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Efficiency in Learning
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In today's fast paced retail environment, both retailers and brands try numerous techniques with which to get their message across to the shoppers. Listed below are three ways to engage with your customer, and make that final sale.
- Embedding your message
- Cognitive Load Theory
- Understanding the difference between shoppers and consumers
1. Embedding your message.
How to optimise in-store windows of opportunity.
Despite employing ad agencies and copywriters etc. the effectiveness of the communication medium is often ignored. Research carried out by Chandler and Sweller in 1991, identified that diagrams and images were processed 2.5 times quicker than text. This occurs because they can be processed holistically, whereas text has to be read and processed serially. They also discovered that when words have to be used, they work best if they are incorporated into diagrams. Perhaps it's no surprise that shoppers who are each exposed to an average of 1,500 promotional messages per day, recall just 4 a mere 24 hours later.
- The short-term working memory can only manage 7 (+/-2) pieces of information simultaneously
- The long-term memory has a massive capacity, but is only as efficient as the memory card indexing system of its owner
- Effective communication minimises the amount of new information to process using segments and sequences
In retail environments where the majority of shoppers are brand loyal repeat purchasers, it is necessary to interrupt their behaviour in order to create any influence. Often the influence will come days, weeks or months later (because habits have to be changed). For this reason, the purpose of the message should be considered in connection with a timescale as to when it is expected to influence.
For example…
As an often ignored communication medium, consider analysing the shopper journey and understanding where they are and aren't receptive to communication. For example, in the forecourt scenario, shoppers' moments of highest awareness are linked to the speed they were driving just before they arrived. In addition, whether they mentally slowed down by being stood at the pump filling their car with fuel. In a category where all the pack sizes were pretty much the same, the visual offer of an alternative was attractive – watch below:
2. Cognitive Load Theory
Which part of the shoppers mind do you need to communicate with?
No matter how clever the ad or how creative the message, the fact is that most of what shoppers see, they instantly filter and forget. A contributory reason for this is to do with cognitive load theory: The fact that the short-term working memory has a very small and limited capacity. Message effectiveness can be dramatically improved by imagining that shoppers had a short-term memory for each sense (visual, auditory, touch, taste and smell). So if shoppers are given a simple visual message and at the same time, a complimentary auditory message, then the effectiveness of the communication improves substantially. Here are four education-based guidelines to help avoid shoppers having extraneous cognitive load:
- Divide message content between visual and auditory communication mediums
- Focus the message reader on the key message and avoid any split attention onto less important aspects
- Minimise any unnecessary content to the message – If it isn't essential, lose it!
- When creating messages that are intended to go beyond shoppers short-term memories, be sure to factor in how much time they can invest and so how much information they can take on board.
It is unlikely that many middle-aged shoppers will be able to absorb much in the average supermarket aisle. They will be shopping on autopilot and the majority will not have the glasses they need to read with on them (more than 60% according to our research).
For example…
A number of research studies have shown that when product information and price details are physically somewhat small, any brand that simply increases the font size receives a disproportionately high jump in percentage of physical product evaluations. The shopper in the clip below has to revert to putting on his glasses in order to be able to read the price.
3. Are you selling Apples or Pairs?
Shoppers shop and Consumers consume – they aren't the same.
No the title isn't a typo, it is just aimed to draw attention to the fact that all too often, the retailer and brand doesn't sell what the shopper wants to buy. The first reason for this is that there is confusion between shoppers and consumers and as a result the very different purchase and usage motives get falsely studied. This leads to confusing and even misleading decision hierarchies being obtained, analysed and then acted upon. For example, shoppers buying chocolate or alcoholic drinks are often actually purchasing mental state change. They don't want finest Swiss this, or brewed with the purest of that. What they are seeking is confidence, significance, pride, or a host of other emotionally based drivers. Unfortunately too many categories in too many retail channels have become over commoditised making it harder for shoppers to identify the state change they want. When emotions have been targeted, the uplifts in sales and increases in category share speak for themselves:
- 15% increase in sales by prompting shoppers as to why use such an item (not just spouting features)
- 33% increase in share by effectively communicating an added value message in a particular convenience channel
- 350% increase in sales by aligning the display in-store with how the product would be in the home
We confidently predict that almost any brand or retailer could increase sales, drive weight of purchase and gain share by starting from the point of how does the shopper emotionally perceive the uses of their products. In other words, what emotional state are they endeavouring to buy?
For example…
Cameras are a good example of a common mismatch between shopper and store – The store and/or brand promotes zoom capabilities, features, modes, etc. What the majority of 'point and click' shoppers want to do is capture memories… easily. In the video below, the shopper walks by the fixture with party things in hand and then decides that crisps would be good for the occasion too.
I'm Phillip Adcock, author of 'Shoppology, The Science of Supermarket Shopping', and Managing Director of Shopping Behaviour Xplained Ltd (SBXL) – a company that specialises in analysing shoppers and shopping for some of the leading brands and retailers in the world.
For more information, visit our website: sbxl.com


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text: The first season of the television comedy series Boy Meets World aired between September 24, 1993 and May 13, 1994, on ABC in the United States. The season was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions and Touchstone Television with series creator Michael Jacobs as executive producer. It was broadcast as part of the ABC comedy block TGIF on Friday evening, airing at 8.30 between Family Matters and Step by Step. The pilot debuted to ratings of 16.5 million viewers.


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All Missions have been updated on 12/31/2018. The Dead Return runs a heavily modified version of DZMS (DayZ Mission System – thanks Vampire). Changes were needed due to internal DayZ Mod code changes but I've also added and changed missions, loot and AI. DZMS runs 2 missions simultaneously – Major and Minor. Some missions spawn randomly on the… Read More AI Missions (DZMS)


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The British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee (BVIOC) is hoping Commonwealth Games 400 metres hurdles champion Kyron McMaster will earn its first Pan American Games medal in Lima later this year as it assesses its potential for Tokyo 2020.
