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President Donald Trump went off-topic during an address outside the White House on police reform Tuesday, declaring that the coronavirus pandemic will go away without a vaccine and that scientists have "come up with the AIDS vaccine."
At present, there is no scientific indication that coronavirus will go away if a vaccine is not developed and no AIDS vaccine exists.
On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order on police reform amid a global conversation about racial inequality and police brutality in America prompted by the police killing of George Floyd in late May. The order will establish a federal database of police officers who have a history of using excessive force.
Trump made his address in the Rose Garden, telling the crowd that he was signing the order "to deliver a future of safety and security for Americans of every race, religion, color and creed." He also praised law enforcement's response to the protests and insisted Americans "demand law and order."
"Without police, there is chaos," Trump said.
His speech went on to address the ongoing pandemic and how the administration is handling it. While lauding himself and the scientists working on a vaccine for the coronavirus, he claimed that "before the end of the year I predict we will have a very successful vaccine."
Of the scientists, he said: "They've come up with things. They've come up with many other cures and therapeutics over the years. These are the people, the best, the smartest, the most brilliant anywhere. They've come up with the AIDS vaccine."
"Or the AIDS, and the as you know theres various things, and now various companies are involved and the therapeutic for AIDS. AIDS was a death sentence and now people live a life with a pill," he continued.
No vaccine is currently available to prevent HIV infection, the virus which causes AIDS, or to treat those who have it, but there are many medications available for those living with HIV to manage the virus.
Outside of his erroneous claims about an AIDS vaccine, Trump once again said that the coronavirus will eventually go away if a vaccine does not get developed.
"I always say, even without it, it goes away. But if we had the vaccine ― and we will ― if we had therapeutic or cure, one thing sort of blends into the other. It will be a fantastic day and I think that's going to happen. And it's going to happen very soon," he rambled.
Dr. Mike Ryan, director of WHO's emergencies program, told a virtual press conference from Geneva that he doesn't believe "anyone can predict when this disease will disappear" and that it may "never go away."
"It is important to put this on the table: This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," Ryan said. "HIV has not gone away — but we have come to terms with the virus."
Trump's misinformation comes on the heels of Vice President Mike Pence, the White House coronavirus task force leader, imploring the nation's governors to share misleading facts about the pandemic. Reportedly during a private call on Monday, Pence downplayed coronavirus outbreaks in some regions and claimed they were "intermittent" spikes of the virus.


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Bryant refreshed after sitting out last week…
Kobe cites old age as he sits out Bulls game: Lakers legend misses Christmas Day game.
Kobe-less Lakers stun the Golden State Warriors: (Video) NBA's best humbled by Lakers.
Byron Scott hopes to ease Kobe workload: Bryant has played team-high in minutes.
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant recorded a triple-double on Tuesday night as they sealed a road win over the Denver Nuggets.
The Lakers secured a 111-103 win over the Nuggets behind 23 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists from their 36-year-old veteran star, and they improve to 10-22 for the season.
Bryant is the second-oldest among active players to record a triple-double, trailing only Tim Duncan, but it was a welcome return to form after he took time out last week to rest after a busy start to the season in which he played a team-high in minutes.
Mamba played nearly 32 minutes in his second game back after missing three games around Christmas because of overall soreness, and he insisted after the game that it was now obvious that he can benefit from game management.
"You see now — very, very efficient," said Bryant, who also had nine turnovers. "I know exactly where I want to go. I get to my spots. I don't try to beat guys with quickness. I back them down, get to my areas and elevate over them. Old school Oscar Robertson-style."
Bryant also shared a joke with former teammate and Nuggets coach Brian Shaw after he revealed that Bryant used to make fun of him for icing his knees near the back-end of his career. Now Bryant is the one icing his feet before and after games, but he will be delighted with a return to form on Tuesday.


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If an electric drift car comes flying around the corner and there are plenty of race fans around to hear it, does it still make a sound? The engine—no. But the tires? Oh hell yes.
Napoleon Motorsports did something pretty outstanding. They've entered the first-ever electric drift car in the Formula Drift series—a series that literally rewrote the rules so they could compete—once again reaffirming that drifting is probably the best form of racing there is, ever.
So how did they outfit their Chevy Camaro EL1 to get it ready for the track? Donut Media has an awesome video that dives into just that:
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What happens when someone tells me I shouldn't do xyz?? I wonder why? and the more I wonder about it the more I want to do it. Same goes with the custom of Upvas or Fasting. Fasting by definition means you don't eat or drink anything usually for a day. Never works for me - on a fast day, all I can think about is food - correction - on any given day all I can think about is food ;-)
Anyway - I am clearly not alone - hence the invention of fast-food (upvas-friendly or upvas-approved) food. These amazingly delicious dishes are usually loaded with carbs, some even deep fried... how can you resist? This one in particular is my favorite - my Nani's recipe with a magic mix of ingredients - a sure hit with most guests.
Today is Mahashivratri - a day to eat the special meal my mom makes - it is fast-food heaven! especially for those who pretend to fast and eat twice as much (Ekadashi ani duppat khashi!)
Here are links to other fast-food favorites on my blog:
- Farali Sabudana Khichdi
- Ratalyacha sheera aka Ratalyacha kees (Sweet Potato Snack)
Time: Prep starts 4-6 hrs before (soak sabudana) and total time 1.5 hours or so
Ingredients: for 6-8 pieces
- 1 medium size yam grated
- 1.5 cup of Upvas Bhajani (for US/Canada you can buy here)
- a cup of finely chopped cilantro
- 2 small green chilies finely chopped
- 1 cup sabudana/sago soaked in minimal water for 4-6 hours
- 2 small potatoes boiled, peeled and cut into 1/4 inch cubes
- 1 cup of cooked varicha tandul aka bhagar aka "Samo" (સામો) or "Moriyo" (મોરિયો)
- 1 cup of roasted-peanut powder
- salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp chili powder (could use less if you don't want it spicy)
- 2 tsp sugar
Mix all the ingredients into a dough using minimal water. Here's an image of what the dough looks like:
Take a little bit of oil on your hand and spread it on a plastic sheet (I use a zip lock bag). Then take a ball of the dough - as big as a lemon and press evenly into a round-ish shape to make the thalipeeth. It shouldn't be as thick as a pancake, but not as thin as a dosa - somewhere in between. Make 2-3 holes on the thalipeeth to make it easy to cook and to add oil when it's on the griddle.
Cook it on a griddle or a tawa till it gets nice and crispy with a brown color on both sides. Enjoy with a sweet lemon pickle and yogurt!\


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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
What We Ate Wednesday
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Yum, salmon! Poppy, some days you are really missing out by not having a taste of human food! Although the Fancy Feast works too - and I think it is wise of your human to give you half a can, and much more economical!ReplyDelete
YAY! And Yum! Salmon is my fave fish! More food photos! More food photos!ReplyDelete
I grabbed a bowl of chili out of the freezer when I got home from Saint Augustine to let it defrost. Later I just zapped it in the microwave for a quick and sensible supper. It was yummy, too!
