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M188, New September 2013
This publication is one in a series about operating and managing a pasture-based dairy. Although these publications often refer to conditions in Missouri, many of the principles and concepts described may apply to operations throughout the United States.
When dairy farmers think about milk quality, they think of mastitis. Mastitis, inflammation of the udder, is usually caused by a bacterial intramammary infection (IMI). This inflammation can be subclinical or clinical. Subclinical mastitis has no obvious clinical signs and is usually revealed by an increased milk somatic cell count (SCC). Clinical mastitis can include any combination of the following signs: changes in milk secretions, such as clots, flakes, color, consistency; and swelling, heat, pain and redness, or erythema, of the affected mammary gland.
Mastitis is the most common and costly of diseases in dairy production. Several costs are associated with mastitis:
In a Wisconsin study, subclinical losses amounted to roughly 15 percent of the total cost of mastitis, loss of milk quality premiums to 40 percent, treatment costs 20 percent and culling the final 25 percent. The total loss was $257 per case. Financial losses due to subclinical and clinical mastitis tend to overlap because their impacts are not mutually exclusive; for example, subclinical cases may cause production losses and changes in milk quality that lead to premium losses, whereas clinical cases negatively impact milk production and quality and potentially increase treatment costs.
Milk quality is vital to the dairy producer, processor, retailer and consumer. Milk processors demand that milk meet certain quality parameters to supply the global marketplace. The United States maximum legal limit for bulk tank milk somatic cell count (SCC) is 750,000 cells per milliliter. However, markets outside the U.S. can have more stringent SCC requirements. The European Union, for example, requires that the SCC of bulk tank milk be no greater than 400,000 cells per milliliter, and many U.S. milk processors are thus requiring this level of quality because they export milk products to the European market.
The vast majority of U.S. farmers produce high-quality milk. In 2005, the U.S. average bulk tank SCC was 293,000 cells per milliliter. In 2011, it had dropped to 259,000 cells per milliliter. According to U. S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) data, in 2011 the SCC of about 20 percent of U.S. bulk tank shipments was over 400,000 cells per milliliter. These data can also be interpreted to say that only 7 percent of all U.S. milk came from bulk tank shipments with an SCC over 400,000 cells per milliliter. More than half of all U.S. dairy farms produce milk with a bulk tank SCC under 400,000 cells per milliliter all year long, with nearly 80 percent of all shipments below this level. A recent analysis of Dairy Herd Information Association (DHIA) data showed that since 1995 the average number of cows per herd has tripled, from 50 to 150 cows per herd; milk production has increased by 8 pounds, from 65 to 73 pounds; and SCC has decreased almost 100,000 cells per milliliter, from 304,000 to 217,000 cells per milliliter.
Whether yours is a pasture-based, hybrid or confinement operation, the fundamentals of producing quality milk are the same. These fundamentals lie in three areas: personnel, equipment, and the cows and their environment. This publication covers the importance of personnel and the cows and their environment in milk quality. Building or renovating a milking center and maintaining the equipment is covered in MU Extension publication M187, Dairy Grazing: Facilities Design.
One of the most vital steps in addressing milk quality is setting goals for your farm. Goals will vary from farm to farm and year to year. As milk quality changes, the goals will need to be revised. Improving milk quality has benefits for the physical health of the cows as well as the financial health of the dairy, so the ultimate goal should not be to simply meet the milk shipment standards, but rather to produce the highest quality milk possible. Several parameters can be used as benchmarks for monitoring milk quality. These parameters include bulk tank SCC, preliminary incubation (PI) count, and incidence of clinical mastitis. DHIA records can also be useful in monitoring udder health.
To understand how to control mastitis, you must first understand the types of bacterial pathogens that cause mastitis, their reservoirs and the clinincal characteristics of these pathogens in the cow. Mastitis pathogens are frequently classified based on their reservoir of infection as contagious or environmental. Contagious pathogens — for example Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Corynebacterium bovis or Mycoplasma spp. — are generally harbored in the cow's mammary gland and transmitted between cows during milking by the teat cups and milker's hands. Environmental pathogens — for example, coliforms, non-agalactiae streptococci and some species of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) — are, as the name suggests, found in the cow's environment and are usually acquired between milkings. Some characteristics of the primary causes of mastitis are detailed below.
Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of contagious mastitis and is one of the most difficult mastitis pathogen to get rid of. It is usually subclinical and can become chronic, with intermittent clinical flare-ups. The milk SCC of the affected cow will fluctuate over time. Staphyloccus aureus can be very difficult to treat, with dry cow therapy giving the best results. However, cure rates, even with dry cow therapy, are usually low.
Streptococcus agalactiae was once relatively common but, since the introduction of dry cow therapy, has become very uncommon. It will primarily be subclinical, but it will cause persistently high SCC and bacterial counts in the milk. It is an obligate pathogen of the udder — obligate means it cannot survive outside a host — and therefore the only major reservoir for infection is other cattle.
Mycoplasma is generally considered a contagious mastitis pathogen. It is seen more commonly in large herds, especially herds that purchase cattle for replacement or expansion. It can infect multiple quarters on the same cow and can cause agalactia, or reduced milk yield. When calves are fed waste milk contaminated with Mycoplasma spp., they can develop mycoplasma infections. The usual signs of mycoplasma infections in calves are pneumonia; joint swellings, or arthritis; and ear infections, or head tilts.
Environmental mastitis pathogens are numerous. The predominant bacteria that cause environmental mastitis on a given farm will depend on bedding type and housing method, such as dry-lot, free-stall or pasture-based. Common environmental pathogens include fecal coliforms, such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp.; non-agalactiae streptococci, such as Streptococcus uberis and Streptococcus dysagalactiae; and some species of CNS.
Of these pathogens, the coliforms are most likely to cause severe clinical mastitis, otherwise called toxic mastitis, with signs that include swelling of the udder, watery milk, fever and systemic illness. Coliform mastitis vaccines — for example, J5, J-Vac and Endovac — have diminished the clinical severity of coliform mastitis on many farms.
Numerous types of environmental, or non-agalactiae, streptococci exist. Streptococcal mastisis can vary from an incidental finding that self-cure to strains of Streptococcus uberis that are hard to treat and can act like contagious organisms.
Coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CNS) can be environmental and, like the environmental streptococci, often self-cures. Some species of CNS cause an elevated SCC and some do not.
Clinical mastitis is easily diagnosed because the cow will have obvious symptoms of disease, which can include changes in the milk secretion, udder or cow. Subclinical mastitis is more difficult to diagnose as the cow, udder and milk have no visibly detectable abnormalities. Hence, other diagnostic tests must be applied. The most common method for detecting subclinical mastitis is to measure the milk SCC. Somatic cells are nucleated host cells and in the normal udder are primarily a white blood cell known as the macrophage. However, during infection there is a shift towards a predominant population of white blood cells called neutrophils. Somatic cells can be quantified in a number of ways, including direct microscopy, the California Mastitis Test (CMT), Wisconsin Mastitis Test, electronic counters or Porta-SCC.
