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It is perhaps a symptom of the current cultural obsession with real estate that Seth Stevenson's Ad Report Card on Century 21's spot of a woman cajoling her reluctant husband into the purchase of a new home (aka "the Nasty Wife Ad") generated the most prolific output that FrayEditor05 has seen in his tenure.
A lot of the commentary focused on the gender roles and stereotypes depicted in this fictional scenario. gracey_newstead criticizes the dark and offensive tone, particularly its portrayal of "a nagging wife and ball-busting real estate agent." BrandiB makes a bizarre but impassioned plea to preserve masculinity in American culture against the "power-female" ideology typified by the husband-wife exchange. Mimi5 wonders if the ad is creepy, or just comfortably realistic:
There's a lot of tension and anxiety behind her apparent bitchiness. Her unusually unattractive (esp. for a TV commercial) presentation of her emotions is the discomfiting issue; for some this colors their interpretation of the whole husband-wife conflict and the fictional marriage (ugly assertive woman = evil man basher). Maybe it hits just a little too close to home, especially for guys who'd prefer to watch a "Desperate Housewife" over someone closer to their wifely reality.
Echoing this view, Dolores thinks the gender roles are "a step back into the patirarchial 1950s":
When I saw the Century 21 commercial, my reaction was disgust at the wife having to beg the husband to buy the house, because ultimately it was the "husband's" decision. The realtor only served to back up the wife's begging.
Jospry declares C21's spot a complete flop: "It flattered no one. The wife comes off as a nagging shrew. The husband looks like a wimp and the realtor, ugh!—what a greedy bottom feeder! No one will be able to identify with anyone in this commercial because they will not want to see themselves as any of these horrible steriotypes.
On the opposite end of the opinion spectrum, bottomsup is the rare defender, rating the commercial "one of the better ones from this company":
If you put yourself in the characters shoes you'll probably come off the same way the way the wife did. It was a real Ad, pertaining to real life choices and that's what advertising is all about. If you think about it, they did exactly what they intended to. They got our attention because if they didn't we wouldn't be on this forum talking about it.
perkybabette connects the general aversion to this ad to a broader phenomenon of "real estate agent bashing" which has "gone too far." (Presumably, she is referring to Sirocco1's lengthy diatribe.) Read her defense here. In this adjacent post, originalalaskadaisy also fights back against anti-realtor sentiment. As "a Licensed Real Estate Appraiser who also has Sales License," joeymush has a thing or two to say about the article's misrepresentations of the agent's role.
As further anecdotal evidence of the ad's attention-grabbing appeal, lsparksmith admits that the ad has literally become a subject of debate at her family Sunday dinner. Her intelligent take on the emotional dynamic between husband and wife is worth reading. As are the many other provocative posts in Ad Report Card not featured here. AC … 5:41pm
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Here at Slate, how meta can we get? With readers commenting on Ben Yagoda's criticism of Michiko Kakutani's criticism, we might safely call this a case of journalistic mise-en-abyme.
candoxx belittles the entire feud as the exercise of "little narcissists" who "try to involve the public in their personal little wars." In an extended rebuttal to Yagoda, MarkEHaag declares, Down with cry babies! If nothing else, pgioia is impressed with Kakutani's ample vocabulary, whilst Splendid_IREny accuses her of Anglophilia in her word choice.
For his part, Ted_Burke concurs in finding Kakutani's style mechanical, rote, and joyless:
Michiko Kakutani reviews books like the smartest kid for a junior college bi-weekly student newspaper, which is to say that her insights, her scorn, her depth of field would be amazing for an eighteen year old in any decade.
This, of course, sets up those who continue to read her to have expectations that she will someday come into her own and develop the qualities one desires in a critic–real passion, a lively, unstrained prose style reflective of a personality that wants to talk to you, and, if it's not asking too much, insights, conclusions and judgments that break away from the clichés and tropes that often, too often pass for commentary.
This blossoming is not forthcoming for Kakutani, who remains an extremely
ordinary reviewer of other people's work. She does not sound as if she cares about the books she's tasked with giving an opinion on, and there is mechanical movement to her columns, a method she's seemingly developed in order to dispatch her obligations as soon as possible.