Ephraim Penn, President of the BVIOC, told BVI News that McMaster provided the biggest chance of success for the country at upcoming major events.
"Our big hope is that Kyron McMaster, all health and good condition, should break that barrier for us as he broke the barrier last year for us at the Commonwealth Games," he said.
"And then we have the World Championship in Qatar in October.
"Those are the two major meets that will propel us into the Olympics."
The 22-year-old McMaster, based in Florida, also won the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League title in 2017.
Penn mentioned a number of other athletes who will be carrying BVI expectations at the Pan American Games, due to take place in the Peruvian capital from July 26 until August 11.
"We have Chantel Malone, Ashley Kelly, and Eldred Henry," he said.
"Those are our key athletes at the senior meets this year and those are the ones that we will be looking forward to doing great things next year at the Olympics."
Penn also revealed that there will be a reintroduction of a programme aimed at developing young athletes.
The programme had ceased after the widespread devastation cause in 2017 by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria.
"We were part of a programme called a Long-term Athlete Development Programme through Canada Sports For Life where we identify athletes and then put them in a stream," Penn said.
"We're going to start that programme back in September and looking at these athletes here now, we are already projecting - with the help of the BVIAA - a promising future.
"We're securing the funding and we will work very closely with the different national federations to make sure that they are well taken care of.
"We have a programme called the Elite Athlete Programme and an Emerging Athlete Programme where we fund."
The British Virgin Islands have competed at every Summer Olympic Games since Los Angeles 1984.
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Heather joined the All Things Web® team in July 2019. She has a background in B2B marketing from the world of exhibitions and has worked across events for the marketing, manufacturing and cosmetics industries.
Heather enjoys both the strategic and implementation side of marketing, working with clients on their social media management, website development and content production.
When not in the office, Heather finds great satisfaction in her garden especially growing veggies and when she has time, cooking something special for the family.


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Xanthine Oxidase
© 2004 Williscroft
Drink your milk for strong bones and teeth! Did your mother ever tell you this?
She's right—if you are a calf. After all, milk is nature's way of adding 300 pounds to a calf and turning it into a cow in about a year.
Television and radio carry generic ads sponsored by the "Milk Council" – which seems to be a sub-unit of the National Dairy Council. These same guys sponsor ads in newspapers, magazines, bill boards – in fact, just about wherever you look, you will see something enticing you to purchase and drink milk.
"Milk does a body good" – I'm sure you have seen this a thousand times. Did you also notice that you don't see this slogan anymore. "Got Milk?" has replaced it, and for good reason. When challenged in court recently, the Milk Council could not substantiate its claims that "Milk does a body good."
The truth about milk and its dubious benefits is one of the best-kept secrets in America.
Cow milk has several inherent problems. Everybody knows that milk is laden with cholesterol. In fact, butterfat has the highest percentage of cholesterol of any routinely consumed animal fat. Milk also contains lactose—milk sugar which requires the enzyme lactase for proper digestion. Nearly ten percent of white American adults, fully seventy percent of black American adults, and virtually all Asian and Amerind American adults are deficient in this enzyme and so cannot properly digest milk; the result is gas and diarrhea.
The ratio of calcium to phosphorus in cow milk is about 1:1.2. In this ratio, they tend to combine in the intestine to form nearly indigestible mono-calcium phosphate. Despite this near indigestibility, cows can utilize it anyway by processing it through four stomachs. With our single stomach, however, much of this calcium simply passes through humans. In contrast, human milk contains a calcium to phosphorus ratio of more than 1:2, and in this ratio, less mono-calcium phosphate is produced. Thus, although human milk has less total calcium than cow milk, more calcium is actually available after digestion.
The Milk Council website (www.whymilk.com), is one of those sites where many pages are filled with very little actual information. In fact, you cannot even discover who these guys really are at this site. It promotes milk, and repeats much of the "common wisdom" about milk. In today's litigious world, however, they use the language very carefully. For example, here is a direct quote from their site regarding calcium:
Calcium is one of the nutrients most likely to be lacking in the American diet. The calcium found in milk helps build and maintain strong bones and teeth. This mineral also plays an important role in nerve function, muscle contraction and blood clotting. Each 8-ounce glass of milk provides 300 mg or 30% of the Daily Value (or recommended intake).
Notice that they don't actually say that milk supplies this calcium – because it doesn't. The calcium is in the milk, but the human digestive system can't access it very well. So, according to the Milk Council the "calcium found in milk helps build…" and "Each 8-ounce glass of milk provides 300 mg…" But they never actually say that if you drink milk, you will get the calcium you need.
It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is…if you get my gist.
Milk typically consists of water, protein, sugar, and fat. The protein consists of the curd (cheese) portion, predominately casein, and the whey portion. Human milk protein contains approximately twenty percent casein and eighty percent whey. Cow milk is almost the reverse. Cow casein is nearly indigestible by humans; it is used to make glue and latex paint, among other things. This protein complex is thought to be responsible for much human milk allergy. According to Dr. Frank Oski, the world renowned pediatrician who chaired the Children's Center at Johns Hopkins University before he passed away on December 7, 1996, even teenage acne may result from cow casein.
In his disturbing book, Don't Drink Your Milk (published by Mollica Press), Dr. Oski cites a
…study of over twenty thousand infants conducted in Chicago as far back as the 1930s… The overall death rate for the babies raised on human milk was 1.5 deaths per 1,000 infants while the death rate in the babies fed cow milk was 84.7 per 1,000 during the first nine months of life. The death rate from gastrointestinal infections was forty times higher in the non-breast-fed infants, while the death rate from respiratory infections was 120 times higher. An earlier analysis involving infants in eight American cities showed similar results. Infants fed on cow milk had a twenty times greater chance of dying during the first six months of life.
