MBIE mentioned, here is another one that is a wealth of very up-to-date info: http://petdiabetes.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
My mom was on a med that caused her to develop diabetes without her realizing it. Undiagnosed and untreated she developed ketoacidosis and was in a diabetic coma for about 2 weeks. It was very scary.
WHEN MY NICKY WAS ILL WITH DIABETES THE VET DID NOT GIVE HER MUCH TIME, AS SHE WAS VERY ILL. I WAS TO GIVE HER SHOTS TWICE A DAY. SO WENT ON LINE TO FIND OUT AS MUCH AS I COULD ABOUT THE ILLNESS. I THEN EXPERIMENTED AND FOUND THIS WORKED FOR HER. I GAVE HER LAMS ORGINAL 24/7 BUT WHEN SHE GOT HER SHOT I WOULD GIVE HER A SPOONFUL OF CAN FOOD. SHE THOUGHT THIS WAS HER TREAT FOR BEING GOOD GETTING HER SHOT. LOL THEN WENT TO VET AND GOT CAN FOOD CALLED a/d FELINE FOOD. HAS LOTS OF GOOD STUFF IN IT FOR CATS, YOU CAN NOT FEED THIS TO CAT ON A FULL TIME BASES, THEY JUST LOVE THIS STUFF AND WILL GAIN WEIGHT VERY FAST. I FOUND SOME VETS ON LINE FOUND VITIMEINS DID A LOT OF GOOD FOR CATS THAT HAVE DIABETES. NICKY LOST HER FIGHT FOR LIFE LAST YEAR BUT I HAD HER FOR FIVE WONDERFUL EXTRA YEARS. I WISH YOU THE VERY BEST IN FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE FOR THE CATS
py144 , Please turn your caps off as it's considered bad etiquette on forums. Makes it seem like you're yelling and makes the post hard to read. Just a friendly heads up
Sorry to hear about your girl passing away.
Sorry for the delayed response. Because I was viewing this in the other forum, it showed me as the last poster. I only just noticed it had gotten moved and came to find the live thread!
Anyway, here's what I've got. According to the vet, she's put Jessie on a very low dose (1 1/2 units twice daily) of ProZinc insulin. She does NOT recommend checking the blood sugar - she says it's usually unnecessary...
She said to put down food in the morning. If Jessie eats, then give him the full dose (1 1/2 units). If he doesn't eat, give him 1 unit. Give him 1 1/2 units in the evening regardless. Mom is supposed to bring him back in for a full blood workup in a few weeks.
This seems like a pretty lazy way to deal with an actual diabetes diagnosis. Is it really unnecessary to check blood sugar? How on earth can you know how his blood sugar is doing if you check it every few weeks? I'm very confused...
I'll talk to mom about the ketone test strips - the vet didn't mention anything about this. I don't know how the food thing is going to go. Mom is like I was (only more stubborn) and is sure that the vet knows best.
Storm (beeps and has a pink nose and toes), Misty (with big blue eyes and tasseled ears),
Anya (only ever called Honey - she's that sweet), Zander (who goes by Punkin' cause he's almost that bright)
Kasee (couch potato who thinks she's a dog)
1) they don't want to lose the income of the client having to bring their pet in for testing,
2) they don't actually know anything about home-testing, like how to do it or how essential a tool it is in the management of diabetes,
3) they have a patronizing attitude towards their clients and don't want them taking control of their pet's care, or making dosing decisions without their input.
4) the vet doesn't want to overwhelm the owner of a newly diagnosed pet with too much information and risk the owner euthanizing the animal instead of treating it.
The fact is that diabetes is a home-managed condition. There is no better tool, whether for humans or pets, in managing diabetes than to be able to test what the bg levels are at any given time. To know if it's safe to give the insulin in the first place is crucial, especially given that cats can go into remission at any time. Would your mom give a diabetic child a shot without knowing what it's bg was first? Why would that be any different for her cat? In fact I would argue that it's even more important, because the cat can't tell anyone if they're feeling weird or sleepy or whatever. All we have to go on to decide if it's safe to give that insulin shot is what the bg levels are at.