Pauline Kael cared about the movies she wrote about, and though she faltered toward career's end with messy pronouncements and idol worship, at her best she convinced you that movies were importand and had you talking about the issues she's raised. Kakutani
just makes you wonder again and again how any reviewer could make reading books or writing reviews about them seem like such a joyless way to spend one's time.
Against the tide of Kakutani critics, Yankelwich steps up to defend her " one overwhelming strength":
She has aggressive, ambitious, important taste and she is honest about it. I read all of Kakutani's reviews and when she gives a "thumbs up" review to a book, she's almost always right about it. This is incredibly valuable, particularly with first time writers. I never would have read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, White Teeth, or Jarhead but for her reviews and I suspect a lot of other people wouldn't have either.
In a time when book reviews are frequently either timid, bland and "appropriate" mixtures of praise and blame or barely veiled personal attacks, Kakutani's voice stands apart.
Arlington2 gives us a refresher course on the point of criticism itself:
Critics seem to forget why they examine the work of others. It's supposed to be to give the potential reader (whom I visualize as an innocent, pre-teen version of the Michelin Man, whose name is "Bib," by the way) an idea of why he might or might not like a particular book.
Instead, we get absolute judgments, as if hurling adjectives in support of a personal opinion is a courageous act…
What the critic really owes us is reasoned evidence of why we should or should not read the book. That's a lot more difficult than using big words and obscure references to let us know the critic is smarter than we are. It involves the ability to empathise with the reader, rather than preach to her. Most critics are not up to the task because, let's face it, they're not such terrific writers themselves. Maybe they're not such terrific human beings, either.
If you want to judge for yourself and go directly to the source of the controversy, check out this page from the NYT listing her recent reviews. AC … 1:29pm
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Fred Kaplan scratches his head over reports of a forming war plan at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Kaplan asks, "is this for real?"
Discussion of that question has barely begun in earnest, but several Fraysters have already weighed in with important questions of their own. Beating Kaplan by a couple of hours, Fritz_Gerlich asks, if America were truly planning a nuclear first-strike against a non-nuclear power, "what is a citizen's duty in such a circumstance?" The only question JLF sees is "when?" Those caring to place a wager on the likely start date of any coming war with Iran should join his thread.
Early sentiment isn't overwhelmingly set against the possibility. Richvidaurri wonders aloud, "what exactly is wrong with nukes? … They work, and as such, are no more "inhumane" than any other weapon (by the way folks, what does a humane weapon look like?)"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, hitchfan catches a whiff of rose petals in the prospect:
We're in for the fight of our lives. Bluff, disinformation or a real option, if this insane [Iranian] President or the leaders around him in Tehran don't get with it and join the civilised Planet of iPods and higher enlightenment and back off, then preemption it will be. In the aftermath, the people of Iran and not the mullahs, will take charge, throw the mullahs out, and start a civilised dialogue with the West.
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Important questions, all. Readers are encouraged—no, requested—to share their tentative answers in the War Stories Fray. GA… 9:15pm PST
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Frayster reactions were strong and swift to Dahlia Lithwick's lament over the consequences of Moussaoui's latest act of self-perjury in the 9/11 conspiracy case.
TheRanger indictsLithwick here for her perceived inconsistency on the question of Moussaoui's truthfulness:
When Moussaoui first came into the news, liberals haled him as the Diogenes of the 21st century. Moussaoui unmasked the ineptitude of the FBI when they did not react to the information connected with Moussaoui. Of course that was then, when libs were trying to blame Bush for 9/11 and the only thing they had was a brief which said OSB might want to attack federal buildings with airplanes. Then Moussaoui was a fountain of truth which provided all the necessary information to have prevented 9/11. All Bush had to do was connect the dots. Moussaoui was succefully pulling apart the government's case as Dahlia proclaimed here.
This is now; when 9/11 being Bush's fault only sold Michael Moore. Now Moussaoui is a crackpot delusional who was clueless about 9/11 and had no part in it and no details. Bush/adminstration is using Moussaoui as a scape goat because they could not capture OSB because of their ineptitude. When Moussaoui speaks now it is all lies and untruths of a wannabe with a death wish who is engineering his own demise. The dots are now non-existant.
