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Monday, April 9, 2012
The Dimock Water Wars & EPA April 6 Water Tests
The Dimock water wars continued on friday, when EPA said the water test results at 20 more homes in Dimock had no contaminants at levels that presented health concerns, according to an EPA spokesman. http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-06/business/31300424_1_gas-drilling-roy-seneca-epa. Also see the actual test results in over 300 pages at: www.epaosc.org/sites/7555/files/Dimock%20Week%201%20and%202.pdf.
The April 6, EPA test results were consistent with the March EPA testing at 11 homes and that done by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection since 2009.
Any hope that the EPA test results would create a ceasefire in the Dimock water wars seems fades, as the combatants rush to declare victory. Those seeking to shutdown the industry distort the results and falsely insist that they show that hydraulic fracturing caused frack fluids to contaminate water wells, while some industry supporters also falsely say the results prove that gas drilling had no impact of any sort on any water well in Dimock.
Neither position is true and battling combatants should destroy their credibility, when they insist on their false narratives. After years of testing, what can be said about the impact of hydraulic fracturing, as distinguished from the drilling, casing, and cementing of gas wells, on the water quality of water wells in Dimock?
Hydraulic fracturing did not contaminate anyone's water supply at Dimock. All tests show that, including the latest EPA results that the water does not have contaminants in it that are above health levels. Overwhelming evidence supports this conclusion, such as the low levels of chloride documented by EPA in the water.
But that is not all that must be said.
Unsafe levels of methane (which is not toxic and which, therefore, is not a health contaminant) in some water wells were documented since 2009, and comprehensive testing and other investigative actions done by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection documented that mistakes in the gas drilling phase caused gas to migrate to 18 water wells. The gas in 18 water wells was not natural or in them, before drilling took place in 2008. As a result of plugging of gas wells and repairs of others that the DEP ordered, methane levels in 13 of them fell to concentrations below the action standard by December 2010.
The partisans on both sides of the Dimock water wars are unsatisfied with the twin conclusions that no contamination of water due to hydraulic fracturing happened, but methane migration to some water wells did occur due to errors in casing or cementing in the drilling phase. Each wants total victory and battles the truth that denies it to both.
The truth in Dimock is that hydraulic fracturing did not cause frack fluids to contaminate water wells, but gas did migrate as a result of errors in drilling the gas wells. Hopefully that truth will not be a casualty of the Dimock water wars.
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the controversy does continue . The EPA says that no results are above levels of concern, but that does not include a number of industrial chemicals found , which have no EPA standard levels of contamination. What are you going to do with that? I wouldn't want to drink water that has levels of any industrial contaminants and other contaminants. Would you?ReplyDelete
I've seen appraisals of these EPA results , outside of the EPA, by hydrogeoglogist, scientists and they conclude that the water is not safe and further study is in order. The EPA can be sued and their language is ambiguous and not forthright.Replies
- Concerned ScientistApril 9, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Vera - can we have some specifics? What chemicals exactly are you referring to? Which hydrogeologists are saying the water isn't safe to drink?Delete
this is classic - people beg the EPA to come in and test the water because they don't trust DEP. The EPA comes in, comes to pretty much the exact same conclusion that DEP did and now they don't trust them and only trust "scientists" who have an anti-fracking agenda to start with.
- Concerned ScientistApril 9, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Methane migration due to drilling is a real but also a very complicated problem. It is complicated because methane contamination can and does occur naturally. As many have pointed out on this blog and elsewhere, literally tens of thousands of wells in northeastern PA and southern NY already have methane in their water and it is naturally occurring. People who know about this, such as Brian Oram, suggest that the amount of naturally occurring methane can vary significantly with the air temperature, water levels and more, so there is actually a significant natural variation in the quantity of naturally occurring methane in people's well water.ReplyDelete
Drilling can also cause methane migration in that part of the world because there are several gas-charged sands just below the aquifer. These are thousands of feet above the Marcellus. After wells are drilled through the fresh water aquifer, companies are required to set what is called surface casing. They put pipe in the hole they have drilled and then pump cement into the space between the ground and the pipe. If there is gas in the formation just below the fresh water aquifer, this gas can channel its way up through the cement before it has a chance to dry and work its way into the aquifer and into the water wells of nearby homes. Companies have been addressing this problem by changing the chemistry of their cement so that the gas can't channelize through it before it dries. There have been some other cases besides Dimock, but my understanding is that the number of methane migration cases has been significantly reduced.
The number of cases of naturally-occurring methane contamination are probably at least 100 times more common than drilling related methane contamination. There are many tales of burning faucets from decades ago. There is a park called Salt Springs State Park where naturally occurring methane has been bubbling out of the ground for centuries.
Note that the anti-shale gas people all still talking primarily about Dimock, PA which happened four years ago. Thousands of wells have been drilled and hydraulically fractured since then. If this were a widespread problem, people would not still be talking about Dimock. They would be talking about an epidemic of problems. That isn't the case.
what would really put this to rest is if the gas company that drilled the negligent gas wells would admit they did..instead DEP has allowed them to state-in the consent order that they did not do anything wrong. WE/I will not rest until they are held accountable-until they apologize and make a public statement that they drilled inferior wells, they were reckless and careless in their rush to drill here in Dimock. As far as other contaminants-I believe time will prove drinking water is at serious risk. If it were only gas migration-not to undermine the serious of that- we would be at peace. John, I have smelled, seen the water you would have us drink. Our children will not drink this water.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 9, 2012 at 11:15 AM
One thing that we truly must recognize is the very fine definition which the oil and gas industry uses for the term "fracing" (or "fracking"). The industry refers to this as that moment when the explosions are set off to perforate the horizontal casing and to fracture the shale layer. The industry's definition does not refer to the entire process whereby gas is extracted and processed in horizontal drilling/unconventional natural gas extraction. When the industry - or government agencies or industry-sponsored university researchers - say that fracking has not caused contamination of water supplies, they are referring only to that moment. Has that precise moment of perforation caused water contamination? I don't know. Have *other* aspects of shale gas drilling and processing led to contamination, such as dumping, leaks, seepages, casing failures and poorly handled drilling processes? Absolutely. We need to quit playing games with the definition of "fracing/fracking" if we are truly to address the very real problems that residents in Pennsylvania and in other states with shale gas reserves are experiencing.ReplyDeleteReplies
Everyone does need to quit playing games and focus on the real problems that do exist. Spills and leaks at the surface are a real problem and efforts to minimize them must continue. Improper casing and cementing during the drilling phase, that is distinct and separate, from the hydraulic fracturing phase can happen and can cause gas to migrate, when it does. With the possible exception of Pavillion, Wyoming, where hydraulic fracturing was done within a couple hundred feet of the aquifer and where an EPA investigation continues, there has never been one case where frack fluids returned from depth to contaminate an aquifer. The record shows that is not the risk. Focusing on the real issues that do exist is what is needed.Delete
- Concerned ScientistApril 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM
Right OnDelete
We do need to quit playing names with "fracing". Drilling is drilling. Fracing is fracing. Surface spills are surface spills. The anti-drillers are the ones that up and decided that fracing is a synonym for the entire drilling process. It's not. You can drill a gas/oil well and not frac it. You can use fracing on non oil/gas wells (geothermal). The methane migration in Dimock has absolutely nothing to do with fracing. Had those wells never been fraced, the migration still would have occurred.Delete
- AnonymousApril 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Mr. Hanger: If you stand by what you write, then are you willing to come to Carter Rd and drink the water on a daily basis?>ReplyDelete
What about the gas flaring that went on for a week? Are you going to tell me that was harmless also?> Does any cabot CEO live next door to a drill rig or compressor station? If not, why not?