Just how does this study correlate with "Got Milk?" or the many other ways the National Dairy Council pushes its products?
Most milk drunk in America is homogenized, a process that extends milk's shelf-life to about eleven days. Since non-homogenized milk spoils in less than three days, it is pretty obvious why the entire industry has gone homogenized – except for a small cadre of hold outs who serve local niche markets.
According to Dr. Kurt Oster, Chief of Cardiology, Emeritus, at Bridgeport Park City Hospital, Dr. Donald Ross of Fairfield University, and Dr. John Zikakis of University of Delaware, homogenization allows the enzyme xanthine oxidase to pass intact into the blood stream. There it attacks the plasmalogen tissue of the artery walls and parts of the heart muscle. This causes lesions that the body tries to heal by laying down a protective layer of cholesterol. The end result is scar tissue and calcified plaques and a buildup of cholesterol and other fatty deposits.
We call these atherosclerosis (artery clogging) and arteriosclerosis (artery hardening). According to these esteemed researchers, dietary cholesterol isn't the main cause of heart attacks, homogenized milk is.
About fifteen years ago I was involved with a multi-level marketing effort to sell a milk substitute that avoided all the problems described in this article. As part of my campaign, I created and mailed into Northern California about 20,000 brochures that laid out the facts contained in this article. Within a week, I received a cease and desist from a Washington, D.C. law firm representing the National Dairy Council. They cited decades old research and completely side-stepped the actual issue raised in my brochure. I contacted Kurt Oster who was doing some research in France, and he offered to do anything possible to help me, so long as I just paid for his round trip between the U.S and France. Although I appreciated his offer, I did not then have the personal resources to fight these guys.
So the bullies won by default.
Consider this: The average Finn drinks about 600 pounds of milk a year; 90 percent is homogenized. The average Swede drinks about 375 pounds, but only 2 percent is homogenized. The heart attack death rate in Finland is about 245 per 100,000. In Sweden it is only 75. While this doesn't prove anything, it sure gets your attention.
Dr. Oski finished Don't Drink Your Milk with this:
Milk has no valid claim as the perfect food. As nutrition, it produces allergies in infants, diarrhea and cramps in the older child and adult, and may be a factor in the development of heart attacks and strokes.
Perhaps when the public is educated as to the hazards of milk only calves will be left to drink the real thing. Only calves should drink the real thing.


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Calla: ……what was my line again?
Director: "Waahhrggh."
A major production like yesterday's post takes a lot of preparation and it doesn't help when you are dealing with difficult talent.
Calla: But what is my motivation for being a savage monster?
Director: IT'S IN THE SCRIPT.
Calla: Got it!
Now in real life, Calpurnia is a very sweet cat and doesn't show any Diva tendencies so I had to fudge things a little. She isn't pushy or demanding but she holds her own regardless.
Sweet Praline was a cat that had a very well-known blog until she passed away a year or so ago. I used to read her blog regularly for a long time.
Paula eventually adopted some new kittens and started the blog Sweet Purrfections to follow the two kittens as they grow up. And I read this one regularly too with great enjoyment.
And when she wanted everyone to show their Diva I felt I had to oblige!


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- Moving from Analogue to Digital Tachographs
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1. What are digital tachographs?
Digital tachographs are the replacement for analogue paper charts and were introduced following the adoption of EC regulation 561/2006. This regulation stated that, from 1st May 2006 the fitment of digital tachographs is mandatory, for all new vehicles exceeding 3.5 tonnes.
Vehicles currently using analogue tachographs are not required to retro fit digital. Digital tachographs allow data to be recorded and stored to both the driver's card and the vehicle unit (VU) with downloading requirements for card and VU.
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2. What do I need?
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- Driver card : Driver cards record the activity of a driver when the card is inserted into the digital tachograph unit in the vehicle. The data recorded is very similar to analogue charts, in that it records driving time, rest periods, other work and periods of availability (POA).
- Company Card : Company card acts as a "key" to access the details stored on the VU (Vehicle Unit). It also enables operators to 'lock out' data stored on a VU when a vehicle is sold. This card cannot be used as a driver card.
- Workshop card : Workshop cards are issued free of charge to authorised workshops and allows the calibration of digital tachographs. This card cannot be used as a driver card.
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- Driver card reader : allows the data from the drivers card to be downloaded and in conjunction with download software allows the data to be stored for record keeping purposes.
- A VU Download key allows the data from the vehicle unit to be downloaded and when used in conjunction with the correct software, will allow data storage in a suitable format for inspection by the authorities if required.
- Download Software : (Check computer requirements) is required to enable the data to be read by operators and stored in a manner which is accessible and understood by DVSA.
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3. What are the Regulations?
- Once drivers have applied for and been issued with a smart card from DVLA, there is a legal requirement to carry the card at all times when driving a vehicle, even if the vehicle is fitted, and being used, with an analogue tachograph.
- This is to ensure that a complete record of all the drivers' activity is available for inspection at the road side. It is important to remember, that if a driver does have a driver card and forgets to bring it to work, they will be unable to operate any vehicle fitted with a digital tachograph.
- Driver cards must be downloaded at least every 28 days and the data stored for 12 months for record keeping purposes. If the driver's data from the card is used also for the recording of RTD, then the data will need to be retained for 24 months. In the case of a driver leaving your employment, or notification that the card has malfunctioned, the data should be downloaded immediately. This will ensure continuation of records for all vehicle and driver journeys.