HLS2003 sees in Lithwick's analysis a similar about-face:
In her reporting for the past year or more, Dahlia has consistently beat the drum of civil libertarians who want to see accused suspects in the so-called "War on Terror" tried in normal criminal courts with the trappings of due process. "Give the man a trial, don't keep him locked up indefinitely." "If you have a case, present it to a judge and jury. If you don't, then give it up." "Put up or shut up – if he's not just a patsy, then try him."
Now, Moussaoui has been tried in a federal criminal court. He testified in open court about his activities. A jury found him guilty, and also found him eligible for the death penalty, in conformity with Blakely. Due process was admittedly slow in coming, but it did eventually come. Moussaoui was not forced to testify against himself, he had an opportunity to challenge the evidence against him, he had lawyers who were appointed for him that (despite Moussaoui's best efforts) tried to represent his interests.
Now what does Dahlia say? Due process is not enough. Moussaoui's testimony cannot be believed (since it is contrary to Dahlia's preconceived beliefs). The jury found the wrong person credible. The system that would "allow" Moussaoui to be sentenced to death is a system crazed and thirsty for revenge without reason.
Obviously, sometimes the legal process reaches the wrong conclusion. Maybe it did here; I don't know, I wasn't on the jury that heard the evidence (as Dahlia no doubt was, based on her confident assertions of fact). But I can't help noting the irony that, having finally gotten what she wanted – a trial for Moussaoui with plenty of process protections – Dahlia still isn't satisfied. Is it any wonder that people begin to suspect she isn't really dispassionately interested in "civil liberties" and "process protections" as much as she simply wants any result that is contrary to the government?
TheSFDuke calls the Moussaoui spectacle a new low in American jurisprudence:
Zacarias Moussaoui got exactly what he wanted. It was so obvious that he was lying on the witness stand even I who did not attend the trial could tell just by the excerpts of the testimony that was reported in the news. The prosecution in their zeal to prosecute anyone for the debacle of 9/11 put up the weakest case I have ever seen.
It was obvious that Moussaoui was not totally trustworthy and incompetent. Even his testimony proved that. The prosecution didn't have a case before he testified; and they didn't have one after he did. The only thing the testimony of the defendant did was prove that he wanted to be a martyr and be remembered for something his sick mind was proud of.
The jury bought it only because they wanted to kill someone for 9/11, and Zacarias Moussaoui was the only one they were given. It is a black day in our legal system, and our political system that has allowed incompetence to sink to a new level.
Similarly, Frozen-Pie-Crust worries that
…our criminal justice system has made the mistake of giving a former Al-Qaeda operative exactly what he wanted. Moussaoui is going to be hailed as a martyr in every screwed-up, hopeless, and seething Muslim housing project in Europe. In killing him, we fulfill his wishes as well as those of militant, fundamentalist Muslims worldwide. It's the last in a long string of impulsive, stupid acts on our part that have played right into the hands of these psychos.
In her assessment of the defendant's likely fate, marylb strikes a tone of resignation:
The ruling told the story of a choice of what bad guy to believe and they went with Zacarias Moussaoui. Dahlia Lithwick goes with the theory based on logic that Moussaoui grew himself into the position of star player by puffing up his role in a badly lacking trial against him. It is hard to argue against given the evidence (or lack of evidence) so Lithwick's bottom line of "How lucky for Moussaoui that his fantasies and ours are such a perfect match" is the sad ending. Timothy McVeigh rushed headlong into his death penalty so now we add Moussaoui rushing by proxy. If Moussaoui sticks with this, there will be no court in the land that can or will help him on appeal. It just is.
Piney characterizes a would-be capital sentence as "suicide by jury":
We've had examples of "suicide by cop" before - cases where misfits have provoked police officers into killing them (like by displaying fake weapons) - but this will be the first time some nut commits suicide by jury. Since the administration went forum shopping for one of the venues most likely to impose a death penalty Moussoui will no doubt get his wish for immortality. How much nicer it would be to think of him rotting away into obscurity with no virgins to comfort him through eternity. Oh well, another Bush "win". Meanwhile, Bush will have his template for stopping the next attack - just wait for one of the conspirators to come forward and confess. Good plan.
Jurisprudence has been a hotbed of good pieces this week. Be sure to check out Bruce Ackerman's article on the Padilla enemy-combatant case, as well as Radley Balko's analysis of Fourth Amendment issues here. AC … 9:05am PST
Friday, April 7, 2006
The Faith-Based Fray has been fruitfully discussing Steven Waldman's taxonomy of the religious left.
