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I just ran into a somewhat odd problem in STEEM. I was doing some recording of Shadow of the Beast and oddly enough the load screens with the scrolling text is in the wrong size. The rest of the game is fine, but the load screens are smaller, in full screen mode at least. Haven't had time to toy around with windowed mode with this problem. The problem exists in 3.9.1, 3.9.3 and 3.9.4 for me. But not in 3.7.3 where the size is correct. Maybe there some resolution switching or similar technical stuff going on in the screen that causes this. Does this seem familiar to you Steve?
I have included two screen shots, the second one is the correct one. The only thing I have done to them is to crop both of them the same amount. Original full screen resolution here was 1680x1050.

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The replication of the SQL database is a core function of Cisco CallManager clusters. The server with the master copy of the database is called the publisher, while the servers that replicate the database are called subscribers.
In the event that your subscriber stops replicating data from the publisher, you need to rebuild the publisher and subscriber relationships. This involves going into the SQL Server database and manually rebuilding the subscription.
This is a list of possible symptoms if the subscriber stops replicating from the publisher:
Changes that are made on the publisher are not reflected on phones that are registered with the subscriber.
Outbound calls fail on phones registered with the subscriber. As soon as you dial 9, you hear a re-order tone.
Call Forward All (CFwdALL) does not work.
IP phone displays Error Database.
This document explains the procedures to reestablish a broken Cisco CallManager cluster SQL subscription with Cisco CallManager 3.3. This also applies to CallManager 4.x.
Note: Refer to Using DBLHelper to Reestablish a Broken Cisco CallManager Cluster SQL Subscription for more information.
This document assumes the SQL Administrator (SA) account password is available for both the publisher and the subscriber.
The information in this document is based on Cisco CallManager 3.3.x and 4.x.
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
Complete the steps in these sections to reestablish the relationship between the two systems. First, the subscription for the subscriber needs to be recreated on the publisher system. Then, the subscription needs to be deleted and recreated on the subscriber system.
Complete these steps to recreate the subscription on the publisher.
On the publisher, select Start > Programs > Microsoft SQL Server > Enterprise Manager to start the SQL Enterprise Manager.
Right-click SQLServerGroup and click New SQL Server Registration under Microsoft SQL Servers.
When the Register SQL Server Wizard appears, make sure the From now on I want to perform this task without using a wizard check box is not checked and click Next.
The other SQL servers that reside on the Cisco CallManagers should appear in the Available servers list box.
Select the server or servers that you would like to move over to the Added servers list box, then click on the Add button to move them.
Click Next.
Click the The SQL Server login information that was assigned to me by the system administrator (SQL Server Authentication) radio button and click Next.
On the next dialog box, click the Login automatically using my SQL Server account information radio button, enter the SA Login name and Password for the subscriber system, and click Next.
Note: Use the SA account and password for the subscriber system. The password was selected when the subscriber system was installed.
In the Select SQL Server Group dialog box, click the Add the SQL Server(s) to the existing SQL Server group radio button and set the Group name to SQLServerGroup.
Click Finish on the next dialog box.
The Wizard displays the status of the added server or servers and should show them as "Registered successfully."
Click Close.
A window similar to this appears.
If you can see the two servers listed, then they are recognized by the publisher and data can be shared with them.
Complete these steps to delete the subscription on the publisher.
Using Enterprise Manager, navigate the SQL Server tree and locate the Publication for the CCM0300 database by choosing Microsoft SQL Servers > SQL Server Group > machine_name > Databases > CCM0300 > Publications.
Select the Cisco CallManager subscription that fails and delete the entry.
Caution: Select the subscription in the right pane, shown by the arrow below. Right-click the listed Subscription Name and select Delete. Do not delete the book icon in the Tree pane on the left.
A warning dialog box appears which indicates that the subscription has been removed at the publisher but not at the subscriber. If you want to connect to the subscriber and delete the subscription there, click Yes.
The next message indicates that the subscription has been deleted but the data has not. Click OK.
Complete these steps to recreate the subscription on the subscriber.
Select the SQL server name of the subscriber that you deleted from the publisher in the Delete the Subscription on the Publisher section of this document.
Note: In this configuration, the publisher is EVOICE-CM33-1 and the subscriber is EVOICE-CM33-2. The EVOICE-CM33-2 subscription has just been deleted from the EVOICE-CM33-1 publication.
Select the EVOICE-CM33-2 (Windows NT) SQL server and select the CCM0300 database to resubscribe to the publication.
Right-click the CCM0300 database and choose New > Pull Subscription.
Note: Always choose the most recent version of the database. (In this example, CCM0300 is the only available database.)
Click Next when the Pull Subscription Wizard appears.
On the Look for Publications dialog box, click the Look at publications from registered servers radio button and click Next.
On the Choose Publication dialog box, expand the publisher (which should be listed), select the CCM0300 database, and click Next.
Note: If you have upgraded the Cisco CallManager operating system multiple times, the database name may include a number higher than 0300 (for example, CCM0302, CCM0303, and so forth).
On the Specify Synchronization Agent Login dialog box, click the Use SQL Server Authentication radio button, enter the required Login and Password, and click Next.
The Login is sa and the Password is the password for the publisher's SA account.
On the Initialize Subscription dialog box, click the Yes, initialize the schema and data radio button and click Next.
On the Set Distribution Agent Schedule dialog box, click the Continuously… radio button and click Next.
The next dialog box verifies that the SQLServerAgent service is running. Click Next.
On the Completing the Pull Subscription Wizard dialog box, click Finish.
The Wizard sets up the subscription, as shown below.
A message indicating success appears when the process is completed.
After the subscription is created, the snapshot agent must be run to get the data out to the subscriber for synchronization.
Select the publisher SQL server and navigate to Replication Monitor > Publishers > machine_name > CCM0300 subscription.
Right-click on the Snapshot entry and choose Start Agent.
The snapshot agent runs at this point and takes about three to five minutes to complete the task. Once the snapshot agent finishes, the pull agent starts to apply the snapshot to the subscriber. This takes another 3 to 5 minutes.
Once the pull subscription has completed, on the publisher, select the subscriber SQL server and open the pull subscriptions for the CCM0300 database. The subscription should be in a running state and waiting for updates.
Note: If the last action still reads Waiting for snapshot agent to become available, press F5 to refresh the screen.
At this time, the subscriber is now resynchronized with the publisher and updates are getting recorded in the local subscriber SQL database.
Note: If you make numerous changes to the user database (for example, if you use the Bulk Administration tool), the SQL server can go out of synchronization. This can result in a DC Directory hang. In order to resolve this issue, reset the DC Directory services on all Cisco CallManager servers and re-run the SQL agent.
Complete these steps to verify that the SQL subscription works.
Create a device on the publishing server that is easy to recognize and click Insert to test the propagation of data.