You don't think that the tens of millions of dollars that the gas company has lost over this, the years and years of bad press, and the settlement that made them fix the water and give you fair compensation would be considered "holding them accountable"?
There are few even in the industry (myself included) that would try to argue that gas drilling didn't cause methane migration in Dimock. Frac chemicals though? It's now been proven many times over that frac fluids didn't enter the aquifer. If there had been a breach of the wellbore, the brine would have sent sodium readings through the roof.
But I'll leave you with a two questions. It has been told to me by MANY water quality and water well drilling experts that the brown, smelly water in Dimock can often happen when a water well has not been properly maintained (purged and whatnot). Have you or any of the other Dimock residents had a water well specialist come in to properly purge and maintain the well in an effort to increase the quality. If the water is foul because you haven't been using it for a while and just needs purged, do you think that is fair to blame the gas company? When I moved into my place last year the house had been unoccupied for some time, and the water looked about like the "brown jug" water in Dimock for about a week until the aquifer flushed out.
Also, any idea why Scott Ely is building a McMansion on his property if he believes the water there to be irreparably degraded?
Best of luck,
- Concerned ScientistApril 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM
"Also, any idea why Scott Ely is building a McMansion on his property if he believes the water there to be irreparably degraded?"Delete
Is this true? Any photos you can link to? The "gas drilling kills real estate values" and the "you have ruined our life here" arguments sound a little hollow upon hearing this news
- AnonymousApril 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM
or could it be since no one will buy his home, he is making the most of the hand he's been dealt.Delete
Escrow accounts averaging $201,000 were established by the order of DEP for 18 families where testing documented that the gas in well water was thermogenic (plus other evidence), to compensate them, on the assumption that the value of their home had been damaged by gas being in their water. The escrow accounts were not conditioned on dropping any other litigation that a family may have had. Seven families used the escrow accounts.Delete
Are you seriously suggesting that Mr. Ely's response to his property being so devalued he couldn't even sell it was to build a SEVEN THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT HOUSE on it?
Concerned Scientist, it's absolutely true. Why, as you said, would someone build a 7,000 square foot mansion on a property with bad water?:ReplyDelete
Before I posted this I verified, using my mapping software, to go back in time to 2010 to compare vs recent photos:
Link to AP article with up close pic: http://www.gosanangelo.com/photos/2011/apr/16/45724/
Link to discussion on PAGasLease.com
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM
someone sounds Jealous?Delete
- Concerned ScientistApril 10, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Wow - the Dimock Proud people who suggest that this is all about money for the people suing Cabot sure look like they might have a point. Why on earth would someone build a huge house like that on what they are claiming is now worthless or seriously devalued land? And these people are accepting water from Mark Ruffalo and the EPA when they have that kind of dough?Delete
I cannot speak for the Ely family, but I can tell you we finished our home that we were too far into financially to abandon. If we had it to over again? We don't get to press the rewind button..but, assuming the gas company had been truthful-ask Ken Komoroski if they could have done a better job with that- we would NOT have built our home here. As for the apology, so far Cabot has not acknowledged any wrong doing. They BRAGGED that DEP's actions would not bother their profit margin at all. I think you have not read all that you might have. John knows what went down. 4 million? half of that went to disciples of Cabot. I should have drank the kool-aid.ReplyDelete
But you do get to press the "$162,352 of no strings attached settlement compensation for any perceived devaluation of your property" button.ReplyDelete
It's certainly curious that Mr. Ely seems to have put his money somewhere far from where his mouth is. But then again he may be able to afford it. I looked up what the Ely wells have produced so far, and ran some basic math... turns out the Ely wells have paid out somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 in royalties through 2011 (assuming a very low 12.5% royalty percentage).
And also Victoria, would you mind addressing whether or not you or the other litigants had a well water quality specialist out to see if the sediment and minerals causing the brown, smelly condition can be purged out of the aquifer?


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When my husband and I moved in together it was fall. So together we geared up for the first CHRISTMAS together in our own house. We bought a tree at Walmart. We bought some decorations at Walmart. In his single days he had purchased a large number of really pretty ornaments.....longing for a home of his own to hang them in. We had a lovely tree covered in glass ornaments and various decorative, breakable objects.
I wanted a Nativity. My Grandfather Drake had been working on nativity sets when he died and I've always wished I had one of those. In lieu of that, we purchased a nativity at FRANKS and they didn't have any Holy Family sets that I liked. Actually, if I remember correctly, the ones they had were all the wrong size for the Creche we had picked out so we decided we'd figure it out later. And that is how a tradition started, much like the Queen's Santa.
You see, I had something very specific in mind. I wanted Fontanini figures. My mother had picked up ONE at a clearance sale at our small town department store (I think it was Murphy Mart or Grants) for a small amount of change. He didn't match any of our other figures, but he was beautiful. He was a bagpiper, which doesn't seem quite appropriate for the manger in Bethlehem......but who am I? I loved him, and I always knew that some day I would have a beautiful Nativity set with gorgerous Fontanini figures. It would be lovely and classy, and it would show that I have style. I realize that this isn't the message I should be striving for on Christmas......but, hey, first house/first Christmas together........you want everything to be RIGHT even if that isn't what it's all about. Right?
But you see, Fontanini figures are not inexpensive. They are, to be direct, a bit pricey. So I looked around for them. And was sticker shocked by the price on the heads of the Holy Family. They were COMPLETELY out of my bottom rung manager salary range. I looked. And I looked. And I just couldn't afford them.
