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Elephant Raju Weeps With Gratitude As He Is Released From 50 Years In Shackles9 July, 2014 at 12:03 | Posted in Animal welfare, animals | Leave a comment
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Press People – Huffington Post
An elephant who was cruelly kept in spiked shackles for 50 years has been released.
Held in chains, beaten, abused and living on handouts from passing tourists, Raju was a pitiful sight on the streets of India.
Day after day he was forced to hold out his trunk, begging for a few coins and was often left so hungry he'd eat plastic and paper to fill his empty stomach.
But last week a North London-based charity Wildlife SOS stepped in to save Raju.
During the daring midnight rescue, which saw the beast finally freed on 4 July, tears were seen rolling down his noble face, as if he was weeping with gratitude.
Spokesman Pooja Binepal said: "Raju has spent the past 50 years living a pitiful existence in chains 24 hours a day, an act of intolerable cruelty. The team were astounded to see tears roll down his face during the rescue. It was so incredibly emotional for all of us. We knew in our hearts he realised he was being freed.
"Elephants are not only majestic, but they are highly intelligent animals, who have been proven to have feelings of grief, so we can only imagine what torture half a century has been like for him.
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Not Even Good Enough for Dog Food: Imported Food From China Loaded With Chemicals, Dyes, Pesticides and Fake Ingredients17 September, 2013 at 07:28 | Posted in Body & Mind, China, Environmental issues, Food, Society, sustainable development | Leave a comment
Tags: animals, Body & Mind, CCP, China, environmental issues, Food, health, Society, sustainable development
By Mike Adams
NaturalNews – Do you really know what's in all the food you're eating that's imported from China? If you don't, you're actually in good company: The FDA only inspects 1% – 2% of all the food imported from China, so they don't know either. Even when they inspect a shipment, they rarely test it for heavy metals, pesticides, PCBs or other toxic contaminants.
Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute, added emphasis to this point as he testified this week in The House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, saying, "We don't trust, for good reason, the Chinese to supply ingredients for our dog and cat food. Why should we trust Chinese exporters for the food that we are feeding our children and families?"
It's a good question. Especially when, as Kastel adds, Chinese food is being routinely found to contain "unapproved chemicals, dyes, pesticides and outright fraud (fake food)."
Heavily contaminated food from China
As Natural News has already reported, food from China is frequently found to contain alarming levels of heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury) and other contaminants. Politically, China is a communist dictatorship where freedom of speech is completely outlawed. Environmental regulations are virtually never enforced. The culture is one of total deception where lying, cheating, stealing or committing fraud to get ahead is considered completely acceptable — because that's how government is operated there. The moral decay of China is directly reflected in the alarming dishonesty of the food supply. (Yes, a country's food exports will reflect its cultural and political philosophies. Freedom produces healthy food. Oppression and communism produces deceptive, deadly food.)
And yet, even with all this being widely known, Chinese farms are rarely inspected by organic certifiers. "U.S. certifiers are unable to independently inspect farms and assure compliance to the USDA organic food and agriculture standards that are required for export to the U.S." explained Kastel in testimony. "These imports should not be allowed to reach our shore until and unless we have a system in place to assure consumers they are getting what they pay for. Just like U.S. grown organic commodities, the safety of these products must be rigorously overseen by independent inspectors."
Read Kastel's full testimony here.
Counterfeit ingredients are the new norm in China
Also testifying at the hearing was Patty Lovera, the Assistant Director of Washington, D.C.-based Food & Water Watch. The news on food fraud out of China "is a steady stream of controversies ranging from adulteration with counterfeit ingredients like melamine in dairy products, to widespread outbreaks of animal diseases like avian flu, and high levels of pesticide residues," Lovera testified. "Just last week, news reports described a Chinese government campaign to break up a fake meat operation, leading to arrests of more than 900 people accused of passing off more than $1 million of rat meat as mutton."
See Natural News coverage of the fake rat meat scandal here.
You are eating far more food from China than you think
Why does any of this matter? Because you're eating far more food from China than you probably think.
Not only do retailers like Whole Foods sell "certified organic" food grown in China, the vast majority of superfood powders sold in North America use raw materials purchased in bulk from China. Nutritional supplements, herbs and vitamins are often made using materials from China.
Not everything from China is bad, but in our own lab tests here at Natural News, we've been shocked to discover just how frequently products from China are contaminated with metals, chemical solvents and pesticide residues. We have rejected dozens of suppliers in our own search for clean ingredients to use in our product formulations, and we've even had to send back product that showed up at our warehouse and simply didn't meet our stringent quality control requirements. (True fact: We recently had to return several thousand pounds of goji berries to one supplier after discovering the product failed our quality control review.)
But here's the even scarier part in all this:
I am repeatedly told I'm the ONLY person asking these questions
When I talk to suppliers of raw materials, I am repeatedly told that I am the only person asking them for heavy metals tests, pesticide tests and product samples to send to our own lab.
This happens over and over again. From this, I have learned there is virtually NO due diligence being conducted by natural products retailers. Most retailers simply buy and sell, shipping boxes and moving product while turning a blind eye to the truth about what they are buying and selling. They literally do not care whether their products are contaminated with heavy metals. They just want to sell, sell, sell!
Even more shockingly — and I seem to be the only journalist reporting this jaw-dropping fact — there are currently NO LIMITS set by the USDA for contamination of certified organic foods. A product may be USDA organic and still contain deadly levels of mercury, arsenic or lead. The USDA does not test or even regulate heavy metals in foods via its organic certified program!
So you can be shopping at a famous natural products retailer and you might pick up a product carrying the USDA Certified Organic logo, thinking, "This is certified healthy and safe by the U.S. government." You are being lied to. That product could be grown in China in a field of mercury runoff from an industrial factory. It could contain ridiculously high levels of mercury, arsenic, PCBs and even chemical solvents. You could be eating pure death while paying a premium for it!
This is not an attack on the USDA, by the way. Their organic certification program is surprisingly good for the scope of what it attempts to accomplish. But understand that USDA organic certifies a process, not a result. At the farm level, it means foods are not intentionally grown with pesticides and herbicides, but it does not say anything whatsoever about heavy metals contamination of food production fields in China.
Massive organic food FRAUD
In truth, what's really happening right now on a global scale is a massive organic food fraud. Food is grown in China and certified organic even though no U.S. inspectors even visit the farms. That food is then imported into the U.S. and almost never inspected. It's packaged and sold at top dollar in natural foods retail stores, emblazoned with the USDA Organic label.
But nowhere along the way — except in extremely rare cases — is that food ever tested for heavy metals or other contaminants. This is why Mark Kastel correctly states this food can't even be trusted "for dog food," much less to feed yourself and your family.
Make no mistake about it: China is a nation full of immoral, unethical liars and deceivers. (Taiwan, on the other hand, is very different and has a much stronger moral code as well as basic human decency.) Remember: I speak Mandarin Chinese. I've lived in the Chinese culture. I've traveled throughout Asia and even given numerous public speeches to Chinese audiences. At the same time, I've investigated and written about food and food safety for more than a decade. Very few people are as qualified to tell you the truth about what's really in your food coming out of China, and I can tell you that I don't trust it.