Note: The device does not need to be functional.
Click Update and Close.
Go into the SQL Enterprise Manager, expand the SQL subscriber in question, and look in the database table to see if the new device is present.
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Pedestrian safety? What pedestrian safety? This is Horacio Pagani's $3 million carbon fiber track monster with a naturally-aspirated AMG V12's ultimate edition producing 800 horsepower. Just keep pedestrians, dogs and an altered atmosphere around its inlets.
I went to say hi to Christian von Koenigsegg and also to congratulate him on the One:1 hypercar. It's an amazing engineering achievement from the most innovative car maker of them all.
But let's not forget that when it comes to carbon fiber, not many could teach Horacio Pagani any new tricks. This is what happens when he turns those machines to 11. Or perhaps 12:
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1. The general rule applied by both state and federal courts is that the first five grounds of K.S.A. 60-260(b), that are specific, and the sixth, that is the general catch-all, are mutually exclusive. A party cannot circumvent the 1-year limitation applicable to the first three grounds of K.S.A. 60-260(b) by invoking the residual clause (subsection [6]). K.S.A. 60-260(b)(6) is not available if the asserted grounds for relief are within the coverage of another provision of K.S.A. 60-260(b).
2. An appellate court has jurisdiction to entertain an appeal only if the appeal is taken within the time limitations and in the manner provided by the applicable statutes.
Appeal from Sedgwick district court; JAMES G. BEASLEY, judge. Opinion filed December 11, 1998. Affirmed.
Jim L. Lawing, of Wichita, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellants.
Randy M. Barker, of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellee.
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ABBOTT, J.: The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) obtained a support order against Vontella and Jimmy Keck for their daughter's support. Their daughter Tracy was a ward of the court pursuant to a child in need of care proceeding from approximately age 12 to age 18. The Kecks filed a K.S.A. 60-260(b) motion attempting to set aside "the Journal Entry of Judgment rendered June 1, 1993."
The June 1993 journal entry ordered the Kecks to pay $455 per month in support commencing May 1, 1993. The Kecks were also ordered to pay all of their daughter's medical, hospital, optometric, dental, and orthodontic expenses. In addition, judgment against the Kecks for past support in the amount of $13,450 was entered.
The parties stipulated at trial that a court order was entered on January 17, 1995, whereby SRS received an increase in the support payment from $455 a month to $525 a month. The parties also stipulated that the Kecks' daughter reached the age of majority on September 16, 1996.
The Kecks were represented by counsel at each proceeding. The June 1, 1993, order was an agreed-upon journal entry of judgment. The parties also stipulated that the $13,450 had been paid down to $8,029 with an additional $1,017.70 being held by the trial court.
The district court denied the Kecks' K.S.A. 60-260(b) motion (filed April 12, 1995) because more than 1 year had elapsed since the June 3, 1993, judgment. The district court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to reach the Kecks' equal protection issue.
The Kecks do not claim the trial judge abused his discretion in refusing to grant the 60-260(b) motion. Their argument is that the trial judge had jurisdiction to rule on the 60-260(b) motion and that he should have considered the motion on its merits.
The Kecks list the issues on appeal as follows:
"1. Do appellants have a constitutional right to equal protection which is violated by appellee's judgment under the Kansas statutory scheme?
"2. Does K.S.A. 60-260(b)(6) apply to the facts of this case, allowing for post-judgment relief from all or a portion of appellee's judgment where appellants filed their motion more than one year after the original judgment but less than six months after a ruling increasing their monthly obligation to the appellee?
"3. Does the fact that appellants are raising the grandchild conceived and born to their minor daughter while she was a ward of the State without receiving SRS support constitute a 'reason justifying relief' under K.S.A. 60-260(b)(6) which is not included in the statute's preceding enumeration of five reasons which can form bases for post-judgment relief?"
K.S.A. 60-260(b) states in pertinent part:
"Mistakes; inadvertence; excusable neglect; newly discovered evidence; fraud, etc. On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or said party's legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under K.S.A. 60-259 (b); (3) fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party; (4) the judgment is void; (5) the judgment has been satisfied, released, or discharged, or a prior judgment upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer equitable that the judgment should have prospective application; or (6) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment. The motion shall be made within a reasonable time, and for reasons (1), (2) and (3) not more than one year after the judgment, order, or proceeding was entered or taken."
In this case, the Kecks rely on subsection (6) for providing the trial court with jurisdiction.
In Wilson v. Wilson, 16 Kan. App. 2d 651, 827 P.2d 788, rev. denied 250 Kan. 808 (1992), the court analyzed whether the trial court had erred when it granted a K.S.A. 60-260(b)(6) motion and modified a divorce decree. The Wilson court stated that "[t]he general rule applied by both state and federal courts is that the first five grounds of the statute, which are specific, and the sixth, which is the general catch-all, are mutually exclusive." 16 Kan. App. 2d at 656. Federal Rule 60(b) is identical to K.S.A. 60-260(b), and the federal courts are in accord that 60-260(b)(6) cannot be used to circumvent the time limitations applicable to the first three grounds of 60-260(b). "'[I]t is settled that an appellant cannot circumvent the one year limitation by invoking the residual clause (6) of Rule 60(b).'" Wilson, 16 Kan. App. 2d at 657 (quoting Serzysko v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 461 F.2d 699, 702 [2d Cir.], cert. denied 409 U.S. 883, reh. denied, 409 U.S. 1029 [1972]). "'Rule 60(b)(6) is not available if the asserted grounds for relief are within the coverage of another provision of Rule 60(b).'" Wilson, 16 Kan. App. 2d at 657 (quoting Wallace v. McManus, 776 F.2d 915, 916 [10th Cir. 1985]).
In the case at hand, the real reason for the motion to set aside falls under the reason provided in K.S.A. 60-260(b)(1) of "mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect." The Kecks' original attorney did not raise an equal protection issue or a claim of negligence against SRS for allowing Tracy to run away and become pregnant while under SRS's care and custody. This falls squarely within the provisions of K.S.A. 60-260(b)(1). The Kecks' K.S.A. 60-260(b) motion was not filed until April 12, 1995, which is 23 months after the journal entry. Thus, the trial judge did not err in ruling that the motion was not filed within the 1-year time requirement of K.S.A. 60-260(b)(1).
The Kecks also assert that their motion to set aside should be considered timely filed because their time to file a K.S.A. 60-260(b) motion started over in January 1995 when the court granted SRS the increase in monthly child support payments. The Kecks contend that each passing month created a new judgment, giving the initial amount of the judgment a prospective application from which relief could be granted when the interest of justice demanded it.