- VU data must be downloaded at least every 90 days and stored in a manner which is accessible should the data need to be examined by DVSA. If a vehicle is sold, transferred, or removed from service the VU data should be downloaded immediately.
- All downloaded data should be stored securely and backed up on a regular basis. This will ensure that if data is lost from your computer, it will still be available should a requirement to produce it, occur.
- Driver and company cards are issued for a 5 year period, after which time they will need to be renewed in good time to allow the continuation of the operation.
- Driving a vehicle fitted with a digital tachograph, without a valid or defective driver card, could attract a fixed penalty of up to £200.
- If a driver card fails at any point, a vehicle may still be driven however, the driver must take a printout from the VU at the start and the end of the working day and annotate the driving, other work, POA and rest, on the reverse of the print out. Driver must inform their employer and apply for a new card from DVLA, immediately. This service is normally free.
- If a card is lost or stolen it should be reported to the employer and DVLA as soon as possible, but in any case within 7 days. DVLA must issue a replacement card within 5 working days of receiving a request. In addition, drivers must notify the competent authority in the country where the card was lost or stolen.
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4. What data is stored on the card and the Vehicle Unit?
- Data stored on the driver card is as follows:
- Driving hours
- Other work
- Rest periods: daily and weekly
- Start/finish data
- Date and time
- Faults and events, such as card faults or speeding events
- Data stored on the VU is as follows:
- All the driver activity data
- Driver details and number
- Distances
- Speed
- Any faults recorded, card faults, VU faults
- Any other cards inserted (company, control etc.)
- The VU will store much more data, but this can only be accessed by using a company or control card
5. Downloading and storage of data
- Downloading is the copying of data from one source to another (along with any digital signatures, to show authenticity), to allow data to be stored in a suitable format for future reference. Data is only copied and not removed.
- It is the operator's responsibility to ensure the data from both the driver card and the VU are downloaded regularly and ensuring the data is stored appropriately.
- Driver cards are downloaded using a simple card reader which is linked to computer software. This should be carried out at least every 28 days. The downloaded data is then stored as a requirement for record keeping and can also be sent for analysis. This will allow operators to ensure that drivers are complying with all relevant drivers' hours' legislation, part of your undertaking for operator licencing.
- Vehicle unit data is downloaded using a download key. This is a device, again linked to computer software, which allows the data from the vehicle unit to be accessed (using a company card). The data is in raw form and must be stored in the format it was downloaded. This data is difficult to read, but is stored in a form which DVSA are able to interpret, should the need arise. The VU should be downloaded at least every 90 days.
- Downloaded driver card data is best analysed using an analysis bureau. This will provide infringement reports and working time directive reports, along with many other reports. Data storage and archiving is paramount to maintaining accurate records. Should DVSA wish to inspect records they may ask for them to be provided in e mail format, so the need to be able to access accurate data is important.
- Data may be stored off site, with an analysis bureau for example, so long as the data can be made readily available, on request and that the download equipment is capable of carrying out this function. (Check computer requirements)
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6. What equipment do I need?
- Essential
- Driver Card
- Company Card
- Driver Card Reader
- VU Downloader
- Archive and Review Software (Check computer requirements)
- Optional
7. Moving from Analogue to Digital Tachographs
Although moving to digital tachographs from analogue, or even starting from scratch, sounds daunting, once the basics are mastered, the technology involved with digital tachographs is easy to understand. In fact it is often said how much easier the digital tachograph is to use and monitor driving activity.
There is lots of information available regarding best practice in relation to digital tachographs, but remember there is no such thing as a silly question. Please feel free to contact the team at GB Tachopak, who will be more than happy to assist with all your digital tachograph and general transport, related queries.
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I have the thought to give up on those three for now and pick three others instead. Kaelyn is currently sharing her cage with Cinnabun, and Snowflake has all her babies with her still, so neither of them are viable options. Caduci, Quetzal, and Raisinet are refusing to breed, Pocahontas and Princess Poppy are sharing a cage, Feather, Alice, and Lilith are all supposed to be bred and due in 5-7 days, and MooMoo is still off with the stud breeder, so that leaves me with Gretchen, Fern, Spotty, Calliope, and Quince.
Gretchen was also set to breed back to Ulysses, but she can be paired to another buck instead. Maybe try her with Fella to see if we can get him to be proven with a more experienced doe.
Quince is in a cage I really was hoping to avoid having a litter in, but I suppose if I give her a nice nest box and they don't fall out onto the wire they'd be alright. The bar spacing on that cage is a little wider than I'd like and I've used it in the past for bucks.
Fern, Calliope, and Spotty are all set to be bred on November 13th when the quarantine hold on the new bucks is up.
The next auction is this weekend and #2 and I will be going again. Perhaps we can snag something new and interesting to add to our collection. Another French Lop and a Jersey Wooly doe are top of the list, but who knows what you'll find at the auction, right?
Still no names selected, but golly this little guy is a gem. So patient with me as I pull on his snarls. Today I was able to get most of the mats broken down at least a little so they won't pull as much. He now is perfectly brushed out for about 1-2 inches on either side of his spine from his ears to the mat just above his tail (which is now several smaller mats). Progress! At least we are making progress!
This bunny seriously looks like a little plush rabbit. He's so stinking cute and just tiny. He also has an ear tattoo (LG4), so someone liked him enough to label him at some point. We had planned to sell this one when he was all groomed up and looking better, but now #3 wants to keep him too and possibly take him to a county fair to get him judged by a rabbit expert.
This morning I got up and Mazikeen wouldn't get up to go outside. No coaxing could get her to even sit up. So I put my arms under her in an attempt to get her feet under her. She cried out in pain, so I stopped. She attempted to get up and ended up in a weird yoga pose with her butt in the air and her face on the floor. After a moment she corrected herself and went out to pee. She was walking slowly and as though she were in pain. I offeredher a drink from the hose (her favorite) and she refused. She wouldn't drink the water from the bucket like she normally does either. I went out and did barn chores and groomed the bunny, but when I went to call her in she was down in the yard.
