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American Bucking Bull, Incorporated. Due to the incredible popularity of the sport of professional bull riding and the many celebrity bucking bulls themselves, the PBR developed the official bucking bred cattle registry, American Bucking Bull, Inc. The ABBI offers valuable incentives to bull breeders, and preserves the lineage of today's top PBR bulls.
A PBR announcer interprets the action in the arena to the fans attending the live event. Knowing updated stats on the bulls, bull riders and stock contractors is crucial to a PBR announcer's job. Some PBR events employ just one announcer, while others may employ up to three.
The arena is the area in which the bull riding action takes place. The arena size depends upon the size and shape of the hosting venue, but a PBR arena typically averages 85 feet by 140 feet. The steel bucking chutes, panels, gates and posts that encircle the arena collectively weigh 50,000 pounds and, when assembled, equal 1,800 feet or six football fields worth of connected steel. The steel materials travel from event to event on a 53-foot long flat bed trailer pulled by a semi-truck.
The arena director is tasked with keeping the pace of the competition flowing by balancing the production elements in the arena with the competitive elements in and behind the bucking chutes. The arena director's role is especially critical during live televised events when television commercial breaks interrupt the live competition.
The term "average," when used in PBR context, is synonymous with "aggregate." It often is used to describe a rider's total event score on however many bulls he attempted at a given event (not including rerides). For example, a rider who scored 80 points on each of his three bulls has an average score of 240 points.
Style notes: When referring to a rider's total event score, it is more accurate to use "total score on xx bulls" (the "xx" indicates however many rounds in which a rider competed). If he competed in three rounds but successfully only rode two bulls, it is still most accurate to say "in three rounds." For example, if a particular rider scores 80 points, 90 points, and 0 points, in three consecutive rounds at a given event, his total score is "170 points on three bulls."
Bull riders use the term "away from his hand" or "away from my hand" to describe the scenario in which a bull is spinning in the direction opposite a rider's riding hand.
Example: A right-handed bull rider on a bull that spins to the left is riding a bull "away from his hand."
Located behind the arena's bucking chutes are the back pens, a maze of steel panels that serve as a holding and loading area for the bulls that await competition.
A barrelman's duty is to entertain the crowd during the "down time" that is inherent to the sport of bull riding. When bulls are being loaded, or the show is on hold due to live television breaks, a barrelman takes over and amuses spectators with impromptu dance routines or comical dialogue with the event's announcers. The barrelman often hangs around a custom-made barrel placed in the arena's center. The barrel not only protects the barrelman from a charging bull, but also provides bull riders with an island of safety if they are bucked off far from the arena fence or bucking chutes.
see Bull Rope
see Gold Buckle
Bodacious is among the most famed bulls in PBR history. The 1,900-pound Charbray bull was notorious for injuring some of PBR's most talented champions including 1995 PBR World Champion Tuff Hedeman, who was matched with Bodacious in the final round of the 1995 PBR World Championships. Several jumps into the match-up, Hedeman's face collided with the back of Bodacious' head, shattering dozens of Hedeman's facial bones. Bodacious, owned by Texas stock contractor Sammy Andrews, was retired from competition in December of 1995, and died of natural causes in 2000 at the age of 12.
The success of bucking bull breeding programs across North America has proven that genetics is the most prevalent factor is determining a bull's desire and ability to buck. For years, finding a good bucking bull among a herd of common sale barn bovines was a frustrating matter of chance for stock contractors since a bull will only buck if he possesses the innate desire and natural instinct to do so. Today, that instinct is being pinpointed through genetics, and the science of breeding great bucking bulls has made the business of owning bucking bulls one that requires money and patience rather than sheer luck.
A bull rider who is "bucked off" is thrown from the bull before the required eight seconds expire. The rider consequently does not earn a score.
see Chute
The Built Ford Tough Championship Round is the champion-determining round of competition at each Built Ford Tough Series event. A bull rider advances to the Built Ford Tough Championship Round by finishing among the 15 highest-scoring riders in the event's preliminary rounds. Just as the Built Ford Tough Championship Round features the event's 15 best bull riders, it also features an event's 15 most difficult bulls as determined by PBR's Livestock Director.
The title of PBR Built Ford Tough Series World Champion annually goes to the rider with the most Built Ford Tough Series Points accumulated throughout the season. This point system ensures that the most consistent rider throughout an entire season is crowned the undisputed Built Ford Tough Series World Champion. Built Ford Tough Series Points are awarded only at Built Ford Tough Series events and are calculated by the score of the bull ride plus bonus points for the position in which a rider finishes in each round and overall at each event.
Style notes: "Points" should be capitalized when used as part of the name "Built Ford Tough Series." If referring to points without reference to the official title of "Built Ford Tough Series Points," capitalization is not necessary.
Built Ford Tough Series Points standings reflect a bull rider's overall season ranking among fellow bull riders on the Built Ford Tough Series tour. Each rider begins the new season with zero points and must earn his ranking in the standings by accumulating points at Built Ford Tough Series events throughout the season. The Built Ford Tough Series Points standings are tabulated beginning with the first regular event of the season. The standings are updated each night following a Built Ford Tough Series competition.
The PBR's "major league" tour is the 34-city Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler. The Built Ford Tough Series features the PBR's top 45 bull riders competing at each event throughout the year. A Built Ford Tough Series rider must win enough money to maintain his ranking among the top 45 bull riders.
Style notes: Prior to the 2003 season, the Built Ford Tough Series was known as the Bud Light Cup Series, however Bud Light Cup Series is not correct when referencing an event in 2003 or later. When referencing an event prior to 2003, just use the year and event title (2002 PBR Anaheim Open). On first reference, Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler is preferred. For each additional reference, Built Ford Tough Series is acceptable.
The title of Built Ford Tough Series World Champion is awarded to the bull rider who, upon conclusion of regular-season Built Ford Tough Series events and the Built Ford Tough Series World Finals, is ranked No. 1 in the Built Ford Tough Series Points standings.
Style notes: Prior to the 2003 season, the Built Ford Tough Series World Champion was known as the Bud Light Cup World Champion, however Bud Light Cup World Champion is not correct in reference to a PBR world champion crowned in 2003 or later. When referencing a world champion whose title was earned prior to 2003, "PBR World Champion" is acceptable. When referencing a world champion crowned in 2003 or after, Built Ford Tough Series World Champion is preferred. The Built Ford Tough Series World Champion is not synonymous with the Built Ford Tough Series World Finals Champion. (see also Built Ford Tough Series World Finals Champion)
The title of Built Ford Tough Series World Finals Champion is awarded to the bull rider who earns the highest cumulative score at the Built Ford Tough Series World Finals presented by Wrangler whitch is held in Las Vegas each year.
A bullfighter's job is to distract a bull when a bull rider either bucks off his bull or dismounts after his eight-second ride. The distraction provided by the bullfighter gives the rider a chance to get back to his feet and out of harm's way.
Style notes: Bullfighter is one word; it is not "bull fighter."
Bulls that compete in PBR competition come in an array of shapes, sizes and colors and display their own personalities and traits that make them unique in the bull-riding arena. Though a bucking bull is often in his prime as an athlete around age five or six, many bulls buck past the age of 10 and, when retired from competition, are used as sires in bucking bull breeding programs.
Upon conclusion of the annual PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals, the toughest animal athlete, as determined by the highest score recorded by a bull during World Finals.
A bull that is said to "change directions" exhibits a bucking pattern in which he changes direction laterally forward and backwards or side to side.