General guidelines
Sterile milk sampling
Figure 2Milk sample collection guidelines.
As stated previously, the current U.S. legal limit, set by the National Conference of Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS), is 750,000 cells per milliliter. However, most research suggest that a normal SCC at the cow level is less than 200,000 cells per milliliter (linear score 4), and hence this is the threshold above which cows are deemed to have subclinical mastitis. Cows that have multiple successive SCCs greater than 200,000 cells per milliliter are considered chronically infected. Therefore, analyzing the percentage of the herd greater than 200,000 cells per milliliter and those chronically above 200,000 cells per milliliter is one way of monitoring udder health in a herd (see Figure 1).
In Figure 1, cows in the upper left quadrant had an SCC less than 200,000 cells per milliliter on the previous test but now have an SCC above 200,000 cells per milliliter, suggesting that they have new intramammary infection (IMI). Cows in the upper right quadrant had an SCC greater than 200,000 cells per milliliter on both the current and the previous test, suggesting that they have a chronic IMI. Goals for udder health using these data would be for less than 7 percent of the cows to have a new IMI, and less than 14 percent of cows to have a chronic infection. A list of these cows can be generated in most dairy software programs and used to selectively culture and potentially cull "problem" cows.
Culture of milk for bacterial organisms can be done at several levels, including the bulk tank, cow and mammary quarter. When environmental mastitis is suspected, bacterial culture of bedding materials may also be warranted. When investigating a herd with a milk-quality problem, bulk tank milk cultures can help distinguish between environmental and contagious bacterial pathogens. For adequate interpretation, bulk tank milk culture data from three successive milk shipments should be evaluated. The milk hauler can take a second sample when taking the sample for bulk tank analysis for the processing plant. The samples should be frozen and then submitted for culture. Multiple samples allow for detecting intermittent shedders as well as evaluating trends in bacterial pathogen presence over time. Evaluation of the bulk tank milk culture data will help define what follow-up data are needed.
In general, if the predominant pathogens in the bulk milk are contagious — such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Corynebacterium bovis or Mycoplasma spp. — individual cows will need to be cultured to determine which cows are the reservoirs. Milk samples for culture should be collected aseptically into labeled sterile tubes (Figure 2). When submitting samples for culture of mycoplasma, ensure that the lab being used does mycoplasma cultures routinely as not all labs perform this test and special media and growth conditions are required for mycoplasma culture. These data will aid in making management decisions about individual cows, such as culling, segregation, milking order and, potentially, treatment. Although a composite milk sample — that is, a sample from all four mammary quarters collected in the same tube — has value, bacterial culture of milk from individual mammary quarters is more specific and allows for making more targeted decisions, such as drying off an infected mammary quarter.
When the predominant bacterial pathogens isolated from the bulk tank are environmental — for example, coliforms or non-agalactiae streptococci — the evaluation of bedding management or paddock condition and environmental hygiene are needed. Muddy paddocks during the first 30 days post calving can be a significant problem. Collecting composite or quarter milk samples from clinical mastitis cases for bacterial culture will help define the pathogens that frequently cause clinical disease and thus lead to informed treatment decisions.
In addition to bacterial culture, some labs offer antimicrobial sensitivity testing. Unfortunately, in the case of mastitis, in vitro, or bench-top, susceptibility testing may overestimate treatment success; and in other instances, because of the delivery of high concentrations of a drug at the site of infection, organisms reported as resistant on the bench top may respond to therapy. Hence, treatment decisions should be based on historical cure rates in the herd for a given bacterial pathogen. Keeping records of clinical mastitis treatment outcomes is thus very important. Incidence of clinical mastitis should be less than 2 percent (two cases per 100 cows at risk) a month. Treatment success can be measured in two ways: resolution of clinical signs, or having two successive test day SCC results less than 200,000 cells per milliliter.
Figure 1University of Missouri Foremost Dairy somatic cell count (SCC) report by cow showing previous vs. current linear score.
The National Mastitis Council (NMC) has a 10-step Recommended Mastitis Control Program, which is outlined below.
Figure 4Proper milking procedure guidelines.
Regarding Step 2, the cows' environment greatly influences their cleanliness. Hygiene scores can be a good indicator of the condition of the environment. The hygiene score most related to SCC is the udder score (Figure 3). A producer can readily score cows as they come through to be milked. The cows' hygiene can be improved in several ways: fencing off mud holes; improving heat abatement, thereby dispersing cows; trimming tails; cleaning the cows' freestalls more often; and minimizing overgrazing to maintain adequate grass coverage. Milking without premilking hygiene (cup on) when teats are contaminated with mud and manure is an unacceptable practice.
Regarding Step 4, the goal when milking a cow should be to prepare her for milking in such a way that milk flow is maximized and time on unit is minimized, while ensuring the teat is clean, dry and free of mastitis. Achieving this goal requires proper tactile stimulation and cleanliness before unit attachment. (See Figure 4 for proper milking procedures.) Minimize the time the unit is on the cow when milk flow is low so as to minimize teat end damage. You can get a good indication of the health of the cows' teat ends just by looking at them. Also, aim for leaving about 1 cup, or 250 milliliters, of milk in the udder at the end of milking. Although undermilking costs producers some saleable milk, overmilking costs producers more through an increased incidence of mastitis.
Figure 3The National Dairy FARM Program's hygiene scorecard ranges from 1 for clean to 4 for dirty. The udder score is the hygiene score most related to milk somatic cell count (SCC).
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12/8/08 This entry has been building up in me. I can't takes no more.
They don't call me the Ranter for nothing.
Today's blog entry is called:
Things I Freggin Hate
I have worked really hard the last few years trying to become a more tolerant/patient individual. Back in the day, I had an extremely low tolerance for people and their bullsheet.
I don't pull punches. I ALWAYS tell it like it is, or I just won't say anything.
Back then, things could always be settled outside. It was quicker and easier.
When you say nothing it means you're bottling it up inside, and that only lasts so long and then….
I've been mellow for a while, so I'm feeling the need to blow off some steam.
If you don't know me by now, this would be the time to grab the mouse and click away or just turn the computer off.
I really hate stupid people.
For the most part, being stupid is a personal choice. Sure there may be some breeding issues, but most people can read, and reading is knowledge.
Pick up a book, read a magazine. Television is not a tutor.
I hate how drugs are over prescribed to our children.
Granted some kids may need it, but I think a good old fashioned, sit down, shut the hell up, and pay attention would do wonders.
Besides, everybody daydreams from time to time. Think back, you did it.
You'd be surprised how fast school grades improve when the removal of a Wii or cell phone is used as leverage.
Be smarter than your kids, don't drug them up. That's what college is for.
I REALLY hate that my car insurance rates are going up.
Not because of any accidents or claims. No, because I don't have an 800 credit rating.
Lets see American Family Insurance, I've been paying you 130 bucks a month, no accidents, and only one hail damage claim in nine years.
Now you want to raise my premium like twenty-five bucks a month when you should be lowering it?
American Family you can kiss my Rockpiles, I'll be looking elsewhere.