I texted Tony at work and asked him what I should do. Try to get her inside, see if the vet can see her, but really "you're the animal person, I don't know what to do." In all my years I've never come across this before. I've had a dog hit by a truck once who was tender for a while, but he was able to get up and move. Same dog, years later, went down in the yard and had to be carried back into the house in a make-shift sling made out of a sleeping bag (120 pound dog), and he died that evening at the emergency vet clinic from advanced stomach cancer that he'd only shown symptoms of for a week prior (not eating, lethargy, and vomiting blood the minute we put him on the exam table that evening).
But this, this is a six month old puppy. Her ability to open her jaw rules out lock-jaw (tetanus), her lack or diarrhea rules out parvo, and her ability to close her mouth rules out rabies. I have no idea what I'm working with here.
So I called the vet. Now, usually I would tell you how awesome my vet clinic is. they've been there for me for several pet emergencies, short notice visits, and they've saved my animals' lives in the past, and mourned with me over the losses that couldn't be saved. But today they sucked. I was told they had no appointments until Tuesday. I said it was an emergency, and they told me to call back tomorrow morning to see if I could get one of the three emergency appointment slots they kept open each day, but if I didn't have an appointment, I could go to an emergency clinic... the nearest ones are 1-2 hours away. That's great... I don't drive and my vet clinic is literally minutes away. I said I wasn't sure the dog could make it to tomorrow and the receptionist said "well i don't know what else to tell you." Wow. Just wow.
By this point, poor Mazikeen is shivering so hard it almost looked like convulsions. So I decided to risk it. I grabbed her hard and pulled her upright, forcing her to stand up. She bit me. Hard. Through the canvas to bruise my arm underneath, but she was standing up. So I managed to get her back into the house where she stood for a while, wanted back outside, and eventually flopped back onto the floor where she remained, barely responsive, for several hours.
I did managed to pry her mouth open and give her an aspirin when I realized she was burning up with fever. After that she kept her jaw locked shut. I tried a few times to talk to her, to comfort her, but she would only wag her tail once or twice, look at me without moving her head, and then close her eyes again. I texted my husband again and told him I didn't know what the problem was, but he should probably plan to run her to an emergency vet clinic if he wanted her to survive. She hadn't eaten any of her food yesterday (I thought my husband had fed the dogs before work this morning, but her dish was still full from when the kids fed her yesterday). He said he wanted to come home and see her before he made any decisions.
About 11:30pm Tony finally makes it home. As soon as the door opens in the other room, Mazikeen starts wagging her tail. As soon as he comes around the corner she tries to pick her head up. With some coaxing she did manage to stand up on her own and he brought her outside to go potty and got her to drink water and eat a few kibbles of food. She did go back down again and is currently still down. I will give her another aspirin before I head to bed, and Tony will probably be calling the vet clinic in the morning to try to get her in to an appointment. We have got to figure out what's going on with her and get her feeling better.
Some random thoughts - she did eat part of a Barbie doll a few days ago... could that make her sick like this? I pulled a grey tick off of her this morning - could tick paralysis be the diagnosis? The kids found the remains of a rabbit at the far edge of the yard, half eaten. A quick inventory shows it wasn't one of ours - could it have made her sick? On Monday the dogs brought a deer hoof up to the yard and I threw it away - could that make her sick? But Moose was chewing on it too... and Moose would have had access to the rabbit as well. I really don't know what to make of it, but I was so relieved when she got up for him tonight.
As much of a handful as she is and as mad as I am about her eating my breeding buck rabbit (poor Ulysses), I don't wish ill on the dog. I'm really hoping she's feeling better in the morning.
The down side of this is that tomorrow is the anniversary of the day my mother-in-law passed away. It's always been a rough day for Tony and I think it would crush him if his dog died on that day or all days. He's scheduled himself for a 12 hour shift to keep his mind off of things. So please, cross your fingers, send well wishes and healing vibes our way.
Harvest from the basement included four Isis Candy tomatoes, one Azoychka tomato (very small), and one melon. I thought it was a watermelon and was afraid it had not had time to ripen before the vine had died away. The kids asked if we could try to save seeds from it anyway, so we cut it open. Lo-and-behold, it's not a watermelon at all, but a tiny cantaloupe! I'm not sure if this one was Hearts of Gold or Minnesota Midget. It doesn't look like either from the photos I found online, but I think that's because the vine died before it could fully ripen. We cut it up and tried it. #4 and #5 loved it and asked if we could grow it again. #1 was allergic, as she is to most fresh fruits and vegetables, and I tried it, but I'm not a fan of cantaloupe, so I wasn't impressed. #3 suggested perhaps it wasn't sweet because it wasn't quite ripe yet. I think I agree. But still, very cool to find in your basement, and what a surprise that it wasn't the watermelon I had been anticipating!
The Isis Candy tomatoes were pretty tasty. Seeds are on the counter to ferment so we can plant again in the future. I plan to save the Azoychka seeds too.


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I don't seem to do well with stories featuring priest protagonists.
Tim O'Sullivan's Father Olufemi in the 2012 Pushcart didn't do much for me; neither did The Rules Are The Rules by Adam Foulds in 2011's POH. Or, now, "Punchline." It's not that they're bad stories, not at all; they read well, they're well-structured, they have interesting characters and situations and emotional scenes. I just don't feel like I quite get what the author is going for.