The Kecks did not assert this theory that their K.S.A. 60-260(b) motion should be decided based on the January 1995 order in their brief in support of their motion and at the hearing on the motion. The Kecks' attorney simply stated that he was relying on K.S.A. 260(b)(6), which he deemed the "catch-all [subsection], any other reason justifying relief from the operation of a judgment."
The right to an appeal is a statutory right, not a right vested in the United States or Kansas Constitutions. "An appellate court has jurisdiction to entertain an appeal only if the appeal is taken within the time limitations and in the manner provided by the applicable statutes." Resolution Trust Corp. v. Bopp, 251 Kan. 539, 541, 836 P.2d 1142 (1992) (citing Little Balkans Foundation, Inc. v. Kansas Racing Comm'n, 247 Kan. 180, 188, 795 P.2d 368 [1990]). Further, "[a]n appellate court has the duty of questioning jurisdiction on its own motion. If the record discloses a lack of jurisdiction, the appeal must be dismissed." Resolution Trust Corp., 251 Kan. 539, Syl. ¶ 2. Consequently, this court, like the trial court, does not have jurisdiction to consider Issues 2 and 3 of the Kecks' appeal. Having so held, the Kecks' interesting and scholarly equal protection argument is moot.
The Kecks also argue that because the State has not been required to pay child care expenses for their grandchild, conceived and born while their daughter was under the alleged care of SRS, they should be relieved from the judgment for their daughter's support and expenses. They argue that the State's lack of care permitted their daughter to run away and become pregnant, and this factor balances the equities of concern for public expenditure and parents' responsibility for their own child. The Kecks maintain that if their grandchild had been placed in foster care, the agency would have paid more for child care than the $525 a month presently being taken from Mr. Keck's earnings.
While it is certainly honorable that the Kecks have assumed responsibility for their grandchild instead of burdening the State's resources, there is no statutory authority or case law which provides that caring for their grandchild without State reimbursement negates their obligation to reimburse the State for services expended on behalf of their own child. The Kecks have never applied for or requested State assistance in supporting their grandchild. This argument is both moot and without merit.


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Encouraging Homeowners to Invest in Impact-Rated Windows
If you work with homeowners who live somewhere inland, one of their top considerations when choosing new windows for their home is probably efficient insulation. However, homeowners who live close to the coast in states like South Carolina and Florida most likely have two top considerations: insulation… and protection against hurricanes. They'll need windows that are going to help keep their home energy efficient, but that can also hold up against hurricane-force winds and flying debris.
The solution for many coastal homeowners is to invest in impact rated windows. These windows are designed to do exactly what the name implies—stand up against the type of heavy impacts that coastal storms can bring. In some regions that have been designated as High Velocity Hurricane Zones, homebuilders are actually required to install impact rated windows (as you most likely already know if you work in one of these regions).
Even if you don't work with homeowners in a High Velocity Hurricane Zone, impact rated windows may still be a good choice. Here are a few reasons to encourage homeowners to consider them in their remodel or new home construction.
Protection from High-Speed Debris
Impact rated windows undergo rigorous testing to ensure that they can stand up against the types of debris a coastal homeowner might encounter in a hurricane. The standard test is to fire a 9 pound 2x4 at 34 mph so that it hits the window end on. When homeowners invest in impact rated windows, they can rest assured that their windows will hold up even in a fierce storm, and they will be safe inside with their family.
Home Security
Speaking of safety, impact rated windows act as a great security measure against break-ins and thefts. If a 9-pound wood beam traveling at 34 mph can't break the homeowner's windows, a burglar will certainly have a hard time getting in. Impact window manufacturers stress that they can't guarantee that any window will be completely impervious to break-ins, but impact-rated windows will at the very least slow down an intruder, giving the homeowner or their alarm system enough time to contact law enforcement.
Prevention Against Fading Furniture
Many homeowners love letting the sunlight into their house but aren't as thrilled when their furniture, curtains, and carpets fade as a result. Impact rated windows actually provide up to 99% UV protection, which means that natural light can still get through them, but the home's interior doesn't have to suffer discoloration.
Reduction of Home Energy Use
As a home performance professional, energy efficiency is most likely your foremost concern, and we couldn't discuss the benefits of impact rated windows without talking about the effect they have on home energy usage. Laminated impact rated windows act as great insulators because of their thickness, reducing the need to heat a home in the winter and cool it in the summer. Some brands, like Eco Window Systems, even use a resin interlayer between their two glass panes for strong binding and insulation. The interlayer reduces the thermal conduction of the glass, which helps keep the home from getting too hot or cold.
If you're interested in learning more about impact rated windows, talk to a local environmentally-friendly builder about the available options for homeowners in your area. Look for building contractors who have an Energy Star partner label, indicating that the builder is committed to protecting the natural environment and using the impact rated windows that will be best for the home and the homeowner.
Jason Fowler is a pre-construction manager at Sea Island Builders in Charleston, South Carolina. The company is dedicated to renovating and building homes that are energy efficient and support the health and wellness of the client. Sea Island Builders is a partner of Energy Star, the Indoor airPLUS program, the EPA's WaterSense Program, and is a Lead-Safe EPA-certified firm.
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Mentally Preparing For Your Negotiation (1:32)
Identifying Your "Walk Away" Rate (1:53)
Researching Salary Ranges (1:55)
Pinpointing Your Salary Range (2:16)
Answering The Salary Question On Job Applications & In Phone Screens (3:15)
Understanding What You Can Negotiate For (1:36)
Understanding The Offer (2:25)
Positioning Yourself For A Better Offer (1:48)
Negotiating For More Money, Benefits, And Perks (4:05)
What To Do When The Employer Says "No" (2:33)
Knowing When NOT To Negotiate (1:39)
What To Do After You're Done Negotiating (0:46)
Responding To A Counter Offer (1:56)
Next Steps (0:46)
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When Is The Best Time To Start Salary Negotiations? (0:59)
What Do I Need To Know When Negotiating For An Internal Position? (0:45)
Should My Negotiation Strategy Change If I'm Switching Careers? (0:53)
How Should I Negotiate When An Employer REALLY Wants Me? (1:01)
How Do I Sell Myself For A Lower-Level Position? (1:34)
I Have A Counter Offer And Got No Response, Now What? (1:07)
How Do I Ask For A Car Allowance & Mileage Reimbursement? (0:38)
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The Young Professionals Workshop brings together international candidates selected from IEC National Committees around the globe who are at the start of their careers in electrotechnical standardization and conformity assessment. The program aims to cultivate long-term national involvement in the international arena, strengthen the future of technology transfer, and encourage the participation of young professionals in shaping the future of standardization and conformance.
The 2012 Young Professionals from the United States were:
Ms. Souvannarath was one of only three international participants voted to be a 2012 Young Professional (YP) Leader at the 76th IEC GM in Oslo, Norway. As such, she will act as ambassador for the program within the IEC family and help to shape its activities while she serves as YP Leader.