But now I want salmon for supper!
The Gs share one can of Fancy Feast between all 3 of them and I add an equal amount of water and stir it up good. They all polish their bowls!
Have a lovely day, ladies!
For Barb only ? What's about Me ?...yeah...yeah... I need to lose some weight . But seem you Rock, Miss Poppy !ReplyDelete
You are doing better me !
Because my food has been cut in half. I only eat my food ( for my urinary problem ), the doctor said mom can give me many times a day but only half of cup a day ! But my mom said the same thing it's good I don't waste any food. : )
I want some of that salmon too. Lucky me, the boys really aren't into people food. Your mum eats yummy, real food, Poppy--she's a smart cookie!ReplyDelete
Man, that salmon looks great! It's so expensive here... Does Poppy want salmon bites, too???ReplyDelete
Poppy Q - you are good to save half a tin. Our cats here seem to turn their noses up if they eat left overs the next day from a tin.ReplyDelete
Keep up the diet girls.
Love Leanne
hay....noe fair..ReplyDelete
poppy Q...yur mom haz salmon N while sure fancy feast IZ grate...itz knot fresh seared salmon.....
sum thinz knot rite heer.....
You strop ound pretty lucky food wise. We get one small can of Friskies split eight ways morning and evening. We're sure glad mom and dad leave dry food out for us or we'd be starving. Please don't forget to drop by and pick up up your award. Purrs and hugs, the kitties at www.thecatonmyhead.com, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Josette.ReplyDelete
We hope the only wastage is aroung your tummy! That meal looks yummy! Mom is hungry for Salmon, too!ReplyDelete
Good job Poppy! You'll be a shadow of your former self in no time, MOLReplyDelete
Mom says your mum's supper looks very yummy! We don't get to eat people food so we'll take her word for it.
Sasha, Sami, & Saku
We love our Fancy Feast! Mum puts out a can fir each of us some eat more some eat more but all gets eaten.ReplyDelete
Mum always thinks of Robert Burns Selkirk Grace when we eat.
Why does food always look so much more appetizing when served on Emma Bridgewater?
Mum never gives us a whole can of stinky goodness and what is left goes into the refrig until the next day.ReplyDelete
Mum says your mum's dinner looks nice.


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Nigeria's Super Falcons have rekindled the country's chances of qualifying for the next round in the ongoing FIFA Women World Cup in France with a 2-0 win over their South Korean counterparts.
Super Falcons first goal landed in the 29th minute via an own from Korean defender Kim Doyeon who kicked the ball into her own net following pressure from Super Falcons striker Desire Oparanozie.
Asisat Oshoala who plies her football trade with Barcelona FC scored the second goal in the 75th minute after a solo effort.
The Koreans, however, missed some scoring chances and the Thomas Dennerby tutored side was lucky not to have conceded in spite changing the first choice goalkeeper Tochukwu Oluehi.
The news Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Chiamaka Nnadozie took over in goal from Oluehi whose performance in the 0-3 loss against Norway in the first group encounter was below expectation.
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|Left: half a pump Right: blended out
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It was the phenomenon that swept the world, the number one app of all time, Angry Birds took over smartphones with its flightless birds trying to slingshot their way to heroism.
Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The first game in the series was initially released in December 2009 for Apple iOS. It has since created different themes from Rio to Star Wars.
In 2011 David Maisel, former chairman and founder of Marvel Studios, noticed his mother playing the addictive game.
"I got intrigued and after leaving Marvel, I thought it would be a great movie," Maisel said. "So I approached the owners, and we have been working the past five years to bring this movie to everybody."
"The Angry Birds Movie" takes us to Bird Island and we meet Red (Jason Sudeikis), a short-tempered children's entertainer, who ensues in an altercation, landing him in court. The judge rules the ultimate verdict, anger management classes with therapist Matilda (Maya Rudolph). Red meets his future sidekicks in therapy: speed demon Chuck (Josh Gad), possibly explosive Bomb (Tony McBride) and growling Terence (Sean Penn).
The script is filled with sarcasm, witty jokes, and an array of creative puns. Writer Jon Vitti ("The Simpsons," "Alvin and the Chipmunks") nails the gags precisely, and illustrates each character's personality humorously. Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, both make their directing debut for the film.
Tension hits when unsolicited visitors from Piggy Island, including their leader King Leonard (Bill Hader), assures the birds no harm is to be done. Red breaks everyone from reverence and questions the green pigs' objective. As users know, these squealing trespassers have their eye on one prize, the beloved eggs of expectant birds.
Red unites with Chuck and Bomb along with the support of the island to slingshot their way to Pig Island and fight to get the eggs back.
From the cast, script, and people behind this worldwide project The Angry Birds Movie brings together all audiences for a fun-filled film. It teaches kids great lessons from responsibility to teamwork. Its success from the smartphone executes perfectly on the big screen.
The film hits theaters May 20.
Here's a Q&A with the cast and team at the Los Angeles premiere:
- What makes Angry Bird different from any other animation movie?
John Cohen (Producer): It's a game, several games, downloaded over 3 billion times, people know these characters and have a familiarity with it. There was no mythology, nothing had been established, so it was our chance to create the origin on how this strange conflict came to exist.
Mikael Hed (Co-Creator of Angry Birds, Exec Producer): We designed the first game in a way that we wanted to allow it to be something more than a game. So when it took off, we started planning on what we wanted to do, I think we really found our own voice for the movie and that'll be quite obvious when you see it.
Josh Gad (Chuck): The story was so much bigger than an adaption of a game. It had a reason to exist, the characters were wonderful.
Fergal Reilly (Director): What we have done with the movie we have created, what were icons but now turned them into these great comedic personalities. We pushed the characters to a whole new level.
Tony Hale (Ross, Cyrus): I'm crazy about the angle they do with the anger management issues. I love how they deal with that, they try to work on their anger, but the pigs come along, and you know that doesn't help.
Bill Hader (Leonard): It's very irreverent, the comedy is that they allowed it to have its own comedic sensibility.
2. Do you relate to any characters featured in the film?
Gad: Chuck is at the other end of the spectrum he's a speed demon, been there, seen it, done that guy, he's kinda over it all. I loved being able to play that attitude.
Cohen: I relate to Red, he is a character that would say and do the things we wish we could in frustrating situations.
Catherine Winder (Producer): I relate to Matilda. As a producer I bring all sorts of personalities together and roll them to work on something and do great things, it's an interesting dynamic.
David Maisel (Exec. Producer): A little bit all of them, depends on the mood. Chuck has fun with his life, Red because we all get angry over certain things, and Bomb just wants to make friends.
3. Are you guilty of being one of the 3 billion users of the app?
Cohen: I am proud to be one of those 3 billion people to be addicted, it's an amazing t things. The hours of playing the game I can happily justify as research.
Gad: Very addicted to the Star Wars version, unhealthily addicted.
Reilly: I was addicted, in 2009, first came out on the iPhone. It was kinda amazing to get on the phone, I was interested in apps but this one stuck with me, to get the phone call to direct the movie with Clay this is synchronicity.