Father Phil's felt a little off lately. Parishioners mention lines from sermons he doesn't remember saying: a reference to "a trickster God," "our lives as stained as glass," and "the loss of innocents" which he's sure was "innocence" though he doesn't remember it at all. It started after someone brought up the topic of his beloved sister Louise, dead at 14 from a water-skiing accident; he'd been 9, and was devastated, and even now the mention of her name feels "like letting cold air onto a wound."
He decides the problem is that he's been improvising during his sermons:
It just happened lately that while he was giving his prepared remarks, something would occur to him – a useful example, a demonstration of a principal. Not an inspiration, nothing like that, but the tardy arrival of an idea that should have occurred to him when he was writing out his notes two days before. A thing, you might say, that he hadn't been paying attention to.
He had not thought much about these on the spot additions until parishioners started quoting back to him words he had no memory of using. Louise, for instance. Or what had apparently been a pretty long analogy involving mortgage debt. Or, now, a trickster.
So he's sticking to the script from now on. Problem solved.
Unfortunately, his life doesn't stick to the script: a boy in a youth outreach group dies of an overdose, and his brother is in a serious car accident. The mind – or God, or the universe, depending on your inclination – has ways of forcing you up against yourself.
The connection is of course what the mind is avoiding; his long-buried grief for Louise is coming out sideways in his sermons, and it seems he's a bit peeved with the trickster God who allows the loss of innocents, leaving our lives as stained as glass. There's some hint that he's wondering if his vocation has been a sham.
The climax comes in the form of another car accident, this time between strangers, in which no one is injured at all. And a mockingbird. I get those connections: this trickster God who takes some people and not others, mocking his loss. But… is that it? Because it seems rather superficial for a Pushcart story. So I'm wondering if I'm missing some deep symbolism that takes it to another level.
I'm interested in many elements of the story: where does a priest go for solace? What do you do when your priest appears to be having a nervous breakdown from the pulpit? The whole notion of the trickster God brings to mind the Native American totem of the Raven, a symbol Westerners associate not with tricks but with death. Some will think of Loki, but I missed that phase. But most powerfully I think of the speech from one of my favorite movies, They Might Be Giants – not to be confused with the rock band I'm unfamiliar with but who, by sheer coincidence, is coming to Portland in February per the sign I just saw the day before I read this story, and don't you just love a good coincidence – but back to the movie (which I just discovered is on YouTube):
I think if God is dead he laughed himself to death.
Because, you see, we live in Eden. Genesis has got it all wrong — we never left the Garden.
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FBI Drops Truth-Bomb on Gun Control Advocates
FBI Drops Truth-Bomb on Gun Control Advocates: Firearms Numbers at Record Levels & Violent Crime Decreases
The FBI just released its data for Crime in the United States, 2013 and gun control lobbyists are probably not going to like what it says.
According to the report, while background checks for firearm purchasers hit record levels in 2013 — 21,093,273 to be exact — "violent crimes in 2013 decreased 4.4 percent when compared with 2012 figures, and the estimated number of property crimes decreased 4.1 percent."
Wendy, advocates of gun control are driven by one or more of three essential motivations:
1. They succumb to Availability Bias of the media with its treatment of firearms, so they PERCEIVE that firearm violence is greater than it is. Pete's guess is that this is 50% of gun control advocates and are people that mean well, but also consider liberty to be the currency to be spent for security.
2. They find a personal distaste for firearms and the concept of self-defense, hunting, or both, and wish to project that distaste into a uniform compulsory standard for all, so that they can "change the world" in a way that is suitable to their personal tastes. Pete's guess is 30-35% of gun control advocates.
3. They realize that the 2nd amendment is a potent psychological (and physical) tonic with respect to standing up to central authority and, because their ideological preferences dictate a strong central authority they realize that destruction of the 2nd amendment (basically lawyer it to death) is essential for compliance to their ideological goals. This is probably 15-20% and is the gutter dwelling hard core ideologues. They are the ones that know exactly what the 2nd amendment says but also realize that the Bill of Rights is a direct obstruction for their agenda of a humanistic utopia. I think they also perceive, and let's be clear, I am not advocating this, that if the 2nd amendment's true purpose is ever activated en masse that they will be in the cross hairs (which I certainly believe to be true). The later would certainly add an extra virulent motivation to "get them off the streets" ASAP.
The aspect that you are referring to ties into number 3. If gun ownership rates were strongly correlated with violent crime rates then GREAT!, that would certainly assist in their end goal. If not, well, that can be worked around, so to speak. Disparagement, lying, misrepresentation of facts, manufactured "studies", omissions, ect can be used to work around that inconvenient truth.
That's how it works and it explains why there are/were crickets with respect to that release. If you can't spin it, or twist it to tell a big enough whopper of a lie to advance the REAL agenda, then you ignore it.
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Most environmentalists agree: The American Clean Energy and Security Act isn't the law on climate change and renewable energy we need. Whether it's a law we should accept, though, is subject to heated debate.
In March, when House Energy and Commerce Committee chairs Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a draft of the act, environmentalists cheered. The early draft required that by 2025, utilities would generate 25 percent of their energy from renewable sources. It called for U.S. emissions of greenhouse gasses to be cut by 20 percent (from 2005 levels) by 2020. The latter goal would be met through a "cap-and-trade" system: Permits to pollute would be auctioned off, with the money earmarked for developing renewable energy and helping consumers pay rising fuel costs. Polluters who emitted less than the permits allowed could sell the remaining credits to others -- even as overall permitted emissions shrank over time.
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With a pro-science president, a Democratic majority and growing public concern, why is passing a clean-energy bill so tough? One factor dates to 1993, when Democrats backed a previous clean-energy measure. That "BTU tax" failed -- but Republicans bludgeoned Dems with it while engineering the 1994 Congressional takeover.