A bull rider is the human athlete in the man-versus-beast sport of bull riding. A bull rider must be 18 years or older to obtain the membership required of each PBR competitor.
Style notes: Bull rider is two words; it is not "bullrider."
The bull rope is what the bull rider grips throughout the ride. It is wrapped around the chest of the bull directly behind the animal's front legs. At the bottom of the rope hangs a metal bell designed to give the rope some weight so that it will fall off the bull as soon as the rider is bucked off or dismounts the animal.
A bull ride originates inside a gated steel box called a chute. There are typically six chutes at each PBR competition lined lengthwise at one end of the arena. However, some events have a set of six chutes at each end of the arena for a total of 12. The bull rider and bull remain in a designated chute until the arena is clear and the rider has strapped his hand in his bull rope. When the rider is ready, he nods his head, signaling the gate man to open the chute gate and allow the ride to begin.
When a rider "covers" his bull, he successfully stays aboard the bull for eight seconds and therefore earns a score for his efforts.
Dillinger, the 2000 and 2001 PBR Bull of the Year, is one of PBR's most recognized animal athletes. The black, white-faced bull owned by Texas-based Herrington Cattle Co. is the only PBR bull to twice win the prestigious Bull of the Year title. A leg injury sustained in June 2002 currently prevents Dillinger from competing at PBR events. When in top form, Dillinger stands out as one of the strongest, most agile bulls in the business. He jumps high, spins fast and kicks hard - all desired traits of a great bucking bull.
A bull ride is over when either the bull rider is bucked off or the eight-second time requirement is met. When a bull rider is still in control of the ride when the eight-second buzzer sounds, he must dismount or get off the bull as safely as possible. To dismount, a bull rider most commonly reaches down with his free hand, jerks loose his riding hand from his bull rope and flings himself off as the bull is kicking so that the momentum of the kick will propel the rider as far away from the bull as possible. When possible, a rider waits until the bull is moving or spinning away from his riding hand, at which time the bull rider dismounts in the direction of his riding hand.
Example: A right-handed bull rider waits until the bull spins left, at which time he dismounts off the animal's right side.
Sometimes a bull rider can be disqualified and therefore receive a no-score even if he stays aboard his designated bull for eight seconds. A bull rider is disqualified if he touches the bull or himself with his free hand during the ride or if his riding hand comes free from the bull rope at any point during the eight-second ride.
Often times a rider will enter a PBR event in advance but then sustain an injury that prevents him from competing at that event. If a rider must withdraw from competition because of an injury, he is required to submit a doctor release. The doctor release provides PBR officials with written proof from a physician that the bull rider's injury is serious enough that he cannot or should not compete. This formality makes an injured bull rider exempt from any applicable entry fees or fines assessed for skipping an event. Once a rider doctor releases, however, he is ineligible to compete in any PBR competition for the following 10 days.
The expression "down in the well" is used by bull riders to describe a situation in which a bull is spinning in one direction and the force of the spin pulls the rider down the side of the bull into motion's vortex. This is a dangerous scenario that often results in a bull rider getting hung up to the bull.
An event's list of bull riders and the bulls with which they are randomly paired is called the 'draw.' The draw for a Built Ford Tough Series event is typically created via computer the Wednesday prior to an event. If a bull rider says he has a 'good draw' it means he is happy with the bull that he was randomly selected to ride.
Eight seconds is the amount of time a bull rider must stay aboard his bull to receive a score. During the eight-second ride, the bull rider cannot touch his free hand to the bull or himself or he will be disqualified.
Eight Seconds is the title of a 1990s movie based on the life of the late Lane Frost, a world champion bull rider who was fatally injured at the 1989 Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days.
Eight Seconds is the title of PBR's official souvenir program sold at each PBR Built Ford Tough Series event.
In most cases a bull rider cannot just show up to an event and expect to compete. Rather he must enter the event by calling PBR Headquarters and submitting his name and intention to compete.
A bull that fades during a ride moves backward while simultaneously spinning or bucking in one or more directions.
The first round or "go" is the first and sometimes the only preliminary round of competition at a PBR event. A high score in the first round is important to a bull rider because it counts toward his qualification for the Built Ford Tough Championship Round.
A flank man is the person who fits the flank strap on the bull and tightens it, if necessary, as the bull exits the chute. Different bulls respond to flank straps in different ways, making it important for the flank man to know the bull's tendencies - this knowledge helps a flank man judge how tight or loose to make the flank strap on a given bull. Because this knowledge of each bull is so important, a flank man often is the stock contractor who owns the bull or a livestock supervisor who works for that stock contractor.
A flank strap is a strap that goes around the flank of a bull. Its purpose is to enhance the natural bucking motion of a bull and to encourage the animal to extend its hind legs when trying to get his rider on the ground. The flank strap never covers or goes around a bull's genitals, and no sharp or foreign objects are ever placed inside the flank strap to agitate the animal. Pulling the flank strap too tight would restrict a bull's motion, making it uncomfortable for the bull to perform. The flank strap is designed for quick release and is removed immediately after the bull exits the arena.
If a rider is fouled, it means something happened during the eight-second ride that gave the bull an unfair advantage over the bull rider. This can include the bull rubbing on or hitting the bucking chute at start of the ride or the flank strap falling off the bull before the ride is over. When a foul occurs, the judges often award the bull rider the option of a reride.
A bull rider's free hand is the hand he does not use to grip the bull rope during a ride. The free hand must stay in the air throughout the ride. If it touches the bull, or the bull rider before eight seconds elapse, the rider is disqualified and receives no score.
An event's gate man is positioned in the arena in front of the designated chute from which a ride is about to start. The gate man, holding onto a nylon rope tied to the designated chute's gate, waits for a bull rider's cue to open the chute gate, thus allowing the ride to begin. The gate man must quickly open the chute gate as wide as possible and immediately get out of the way as the bull and bull rider exit the chute.
A rider's glove is made of thick, soft leather. It is designed to let the rider grip the bull rope with ease while protecting his riding hand from rope burn.
The PBR World Champion annually is presented with his sport's coveted gold buckle, the ultimate symbol of achievement in bull riding. The custom-made belt buckle is valued at more than $10,000.
The Glen Keeley Award annually is presented to the Canadian bull rider who earns the most money throughout an entire PBR season. The award is in memory of Glen Keeley, a Canadian bull rider who was fatally injured March 24, 2000, during PBR competition in Albuquerque, N.M.
When a bull rider dismounts from or is bucked off a bull, the bull sometimes goes after the rider or the bullfighter and attempts to hook the human target with his horns. This is known as being "hooked."
Sometimes a rider gets tossed from a bull but is unable to free his riding hand from his bull rope and therefore is "hung up" to the bull. When this dangerous scenario occurs, the bullfighters often move in to help the bull rider free his hand from his rope and get away from the bull.
Bull riders use the term "into his hand" or "into my hand" to describe the scenario in which a bull is spinning in the same direction of a rider's riding hand.
Example: A right-handed bull rider on a bull that spins to the right is riding a bull "into his hand."
PBR judges, who determine a rider's score based upon his and the bull's performances, are hired based on strict and extensive qualifications maintained by the PBR Board of Directors and members. PBR management has created the position of Judging Administrator. This person is responsible for coordinating judging staff for all PBR events and monitoring the accuracy and professionalism of all officials. Each Built Ford Tough Series event now employs four judges. Each judge has 50 points to distribute for each ride (25 points for the bull, and 25 points for the rider.) The Total form each of these judges in added together to get the ride's total score. Four judges also officiate the PBR Built Ford Though World Finals where quarter points are allowed by the event judges.