In fact, the only way I will eat anything from China is if I subject it to extensive testing and verify that contamination levels are acceptably low. There are some great products out of China that are completely safe and healthy. Certain medicinal mushrooms, for example, are produced in China and are very clean. Some producers of goji berries are very honest and clean. There are no doubt organic growers who are producing very clean products in China, but these would be the exception, not the rule. By default, we must all now assume that anything from China is heavily contaminated.
Almost universally, food grown in North America is cleaner and less contaminated. This isn't true 100% of the time, but usually so.
Toxic Chinese agriculture puts honest U.S. farmers out of business
The sad part about all this is that food from China is economically displacing U.S. and Canadian farmers who are generally far more honest and ethical in their farming practices. So while U.S. farmers are being put out of business for following the rules set by the EPA, FDA and USDA, the Chinese farmers are selling us contaminated, toxic "organic" food frauds produced by breaking all the rules!
That's why I say grow local, buy local and eat local as much as possible. And until China cleans up its act on food contamination, do your best to avoid food from China. I don't trust it unless EVERY BATCH is comprehensively lab tested and those lab tests are made public.
Props to Cornucopia's Mark Kastel for having the courage to lay a lot of this out in congressional testimony. Rest assured Congress will never ask me to testify on food contamination because I would describe a truth so horrifying that people would stop eating for days…
P.S. The reason all your dogs and cats are dying from diabetes and cancer these days is because you're giving them highly toxic pet treats imported from China. They are loaded with toxic solvents and industrial chemicals that cause permanent liver and kidney damage, among other devastating side effects. You can find these toxic, colorful pet treats sold at all the major pet store retailers. They are selling you PET DEATH and making a tidy profit doing so.
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India Calls Dolphins 'Non-Human Persons', Bans In-Captivity Shows29 May, 2013 at 09:17 | Posted in Animal welfare, Society | Leave a comment
Tags: Animal welfare, animals, Society
By Venus Upadhayaya
Epoch Times
India's Ministry of Environment and Forests, has banned public entertainment shows by captive dolphins calling it morally unacceptable.
In a statement by the Central Zoo Authority, the Government of India has advised all state governments in the country to reject any proposal to establish a dolphinarium "by any person / persons, organizations, government agencies, private or public enterprises that involves the import [and] capture of cetacean species to [use] for commercial entertainment, private or public exhibition and [other] interaction purposes whatsoever."
Avinash Basker, Legal Consultant at the Wildlife Protection Society of India said: "As far as Dolphins in captivity are concerned, it's a great step. Dolphins hunting is illegal in India and those in captivity in the country would have been captured elsewhere in the world. Thus, it's good for Dolphins globally."
Basker, however, mentions that there are other challenges about Dolphin Conservation in the country. "There are sporadic reports on Dolphin meat consumption in southern Indian states. The Extent of this problem is … not known as the fishing industry is not well regulated here."
In India, Dolphins are protected under the Wild Life (Protection) Act of 1972. The Indian Government has declared Dolphins from the Ganges river as its national aquatic animal with a view to protect the endangered species.
The statement released by the Central Zoo Authority mentions that cetaceans (marine mammals) cannot survive in captivity. "Cetaceans in general are highly intelligent and sensitive, and various scientists who have researched dolphin behavior have suggested that the unusually high intelligence compared to other animals means that dolphins should be seen as 'non-human persons' and as such should have their own specific rights and it is morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purposes."
Basker mentions that more countries need to come up with such policies to prevent more Dolphins from being captured. "Mentioning Dolphins as 'non-human persons' gives huge impetus to the Animal Rights discourse in the world. It's a great statement," he says.
Basker believes that the essence of this statement is that keeping Dolphins under captivity is cruel. "Under the aegis of the Wildlife Protection Act of India, Dolphins are protected as are any other species. By mentioning them as non-human persons, the government has probably tried to heighten their status under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960."
via India Calls Dolphins 'Non-Human Persons', Bans In-Captivity Shows » The Epoch Times
Loyal Dog Prevents Suicide: Five Cases of Dogs Saving People25 March, 2013 at 07:41 | Posted in Body & Mind | Leave a comment
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Loyal dog prevents suicide: There have been numerous instances of dogs saving people, including a recent example in France this week where a German Shepherd prevented its owner from killing herself.
The recent example of a French woman being saved by her dog as she pointed a rifle towards her heart to kill herself may seem a bit out of the ordinary, but dogs have saved people from certain death on many occasions—even within the past year.
Here are five examples:
Just several days ago, a 3-year-old girl went missing in a Polish village during frigid temperatures. But a stray dog followed her and kept her warm through the night before she was found by rescuers.
"For the whole night the animal was with the girl, it never left her. Remember, it was 5 degrees below zero and the child was wet," a firefighter said of the incident.
The child was found clinging to the dog about two miles from her home in the village of Pierzwin. The dog apparently slept with the child through the night to keep her warm.
Last November, a family dog in Indianapolis stopped armed kidnappers from leaving a family home. In the incident, a man and a woman broke in and abducted the 3-month-old daughter of Nayeli Garzon-Jimenez while her husband was working.
But the family's pit bull mix prevented the two assailants from taking off with the child.
"She started screaming and crying," Adolfo Angeles-Morales, the husband, told local station WISH-TV, referring to his daughter. He added, "The guy said, 'Give me the money or we take the baby.'"
The woman assailant then grabbed the child and bolted for the door, he said.
Angeles-Morales said, however, that "one of the doggies didn't let her go through the back door" and the woman threw the baby back.
British Colombia
A dog rescued an 11-year-old boy from a mountain lion attack in 2010 in the small Canadian town of Bar Boston, located some 150 miles north of Vancouver.
The dog, named Angel, threw herself between the boy and the puma and almost died in the scuffle.
"She was my best friend, but now she's even greater to me," the boy, Austin Forman, told NBC News, referring to his dog. "She's more than a best friend now"
Before the attack, he said, "The dog knew something was up, because she ran toward me just at the right time, and the cougar ended up getting her instead."
"I was just lucky my dog was there, because it happened so fast I wouldn't have known what hit me," he added.
New Jersey
Last month, an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's got lost and fell down in the snow in Piscataway, N.J., but a pit bull came to the rescue.
"She looked back at me and then barked, and there I saw a figure laying," Cara Jones, the owner of the pit bull—named Creature—told ABC News. "She was trying to get up and the sticks kept breaking on her, so she would fall back down."
Jones recalled not being able to figure out the reason why the dog kept trying to lead her into the brush, where the elderly woman, 89-year-old Carmen Mitchell, fell down. Mitchell had wandered into the woods around a mile from her caretaker.
Even after a full search, police with K-9 units couldn't find her until Creature arrived on the scene.
"I had a lot of people looking down on me for having a pit bull, and I'm glad that I have her," Jones said.
United Kingdom
In 2009, a man who fell down a 30-foot slope and broke his neck was kept alive when both his dogs kept him warm in frigid temperatures in Brixham, England.
The man, 66-year-old Michael Dyer, was walking his dogs when the incident took place. After he fell, Dyer lay unconscious in the snow.
However, as Dyer slipped in and out of consciousness through the night, his dogs stayed with him and kept his core temperature high enough to survive the cold.