Your mom does not need the vet's permission to test her cat. There's lots of info on the internet on how to do it, and while the learning curve can be a tad steep in some cases, it's absolutely doable. 1000's of us have learned how to do it without help from our vets. Please print this out for your mom to read: http://www.catinfo.org/felinediabete...ose_Monitoring
And some more info worth reading: http://www.felinediabetes.com/phorum...182#msg-779182
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
It sounded nuts to me. I don't think Mom would euthanize Jessie (she's been a dog person her whole life but this cat picked her and she adores him) but I think she's hesitant to learn a lot of new stuff. Maybe I can make it into some kind of computer game - that she'll do for hours!
In any case, I had told her that maybe we could control the diabetes with food and she asked the vet about it. The vet said it wasn't necessary!! Right, so we can keep giving him the crap food that caused the condition in the first place and medicate (regardless of the fact that we have no idea how much we should actually be medicating) to try to correct the problem that food caused (and will continue to cause)! It sounds pretty insane spelled out like this too.
I'll print out this whole thread, I think, along with the info you pointed me to SCM, and see if I can convince her. Much as I don't want to (I'm the only one in the house with a full-time job and a two-hour commute each way on top of it), maybe I can learn all this and do it myself. I really hope I can convince her though...
Either way, it sounds like food is the first point to work with her on. Jessie won't like not having his kibble so she may have to spend some time working him over. Perhaps, if I can convince her changing his diet might change his condition, I can get her to consider it. I know my friend's cat no longer needed shots when they changed his diet (although she's actually not helping the case - they changed his diet to SD diabetic kibble).
You know I was raised by mom and I grew up letting cats in and out (even though one of our cats came back spray painted, one came back having fallen, or been thrown into, a vat of black crude oil, one came back with an abscess on his shoulder that was reopened no less than three times, etc.), and providing care for them, but mostly the easy kind - take them to the vet, maybe give them a pill. We certainly never spent that much time thinking about their care. Now I have nightmares about my cats getting out of the house. I worry about their food, their health, whether or not they're getting along... It's a whole different world and I sometimes wonder where I got it from!
Anyway, time to start printing. again!!
Storm (beeps and has a pink nose and toes), Misty (with big blue eyes and tasseled ears),
Anya (only ever called Honey - she's that sweet), Zander (who goes by Punkin' cause he's almost that bright)
Kasee (couch potato who thinks she's a dog)
I'm not even kidding here, a vet that would actually recommend AGAINST testing a diabetic cats blood sugar, would cause me to switch vets. That just shows a serious lack of knowledge on the subject.
It would be akin to a doctor recommending that a diabetic person just ignore their blood sugar because it's not necessary. It's actually DANGEROUS blind dose insulin. What if the cats blood sugar is already fairly low when you dose? Then you end up with HYPOglycemia. Blood sugar drops drastically and the cat ends up passed out and needs a trip to the vet. I've seen this with both animals and humans. It's why you see diabetics carry around candy with sugar just in case their blood sugar drops too low. A friend of my dad had a son who was diabetic from a very young age, and hypoglycemia was always a strong concern. Blood testing was constant and necessary and carrying something with a high sugar content to offset that issue was a must.
The fact that the vet sees no link between food and managing diabetes is also worrisome. Even with diabetic people a diet low in simple carbohydrates and sugars is recommended. It's the same with cats.
I would definitely try to find another vet that's will be willing to work with the owner more closely and knows more about managing diabetes. It sounds like this vet is just going to be working AGAINST you guys, which at best is going to cause frustration between owner and vet, and not good for everyone's mental state, not to mention not helpful with managing the cats condition.
I gave mom this whole thread and talked to her about the food (for starters). She agreed that diabetic people have special diets so cats should as well. I think she's going to consider changing his diet. With any luck, that may be enough to keep him off insulin but we'll have to see.
As to testing his blood sugar, I'm not sure how she feels about that yet. Keep in mind that I'm speaking from a place of little experience (although with backup from people who have much) in comparison to my friend who is living in the house with us. Her cat was diagnosed with diabetes many years ago. She never did a single blood test at home. Eventually, she moved him over to Hill's diabetic cat kibble and took him off insulin. He lived for quite a few years after that and his death didn't appear to have anything to do with the diabetes (I don't actually remember the cause of death but he was 19 so he wasn't exactly a baby). Needless to say, I recognize that this was probably just good luck on her part (or on Kitty's) but she feels differently.