The Lane Frost/Brent Thurman Award is presented each year to the bull rider who makes the highest-scoring ride at the Built Ford Tough Series World Finals. The award is in memory of bull riders Lane Frost, who was fatally injured during competition at the 1989 Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days, and Brent Thurman, who sustained fatal injuries at the 1994 National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
When the chute gate opens on the left side (to the bull rider's left).
The only consecutive three-time PBR World Champion Bull (2002 - 2004). Little Yellow Jacket retired in 2005 and also holds the distinction of being the bull upon which 2000 and 2003 PBR World Champion Chris Shivers had the opportunity to win $1,000,000 if he was able to cover him for the requisite 8 seconds. Shivers was bucked off in less than 2 seconds. Little Yellow Jacket left the arena making his owners, Berger, Teague and Taupin, $50,000 richer.
The PBR Livestock director works with numerous stock contractors nationwide to ensure that the highest-caliber bucking bulls in the sport are used in PBR competition. PBR Board of Directors advisor and former competitor Cody Lambert serves as PBR's Livestock Director.
Muley is a term used to describe a hornless bull.
see Judges
One of the most anticipated parts of any Built Ford Tough Series event is its opening ceremony, a multi-media production that incorporates elaborate props, stage lighting, video, music and pyrotechnics. The production typically runs 15 minutes and costs roughly $750 per minute.
As of July 2007, the PBR headquarters are located in Pueblo, Colorado. A full-time staff of more then 100 employees works year-round either at PBR headquarters, from international offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico, or on the road at hundreds of annual PBR events.
The PBR Rookie of the Year award goes to the bull rider who, in his first year of PBR competition, earns more money than any other first-year competitor. Prior to 2003, points acquired throughout the season determined who received the Rookie of the Year award.
The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) is the sanctioning body for rodeo throughout the United States. Though a handful of PBR bull riders also hold memberships in PRCA, the PBR is in no way affiliated with PRCA or its sanctioned events.
Pro Bull Rider Outreach serves as a traveling ministry for Christian bull riders whose involvement in PBR competition prevents them from attending services at their hometown place of worship. The ministry, spearheaded by former PBR bull rider and current PBR judging administrator, Cody Custer, organizes church services for bull riders to attend during most Built Ford Tough Series events. The services, open to all PBR riders, staff and the public, are usually conducted on the second morning in the Built Ford Tough Series host venue at each event.
When a rider makes an eight-second ride and is not disqualified, he has made a qualified ride and, therefore, earns a score.
Though Built Ford Tough Points determine the annual PBR World Champion, a rider earns and maintains his ranking on the Built Ford Tough Series by being among the 45 highest-ranked riders in the PBR Qualifier Standings. The Qualifier Standings are calculated by how much money a rider earns in all levels of PBR competition. Thus, earning money on PBR's Challenger Tour, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, or Discovery Tour events, as well as on the PBR's International circuits is vital for riders seeking a spot on the lucrative Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler. At the end of PBR's regular season, the top 45 riders in the PBR Qualifier Standings qualify for the Built Ford Tough Series World Finals.
A bull that is difficult to ride is considered "rank."
Judges are allowed to award a bull rider a reride - a second opportunity to compete on a different bull - if they feel his first bull did not perform at the level of other bulls in the competition and, therefore, did not give him a fair chance to earn a high score. The reride bulls are selected prior to the event and kept with the other bulls that are in the draw should the need for a reride arise.
Rider Relief Fund, established in 1999, provides financial aid to bull riders whose careers are put on hold by injury. Resistol contributed more than $1 million in seed money to start the non-profit fund that helps professional, college and high school bull riders and bullfighters who sustain injuries during competition. Money is raised via personal contributions and a variety of annual fund raisers including golf tournaments, silent auctions and a blackjack tournament.
PBR regular-season events take place year-round and culminate at key post-season events scheduled for each level of PBR competition. The Built Ford Tough Series regular season includes tour events that span from November through the following October. The Built Ford Tough Series post season is the Built Ford Tough Series World Finals presented by Wrangler, which is held in Las Vegas in late October or early November.
The hand a bull rider uses to grip his bull rope is called his "riding hand."
When the chute gate opens on the right side (to the bull rider's right).
The PBR Ring of Honor, similar to many sports' hall-of-fame honors, is reserved for select bull riders whose contributions to the sport of bull riding last beyond their success in the competitive arena. The award, symbolized by a custom-made, gold-and-diamond ring engraved with the honoree's name and the PBR logo, is bestowed upon its recipients each year during a ceremony at the Built Ford Tough World Finals.
The PBR Rookie of the Year award goes to the bull rider who, in his first year of PBR competition, earns more points than any other first-year competitor. From 2003-12, the award was presented to the bull rider whoearned the most money during his first PBR season.
The second round or "go" is the second preliminary round of competition at a PBR event. A high score in the second round is important to a bull rider because it counts toward his qualification for the Built Ford Tough Championship Round.
A rider is seeded if he is ranked among the top 45 bull riders.
The "short go" or "short go round" is a slang term for the Built Ford Tough Championship Round. (see also Built Ford Tough Championship Round)
If a rider slaps a bull with his free hand during a ride, he is disqualified and, therefore, does not receive a score.
A bull that displays a bucking pattern in which he spins in a tight circle throughout the ride is often referred to by bull riders as a "spinner."
Bull riders wear spurs that are required to have dull, loosely locked rowels (the wheel-like part of the spur that comes in contact with the animal). The spurs help a rider maintain his balance by giving him added grip with his feet. The spurs do not cut or scratch a bull's hide, which is seven times thicker than a human's skin.
PBR Livestock Director Cody Lambert works with numerous stock contractors - the people who own and lease bulls to the PBR - to ensure that the pool of bulls used at each event are the highest caliber possible. Most Built Ford Tough Series events feature an estimated 80 to 90 bulls that are supplied by as many as ten, oftentimes more, different PBR stock contractors, depending upon the location and duration of the event.
Upon conclusion of each PBR season, the PBR Stock Contractor of the Year award is presented to the stock contractor who, based on a vote of PBR bull riders, has consistently supplied the highest quality bucking bulls at PBR events.
The term "turn back" is used to describe a bull that displays a bucking pattern in which he heads in one direction and then makes a sharp move in the opposite direction.
A bull rider who enters a competition and then decides to forfeit his entry fees and not compete for reasons other than injury has "turned out" of the competition. If injury forces a bull rider to opt out of competition, the bull rider doctor releases from competition and is not required to forfeit his entry fee. Built Ford Tough Series riders are not allowed to turn out of competition or they will face strict fines. This rule ensures that the world's best bull riders are featured at every Built Ford Tough Series event.
Invented by former PBR rider Cody Lambert, the vest is designed to prevent injury when a rider gets stomped on or gored by a bull. The vest is made of a material called Kevlar, the same material used to make bulletproof vests. A rider's vest helps protect bones and internal organs that are otherwise vulnerable to injury if crushed by a 2,000-pound bull.


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Gaddafi, the inevitable bloody end.21 10 2011
With the exception of Tony Blair, the modern day Lord Balfour who had "special" business and political relations with Gaddafi, every one in Libya and the Arab world is quite happy with the news of the end of Mouamar Gaddafi and his regime. It is only fitting for a bloody dictator and a regime to meet a bloody end. No one should shed tears. Contrary to his claim to die fighting, Gaddafi was pulled from a sewer pipe like a rat.