Alongside recipients from other nations, the three young professionals selected to represent the U.S. at the IEC 2013 General Meeting in New Delhi will attend a dedicated workshop where they will learn more about the IEC, standardization strategies, and conformity assessment. They will also have the opportunity to attend technical meetings where standards are developed, observe meetings of the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB) and the IEC Conformity Assessment Board (CAB), and benefit from extensive networking opportunities in an international setting. Recipients will be financially supported for their travel and up to three nights of accommodation.
"Being able to sit in at the SMB and CB meetings and also getting to sit in at the Technical Committee level was a great insight. This provided a holistic view from the technical side all the way through to the management side of standards, and that was a good opportunity," said Ms. Souvannarath.
The Young Professionals program is targeted towards individuals who are in the early years of their professional career, post university. U.S. stakeholders are encouraged to nominate young professionals involved in standardization from industry, government, academia, consumer organizations, or any entity within the U.S. voluntary standards and conformity assessment community that uses, benefits from, or contributes to the IEC's work in electrotechnical standardization and conformance.
Nominations must be submitted electronically to Charlie Zegers, general secretary of the USNC (firstname.lastname@example.com) by Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Letters of support from members of the standardization community attesting to the nominee's outstanding achievements and appropriateness for receipt of the award are strongly encouraged.
Download the nomination form here.
The selection process is based on the nominee's demonstrated leadership and dedication, vision of the strategic or commercial impact of standards and conformance, and significant accomplishments in their chosen field of activity. Candidates will be assessed by a selection panel comprised of USNC Officers, standing committee officers, former U.S. Young Professional recipients, and a pool of USNC Honorary Life Members. The winners will be notified in July 2013.
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Celtic have been fined £21,000 for fans' misbehaviour in the Europa League game against Udinese in Italy last December.
After the 1-1 draw at the Stadio Friuli, the Parkhead club were charged with, 'the displaying of a banner of an offensive nature and the setting off of fireworks by supporters'.
The decision to fine Celtic was made by UEFA's control and disciplinary body on February 23.
A UEFA spokesperson said: 'Celtic have been fined 25,000 euros by UEFA's control and disciplinary body for breaching Article 11 of the UEFA disciplinary regulations.
'The decision was taken on February 23. It is nothing out of the ordinary that it wasn't announced then. We can have 100 cases at the monthly meetings. Celtic did not appeal.'
Some Celtic fans held aloft a two-part banner which insulted UEFA, days after the club were fined about £12,700 for 'illicit chanting' involving pro-IRA songs at a Europa League game against Rennes at Celtic Park.
Several flares were also let off and one was thrown on to the pitchside track.
Celtic banned for life one fan who was arrested in Italy over the alleged assault of a club steward, and who they say was one of those responsible for the banner.
Manager Neil Lennon and chief executive Peter Lawwell hit out out at the 'rogue' element within their support on the day after the game.
The club also vowed to sift through photographic evidence to find those fans responsible for the use of the flares, warning that they will take 'appropriate action'.
Lawwell said: 'It is very frustrating. Those people are not Celtic supporters.
'We will weed them out and these guys will not get back into Celtic Football Club.
'One or two silly little juvenile boys doing funny kids' pranks and stuff is bringing the whole of Scottish football down.'
Lennon added: 'My only surprise is that they got the spelling (on the banner) right.
'I am very disappointed, they have let me down, they have let the board, players and background staff down and 99.9 per cent of the support down.'
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TEHRAN, Iran – A defiant regime lashed out at United Nations' criticism over its brutal handling of public protests as it announced a special court to prosecute demonstrators and vowed to continue to crack down on dissent.
International condemnation, fanned by a widely circulated video of a young woman known worlwide as "Neda" being gunned down by police as she protested the presidential election, was met with scorn from the government. The nation's ruling clerics rejected demands to annul the election over fraud allegations and blasted UN chief Ban Ki-moon's call for an end to violent repression of protests.
"These stances are an evident contradiction of the UN secretary general's duties, international law and are an apparent meddling in Iran's internal affairs," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said.
Riot police remained on the streets of Tehran in a huge show of force that witnesses said was an obvious attempt to intimidate protesters. The demonstrations have broken out almost daily since a June 12 election showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning by a lanndslide over opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
There were no reports of violent clashes Tuesday, but protesters came up with new techniques, such as turning on the lights in their cars at certain hours of the day and honking their horns or holding up posters.
"People are calmly protesting, more symbolically than with their voices," a Tehran resident said in a telephone interview, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of government retribution.
Another opposition figure, reformist presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi, called for a day of mourning for the at least 17 people killed in protests since the election.
In a sign of a growing crackdown, Tehran riot police fired tear gas and live bullets Monday to break up about 200 protesters paying tribute to Neda Agha Soltan, the beautiful, 26-year-old protester whose death at the hands of police was captured on a cellphone video and seen around the world.
Caspian Makan, a 37-year-old photojournalist in Tehran who identified himself as Soltan's boyfriend, said she had not been deterred by the risk of joining protests.
"She only ever said that she wanted one thing, she wanted democracy and freedom for the people of Iran," he told an Associated Press reporter during a telephone call from Tehran.
Across the world, governments and diplomats were increasingly lining up on opposite sides in the Iranian showdown, the strongest challenge to the rule of Islamic clerics in 30 years.
In a boost for the embattled regime, Russia said Tuesday that it respects the declared election result. But France summoned Iran's ambassador to express concern about what it called "brutal repression" of protesters in Tehran.
The U.S. and many European countries have refrained from challenging the election outcome directly, but have issued increasingly stern warnings against continuing violence meted out to demonstrators.
Mousavi has charged massive vote fraud and insisted he is the true winner. However, Iran's top electoral body, Guardian Council, found "no major fraud or breach in the election," a spokesman, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, was quoted by Press TV as saying Tuesday. "Therefore, there is no possibility of an annulment taking place."
In what appears to be a bizarre tactic to deter funerals for slain demonstrators becoming public spectacles, the hardline regime is punishing their families by demanding a bizarre $3,000 "bullet fee" to claim the bodies of their loved ones.
The family of 19-year-old Kaveh Alipour, who was slain on Saturday, told The Wall Street Journal the fee was demanded by morgue officials. To make matters worse, the Alipour family insists that their son wasn't even participating in the protests.
"He was a very polite, shy young man," his father told the Journal. He wasn't politically active and was not taking part in the demonstrations, he was just returning home from acting class, his father added.
The regime has sought to avoid public funerals that could fan the flames of protests of the recent presidential election. Several protesters who have been slain in the crackdown have been quickly buried by the government, denying families the chance to mourn their dead.