Hale: Very medicating game, whenever you're frustrated you just threw a bird into a pig.
4. Are there any games from your childhood you would want to make a movie of?
Hader: I didn't play a lot of games, I had no patience for it. I would get really frustrated when I would play as a kid, but I would say Contra.
Hale: Candy Land, because I have a big sweet tooth.
Reilly: Pokémon.
Winder: Yahtzee.
Hed: I have so many, but I would say Ultima 5.
Maisel: Angry Birds *laughs* I still feel like I'm a child.


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Joseph Lofthouse wrote:I'm only writing because you invited me to. Ordinarily I don't like to deal with these kinds of topics, because people don't like what I have to say... So my sincerest regards to Paul and his family before I begin. Best wishes on healing.
It looks to me, based on videos of Paul, that he eats a highly inflammatory diet. That's not unusual. It's pretty much the default diet in the usa. I ate that way myself until I decided that it didn't work for me to not be able to bend over to tie my shoes. The literature on diet seems pretty clear to me that the most significant factor leading to weight gain is the amount of carbohydrates eaten. There are two primary sources of carbohydrates in the typical american diet. First is refined sugars that are added to food. The second is wheat. Not eating those two foods can go a long way towards lowering a person's inflammation and also weight. Thinner people tend to feel better and get along easier in life. It's my opinion, that many of the health problems that people face in the usa can be directly attributed to being overweight. And being overweight is most straight forwardly attributed to eating sugar and wheat. Take it for what it's worth, the opinion of a fit and trim farmer that used to be an overweight and unhealthy chemist besieged by aches and pains.
In my own life, wheat is highly inflammatory. By that I mean it causes me to bloat up. If I eat a sandwich today, I'll gain 7 pounds of water by tomorrow. If I eat wheat 3 days in a row I max out at about 15 pounds of added water weight. Additionally, I get throbbing muscle aches, and joint aches. Not from working hard, or anything like that. Just plain old achy nerves, muscles, and joints for no discernible reason other than pigging out on wheat.
In my own life, to avoid inflammation, I avoid refined sugars, refined oils other than olive and coconut, wheat, and dairy. I eat inflammatory meats from feed-lot cows. I think that I'd be better off eating grass-only beef. But we make our choices and live with the consequences. I avoid eating processed foods, or foods from a box, because they contain so many ingredients that I believe cause me to experience inflammation. If it's a whole food, and I can tell what species it is, then it's good to eat. If it's a sauce, or a bread, or a blend, or a paste, and I can't tell what species it is, then I really don't want to eat it. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I suffer because of it.
When I stopped eating wheat, I didn't replace it with anything else... Instead of eating spaghetti and meat balls, I'd eat meat-balls in spaghetti sauce. Instead of eating a sandwich, I'd toss the insides onto a plate and eat it as a salad. Instead of making stews thickened with flour, I'd blend up a potato, or eat a soup instead of a stew. I stopped eating refined sugar decades ago, so I don't remember much about that.
I really enjoy fasting. A few days per week, a few weeks per year, etc. It really helps with weight control. And it helps me to not be a slave to the dinner table or to carbohydrates. I train my body to live off the stored fat. I train my mind that it's OK.
In the short term, marijuana and alcohol can be useful for soothing temporary aches and pains. I agree completely with the suggestions already given of light massage, and herbs like ginger and turmeric. I make a point of getting routine massage. I drink an anti-inflammatory infusion most every day, and add lots of anti-inflammatory herbs to my food.
People give a lot of food to me that I consider to be highly inflammatory. (That's my kind words. My inner grump calls it poison.) The food makes great compost. The microbes don't seem to mind.
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In the short term, marijuana and alcohol can be useful for soothing temporary aches and pains.
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In the short term, marijuana and alcohol can be useful for soothing temporary aches and pains.
Ugh no! marijuana maybe but alcohol promotes inflammation.
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And the story continues.
"Fast Five" is the latest installment of the "Fast and the Furious" series of movies.
The story picks up from "Fast and Furious" where Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is sentenced to life in prison without parole as Brain O'Connor (Paul Walker) walks away in disgust as his efforts as a law enforcement officer fails to limit his friend's punishment.
"Fast and Furious" ends with the street gang speeding toward the prison bus where Dominic is in and the movie cuts—leaving fans of the franchise in anxious to know what happens next.
Fans flooded movie theaters across the country as the film made $86 million in its first weekend.
Dominic, Brian and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) flee to Rio de Janeiro, to hide, where they meet up with an old friend, Vincent (Matt Schulze) who has not been heard from since the first movie.
Vincent tells his old friends he landed in Rio after free-falling through South America until he met his wife and had a son who he named after Dominic.
Before Dominic shows up in Rio de Janeiro, Brian and Mia accepts a job Vincent had set up with the richest man in Rio, Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), where they will assist in stealing luxury cars from a passing train.
The cars are seized by the U.S. and are being transferred but the job goes bad when Dominic shows up on the train and has other plans for what they want to do with the cars.
In the scene three U.S. agents were killed after they tried stopping the robbery. The killings set up the entrance of Dwayne Johnson.
Johnson plays Luke Hobbs, a U.S. Diplomatic Security special agent, who is in Rio with a special tactics force team tracking down Dominic's crew.
That alone is enough action for one movie but all this occurs in the first 10 minutes of the movie and there is a lot more to go in the next 100 minutes of the film.
Unlike the other "Fast and the Furious" movies, "Fast Five" brings the key actors from all the movies together to do one big job which is supposed to be the final job—which later may seem not the case.
Either way, the three are in a big mess and are being chased by Hobbs and Reyes' gang because for what Dominic did back at the train.
Dominic and Brian round up a serious crew which includes Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) from "2 Fast 2 Furious," and Han (Sung Hang), Gisele (Gal Gadol), Santos (Don Omar) and Leo (Tego Calderon) from "Fast and Furious."
The team is assembled to steal every penny from Reyes, but there is one small problem: Reyes has every cop under his payroll and his money is in a huge secured safe inside the police station.
This is where "Fast Five" returns to its roots: Dominic and Brian turn to illegal street racing to find cars fast enough to pull off the mission and get away with the money.
The downside to this scene is that the director does not show the audience the street races but there is a lot more that makes up for this disappointment including a scene where Dominic, Brain, Roman Pearce and Tej are at a red light with four stolen police cars and they race down a busy street with the sirens and lights on.
One thing that may seem different about "Fast Five" is that as a fan of all the movies, a person may feel as if they are a part of the crew because the characters think back from moments of the past movies.
The crew jokes with one another and do a lot of things where as a fan can pick up on the inside jokes and say "hey I remember when they said that or did that in one of the previous movies."
"Fast Five" reveals a lot more about the main characters while fans of the franchise leave the movie theater asking more questions and anticipating for what is to come in the next film of the series.


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Chemical Management
Draw A Line In The Fescue
Converting pastures from Kentucky 31 tall fescue to a novel endophyte grass is an expense few operations can justify as markets tighten. On the other hand, fescue toxicosis is a real and costly side of exposure to the forage during certain times of the year.