Like so many bloody kelpto-criminal dictatorships, Gaddafi was and for a time the darling of the West specially after abandoning his weapons of mass destruction program. The US George Bush dispatching Condi Rice to engaged him and Hilary Clinton as recent as this January treated his son Moutasim as royalties warmly shaking hands with the towering Moutasim.
While the US did not sponsor Mouamar Gaddafi in certain periods of his regime, it did engage him and according to certain reports facilitated his coming to power and with the exception of Fiedel Castro the US engaged if not sponsored every dictator and dictatorships in Latin and Central America, in the Middle East, in East Europe, certainly in the Far East.
The US more than any other country in the world should take the blame for the millions who died and suffered under military dictatorship that not only killed and tortured its citizens but looted the country as well.
We all need to remember the likes of the late Shah of Iran who was brought back to power by coupe organized by the CIA with a planned budget of $1,000,000 with $100,000 distributed in cash to the streets and the remaining $900,000 was handed over by Kermit Roosevelt to Ardashire Zahedi as part of Operation Ajax.
The Shah who ruled his country with an iron fist relying on the CIA, Mossad and his torturous SAVAK also looted the country and allowed his close circle of generals and advisors to loot tens billions of dollars allowing them to live the good life in Switzerland, in West Europe, certainly in the US and around Washington DC.
While the people lived in dire poverty in the country side, the Shah was able to spend $100 millions on his coronation ceremony in 1967 in the city of Persepolis as King of Kings with heads of states, diplomats, movie starts counted among the guests with caviar, chefs and Baccarat crystals flown from France dinning on Limoges porcelain china.
We all should remember the end of the man, politicians and socialists adorned him as "emperor of emperors", dejected pegging for a country to give him asylum and a place to die.
Nicolae Ceausescu was anther dictator much beloved and admired by American presidents who received him in White House, simply because who took an independent line from Moscow when it came to the Middle East and his relationship with Israel not withstanding his bloody and ruthless dictatorship and his looting of the country making every Romanian poor with the exception of his immediate family and his close circle of friends. I will never forget that night in a Geneva hotel when I saw his execution on December 25th, 1989.
General Suharto of Indonesia and General Ferdinand Marcos were among the many dictators the US not only supported but sponsored delivering weapons and riot fighting equipments allowing these two to loot their country blind and run authoritarian bloody regimes with wide spread corruptions, all in the name of supporting anti-Communist regimes.
In Latin and Central the US and over the last century have supported and given aid and comfort to a dozen of civilian and military dictatorship key among them the likes of Anatasio Somoza Garcia and his family, Fulencio Batista of Cuba, General Noriega of Panama, and of course General Augusto Pinochet who ruled Chile with an iron fist for 17 years, murdering in cold blood mover 3,000 and torturing hundreds of thousands.
In Central America, the US the could not find one military dictator it did not like. The US sponsored, trained and funded the many military rulers and dictators that ruled Central America where some 500,000 people died or killed as a direct result of these military dictatorship and the wars they waged against their people and the resulting civil wars.
In Africa the story was no different, American presidents disgraced the White House with receptions offered to killers and murderers the likes of Samuel Doe of Liberia, who upon taking control in a bloody coupe tied more than 17 members of Liberian cabinet to palm trees and shot them.
Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire was another favored dictator favored in Washington, Paris, London and Brussels. Mubuto Sese Seko took over Zaire in a CIA sponsored coupe on 14 September 1960 and ran Zaire to the ground while looting its wealth. Western governments were only too happy to support such criminal dictators as long as they claim to fight Communism.
In the Middle East the story was no different. It is well known fact that the CIA not only provided safe house for Saddam when he was injured and fled the attempted assassination attempt on General Abdul-Kareem Qassem and later in 1968 sponsored his return to Iraq to become the VP of Iraq.
During the 8 years war with Iran, the US under the Reagan administration gave Saddam Hussein over $40 Billions in aid in his fight against Iran and forced the neighboring Arab Gulf countries to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to Saddam, money and resources that could have done wonder in the development of the Arab world from Morocco to Yemen to Syria to Bahrain.
Until the evening of his invasion of Kuwait, Saddam was America and Europe favorite Arab dictators knowing well he ran a bloody criminal authoritarian regime were more than one million persons were killed or murdered and were for the first time chemical weapons were used against civilians targets, Iraqi Kurds killing 5,000 instantly and injuring 10,000. Donald Rumselfed was to deliver Ronald Reagan congratulations to the Iraqi dictator.
The United States played a key and critical role in perpetuating Saddam Hussein dictatorship providing it with money, economic and military aids and of course providing legal and international cover and immunity for its crimes. Thanks to a freedom loving American administration millions of people died during and after Saddam in Iraq, and in Iran and over $1.5 Trillions of Arab wealth simply disappeared and evaporated if not looted by the merchants of death.
Hosni Mubarak and Bin Ali were the darling of the United States the model of modern Arab rulers and police states where dictators rule with iron fists making sure the country and the West id free of "Islamists" and rewarding these two regimes for their openness and special relationship with Israel.
No doubt the US which contracted countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan and other North Africa countries as "torture contractor" was only too happy to seek these rulers and dictators and their families not only loot the country clean but imprisoned, killed and tortures tens of thousands of citizens.
Kelpto-dictarotship touted by the World Bank and the IMF as model emerging economies were millions lived below poverty lines and with millions unemployed. International donors, financial instructions never looked beyond the "cooked" financial and economic books presented by the leadership of these countries and never bothered to leave their 5 stars hotels and see the utter misery the majority of people lived in.
With Mouamar Gaddafi meeting the bloody end he deserve the Arab Spring must continue and succeed in countries and against dictatorship
In Syria, in Yemen perhaps with these dictators meeting the same bloody end. Those who rule by the sword will die by the sword. Grieved, oppressed, tortures and dramatized people should not have mercy on those who rules them.
In closing I want to address this question to President Obama and the leaders of the West, why is it OK for the Libyans, the Syrians and the Yemenis, the Egyptians and the Tunisians to rise up against oppression and dictatorship and in the case of Libya to use force with support from NATO while denying the Palestinians the right to have a seat at the UN to seek freedom and independence from the Jewish Occupation, not by use of arms but by getting a UNSC resolution to demand the immediate end of the Jewish Occupation that lasted more than Gaddafi 42 years of bloody rule? An explanation is needed

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Pauline Ghougasian, owner of Mode Image in Lewiston, recently opened her salon to some middle school students from the Tuscarora Indian School. She talked to students about having a career as a hairstylist or cosmetologist, and what is involved in running your own business. She explained about finances, scheduling, time and money management, ordering supplies and keeping inventory.
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Almost everyone at The Classic Grand has come to see someone in particular, and whilst other acts will follow, the people here now want to see Ross Cairns.
A 17 year old performer, Ross is what some people would call a DJ, but what he calls a live act. Utilising mixing software and decks, he follows in the same vein as artists such as Skrillex, or his inspiration, Deadmau5. When I asked him how he started four years ago, he said "I do like a lot of genres in electronic music, but Deadmau5 is the one who got me into everything". Despite this, his opening track couldn't have been further from what anyone expected. With heavy guitar from another artist, one Michael Hamilton, Ross showed he can blend genres and balance tracks well, whilst also producing original tracks. As an opening it was powerful.