Veteran Frayster BenK provides a forceful illustration of what Waldman characterizes as the "disgust with the secular left" held by religious liberals:
Secularist socialists, having demonized the evangelicals as uncaring, as shocked when they find that the evangelicals are having their own debates about the best way to serve the community. They are shocked to find 'allies' inside the 'enemy' ranks. They have been blinded by their own prejudices to understand that in fact, all the evangelicals are trying to do good for the poor - they just think that 'good' is something fundamentally different than what the secularists apparently do, and that moralizing dictators can't make a system work in the long run.
Lest we doubt that the feelings of suspicion are mutual, tiponeill offers a pithy secular takedown of perceived opportunism behind the religious left's agenda. Tenzo confesses a fear of practitioners of the odd confessions:
Do we really need two religious political parties? […] Those of us who are religious (or irreligious) minorities need a party that we can feel part of too. A secular Democratic party welcomes everyone. A religous Democractic party becomes just as much of an exclusive club than our current Republican party.
Apparently Catholic posters DonSchenck and rundeep present conflicting anecdotes on whether adopting leftist politics is the beginning of irrelevance or a lure to congregants for the struggling parish. But Chaser892 takes the palm (fronds) for his anecdote of the damage that politics can do to religion's credibility:
My favorite anecdote is from the late 1980's when my kid brother went to a Catholic gradeschool. Their class play was produced by a visiting 'artist in residence'. When parents showed up expecting to see their cute kids run around on stage and sing silly songs, they were instead treated to skits protesting a heliport that was being proposed for an industrial area miles away. When my stepmother later voiced her anger about the children being used as unknowing political pawns, she was practically laughed out of the room by the administration and other "children of the 60s" parents.
Fray Editor seems to remember some religious authority encountered in his youth admonishing him to "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's." Fritz_Gerlich perhaps best illustrates the perils of mixing religion into the stew of identity politics with his fictional meditation on the spiritual-political dilemmas of a gay Mexican Catholic father:
"If all hermaphrodites were schizophrenes which half would you choose?" – Dylan Thomas, Greenwich Village, circa 1951.
So I'm a gay divorced Latino businessman. I don't have a regular partner. I just go to clubs and meet guys. I don't know if I really like the life, but it's better than the lie I lived all those years. My family knows all about it.
I have three kids. My older son enlisted in the Army after 9/11. He served a tour in Iraq. He's still in the army. He says he believes in the war and would be willing to go back. My daughter, who's 19, is pregnant by a no-good I would just as soon shoot on sight–I suspect he's a drug dealer. She wants an abortion. I don't believe in it, but if she has the kid that piece of shit is going to be part of her life forever, and I don't want that. My younger son is some kind of radical. He formed this La Raza chapter at his high school and now he's very active in immigration rights. He says people like us need real politicians of our own, not afraid to be for Latinos.
My ex-wife, she talks feminist, but what she really is is a party girl. Blows money like it was soap bubbles. As long as I kept her in money, she didn't care that we didn't sleep together. She liked the divorce, too, because she came out of it very well. She goes to a lot of meetings and she talks a lot–she's even quoted in the papers sometimes–but frankly I think she's just full of self-important shit. She wants Candy–that's our daughter–to get the abortion. For her there's no problem at all–hell, she thinks abortion is cool. I don't know how anybody could feel that way. I hope Candy doesn't.
My people were poor. My parents were what they used to call wetbacks. They came into this country illegally. They never became citizens, but my brothers and sisters and I are because we were born here. My father did whatever he could find, including picking produce. My mother cleaned houses. They're gone now–thank God, they never knew I'm gay–but I often think of them. It was their strength that got us through so many very hard years. Nobody gave them anything. Two of their eight children died. Nobody gave me anything, either. I've had to work for everything I've got–and what I've got isn't too shabby. I've been a hustler and my bank account shows it.
Yeah, I'm Catholic. As if I had much of a choice. To me any other kind of religion wouldn't have the right flavor, y'know? Us Mexicans, we tend to believe what our priests and bishops tell us. We think they've got special graces and stuff to know good from bad. And sometimes they do. There's this one young priest I have a lot of respect for. He seems to live the life. He says Jesus was really a radical. And that is something a Mexican can believe, because we see Jesus as this broken, betrayed guy, rejected by everybody. There's no reason he should be on the side of the powers that be. The guy who's got nothing has nothing to lose. Sometimes I feel like that.