Dick and Betty Bryan live in Wellston, Oklahoma, a part of the country where, historically speaking, fescue toxicosis has not been much of a concern. But, the changing landscape is bringing a new set of production concerns to ranchers.
The Bryans noticed subtle changes at first. Tall fescue seemed to be encroaching during the last 10 years, crowding out bermudagrass in their owned and rented pastures. There were also changes in their 250-head commercial Angus-cross cow herd.
Betty notes as fescue increased, they began to see fuzzy-hair coats year-round, more foot problems, lower conception rates and even lost tail switches. Their bulls, of which there are 16, were some of the first to show noticeable setbacks, including lost weight.
The producers were concerned their only option to turn back the clock would be a big tank of glyphosate. Then, Betty read about a way to manage tall fescue using a different herbicide that would suppress seed head development in the forage. She was encouraged. Dick was hopeful but frankly felt it was too easy a fix.
Without much to lose, the two decided to try Chaparral on 65 acres last year. The easiest way to judge the outcome of that one application is to report the Bryans will spray more than 200 acres of tall fescue with the herbicide this year.
"It was totally amazing how well it worked," Betty says. "What we found really interesting was that where we stopped spraying, it was like there was an imaginary line. On one side, you had fescue with seed heads, on the other, fescue without. And the cows grazed like there was an electric fence right there, eating where we sprayed and stopping where we didn't."
Betty says conception rates are back to nearly 100% after dropping to 75%. Calves look good, with birthweights between 75 and 100 pounds, weaning weights at 650 pounds.
Magic Of Management.
The Bryans' experience proves tall fescue can be managed, says Scott Flynn, field scientist with Dow AgroSciences. But he notes every scenario is different, and there are some cases where chemical suppression won't be the best option—notably in mixed-clover pastures (where the herbicide will kill the clover) or for those growing forage for hay.
For many cow/calf producers and stockers, though, management through suppression offers a cost-effective option to conversion. It returns money producers are losing to the endophyte in poor herd health, reduced conception and lower gains.
The program is pretty straightforward. Three weeks prior to seed head emergence (up to boot stage), broadcast Chaparral at a rate of 2 ounces per acre. Add 0.25% nonionic surfactant, no additions, no substitutions. This should not be used with other herbicides or on thin stands of fescue. The label allows application of a 28 to 32% solution of urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) at the same time.
Flynn advises producers to treat no more than half of total fescue acres and graze the untreated fescue first until seed heads emerge. Then, rotate cattle to treated fields, which will remain in a high-quality vegetative state throughout the typical summer slump.
According to Chaparral's label, the herbicide also controls a variety of winter annuals, early-season broadleafs and some species that emerge after an application for seed head suppression would be made. Together, these include: buttercup, poison hemlock, biennial musk, bull and plumeless thistle, wild carrot, buckbrush, ragweed, cocklebur, chicory and horsenettle.
It's normal after the Chaparral is applied for fescue to yellow, a condition that can last a couple of weeks. Treated fescue will also look different, with fewer stems and more leaves.
This will not cure or eliminate fescue toxicosis, Flynn explains. Rather, it suppresses seed head growth, which is where the toxic endophyte is found in three times greater concentrations than in the leaf blades. Without seed heads, the overall ergot alkaloid (toxin) loads in cattle from fescue are reduced, nutrition in the forage is maintained at high, vegetative levels, and cattle performance improves. The suppression also supports more forage diversity by reducing competition.
Herd Benefits.
Multiple research trials going back to the early 1990s have documented the negative impacts of endophyte-infected tall fescue on cattle. These include: 15 to 40% reduction in pregnancy rates; 25% reduction in milk production; a 65- to 85-pound decrease in weaning weights; 20% less time spent grazing; 25 to 40% less forage intake; decreased average daily gains (ADGs) of 0.3 to 1.2 pounds; 25% more water use; and a 1 to 4ºF higher body temperature.
Flynn says crude protein levels on Chaparral-treated fescue were 40% higher in June when compared to untreated tall fescue; dry matter digestibility was 11% higher; and water-soluble carbohydrates were 9% higher. Thanks to increased grazing and improved nutrition, stocker steers showed higher ADG on Chaparral-treated tall fescue—2.1 pounds compared to 1.48 pounds. Crude protein on the Chaparral pastures was 14.4%; on the untreated, 11.6%.
For cow/calf producers, cow pregnancy rates showed improvements: 89% on Chaparral-treated fescue pastures compared to 80% on untreated. Average body condition held at 5 to 5.5, and cows weaned heavier calves, on average 17 to 55 pounds more for those in Chaparral pastures, indicating milk production was not an issue.
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University of Missouri forage specialist Craig Roberts says the fight to control seed heads on tall fescue is a long one. Manual controls like clipping or harvesting have been used for generations, and they do work to reduce toxicity of the forage.
About 20 years ago, he recalls some producers were using plant growth regulators labeled for the turf industry to manage tall fescue. Today, it's low-rate herbicide applications that are gaining in popularity, specifically Chaparral, by Dow AgroSciences.
"Here in Missouri, in the middle of the fescue belt, by the first week of May, we are seeing fescue reach boot stage. There is a seed head in the stem, but it has not emerged. Early May through mid-June, it spreads out, and the seeds begin to fill. They fill with the endophyte that is toxic to animals.
"If you can prevent seed head development, you've done quite a bit to prevent toxicity up through about October. So this is a significant thing," he explains.
He adds this may offer a good option for producers who want to convert to novel endophyte fescue. By using the herbicide the season prior to reduce seed heads, producers can cut back the amount of seed forming and dropping into the top half-inch of the soil, nature's seedbank.
Overall, while the specialist says Chaparral is a good tool to reduce toxicity from green up through early October, he stresses it's important to consider a couple of points.
First, Roberts says it's unclear what the impact may be of using the system year after year on the same field. Second, he notes this is not a magic wand that permanently eliminates toxins in fescue.
By October, even with seed head suppression, tall fescue, unless it's a novel endophyte, is absolutely toxic, Roberts says.
"This won't do anything for fall toxicity. October through December, you still have the ergot alkaloids in the base of that plant, and it is toxic. So, yes, it helps in the spring and the summer, but after that, you still have to manage around fescue toxicosis."
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Globalization Neuroscience Dostoyevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyDiscussions on television interview shows such as "Charlie Rose" or radio talk shows on NPR and PRI, always veer back to the "trisection" of globalization/American hegemony, evolutionary biology/neuroscience and history.
If you think of the recent "Charlie Rose" shows on TV with biologists James Watson and E.O.Wilson as guests, you will notice how discussions keep hovering around this trisection and no one sees that all of this was foreseen clearly by world-and-soul watchers of yesteryear such as Dostoyevsky.
Biologistic views of the world are old hat, something such August 2006 proponents don't grasp.
Watson/Wilson views represent a kind of biologistic "knot in a labyrinth" and are not the ultimate insight that Watson and Wilson think they have in hand.
All of these topics of August 2006, as sorted out or knotted up on TV and radio, were anticipated and adumbrated by Dostoyevsky's fictional characters, such as Rakitin the materialist, in The Brothers Karamazov.