The rest of the set was his alone however, and featured both remixes of popular artists such as Example and Skrillex, even Pendulum at one point. Ross' own work played alongside was equally good, in some respects much better than any remix he played. The genres were a combination of trance, dubstep and electro for the most part, with focuses on heavy bass lines and perfectly timed drops to get the crowd jumping. In Ross' own words, "There's never too much bass!"
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All of this talent doesn't go to his gigs alone however. Having already self released an album online, and with an EP on iTunes, Ross has shown he has the determination to go even further. On the next step forward he told me, "I'm really hoping to play in bigger venues, more club focused maybe". If there's a sure way to rate a musician, it's by how their crowd reacts, and Ross' crowd barely stopped moving to the quick tempo and upbeat rhythm he gave them. One of those fans was full of praise, Keiran Mellon, an 18 year old student said "I really think he set the tone at the start, with smoother slower tunes, and he built up to the heavier stuff, the heavier bass that got the crowd going, his interaction with the crowd was great."
Ross currently has a Facebook page and his EP, "Finding a Constant" is on iTunes. He also posts to his Youtube channel and Soundcloud, where he uploads upcoming tracks and the pieces he's working on. All of which can be found below.


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Tribune Co. has named Edward Lazarus, a former high-ranking Federal Communications Commission official and one-time federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, as its executive vice president and general counsel.
Lazarus, 53, is the first key hire for Tribune's new chief executive Peter Liguori, who took office this month. Tribune, parent company of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and KTLA-TV Channel 5, emerged from protracted bankruptcy proceedings Dec. 31 with new ownership and plans to redefine the Chicago-based company's leadership and direction.
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by LoganRSA » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:41 pmI wonder what the Bass would say, since he knew we hated Marvel.
by Punchy » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:47 amI posted two positive front page articles about DC only last week, one was about the new Vertigo announcements, the other was Albuquerque taking over as Animal Man artist.
by SuperginraiX » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:58 amIt has been a while since I posted regular front page articles. I was actually a member of the news group back when it was just Jude and me copy/ pasting the press releases that Marvel and Image (and sometimes Dark Horse and Oni) sent out to us. We'd also venture over to DC's blog to grab the press releases that they wouldn't just friggin' email to us.
And then I got a full time job that wouldn't allow me to post copy/ paste press releases. Jude and Blue wondered what the heck they would do and they came up with genius. Instead of doing the whole copy/ paste thing and losing all interest in anything comic booky, they decided to read a press release or an article from another site and then snark the hell out of it. It didn't matter which company it was. They would be the comic book version of the Daily Show and the Onion.
And it's been awesome. Seriously. I read some of these articles and tears come out of my eyes, I'm laughing so hard. I sometimes get to read the stuff left on the cutting room floor and I sometimes get to tell Jude he's going too far. So I still pretend I'm involved. Around this new news initiative, they've gathered a couple other great writers to help with the snark. And, of course, we still get some non-snarky articles. I've only attempted one satirical article and it wasn't very good.
DC gives us a lot of ammunition but I think they really put themselves in our sites when they did that whole blacklisting thing. I mean, that forced us into stepping up our game. So... MAYBE the Outhouse rips on DC more than Marvel... MAYBE... but I see a LOT of jibes headed in Marvel's direction because both companies do insanely stupid things that just NEED to be mocked and ridiculed. They also both produce some comics that are ACTUALLY good and have reader that genuinely enjoy them.
I liken this "You have a ________ favoritism" thing to something that happens to every fan publication ever. I remember reading in my EGM magazines back in the day. Depending on the reader, EGM loved Nintendo or Sega or Sony or maybe they hated them all. It's natural for fans to feel like an oppressed minority and that their point of view isn't being properly expressed by the publication of their choice. I don't know WHY that's natural but it happens so often that it MUST be.
To any readers who feel like they are avoiding this place because posters or staff will mock your reading choices, I am sorry you feel this way. Maybe you should read better comics. I mean... I hope this isn't actually the case. I know this site has a few Heralds (probably on both sides of the issue) but Herald actually makes me want to love DC even though I really don't. He makes me want to support everything Dan Didio does. (Full cards on the table: I no longer read DC OR Marvel books on a regular basis-- I only read Transformers comics)
TL;DR synopsis: This is all my fault and I am truly sorry. It is also your fault.
by nietoperz » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:15 amMeanwhile, it seems Dan Didio is claiming on Twitter that Kot was always supposed to be temporary, but Kot himself is disagreeing (very respectfully) and wants to have a private conversation with the boss man.
Another sterling PR job, DC! Kudos.
by fieldy snuts » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:18 am
We shouldn't know this.
by xaraan » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:30 pm
I take issue with you taking issue!! There is no dogpiling going on that I see. In fact, I see DC fanboys being much more aggressive than people are toward them. I'd be curious to see the "several posters PMing him" but regardless, there are plenty of good reviews of DC books (some that I've written) and I don't see people bitching at me about enjoying them. I don't scour the forum constantly b/c I'm usually working on front page stuff, but I'm not seeing some sort of giant movement of anti-dc posts where people gang up on anyone that enjoys DC.
As for people buying comics, everyone likes different stuff, but I'm sure there is not only a few completionists out there buying stuff, but also people that just buy things because they like the character and hope it will get better. But it is quite clear to see the stuff we are talking DC to task for isn't pulled out of thin air, they are legitimate issues, no matter how many books you like.
In the end, let's be clear about something. The people the most mad at DC are probably quite often DC readers. I'm not a big DC reader, I read a few books they put out and could honestly care less about most of the stuff I see for hasdcdone... Personally, I want all comics to be better, I want the industry to be better, I don't care if DC, Marvel, or one of the smaller pubs is leading the way. But this crap about how this person is a DC fan b/c they shut up and buy books and this person isn't b/c they bitch needs to stop. Too many people think someone writing an article taking DC to task for something is anti-DC, that's the problem.
by xaraan » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:34 pm
Going through thread in order, just saw clarification of "dogpiling".
But I don't know what to say about people scared someone will disagree with them on the internet. Welcome to the world, people aren't always going to love what you love. Frankly, I'd rather comment on a real discussion than with a circle jerk of people that just all agree with me. The fact that IvCn and you having an opposing view that you stand up for makes more sense to me than everyone falling into line.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:40 pmFor me, when I see a piece of comic news out there, I immediately think, "how can I make fun of this?" It's not a personal pissing match with DC or anyone else. It's an extension of the atmosphere that's always existed here on The Outhouse (and any place where friends shoot the shit) - it's ragging on stuff, even stuff you like, to make each other laugh.
DC's Dilbertesque corporate behavior is an easy target. It's their own fault, really. I don't think I make fun of the actual content of the books too much (though I'm sure there are cases where I do). When the Nu52 launched, I started reading more DC books than before, and it's only because some of them have been canceled and I couldn't handle all the crossovers in the Bat Books that I am now reading less.
I was a big fan of their attempt to do genres other than superhero, even though most (all?) of those books are canceled.
by xaraan » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:54 pm
I have written positive reviews of DC books (not like I churn out a ton of comic reviews) I also wrote up the nightwing story "straight", not that I spun it for good or bad, just presented the facts and my thoughts and let people share theirs and I didn't build it into a hasdc... article. Angela and I do normal, straight interviews and articles on conventions, but that is DC's fault that that news isn't getting created now (we got shafted by them at Wondercon long before the issue with Zechs popped up and we knew something was up) We still talk to several people that work with DC on good terms (and they are fans of what we do actually). Granted, I don't do a ton of the comic news, but I also promoted the heck out of Man of Steel (which bit me in the ass b/c I hated that movie). I have also tried out more DC books since the new52 relaunch than I have books from all other companies combined (it's not my fault if they didn't win me over).