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Every four years, the excellent documentary series undertakes a serious double character study, chronicling the life-long experiences and personal influences that formed each candidate's identity. Psychological readings of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney give the viewer something beyond the usual political or policy analysis. "The Choice" is about what makes them tick. This year in particular, the divergent stories of what formed these candidates are fascinating. For starters, they both have major daddy issues.


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Now that I've returned from the IHRSA trade show, I'm sitting down to blog about a few of the exhibitor visits I had while at the show.
My first visit was on Tuesday at the Sales Maker booth. Sales Makers has traditionally been a consulting company, but Doug Miller is now expanding the company out a bit to include a new product called Joinonline247.com. The product allows potential members to visit a club's Web site, take a tour of the club, sign up for a free pass or register for a membership. The members pay for their membership through Pay Pal, so the club never has to deal with payment issues. Sales Makers is also looking to offer something called E-lerts, which is a desktop widget that allows instant communication with people who have downloaded the widget. They don't have to open a browser. This would be a way for a club operator to stay in touch with members and notify them of news without having to send e-mails.
My second visit of the day was with John Stransky, president of Life Fitness (and a proud University of Kansas alumnus, as am I). Stransky says that since he came to the company three years ago, he's been moving the company away from strictly focusing on the equipment to a focus on taking care of their customers (club operators) so their customers can take care of their customers (club members).
"We recognize that people who work out have made a commitment. They have goals. It's important for us to recognize that commitment and help them reach their goals," he said. "We don't just want to make equipment; we want to make sure that our customers can take our equipment and help their members reach their goals. So we need to be our customers' best partners."
Stransky says that Life Fitness is helping by making equipment easier to use, providing more entertainment options on the equipment and making it more aesthetically pleasing so it's not so intimidating to new members. The company's new Elevation series cardio equipment includes iPod capability, USB ports so users can download their workouts and a virtual trainer option.
Of course, all this additional technology adds to the cost of the equipment, and in this day and age, added costs can be a problem, but Life Fitness offers cheaper equipment options for club operators who can't afford the more expensive, but entertainment-laden equipment.
"If it doesn't help the exerciser, the cost is too high," Stransky said. "But if the extra benefits result in the exerciser having much greater success, then it's worth it."
Later that day, I spoke with Brent Knudsen, founding and managing partner of Partnership Capital Growth (PCG), and Brian Smith, partner in the company. The two did not have a booth at the show, but they were making the rounds. They spoke about how their company matches club operators with potential investors. Knudsen has a background with Northcastle, which owned Equinox at one time.
"Brent found a disconnect in the business. Private equities had a leg up in structuring deals over club owners," Smith said. Smith says that PCG can help club owners prepare for investment by a partner or prepare for exit from the business.
Both of them said that club operators might be surprised by the number of investors still looking to get into the club business despite the economy.
"There are more investors than ever. There's more money available now," Knudsen said, noting that banks are loosening up now, and he anticipates that the stimulus bill would free up cash.
My last visit on Tuesday was with Fiserv (which recently renamed Checkfree as Fiserv Club Solutions). Randy Ivey, marketing director for the company, introduced me to Jim Parks, the new vice president and general manager of Fiserv Club Solutions. Although this was his first fitness industry show, Parks noted he was excited about the changes under way at his company and the opportunities for the company in the fitness industry.
On Wednesday, I just had two booth visits. The first was with Tim Porth at Octane Fitness. Porth showed me the company's new seated elliptical, which is now being sold, and its new elliptical prototype, which will be released later in the year. The seated elliptical allows you to work upper body only, lower body only or both at the same time. It allows the exerciser to do some muscle work in addition to cardio, something that a lot of club goers want these days. The new standing elliptical allows users to change the stride length, offering shorter stride for smaller people and a longer stride for people with long legs or those who want to simulate a run.
My last visit of the day was with Keith White at Star Trac. White just returned from the Chain Reaction event that Star Trac was holding in the other hall. Chain Reaction was a three-day charity Spinning event to benefit Dr. Oz's HealthCorps, which is a group dedicated to combating childhood obesity and raising awareness about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. He took some time to talk with me about plans that Star Trac has for working with clubs. Although I can't share more details about that right now, I am able to say that the company's equipment is being featured prominently in this season's "The Biggest Loser" TV show on NBC, something that White says has boosted Star Trac to one of the top 10 most recognizable brands in the country today.


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Ferreira filled up the stat sheet over the past week as she led the third-ranked Cougars (7-2) to wins in four of their five matches. She totaled 36 kills, 191 assists, 52 digs, eight service aces and had four solo blocks while playing in all 17 sets. Columbia's only loss of the week came when No. 20 Oklahoma Baptist upset the Cougars in four sets on Saturday at the Graceland (Iowa) Invitational. Ferreira dished out 40 assists and recorded 25 digs in the defeat.
The 5-8 junior from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently ranks seventh in the NAIA in assists per match at 11.27. Ferreira's 338 assists and 12 service aces are also team-highs. She is the reigning NAIA Player of the Year after winning the award as a sophomore.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Sept. 20.
Nominees: Zipporah Washington, Southern-New Orleans (La.); Lindsey Adams, Siena Heights (Mich.); Kaley Lyons, Evangel (Mo.); Bethany Beckman, Arizona Christian (Ariz.); Bailey Bunting, Texas Wesleyan; Loren Olive, Shorter (Ga.); Jenavera Gibson, Mid-Continent (Ky.); Susan Rollman, Doane (Neb.); Kristen Hendrickson, Ottawa (Kan.); Lindsey Oberacker, Point Park (Pa.); Brooke Marino, Concordia (Calif.); Katie Zent, Jamestown (N.D.); Brianna Strete, Indiana East; Kristin Barott, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Devon Jensen, Grand View (Iowa); Erin Didier, John Brown (Ark.); Taylor Martin, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Erica Allman, Columbia (S.C.); Sarah Mlachnik, Cardinal Stritch (Wis.); Mariah Mock, College of the Ozarks (Mo.); Shannon Cahill, Campbellsville (Ky.); Stephanie Lawson, Grace (Ind.); Sarah Holgen, Southern Oregon; Stephenie Monderine, Menlo (Calif.).
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Ravens fans are ready to rush New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII, emptying their pockets for tickets to the big game and scrambling for a seat on an available flight. With travel packages going for thousands of dollars, you'll want to make your stay in the Big Easy well worth it — that means seeing something beyond the inside of the multimillion-dollar refurbished Mercedes-Benz Superdome. We've come up with 10 things for Baltimore travelers to see and do in New Orleans.
Celebrate Mardi Gras
It's true — there won't be any parades downtown during the Super Bowl, so mister can't throw you something. But there will be some parades outside the city proper, including in Metarie and Covington. (mardigrasguide.com). You can also catch the carnival spirit at Arnaud's restaurant, (813 Bienville Ave., 504-523-5433), where you can enjoy a romantic meal and then head upstairs to view their Mardi Gras exhibit. Before you return home, you must sample some authentic king cake, a French pastry served only during Mardi Gras season. Try it at Cake Cafe and Bakery (nolacakes.com), Sucre (shopsucre.com) or Haydel's (haydelbakery.com). You can even ship the cakes home to help friends or family spice up their Super Bowl parties New Orleans-style.