Part IV.
Book XI: Ivan
Chapter 4: A Hymn and a Secret
"Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head -- that is, these nerves are there in the brain... (damn them!) there are sort of little tails, the little tails of those nerves, and as soon as they begin quivering... that is, you see, I look at something with my eyes and then they begin quivering, those little tails... and when they quiver, then an image appears... it doesn't appear at once, but an instant, a second, passes... and then something like a moment appears; that is, not a moment -- devil take the moment! -- but an image; that is, an object, or an action, damn it!
That's why I see and then think, because of those tails, not at all because I've got a soul, and that I am some sort of image and likeness. All that is nonsense! Rakitin explained it all to me yesterday, brother, and itsimply bowled me over. It's magnificent, Alyosha, this science! A new man's arising- that I understand.... And yet I am sorry to lose God!"
It's chemistry, brother, chemistry!
There's no help for it, your reverence, you must make way for chemistry.
"What of brother Ivan?" interrupted Alyosha, but Mitya did not hear.
"You see, I never had any of these doubts before, but it was all hidden away in me. It was perhaps just because ideas I did not understand were surging up in me, that I used to drink and fight and rage. It was to stifle them in myself, to still them, to smother them. Ivan is not Rakitin, there is an idea in him. Ivan is a sphinx and is silent; he is always silent. It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist?
What if Rakitin's right -- that it's an idea made up by men? Then if He doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe.
Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God? That's the question. I always come back to that. For whom is man going to love then? To whom will he be thankful? To whom will he sing the hymn? Rakitin laughs. Rakitin says that one can love humanity without God. Well, only a snivelling idiot can maintain that. I can't understand it. Life's easy for Rakitin. 'You'd better think about the extension of civic rights, or even of keeping down the price of meat. You will show your love for humanity more simply and directly by that, than by philosophy.' I answered him, 'Well, but you, without a God, are more likely to raise the price of meat, if it suits you, and make a rouble on every copeck.' He lost his temper. But after all, what is goodness? Answer me that, Alexey. Goodness is one thing with me and another with a Chinaman, so it's a relative thing. Or isn't it? Is it not relative? A treacherous question! You won't laugh if I tell you it's kept me awake two nights. I only wonder now how people can live and think nothing about it. Vanity! Ivan has no God. He has an idea. It's beyond me. But he is silent. I believe he is a Freemason. I asked him, but he is silent. I wanted to drink from the springs of his soul- he was silent. But once he did drop a word."
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Krasotkin & Ayn Rand
The Brothers Karamazov contains many echoes of the literature of the 1860's. At one point Madame Khokhlakova quotes Bazarov, when she comments that she had always believed there would be nothing after death, that "'a thistle would sprout on my grave', as a certain author once put it" (XIV:52). Two further points are worth noting in this connection. First, in 1876, at the very time he began creating The Brothers Karamazov in his mind, Dostoevsky thought briefly of writing a novel with exactly the same title as Turgenev's (Ottsy i deti), although the book's content apparently would have been quite different. (5) And second, Maxim Antonovich, the radical critic whose most famous single piece of literary criticism was probably his intemperate attack of 1862 on Fathers and Sons, devoted his literary swan-song to a long review of 1881 denouncing The Brothers Karamazov as a "mystic-ascetic novel."(6)
Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done?, the greatest single influence on the radical generation of the 1860's, is the source of several echoes in The Brothers Karamazov. Thus the young socialist Kolya Krasotkin tells Alesha that he is an "egotist", i.e. an adherent of the doctrine of enlightened egotism which Chernyshevsky elaborated in his novel (XIV:483); and toward the end of The Brothers Karamazov Dmitry speaks to Alesha of going off to America with Grusha for three years or so in order to learn English and then return as Americans, much as Lopukhov does in What Is To Be Done? (XV:186).
The Brothers Karamazov also contains a running polemic with Dostoevsky's great ideological opponent of the 1860's, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. At one point the gushing Madame Khokhlakova talks of Shchedrin as her mentor in the matter of feminine emancipation: she had recently, she says, dispatched to him a brief note with the text:
"I embrace and kiss you, my writer, on behalf of contemporary womankind, keep it up," and signed it: "a mother." (XIV:350). Here Dostoevsky twits Saltykov by asserting that his most ardent followers are flighty, brainless females. At another point later in the novel Dostoevsky distorted some of Saltykov's writings of 1875 through paraphrase (XV:78). Saltykov, incidentally, followed these details quite closely, and was quick to reply to his old opponent. Such muted polemics were not the most important part of the novel, of course, although they are strongly reminiscent of the 1860's.
As in Dostoevsky's earlier and more overtly antinihilist novels, the characters of The Brothers Karamazov are divided into those who exist on a more superficial, political level, and those who embody more profoundly metaphysical problems. In Crime and Punishment Lebezyatnikov serves as an example of the first category, Raskolnikov and Svidrigaylov of the second. In The Idiot the first category is represented by Burdovsky and the young radicals gathered about him. In The Possessed Petr Verkhovensky is a very well-developed example of the first grouping, while Stavrogin is a most powerful example of the second. In The Brothers Karamazov we find an entire constellation of figures who fall into the first category. Adelaida Miusova and then Madame Khokhlakova are samples of the scatterbrained emancipated female; Petr Miusov is the fashionable anti-clerical activist; Smerdyakov has grown up as a committed nihilist, and a dangerous one as well, for he is capable not just of murder but of parricide; and thedivinity student Rakitin spreads his evil intellectual influence throughout the novel, all the way down to Kolya Krasotkin, who admires Rakitin as his teacher and openly declares his socialist convictions. And then, in the second category, there is the great metaphysical figure of Ivan Karamazov. Ivan not only - in his "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor" - recasts Shigalev's doctrines on the dominion of the enlightened few over the innumerable herd in religious terms, but he and Alesha also grapple with the central religious question of Dostoevsky's world.
The globalization phenomenon:
"Mankind as a whole," Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, "has always striven to organize a universal state." In his novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoyevsky maintained that the great conquerors - Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, etc. - were manifestations of that craving for universalunity.
Whether that's the case or not, many authors have exploredthat theme, and, invariably, most of them depicted it as a nightmare - think of George Orwell's "1984," Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We."
As for the reality, that's been worse than fiction. In the 20th century, those who sought to impose universal government unleashed such suffering that words and images can only hint at their monstrosity. Mercifully, the political systems they created are dead.
Yet now, in one of history's great paradoxes, the free enterprise system has created what Lenin, Hitler and others failed to achieve: a universal state of sorts, consisting of giant multinational corporations, multilateral financial and political institutions, and the worldwide communications web.
The phenomenon known as "globalization" makes it possible for a gargantuan ship built in the Netherlands and registered in Panama to bring Saudi oil to Texas refineries that provide gasoline for cars assembled in Japan, Korea or Germany. The drivers, wearing clothes sewn in Singapore from Australian cotton might be listening to an Argentine tenor singing Italian arias recorded on a magnetic cassette made in Mexico and played on a tape deck assembled in China. In another car, the driver might be using a Finnish cell phone to tell a broker in New York to buy stocks in a Canadian company that does business in Brazil.