"He loves those dogs and the fact they wouldn't leave him is amazing," his friend, Barry Robinson, told the Daily Mail.
via Loyal Dog Prevents Suicide: Five Cases of Dogs Saving People | International | World | Epoch Times
Salmon Use Magnetic Map to Find Rivers6 March, 2013 at 07:29 | Posted in Nature, Science | Leave a comment
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After traveling the Pacific Ocean for years, sockeye salmon find their way home to their birthplaces using the Earth's magnetic field, new U.S. research has shown.
"To find their way back home across thousands of kilometers of ocean, salmon imprint on the magnetic field that exists where they first enter the sea as juveniles," study co-author Nathan Putman of Oregon State University said in a press release.
"Upon reaching maturity, they seek the coastal location with the same magnetic field."
Scientists long suspected the salmon were using a magnetic map, but were unable to confirm it until recently. The Fraser River in British Columbia provided a useful way to study how salmon navigate.
"When they attempt to return, they are confronted with a giant obstacle: Vancouver Island is blocking direct access to their river!" Putman explained.
"So the fish must make a choice: do they use the northern inlet or the southern inlet in their detour?"
Since Earth's magnetic field shifts over time, salmon that left the Fraser River two years ago might find a slightly different magnetic field when they return. Their magnetic map might guide them to choose the other inlet.
Since the 1950s, fisheries have been gathering data about salmon returning to this area. When they compared it with predicted changes in the magnetic field, they found that the magnetic field indeed affected the choices the salmon made.
However, Putman says this magnetic map may not work as well for salmon raised in hatcheries.
"If, for instance, hatchery fish are incubated in conditions with lots of electrical wires and iron pipes around that distort the magnetic field, then it is conceivable that they might be worse at navigating than their wild counterparts," he said.
The paper was published online in the journal Current Biology on Feb. 7.
via Salmon Use Magnetic Map to Find Rivers | Inspiring Discoveries | Science | Epoch Times
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Why Mosquitoes Can't Fly in Fog27 November, 2012 at 12:34 | Posted in Funny things :-), Science | Leave a comment
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Mosquitoes can fly through rainstorms without a problem, but fog is another story.
Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology decided to find out why mosquitoes cannot fly in foggy weather.
Researcher Andrew Dickerson explained that when you're as small as a mosquito, you experience the weather a lot differently.
"From a mosquito's perspective, a falling raindrop is like us being struck by a small car," Dickerson said in a press release.
"A fog particle–weighing 20 million times less than a mosquito–is like being struck by a crumb. Thus, fog is to a mosquito as rain is to a human."
Mosquitoes are small enough to fly between raindrops so only get hit every 20 seconds or so, and the drops don't hurt them. Then why do the tiny fog particles prevent their flying?
The researchers used high-speed videography and found that mosquitoes' wings can still function properly in fog, but the tiny structures called halteres cannot.
Halteres are like little knobbed wings that flap alternately with the large wings. They help the mosquito control its flight and stay upright in the air.
When these structures flap, they hit thousands of fog particles per second. The halteres are so tiny that the particles interfere with them.
"Thus the halteres cannot sense their position correctly and malfunction, similarly to how windshield wipers fail to work well when the rain is very heavy or if there is snow on the windshield," said Dickerson.
"This study shows us that insect flight is similar to human flight in aircraft in that flight is not possible when the insects cannot sense their surroundings."
The research was presented on Nov. 19 at a meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics.
via Why Mosquitoes Can't Fly in Fog | Inspiring Discoveries | Science | Epoch Times
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Dogs and Humans Categorize Words Differently24 November, 2012 at 11:10 | Posted in Science | Leave a comment
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Many dogs know the words for their favorite toys, but they associate these words with objects in a very different way from humans, according to a U.K. new study.
Human toddlers tend to categorize objects by their shapes. When you teach a toddler what a "ball" is, he will also call other similarly-shaped objects "balls," but he won't call similarly sized or textured objects "balls."
Researchers from the University of Lincoln wanted to find out if dogs also associate words with shapes, so they experimented with a border collie named Gable, who had experience learning words.
They found that the dog didn't use shape to identify an object. For example, if the dog learned a word such as "ball" and was then asked to fetch a ball from an array of unfamiliar objects, he'd choose objects that weren't necessarily ball-shaped, but were a similar size to the original ball.
Then, after the dog became more familiar with the word and the object, he started to associate the word with similarly textured objects, but shape still didn't seem to matter.
"Where shape matters for us, size or texture matters more for your dog," the study authors said in a press release. "This study shows for the first time that there is a qualitative difference in word comprehension in the dog compared to word comprehension in humans."
The researchers didn't use typical words such as "ball" to test Gable. Instead they used made-up words for the toys, such as "dax."
They also made sure all the objects smelled the same so Gable wouldn't use scent cues.
The team concluded that the way dogs sense and think about objects is very different from the way we do, although more research is needed to confirm the results.
The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE on Nov. 21.
via Dogs and Humans Categorize Words Differently | Inspiring Discoveries | Science | Epoch Times
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Some Honey Bees Have Thrill-Seeking Personalities15 March, 2012 at 07:55 | Posted in Nature, Science | Leave a comment
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A small number of bees in a colony may be on the lookout for adventure, rather like some humans, according to new U.S. research published in Science on March 8.
Beehives must split up when the colony becomes too large for its site, leading to varied swarming behaviors that include looking for new nest locations and for food. The researchers considered both of these behaviors to be a form of novelty-seeking.
"In humans, differences in novelty-seeking are a component of personality," said research leader Gene Robinson at the University of Illinois in a press release. "Could insects also have personalities?"
The team found that less than 5 percent of the bees go in search of a new home. Known as nest scouts, these bees are also 3.4 times more likely to become food scouts than their fellow hive members.
The scientists believe that these bees are more willing to take risks than the others, meaning that bees can have different personalities.
"There is a gold standard for personality research and that is if you show the same tendency in different contexts, then that can be called a personality trait," Robinson said.
"People are trying to understand what is the basis of novelty-seeking behavior in humans and in animals," he continued. "And a lot of the thinking has to do with the relationship between how the (brain's) reward system is engaged in response to some experience."
Considerable differences were found in the patterns of gene activity in the brains of adventurous bees compared with their non-scouting counterparts, including production of some signaling chemicals that regulate similar behaviors in vertebrates.
"We expected to find some, but the magnitude of the differences was surprising given that both scouts and non-scouts are foragers," Robinson said.
The researchers used different chemicals to test the relationship between brain signaling and novelty-seeking, and found that non-scouting bees could be induced to become scouts with glutamate and octopamine, while scouting could be suppressed by blocking dopamine.
"Our results say that novelty-seeking in humans and other vertebrates has parallels in an insect," Robinson concluded. "One can see the same sort of consistent behavioral differences and molecular underpinnings."
via Some Honey Bees Have Thrill-Seeking Personalities | Beyond Science | Science | Epoch Times
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The Antibiotics You May Be Eating Without Knowing It13 March, 2012 at 07:12 | Posted in Body & Mind, Environmental issues, Food, sustainable development | Leave a comment
Tags: animals, Body & Mind, environmental issues, Food, health, sustainable development
n 2008, the FDA announced that "evidence that extra-label use of these drugs [cephalosporins] in food-producing animals will likely cause an adverse event in humans and, as such, presents a risk to the public health," and called for their prohibition. Notice the FDA says "will likely cause," not "could likely cause" and "presents a risk" not "could present a risk"?