I didn't want to settle so I chalked it up to the fact that I just wasn't going to HAVE a nativity that first year. We still had the tree and the lovely new place......
And then my husband, knowing the Nativity was important to me, had an idea.
He took a piece of white poster board and created this.....
You can't read the sign, but it's two sided.
One side says "They Day Before......." and the other side says "The Day After".
And it's 8 years later.
I'd still like some Fontanini figures.......but I don't know how I'd ever replace that silly sign.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
A Christmas Tradition......of Sorts
3 comments:
OH MY (insert something that sounds like GOD here, but seems really inappropriate right now) that is HILARIOUS.
See now, that was done out of love. My silly husband does it to drive me nuts. I think. or to win money, either way...it's not done out of LOVE.
- Tue Dec 12, 10:10:00 PM
- Lumpyheadsmom said...
That's fantastic.
- Thu Dec 14, 01:32:00 PM
Nine years, dork.
- Thu Dec 14, 02:13:00 PM

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Today's post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars and provides many training materials.
Thank you for reading this blog. Now here's a question. Did I just thank you, an individual reader, or did I thank you all as the collective group of readers? In other words, is the you singular or plural? You can't answer decisively because you in English can be either. The language of the New Testament, Greek, makes a distinction between singular and plural pronouns, but not all English Bibles maintain that distinction. They use you for both singular and plural occurrences.
For example, Luke 22:31-32 is translated as follows in the NASB:
"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you…"
Are these you's singular or plural or both? Impossible to say for certain just by observing English. A Morphological Visual Filter, however, can help us easily answer the question.
- Choose File | Visual Filter.
- Select Morph as the filter type (1).
- Select from the drop down lists All Morph Text, New Testament, All Resources, and Logos Greek Morphology (2).
- Type the @ symbol in the Find box which alerts Logos that this is going to be a Morph search (3).
- Select Pronoun from the Part of Speech drop down list (4).
- Select Singular from the Number column (5).
- Click the arrow icon to save the morph code in the Find box (6).
- Select from the Formatting list a style such as Box (7).
- Type the @ symbol in the additional Find box that appears (8).
- Select Pronoun from the Part of Speech drop down list (9).
- Select Plural from the Number column (10).
- Click the arrow icon to save the morph code in the Find box (11).
- Select from the Formatting list a style such as Double Box (12).
You have just instructed Logos to place a box around all singular pronouns and a double box around all plural pronouns in the New Testament of Bibles containing the Logos Greek Morphology. Now open an English Bible like the ESV, NASB, NKJV, or LEB to Luke 22:31. The filtering on the underlying Greek morphology is shining through to the English surface text which certainly assists our study of any passage!
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On Wednesday night in New York City, three very, very loud cars were parked outside Skylight West. You can probably guess what cars they were. That's right, they were Jaguars — specifically, tiny little Jaguar F-TYPEs bathed in the red, white and blue of the Union Jack.
Why, exactly, were these head-turning automobiles parked outside Skylight West? Well, there was a soiree happening inside, a party thrown by Jaguar and Deadspin to celebrate what was to be a very lopsided game that coming Sunday night — and to deliver a few surprises that would emerge from behind a sinister black curtain.
But until then, there were plenty of other diversions to indulge in. Models teetering on heels passed around riffs on typical football finger foods — buffalo chicken in a waffle cone, anyone? — and attendees took turns kicking a ball into a net at the punting simulator that sought to answer the most frequently asked question in Deadspin history. Speaking of which, the Deadspin Hall of Fame was spread throughout the room, featuring caricatures of the site's favorite sources, subjects, and punching bags. And there were two open bars.
After an hour of high anticipation — and perhaps some understandable apprehension — the lights cut out, the black curtain dropped, and Jeff Curry, a vice president at Jaguar, came out to present "Rendezvous," the commercial that aired during the fourth quarter of the game. For a frenzied sixty seconds, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Strong and Ben Kingsley zipped around by F-TYPE and by aircraft, devilishly grinning through the circumstances, like a good villain should.
"And now to introduce our fourth villain..." Curry said.
And as he left the stage, a harsh rumbling came from an exit ramp beside the space. It was very, very loud. And we recognized this sound. It was the F-TYPE coupe, with a silver finish, a 550-horsepower engine, and a top speed of 186 miles per hour. The driver pulled it up to adoring cheers, revving it for an even more blissful, metallic noise.
And who was this driver? None other than Colin Kaepernick, the star quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers who led his team to its first big game in decades last year — and was just a pass away from getting there this year, too.
"The F-TYPE coupe is amazing — the handling, the speed, everything about it," Kaepernick told me in a lounge upstairs. "You look at the car and it just screams out that it wants to be driven. That's what kind of car it is."
And, just as I did, he definitely came to understand the power of the growling car.
"You can turn the muffler up or down," he said. "So if you want to draw a little attention and cause a little ruckus, you can let everyone know you're coming down the street."
With this season done and the next one right around the corner, there's no time to rest, and Kaepernick skipped town on Sunday before the game began.
"I'm heading down to Miami to start training," he said.
Then there was a pause.
"But I'm going to be rooting for the Broncos on this one," he said laughing. Apparently he didn't root hard enough.
As the hour crept closer to midnight, the crowds seemed no closer to fading, and they kept on circling around the bar to snag a few more drinks. It was quite the party. Let's just say it's a good thing nobody who participated had to drive the F-TYPE home.
Below, more photos from the party.
[Photos by Andrew Kelly / Insider Images]
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Whyte Inducted into Arizona Ring of Honor
Former Arizona women's basketball player Davellyn Whyte was inducted into Arizona's Ring of Honor on Sunday, joining three other women's basketball greats in the rafters of McKale Center.
Prior to the ceremony, Whyte met with the media and had this to say about the recognition:
On what it feels like to join just three others in the Ring of Honor:
"Like you said, there are only three names up there, so that explains itself. I feel like I came in here and did what I wanted to do and I gave my all to Arizona. I feel like I'm being rewarded for it."
On if one of her goals coming to Arizona was to be in the Ring of Honor:
"I made goals for myself, year by year. The first one was I wanted to be freshman of the year for what was the Pac-10 back then. The overall goal is you just want to be remembered. With that being said, I came in here and knew I had to do something so that people can remember me. I think being in the Ring of Honor, people will remember me."
On if the honor is more special because there are only three others included:
"Yeah it is--a lot. My whole family is here from out of town. It's a special day."