This phenomenon, this "globalization," is utterly staggering, and, predictably, it's engendered its critics. The annual meetings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the G-7 (plus Russia) provide a forum for demonstrations and riots, although, in fairness, the vast majority of protesters are peaceful and raise legitimate concerns about human rights, labor conditions, the global environment, poverty and disease. Scores of international alphabet agencies - the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, UNESCO, UNICEF, etc. - try to address them, with uneven success, but the fact is, for better or worse, we live in a global society.
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Arcaplanet Group, a company owned by the Permira Funds and by management, announced that it will sign an agreement to acquire Mondial Pet Distribution, a company owned by the Pautassi family and by Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, which controls Fortesan, a specialized retail chain operating in the same sector
Arcaplanet Group, founded in 1995 by CEO Michele Foppiani, manages 210 stores with over 10,000 SKUs, ranging from pet food and accessories to healthcare products. The Group has also developed its portfolio of owned brands, such as Start, Expecial, Next, HiFish and, more recently, Virtus. Since 2014, Arcaplanet also operates through its own e-commerce site. In 2016, Arcaplanet posted revenue of €169 million (+23% compared to 2015), with over 1,000 employees
Fortesan, founded in the late 90s by Vittorio Pautassi, currently operates through a network of 69 stores, in addition to its e-commerce channel. Over the years, the Company has developed a broad range of owned branded products able to meet the needs of its customers who are increasing their spending for the wellbeing of their pets. In 2016, Fortesan posted revenues of €50 million (+19% compared to 2015)
The combined Group will have approximately 280 stores located across 15 Italian regions and will continue its ambitious growth path. The transaction is subject to approval from the Italian Antitrust Authority
"We are delighted with our expansion path – said Michele Foppiani, founder and CEO of Arcaplanet – and the important agreement reached with Fortesan allows us to further strengthen our presence on the market; we are the third player in the sector at European level"
"We are proud to have reached an agreement with Arcaplanet – said Vittorio Pautassi, founder and Chairman of Mondial Pet Distribution – and the combination of the two pet care chains will further boost growth, in a market in which the ability to support investments will be essential"
"We are very proud of having contributed, in partnership with Michele Foppiani and Arcaplanet team, to accelerating the Group's development. Since our funds' investment in June 2016 – Fabrizio Carretti, Partner and Head of Permira Italy, said – Arcaplanet Group has successfully completed 3 acquisitions: Zoomarketshop (Sardinia), Country Shop (Turin and its province) and now Fortesan"
"We strongly believe in this integration project – Massimo Massari and Luca Ravano, Partners of Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, commented – and in the further development opportunities of Arcaplanet Group. Therefore, we have decided to remain invested in the project together with Michele Foppiani, his team and the Permira Funds. A special thanks goes to Vittorio Pautassi, his family and his team for the great work done so far in developing the company"


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AT-KABUL: At least 11 anti-Taliban uprising members were killed and six others wounded after the insurgent group attacked center of the pro-government militia in southern Ghazni province.
Spokesman to the provincial governor Shafiq Nang said that Taliban attacked center of the uprising movement in Qal-e-Gardezi area of Andar district last night.
He said that shortly after the attack Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) reached the area to support the militiamen surrounded by the militants. Seven Taliban were killed and four others injured in the clash between security forces and insurgents, he said.
He reiterated that ANSF will support the uprising movements and would protect the anti-Taliban groups.


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Harry is here again this time with his Friday word of the day, Elaborate! Involving many carefully arranged parts or details,detailed and complicated in design and planning for example; elaborate security precautions elaborate chocolate cake See if you can try to use…Read More
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NASA and the Agriculture Department are set to ink an interagency research agreement on Earth science and agriculture.
The partnership is meant to establish a collaboration framework in Earth science research, technology, agricultural management and agricultural application of science data, models and technology, NASA said Monday.
NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman and USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden will hold a media briefing on Thursday at NASAâs Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, after they sign the agreement.
Both agencies intend for the alliance to jointly work on education and communication activities and promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers among the youth.


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Meet Poo and Pee. Metro Vancouver introduces mascots in campaign against improper flushing
Products don't break down quickly enough and can damage municipal sewers and your pipes
The regional government of Canada's third-largest metropolitan area has launched a video campaign introducing mascots Poo and Pee to drive home a message about improper flushing.
The costumed mascots are part of Metro Vancouver's annual Unflushables campaign to remind people about items that should not be flushed because they can clog city sewers and your pipes.
Problem items that can lead to trouble with municipal and residential pipes when flushed include dental floss, hair, paper towels, tampons and applicators, as well as condoms, according to the regional government.
Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart, the chair of the region's utilities commission, was present April 1 for an event with the mascots at Waterfront station in Vancouver.
Video of the event was posted this week.
Poo and Pee starring in: we're all you can flush
"Our sewage system doesn't get enough respect," said Stewart as mascot Pee danced behind him.
"We want people only to flush the pee and the poo, because there's a whole bunch of stuff that gets flushed down the toilet that doesn't belong there."
The 2019 campaign is reminding people that many products labelled "flushable" actually leave unfortunate, long-lasting deposits in the local sewer system.
Metro Vancouver cited research by Ryerson University that found only 11 of 101 tested "flushable" products actually met international flushable specifications. And those products were all toilet paper.
- So long, Frozen John: a moose with attitude is coming for the job of Fort St. John's official mascot
A spokesperson for Metro Vancouver said the costumes cost less than $10,000 to make. The cost of improper items being flushed, he added, adds up to $250 million across Canada.
This is not the first time dress-up droppings have been used in a campaign for sewage awareness.
In Victoria, Mr. Floatie was an ignominious icon protesting the Capital Regional District's decades-long practice of dumping raw sewage into its surrounding waters.
James Skwarok, who invented and had portrayed Mr. Floatie since 2004 retired his alter-ego in 2017 once construction was underway on the region's new sewage treatment plant.


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Yesterday, a Second Circuit appeals court handed down a decision that delighted tech geeks and enraged giant media companies like CBS, Comcast, Disney, and Cablevision.
The decision was about Aereo, a year-old start-up, backed by media mogul Barry Diller, that allows users to stream live network TV to their phones, tablets, and other devices. It's a simple-sounding concept, but like many Silicon Valley brainchildren, it has an element of subversion to it. And naturally, media conglomerates sued the bejeezus out of Aereo in an attempt to shut it down.
Here, briefly, is how Aereo works: You pay $8-ish a month, and get assigned a mini-antenna, roughly the size of a dime, that is located in a warehouse in Brooklyn. Aereo has thousands of these antennas, each of which is assigned to a single user and connected to a single DVR-like device. When you want to watch, let's say, "The Voice," Aereo's app pulls the show from your antenna, streams it to your device, and makes a copy that is only viewable by you. If 40,000 other Aereo users are watching "The Voice" at the same time, there will be 40,000 dime-sized antennas streaming 40,000 identical copies of the show onto 40,000 devices and into 40,000 DVRs.