Where is that damn lizard when you need him?
I'm sick of the global warming bullsheet. I just spent four days in Chicago freezing my ash off. I just don't buy it.
I hate that Pete Rose is banned from baseball, while Michael Vick can do what he did and still return to his sport.
If Vick gets to play football again, Charlie Hustle should be eligible for Baseball Commissioner.
I hate that some of the folks who are lucky enough to cast votes for the Baseball Hall of Famers, feel obligated/ pressured to vote for a particular player.
Peer pressure, or the amount of time a player has been on the ballet should have nothing to do with your vote.
If you get to vote, you have a chance to determine baseball history.
Pick that player for the right reasons.
Otherwise you're doing baseball fans an injustice and piss'd away an important vote.
I hate that gas is back down in price, but my grocery bill hasn't dropped at all.
I hate being stuck behind the person buying lottery tickets for the first time, or the one who can't quite decide whether to get the Lucky 7's or the Pick 4.
Seems, it's always when I'm in a hurry to get to work. Lottery tickets should only be sold between midnight and 5 AM.
I hate the inconsiderate SOB who raids the sample plate, but then doesn't use the tongs, nasty.
I hate when people cough and don't cover their mouth.
Or ones that cough in their hands, but then don't wash them.
I hate waiting in line for food at sporting events.
You can miss an entire inning/period/quarter just waiting in line to get a hot dog.
Case and point..Mile High Stadium yesterday.
I hate when solicitors put those stupid flyers on your car window.
Or the ones who ring your doorbell when there's a "No Soliciting" sign clearly posted on the front door.
I enjoy reading the newspaper, but I don't need six free miscellaneous ones littering my driveway on a daily basis.
I hate every time I try to get fast food, two cars manage to beat me in line every freggin time. Or when you have to wait so long in line, that when you get your food, they don't even throw in a few extra fries or a dessert for making you wait.
My time is valuable.
I hate that driver that makes me miss my light because he doesn't catch it until it's turning yellow, and then peels out at the last second.
I hate people that lay on their horn behind you for no reason, then when you get out of the car to say WTF?, they take off scared. Tell me what's your problem, or don't be so damn horny.
I hate nerds who think they are computer superheroes. Come back to earth Captain Joystick, the world needs dorks too.
It's called balance.
I hate seeing three people standing in a group, all of them texting.
It's freggin retarded.
I really hate when people just don't get me. I'll do anything for you. Just be appreciative and don't ever play me for a chump. You don't want to be my enemy.
If for some reason, someday I help you out. Just be there to return the favor when I need you. Do unto others, you know the deal.
I'm an hour into this blog and I'm starting to feel a lot better. If you made it this far, you either get me or you don't, but I appreciate you hanging in there. Today sucked. Hope your day was better. Tomorrow is always another day.
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It's 3am, my first ever brew just blew the airlock and made a big mess in the kitchen. It's now sitting in my sink foaming over and I'm debating whether to dump it all. Can it be saved?
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DO NOT DUMP IT! There's nothing wrong with it (probably). Vigorous fermentations are not that rare. Look into a blow-off setup for your next batch, less messes.
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2. Fercap-S that stuff rocks. I no longer have boil overs or air locks being blown off. Trust me... this stuff works. No side effects.
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the long-term threat from ISIS is more dangerous than al-Queda.
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YORK, PA – York College rising senior Tim Hartung (Mohnton, Pa./Governor Mifflin) added another accolade to his fantastic 2012-13 campaign as he earned Capital One Division III Academic All-America honors for Men's Track and Cross Country as announced by CoSIDA on Tuesday afternoon.
He was a third-team selection and was one of 46 student-athletes to earn the national accolade.
Hartung is a nursing major and carries a 3.68 GPA at York. He was named to the District 4 academic all-region squad in late May.
The honor adds to a fantastic year for the Spartans' standout cross country and track & field performer.
In the fall, Hartung won the Capital Athletic Conference men's cross country individual championship as the Spartans repeated at conference champions. Hartung then went to the regionals and finished fifth to advance to his second straight NCAA Division III Championship. At the national championship meet in Terre Haute, Indiana, Hartung finished seventh to earn the program's first men's cross country All-American finish. He posted the best finish by a CAC runner at the Division III championships, besting Goucher's Jeff Olenick's ninth place finish in 2000.
Hartung earned the 2012 Capital Athletic Conference men's cross country runner of the Year thanks to his second consecutive conference championship.
During the indoor season, Hartung picked up two more Capital Athletic Conference titles as he won the mile and the 5K. It is the second year in a row that Hartung captured the titles in those two events during the CAC Indoor Championships. He closed out the indoor season by shaving another three seconds off the CAC and school record in the mile at the Virginia Tech meet. It was a record he established a week earlier at the George Mason Last Chance meet.
During outdoor, Hartung had a big highlight early in the season when he crushed the long-held CAC record in the 10,000-meter race at the Sam Howell Invitational hosted by Princeton. Hartung broke the 16-year old CAC record of 30:47.87 by 38.15 seconds while he broke the 33-year York College by an astounding 1:24.58. The time of 30:09.72 set him up for a trip to the Division III National Championships as it put him fourth in the early season seedings.
Hartung added to his conference championship haul in early May as he won the 5 and 10k races at the championships in Salisbury. He has now won ten Capital Athletic Conference titles during his three seasons wearing the Green and White.
For his efforts in the spring, Hartung made history as he was named the 2013 CAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of the Year. He is the first athlete in the 24-year history of the league that an athlete has won player of the year honors in three different sports. In addition to his cross country and outdoor track honors, he was the indoor athlete of the year in February of 2012.
Hartung capped his junior season with an All-American finish at the Division III Outdoor Championships in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in the 10K. Hartung finished seventh with a time of 30:09.20 to earn his second All-American accolade of the year.
He is the first Spartan athlete to earn two All-American honors in the same academic year at two different NCAA championships.
Hartung joins Melanie Glessner (Waldorf, Md./Thomas Stone) as a Spartan Academic All-America for 2012-13. Hartung is the ninth Academic All-America in school history.
Hartung begins his senior year when the cross country squad opens their season on August 30 at the Lehigh Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa.


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DETROIT -- It was the shortest outing of Kyle Gibson's young career, but the right-hander wasn't helped by his defense in a six-run second inning for the Tigers.
Gibson lasted just two innings, but rookie shortstop Danny Santana made a mental mistake to prolong the second, a blunder that led to a key three-run homer from Miguel Cabrera in a 9-3 loss to Detroit on Saturday afternoon at Comerica Park.View Full Game Coverage
DETROIT -- It was the shortest outing of Kyle Gibson's young career, but the right-hander wasn't helped by his defense in a six-run second inning for the Tigers.
Gibson lasted just two innings, but rookie shortstop Danny Santana made a mental mistake to prolong the second, a blunder that led to a key three-run homer from Miguel Cabrera in a 9-3 loss to Detroit on Saturday afternoon at Comerica Park.View Full Game Coverage
With two outs in the second, Gibson got Torii Hunter to ground into what should've been a routine play to Santana, but he opted to throw to second base for the forceout, and the ball went off Brian Dozier's glove. Dozier then threw wide of home plate to allow a run to score, before Cabrera delivered a three-run blast to give the Tigers an early six-run lead.