It's kind of one of those things - you don't want to do the extra work so you listen to the person who says the extra work is unnecessary.
In any case, I'm not sure if that's the route my mother will choose (or if I'll get involved and do it myself). I have to say that (and I feel horrible about this) but I really don't want to have to. I already have six cats of my own one of whom is pretty high-maintenance and I don't really want another one that will require the time and energy on top of the time and energy of my job, commute, foster son, and other responsibilities. On the other hand, how do I NOT get involved? You're making too much sense to just ignore (I think SCM asked who would give a child an insulin shot without checking the blood-sugar?) so am I sentencing the cat because I'm too lazy to get involved...
Storm (beeps and has a pink nose and toes), Misty (with big blue eyes and tasseled ears),
Anya (only ever called Honey - she's that sweet), Zander (who goes by Punkin' cause he's almost that bright)
Kasee (couch potato who thinks she's a dog)
But then you have someone like me who saw firsthand a cat pass out and nearly die from low blood sugar by being dosed blindly with insulin several times, and the cat died prematurely after the blood sugar became hard to manage due to poor treatment in the first place.
So taking antecdotal evidence from one source is just bad news. Scientific research and antecdotal accounts from MANY sources show that testing is necessary to manage diabetes in most cases and it can be dangerous to blind dose insulin. So there you go.
There are diabetic people for that matter that manage their diabetes poorly and don't always test, and live to a ripe old age, but you don't see doctors recommending others do this because some people did fine being irresponsible with their treatment.
Not all diabetics have the same blood sugar numbers, nor does their blood sugar respond the same to insulin dosing, or respond the same to the same amounts of insulin. The body just doesn't work that way, and we're talking about an organ (the pancreas) which is producing insulin at erratic levels, which will vary from diabetic to diabetic.
One diabetic may have high blood sugar that stays pretty consistent, so blind dosing works just fine for them, even if not recommended. Other diabetics may have blood sugar that goes all over the place, and while blind dosing insulin worked one day, the next day it caused them to become hypoglycemic. You just CAN'T blind dose and assume you will have good results.
Then there's the fact that after treatment is started the pancreas will often respond by pumping out different levels than it was previously. So while dosing with a certain amount of insulin worked for a long time, suddenly you have a hypoglycemia situation.
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
My cat (15) has been diabetic for 4 years, I check her insulin with a human tester (her ear) to check her insulin level, and give her a shot of insulin twice a day. She also went from a heavy weight of 22 lbs, down to 11lbs. and I thought she was dying. I went to the vet, after feeding the food they recommended I did research and switched to Natures Variety and probably saved her life. It is a challenge to have a diabetic animal, but they can live a long life as long as they are monitored.
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Blood donors will receive a certificate for a free cup of soup or a mini grilled cheese redeemable at Destination Soups.
NEW BEDFORD— The Southcoast® Blood Bank at St. Luke's Hospital has announced its August hours and schedule for the community blood drives. For the month of August, Southcoast has partnered with Destination Soups to offer blood donors a delicious treat.
Anyone who donates blood at the Southcoast Blood Bank Donor Room at St. Luke's Hospital, or at any of the community blood drives hosted by the Southcoast Blood Bank during the month of August, will receive a certificate for a free cup of soup or a mini grilled cheese redeemable at Destination Soups, 149 Union Street in New Bedford.
Destination Soups is open six days - Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 9 p.m. For more information on Destination Soups including their daily specials, visit www.destinationsoups.com.
If you plan to donate, please remember to bring a proper form of identification. Southcoast Health offers the community two different ways to make a donation:
The Southcoast Blood Bank Donor Room: The Southcoast Blood Bank Donor Room is located at St. Luke's Hospital, 101 Page Street, New Bedford, off the main lobby. Walk-ins and appointments are welcome Monday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the 1st Saturday of the month from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (except holiday weekends, the Donor Room will be open the 2nd Saturday of the month). For more information or to make an appointment, call 508-973-5320. More information is also available online at www.southcoast.org/bloodbank/.