If that sounds absurd, it's because Aereo's entire business model is based on a legal head-fake. Under copyright law, 40,000 people with their own antennas can watch TV at home for free, but if you want to have one giant antenna that picks up TV shows and distributes them to an audience of 40,000 people, the law calls that a "public performance," and you have to pay a copyright fee to do it. Aereo didn't want to pay those fees, so it figured out a way to make what is essentially a simultaneous mass broadcast look like lots of little broadcasts.
Aereo's mini-antenna strategy is a genius end-run around copyright law, but it's hard to see how it passes the smell test. In fact, the entire thing is so ludicrous and overly technical that it seems like something a bored law student would cook up. It's as if you got around a local ordinance prohibiting public rallies of more than 1,000 people by organizing 1,000 simultaneous, coordinated rallies of one person each.
Time and time again, courts have shut down or otherwise ruled against schemes similar to Aereo's. In 2011, a federal judge put the brakes on Zediva, a DVD rental service that, instead of mailing you DVDs or streaming them to your TV à la Netflix, would place the DVDs you requested in a physical DVD player at its office, then stream that player's output to you over the Internet. Twenty years earlier, courts ruled that a hotel could not legally run a video-on-demand service that consisted of a bunch of VCRs in their equipment room, which were wired to in-room TVs.
The legal precedent set by those cases should have made deciding against Aereo easy. And yet, by a 2-to-1 vote, the start-up got its way.
The one person on the Second Circuit's three-judge panel who threw up a red flag was Denny Chin, who wrote a scathing dissent calling the company "a sham." He wrote:
The system employs thousands of individual dime-sized antennas, but there is no technologically sound reason to use a multitude of tiny individual antennas rather than one central antenna; indeed, the system is a Rube Goldberg-like contrivance, over-engineered in an attempt to avoid the reach of the Copyright Act and to take advantage of a perceived loophole in the law.
I would have sided with Judge Chin. It's possible to argue that America's copyright system is a chaotic, outdated mess, and that the laws that treat broadcast TV like other forms of copyrighted content should be changed anyway. But that's a policy judgment, not a legal one. And within the existing framework, it's hard to see Aereo's mini-antennas as a legitimate and legal solution.
For now, though, Aereo has gotten a lucky break in the courts. Chalk one up for the disrupters of tech, and one more for their exceedingly clever lawyers.


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The good folk of the Chase Inn at Newtown, Brownhills have been in touch to let me know that there's live music and Halloween fun with a free entry fancy dress disco at the popular Brownhills pub tonight (Saturday 29th October 2016), with live music on stage from rock covers band Dark Page live from 8pm until late.
You can check out if the band's Facebook page is dark here.
For a gentle come-down on Sunday, don't forget acoustic whizz Dan Firman is on from 3:00 to 7:00pm tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, 30th October 2016).
Why not get down there? You're guaranteed an excellent time…
For the satnav folk, the address is: 6 Watling Street, Newtown, Brownhills WS8 6JS
You can contact the pub on: 01543 899568 or visit their Facebook page.


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A Great Wall: Obama Tours China's Iconic Site
President Obama absorbed history's expanse Wednesday from atop the Great Wall of China, a manmade wonder of such enormity that Obama found himself putting daily life in perspective.
"It's magical," Obama said, walking down a ramp alone, his hands in his pockets. "It reminds you of the sweep of history and our time here on earth is not that long. We better make the best of it."
A must-see for presidents from President Richard Nixon on, the Great Wall was one of Obama's major sightseeing stops during his diplomatic tour of Asia. He later traveled to Seoul, South Korea, the final stop of his eight-day trip.
Dressed in a winter jacket against a biting wind at the Great Wall, Obama led a knot of people for a half-hour jaunt up the crenelated wall toward a watchtower, a restored section originally built 500 years ago.
Obama walked down the last ramp by himself in a choreographed moment for photographers. White House aides were exultant afterward that "the shot" they had planned turned out perfectly.
The earliest sections of the wall were built more than 2,000 years ago. From the portion where Obama stood, the mountainside vistas were majestic.
Obama's tourism breaks at the Great Wall and the Forbidden City's former imperial palaces on Tuesday were the only diversions on an eight-day Asia trip meant to show U.S. reengagement with the region.
Obama sought to reassure allies in Japan and Southeast Asia - a mission he would continue in South Korea later Wednesday. In China, he tried to lend positive momentum to relations with the new world power and potential rival.
Stops at landmark tourist sites used to be — and often still are - compulsory for foreign dignitaries visiting China. Nixon's foreign affairs strategist Henry Kissinger suspected his Chinese hosts scheduled sightseeing to drag out his time — and perhaps drag out concessions.
History matters to the Chinese, who take pride in being heirs to a civilization of 4,000-plus years and believe the past offers insights into their present.
The head of China's legislature, Wu Bangguo, told Obama on Monday, "In China, there is a saying that if you want to appreciate the history of China in the past 100 years, go to Shanghai; in the past 1,000 years, come to Beijing; and for the past 2,000 years, go to Xi'an" - the imperial capital of China's first emperor and later dynasties.
Obama replied that he was impressed with the dynamism of Shanghai, where he held a town hall-style meeting with Chinese youth Monday and which, he said, is "a sign of China's emergence as a great economic power." His rapid 30-minute run through the vast Forbidden City on Tuesday was "a reminder of the incredible traditions and heritage of the Chinese people."
After the Wall, Obama headed for South Korea, his first visit to the country. How to coax nuclear-armed North Korea to return to disarmament talks is the top issue for Obama's meetings Thursday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in the capital, Seoul.
A longtime U.S. ally whose president is strongly pro-U.S., South Korea looks in many ways like the easiest part of Obama's Asia's swing.
Obama and Lee have taken a skeptical view of North Korea's recent conciliatory rhetoric to resume negotiations over its nuclear program, only weeks after it exploded a nuclear test-device and test-fired missiles. Last week, the North and South Korean navies skirmished in disputed waters for the first time in seven years, sending a North Korean patrol boat retreating in flames.
The clash was a reminder that the Korean Peninsula remains a volatile flash-point for the United States, which fought North Korean and Chinese forces to a standstill in the 1950-53 Korean War.
This program aired on November 18, 2009. The audio for this program is not available.


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If you've been following me for long, you know solo travel changed my life and made me who I am today! It's why I started my blog, how I found my self-confidence, and helped me find my passion. I've written about solo travel plenty of times, but often I think it helps to know what to expect when you travel. So I came up with this quick list for just what to expect when you strike out on your first solo trip!
1. Expect to Feel Overwhelmed
It's less overwhelming if you expect to be overwhelmed! Thoughts that may go through your head may be, "I can't handle this!" or "What if I forget to board my plane?!" or "What was I thinking?!" But seriously, you can handle it! People literally travel solo every day, and they make it through. No matter where you go, people actually live there their whole lives, and they survive! So will you. When you start to feel overwhelmed, just remember that no matter what, you can do it!