"Our kid just couldn't make a pitch," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We missed one play out there, and it turned out to be a big one. Danny should've just thrown to first base but threw to second. So it turned out to be a mess with Gibby giving up a big three-run homer. We were sloppy early, and it cost us a ballgame."
Gibson ran into trouble in a hurry, putting runners on the corners with nobody out in the first inning, but he was able to get out of the jam by striking out Cabrera and getting Victor Martinez to ground into an inning-ending double play.
But Gibson wasn't as lucky in the second, as Austin Jackson led off the inning with a single before advancing to third on a double from Don Kelly. Nick Castellanos then hit a grounder down the third-base line and Eduardo Escobar was able to make a nice play to get Jackson out at home.
Gibson, though, promptly surrendered back-to-back RBI singles to Alex Avila and Andrew Romine to give Detroit an early two-run lead. Ian Kinsler followed with a flyout to center field, before Hunter hit the grounder to Santana.
"I was assuming [Santana] was probably going to go to first base, but I'm not going to knock him for going to second," Dozier said. "He made a good flip, but I'm not sure if [the runner] would've been safe either way."
Cabrera then made Minnesota pay with his three-run blast. It was the first homer given up all season by Gibson, who had faced 165 batters without serving up a homer this year.
"I got behind a lot of guys and was forced was to throw over the middle, and this is a team where you can't do that," Gibson said. "I threw some changeups and breaking pitches over the middle in those first two innings, so it's frustrating. But there's a lot to learn from it, and I'll go on to the next one."
It was enough offense for reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, even though he didn't have his best stuff. Scherzer entered with a 1.72 ERA, and he lasted six innings, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks with six strikeouts.
"He was physically strong, but I think he was battling to get his release point all the time. He said his slider wasn't very good," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "He just couldn't consistently get his release point to put the ball where he wanted to in the strike zone. That being said, he battled through and held them to three runs in six innings, giving us a chance to win."
Kurt Suzuki nearly hit a solo shot off Scherzer in the first, but he was robbed on a leaping catch from Kelly in left field. But Dozier launched a no-doubt three-run blast in the third inning, his team-leading ninth homer of the year and his first non-solo home run.
But it was all the Twins could do against Scherzer, as they went just 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position against him.
"We put some good at-bats together against him, but you can't spot a Cy Young Award winner six runs," Dozier said. "We had a lot of opportunities to score some runs, but he got nasty with runners in scoring position."
Right-hander Anthony Swarzak pitched well in long relief of Gibson, throwing four scoreless innings, but right-hander Michael Tonkin came in for the seventh and surrendered a three-run homer to Martinez to put the game out of reach for Minnesota.
"Ultimately, we couldn't get another big hit to get back into it, and our other kid, Tonkin, came in and misfired a little bit, too," Gardenhire said. "So there you have it. Nine runs."
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The all-new 2011 Honda CR-Z sport hybrid coupe introduces sleek styling and sporty handling to the hybrid segment. It is the first hybrid designed to maximize style and fun in addition to efficiency and economy. Set to go on sale late summer in the U.S., the CR-Z is powered by a 1.5-liter i-VTEC engine with Hondas compact and lightweight Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid-electric system. The two-passenger CR-Z introduces a new three-mode drive system that allows the driver to select between Sport, Econ (Economy) and Normal driving modes.
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B., a Hutu, has been in exile from Rwanda for 20 years. The last time he saw his country was three months before the genocide started. At the time his family was in Rwanda.
"I was working in the Rwandan foreign service in April 1994. When I heard that President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane had been shot down, I sat on my bed, sweat was dripping from my head and my face. 'What do I do? How do I evacuate the family?'
"I was afraid I would be killed by the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) if I went back to Rwanda. I used my contact at the French embassy in Kigali, which agreed to shelter my wife and children in their compound. They were evacuated two days later. From Kigali, they went to Burundi and on to Congo, where I picked them up.
"When the RPF attacked, the major problem in Rwanda was regionalism, not ethnicity. That's why many Hutus aligned with the RPF. The three major opposition political parties, MDR, PSD and LP, which were led by prominent Hutus, were aligned with the RPF against a Hutu-led government.
"Real power was held by people from the north and there was resentment against the Hutus in the north. But the RPF attack re-kindled the ethnic element. Because the rebel army was Tutsi-led, some politicians, in order to drum up Hutu support, called it an attempt by Tutsi exiles to take power from the Hutu. The current power structure seems to give credibility to this theory.
"There were many factors that made the situation explosive: propaganda that the Tutsi wanted to take power again; alleged impunity of the RPF over atrocities against Hutu in areas it took, leading some people to say that only Tutsi enjoyed human rights ; distrust between Hutus and Tutsis since 1959 (when an attack on a Hutu leader led to ethnic clashes and reprisal killings); forced displacement of more than 1 million people in areas taken over by the RPF; poverty and the lack of land where some people wanted to grab other people's property. Some Hutu were killed for this last reason under the false pretext that they were allied to the 'enemy'.
"There are six brothers in my family. Three were killed in 1994. One was killed by the Interahamwe, because they said he was a Tutsi. They found him and just slaughtered him. Two were killed by the RPF. One you could say died in an act of war. He was a soldier.
"And here's where it gets difficult. Would you say this boy, who was fighting against an invading army, would you say that he was a genocidaire, that he committed a crime? He was a military man, the country was attacked. Where do you place him?
"The other brother was picked by the RPF, taken from home and never came back. His wife, who went to ask about him, was put in jail. She had a three-month child. She was released after seven years. No charge.
"You can't even ask for the bodies. You can't even talk about it. The worst month for a Hutu is April. It's the time to go away. When it comes to April, would you tell my mother, 'Mourn the one killed by the Interahamwe and not the ones killed by the RPF. Forget them.'
"True reconciliation can only come when everyone's pain is acknowledged and justice does not discriminate against anyone. Saying this is not minimizing genocide or denying genocide. Genocide happened and the perpetrators must be brought to book, but equally those who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, whatever their political or ethnic affiliation, must be brought to justice.
"Someone asked me: 'How is it when I meet a Rwandan and ask him if he's a Hutu or a Tutsi, he says both? Why?' I told him he's probably a Hutu because if you say Tutsi, they say, 'Oh, sorry this happened.' But when you say Hutu, they say 'mass killer'.
"In Rwanda today, they say there's no ethnic groups and then they speak of genocide against the Tutsi. It's a contradiction. The automatic question is who killed them and the answer is Hutu. Hutus are made to feel like criminals.
"It is very dangerous when people are made to feel guilty because of their identity. If you do that, it makes them identify with themselves even more and begin working out how to get out of it by any means including removing the powers that be to regain their dignity.