But by the time hearings were held two months later and lobbyists had worked their magic, the "Cephalosporin Order of Prohibition" had somehow become a "Hearing to Review the Advances in Animal Health Within the Livestock Industry."
At the hearings, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the Animal Health Institute, a Big Pharma trade group, and the egg, chicken, turkey, milk, pork, and cattle industries complained that they could not farm without antibiotics because more feed would be required, and the animals would get sick from being immobilized over their own manure.
"To raise turkeys without antibiotics would increase the incidence of illness in turkey flocks," said the National Turkey Federation's Michael Rybolt, Ph.D. Antibiotics "reduce the level of potentially harmful bacteria, which result in infections and sickness," said the National Milk Producers Federation's Robert D. Byrne, Ph.D.
Antibiotics decrease the amount of land needed to raise animals and provide a lower priced "wholesome" product for the public, said one farm operator after another. One even claimed that manure is reduced because animals eat less.
While most agriculture reps at the hearings defended the use of antibiotics for "treatment, prevention, and control of disease," the AVMA's Christine Hoang, D.V.M., actually went so far as to call the less feed that antibiotics make possible a "health-promoting" effect and a "therapeutic use." Maybe she meant health and therapy for the bottom line.
After the hearings, W. Ron DeHaven, D.V.M., who was the USDA's top vet before leaving for industry and helming the AVMA, penned a rambling, almost incoherent 18-page letter with 62 footnotes to the FDA.
The letter went something like this: Cephalosporin-resistant "human pathogens" aren't increasing, and even if they are, they're not affecting human health, and even if they're affecting human health, how do you know it's from the livestock drugs, and even if it's from the livestock drugs, the FDA has no legal authority to ban cephalosporin.
The letter plays on terrorism fears by calling a cephalosporin ban a "food security issue" affecting "the number of animals available for the food supply." It also plays on humanitarian sentiments by claiming a ban would impede veterinarians' ability "to relieve the pain and suffering of animals" as if cephalosporins are painkillers and other drugs aren't available. (And as if antibiotics are given for animals' welfare instead of revenue welfare!)
Nowhere in the letter is there mention of the reason Big Meat won't let go of antibiotics: The industry is able to raise thousands of animals in crowded conditions that would otherwise kill them and for prices as artificial as the drugs they are raised on.
Big Pharma's invasion into farming is probably the biggest reason for the demise of family farms, which are no longer able to compete on price. Less than a month after the letter was sent, on Nov. 25, the FDA quietly revoked the prohibition. Good hire, AVMA!
Of course, the revolving door between government and Big Pharma lobbying has a distinguished tradition from Louisiana representative-turned-lobbyist Billy Tauzin, who presided over the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) until 2010, to former CDC Director Julie Gerberding, M.D., who prepared the country for flu outbreaks before turning up as head of Merck vaccines when she left the government.
The Antibiotics You May Be Eating Without Knowing It (Part 1)
This is the second part of a four-part series.
Next week: Antibiotics injected directly into eggs, and other Big Pharma secrets.
Martha Rosenberg is a health reporter and author who lives in Chicago.
via The Antibiotics You May Be Eating Without Knowing It Part 2 | Western Medicine | Health | Epoch Times
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Elephants Outwit Humans During Intelligence Test5 March, 2012 at 10:10 | Posted in Nature, Science | Leave a comment
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These pachyderm problem-solvers are among the world's most cognitively advanced animals.
By Jennifer Viegas – Discovery News
- An experiment reveals that elephants not only cooperate, but that they understand the logic behind teamwork.
- Some elephants even figured out shortcuts that researchers hadn't thought of to obtain food rewards.
- Elephant intelligence and ability to cooperate at least equal these same skills in chimpanzees and dolphins, scientists believe.
Elephants recently aced a test of their intelligence and ability to cooperate, with two of them even figuring out ways that the researchers hadn't previously considered to obtain food rewards.
The study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlights not only the intelligence of individual elephants, but also the ability of these animals to cooperate and understand the value of teamwork.
Scientists now believe elephants are in league with chimpanzees and dolphins as being among the world's most cognitively advanced animals.
"Elephant sociality is very complex," lead author Joshua Plotnik told Discovery News. "Social groups are made up of matriarchal herds (an older female is in charge), and varying levels of relatedness among members. Cooperation in elephants was most likely necessary in a context of communal care for, and protection of, young."
"In the wild, there are fascinating anecdotes of elephants working together to lift or help fallen members, and forming clusters to protect younger elephants," added Plotnik, a Cambridge University researcher who is also head of research at Thailand's Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation.
Read more: Elephants Outwit Humans During Intelligence Test : Discovery News
Tell Nestea to Stop Abusing Animals15 September, 2011 at 09:16 | Posted in Animal welfare, Charity Work | Leave a comment
Tags: Animal welfare, animals, protection of animals
Before taking your next sip of tea, check the label on the bottle because you may be drinking a cupful of cruelty to animals. Nestlé, the maker of Nestea, has tested and paid others to conduct painful and deadly tea tests on animals. The company has caused animals to suffer simply to investigate the possible health benefits linked to tea products and ingredients, even though not one of these experiments is legally required for beverage manufacturers, and regulators have stated that animal tests are not sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.
In these cruel tests, mice and rats were tormented and then killed by such means as decapitation.
Modern, cruelty-free research methods are available and are in use by other leading beverage companies around the world. We need YOU to join us in telling Nestea to ditch its cruel-tea to animals and to use non-animal methods instead.
Please take a moment to ask Nestea to stop testing on animals and join other brands—such as Lipton, Arizona, Snapple, Honest Tea, Tazo, Twinings, Stash Tea, Celestial Seasonings, Luzianne Tea, and others—that don't experiment on animals.
Send polite comments to:
Paul Bulcke
Nestlé S.A.
Brad Alford
Nestlé USA
Avaaz – Save the Saddest Dolphins17 June, 2011 at 17:28 | Posted in Animal welfare, Nature | Leave a comment
Tags: Animal welfare, animals, dolphines, Nature
From Avaaz:
The pod was swimming peacefully in the Solomon Islands when nets closed in from behind — trapping 25 wild dolphins for a luxury resort's latest exhibit. They are now locked in tiny pens, starved of food — but we can free them.
For wild dolphins captivity is torture, their powerful sonar bounces off the walls back at them — as if they are trapped in an endless house of mirrors. Most die young from stress induced illness, but some even commit suicide. If the wealthy Resorts World Sentosa succeeds in keeping them captive then half the dolphins will die in the first 2 years — and it will legitimise the widely banned practice of capturing dolphins in the wild. We can't let that happen — let's use our voices to set them free.
Resorts World was forced to abandon plans for a whale shark exhibit two years ago because of the huge outcry that threatened their reputation. Let's build a massive call now to free these intelligent, beautiful creatures — and make this a turning point in the fight to end the global wild-dolphin trade. Our petition will be delivered to Resorts World and the media. Sign now and share this with everyone!
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The Unexplained Powers of Animals23 August, 2010 at 08:48 | Posted in Funny things :-), Science | Leave a comment
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Unexplained Psychic Powers Like Telepathy and Premonition in Animals
By Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.