Tell me how I should vote.
Please, do, come and tell us over in the Faith-Based Fray. GA … 10:20pm PST
Friday, March 31, 2006
Elisabeth Eaves's reportage on the French protests against the CPE (contrat de première embauche, or first employment contract) brought out Francophiles and free-marketers alike over in Dispatches.
RealMassLibertarian thinks high unemployment is a worthy economic trade-off given that
the average French citizen enjoys free health insurance, six weeks of vacation, and usually a job for life provided you dont really mess up your job. The price is high taxes and high unemployment-yet ask yourself if that price is all that bad.
Consider the fact that in the US if you lose your job you generally lose your health insurance (if you had it). You generally are an at-will employee with no assurance of a job tomorrow. When you become old or your skill gets outsourced to China or India chances are good all that will be there for you is fry jobs or WalMart. And vacations? Dream on.
So ask yourself, would you be willing to be taxed higher if it meant a good life was assured? To know if you become ill or disabled you are protected? To know if you work hard it will be rewarded with a long term job? What is wrong with this?
Texas_lawyer2000 sees in France the future of the U.S.:
A local radio talk show host opined earlier this week that the recent unrest in France offers a view into the future of this country as the populace becomes more and more entitlement-minded. I have to admit I was astonished that over a million people in France took to the streets in violent protest of a law that, effectively, simply would enact employment-at-will in France.
Is our situation so different? After watching Katrina-evacuees settle into their new homes, voicing loud demands about where "their" furniture was (the City of Houston spent over $20 million buying furniture for displaced Katrina evacuees) and inquiring about who was going to "take care of them" are we really that far from where France finds itself today?
Further, we have heard a great deal from anti-immigration-reform protestors stemming from another component of a similar "entitlement" mentality. Nearly 1000 students have staged walk-outs and marches on City Hall here in Houston since Monday demanding to be heard. When they are heard, they speak out about… they don't really seem to know. They complain that the proposed laws disrespect their heritage. They accuse the U.S. government of trying to "take away their education" (and yet they walk out of school). Even the more articulate ones (and that's a stretch) seem to suggest that Mexican citizens (and citizens of other nations South of the U.S. Border) somehow have a right to enter this country illegally.
delli considers the French protests a refreshing alternative to American apathy:
What's wrong with excercising your civil rights? Considering that corporations in the US have a tight grip on the workforce and can pay - pardon me, lobby - the government to accomodate them in any imagineable way, I find it very refreshing that real people in other countries have rights and a voice in their economy & take to the streets to make their point. Granted, their unemployment rate is very high right now and they will need to find ways to deal with that. However, compared to the lethargic attitude of the american youth, they are passionate enough about the issues to demonstrate. When was the last time we saw something like that in the US? MTV spring break specials not included.
Whereas protests usually signal a political desire for change, steelbucket notes this paradox: "the demands, with the exception of 1792, always seem to be to stop change and to keep the status quo":
The French have been taking to the streets in protest for centuries. And us anglo saxons have been looking on in a mixture of envy and horror ever since 1792. Partly disgusted by the lack of social restraint and partly admiring the willingness to set up burning baracades and defy the government for very little reason…
It doesn't really matter if its French farmers holding the country to ransome to stop legal imports of foreign lamb or middle class students demanding that their unemployment figures remain above 23%.The French like a good riot and will take to the streets for the slightest reason.
The other thing you can be sure about is that the French government will huff & puff, order the CRS to crack a few heads and will then cave in to all demands as usual.It is time that the French government, and a few others in the EU, realised that the job of the government is to make unpleasent short term choices that will lead to long term improvements.
Instead the French seem to prefer to inhabit their own reality bubble that is anchored in a time back when the EU consisted of just a handful of countries arranged arround the pairing of France and Germany.
Ele_ offers a broader "anatomy of street protests," with this link to an image bolstering Eaves's observation that the demographics of this latest social unrest are skewed toward white middle-class French girls. AC … 7:25pm


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Marilyn Heiman, director of the Pew Environment Group's U.S. Arctic Program, released the following statement in response to the Obama administration's expected announcement today that any applications for exploratory drilling in the Arctic will be suspended until 2011.