The Treme
Last year was the bicentennial of Treme, the New Orleans neighborhood highlighted in David Simon's HBO television series. The historic African-American area north of the French Quarter took its name from Claude Tremé, who subdivided and sold his holdings to a diverse group of residents, primarily free people of color. In 1812, the neighborhood was incorporated into the city of New Orleans. While the anniversary events have ended, you can tour the area and its cultural offerings, including the New Orleans African American Museum, Armstrong Park and the Edgar Degas house, once home to the famed impressionist painter (treme2012.com).
National World War II Museum
Visit the National World War II Museum, formerly the D-Day Museum. Not only has the museum just opened another portion of its $300 million expansion, the Boeing Freedom Pavilion, but it is hosting a special exhibit just in time for Super Bowl. "Gridiron Glory: The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame" traces pro football from its beginnings to today, offering extensive artifacts, audio and video exhibits (nationalww2museum.org).
Frenchmen Street
Forget Bourbon Street. Ask anyone here who knows anything about music and they'll tell you to head to Frenchmen Street (and the surrounding area) and its warren of live-music clubs. It's about a 15-minute walk from Bourbon Street, but it is light-years away. You'll find rockabilly, bluegrass, R&B, jazz, blues, Latin music, hip-hop, rock 'n' roll and more in the numerous venues that line a two-block stretch. Well-known musicians, including Ellis Marsalis and Charmaine Neville, show up regularly. The drinks are cheap and cover charges minimal.
Cocktail tour
New Orleans is known as the home of the cocktail and Gray Line's Original Cocktail Walking Tour will help those 21 and older discover the famous spirits of the city. You can also go it alone and have a delicious drink and chat with a mixologist at SoBou, Bellocq, Cure or Bar Tonique. For a more historic vibe, absorb the local culture at the 200-year-old Napoleon House bar (500 Chartres St., 504-524-9752) with its aged walls and Napoleon-related lore. Relax in the main bar or courtyard with a Pimm's Cup or Bloody Mary (graylineneworleans.com).
Jackson Square
Amble down the block to Jackson Square, where New Orleans took shape almost 300 years ago. Explore some of the city's oldest buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, once the seat of colonial government, and the historic Pontalba Apartments, the first of the Spanish apartments built in the city. Take a short walk across Decatur Street to the Moonwalk, a favorite spot to view ships and ferries plying the Mississippi River (Decatur Street at the river; jackson-square.com).
Cafe du Monde
Head to Cafe du Monde at the French Market for a steaming cup of coffee and a plate of French beignets. Or take a seat and sip a cafe au lait while you people-watch (800 Decatur St., 504-525-4544).
Woldenberg Park
Stroll along the river in Woldenberg Park, at the edge of the French Quarter, or board the free ferry at the foot of Canal Street and take a quick ride across and back to sense the power of the mighty Mississippi. Woldenberg Park is also the site of the Verizon Super Bowl Boulevard, featuring a four-day lineup of music, food and live broadcasts from NFL Networks. The main attraction will be jumbo XLVII roman numerals, about 30 feet high and 100 feet wide (neworleanssuperbowl.com).
Johnny Po-Boys
Try New Orleans' favorite sandwich. Open since 1950, Johnny's Po-Boys offers dozens, from the classic fried oyster, fried shrimp or roast beef on French bread to crab cake or chicken Parmesan po-boys (511 St. Louis St., 504-524-8129; johnnyspoboys.com).
Magazine Street
Catch a cab or the No. 11 bus (a one-day Jazzy Pass is just $3 and lets you get on and off as much as you want) to Magazine Street to explore one of the city's more unusual retail scenes. Bohemian and upscale apparel shops stand among art galleries, antiques stores and restaurants in quaint, funky and historic buildings. Browse the shops. Indulge your sweet tooth at Sucre, with its irresistible selection of pastries, chocolates and specialty macaroons (3025 Magazine St., 504-520-8311; magazinestreet.com).
For more on lodging, restaurants, attractions and Mardi Gras, go to neworleanscvb.com. For details and schedules on the Super Bowl, go to neworleanssuperbowl.com.
Reuters and Tribune Newspapers contributed to this article.


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Americans love animals. Forty-six million families in the United States own at least one dog, and thirty-eight million keep cats. Thirteen million maintain freshwater aquariums in which swim a total of more than a hundred and seventy million fish. Collectively, these creatures cost Americans some forty billion dollars annually. (Seventeen billion goes to food and another twelve billion to veterinary bills.) Despite the recession, pet-related expenditures this year are expected to increase five per cent over 2008, in part owing to outlays on luxury items like avian manicures and canine bath spritz. "We have so many customers who say they'd eat macaroni and cheese before they'd cut back on their dogs," a Colorado pet-store owner recently told the Denver Post. In a survey released this past August, more than half of all dog, cat, and bird owners reported having bought presents for their animals during the previous twelve months, often for no special occasion, just out of love. (Fish enthusiasts may bring home fewer gifts, but they spend more on each one, with the average fish gift coming to thirty-seven dollars.) A majority of owners report that one of the reasons they enjoy keeping pets is that they consider them part of the family.
Americans also love to eat animals. This year, they will cook roughly twenty-seven billion pounds of beef, sliced from some thirty-five million cows. Additionally, they will consume roughly twenty-three billion pounds of pork, or the bodies of more than a hundred and fifteen million pigs, and thirty-eight billion pounds of poultry, some nine billion birds. Most of these creatures have been raised under conditions that are, as Americans know—or, at least, by this point have no excuse not to know—barbaric. Broiler chickens, also known, depending on size, as fryers or roasters, typically spend their lives in windowless sheds, packed in with upward of thirty thousand other birds and generations of accumulated waste. The ammonia fumes thrown off by their rotting excrement lead to breast blisters, leg sores, and respiratory disease. Bred to produce the maximum amount of meat in the minimum amount of time, fryers often become so top-heavy that they can't support their own weight. At slaughtering time, they are shackled by their feet, hung from a conveyor belt, and dipped into an electrified bath known as "the stunner."
For pigs, conditions are little better. Shortly after birth, piglets have their tails chopped off; this discourages the bored and frustrated animals from gnawing one another's rumps. Male piglets also have their testicles removed, a procedure performed without anesthetic. Before being butchered, hogs are typically incapacitated with a tonglike instrument designed to induce cardiac arrest. Sometimes their muscles contract so violently that they end up not just dead but with a broken back.