For many years, animal trainers, pet owners, and naturalists have reported various kinds of perceptiveness in animals that suggest the existence of psychic powers. Surprisingly little research has been done on these phenomena.
Biologists have been inhibited by the taboo against "the paranormal," and psychical researchers and parapsychologists have (with few exceptions) confined their attention to human beings.
According to random household surveys in England and the United States, many pet owners believe their animals are sometimes telepathic with them. An average of 48 percent of dog owners and 33 percent of cat owners said that their pets responded to their thoughts or silent commands. Many horse trainers and riders believe that their horse can pick up their intentions telepathically.
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This is a very good website with good information. It's important to speak up for all living beings that can't speak up for themselves. I think.
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Exposed: Dark secret of the farm where tigers' bodies are plundered to make £185 wine21 February, 2010 at 21:53 | Posted in Animal welfare, China | 1 Comment
Tags: Animal welfare, animals, protection of animals, tiger
By Richard Jones In Guilin, China
Last updated at 11:05 PM on 20th February 2010
Behind rusted bars, a skeletal male tiger lies panting on the filthy concrete floor of his cage, covered in sores and untreated wounds. His once-fearsome body is so emaciated it is little more than a pitiful pile of fur and bones.
Death is surely a matter of days away and can only come as a welcome release. Wardens at the wildlife park in southwest China say, indifferently, that they do not expect him to see the start of the Year of the Tiger which began last Sunday.
'What can we do?' a female park official asks a small huddle of visitors with a sigh and a casual shrug. 'He's dying, of course, but we have to keep feeding him until he does. It's against the law to kill tigers.'
Instead, it seems, they die slowly of neglect. In row after row of foul, cramped cages, more tigers lie alone, crippled and dying. One is hunched up against the side of its cage with its neck grotesquely deformed. Another, blinded in one eye, lies motionless.
This shabby, rundown park in Guilin – one of China's main tourist cities – is home to the world's biggest single collection of tigers. Yet it is never included on foreigners' tour itineraries.
For here, 1,500 captive tigers – around half as many as there are thought to be remaining in the wild – live out miserable lives in squalid conditions.
Tiger Farms in China Feed Thirst for Parts
"All of the demand for tiger parts is coming from China," said Belinda Wright, executive director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India. "Unless the Chinese change their attitude, the tiger has no future on this earth."
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Troy Goodfellow: I want to play a lot more Demigod this weekend. Even after crushing John's spirit, I still think I have a lot more to learn here. I have a sneaking suspicion that each demigod has one completely useless advancement track, except for Sedna, who has four completely useless advancement tracks. But it's quickly becoming one of my favorite games of the year so far.
Also, some old-timey wargaming with HPS Studios' Musket & Pike: Renaissance. It lets me play the Ottomans, and not enough wargames let you do that.
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Harold Goldberg: I'm going to play more of that free and pretty and compelling online game, Scarygirl. I'll be playing Excitebots (which I hope is better than Rhythm Heaven). I've got builds of various games, like Batman: Arkham Asylum, for my longer-lead mags, so I'll be indulging. I'm doing another interview with Al Alcorn for "The Game Changers" book today, and he tells such great tales of Atari. On Sunday, I'm off to Sony Gamers' Day for Crispy. I'd like to say I'll be playing a PSP game, but I have work to do on the plane. Maybe I'll get some Patapon 2 in.
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Chris Buecheler: I'll be celebrating the advent of the NBA Playoffs with more NBA 2K8, with the sole goal of crushing Kobe Bryant and the hated Lakers like worms. Worms I say! I'm also still waiting for Dead Space on Steam to drop 10 more bucks before I buy it, because I am cheap and because people seem so torn in their opinions of it that I'm hesitant to pay anywhere near full price for it.
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Marc Saltzman: It'll be a light gaming weekend for me as I'll be traveling with my family from Disney World back home.
That said, I brought my DSi and PSP, and loaded up my laptop with classic adventure games (such as Runaway, now available from GOG.com), casual puzzlers (Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst) and a bizarre but intriguing indie game called The Path from Tale of Tales.
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Gus Mastrapa: I grabbed Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360. I had a copy for the PS3 and no friends to play co-op with. While at GameStop I also grabbed Dead Space and Assassin's Creed (which I plan to catch up on now that we're learning about the sequel via Game Informer). And since I haven't been able to get the Crispy Gamer Steam group to mobilize (shame on you), let's plan to play Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) on Saturday night at 9 p.m. CST. Leave your Gamertag in the comments. I'll friend everyone who posts and start organizing groups at 9 p.m. sharp. We'll dive into our first round at 9:15.
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Scott Jones: I got stuck on a couple of World of Goo levels this morning -- man, I didn't see that coming -- so I'll need to fix that over the weekend. I've also been replaying The Force Unleashed in the wake of the CG interview Evan and I did with Haden Blackman at GDC. I'm clearing a level a night. Also trying to suss out all the nuances of Assault on Dark Athena (I spent $20 on the Prima guide today; I buy guides for the games that I really like for some inexplicable reason). I took Mastrapa's cue and had my cable disconnected. I also have no women in my life right now, and no cable TV, so the only thing between me and oblivion? Games. And my collection of hot books.
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John Teti: I'll be playing Ninjatown on the DS when I'm not viewing programming on my thousands of glorious satellite TV channels.
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James Fudge: This week I'll be continuing my experiment in Ultima VII (redrum), playing more Dead Rising (damn you Gus), some multiplayer Crackdown (damn you Ryan), and maybe a dash of City of Heroes to check out the new Architect stuff. Oh, and I've got a beta key to Champions Online, so I will be playing it on Friday night. I'm very excited to get a small glimpse into how this game is shaping up.
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William Abner: Playing some Demigod and the same Renaissance wargame Troy is playing, and fiddling with Out of the Park Baseball logos for our league.
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Evan Narcisse: I've got a longstanding promise to dig into some indies that I'm trying to fulfill -- specifically Opera Omnia and The Path, as recommended by Teti and Chick respectively. I also might try to dig into the Bionic Commando build that showed up earlier this week. But the thing that will likely interfere with all of that will be my need to pack up my apartment. I'm moving in with my girlfriend in two weeks, so that means I've to sort through mounds of comics, games and other geek ephemera to see what makes the cut. Pray for me and my possessions, kind sirs.
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Ryan Kuo: This weekend is all about addiction. I'm hooked on Crackdown again, and becoming obsessed with the tower defense game Defense Grid: The Awakening. If I weren't also trying to power through the surprisingly tedious Henry Hatsworth, I'd start BioShock over. It's true, I play games for 20 minutes tops and then cast them aside like burnt-out cigarettes.
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Kyle Orland: Zen Bound has got me in its wooden, ropey clutches, so I'll probably be flicking out the iPod without much thought this weekend. Also planning to carve out some time for Gus' Left 4 Dead session if at all possible.

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John Mayer is on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone and gives way too much information on his sex life and break-up with Jennifer Aniston. Read more on what John had to say below.
John Mayer admits that he isn't happy with how things ended with actress Jennifer Aniston. "I've never really gotten over it," he tells Rolling Stone. "It was one of the worst times of my life."
Mayer, 32, began dating Jennifer, 40, in April 2008 after hanging out with her in Miami. The couple split up twice and Mayer takes the blame for the break-up with "America's sweetheart".