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PEAKS AND PASSES OF THE T'lEN SHAN
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Lhonak, 1930
A Journey in Upper Kumaun and Garhwal
(Lieutenant HUGH ROSE)
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A Journey in Upper Kumaun and Garhwal
Lieutenant HUGH ROSE
ON THE 1st September, 1931, I left Baijnath in Kumaun, accompanied by Captain Richardson, b.a.m.c., and Lieutenant G. Chaldecott, r.a., for a two months' visit to upper Kumaun and Garhwal. Our object was to examine the complicated watershed system lying between the Anta Dhura pass in the south and Bara Hoti in the north ; we also hoped to ascend some of the lesser-known passes situated along the British borderland of western Tibet; Photographing, shooting and climbing were secondary objects, dependent on the time factor.
Between Baijnath and Milam it rained continuously, and we consequently found the river between Shama and Tejam unfordable ; we lost three days by our detour through Berenag and Thall, where there is a good bridge. Ascending the Goriganga from Mansiari we reached Milam on the 12th September and exchanged our coolies for mules ; we were unable to procure jhobus, owing to an outbreak of rinderpest. The mule-drivers proved to be a continuous source of trouble throughout the journey ; indeed, all the inhabitants we met beyond "the outer line ", which we crossed at Shama, were inclined be a law unto themselves.
At Dung (13,720 feet), where we arrived on the 14th September, the Gori valley itself branches north-westwards to the Anta Dhura pass and eastwards to the upper Lessar Sira watershed. Leaving Dung two days later, Chaldecott and I ascended the latter branch, the with the twofold object of visiting the glaciers at its head, and, if possible, of ascending the watershed and photographing the upper Lessar Sira valley.
At the head of this nullah, about four miles above Dung, we found the junction of three well-defined glaciers, whose general directions were from the north-east, east and south. Ascending the southerly one, which seemed to afford most hope of a col overlooking the Lessar Sira, we found that it swung eastwards about two miles above its snout and ended a mile further on at an ice-cliff about eight hundred feet high. We circumvented the ice-clifi and climbing over soft snow reached an altitude of 18,000 feet; we were finally stopped by deep crevasses and dangerous snow for which we were not equipped. There seems, however, to be a practicable col over the ridge at about 20,000 feet.
Our observations of the topography differ from that shown on the existing map, both in the location and shape of the glacier. The snout is located on the map only two miles above Dung and the glacier itself is shown as a single one running north and south. The old road into Tibet by this nullah, shown on the map, does not correspond to any practicable route on the ground. We decided that it must have traversed a col at about 20,000 feet at the head of the north-eastern glacier, and joined the main Tibetan road, just to the north of the Kungri-hingri La. It probably crossed the glacier at the head of the Charchin nullah
; indeed, when crossing the Kungri-bingri La later, we noted an easy col at the head of this glacier just to the east of the pass. This old route was abandoned sixty years ago on account of deep crevasses ; it is now unknown to traders.
On the 17th September we crossed the Anta Dhura pass (17,590 feet), to Lauka ; there was a little snow on the summit and some fell on our way over, but we were struck by the lack of snow generally on the mountains north of this pass. The weather here, at this season, is often perfect and the passes usually remain open until the middle of October; sudden blizzards, however, occur frequently and the danger of being caught by one is very real. The country between Lauka and Bara Hoti consists of deep gorges and open moorland valleys with a backbone of snowy ranges. It is crossed by numerous routes to Tibet from Milam in upper Kumaun, and Bompa Gamsali in upper Garhwal; the scenery is often reminiscent of the west highlands of Scotland. The whole area actually consists of the basins of the Girthi river and its two main tributaries, the Eimkin or Yoong nullah and the Kiogad; it is shut in to the north-east, north-west, south-west and south-east by snowy ranges, pierced by numerous passes. The Girthi gorge cuts through the mountains on the northwest and provides an outlet from this area, passable for coolie transport only.
From Lauka we ascended a small peak of about 19,500 feet to the north-wont of the Anta Dhura. There was no real climbing to be done and we made an eventless ascent over firm, freshly fallen snow, which hero came down to about 17,500 feet.
On the 20th September we crossed the Jayanti La (18,500 feet) and the Kungri-bingri La (18,300 feet) in fine weather and descended to Charchin; both passes were practically clear of snow and visibility was perfect. From the summit of the Jayanti La we enjoyed a truly magnificent view of the mountains to the north -west of the Anta Dhura, and of the Girthi gorge; from the Kungri-bingri the Kailas mountains, in Tibet, backed by banks of cumulus, were plainly visible. There was no dust cloud north of this pass.
The peaks near these two passes are very rugged and are composed of a reddish rock ; the approaches to both are gradual, except southern ascent to the Kungri-bingri La, which is steep and difficult. The weather now was perfect and the few clouds that drifted over rapidly dissolved in the dry atmosphere of the Tibetan plateau.
On the 21st September we crossed the Charchin La (17,960 feet) which was also free of snow ; on our way down to Kio we noticed a nullah with outcrops of bright green rock. The lack of snow lying in the Kiogad valley was remarkable, the snow-line here being at least at 20,000 feet.
At Kio Richardson was lucky to shoot a wild yak, which we had difficulty in recovering owing to the religious prejudices of the shikari. Descending the Kiogad, we travelled via Sangcha on the Balcha Dhura route, to Lapthal; here we were fortunate enough to shoot a 27-inch bharal and to pick up three other good heads. The numerous camping- grounds along this route are decorated with bharal heads, and at Sangcha we found a single ovis ammon horn. These had probably been obtained from beasts caught in snow-drifts and killed for their meat.