"Looking at the history of Rwanda and the cycles of violence, what you're seeing now is exactly the situation in 1959 with the Tutsi monopoly of political, economic and military power. My worry is that the same causes may lead to the same effects. My greatest fear is that this exclusion, these grievances will once again crystallise around something like identity, like religion. When you consider it, the system is cultivating, nurturing radicalism.
"It is also sad to see the politicisation of a national tragedy, to see an appropriation of a national tragedy by a particular group. I feel it's absolutely horrendous. All of society has to own it and own the solution to it."
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My LO is 4 1/2 months and at her 4mo appt she weighed 13lb 5.5 oz. I was told this was the 50%. She has been all over the place on the charts but mostly decreasing in % but my ped said it was completely normal and healthy growth esp for a bf baby
I believe this was calculated using a chart for breast fed babies. Maybe that is the problem and not anything with your son or your supply?


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I mentioned in a post a little while ago about vanilla having a wiki style documentation like another well know software publisher, simply because it attracts information from coders in a simplified form making it easier for novice programmers to find there legs within the code.
It was a great springboard for me and really got me into that software, even though all I knew about php before then was the syntax and the basics, what attracted me was the layman like examples of code that enabled me to build more than a hello world plugin and I got brave enough to actually write a cross site authentication plugin that allowed users to all be registered in one database and authenticate everywhere or for each site to replicate signups across the network of sites (and a few bits besides) but I could not have done it without the examples that made me brave.
Lots of people have good Ideas that never get programmed simply because as soon as they start looking at how a particular system works it gets confusing without good sign posts and they run.
What I am looking for is support for this idea as we all know the Vanilla crew are busy people, are there any app or plugin programmers out there willing to contribute to this site if i create it ?
Are there any people out there willing to help maintain it ?
What do you think of the idea ?
IMHO I think it could be a really good thing for vanilla in helping people build the confidence to give it a go.
What do you think ?
Link to Vanilla Wiki site:
You got one vote from me...
I'm up for helping. I don't have a lot of time, but I'd be happy to help edit and keep things clean where I can..
Thanks for your comments guys, still hoping some more people will show interest, although I'm thinking more interest might come when I set up the site, I'm learning loads right now and being simple myself (:)) I should be able to write a few tutorials.
I'm learning too, and keeping notes while at it.
what if we just create a free account at vanillaforums.com and use that instead for a start.
if you want to use this i just set it up for you.
There you go... now who's gonna admin the page, and how are we going to organize the infos.
Nice one @hbf
I will add my first page later, on signup it gave an unable to send verification email error but has allowed me to signup and in, I will have a read up later on adding categories etc.
Ok, added some references to PHP and MVC with my own explanation but not sure if its in the right place or what. How would I ceate a page ?
I seem to have added it to the Discussion about the Main page !
Some input/opinion for consideration on the organisation of content, of how we should approach the documentation.
first approach : By Topics (Like vanillaforums.org/docs)
second approach : By Elements (Menu, HTML Header, Breadcrumb).
third approach : By Functions/Classes/Methods
fourth approach : By Tutorials (step by step guide)
The third approach doesn't have to cover all classes. Just the basic classes : Gdn_Pluggable, Gdn_Controller, Gdn_Model, etc.
Classes that doesn't matter much for purpose of creating addons, should have very low priority (Like factory related class)
I think I am swayed towards the first approach, as familiarity with the way vanillas actual documentation is setout would help keep things simple for learners.
But also the third approach will be important as I think part of it needs to represent a reference to allow learners to find the things they need easily without having to trawl the code at first.
Obviously the tutorial section needs to be layed out simply with like a progression track as well as individual tutorials on some of the more imtermediate and advanced topics.
Not sure I understand the second approach for some reason lol dont know why.
It would be good if each area so to speak could be setup like the topic approach, I think its a good sensical approach to making it easy on the learner.
I mean, all those four approach are there.
On the main page, we show TOC of the first and fourth approach (Except with a link to another page with another TOC of classes and functions) so as not to scare the non-programmers.
When i say be elements, sometimes we (i mean at least me) have problems on a certain element, like for today I don't know how to create a menu. "Menu" is the element.
It's no use having only tutorials. lots of tutorials when one needs to solve at that instant is only how to create menu. so there has to be a menu page.
I've made some changes on the frontpage, next step i think would be to create a TOC list on the frontpage.
is that fine?
I guess the core dev wouldnt mind if we copy the TOC like on vanillaforums.org, like, how different can it be anyway...
bro, a logo would be nice ... http://vanillaforums.com/blog/vanilla-logos/
created a page for your MVC primer... http://www.homebrewforums.net/vanillawiki/index.php/Model-View-Controller_(MVC)_Pattern
Wow, I'm glad your up for this idea, it's looking good already had a look at the logos, think the last one (sticker) would probably fit well.
I gotta say, i'm seriously impressed with your input, and the way your structuring it is spot on, could do with an events topic for event reference as I would happily put in the time to grep out and explain them.
Again, Seriously impressed, I think this will be a great addon to the community.
no big deal...
Any of the colored logo is fine with me...
I forgot about the events... added them...
I wonder if hbf wouldn't mind tweaking the css of the TOC a bit, add some right margin to it. It's hard to read the paragraph with TOC border almost touching it.
And the "Main Page" title too....
voila! structure has been laid out, now need contents
How do you add code like
this code,
and would it be an idea to use something like this :
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleCodePrettify](Google Code Prettify) ?
Have to wait for hbf and ask him to install extensions...
Some extensions for embedding Youtube videos would be good.
For example the videos on how to use Firebugs is a very useful addition to the wiki.
Ok, is there a way to add code though or can it only be done via an extension
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Ok, is there a way to add code though or can it only be done via an extension
I'm not so familiar with Mediawiki myself... Searching user guides only show text on including HTML in articles
I don't think the sanitizer would let PHP in that easy...
Why don't you try?
dodgerid said:
Nice one @hbf
I will add my first page later, on signup it gave an unable to send verification email error but has allowed me to signup and in, I will have a read up later on adding categories etc.
i ran out of steam last night so i didn't configure PHP mailer and a few other pieces. I'll do that today most likely.
As for extensions, just let me know what they are called and i will turn them on. I didn't enable any extensions last night, as it was my first media wiki install and i just wanted to see it run.
Thanks, found it.
Sorry would have looked If I thought of it, baby girl sick at minute and i'm only getting on here 5 mins at a go, not much time to think at mo lol.
@hbf ok mate.
I'm just stopping in for a moment, I'll work it tonight after kids go to sleep.
I forgot to thank you... The wiki already makes me feel better, feels like breathing fresh air from mountains, feeling alive, even though not much content in it yet.
Thanks mate.
as for the extensions :
Jongos said:
I forgot to thank you... The wiki already makes me feel better, feels like breathing fresh air from mountains, feeling alive, even though not much content in it yet.
Thanks mate.
as for the extensions :
I hope it garners interest by more parties.
-- to any Vanilla.org staff - if you want to re-host this in the future just let me know.
As far a is know, the extensions have been installed. Give 'em a try.
mate, can you take a look at http://www.homebrewforums.net/vanillawiki/index.php/Event_List
I've moved your list of event hooks there....