"I'm the asshole," he says. "I burned the American flag. I basically murdered an ideal."
Mayer says he doesn't want to move on to a new relationship but is instead stuck on the girls he has already dated.
"All I want to do now is f— the girls I've already f—ed, because I can't fathom explaining myself to somebody who can't believe I'd be interested in them," he says. "I'm too freaked out to meet anybody else."
Even though girls throw themselves at him, Mayer says Jennifer Aniston still pops into his head.
"I met a girl one time in Vegas. Her name was Dimples, and the 's' in Dimples was adollar sign," he tells Rolling Stone. "I have this weird feeling, a pride thing, for the people I've had relationships with. I still feel like I'm with them, in the sense that if I f—ed Dimples, what does that say about someone like Jen? I feel like it's all connected. How could I ever cosmically relate these two people?"
He adds: "What would I be saying to Jen, who I think is f—ing fantastic, if I said to her, 'I don't dislike you. In fact, I like you extremely well. But I have to back out of this because it doesn't arc over the horizon. This is not where I see myself for the rest of my life, this is not my ideal destiny,' and then I see myself f***ing Dimples? What does that say for my case?"
Mayer reveals his sex life has become an endless cycle of new girls rejecting him in clubs saying, "Blowing me off is the new sucking me off!".
Mayer says he still enjoys his late-night weed-and-video-game sessions, but really wants to find a girlfriend. But John says he is after, "the Joshua Tree of vaginas." "I'll be happy when I close out this life-partner thing," he says. "Think of how much mental capacity I'm using to meet the right person so I can stop giving a fuck about it."
After reading his interview with Rolling Stone, John took to his Twitter account and wrote: "Just read my Rolling Stone cover article. I'm still not sure if I would want to hang out with me."
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|California Gov. Jerry Brown in a statement. Brown signed seven bills into law Friday seeking to improve access to clean drinking water in California, particularly for residents in rural and disadvantaged communities. (via californiawatch)
I grew up solidly middle class, with parents who were not wealthy, but could certainly afford the American Dream of a nice little house, an annual vacation (we drove), and the occasional extra like ballet lessons for their kids. My husband grew up on welfare, and didn't even know what the SATs were until his guidance counselor told him that he was smart and he should take them. We have worked very hard in our lives, and had a great deal of luck, and we now live a very comfortable life.
This dress cost more than you could earn working 40 hours at minimum wage. I bought it for my 2 year old, although she never got around to wearing it.
She's 5 now, and I explained that for every hundred cookies, 1 person has 40 of them, and 99 people have to share all of the others. She goes to a private Montessori school, so she understood (they do lots of abacus play). Even she knows how unfair that is.
We are the 1% and we have more than we know what to do with. I support higher taxes for social services and safety nets, and for the infrastructure that makes a society strong and vibrant. I do not support higher taxes for endless wars and corporate welfare.
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Today we begin our weekly feature on space exploration and our presidents. To start things off, here's an image of the official NASA program commemorating the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing on July 16, 1969.
-NASA program from the holdings of the Johnson Presidential Library
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"I used to walk through the streets and dream of someday being a musician," Juanes told Saturday's concert crowd of his days living in Los Angeles as an aspiring rock star. (Handout/Getty Images for Control Room)
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Some of the world's biggest, most socially responsible stars came together last night to celebrate Bill Clinton's 65th birthday and ten years since the former president completed his second term at the White House and embarked on a path of philanthropy.
The star-studded concert, called "A Decade of Difference: Celebrating Ten Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation," was held Saturday night at the iconic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Broadcast live on Yahoo!, it sought to raise funds and awareness about the foundation's global initiatives in health, underdeveloped economies, the environment, and children. All in all, Clinton's work has reached some 300 million people in more than 180 countries, according to the foundation (nearly 4,000 people benefitting from HIV/AIDS treatments, more than 26,000 micro-entrepreneurs, farmers, and small business owners improving their livelihoods and communities, and over 2.2 million tons of greenhouse gases getting cut or abated in major cities around the world).
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The city of Charlotte landed a direct hit Thursday in its fight against gang crime, with a Mecklenburg judge approving a wide-ranging set of rules designed to cripple the Hidden Valley Kings.
Police say the Charlotte gang runs a drug ring and has been linked to violent crime ranging from assaults to robberies to murder.
For the next year, Kings' members who meet with each other can be charged with a misdemeanor crime. That includes everything from riding in a car together, to "standing, sitting, walking, gathering or approaching" other known gang members in public.
The injunction, which will be served to each of the accused gang members named in the city's complaint, prohibits the Kings from holding firearms, drugs and narcotics. It also bans recruitment or initiation of new members.
The goal, police say, is to undercut gang activity in Hidden Valley and other neighborhoods, while also cutting into recruitment of what the Kings call BGs, short for "Baby Gangsters."
The state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has already expressed concerns about the crackdown.
Meanwhile, an attorney for one of the accused gang members told Superior Court Judge Richard Boner on Thursday that police have not revealed enough reliable evidence to support such sweeping limits.
Boner ruled otherwise. He approved the yearlong preliminary injunction against the Kings, saying that a similar case against gang activity had been upheld in California "by the most liberal supreme court in the country."
The judge did narrow a few of the city's rules. Pending any appeal, the city can come back to court next August and ask that the injunction be made permanent.
Mark Newbold, an attorney for Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, described the ruling as a victory for Hidden Valley and other communities wounded by gangs.
"We're pleased," he said. "The city's protection of a neighborhood's well-being and tranquility is of the highest order."
In making its argument, the city identified almost two dozen westside men and teenagers as leaders and members of the Kings, which police say took root in Hidden Valley some 25 years ago.
At the head of the list is the man they describe as the gang's leader, Wendell "Face" McCain.
McCain, in dreadlocks and a red T-shirt, slipped into the courtroom a few minutes after the hearing began. Afterward, surrounded by family and friends, McCain said he is not a gang chief but the founder of "Icee Money," a music studio in Hidden Valley that produces rap.
He accused the city of "picking on us because we're from Hidden Valley."
Police say the studio, which is covered by the injunction, is run by gang members. They say its music videos are a recruiting and intimidation tool for the Kings. As far as the city is concerned, Icee Money's future is in doubt.
"If it is a legitimate business then it can stay open, but it appears at this early stage it is not," Newbold said after the hearing. "Once we get the order signed we will take a look at exactly how it is set up."
McCain, however, said he started Icee Money last year "to change the outlook of Hidden Valley."
"They're taking our positive and making it a negative," he said outside the courthouse. "None of us are gang members. We're making music because we want to be rich. We want to make millions like everybody else."
Some families said they were angry that police were linking their sons' names and photographs to gang activity without giving them a chance to defend themselves.
"This will not be made permanent. I feel God's hand on it," said one woman who identified herself only as a mother of one of those named in the city's complaint.
Attorney Bree Laughrun, who represented another man indentified as a King in the city's complaint, said after the hearing that the injunction is based on a "low threshold" of evidence, clearing the way for "unfettered discussions on who's in a gang and who's not."
She said the rules also target Hidden Valley, "a largely minority and low-income community."
But police say they can link gang members to a string of violence, as well as drug trade that largely underwrites the purchase of weapons.