How is it that Americans, so solicitous of the animals they keep as pets, are so indifferent toward the ones they cook for dinner? The answer cannot lie in the beasts themselves. Pigs, after all, are quite companionable, and dogs are said to be delicious.
This inconsistency is the subject of Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals" (Little, Brown; $25.99). Unlike Foer's two previous books, "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," his latest is nonfiction. The task it sets itself is less to make sense of our behavior than to show how, when our stomachs are involved, it is often senseless. "Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list," Foer writes.
Foer was just nine years old when the problem of being an "eating animal" first presented itself. One evening, his parents left him and his older brother with a babysitter and a platter of chicken. The babysitter declined to join the boys for dinner.
"You know that chicken is chicken, right?" she pointed out. Foer's older brother sniggered. Where had their parents found this moron? But Foer was shaken. That chicken was a chicken! Why had he never thought of this before? He put down his fork. Within a few years, however, he went back to eating chickens and other animals. During high school and college, he converted to vegetarianism several more times, partly to salve his conscience and partly, as he puts it, "to get closer to the breasts" of female activists. Later, he became engaged to a woman (the novelist Nicole Krauss) with a similar history of relapse. They resolved to do better, and immediately violated that resolve by serving meat at their wedding and eating it on their honeymoon. Finally, when he was about to become a father, Foer felt compelled to think about the issue more deeply, and, at the same time, to write about it. "We decided to have a child, and that was a different story that would necessitate a different story," he says.
Foer ends up telling several stories, though all have the same horrific ending. One is about shit. Animals, he explains, produce a lot of it. Crowded into "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs, they can produce entire cities' worth. (The pigs processed by a single company, Smithfield Foods, generate as much excrement as all of the human residents of the states of California and Texas combined.) Unlike cities, though, CAFOs have no waste-treatment systems. The shit simply gets dumped in holding ponds. Imagine, Foer writes, if "every man, woman, and child in every city and town in all of California and all of Texas crapped and pissed in a huge open-air pit for a day. Now imagine that they don't do this for just a day, but all year round, in perpetuity." Not surprisingly, the shit in the ponds tends to migrate to nearby streams and rivers, causing algae blooms that kill fish and leave behind aquatic "dead zones." According to the Environmental Protection Agency, some thirty-five thousand miles of American waterways have been contaminated by animal excrement.
Another of Foer's stories is about microbes. In the U.S., Foer reports, people are prescribed about three million pounds of antibiotics a year. Livestock are fed nearly twenty-eight million pounds, according to the drug industry. By pumping cows and chickens full of antibiotics, farmers have been instrumental in producing new, resistant strains of germs—so-called superbugs. As soon as the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones in chickens, for instance, the percentage of bacteria resistant to fluoroquinolones shot up. Officials at many health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control, have called for an end to the indiscriminate use of antibiotics on farms, but, of course, the practice continues.
A third story is about suffering. Intuitively, we all know that animals feel pain. (This, presumably, is why we spend so much money on vet bills.) "No reader of this book would tolerate someone swinging a pickax at a dog's face," Foer observes. And yet, he notes, we routinely eat fish that have been killed in this way, as well as chickens who have been dragged through the stunner and pigs who have been electrocuted and cows who have had bolts shot into their heads. (In many cases, the cows are not quite killed by the bolts, and so remain conscious as they are skinned and dismembered.)
Foer relates how, one night, he sneaked onto a California turkey farm with an animal-rights activist he calls C. Most of the buildings were locked, but the two managed to slip into a shed that housed tens of thousands of turkey chicks. At first, the conditions seemed not so bad. Some of the chicks were sleeping. Others were struggling to get closer to the heat lamps that substitute for their mothers. Then Foer started noticing how many of the chicks were dead. They were covered with sores, or matted with blood, or withered like dry leaves. C spotted one chick splayed out on the floor, trembling. Its eyes were crusted over and its head was shaking back and forth. C slit its throat.
"If you stop and think about it, it's crazy," she later told Foer. "How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals."
One day while in Berlin, Franz Kafka went to visit the city's famous aquarium. According to his friend and biographer Max Brod, Kafka, gazing into the illuminated tanks, addressed the fish directly. "Now at last I can look at you in peace," he told them. "I don't eat you anymore."
Kafka, who became what Brod calls a strenger Vegetarianer—a strict vegetarian—is one of the heroes of "Eating Animals." So is the philosopher Jacques Derrida, and a vegan theology professor named Aaron Gross, who is working on plans for a model slaughterhouse. "This is not paradoxical or ironic," Gross says of his slaughterhouse work.
Foer's villains include Smithfield, Tyson Foods, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and—rather more surprisingly—Michael Pollan. There is perhaps no more influential critic of the factory farm than Pollan, and Foer acknowledges that he "has written as thoughtfully about food as anyone." But when Pollan looks at animals he doesn't feel worried or guilty or embarrassed. He feels, well, hungry.
"I have to say there is a part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian, the blamelessness of the tofu eater," Pollan observes toward the end of his book "The Omnivore's Dilemma," shortly after describing the thrill of shooting a pig. "Yet part of me pities him, too. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris."
According to Pollan, it is naïve to see domesticated animals as victims. Some ten thousand years ago, "a handful of especially opportunistic species discovered . . . that they were more likely to survive and prosper in an alliance with humans than on their own," he writes. The results speak for themselves. Domesticated chickens have never been more numerous, even as the Red Burmese jungle fowl from which they descended is disappearing. Meanwhile, if animals have had to make adjustments to live with people, the reverse is also the case. Humans developed the ability to digest lactose into adulthood, for example, only as a consequence of keeping cows.
Given this history, Pollan says, it's too late for people to start worrying about eating animals. The problem with factory-farmed meat isn't the meat; it's the factory. The solution is to return animals to the sorts of places where they can graze and root and fly—or at least flap around—before being dispatched. "I don't eat industrial meat anymore," Pollan recently told Newsweek. "I eat grass-fed beef, organic chicken from a place I know."
Foer finds Pollan's account of inter-species alliances unpersuasive. "Chickens can do many things," he notes, but they cannot make "sophisticated deals with humans." And, in any case, if they could, shouldn't the same terms apply to pets? Once we're done showering Kitty and Fido with trinkets, let's bleed them out and fry them up: "If we let dogs be dogs, and breed without interference, we would create a sustainable, local meat supply with low energy inputs that would put even the most efficient grass-based farming to shame," Foer writes.
Meanwhile, the notion that factory-farmed meat can be replaced with boutique-bred beef depends on its own denial of reality: "There isn't enough nonfactory chicken produced in America to feed the population of Staten Island and not enough nonfactory pork to serve New York City, let alone the country."