On if it's weird to attend Arizona games as a spectator:
"It kind of is. The way the season ended, I didn't want it to. I graduated but didn't walk, so I feel like I still kind of go here. Not being able to be on the court is kind of different. The fans say 'Oh, we miss you out there,' so it's kind of hard. I come to every game and if it's online I harass Susie to find out where I can find it online. I've been really close with the team. It doesn't feel completely done yet."
On the biggest difference between her collegiate experience and first season in the WNBA:
"The knowledge all of the women. Like I said, they're women. There's no little girls up there. Also, everyone on the team is good and has done something, whether they've been in the league for two years or 17 years. They just have a variety of people. You have to know that everyone is good. You can't just say 'I'm going to guard her tonight because I'm kind of tired.' Everyone is good. I think that is the biggest difference."
On if there were any WNBA players that made her star struck:
"There was probably one person on every team that in warm-ups I was just like 'Oh my.' After, it's just like 'I just played against Diane Taurasi. I grew up watching you,' kind of thing. During the game, you're not thinking 'Oh my', just 'I'm just trying to get the stop right now.'"
On her recovery from her injury:
"It's been really good. I haven't had any setbacks or anything like that. I have a high pain tolerance, so rehab was okay for me. The hardest thing for me is getting back in shape. I haven't really been out of shape for a while. I've been rehabbing here in McKale."
On if she ever imagined she would be in the Ring of Honor:
"No. I was pretty disappointed after our loss (against Utah in the Pac-12 Tournament), because we didn't do too well in conference, but out of all teams, we beat Utah twice last year. I was kind of going in there with a win on my mind. After that game, it was kind of like 'What's next? Is this it?' We played in Seattle, so that was on the Seattle Storm's court. When we went there this year, I had to get the first win to redeem myself on that court. I was hoping that I did what I needed to do in those four years so that I could be remembered. This is just a complete honor."
On if she thinks about how different it would have been if Candice would have played last year:
"Yeah, I do (think about it) a lot. To see certain players out there, it's a 'I wish I had one more year' kind of thing. It just looks fun out there. I miss it."
On if she sees coaching in her future:
"I think so. I've gotten a little taste of it. I don't think I'm completely ready to stop playing and just coach. Out there in practice, I kind of find myself out there telling myself I shouldn't be in the drills. It's fun. I get to share my knowledge with younger kids out there. It's selfish of me to keep everything I know inside. I share it with people who want it. Coaching will definitely be something I want to do in the future."
On if she will play overseas during WNBA off-season:
"I was supposed to go to Switzerland in October, but with my injury I wasn't healthy and didn't want to risk it or rush it. Hopefully, next season I will be able to go somewhere."
On how she got the opportunity to coach at Cienega HS:
"I knew Coach Reed when he was at Tucson (HS). He used to always bring the girls in to play open gym with us, so we kept close contact. I went up there a couple times, because he wanted me to speak with his team. Some of the girls asked if I could come back, so I went through the process and filled out all of my volunteer papers. It became official that I could be on the court and coach."
On how she is enjoying her HS coaching experience:
"It's fun. It's challenging sometimes, because I talk to them in a level that is up here and I have to bring it down. I want to catch them up to where I am so badly, because I want them to be able to understand and be ready for the next level. I think it's fun. The girls have great personalities. They're so outgoing – the complete opposite of how I was at their age. I think we are helping each other out."
On if she sees her competitiveness come out when she's coaching:
"Yeah, I do. We are 15-0 right now and we are winning, but I want to kill teams. I tell them 'Don't stop. Don't stop.' They have to tell me, 'Davellyn, calm down a little.' It's fun. They have fun. It's just fun out there."
On if she gets her competitiveness from Coach Butts:
"I think so and also from my dad because he coached me growing up. We were used to not disrespecting a team, but at the same time we are out here to have fun and win games."
On her relationship with Coach Butts during her time at Arizona:
"It's important. She taught me to keep my eye on the prize. Our seasons were up and down, but you have to get better year by year. I think she really pushed me to get better year by year. It helped me get to where I am now. (She taught me) hard work really does pay off and you'll see it in the future and it did. I was Coach Butts' first recruit, and I just rode out with her. It made a special bond there."
On what she enjoys most about WNBA life:
"The freedom. You don't have curfew. You're on your own You get told once 'This is what time the bus leaves,' 'This is where you need to be,' and that's that."
On having Coach Manning present for the honor:
"I'm really excited that he got to be here for it. I wish the other two coaches could have been here – the ones that I came in with. They're out doing what they want to do with coaching. I think it's awesome we picked a game that Coach Manning could come to."
For complete results and continued coverage of Arizona women's basketball, visit ArizonaWildcats.com, or follow on Twitter @ArizonaWBBall.


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I tweeted this story from The Telegraph yesterday, but I think it's worth mentioning here, given that there is a local assembly tonight:
London 2012 Olympics: Games organisers purchase new Blackheath lease from Crown Estate for equestrian event
"London 2012 Olympic officials have purchased a Crown Estate lease on a pocket of land called Circus Field adjacent to the controversial Greenwich equestrian site after negotiations with three Government agencies.
But such is the confidential nature of the new agreement that the local Greenwich councillors will not be given a copy of the lease and the lease will not be registered with the Land Registry…. …it needs to be enclosed, which is forbidden by the relevant Metropolitan Commons Act of 1866 and the Supplemental Act for Blackheath of 1871."


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According to Gossip Cop, Tatum has already won the coveted spot, but the magazine won't say. An official announcement is planned for Nov. 14.
Channing, who also starred in "21 Jump Street" and "The Vow" this year, has made the Sexiest Man Alive list before, but this would be his first year winning the top spot.
People faced an outcry last year when they bestowed the honor on Bradley Cooper, while many thought it was Ryan Gosling's turn on the cover.
While waiting for the news (and pictorial) to drop, take a look at our above gallery of Channing's hottest movie moments.
Sexiest Man Alive: Is It Channing Tatum?
Channing Tatum bared it all – or close to it – in the summer blockbuster "Magic Mike," making him a prime pick for People's 2012 Sexiest Man Alive.


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Retail Sales: The Future Looks Bright
Spencer Jakab reports February's strong retail sales figures set up a promising rest of 2013. Photo: AP.
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he Biltmore Golf Course was designed in1925 by Donald Ross, a transplanted Scotsman who was the pre-eminent golf designer of his era. The course, acknowledged as one of the finest resort layouts in the South, has always attracted dignitaries, movie stars and sport luminaries. Variety, strategy and naturalness are the most consistent traits in a Ross design. With its 2007 restoration by architect Brian Silva, the Biltmore Golf Course once again embodies these characteristics.