At Lapthal, where we halted for five days, the sky was generally overcast and we had some snow which drove the game down. Here Richardson got a badly poisoned knee from a thorn of a small bush, common in these parts. For a time there was a serious danger of gangrene setting in, but it answered to treatment, and he was at last able to proceed, mounted on a spare mule. While halted here, we picked up numerous ammonite fossils, which we also found in smaller quantities later at Rimkin and at the approaches to the Bala Hoti pass
. Their presence would seem to indicate that we were near the junction of the sedimentary rocks and the gneissic mass of the northern Himalaya.
On the 29th September, from our camp at Shalshal (15,570 feet), I ascended the Shalshal pass (16,390 feet), accompanied by my Gurkha orderly. The pass is about two miles north of the camping-ground and the approaches are easy. The summit was snowless and the track well used. Between Choti Hoti, our next camp, and Rimkin, I again left the main party and ascended the Tun Jun La (16,700 feet), which lies at the head of the Rimkin nullah. The approaches to this pass are gradual and it is a much-used route to Dapa. On my way up I saw a Central Asian ass, grazing on the sunny moors to the south of the pass.
The presence of snow on this pass made me doubtful about the state of the Bala Hoti(
), over which we must return, if we were to avoid Tibetan territory, for it is not only a higher pass than the Tun Jun La by some eight hundred feet, but it is nearer the monsoon belt.
Leaving Rimkin on the 1st October we attempted to cross the Bala Hoti pass. By 5 p.m. we were still five bundled feet from the summit, moving over deep snow, into which the mules sank up to their girths. In spite of off-loading them, we were unable to cross that night and camped on the glacier at 17,000 feet, with no fuel and with no food for the servants, as we had expected to reach a village. At five o'clock the following morning we again attempted the last five hundred feet which separated us from the summit, hoping that the frozen surface would support the mules. In spite of man-handling them they broke through the crust and floundered hopelessly. We therefore abandoned the attempt to get the animals over and I crossed the pass myself and descended to Bompa Gamsali, sixteen miles away, in order to procure coolies. I was only able to obtain two, Lewa Singh
and Kesar Singh, both of whom had worked for the Kamet expedition and who returned with me laden with atta and other stores. He-ascending the pass on the evening of the 3rd, I crossed the pass by bright moonlight and reached camp at dawn on the 4th ; camp was moved at once and we spent the night at Rankin.
From Bara Hoti, there are two alternative routes to the Dhauli valley, one via the Silikank pass (17,450 feet) to Gildungf, and the other by the Marchauk pass (17,600 feet) to Niti. These we also found blocked and the only alternative was to escape from the Hoti a area through Tibet.
The weather had now improved, and crossing the Tun Jun La, which we now found almost clear of snow, on the 5th October, we reached Sarkia in Tibet that night. Here our track joined the route from Garhwal into Tibet by the Niti pass. While ascending the Tun Jun La from the south we sighted a herd of ovis ammon on the summit, but were sorrowfully forced to leave them alone, owing to lack of time. These animals, for some unknown reason, are to be found in a small area in this neighbourhood, but nowhere else south of the Zaskar range.
From Sarkia we turned westwards up the Jindu nullah to Jindu, at the northern foot of the Niti or Kiunlung pass (16,600 feet), which we hoped to cross that day. The muleteers however refused to do this and ran away. It was only with the greatest difficulty that we persuaded them to return.
The Jindu nullah is about a quarter of a mile broad, with a sandstone escarpment rising about four hundred feet on its northern bank. Beyond its lip the rolling uplands of Tibet stretch to the snowy Kailas range. On the 7th October we crossed the Niti pass, which was nearly snowless, into upper Garhwal. From the flat summit we on joyed a wonderful view across the uplands to the north and could see the hill which hides Dapa from sight, about twelve miles away. On the northern horizon a continuous line of snowy peaks stretched from the neighbourhood of Kailas in the east far away to the west. In the clear, dry atmosphere the purple and green tints of the hills were particularly beautiful.
* There seems to be some error in the name of the first o£ these porters. Lewa was badly frostbitten on Kamet on the 21st June.-Ed.
On Survey of India Map 53 N, Gwelding -Ed.
The Tun Jun La is not shown on Survey of India Map 53 N. It is about 3 miles west of the Marhi La (Map 62 B), and is much used. The route north of the pass follows a large nullah to Sarkia.-Ed.
We learnt from a passing caravan that the Dzongpon of Dapa was a tyrant, who had reduced the population of that place to twenty inhabitants by cruelty and extortion. He was reputed to be an ex-muleteer from Lhasa. On our return through upper Garhwal we again experienced much rain, especially when we crossed the Kuari pass (12,400 feet) on the 12th October. The people of upper Garhwal we found altogether pleasanter than those of upper Kumaun.
It may interest members of the Club to know that on our journey between Milam and Bompa Gamsali, fuel, grazing and water are plentiful, except at Rimkin, Charchin, Lauka and Jindu, where fuel and grass are scarce. Our journey cost us Rs. 400 per head per month, including initial equipment, food and transport. We took no camp furniture, and our 60-lb. tent just accommodated our three sleeping- bags.
Sketch Map to illustrate A Journey in Upper Kumaun and Garhwal
Charchin is spelt Chitichun on Survey of India Map 62 B.-
Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, i.c.s., records that he found fossils, probably ammonites, at Charchin and on the summit of the Kungri-bingri La (Qeog. Journ., lxxi, p. 438). I am indebted to Mr. D. N. Wadia, the palaeontologist of the Geological Survey of India, for examining the fossils collected by Mr. Rose. He reports that the localities from which they come adjoin geologically surveyed ground near the Dhauli pass. Five pieces of black massive argillite or shale contained good impressions of Ammonites ; these probably belong to Macrocephalites or other Stephanoceratids of later Jurassic age. A coral embedded in black limestone is provisionally identified as Heliopora. If this is correct, it would denote a Cretaceous age.-Ed.
P) The Bala Hoti pass is known locally as the Chor Hoti.
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