text: You never quite know what to expect at ASR. This year was no different as the TET (tough economic times) and the Crossroads Show definitely changed the atmosphere in downtown San Diego. But thanks to Podium's brilliant Camp Recession and the always comforting beer garden, a good time was had handing out with old friends. The DVS/Daniel Castillo high ollie comp went down where favorite Andrew Brophy won quite easily. It's amazing to watch that dude ollie so damn high while skating real fast. The multiple parties went on, though I didn't photograph much of that. So here's my humble ASR gallery. As Clyde Singleton would say, "Walk with me."


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Hydro Profiles and Sheet Shop
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Terrence Gray, chief financial officer, OptionsCity Software
OptionsCity Software, Inc., a leading provider of electronic trading solutions, announced Terrence Gray has been named chief financial officer. In his new role, Gray will oversee all financial operations, in addition to providing economic strategy and forecast. Previously, Gray served as chief financial officer for Logical Information Machines, a provider of software and informational services to the financial and energy trading market. He also spent time with Gemma International, an ERP software company and System Software Associates. He is a CPA who also has seven years of public accounting with Price Waterhouse.
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Book 06 - Chapter 5 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo - End of the Story of the Cake
Book 6: Chapter 5 - End of the Story of the Cake. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark Nelson. Playlist for The Hunchback of Notre Dame? by Victor Hugo: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3214E62E0F1BB262 The Hunchback of Notre Dame free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by-victor-hugo/ The Hunchback of Notre Dame free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610 The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com/booklist


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Good Afternoon. Yes, we're starting off the afternoon talking about vodka.
Tis The Season, after all…
Ever since these bottles jumped out at me in a European magazine last year, I've had my eye out for them.
Try to convince me packaging isn't everything
'Unique Edition' Absolut vodka $27.95 and Christmas decorations from Target
A twist on the candle or a bottle of wine as a hostess gift, they're fun at your cocktails station, especially this time of year.
You do have a cocktail station don't you?!
Naturally I had to get my little fluorescent shot beaker from Paris into the pic. (filled with chartreuse, not vodka) Unfortunately the contents is looking decidedly more yellow than fluoro-green in these photos.
Yup, I stole this image from one of my posts last year. Can you believe I posted almost every day of December last year? Who was that masked Overachiever??!
Christian Dior
I cannot tell a lie. This was originally going to be two posts; one on fluorescents and one on opalescents but just LOOK at the time- It's the 20th already!
Edmundo Castillo
I'm liking this artist Matthew Brandt
"'taste tests in color' in which the artist silk screened picturesque american landscapes
by using a food item in place of traditional ink such as ketchup or mole sauce. in this particular 'taste test', the artist recreates the image of vernal falls of
yosemite national park into several multi-layered prints made permanent by food or household objects such as toothpaste, kool-aid, airhead candies,
or pharmecutical pills"
I'm presuming the silk screened are sprayed with some sort of preservative.
Someone else has been dipping into the 'pharmaceuticals'
Stella McCartney bag
Festive Uggs
Kate Spade iPad case
I know pink hair is getting old and so am I, but I'd like some. I really would.
I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Serendipity (I think…I couldn't really read that word. It might say 'sensuality' but I prefer serendipity) … I am vivid colours. etc.
I am tired of reading the tiny print.
artist Kitty Janney
fluorescent hair on model of the moment Cara Delevigne at Oscar de la Renta Spring 2013
I love these desk organisers but I'm way beyond help in that department. My husband always looks at my desk, shakes his head and says "I can't believe you're a Virgo"
A graffitied rug at my hair salon in LA
Light my fire Baaaybeee!
this chair even has "Absolut Love" written on it. Freaky man.
Sophia Webster
record it all on this extremely desirable Leica X2 designed by Sir Paul Smith.
I still have lots to share in the next few days so I very well might be doubling down again.
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Honors & Awards
- 2008 Honorable-Mention All-Big 12 (Associated Press)
- 2007 Honorable-Mention All-Big 12 (Coaches)
- 2007 First-Team Academic All-Big 12
- Three-Time Big 12 Commissioner's Fall Academic Honor Roll (2004, 2006, 2007)
- 2007 Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Academic Honor Roll
2008 (Senior)
Offensive tackle Lydon Murtha was a fixture on the Husker offensive line for four seasons and was a large part of Nebraska's offensive success in 2008. Injuries limited Murtha to eight starts during his senior season, but the Minnesota native made a big impact when healthy.