I remember blue writing an article about the new52 initiative that was very positive (back when they were still doing well with it numbers wise) that even got linked from other sites. We also cover the show Arrow with a very popular series after each episode.
Some of us have no problem writing something good about DC (or anyone else, or bad about anyone else either - in fact, I don't think many of us that work on the front page daily really do). Personally, I call shit the way I see it and I feel like the others do as well. If you have a different opinion, then yes, it is up to you to put it out there, you can make an article about how such and such is great in response to a hasdc... article instead of just commenting on it and show the other side of the story. Are you waiting for someone that doesn't feel that way to write it up? Because I would think it would come off best from someone that truly believed that.
Now, as for "environment that supports it", what do you want? You want us to control what happens in comments? We don't do that in our articles, why would positive DC articles get special treatment? Who cares if someone shits on it or disagrees, have you not seen some of the crazy responses we get on articles all the time from people on articles? You have all these people contacting you about pro DC comments, well, tell them to comment in your articles and show they agree. And you don't have to compete with the counter, like I said, use it to your advantage, write up a counter point if it applies, publish it and link it in the comments of the main article or something. The site gets a lot of DC related traffic now, it would be a better time to take advantage of it than if the counter never happened because I assure you more people will read your article now than before.
But some of you guys just need to accept the fact that things aren't being run great at DC right now and there is just more to bitch about than compliment lately. Hopefully we can retire the counter one day, but that's up to DC in the end.
by xaraan » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:07 pm
Jude speaks the truth here.
He constantly just tries to figure out the best angle to make something funny.
The gozilla/legendary article, I tweeted the image out a day before the article thinking, "eh, there's no story here really" then jude comes up with this whole graffiti thing and writes a whole story about a picture. A picture that every website is running just to have you click on the story and see one image, yet he creates something entertaining in addition. You may not always like the humor, but you don't get that at other sites that just post the same press releases or the same picture, etc etc.
I mean, I'm guilty of it, I post that fluff all the time, like the Cap 2 poster yesterday. It won't get a ton of traffic, but I felt it should be up since EVERY geek site posted it. But if there is some way to take it and make an entertaining article out of it, something people want to read, that might make some people laugh, then they will come for that and not because we just posted the same picture, or the same preview, or the same press release on EVERY SINGLE COMIC/GEEK SITE out there.
by The Old Doctor » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:20 pm
You're making me wonder if Jude does his day job at all?
Jude is keeping an eye out for funny here.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:33 pm
It's a lot of work being an Internet Comics Bad Boy.
by TimH » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:07 pmI'm a big fan of DC characters... and I love reading about the adventures of the lobotomized shells of my former favorites. I love how Cassie Sandsmark is now vaguely associated with Cambodian whatsits and an abusive boyfriend, while Supergirl is now vaguely associated with an abusive boyfriend. At least Black Canary shed her abusive boyfriend, but in exchange her new BFF turned out to be the BFF of Mr Freeze, the guy who keeps his dead wife in the fridge. And should Wonder Woman be taking meds for her schitzophrenia? Depending on which title you read, she either kills you if you cross her, or else she champions the weak and wins her enemies to her cause. At least her boyfriend isn't abusive (beyond punching her to kick off Trinity War).
Is it Wonder Woman's fault that DC is run by a bunch of corporate morons?
Is it Wonder Woman's fault that DC's most loyal fans have a man-crush on the Didiot and believe that Harras is just misunderstood? Or that Tony Daniel really is a gifted writer, just misunderstood (by the folks he badgers out of the company?) At least Scott Lobdell knows to keep his head down. And that's why he continues to survive to write the same story across 50 different titles (with tie-ins).*
* A tie-in is not to be confused with an event. A tie-in is "the exciting opportunity to leverage synergies across multiple superstar titles" whereas an event is something stupid that Marvel does which Harras would rather be dead than force upon his "valued readers in this shared journey we call the DCnU experience."
by Arion » Fri Jul 12, 2013 4:28 pm
DC knows a thing or two about bad PR.
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New York, November 8, 2011--The administration of incumbent Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf silenced on Monday three Liberian broadcasters that have covered the campaigning of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party in the run-up to today's runoff presidential vote, according to news reports.
On Monday evening, armed police in the capital, Monrovia, shut down the studios of Kings FM and Clar TV, Love FM and TV, and Shiata Power FM and TV with a court order and forced the stations off the air temporarily, according to the Press Union of Liberia (PUL). The court order, signed by Judge James Zotaa of Montserrado County criminal court, followed a complaint filed by Justice Minister Christiana Tah and Information Minister Cletus Sieh against the stations over their coverage of the police's violent dispersal of a rally at the CDC headquarters.
The official complaint accused the stations of "broadcasting hate messages against the government and deliberately spreading misinformation and messages of violence, and instigating the people to rise up and take to the streets," according to court papers obtained by CPJ.
"We are outraged that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's administration is shutting down essential voices for the opposition on accusations of 'instigating people to rise up and take to the streets,'" said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "We call on authorities to withdraw the complaint and allow the stations to resume broadcasting at this time."
CDC supporters, alleging fraud, protested last month's round of polls, which Sirleaf led with 44 percent of the vote ahead of challenger Winston Tubman. During the protest, police shot dead one person and fired tear gas at other supporters. Tubman withdrew from the election, and urged his CDC supporters to boycott today's vote as Sirleaf, a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is favored to win a second five-year term.
The court order summoned the managers of the three stations to a hearing on Thursday in which Judge Zotaa will rule to uphold or rescind the suspension, according to PUL President Peter Quaqua.
One of the stations suspended, Love FM and TV, was the target of an arson attack last month following an attack on the headquarters of Sirleaf's Unity Party, CPJ research showed.


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Throughout the remainder of her life Dickinson wrote poetry of a profoundly original nature. The first contemporary literary figure to become aware of her existence as a poet was clergyman and author Thomas Higginson. Although Higginson recognised her genius and became her lifelong correspondent and literary mentor, he advised her not to publish her work because of its violation of literary convention. Her other literary friend, the novelist Helen Jackson, however, tried unsuccessfully to persuade her to publish a collection of her poetry. After Dickinson's death, nearly 2,000 poems, many only fragments, were found among her papers. From this mass of material Higginson and Mabel Todd edited the first published selection of her works, Poems, which enjoyed great popular success. Todd never spoke to Dickinson, but glimpsed her once through a doorway, flitting by in white, the only colour Dickinson wore in her later years.
Dickinson's poems, compressed into brief stanza forms, are most frequently written in a few different combinations of iambic tetrameter and trimeter lines. She employed simple rhyme schemes and varied the effects of these schemes by partial rhyming, a device common among many 20th-century poets. Her language is simple, but she draws remarkable connotations from many common words, sometimes with almost pedantic exactness. Her imagery and metaphors were drawn both from an acute observation of nature and from an imagination often as playful in thought and witty in expression as that of the English metaphysical poets of the 17th century.
The combination of universal themes, expressed with vivid personal feeling and familiar verse forms gives Dickinson's lyrics a mystical directness comparable to that found in the work of the British poet William Blake. Her published works include Poems: Second Series, Poems: Third Series, The Single Hound, and Letters of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson died 15 May, 1886.