McCain, for example, has a long arrest record and has pending trials on two felony drug charges. Police documents also connect him to several incidents in which shots were fired into homes.
The legal strategy unveiled in court Thursday originated in Los Angeles. The Charlotte case marks the first time it's been used in North Carolina, made possible by a new gang-nuisance law that took effect in October.
Newbold said the new statute includes safeguards against racial profiling.
To be targeted by the injunction, a group must be involved in felony criminal activity that occurs at least five times during a 12-month period and benefits the gang. The injunction must then be approved by a "neutral judge" weighing the evidence, he said.
Newbold told Boner that the individuals included in the city's complaint have been linked to widespread criminal activity.
One of those named, Kevin "Kevo" Funderburk, sat at the front of the courtroom while Laughrun argued that he and others were being unfairly singled out.
She told the judge that her client works for Icee Money and that police have not made a credible case linking the studio to gang activity.
"Rap is a genre of music," Laughrun said afterward. "Just because you sing about something, rap about something, doesn't mean you've gone out and done it. Just because you sing it doesn't make it true."
In Funderburk's case, records show he has 10 pending trials on felony drug charges.
According to an affidavit that was part of the city's motion, undercover police or their informants on four occasions called McCain to buy marijuana.
Each time, the affidavit says, Funderburk was among those who delivered the drugs. Observer researcher Maria David contributed.
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A little traveling music for the Thrashers … and me.
The Thrashers leave today for road games at Carolina and Florida, and so do I. Yes, that's right. The plan is to cover the Thrashers on the road for the rest of the [relevant] season. So look for blogs while the team is on the road as well as game stories and notebooks.
The Thrashers play the next four games against teams that currently trail them in the standings. Carolina (35 points), Florida (46), Toronto (41) and Tampa Bay (46). Three are road games against Southeast Division teams.
OK, on to the practice report.
Just Kari Lehtonen was on the ice prior to practice for conditioning drills. He remained for practice.
Todd White, after missing Thursday's game after injurying his right leg, is on the practice ice and looks fine. Coach John Anderson said after last night's game he was held out for precautionary reasons.
Here are the line combinations (in no particular order):
Blue: Kovalchuk-Antropov-Thorburn
Orange: Kane-Slater-Little
Gray: Armstrong-Reasoner-Afingenov
Red: Kozlov-Peverley/White-Boulton
All eight defensemen on the ice.
January 15th, 2010
11:24 am
Thanks for the update Chris. Did the team seem to be in good spirits? I was at the game last night and other than taking some bad penalties I thought they played a solid game.
January 15th, 2010
11:25 am
While it has resulted in a win and an OTL the past two games, I do hope they end the "playing Thorburn with Kovalchuk" experiment sooner rather than later. While it's a good reminder that nobody's role on the top line is secure, it's not a recipe for long-term success.
January 15th, 2010
12:13 pm
Looking forward to your coverage Chris… thanks!
I'd like to hear some stories from guys getting ready for the Olympics sometime this month.
January 15th, 2010
12:23 pm
Am I the only one that thought the game last night was really sloppy? Passes were poor, pucks rolled off sticks, players were falling for no reason. The powerplay looked uninspired at best most of the time.
I suppose defense was reasonably solid, and we did have decent zone presence against a very good defensive team, but I was disappointed with the overall level of urgency and crispness.
January 15th, 2010
2:00 pm
Jlew, both teams had issues of sloppiness. The Philips ice looks horrible and has spots with visible repairs. It also looks dirty, like smog has settled on it.
January 15th, 2010
2:46 pm
That's awesome news, Chris. I love this decision by the AJC.
January 15th, 2010
3:16 pm
Great news chris
January 15th, 2010
3:43 pm
We have to stop mixing up the lines every other game… Slater and Thorburn belong nowhere near the top two lines. This is just ugly.
January 15th, 2010
3:47 pm
I thought we generally outplayed them last night. Tight game. Myers, that defenseman for the Sabres looks outstanding. It's the road, but all these teams are beatable. Go Thrash.
January 15th, 2010
5:45 pm
Penalties with less than 2 minutes left: GENIUS!!!
January 15th, 2010
9:49 pm
It will be great to get some "hometown" game coverage for these away games. Thanks, Chris. Better luck with the practice skate in Florida.
January 16th, 2010
12:09 am
ChippersLoveChild (CLC), I have to agree with you there. Someone once told me, "Brendan, you 'tinker with lines' in October and November. And if you must, in December. But if you haven't figured out your roster, and how to use it, by New Year's Day, you're in trouble." Your post made me think of that quote, CLC.
January 16th, 2010
8:51 am
great to hear you're on the road with the club, good job, AJC!
January 16th, 2010
9:12 am
Tonight is Hockey Night in Savannah, a stellar line up has 2 teams from the hockey hot bed of Florida, thats right Florida, going at it at 5:30, Florida Gators vrs. The Florida State Seminoles. Bobby "dadgummit" Bowden is dropping the ceremonial puck. Then, 30 minutes after the completion of that match, Georgia takes on hated rival Georgia Tech. What is at stake???? The prestigeous "Thrashers Cup". Who will get to hoist the most precious piece of metal in all of hockey?
January 16th, 2010
10:00 am
Key to a reulation win is to keep Schubert off the ice at the end of a close game. He is PP (penalty predictable). Give Bogosian a rest. He is either hurting or needs to screw his head back on- too many lazy and bonehead plays for a guy with his talent.
January 16th, 2010
12:30 pm
Peverley on a line with Kozlov and Boulton? I know Peverley has been struggling lately but that is just absurd. Now a Kozlov-White-Peverley might be a decent line and just scratch Boulton. I agree about Bogosian. He has been real inconsistent this year and has made some lazy plays or just plain stupid plays almost like he's digressed from last season.
January 16th, 2010
12:39 pm
Why not move Bogo down to the third pairing with Valabik? And give him the opportunity to operate against weaker competition and work on his positional defense without having as much pressure. And who knows, he may just pot a goal or two playing against weaker players. Moving him to the 3rd pairing may get his attention and get him to re-focus. Then hang the carrot and tell him "if you play better and stop making careless mistakes or lazy plays, we'll give you more PP time in lieu of Kovalchuk on the 2nd unit cuz our PP needs a spark."
Tobes & Kubes
Hainsey & Salmsy (they weren't too bad together last year)
Boris & Bogo
January 16th, 2010
1:12 pm
Anyone know tonight's starting goalie?
January 16th, 2010
3:20 pm
Chris any comments. Please
* There will be a MAJOR Kovalchuk update this evening.
January 16th, 2010
5:13 pm
the major update is that Kovalchuk sends everyone to xy* again
January 16th, 2010
5:48 pm
**to Arshavin**
January 16th, 2010
5:57 pm
Is the "major" Kovalchuk announcement that his wife had the baby?
January 16th, 2010
6:09 pm
"MAJOR" announcement from Eklol is that Kovy is safe and sound after the Haiti earthquake. E2
January 16th, 2010
6:14 pm
Carolina has won four of their past six (4/6) games coming into tonight's action. They are off their worst start in franchise history. And they are looking to get revenge for a 4-1 blown lead to Atlanta, in a 6-4 loss, in their previous meeting.