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Palmetto Golf Course is a Par-70 Championship Course, built on121 acres, running parallel to U.S. 1, south of 152nd Street. The 18-hole course, designed by Dick Wilson and built in 1959 by developers Porter, Russell and Wagor, was purchased by Miami-Dade County in 1967.
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Killian Greens Golf Club is a par-72, 18-hole course offering a unique layout at its central location in Miami, FL. This full-service facility includes a Cayman practice range and, a well-stocked pro shop and cafe. Your golf round at Killian Greens will be challenging to players of all skill levels.
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The Senator Course at Shula's Golf Club is classic style course located in the serene town of Miami Lakes. Players of all skill levels will be challenged by 18 holes of peaceful, beautiful and engaging golf. Guests will marvel at the quiet stroll to be found in the middle of America's most popular city.
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Situated in the heart of Miami, this Mark Mahannah masterpiece is the proud home of the Miccosukee Championship and is considered by many to have the best layout in the South Florida area. This picturesque and challenging facility has 27 holes, Par 72 at 6,700 yards.
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March 29
16th Annual Gottschalk Lecture
C. Ronald Kahn, MD, MS, DSc, President and Director of the Joslin Diabetes Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, will present "Gene environment interactions in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes." All are welcome.
CGIBD Thursday Research Seminar Series
Kirsten Sadler Edepli, MMSc, PhD will present at the Thursday, March 29 CGIBD Research Seminar Series.
Call for Nominations: Academy of Educators Teaching Awards
The AOE teaching award committee welcomes nominations for a variety of teaching awards. Please make every effort to consider nominating an individual who goes above and beyond the call of duty to educate others, commensurate with the mission of the School of Medicine. The deadline is April 15.
Formal Notice: New Federal Regulations on Conflicts of Interest
Please read this memo to faculty, staff, students, and trainees from Joy Bryde, Conflict of Interest Officer and Assistant Director of Research Compliance.
Did you know School of Medicine Logos are available to download?
Make sure you have the latest logo, in blue, black, or white for your next poster presentation, report, or publication! Various formats are available including .png, .eps, .tiff, and .jpeg.
Seminar: Community Care of North Carolina Informatics Center
The Community Care of North Carolina "Informatics Center" is an electronic data exchange infrastructure maintained in connection with health care quality initiatives for the State of North Carolina. It is a a public-private partnership in information support for the care of vulnerable populations.
Save the Date for "Coffee with the Dean"
Faculty members, please save May 1, May 15, or June 1 from 9-10 a.m. for an informal discussion with Dr. Roper.
SOM Strategic Plan Update: Implementation Phase begins
Please read this note from Dr. Marschall Runge regarding details of the implementation of the SOM Strategic Plan, including a list of specific initiatives and leaders for those areas. If you are interested in participating, please review the list and contact your department chair.
Animal Study Support and Imaging Resources at UNC
This will be presented by Charlene Santos, Animal Studies Core, and Hong Yuan, Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC).
An Introduction to Mass Cytometry: Fundamentals and Applications
Presented by Scott Tanner, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, DVS Sciences Inc.
Asthma, Contextual Stress & CBPR: Engaging Community and Healthcare Provider Perceptions of Contextual Influences on Childhood Asthma through Concept Mapping
This presentation will discuss a mixed methods study which utilized concept mapping methods to engage residents of two underserved communities as well as primary healthcare practitioners to identify and prioritize neighborhood factors that may influence, positively or negatively, childhood asthma.
New Funding Opportunity: Call for Proposals
The UNC Center for Diabetes Translation Research to Reduce Health Disparities (CDTR) is pleased to announce a new pilot grant program that supports research focused on diabetes.
CRMS 2.0 Training
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Emerging Company Showcase 2012
Carolina KickStart of the NC TraCS Institute, the Office of Technology Development, RENCI, Innovate@Carolina, The Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network and Kenan-Flagler Business School present the 2012 Emerging Company Showcase.
Research Ethics Grand Rounds: Reframing the ethics of biobanks
Presented by Gail Henderson, PhD, Deparment of Social Medicine.
Smith recieves Career Development Award from Human Frontier Science Program
Spencer Smith, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology, has received a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program, an international organization funded by the governments of the G7 nations.


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Fox TV Studios and NBC failed to reach a deal for the studio to produce the upcoming Hillary Clinton miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Controversy has swirled around the project, which will star Diane Lane as the former Secretary of State, ever since the Republican National Committee first announced their intention to block upcoming Presidential debates for the 2016 election from airing on NBC if it moved forward with the Clinton miniseries. However, THR reports that Fox TV Studios did not back out over the potential fallout, but over deal points.
NBC first announced the four-part miniseries in July, with plans to premiere it sometime next year. Days later, CNN revealed it was producing a feature-length documentary about Clinton that would premiere theatrically in 2014 before airing on the network. There is also a feature film, titled Rodham, in the works that is said to focus on Clinton's struggle with her own political ambitions and her feelings for a man — Bill Clinton — with great political aspirations of his own.


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Conclusion 01By CIOinsight
Business Process Management 2002
The philosophy of continuous process change is taking hold in American businesses, yet the more radical approach, business process reengineering, is alive as well. The majority of the 727 respondents to our August survey said many departments frequently change their business processes, but the methods for achieving such change aren't well defined. Also, IT execs believe that department heads are generally satisfied with IT's support for their business processes despite less than effective software support.
About seven out of 10 respondents say their companies are definitely committed to continuous process improvement, yet little more than a third say their methods for achieving it are well-defined. Also, nearly two thirds say their companies are reengineering in some way every two years or less, indicating companies take both ongoing and "big bang" approaches to improving the way they do things.
Business processes within the various departments seem to be well-defined, with IT, customer service and finance all reported as being the most explicit. And IT is deeply involved in supporting many of them, especially processes that influence the way services are delivered to customers, such as doctors in a hospital. However, the software IT is providing doesn't seem to be up to the task, since no single application offers great value, according to more than half of our respondents.
It was Valentine's Day, and Barry Hobbs was in trouble. No, he hadn't forgotten, but he was nowhere near his home in North Carolina to deliver flowers.
Instead, the CIO of S&D Coffee Inc. was in Miami riding in a truck delivering coffee to hotels, fast-food outlets and other institutional customers. Hobbs had big ideas for streamlining the processes through which the company's 400 field reps service customers, but he wasn't going to do a thing until he fully understood what those people needed and wanted. "We didn't go out and say, 'This is what you're getting,'" Hobbs says. "We spent days riding the trucks, showing them hardware and finding out, face to face, how they worked."