The original table is at the discussion page of the same topic : http://www.homebrewforums.net/vanillawiki/index.php/Talk:Event_List
See if it's okay because I removed the command column, maybe there's a reason you put the column in in the first place.
If all is good I want to clear the discussion page...
Let me know.
Yeah, clear it mate, your doing a wonderful job, @jongos @hbf , your amazing guys the wiki is turning into exactly the sort of thing, the sort of way I envisioned in fact it's far better than I could have produced, Am very glad two seasoned pros have got involved, I think it really will connect vanilla to the masses, like I said above, there are plenty of people with good ideas and this will help them realise what it is they want to do, my hat is off to you both.
Oh, command column was just for a visual pointer if looking at the code, so decent explanations negate the need anyway, would have made more sense to put line numbers but they change to much.
Can we have the googleprettify extension please
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The Boys and Girls Club of Malvern and Hot Spring County is holding registration for its upcoming girls' softball season from now until Friday, March 8.
Softball is for girls playing ages 5 and 6 (6U league) and 7 and 8 (8U league). Playing age is the age of the child on Dec. 31, 2012.
Potential coaches must apply (pass background check) and attend the organizational meeting in late March.
All teams are formed and players assigned to teams by the Boys and Girls Club.
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Players who played last year may stay on the same team if they choose, but all other players will be assigned.
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Republicans say they've cut $300 million in House spending in last 3 years
Republicans say spending for House operations, including lawmaker offices, has dropped by more than $200 million since they took control three years ago.
GOP lawmakers said Thursday they saved the money mainly by trimming the budgets of committees, leadership offices and individual lawmaker offices.
The House imposed an 8.2 percent reduction on lawmakers' personal office budgets in March, after automatic, across-the-board cuts in most federal programs took effect. That came on top of 11 percent cuts to office budgets during 2011 and 2012.
Committees also took an 11 percent hit this year.
"Many families and small businesses are cutting back, and it's only right that the House of Representatives lead by example," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said.
Congress "should not be immune to our economic hardship, which is why Republicans have implemented the largest cut to the House's operating budget in recent history," said House Administration Committee Chairman Candice Miller, R-Mich.
They said the operating budget in fiscal 2013, ending in September, was $1.16 billion, down from about $1.37 billion in 2010, the last year Democrats were in the majority.
House members, who receive annual office budgets of more than $1 million, say they are economizing by traveling less, putting off new office purchases and not hiring new staff. While furloughs have largely been avoided, House maintenance projects have been delayed, retiring employees are not being replaced and Capitol Police have closed some entrances and side streets to cut back on overtime. The Senate has initiated similar, if smaller, cuts in office and committee budgets.
Lawmaker salaries, which are set by law, are unchanged at $174,000 for rank-and-file members
"I'm wondering whether or not this is going to hurt what we are doing here," said Rep. Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, top Democrat on the House Administration Committee. "How do you attract people who are qualified to do the job?" when policy staffers, who already may earn two or three times less than what they could get in the private sector, see their salaries cut and staff sizes frozen, he asked.


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MCV:We have been told that the French firm is keen to take over the publisher's brands and studios once THQ works through its current financial problems.
Those franchises would help Ubisoft become one step closer to becoming one of the big publishers
But who would take the new unannounced games? Some great potential in them.
Not to mention the publishing right to South Park and Metro.
Meh dont want Ubisoft to own Relic. Ubisoft killed heroes of might and magic and hasnt made a single decent rts this gen.
Nooooooooo! They will ruin Company of Heroes!!! They are not friends of PC gamers!


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In this homage to badly done B-movies on a shoe string budget from the 60's and 70's, Glitter Dick provides the soundtrack to their own grind house features with their first single, "Audiophile".
The Lineup:
Kendoll Killjoy - Vocals, keys, tambourine
Magnum P. Nye - Guitar/backing vocals
Dee Dee Ramen - Bass
Suzi de Sade - Drums/ backing vocals
Band Bio:
This is Glitter Dick. They are an unholy combination of garage rock and glam fueled by punk nihilism. So far they have already been protested by religious groups due to their name, banned from performing at some clubs due to their antics, and become known for their visceral live shows.
2012 sees them releasing their debut album "Sparkling Richard", producing a music video for their surf rock cover of Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss", and releasing their newest music video for their single "Audiophile", as well as a few as-of-yet-un-aired appearances on court tv.
But don't trust us, here's what others are saying about the band:
"This shiny gang of screaming trash ought to be your new favorite band." - Brokenbeard.com
"Taking different elements from within the garage rock genre, Glitter Dick creates a driving and hook-filled sound of their own." - Ian [Koffin Kats]
"We need a band like this again. Glitter Dick's self description is 'Play like Berry. Act Like Iggy. Look like Bowie'. We'd have to say that's pretty damn accurate. With the flair of acts like New York Dolls, they certainly do put on a 'show.'" - For the Love of Punk
"If you like rock 'n roll, check out Glitter Dick. If you don't like rock 'n roll, you're a pussy." - Brian Wilcox [Verse/Alpha&Omega], PunkWorldView's "Drunken Reviews"
"If you like rock 'n roll, Iggy Pop, Turbonegro, or even Danzig and outrageousness, you'll dig this!" - Ryan [Spanish Gamble/BoneShakers]
"Glitter Dick is on everyone's lips. Figuratively speaking, of course... expect the band to visually and sonically trash everything at this (and every) show. Just don't take it too seriously. Except for the rock and roll." - The Alibi
"Glitter Dick appears to be acting outrageous enough (splashing beer everywhere, stripping various articles of clothing, handing out penis-shaped cookies, hanging from the club's lights) to be bounced from every venue in town. The band's reply ? "If you haven't been banned at least once you're not in a real rock and roll band." - Wig Wam Bam
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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
I know that there are a number of pediatric doctors that read EMR and HIPAA along with a number of Pediatric EHR vendors. They could likely speak to the challenge of meaningful use and the EHR incentive money in much more depth than I. In fact, I hope they will chime in with the pediatric perspective on meaningful use and EHR money in the comments. As most of you know, I've always seen EMR and HIPAA as a forum for great discussion.
To start the discussion of pediatrics and EHR incentive money, I came across a couple tweets from AMIA 2012 that paint a very sad picture for most pediatricians when it comes to getting government money to help with their EHR implementation.
S80: Lehman – must have 20% pts on Medicaid for MU eligibility, but pts on Medicaid unevenly distributed. Diff for peds to qualify #AMIA2012
— Kim Unertl (@kimunertlphd) November 7, 2012
I wish that I had all the background on this tweet. However, the message is quite clear: it will be difficult for pediatrics to qualify for the EHR incentive money.
This second tweet puts some hard numbers on the pediatricians that could qualify for meaningful use:
Amongst challenges in Peds "Only 54% Pediatricians qualified for MU" because requires 20% Medicaid – Panel on EHR AND MU #AMIA2012
— Martha Adams, MD (@mbadams) November 7, 2012
This isn't such a surprise since meaningful use has always been so primary care focused. Meaningful Use has come a long way to try and include more medical specialties (see my post on radiology meaningful use), but it's hard to change something into something it wasn't ever intended to accomplish.