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Testing Michelin's XML Military TiresPosted in How To: Wheels Tires on May 1, 2011
From U.S. military service trucks to Mercedes-Benz Unimogs around the globe, the Michelin XML has for years been the go-to mud-terrain tire for medium-duty trucks. Along with the XL and XZL, the Michelin XML is designed to handle extreme weight and conditions both on- and off-road. Available in diameters from 38 to 54 inches, the XML is one of the largest and heaviest mud-terrains on the market.
What makes these mega MTs even better is that they can be bought used for a low price. From military surplus yards, eBay auctions, and even Craigslist ads, there's an abundance of the ex-military cleats just waiting to find a new home. A little over a year ago we picked up a used set of 395/85R20 (46x15) XMLs for a song that still had over 85 percent tread left.
Since the XMLs are heavy-duty in every sense, it seemed fitting to place them on an equally HD truck. We found our buddy's bobbed ex-military 21/2-ton deuce-and- a half truck the perfect platform since neither tire nor truck was designed for excessive speed and weight would not be a concern. Though the bobbed deuce hasn't seen too many long jaunts where it resides (the South), it has made for a great local parts runner, light wheeler, and deep-woods recovery vehicle.
Complied here are a few XML things we've learned over the past 12 months.
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Jamaal Williams, that spunky 18-year-old BYU running back, apparently knew what he was talking about. It was Williams, remember, who suggested the Cougars would impose their will on the Texas Longhorns in Saturday's showdown between reeling BYU and the so-called 15th-ranked powerhouse from the Big 12. Well, putting a school-record 550 rushing yards on a team certainly qualifies. The Cougars (1-1), who looked awful offensively for most of the game in last week's 19-16 loss to Virginia, finished with 679 yards. They ran 99 plays out of Robert Anae's "go fast, go hard" offense. It was one of the most shocking performances in school history, given the quality of opponent and what happened last week."Tonight showed who we are, our identity," said linebacker Kyle Van Noy, who helped hold the Longhorns to 445 yards and just 21 points. "That is the heart that we have. Our team showed it tonight." Said BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall: "I thought our offensive plan was exceptional and I thought that our week of practice leading up to this game was one of the best I've seen since I've been the coach here." Certainly, Taysom Hill was exceptional. He rushed for 259 yardds, the most yards by a quarterback in the nation in a single game so far this season. It was the most rushing yards by an FBS quarterback in the past 10 years, just behind former Texas QB Vince Young's 267 in 2005. It was the second-greatest rushing performance in school history, behind only the 272 yards Eldon "the phantom" Fortie put up in 1962. "We expected to be able to run on them," Hill said. "We didn't expect to set the school record. But, hey, it was working, and we were able to move the ball really efficiently on the ground, and there was no need to go away from it, so we didn't." Hill's 68-yard TD run in the second quarter ties the school record for longest run by a BYU quarterback, the record he set last year against Hawaii. With 550 rushing yards, the Cougars broke the previous record of 465 set against Montana in 1958.Jamaal Williams rushed for a career-high 182 yards. Cody Hoffman played, after missing the Virginia game with hamstring issues, and moved to No. 3 on the BYU career receptions list with two catches vs. Texas. He now has 205 catches and trails only Margin Hooks (215) and Dennis Pitta (221). Defensively, senior Skye PoVey had a career-high nine tackles, eight solo. Texas saw its 13-game nonconference road win streak snapped. Here are a few comments from coach Mack Brown, receiver Mike Davis and defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat: Brown's overall summary of the game: "We're very disappointed in the loss. We knew we had to stop the running game coming in; we talked about it all week. We missed assignments, we missed tackles, and they ran the ball up and down the field."Brown on the emotional toll: "Guys are disappointed. Coaches are disappointed. We've got to go back and regroup and do a better job against Ole Miss next week." Brown on BYU's defense:"Brigham Young's got a great defense. They were third in the country in total defense last year. They've got four or five pro prospects. Van Noy is as good a player as there is in the country." Brown on BYU's rushing attack:"Our players are smart. They get it, and they understand we didn't get our jobs done tonight as players or coaches. We couldn't stop the run and we couldn't make third and fourth and short. That's basically the story of the game." Davis on when it got away:"This game is based on momentum. You got to execute on third and one and sustain some third and longs. We just didn't execute well." Jeffcoat on what Hill did to them: "We didn't keep the quarterback contained and that was a problem of ours. We needed to keep the quarterback contained."Jeffcoat on the roughing the kicker penalty:"It was a big momentum change. We had them stopped and we would have had the ball with a chance to score. ... So it is tough and no one likes to lose, but it happened. We are going to go back to the film, get it back together and bounce back and get ready for the next one. You can't let a loss beat you twice."


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text: Calf Management: A Lesson in Stress Reduction March 17, 2014 07:36 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email One of the many goals in raising calves is to provide a stress-free environment, which takes proactive management of the calves' basic needs. These basic needs include: food and water, shelter, comfort, routines and health. "Changes in any of these basic areas, even seemingly small changes, can make large differences in the overall health and wellbeing of the calves," says Bethany Fisher, a calf and heifer specialist with Purina Animal Nutrition in Texas. To evaluate how your operation is doing, Fisher suggests taking a step back and consider the following areas. 1. Food and Water Offer feed that meets the calves' nutritional needs all year-long. During periods of heat or cold stress, calves need added energy to maintain efficient growth and to allow proper body function. This is important at every stage of life and includes colostrum, milk or seasonal milk replacer and calf starter, formulated for the season. Milk or seasonal milk replacer needs to be fed at a sufficient quantity to allow the calf to maintain body temperature, double its birth weight, grow 4 to 5 inches in height by weaning and maintain proper immunity. By day three, water and calf starter needs to be in plentiful supply. Especially in a growing heifer, feed should never be in short supply. Running out of feed or water for any length of time can result in slug feeding and even bloating when feed is finally offered. Neither condition is ideal for efficient gains or optimal health. Fresh clean water is equally as important as feed. Even if the water freezes overnight, it is important that it is available for calves to drink. It is common for calves to consume more feed in the evening hours between milk feedings, but this will be reduced if sufficient water is not available. 2. Shelter and comfort The type of shelter calves' have access to, does not have to be fancy or purchased from a catalog or special company. It just needs to provide the animal a place to get out of the elements and should be easy to clean. Use your best judgment to determine what type of shelter is needed for the age group. Outside of the type of shelter offered other considerations that need to be made to ensure calf comfort include ventilation, bedding and weather. Hot Weather • Ventilation ? depending on the type of shelter provided, it is always important to understand the air quality at the calf level. Even something as simple as propping up a corner of the hutch to allow air movement can decrease the heat stress seen by the calves. • Bedding ? sand is a good option in the summer heat. Bedding allows for added comfort to the calf and provides a barrier between the calf and the ground underneath, which can contain pathogens. It is important to make sure that bedding is always clean and dry, as moist bedding can harbor pathogens and attract flies, especially in warmer weather. • Calf hutch location - Watch the sunlight throughout the day to determine how to best position housing to reduce heat stress. Also, take advantage of prevailing winds as much as possible. Cold Weather • Ventilation - Keeping calf hutch airflow in check during cooler weather help reduce the risk of respiratory problems, such as pneumonia. • Bedding ? calves should have a nesting score of three ? meaning that when lying down their hocks are not visible. Straw, cotton burs and wood shavings are all accepted bedding types. This bedding will provide added warmth, improved comfort and a barrier between the young calf and the ground below. • Calf jackets are also very handy in the colder climates. Keeping a calf warm and well bedded allows the calf to utilize the energy it gains from colostrum, milk and grain to grow and develop rather than merely maintain its body temperature. 