The 6-7, 315-pound Murtha teamed with senior guard Matt Slauson to form an impressive right side to the Husker line, helping propel the Huskers to top-20 national rankings in total offense and passing. Nebraska improved throughout the season offensively and was a physical unit in the second half of the season. Nebraska averaged better than 210 rushing yards per game over the second half of the regular season and scored 30 or more points 10 times in 2008.
Murtha and his line mates also allowed quarterback Joe Ganz to set Nebraska school records for season passing yards and total offense. Despite missing four games, Murtha's play was recognized, as he was an honorable-mention All-Big 12 choice by the Associated Press.
2007 (Junior)
Murtha started the first eight games of 2007 at right tackle before being sidelined by injury for the final four games. Nebraska averaged 468.2 yards per game, its best offensive total in 10 seasons, while averaging a school-record 323.8 passing yards per contest.
The offensive line allowed quarterbacks Joe Ganz and Sam Keller to post four of the top five passing days in school history. I-back Marlon Lucky also flourished on the ground, rushing for 1,019 yards, while posting the best all-purpose season by a Husker in 10 years. Murtha also played a key role in protecting the quarterback and Nebraska finished the year by allowing just 18 sacks in 296 pass attempts.
2006 (Sophomore)
Murtha played in all 14 games, and drew starting assignments at left tackle against Missouri, Colorado and Auburn. He was part of a Nebraska offensive line that made major improvements and helped the Huskers rank 14th nationally in total offense and in the top 25 in all four major offensive statistical categories. Murtha helped protect quarterback Zac Taylor, who set Nebraska single-season records with 3,197 passing yards and 26 touchdowns.
The offensive line also helped pave the way for four Husker I-backs who gained more than 2,400 yards and ran for 26 touchdowns as a group. In addition to his play at tackle, Murtha also was a member of the Huskers' PAT and field goal units.
2005 (Redshirt Freshman)
Murtha played in nine games, including three starts at left tackle. Murtha provided depth behind Cornealius Fuamatu-Thomas before moving into the starting lineup against Oklahoma. Late in the season, Murtha split time with Chris Patrick after Fuamatu-Thomas was lost for the year with an injury. The play of the offensive line helped Nebraska post the then top two passing efforts in school history in 2005.
2004 (Redshirt)
Murtha was looked at to possibly play as a true freshman, but suffered a leg injury early in fall camp and subsequently redshirted.
Before Nebraska (Hutchinson HS)
Murtha joined high school teammate Nate Swift in becoming the first players from Minnesota to sign with Nebraska since 1995. In 2003, Murtha helped Hutchinson and Coach Andy Rostberg to a 9-4 record and a state runner-up finish in Class 4A (second-largest). Murtha helped pave the way for Swift to rush for more than 2,000 yards as a senior tailback. Murtha was a first-team all-state selection by several outlets, including the Associated Press. He was an all-metro pick in the Minneapolis area each of his final two seasons and was named the Minnesota Gatorade Player of the Year in 2003. A three-year starter, he helped Hutchinson to the state semifinals as a junior in 2002, after making a trip to the playoffs as a sophomore in 2001.
Murtha was ranked as the nation's No. 1 offensive tackle prospect by ESPN recruiting analyst Tom Lemming. Murtha was one of three 2004 Husker recruits who participated in the U.S. Army All-American Game.
Murtha was also one of Minnesota's top shot putters. In his first year of track competition in 2003, he finished third at the state meet with a throw of 57-6, before finishing fifth in 2004. Off the athletic fields, Murtha was an Honor Roll member his final two years and was a youth leader at his church.
The son of Bill and Kim Murtha, Lydon was born in Homestead, Fla., on Nov. 13, 1985. He is majoring in economics, and was a first-team academic All-Big 12 pick in 2007. He is also a four-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll selection. Murtha has volunteered his time with local hospital visits and at the Legacy Retirement Center.
Murtha's Career Statistics
Games Played - 40 (9 in 2005, 14 in 2006, 8 in 2007, 9 in 2008)
Games Started - 23 (3 in 2005, 3 in 2006, 8 in 2007, 9 in 2008)


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West Sussex County Council is encouraging voluntary and community organisations to apply for a share of £190,000. The application process for West Sussex County Council's Prevention and Wellbeing Grants Programme is now open.