"We are very pleased with the President's decision to suspend Arctic exploration drilling this summer. A delay until 2011 will provide the affected communities and agencies the opportunity to further study proposed drilling technology, oil spill response capabilities and the effects of oil drilling in the sensitive Arctic marine environment.
"Unlike the Gulf, the proposed drilling sites in the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas are in some of the most remote areas on earth. They are thousands of miles away from spill response infrastructure equipment and personnel. Eight foot seas in the Gulf sidelined initial cleanup efforts. Arctic waters have extreme weather conditions where 20 foot seas and moving sea ice are the norm.
"Our thoughts are with the communities in the Gulf affected by the spill. The Pew Environment Group commends the administration for taking a cautious approach and gathering additional information about resource risks and environmental sensitivities before moving forward.
"No new oil leasing, exploration or production should take place until the president's independent commission completes its process and reforms are implemented."

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What Makes Amblyopia Progress?
Hello, I am a 22 year old male and I have amblyopia. The sight in my right eye is weak and while I haven't noticed any vision loss in that eye over the years, I was wondering if amblyopia can worsen with age?
Also, can things like computer monitors, diet, sun exposure and the like cause amblyopia to worsen? Thank you.
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France secured had already secured the Championship on Saturday after their 19-15 win over Ireland - but England were not lacking in any intensity for their finale.
Scarratt weaved her way through and across the whitewash to put England on the scoreboard with 15 minutes gone, though failed to convert her own try.
Italy, who had fallen to a 39-0 defeat to Ireland last time out, were proving resolute on home turf - but England doubled up before half-time.
This time full-back Waterman squeezed through a gap and Scarratt made no mistake with the extras.
The visitors continued to dish out damage in the second half as Keates touched down following a well-worked driving maul.
The conversion was missed but, as the match approached the final 20 minutes, Italy were no closer to picking up any points themselves.
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John Aplin's family has been growing vegetables in some form or fashion in southeast Alabama since 1952, but the survival of the farm has depended on a constant willingness to change.
We've had to evolve over the years, and we've had to make constant changes to stay in this business. There's no other way if you want to make money," says Aplin, whose fourth-generation, family owned and operated farm is located in Geneva County, between the towns of Slocomb and Dothan.
"My grandfather started growing vegetables in 1952. Prior to that time, he had grown row crops such as corn and cotton," he says.
"By 1970, we were up to 200 acres in tomatoes, and that was the only vegetable crop we were growing.We were growing tomatoes for the green market, shipping them all over the United States and losing money. We were fighting to keep our heads above water with a lot of acres of a very expensive crop."
By the 1980s, Aplin Farms began to see the need to diversify and cut back on tomato acreage, he says.
"Some years would be good, and we'd hope that it would last through the next bad year or until we had another good one. But by the 1980s, we were growing multiple kinds of vegetable crops. We were robbing Peter to pay Paul, hoping that the peppers would do good to help pay for the tomatoes."
Sometime in the late-1980s to early 1990s, Aplin says they began to discover retail and decided that it was the direction the farm needed to go.
"So we began to downsize out of necessity and make changes we felt we had to make. This included more diversity. We went from growing one crop in the 1950s and 1960s to this past year, when we had approximately 170 varieties of different fruits and vegetables on the farm.
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"Now we consider ourselves to be primarily retail. We have constantly downsized. We do 'you-pick,' local sales and local farmers' markets. By doing this, we're taking about 20 percent of our product and making 70 to 80 percent of our income. The other 80 percent of our product makes 20 percent of our income, which is wholesale. If we had continued strictly in the wholesale business, I wouldn't be farming today."
Aplin's main season runs from June through October each year. Produce is most plentiful during June, July and October. They finish the year with a fall crop including pumpkins, farm tours, a corn maze, and other vegetables and activities.
Agri-tourism successful
"About eight or nine years ago, we began doing more agri-tourism with pumpkins and farm tours, and that has been really successful for us with a lot of new business following," says Aplin.
One of the biggest changes Aplin has made over the years is to move back to the local food movement.
"Since the 'Buy Fresh Buy Local' campaign started several years ago, it has made a big difference in what we do, how we do it, what we sell on the farm, and how we sell it. We're taking advantage of these local food markets."