Follow-up conversations with several of the 727 technology executives who took our survey pointed out clearly that understanding how work really gets doneand the concerns of the people who do itmatters more than technical prowess when it comes to IT support for business process change. Whether it's a salesman or an office worker, people's livelihoods are affected when processes change. Moreover, process change today is more likely to involve multiple departments, creating a more complex political environment for the CIO.
Of all the departments in their organizations, our survey respondents said that the sales department was the most difficult to work with in changing processes. This doesn't surprise Don Schulman, a partner at consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers in charge of its financial management technologies. "CRM technology now allows call center folk to screen potential customers before sending expensive salesmen out to pursue them," he says. "Salesmen worry that someone isn't going to screen orders properly. It can be very threatening."
It's easy to overwhelm salespeople with systems and information they can't readily integrate into the simple but successful routines they've honed over the years, says Paul Bascobert, executive vice president of the New York office of Braun Consulting, a Chicago-based strategy and technology consultancy. "Look in the passenger seat of a salesperson's car. There's usually a clipboard with four or five key pieces of information that dictate their day, names and account information. If you can make that easier, you've got something of value."
Doing exactly that at S&D Coffee, Hobbs settled on handheld PCs with wireless capability, which should significantly change the process of handling a customer order. Previously, salespeople entered data on the touch screen of a larger handheld device that printed out a three-part invoice. The salesperson then mailed one copy to headquarters, where a whole department was dedicated to scanning invoices from the firm's 65,000 customers. In turn, headquarters mailed out sales reports to salespeople in the field. Now all of this will occur electronically.
Projected savings as he rolls out the new devices this summer: more than $3 million annually in hardware and labor costs for the company, which has an estimated $170 million in revenues. The real payoff is that each field rep will have an extra three hours a day that had been spent fiddling with paper. "They're excited," Hobbs says. "We've got regions begging to be the first on the rollout."
One other key factor in such a change, Hobbs says, is winning the confidence of the sales managers, and that meant a lot of upfront communication. To win them over, says Bascobert, CIOs should consider their particular information needs, such as tracking top performing customers and products. "Management can be supportive if treated properly," he says.
Our survey also showed that, among all corporate functions, process change is occurring most frequently in customer service. "Companies need new business processes to make sure new technology, such as CRM software, is used properly," Bascobert says. And these processes are more likely to extend across departments. "Sales handled acquisition, and customer service handled retention," Bascobert says. "But with the analytical tools available now, acquisition needs to look at expected churn, and retention needs to look at acquisition: Who is the more valuable customer?"
At the Centex Construction Group, a big commercial builder based in Plantation, Fla., "any business process change these days affects multiple departments," CIO Jeffrey Neyland says. A new client relationship management system is a good example. Eighty percent of the company's work comes from repeat clients, but nurturing those relationships in the years between major projects had not been systematic. "Today we have people who have a relationship with the client but don't know that three other people do, too," Neyland says. "What we can do, instead of annoying the client with three different people, is coordinate our activities." With the new system, any employee, no matter their department, can record the details of conversations with a client. The new process will help Centex management understand a client's concerns and future plans, and plot a strategy to strengthen their relationship.
Las Vegas' CIO Joseph Marcella is working on many initiatives that will cut waiting time for area residents, including a new workflow system that will dramatically improve the process of getting approvals for home improvements. Right now, a homeowner who wants to build a deck can spend up to four hours waiting for his paper file to be moved from one desk to the next as engineers or zoning officials check it out. The new system automatically passes an electronic file to the next official, sending it to an alternate person if the first is unavailable, and even makes a number of decisions itself, freeing up people for more intelligent work. The city may get 200 requests on the same kind of water heater in one day, for example, and the system already knows the equipment's specifications. Marcella says the time required to process an approval will drop to 15 minutes.
Like the majority of our respondents, Marcella is motivated by cost concerns. Las Vegas adds 4,000 to 6,000 new residents a month, but with technology, Marcella is able to hold the line on the cost of providing services to them. In fact, he says, the cost of IT services in Las Vegas is only $16 per citizen per year. Nationally, that figure ranges from $22 to $24. When the changes he has initiated affect jobs or multiple departments are involved in a process change, Marcella's task of winning adoption is made easier because every project is managed by the city manager's office, not IT.
And as for Barry Hobbs' more immediate problem at home? On his way back from delivering coffee, he turned on the charm, picked up a bouquet of flowers and managed to avoid a Valentine's Day massacre.Terry A. Kirkpatrick
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Conclusion 01
Conclusion 01: Frequent, but Gradual Change
Radical process change isn't that common, but frequent, gradual change is a constant, and companies are often committed to continuous process improvement. Yet it turns out that even successful companies aren't likely to follow well-defined methods for supporting ongoing business process change. One surprise: Business process reengineering, though widely demonized, appears to be alive and well.
Companies say they're focused on continuous process change, with 69% saying they're definitely committed to what's often called kaizen. But are companies really following through? Only 36% of respondents say their firm has clearly defined methods for achieving continuous process change. Even companies that are devoted to continuous process change have well-defined methods just 48% of the time.
The death of Reengineering has apparently been greatly exaggerated, with about two thirds (65%) saying they do it every two years or less. While it's not clear whether respondents mean it's an end-to-end revamping of a company's business processes or just any important change, it does indicate that IT departments must be ready to tackle significant, and even disruptive, change.
Forty-eight percent of respondents say their companies are satisfied with its approach toward business process change. But just 23% say they're using software to simulate new business processes before committing to them.
Conclusion 02
Conclusion 02: Disappointment With Tech Tools
IT departments are actively involved in supporting business process change, and IT execs believe business users like the job IT is doing. But IT execs take a more critical view of the technologies they're using to support business processes. While enterprise application integration tools are proving somewhat useful, others provide little value or aren't being used at all. That suggests that the greatest value IT provides may be in advising departments rather than installing technology.
Seventy-six percent of IT execs believe top business unit managers are satisfied with IT's work in supporting business processes. But IT is harder on itself, with only 62% satisfied with the job IT is doing.
Enterprise Application Integration tools (44%), enterprise applications (44%), collaboration software (41%) and two new technologiesXML and Web services (41%)are the most frequently rated as being used and providing value. In a separate question, 55% of IT execs said ERP systems are clearly improving their company's ability to support business processes.
Workflow systems get little respect, according to 26% of survey respondents. Just 21% say they are providing great value.
When it comes to managing and organizing business processes, business units and IT work as partners at 57% of respondents' firms, and the business units go it alone at 39%. IT is involved in supporting business processes at individual departments, ranging from 53% for marketing departments to 84% for customer service.