Read on: How to Travel Safely
2. Expect to Get Lost
It happens to the best of us! I remember getting lost in Ise City, Japan, where I lived for a summer in college. It was dark, I was hungry, and I had no idea how I was getting back to my apartment! I didn't even have a map of the town! So I went to a restaurant, got some food, and asked for directions. And I made it! You can, too. Just expect to get lost, know how to read a map, and don't be afraid to ask for directions! Even if you don't speak the local language, you'll be surprised at how much you can communicate with hand motions and drawing on paper napkins!
Read on: How to Read a Map
3. Expect Things to go Wrong—and be Prepared to Roll with It!
Much like getting lost, other things will go wrong, too. Your flight might get delayed or cancelled, your airport pick-up may not show up, or there might be a strike that has public transportation stopped indefinitely! All these things and more are just part of the adventure. Have a backup plan if you can, and if you can't, just make it up as you go! The one thing that's off limits is panicking… so don't panic!
Read on: Solo Travel Mishaps
4. Expect to Cry a Little Bit
I've been traveling solo for 14 years now, and I usually end up in tears at least once per trip! It's not that I don't like to travel solo, it's just me. Maybe you're not a crier, or maybe you're a big baby. Embrace it! Feel all the feelings. No one is there to see or judge—that's the beauty of solo travel!
Read on: Confessions of a Solo Female Traveler
5. Expect People to be Helpful
People are nice everywhere. Truly! Solo travel restores my faith in humanity because I always meet people who want to help me, want to chat with me, want to tell me the best local things to do and eat and see. It's fantastic! You'll meet other solo travelers, locals your age, local old folks, and people who do or don't speak your native language, and you will make friends if you want to.
Read on: 5 Reasons to Travel Solo
6. Expect to Find Your Confidence
Nothing has given me more confidence in myself than solo travel. The realization that I can do it, I can take care of myself, and I can make it after all! I would venture to say most solo travelers feel the same. Traveling by yourself inevitably proves your own capabilities—not to anyone else so much as to yourself! And what may be more important than that is the likelihood that you'll start to appreciate yourself, too.
Read on: 6 Solo Travel Experiences to Have
7. Expect to Love It!
You can absolutely expect to love traveling solo! You'll come home a changed person with a list of places you want to go next. You'll tell everyone about it and irritate the very snot out of them, and you'll love it! People will be jealous, but you can let it roll off your back with your new-found confidence.
Read on: Solo Travel and Responding to Naysayers
Curious for more solo trip ideas, tips, hacks, and inspiration? Head over to my Solo Travel Page!
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The preparations for the 2018 Fairpark Community Celebration of Spring and Plant Sale are underway, scheduled for May 5, 2018 at the Northwest Community Center.
We are starting some varieties of peppers and tomatoes that we didn't start last year, so keep your eyes open for our Catalog, which should be on the website by around March 15th. This year the big event will be on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo), so mark your calendars!
This has been the mildest winter out of the last five winters at least, maybe longer. Die back on unprotected fig trees didn't happen in Salt Lake valley this year. Speaking of Figs, at this year's plant sale we are going to have three varieties available as rooted starts to plant here in our community. Also new to the plant sale will be some heirloom varieties of apple and pear trees as well as Aronia berry plants. It seemed like it was about time to start offering some perennial food producers in our community event. We will also have more varieties of FREE seeds for things like lettuce, spinach, beans, cucumbers, squashes and more. We provide the free seeds only on the day of the event, and not with pre-orders.
We are looking for some help with putting on workshops and answering questions for beginner gardeners, so if you are an experienced gardener or know someone that is, we would sure appreciate your help on the day of the event to help answer people's questions.
There will be a lot of opportunities to volunteer to help with growing over 4,000 starter plants this year, so please reach out if you are interested. Write to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 801-502-1991 to find out why and when volunteers are needed.


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12 New Tripleseat Features Updates For Our Friends
Welcome to one of our biggest releases ever with over 12 (!) new updates. Crazy I know. Tripleseat continues to be the undisputed leader in Event Management Software (EMS) and this new release proves it.
1. European Dates
If you've wanted to set up your account in a dd.mm.yyyy format, you can! The European date feature will allow you to adjust your date format for your database and merge fields to your customers. If you are located in Australia or Europe, this will be key for you and your clients! To switch over the date format in your database, you must be an admin user, then go to settings, preferences, and adjust the date format to your choice.
2. Signatures
You now can have signatures like your email on discussions! Customize your signature under my profile signatures. This is pre defaulted for you and will be included in all your freehand discussions. If you are an admin user and want to update your templates to remove the merge fields and now use signatures, you can. To do this, please go to settings, discussion email templates. There is no need to switch your templates if you do not want to.
3. Multi Event Editor
Ability to adjust multiple event details at once under a single booking. If you edit the master booking you can now update all the events associated guest count and status. On the mass event editor you can update the status, move all the events forward or backwards a couple of days, move the events forwards or backwards a couple of hours, update the guest counts, and change the event dates. It has never been easier to change all the booking details at once!
4. Prioritize Tasks
You can now prioritize your task from high to low, not just by date! Click the box on each task on the right hand side, and select the priority from high, medium, and low to allow you to see what is the most important to get done. The tasks will default to be set by due date order on both your dashboard and your tasks tab. If you prefer to group your tasks by priority, you can. On the dashboard on the tasks section, go to group by and choice high to low or low to high. On the task page, expand the filters and select your group by preference.
5. Mass Complete Tasks
Be able to mark all those completed tasks as done at once! Did you forget to check off a bunch of tasks you completed? Well if you go to your tasks tab or the dashboard, you can check complete all and then it will prompt you to confirm, and – BOOM – a bunch of tasks are now done!
6. Merge Field for Contact Type
If you need to add this merge field to an email or text section of a document, right click, contact custom fields, and select contact type.
7. Daily Digest Enhancement
This gives you to the ability to add custom fields and personalize the daily digest. Go to my profile, then the tab daily digests. You can now choose what you want to see included custom fields on events! Just check off the fields you need and your custom digests will arrive every day.
8. Ability to Add a New Event to the Same Booking Located Under Booking Functions on an Event
Go to your event, then actions, booking actions, add new event to this booking, and you can easily have a second event tied to the same booking.
9. Consecutive Invoice Number
This is the ability to have invoice numbers no longer random, but instead in order starting at one. To make this adjustment you need to be an admin user, then go to settings, documents, edit the form, and under the properties select use sequential IDs.
10.F&B Minimum to appear on the billing widget
You now have the option to add the remaining balance into the bill. To add this to your event, edit the document, scroll down to the billing widget, then add a field, and select Food and Beverage Min. Once this is expanded, click on the three dots, and uncheck excluded from totals and it will add the remaining amount into the bill.
11. Customize Payment Types
Need more payment options? Now you can adjust under settings, preferences.
12. Add RD$ Currency and Add the dollar symbol for Canada C$
To adjust the currency, you must be an admin user and go to settings, locations, and then edit.
Start planning your next event today!
Are you as excited about these new features as we are? Try them right now! Login or register for a demo on the Tripleseat website.