Foer seems particularly incensed by the suggestion that deciding not to eat meat represents a delusion of innocence or, worse still, sentimentality. "Two friends are ordering lunch," he writes:
One says, "I'm in the mood for a burger," and orders it. The other says, "I'm in the mood for a burger," but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?
Of the nearly two billion chickens currently being raised in the United States, a dozen live in my back yard.* They were shipped six months ago as chicks, and arrived at the local post office in a cardboard box. Now full-grown, they spend their days laying eggs, pecking around in the grass, and shitting on the walkways. The chickens are happy, or so I dream, as I sit at the window when evening falls.
Much of the credit (or blame) for the back-yard-chicken fad belongs to the "local food" movement, which Pollan helped launch. When I ordered my chickens, from a hatchery in Missouri, it was with the idea that my children could learn what it's like to raise what you eat. I also hoped, in a more Foerian vein, that the experience might prompt a reëvaluation of their relationship with chicken fingers. Recently, I asked whether they would consider becoming vegetarians. One of my sons proposed that, instead of dropping meat, we eat it exclusively. We could, he suggested, call ourselves "mea-gans."
By this point, my kids certainly know that "chicken is chicken," and also that beef is cows and pork is pigs. About a mile away, there's a farm with its own little store. Every so often, some piglets arrive at the farm. My sons like to go watch the piglets roll around in the mud. Then they like to go to the store and purchase the sausages that have been made from the piglets' predecessors.
In this way, the boys are a lot like the chickens. Though the hens have plenty of feed in their coop, they prefer to scratch in the dirt for living things. They are especially fond of centipedes and grubs. More than once, I've seen them pick up a red-spotted newt by its neck, shake it dead, then toss it aside. (The newts are poisonous, something the chickens apparently discover too late.) A few weeks ago, they cornered a small rabbit under a neighbor's car. Whether or not they were hoping to kill it, the creature was clearly terrified.
Very broadly speaking, there are two arguments to be made on behalf of eating animals. One is that people are animals. Different animals naturally have different diets; in our case, this diet includes meat. Our ancestors certainly liked a nice bone to gnaw on. Indeed, one theory of human development posits that a diet high in animal protein was what allowed human beings to become human in the first place. (As hominids' brains grew, the theory goes, they became better hunters; this allowed their guts to shrink, which facilitated further brain growth.) Studies of hunter-gatherer societies show that anywhere from twenty-six per cent (in the case of the Gwi, of southern Africa) to ninety-nine per cent (the Nunamiut, of Alaska) of their caloric intake comes from eating meat.
The second argument is that animals are not people. People may have obligations toward animals—to enforce these, there are laws against animal cruelty—but these obligations do not preclude ingesting them. Pollan contends that "people who care about animals should be working to ensure that the ones they eat don't suffer, and that their deaths are swift and painless." Similarly, the author and livestock expert Temple Grandin, who designs what are often called "humane slaughterhouses," argues, "We owe animals a decent life and a painless death." We "forget that nature can be harsh," she has written. "Death at the slaughter plant is quicker and less painful than death in the wild. Lions dining on the guts of a live animal is much worse in my opinion."
Foer's position is that all such arguments are, finally, bogus. We eat meat because we like to, and we devise justifications afterward. "Almost always, when I told someone I was writing a book about 'eating animals,' they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism," he says. "It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case." What we know about eating animals is that we don't want to know. Although he never explicitly equates "concentrated animal feeding operations" with the Final Solution, the German model of at once seeing and not seeing clearly informs Foer's thinking. The book is framed by tales of his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor whose culinary repertoire consists of a single dish: roast chicken with carrots.
Foer's novels are pointedly postmodern; they play with voice and genre, language and typography. ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" ends with a flip book of a body either falling out of or flying away from the World Trade Center.) "Eating Animals" is written in a similar po-mode; it is constantly shifting among formats—a glossary of terms, interviews, personal vignettes—and each chapter is introduced with a page or two of graphic art. The chapter titled "Hiding/Seeking," for example, opens with an outline of a box, sixty-seven squares in area, which is supposed to illustrate the amount of space allotted to a typical laying hen. Some may object that Foer's style is too playful (or gimmicky) for what he contends is a deadly serious subject. Others will argue that he lacks the courage of his convictions.
For much of "Eating Animals," it appears that Foer is arguing for vegetarianism as the only moral course. Then, it turns out, he isn't—or, at least, not quite. In the middle of the book, Foer becomes friendly with a farmer named Frank Reese, who raises what are known as "heritage" turkeys. (It is for Reese that Aaron Gross, the vegan theology professor, is trying to design a model—and also mobile—slaughterhouse.) Evolutionarily speaking, heritage turkeys fall somewhere between the wild variety that the colonists encountered and the obscenely large-breasted breeds that now fill the meat aisle. A heritage turkey is probably what your great-grandparents served if they celebrated Thanksgiving.
"I have placed my wager on a vegetarian diet and I have enough respect for people like Frank, who have bet on a more humane animal agriculture, to support their kind of farming," Foer writes. "This is not in the end a complicated position." But it is, or at least it's complicated to parse. If the problem with nonfactory chicken is that there isn't enough of it, how can heritage birds represent a solution? (There are barely enough heritage turkeys being raised in America to feed Tottenville, let alone all of Staten Island.) And what does it mean for Foer to "support" Reese's kind of farming while urging his readers to boycott his product?
Meanwhile, it could be argued that even a vegetarian diet falls short. As Foer is well aware, some of the animals that suffer most from the factory-farm system aren't the ones that end up on the table. Most dairy cows spend their lives in sheds, where they are milked two or three times a day by machine. Many develop chronic udder infections. Laying chickens are kept in cages, jammed in so tightly that they don't have room to spread their wings. To prevent them from cannibalizing one another, their beaks are trimmed with a hot blade. When their production begins to decline, they are starved for a week or two to reset their biological clocks. Foer never says anything about forgoing eggs or dairy, which seems to imply that he consumes them. In "The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food" (Norton; $24.95), Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson offers many of the same observations about factory farming as Foer. To align his food choices with his ethics, Masson writes, he had to take the "final step" and become a vegan.
But is even veganism really enough? The cost that consumer society imposes on the planet's fifteen or so million non-human species goes way beyond either meat or eggs. Bananas, bluejeans, soy lattes, the paper used to print this magazine, the computer screen you may be reading it on—death and destruction are embedded in them all. It is hard to think at all rigorously about our impact on other organisms without being sickened.
"Eating Animals" closes with a turkey-less Thanksgiving. As a holiday, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun. But this is Foer's point. We are, he suggests, defined not just by what we do; we are defined by what we are willing to do without. Vegetarianism requires the renunciation of real and irreplaceable pleasures. To Foer's credit, he is not embarrassed to ask this of us. ♦
*Correction, November 4, 2009: The number of chickens currently being raised in the United States is nearly two billion, not four hundred and fifty billion, as originally stated.