I look forward to hearing pediatricians' experience with meaningful use in the comments.


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Friday, August 31, 2012
My Greatest Discovery (COG 121)
I also had a soft spot for John myself. I knew both so much, and yet so little about him. He left letters and pictures and many records, but there were some periods in his life, especially his early years, which were a cipher. I knew who his parents were but had no records explicitly stating their connection. I also had many questions: When did he become a minister? How did he end up in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana (where he married)? Where in Germany did he do his missionary work? When exactly did he come back? When did he come to California and later, Oakland? What lasting effects, if any, did the Civil War have on him physically?
The deadline was looming for the book and while I had a lot of facts, I hadn't felt like I had done a good job of fleshing him out as a person. I was feeling frustrated one evening and decided to brain storm. What was the one thing John had been involved in most of his adult life and held most dear? His church. Luckily, the Methodist Church keeps wonderful records - but I didn't have time to write away for something and sit back for a month waiting. So, I went hunting online. I don't know what I was expecting but I felt the questions most likely to be answered were the ones pertaining to his work as a minister.
And then everything stopped. I found it. Was this correct? What was this? Is it my John Berger? It is! Oh my gosh, oh my gosh...
Historical Data and Life Sketches of the Deceased Ministers of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association, 1835 to 1915 (a dryer title you will never find), another, equally interesting version can be found here. I had spent the last few weeks working on the biography of a man who already had one written about him. A very good one, indeed, filled with the kind of detail you can usually only dream of and the kind only gleaned from first had accounts not usually written down in books.
I learned about all the places he served as a minister (he was a circuit rider so there were many) and even got found two new pictures of him - one as a young man. I also learned that he did his missionary work in Essen, Germany and came to California for his health. I learned that he had probably met his wife at the church conference that had been held in Evansville a few months before they married. And, I finally had black and white proof for what I long knew, who his parents were.
Then there were all the special, little surprises in store: he was finally persuaded to become a minister when he narrowly avoided being hit by lightning; while in Germany, he was once detained by a policeman on suspicion of being a spy; while a minister in Wabash, Indiana, he was thrown from his buggy and broke his leg and while still recovering, a fire broke out and burned the stable and part of the parsonage; he frequently contributed to church papers and served a variety of roles within the church; he felt his church should not merge with the non-German speaking Methodist Church; he was well loved most everywhere he preached.
I still can't really believe this even existed and was online but am so grateful to everyone from the original authors to the folks at the Internet Archive for putting this out there.
And how did the Christmas present turn out? Great! I ended up building the book around this biography (fleshing out areas in the biography only minimally touched on) and ended up with a nearly fifty page book (not bad when you consider the original biography was only about three pages long). And best of all, my grandmother loved it!
This post was written for the 121st Carnival of Genealogy.
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What a timely discovery, Leah! No wonder you were so excited. Being a circuit rider, there's a good possibility he kept a journal. Have you found any signs of that? I've heard stories from families of Methodist circuit riders who have actually located their ancestor's journal--a real treasure!ReplyDeleteReplies
Good point about the journal! I do have many letters that he wrote to his wife from the road, but a journal would be a wonderful find.Delete
What a wonderful discovery! I can only hope to find something like this on my lines. By the way, it's nice to see someone else has ancestors in California, especially Oakland. That's is where my relatives eventually wound up.ReplyDelete
How wonderful, Leah! You just never know when luck will come your way. Congrats on a terrific discovery and thanks for sharing it in the COG!ReplyDelete
Leah, Yours was the bestest kind of Christmas present to receive --- and give. and thank the good old internet for making those last minute efforts possible.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful gift for your grandmother! I truly enjoyed your story. Sometimes you have to wade through lots of mis-information on the internet but this proves there are treasures to be found.ReplyDelete


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On January 23, DC Comics announced a new campaign to support humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa, where a confluence of drought, famine, and Islamist militia rule have led some 13 million people to starvation.
The campaign, called "We Can Be Heroes," is a partnership with Time Warner and Warner Bros. and features iconic characters from DC Comics' "Justice League." These familiar faces, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg, will be broadcast widely on television, inviting viewers to go to the campaign website, where they can donate directly to aid humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa, or purchase goods like mugs or t-shirts whose proceeds partly (50 percent) will go to the campaign.
"While many individuals may feel powerless to effect change on their own, as part of a global campaign such as this, their efforts, combined with those of other donors, can create a world of change," stated the campaign's press release last week.
IN PICTURES: Monitor photographers in Africa
Alongside the advertising campaign, $2 million in cash donations, employee matching funds, and consumer matching funds will be donated to Save the Children, International Rescue Committee, and Mercy Corps over the next two years for their work in the Horn of Africa.
"We're launching 'We Can Be Heroes' now because the situation in the Horn of Africa is dire, and the people there are suffering the worst drought and famine in 60 years. There is urgency to the crisis, and we want and need to help now," Diane Nelson, the president of DC Comics, told Dowser. "We feel fundamentally that the more people know about what's happening in the Horn of Africa, the more they will want to help. DC Comics' Justice League characters are the perfect heroes to motivate awareness and action for this urgent crisis," she added.
Critics of Western aid programs, like Dambisa Moyo, have argued that ongoing flows of aid to African countries have done nothing to reduce poverty there. The famine in the East Horn is a crisis of a deep, structural nature; it rests on pre-existing, interlocking problems such as the rule of Al-Shabaab, climate change, and agricultural-production systems that lack resilience.
What can 2 million dollars do to alleviate a crisis like that?
"I hope the campaign will draw more attention, more public awareness, and donations," Michael Kocher, vice president of international programs at the International Rescue Committee, told Dowser. "It is difficult in situations where the onset of an emergency is slow, unlike the tsunami in Japan or the earthquake in Haiti, which got peoples' attention very quickly," he added. "Ethiopia was pre-provisioning livestock before the drought, which helped to avert crisis there. But without good governance and security, these preventative measures only do so much."
The idea of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) – and the DC Comics initiative is a good example of CSR – was birthed in the last few decades as companies began to envision their stakeholders – and not just their shareholders – as important beneficiaries of their services.
But CSR has not gone uncriticized. A few years ago, Forbes Magazine ran a series debating the idea: "Proponents insist that companies should take into account the interests of society as a whole while conducting business and claim they can do so profitably. Critics say only people can have moral obligations, and that companies are already helping the world by providing jobs for workers and goods for consumers. Others dismiss CSR as cynical marketing by rapacious, profit-maximizing multinationals," Forbes explained in the series overview.
A recent study by Forbes suggests that CSR may be evolving – perhaps, it could be argued, due to some criticism that it is no more than "window dressing" or greenwashing. The study looked at CSR in the cases of Eli Lilly, MasterCard, and Hewlett-Packard, and also surveyed a wide array of companies worldwide, and observed a few trends. One of them is that volunteerism has become more important in recent years, indicating that companies seek to engage in social impact projects beyond philanthropy alone. Another is that philanthropy can be most helpful to business goals when the CEO is actively involved in the program.