Conclusion 03
Conclusion 03: Departmental Resistance
Customer service and customer-facing departments, the ones whose processes are undergoing the most change, are the ones receiving the most attention from IT. But the sales and marketing departments, despite technical advances and the promise of increased revenue, are the most resistant to IT-enabled business process change. That may mean companies won't be able to reap the full benefit of increasing customer loyalty. As for which department is undergoing the most change, IT execs say that distinction goes to their own department.
IT DEPARTMENT: IT execs see their department as the one whose business processes are the best defined (80%), change the most regularly (about 92% saw frequent or occasional change in the past two years), change the most dramatically (radically or greatly, 71%), and are the most highly automated (extremely automated or automated, 77%). Why do IT execs place IT so highly? Possible explanations are the pressure to deliver value, cope with rapid technological change and help other functions changealong with parochialism.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Customer service is one of the departments with which IT is most heavily involved, due perhaps to the rise of customer relationship management software. After IT, it's also the department whose processes change the most frequently, but its processes have changed radically or greatly in the past 24 months at only 45% of respondents' firms. Customer service is automated in just 49% of responding companiesthis despite IT's heavy focus on the departmentbut this may be due to the fact that CRM is a relative newcomer.
CONSULTING/SERVICES DELIVERY: This function includes the people who touch the customer, whether it's hospital medical staff or high-powered consultants. This department has also received much attention from ITthird out of all departmentsand its processes change the third most regularly, changing frequently or occasionally at 70% of respondents' companies.
MARKETING: The least automated department in the organization, and the one with the least involvement by IT, marketing could be seen as IT's problem child. But this may not be much of a surprise, since it's only recently that marketing automation offerings have appeared. Marketing is also rated as the second most difficult to support.
SALES: Despite the rise of sales automation and mobile technologies, sales ranks third from last in IT involvement, at 58%, and it's the second least automated department. Sales is also the most difficult department for IT to support. The two standout reasons that both sales and marketing rate so low: These departments' business processes aren't well-defined, and they've been uncooperative with IT.
FINANCE: Behind the IT department, finance has the most-automated processes of any department. Finance is also far more likely to be automated in successful companies71% versus 47% in less successful firms.
HUMAN RESOURCES: Despite the long-time availability of Human Resources Information Systems, HR nearly tied for last place in terms of IT's involvement, at 58%. Its business processes also change less frequently than any other department, at 55%.
Conclusion 04
Conclusion 04: Success Correlates With Commitment
Successful companies don't treat process change the same way as less successful firms. The best firms are more likely to genuinely commit to continuous process improvement, and treat IT and business managers as partners in business process change. Less successful companies focus more on costs to determine the effectiveness of their processes.
More successful firms are firmly committed to continuous process improvement, 76% versus 53%, and they are more likely to have well-defined methods for achieving it, 43% versus 20%.
When it comes to coordinating business processes between departments, 59% of more successful companies do this well, versus only 31% at less successful firms. IT and business units are more likely to work as partners at more successful firms, 61% versus 47%. In less successful companies, the business units go it alone, 51% versus 34%.
What are the most important issues driving change in successful companies? More successful companies tend to have a balanced view, with the need to reduce costs (26%), im-prove productivity (23%) and increase revenue (23%) clustering at the top of the list. Less successful companies emphasize cost reduction much more highly, at 45%.
More successful companies rank customer satisfaction as the best indicator of the effectiveness of business processes (24%), while less successful companies point to costs (24%).
IT has won enough confidence to be treated as partners in business process change at most companies. But the lack of clear value from the software used to support business processes is disconcerting, as is the troublesome relationship with the sales and marketing departmentsthe two departments most responsible for generating revenues. IT execs must realize that business process engineering is alive and well, meaning they need to be prepared for the strain and stress of supporting large-scale change.
How the survey was done: CIO Insight designed the business process survey together with Advantage Business Research Inc. (www.advantageresearch.com), a Lake Success, N.Y.-based supplier of custom research services. CIOs, chief technology officers, and vice presidents of information technology and services gathered from a number of sources, including third-party lists and other Ziff Davis Media publications, were invited to participate in the study by e-mail. The questions were posted on a password-protected Web site, and 727 qualified respondents replied from May 22 to May 29, 2002. All qualified respondents described themselves as knowledgeable or very knowledgeable about their company's business processes.


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Step into the world of playful colours and brighten up your kitchen. We are introducing a new, colourful collection of Sencor Pastels kitchen appliances, which combines fresh design and fantastic features. Spruce up your kitchen with this collection and kitchen chores will never be a bore again.
Sencor SKS Pastels kitchen scale always ensures high accuracy. Operating the scale is a piece of cake thanks to the touch controls and the large high-contrast light-up display. The plastic surface of this handy little helper is extremely easy to keep nice and clean.
Four integrated sensors guarantee the accuracy to 1 g. The maximum load is 5 kg. TARE container zeroing function allows you to use any type of container - with a single push of a button, you can zero the weight of the empty container and continue weighing the substance with precision.
The appliance uses several measurement systems to suit all - g / ml / lb / fl:oz. Sencor SKS Pastels also features gradual weighing function, automatic shut off, as well as low battery or overload indication.
Kitchen Scale
Touch controls - high durability
Large LCD display with backlight (5.3 x 2.3 cm)
TARE container zeroing function
Plastic surface for easy and hygienic maintenance
4 sensors for high accuracy
Gradual weighing function
Maximum load - 5 kg (accuracy to 1 g)
Automatic shut off (after 60 seconds)
Low battery and overload indication
Accessories included: 3 x 1.5V AAA batteries (AAA)
Several measurement systems (g / ml / lb / fl:oz)
Size (width x depth x height): 180 x 220 x 26 mm
Weight: 0.33 kg
Sencor was founded in 1969 in Japan. The name "Sencor" means "a thousand hearts" in Japanese. The company currently distributes its products in more than 25 countries, with extremely diverse offerings in consumer electronics, tablets and phones, office equipment, electronics, cars, and products for the home and kitchen. Sencor is known for dependable quality and attractive design at a reasonable price.
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Plover, WI (September 9, 2020)—The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) and Freightliner Trucks announced today six finalists for the 2020 Influential Woman in Trucking award. This is the tenth year for the award which was developed in 2010 as a way to honor female leaders and to attract and advance women in the trucking industry.
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GIBSONIA, PA—June 17, 2020 — Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Knichel Logistics to the Top Green Providers list for 2020. Food Logistics' annual Top Green Providers recognizes companies whose products, services, or exemplary leadership is enhancing sustainability within the […]
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Knichel Logistics is a 2020 Great Supply Chain Partner! Thank you to SupplyChainBrain for this recognition and to our customers who nominated us. It is our goal to always be a valuable supply chain partner to those we serve, and we will do everything that we can to maintain that goal.