Here's your game preview. http://ajc.stats.com/nhl/preview.asp?g=2010011607&home=7&vis=28
January 16th, 2010
8:37 pm
Chris, any reasoning why Salmela is sitting again? I thought he looked good when he was able to play some games in a row vs. play one sit 5?
January 16th, 2010
8:41 pm
Here's your boxscore, if you want to track the minutes played and +/- for tonight's game.
January 16th, 2010
8:42 pm
January 16th, 2010
9:00 pm
The Hurricanes are 7-0-3 this season when Jussi Jokinen lights the lamp. Jokinen hasn't scored in nine career games against Atlanta.
Update: Jussi Jokinen has scored for Carolina tonight. And you know what that means.
That's right. It means that the game is tied, 1-1, after one period of play.
January 16th, 2010
9:26 pm
Nice save by Pavelec on the penalty shot. Pavelec stopped Staal on the initial chance, then stoned him on the actual penalty shot. So, Eric Staal had two breakaways to get it done. Nice job by Pavelec, making his 3rd consecutive start.
January 16th, 2010
9:28 pm
Second half Slater go has given Atlanta a 2-1 lead. Bryan Little had an assist, I believe.
January 16th, 2010
9:35 pm
Rich Peverley has scored, from Boulton, to make it, 3-1. For the Thrashers.
January 16th, 2010
9:41 pm
They awarded an assist to Slave Kozlov on the Peverley goal. Peverley has two points, (1G, 1A) as Bogosian, (1G, 1A). Zach Bogosian is a +3, thus far, in this game.
It's 3-1, Thrashers, at the break.
January 16th, 2010
10:31 pm
After a flurry of goals, it's now, 4-3, Thrashrs. All three Hurricanes goals came on the PP. Not a great night for the PK. Carolina tied it up, 3-3, when Kovalchuk gave Atlanta back the lead. There's 3:00 left in the 3rd period.
January 16th, 2010
10:40 pm
Antropov nets the insurance goal into the empty-net, on a nice play and pass by Kovalchuk. Thrashers win, 5-3.
January 16th, 2010
10:49 pm
I have to say that the call on Valabik is right up there with the biggest horse waste piles I've ever seen in my life. If Waddell is good for nothing more, I'd raise some stink with the league on this one. Today – no comment on Hainsey's play leading to the penalty shot.
January 16th, 2010
10:50 pm
Bogosian finished a +4. The following players were +2 for Atlanta: Hainsey, Littly, Kovalchuk, Enstrom and Antropov.
These Thrashers had two points, a goal and an assist: Nik Antropov, Jim Slater, Zach Bogosian, Kovalchuk and Peverley.
January 16th, 2010
11:03 pm
Well, I've heard of Little Italy, but never Littly. Sorry about that one, in the above post.
January 17th, 2010
12:32 am
Nothing was finer than to be in Carolina tonight. For the Thrashers! ++STENDEC++ Congratulations on two points!
January 17th, 2010
10:44 am
Hear hear!!
January 17th, 2010
12:10 pm
Was tonight the "official" death of the Carolina Hurricanes?
February 15th, 2010
2:48 pm
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There was one country in which free and fair elections took place; the incumbent lost; graciously handed over power to his old rival whom he has beaten by 80 votes in previous election.
Moreover this worthy process took place in one of the most violent, most unstable and most undemocratic regions of the continent.
Yet Mo Foundation did not even consider encouraging this democratic miracle was worth their effort. Does the Foundation lack good governance or just imagination and flexibility?
The Mo Ibrahim foundation should open up the prize to leaders in African civil society that symbolize the values they are trying to espouse.
I think we have too much 'civil society' and 'NGOs' funded by bigger Western NGOs who have their own agendas. They mean well but they often do tremendous damage to enterprise and investment in the continent.
What we need is education and enterprise and technology innovation. That is why I always believed Mo's Prize should have been halfed(the prize is ridicolously large) and the other half used to help set one research institution of excellence in the continent where Africa's best and brightest young minds are given scholarships in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects.
African civil society often reveal a lot of exceptional leaders who make a difference in their communities or even across the continent. For example, the environmentalist Wangari Maathai founder of the Green Belt movement was one who worked tirelessly for many years unnoticed and there are many others in the fields of health, education, religion, journalism, literature, arts, music and politics. The M.O. Ibrahim foundation would do well to place a spotlight on some of these remarkable individuals and award that $5 million prize money to them because they are often as responsible for change within countries as African leaders themselves.
Sub-Saharan Africa seems to have abundance in everything, yet lack everything. It comes down to, as always, respecting the rule of law. It also seems that in many places around the globe, where Sub-Saharan African populations exist em mass, there follows poverty and crime, unfortunately.
This can only be solved by stricter rules and stronger punishments.
I wish the best for all our Sub-Saharan African brothers and sisters.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation will have to do a little more waiting to see a leader who qualifies for its $5 million largess. Reason is that sustainable economic opportunity and human development are flowing in one direction only: the foreign investors and not the people.
I'm always concerned about how well South Africa seems to do. I appreciate that it is better off economically than a lot of its continental neighbours but under the ANC it doesn't seem to be that well governed. The Economist itself just finished talking about how education rates are worse for blacks now then under Apartheid. I don't think its only the ANC's fault but still there should be a significant declining trend in the rankings. More impoverished nations are arguably much better governed (considering the resources they have). Ghana and Liberia are to countries that come to mind. Either way its sad that the nation which gave us Nelson Mandela has fallen so far.
I'd like to posthumously nominate Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, for leaving office.
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Washington Technology Center has awarded $99,778 in research and technology development funding based on a proposal from WSU's Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory in collaboration with Plant Care Technologies Corporation.
Plant Care Technologies Corporation, a start-up nursery bioproducts company located in Pullman, is partnered with the Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory to study the commercial feasibility of using heat-treated waste-wood products as an alternative to traditional plant-growing media.
Washington's sawmill industry produces 1.3 million tons of bark residues annually. Some of this forest industry byproduct is converted to a lesser-value material or used as fuel to produce steam or heat. Most is discarded as waste, creating both disposal costs and potential environmental issues.
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"In the more than 100 years that we have been cultivating soils in the Palouse, we have lost about half of the original organic matter," she said. "Organic matter provides nutrients crops need; it holds water and contributes to aggregation."
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HE'S been a dance critic for years – and now he's putting his money where his mouth is.
David Bellan, dance critic for The Oxford Times and former BBC radio presenter, has taken to the floor for the first time in his life for Strictly Oxford 2014.
Mr Bellan and 15 other Oxford luminaries will be partnered with dancers from Headington's Step By Step Dance School for the fundraiser at the New Theatre Oxford on April 27.
With the first rehearsal on Saturday, the couples have just six weeks to hone their skills.
Mr Bellan, of Bladon, said: "I have been watching dance for about 30 years, and I have seen practically every company in the world, so I know what I think good dance should look like.
"The question is, can I actually do it?
"It is absolutely not a walk-over and six weeks is not a lot of training."
The event, inspired by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, will raise money for Vale House, a 40-bed nursing home in Sandford-on-Thames that provides specialist end-of-life care to adults who suffer from dementia.
Mr Bellan refused to put odds on a favourite to win, adding: "I'm definitely the oldest, I don't know if that makes me the most experienced."
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