Janine Schooley, senior vice president of programs at PCI, a California-based organization dedicated to supporting sustainable development efforts worldwide, shared with Dowser her views on the potential impact of corporate social responsibility campaigns.
"Here at PCI we have found partnering with corporations or corporate foundations to be quite strategic and helpful in addressing the needs of the vulnerable communities we serve in Sub-Saharan Africa. Corporate Social Responsibility provides us with yet another tool, another set of much needed resources, whether they be cash, in-kind, or human resources. It takes effort to find the right intersection between a particular CSR focus and PCI's mission, but once we find it, the partnership can be very beneficial to all concerned," she said.
How effective will DC Comic's CSR initiative be? Stay tuned. In the coming months we'll be monitoring the implementation of the initiative, tracking what happens from the idea of the aid program to the execution – in the US and in the Horn of Africa.
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It's hardly Effie Trinket-pink, but Elizabeth Banks's new hair color is still eye-catching.
The Hunger Games star, who rarely varies from her golden-blonde hue, was seen out in L.A. heading into a salon with light hair and walking out with a noticeably deeper hue.
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Her new color appears to be an allover chestnut shade with honey and auburn tints throughout. And judging by her huge smile upon exiting, she doesn't buy that blondes have more fun.
Tell us: Do you like Banks as a brunette?
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Yes, Ira. I have plenty of free time. Please do call. 941 524 2075
Hello Ira; I can play after 5:30 and on the weekends. Q Daniels firstname.lastname@example.com
I will hit with you. Let me know where we can play. I would perfer to play after 4pm. I usually play doubles at the Meadows in the am but live in Palmer Ranch.
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Love to play for fun and exercise...still pretty quick for an old man! Play mostly at tuttle&17th. Mornings and evenings best but play in the dead heat of summer if it's fun.
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Hi everybody. This blog is about a show titled "Forever and Never" that just opened at Cal's Pharmacy in Portland. This show was: "A Collaborative Print Project By Michael Sieben And Nat Swope." So what does that mean? Well, it means that this show was in a skateshop and my buddy Nat and I thought that it would be really rad if we made artwork that was actually cheap enough for a skateboarder to buy. Our solution was to create a series of ten silk screened prints that we could sell for twenty dollars a piece. Twenty dollars? That's tight.
I've known Nat for about ten years now and we've been mailing each other little packages back and forth for pretty much that entire time. Nat is always sending me awesome little hand made sketch books filled with found paper, illustrations, type, etc. I love drawing in these books because the backgrounds in them always seem to work really well with my illustrations. I think it has something to do with seeing my work paired with design decisions that I wouldn't normally make. It creates happy surprises. You know what I mean? These are a few covers of some of the books Nat has sent my way.
So this particular show seemed like the perfect opportunity for us to work consciously on a project together instead of just doodling back and forth here and there.
We started out by talking on the phone and discussing a good starting point for the project.
We decided that I should send Nat some line art files to kick things off.
So I sent Nat three files. One had a bunch of finished illustrations. One had a bunch of stream of consciousness text. And one had a mess of really loose line art. Like cars with Christmas trees on top of them... you know. Loose.
Nat took those files and started to pick and choose and from what I had sent him pairing up images with text. Then he worked up some backgrounds and started adding found type and miscellaneous radness.
We sent the files back and forth a few times and made minor adjustments (similar to a game of ping pong) and then Nat hand printed all of the designs, packed them up, and sent them to Portland. This process was actually about 82 times more complicated, but for blogging's sake, I'm keeping it simple.
Then I got on a plane. It didn't take long for things to start not looking like Texas.
Trip on that.
It's sort of weird showing up to an art show not having seen any of the work for the show. I knew what the prints looked like on my monitor, but I hadn't actually seen any of them till I got to Portland.
Nat's a master screen printer so of course they looked tight. (Nat owns his own screen printing studio in Oakland called Bloom Press
And Nat totally surprised me with this thing.
He had secretly printed a little zine/book that had all of the prints inside.
One print, two print,
three print, four print,
five print, six print,
seven print, eight print,
nine print, ten print.
Despite the digital age, there will always be a need for human care and quality.
So anyway, we unloaded everything and told the interns to "GET TO WORK!" I'm kidding. That's Nat.
One down, nine to go...
You know how you feel when you spend all day flying somewhere and then you get to where you're going and instead of checking into a hotel and relaxing, you go someplace with a hard wooden floor and are expected to hang out for most of the night? No? Then you're probably not my wife.
Turns out it's a good idea to try to make hotel reservations more than two days before your trip.
But doesn't that last photo look a lot like this William Hundley photo? Is that weird? Or just tight?
So I totally messed up by not making hotel reservations ahead of time (and everything in Portland was "No Vacancy" because of some weird tennis match) but my buddy Alan Grosvenor and his lady April totally hooked us up and let us stay at their house.
Alan makes great music and he had a basement full of stuff to make the rad with.
This looks tight.
Oh, so here's the timeline: we flew in on Friday and framed all of the prints and hung the show. Then We went to Alan and April's house and played Nintendo bowling. Then we woke up on Saturday morning and it was snowing. Then we cruised around town and saw Portland Awesomeness. These bikes fall into that category.
So does this coffee. Stumptown!
Then Nat and I went back to the shop to put the final touches on everything before the opening. Anybody want to sign and number 500 prints?
We had all of the prints framed and hung on the wall and they were available for purchase from this table. It sort of looked like a merchandise table for a band since all of the prints were album cover size. I didn't take any photos during the opening because... well because you know what people at art shows look like already. Actually I just forgot.
Adidas is in Portland. Sneaker freaks begin blogging... now.
Okay, so this photo has absolutely nothing to do with the "Forever and Never" show, but I just thought it was so good that I had to share it. This is my buddy Dave and his friend P-Rod.
This is another photo that doesn't really relate to this blog, but I just thought it would make a nice ender to the article. Consider this to be me and you. Cheers, You! Cheers, Sieben! Yeah... that's tight.
Many many thanks to Dan Garland and all of the guys at Cal's Pharmacy for being such nice dudes. And many thanks to Alan and April for letting us stay at their house. If you have any interest in purchasing a set of prints, check my site in about a week for ordering information. Check you later internet.
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I agree with asking your doctor for full nutrition blood work testing. I've seen some interesting articles lately in the affects of low magnesium (numbers are reported that 70% of the country is deficient) causing sleep disturbances. Iodine deficiency (somewhere around 90% of the population!) can interfere with proper thyroid functions and bromide (aka brominated flour) actually stops the thyroid from absorbing iodine. It's something to look into. I began and ended my pregnancy at those exact weights and even with dairy restrictions the first year have only managed to get down to 135 two years later. I'm not sure of your height but I'm 5'3. I'd be unhealthy skinny at 112. You're definitely right in taking steps to find the cause of this. Here's one link on iodine:
I think the original article I read was from the Dr. Brownstein mentioned in it.


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