Knichel Logistics is a 2019 Top Company for Women to Work for in Transportation! Thank you to the Women In Trucking Association for this honor - we are committed to continuing to make the transportation industry a place where women can establish a career with opportunities for advancement!
Knichel Logistics is a Pittsburgh Business Times Fast 50 winner! This year's rankings were based on rapid revenue growth between 2016 and 2018 for companies located within the Pittsburgh region. Our tremendous growth over the course of 2018 definitely helped seal the deal. Thank you to our awesome customers and employees for our growth!
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One of my friends went away for a few weeks and I got to dog-sit their furry family member. They have a small sized poodle mix, Shelly, who is adorable.
I love animals, and I know they are a lot of work (and money), but after this dog-sitting stint, I am even more convinced that I am not ready for a pet right now. This is what I've learned so far.
Pets are like children who never grow up
Pets will always need people to pick up after them, to feed them, and take them out for exercise. They cannot care for themselves and are wholly dependent on their owners and care takers to care for them.
Unlike children, who can start to take care of themselves as they grow up, your pet can't heat up food you left in the fridge for them. If you don't feed them, they likely won't eat.
With all the time I spend out of the house – working, volleyball, spending time at BF's, coming back to visit my parents. etc., I would not have enough time to care for a pet.
Pets need a lot of Attention
When I didn't pay attention to Shelly, she would whine and cry, until I pet her or played with her. I couldn't even really sleep in on weekends because she whining and wanted me to get up and pay attention to her.
And even though I sound a bit bitter about my (lack of) beauty sleep, she is just so adorable and cute, that I can't stay mad at her.
Pets are part of the family
Maybe this is a no brainer, but coming from someone who has never had a pet, I realized this. Shelly has a personality, she has a temper and she is just like a person – only furrier and has four legs.
She gets scared of bigger dogs than her. She will bark at squirrels and cats when there is a pane of glass between her and said animal. But without the glass, she is a big wuss.
Pets age and need medical care
Shelly is fourteen years old. Her hearing, eyesight and sense of smell have seen better days. Because she is a small dog, her limbs are still okay, and she doesn't have trouble going up and down stairs (like older bigger dogs).
But when she needs to see a vet, one day, I am sure they are not cheap.
Ignorance can be Bliss
This is a different lesson from the above, but none the less, it's something that was reinforced while dog sitting. As I mentioned above, Shelly has started to lose her eyesight, her hearing and her sense of smell is not what it used to be.
Since Shelly is a small dog
and a coward, she tends to avoid big dogs. She will bark at them behind a pane of glass, but out in the real world, she will be between my legs shaking like a leaf.
One day, we were out on a walk and there was a big dog across the street barking really loudly at her. The dog was probably at least 5 times her size and if she saw it, I'm sure she would have hid between my legs and refused to move unless she was carried away. But since Shelly couldn't hear the barks, and couldn't see the big scary dog, she bounded along her walk with the bunny ears flapping behind, as if she owned the world 🙂
I couldn't help but laugh and reflect.
I still love animals, but realize that right now, I am not ready for the commitment (both financially and time-wise) to a pet. I am open to getting a pet later, and maybe when I have a partner who can also share the
burden responsibility.
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One of the nation's leading manufacturers of pet treats has issued a voluntary recall of chicken breast treats because of the potential to cause health problems in cats. The recall follows reports of more than 1,800 dogs in the U.S. sickened or killed after eating chicken jerky treats from China.
Arthur Dogswell LLC issued a recall late Friday for its Catswell Brand VitaKitty Chicken Breast with Flaxseed and Vitamins treats because of potential contamination with high levels of propylene gylcol. High levels of propylene glycol in the treats could result in serious in serious injury to cats, according to the notice posted by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
The Los Angeles-based firm is voluntarily recalling 1,051 cartons of the treats packed as either 10 or 50 packages per case of the Catswell Brand VitaKitty with Chicken Breast with Flaxseed and Vitamins, the company said in a press release.
Health effects could include inducing anemia and making cells more susceptible to oxidative damage. The company said no illnesses have been reported to date.
Arthur Dogswell LLC also produces chicken jerky dog treats made in China. The FDA has warned about treats made in China, which have been cited in more than 1,800 reports of illnesses and deaths in the United States. Friday's recall is the first associated with chicken jerky pet treats since the FDA issued a third warning about the products last November.
A Dogswell spokesman, Brad Armistead, sent an email statement to NBCNews.com late Friday that said the company hopes to return the products to the marketplace in the near future.
"We have voluntarily withdrawn a small number of chicken products for cats. This is an isolated situation and does not affect any other products for cats or dogs," Armistead said. "We are committed to providing safe and healthy products to our customers and their pet companions."
The FDA has repeatedly said it has tested pet treats in the U.S. for the presence of many toxins, including propylene gylcol, but agency representatives said they found no levels high enough to urge a product recall.
The VitaKitty treats were distributed nationwide via retail stores and mail order from April 13th through June 14th, 2012.
This product is packaged in a re-sealable 2 ounce orange plastic bag with a clear window. The VitaKitty Chicken Breast with Flaxseed and Vitamins lot codes affected are as follows: SEW12CH032701/03c and SEW12CH032702/03c with a best before date of 09/10/13 and 09/11/13, respectively (UPC code 8 84244 00057 2). Lot codes can be found on the bottom right backside of the package.
"We are taking this voluntary action because it is in the best interests of our customers and their feline companions," said Marco Giannini, CEO and Founder. "We will be working with the FDA in our continued commitment to ensure that we meet FDA guidelines."
The recall resulted from a routine surveillance sample collected by Dogswell and the FDA. The firm has ceased manufacture of the affected item, though it's not clear if that action extends to other products.
Consumers who purchased the VitaKitty products are urged to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. If the product was purchased online, consumers should contact the Internet retailer to pursue a specific return and refund.
FDA officials did not immediately return NBCNews.com calls for more information about how the recall may relate to the ongoing issue of contaminated chicken jerky treats made in China.
On the company website, www.dogswell.com, officials said that many of their products are made in the U.S., but some are made in China. It was not immediately clear where the recalled treats were manufactured. Dogswell brand chicken breast treats for dogs were among those tested by the FDA in 2007, when the agency first became concerned about reports of illness in pets linked to Chinese-made products. Those treats, tested in an FDA southwestern regional lab in August 2007, were found to be in compliance.
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