3. Routine changes Even the smallest changes in a calf's routine can cause stress, which can lead to health issues, loss of body condition or even death. Stressors include feed changes, weaning from milk, moving pens, weather or relocating from single housing to group pens. Limiting the number of changes or transitions made at any given time can help reduce calf stress. For instance, if calves are changing pens, wait a few days after the move to change feed. The same idea can be applied when weaning calves from milk and moving into group settings; allow the calves a few days to adjust to not receiving milk before moving them. If vaccinations or dehorning are needed around the time of moving, work with your veterinarian to create a schedule that limits the stress on the animals. "The overall health of the calves and heifers is greatly influenced by food, shelter, comfort and transitioning through the growth stages," says Fisher. "When these components are addressed, health problems can be reduced greatly in both the heat of summer and the cold of winter." The next time you walk through your calf and heifer pens, stop and think about the basics. Are they comfortable? Do they have feed and clean, fresh water all of the time? How can I reduce my stress by reducing theirs? At the end of the day we all want the same thing: a healthy calf. Source: Purina Animal Nutrition LLC Back to news


text: Ok, so i have been trolling the forums, but i can't seem to figure out whats going on. I want to fix this right rather than manually edit my config files if i can help it, so i am going to post this and hopefully i will get some response to fix this. Here is what I have: ispconfig 18.104.22.168 httpd -v reports: Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) Server built: Feb 13 2012 22:31:42 openssl version reports: OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010 I'm also running on CentOS 6.3 and followed the instructions for install at The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (Apache2, Courier, ISPConfig 3) Pretty much everything is set to stock.. haven't changed any configs manually on the box itself outside of the install instructions. So here is whats happening. I have a domain name: xyz.com and i created the dns, and created the site. In the settings i used a * for the ipv4 settings originally.. I also checked the box for SSL. Under the SSL configuration, i imported the request, the certificate, and the bundle from my other webserver. So in my ssl folder, i have three files: xyz.com.bundle, xyz.com.crt and xyz.com.csr When i go to the site non-ssl http://xyz.com i get the website that belongs there. when i go to https://xyz.com i get the "Apache 2 Test Page for CentOS" instead of the correct website. On top of that, the certificate that shows up there is the certificate for my panel. Any thoughts?


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QIAquick 96 PCR Purification Kits provide 96-well plates, buffers, and collection tubes for high-throughput silica-membrane-based purification of PCR products >100 bp in size. DNA up to 10 kb is purified using a simple and fast bind–wash–elute procedure and an elution volume of 60–80 μl (resulting in an eluate volume of 40–60 μl). The cleanup procedure can be fully automated on the BioRobot workstations using the QIAquick 96 PCR BioRobot Kit.
QIAquick 96 PCR Purification Kits are intended for molecular biology applications. These products are not intended for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a disease.
QIAquick 96 Kits contain a silica-membrane assembly for binding of DNA in high-salt buffer and elution with low-salt buffer or water. The purification procedure removes primers, nucleotides, enzymes, mineral oil, salts, agarose, ethidium bromide, and other impurities from DNA samples. Silica-membrane technology eliminates the problems and inconvenience associated with loose resins and slurries. Specialized binding buffers are optimized for specific applications and promote selective adsorption of DNA molecules within particular size ranges.
The QIAquick 96 procedure allows parallel purification of up to 96 PCR samples using efficient vacuum-driven purification on a QIAvac 96.
The QIAquick 96 PCR BioRobot Kit is a special kit format optimized for use on the BioRobot 9600 (no longer available), the BioRobot 3000 (no longer available) and the BioRobot 8000. The kit provides QIAquick 96 modules, together with all buffers and plasticware required for automated high-throughput cleanup of 96 PCR samples.
The QIAquick system uses a simple bind–wash–elute procedure (see flowchart "QIAquick 96 procedure"). Binding buffer is added directly to the PCR sample or other enzymatic reaction, and the mixture is applied to the 96-well plate. Nucleic acids adsorb to the silica membrane in the high-salt conditions provided by the buffer. Impurities are washed away and pure DNA is eluted with a small volume of low-salt buffer provided or water, ready to use in subsequent applications.
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DENVER (AP) The Colorado Rockies' beleaguered starting rotation took another blow as right-hander Jhoulys Chacin was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with an inflamed shoulder.
Chacin becomes the sixth starter out of commission for the Rockies. The team has already used 12 different starters this season.
The move is retroactive to Sunday.
To take Chacin's place on the roster, the Rockies recalled right-handed reliever Chad Bettis from Triple-A Colorado Springs. He will be available Monday night in Washington against the Nationals.
Chacin missed the first month of the season with a strained right shoulder. He's 1-7 with a 5.40 ERA this season.
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Suunto Spartan Sport Wrist HR has a digital compass that allows you to orient yourself in relation to magnetic north. The tilt-compensated compass gives you accurate readings even if the compass is not horizontally level.
You can access the compass from the launcher under Navigation » Compass.
The compass display includes the following information:
- Arrow pointing to magnetic north
- Heading cardinal
- Heading in degrees
- Time of day (local time) or battery level; tap on screen to change views
To exit the compass, swipe right or keep the middle button pressed.
While you are in the compass display, you can swipe up from the bottom of the screen or press the lower button to open a list of shortcuts. The shortcuts give you quick access to navigation actions such as checking the coordinates of your current location or selecting a route to navigate.
Swipe down or press the upper button to exit the list of shortcuts.
Calibrating compass
If the compass is not calibrated, you are prompted to calibrate the compass when you enter the compass display.
If you want to re-calibrate the compass, you can start the calibration again from the settings under Navigation » Calibrate compass.
Setting declination
To ensure correct compass readings, set an accurate declination value.
Paper maps point to true north. Compasses, however, point to magnetic north – a region above the Earth where the Earth's magnetic fields pull. Because magnetic North and true North are not at the same location, you must set the declination on your compass. The angle in between magnetic and true north is your declination.
The declination value appears on most maps. The location of magnetic north changes yearly, so the most accurate and up-to-date declination value can be found from websites such as www.magnetic-declination.com).
Orienteering maps, however, are drawn in relation to magnetic north. If you are using an orienteering map, you need to turn the declination correction off by setting the declination value to 0 degrees.
You can set your declination value from the settings under Navigation » Declination.


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Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti is expected to be released Tuesday from a hospital in Milan, Italy, where on Monday morning he successfully underwent a hernia operation.
"Maestro Muti's surgery went smoothly and he is already resting comfortably, scheduled to go home tomorrow," Maggie Berndt, a CSO spokeswoman, said Monday afternoon.
The 71-year-old Italian maestro had canceled his Chicago appearances with the orchestra this month to fly home to Milan to be treated for the flu, but soon after was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia (a protrusion of abdominal-cavity contents) that his doctors said required immediate surgery.
The medical condition forced Muti to withdraw from the CSO's 10-day tour of Asia, which is scheduled to begin Friday in Taipei, Taiwan. Conductors Lorin Maazel and Osmo Vanska are replacing Muti for the nine concerts the orchestra is to perform in Taiwan, China and South Korea.


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