It aims to help innovative community-based activities for residents designed to enable adults and older people to get out and about, make friends and see others.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available and the closing date for applications is Thursday April 17th.
Last year awards ranging between under £50 and £5,000 were used for a number of different projects, including tea and chat groups, choirs and fitness and learning activities.
Christine Field, Cabinet Member for Community Wellbeing, said: "The Prevention and Wellbeing Grants Programme was designed to help community-based services and organisations to support the social aspects of people's lives.
"These types of organisations play a vital role in helping to reduce isolation and they can help to maintain an older person's independence for longer.
"Small or large projects can apply and I would encourage any group who thinks they might be able to benefit from this funding to find out more."
Worthing applications will be assessed by the Worthing County Local Committee. Organisations will be notified of decisions and receive payments in August 2014.
The grants are not available for services or activities designed for Children and People with Learning Disabilities.
For more information and to find out how to request an application pack, please visit the Prevention and Wellbeing Grants page.


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After attending the IGS conference two weeks ago, I am still very impressed with their forward thinking. Their blog is just one example of how they are moving into the future.
- Notices of when new products are added to the store. They have been working on the 1890 enrollment lists for each Indiana county and post every time a new county's list is available in the store.
- Notices of when new member's only databases are available. It's a great way to keep up on their 2 for 92 project (2 databases for each of the 92 counties in Indiana).
- Notices of genealogy events across the state, including county genealogy society meetings.
- Updates on indexing and preservation projects. (IGS is currently working on the Indiana marriage indexes with FamilySearch and the Hendricks county Probate Records preservation project.)
- Member queries. Instead of keeping member queries for the quarterly magazine, IGS posts them to their website where they are immediately available to members and nonmembers alike. Here is one example.


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Mexico decided to save its best for the second half in its match against Croatia. After sitting on a 0-0 tie through 45 minutes, Mexico opened it up in the second half with three goals in 15 minutes of play.
Captain Rafa Marquez headed in a goal in in the 72nd minute, and from there it was all Mexico. Andres Guardado followed with a goal in the 75th minute, and the match was sealed with "Chicharito" Hernandez's score in the 82nd minute. With the 3-1 win, Mexico advances out of Group A.
See the full World Cup schedule
Also moving on from Group A was host country Brazil, who knocked out Cameroon 4-1 with a dominating performance. Neymar's two goals paced Brazil, setting up a knockout round match against Chile. The 22-year-old prodigy has been Brazil's steady force, with four goals in the tournament already. Cameroon leaves the tournament with the worst goal differential of the tournament, with just one put in the net against nine scored against them.
The Dutch defeated Chile 2-0 to secure the top spot out of Group B after a pair of late goals. But don't feel bad for Chile, because they're also advancing to the next round. Except they have to play Brazil.
And in the day's most meaningless match, two winless teams squared off for pride, with Spain going home a winner 3-0. Australia ended its World Cup winless, with a second-worst minus six in goal differential.
Tuesday's docket includes Italy vs. Uruguay at 12/11c (ESPN), Costa Rica vs. England at 12/11c (ESPN2), Japan vs. Colombia at 4/3c (ESPN), and Greece vs. Ivory Coast at 4/3c (ESPN2).
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Food, is international as well as very cultural, it reaches our hearts through the stomachs and get our attentions by its tastes, quality and presentations. Overseas Chinese always carry their "Chinese stomachs" wherever they go, and bring Chinese food to every corner of the world. Ming-Ai (London) Institute started this new project in March 2011 with the support of Heritage Lottery Fund. The heritage focus for this project is to track the changes of Chinese food in the UK, from how the original recipes were adapted by environment changes and use of different ingredients, to how it got back to original ingredients and recipes with the import of more oriental foods.
民以食為天,自古中國文化與飲食息息相關;無論華人走到那裡,心思都離不開家鄉美食,自然而然帶著中國胃飄洋過海。榮獲 Heritage Lottery Fund 資助,明愛(倫敦)學院正式在 2011 年 3 月份展開為期一年的新項目 ——「英國中餐文化」。此項目旨在輯錄研究中菜在英國的起源與發展,從原有菜譜如因應環境變遷與材料缺乏而改動,到東方食物的入口增長而回到原有的口味及煮法!
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