To go along with local sales, Aplin says he's now finding that the retail stores such as WalMart want smaller-scale growers to supply for them.
"We'd like to do it, but we're telling them 'no' because they can't afford our product, and they won't pay what we want for it.
"That sounds boastful, but I don't mean for it to be. If we're selling retail, I don't want to turn around and sell them something for 20 to 50 percent of what I'm going to get for it wholesale. If I did, I'd have to grow more just for them, and sooner or later I'd be caught in that big-box store trap, and they would win in the end."
Aplin remains heavy in retail markets and on-farm sales. "Since we have started this, we are actually making money now, and that's difficult to be able to say in agriculture sometimes. Marketing is not as much of a problem now as making sure I've got a product to sell at market time."
One of the main problems on the farm now is scheduling, says Aplin.
"For example, we plant tomatoes on our farm, eight to 10 plants, spaced two to three weeks apart. We have to have everything we grow on the calendar, and we have to know when to plant it.
"Hopefully, if the weather cooperates, the schedule will come together and it'll all be ready at the right time. Scheduling is the biggest thing for us — having a consistent supply of produce for our markets and for the people who come to our farm and buy directly."
For the past several years, rather than getting bigger, Aplin Farms has gotten smaller, and profits have increased, he says.
Maximize efficiency
"We're able to maximize our efficiency in what we're doing. Where I was trying to grow 40 to 50 acres of tomatoes, three years ago we downsized to 12 acres of tomatoes. When we were initially growing 200 acres of tomatoes, our average production was 500 to 700 boxes of tomatoes per acre. We peaked three years ago at nearly 2,000 boxes per acre in our best year, and we average 1,500 to 1,600 boxes per acre. That's good in south Alabama.
"By downsizing, I can take those acres where I've already invested money and know my crop will have an increased yield, which will in turn increase our retail sales. By downsizing, diversifying, and maximizing the efficiency on what we are planting, we're able to be where we are today."
Aplin tries to stay one step ahead and never stop learning.
"Don't wait for someone else to do it — don't wait for someone else in your area to grow something or to try something new.
"I'm not saying to rush out and plant 50 acres of something. But if you see something in a seed catalog that looks like something a customer would buy, or if you're at a market and several people ask about a product, then plant a little of it and see how it goes. If you can grow it and sell it, then you need to be growing more of it."
Aplin also advises growers to visit with their seed, fertilizer and chemical dealers to find out what's new.
"Be willing to experiment on a small scale with new products and rates. We do on-farm research, participating in variety trials so we'll be the first ones to get it if it's successful."
Also, utilize your resources, says Aplin, such as the Southern Vegetable Growers Handbook — a product of several universities and hundreds of scientists who compiled information over several years.
"Seed catalogs also are a valuable resource, and many of them contain cultural guides. Our ultimate goal is to make a profit or a living, but we do better if we depend on one another.
"We're still competitors, but in Alabama, where we have 1,100 growers and 140 markets, there are markets out there begging for growers. We could never feed our state if we had to."
It's important for growers to find their niche, says Aplin.
Recipe works
"My recipe works for me, but it may or may not work for you. Stick with what works for you. A niche market will work for a little while until everyone starts doing it, and then you have to find something else. Always have something that makes you unique."
But don't get greedy, he adds. "If you're in this business because you need a job or you need something to do, you're in the wrong business. You need to be happy with what you're doing. Greed will take over your marketing strategy if you're in it for the wrong reasons."
Growers need to be proactive and not reactive, says Aplin.
"Too many times, we wait until we see a disease or an insect pest in our crops before we start to spray. You don't want to grow your crop and then think about how you're going to sell it — that should have been the first thing you thought about.
"The marketing plan should be the first thing you think about, at or at about the same time that you're figuring out what to grow. Plans don't always work, but you still need to have one."
Building good relations with the media also can pay off in the long-run, says Aplin.
"If you live in south Alabama, you've probably seen me on television. When it's a slow news day, they may come out and do a story on some strange facet of agriculture.
"I don't turn them down — never run from the media. When they want to come out and do a story, be cooperative. It can be used as a form of free advertising in the long run.
"When they do decide to talk to you in front of the camera, and they want to interview you about how the drought is affecting your crop this year, don't say that you'll lose the whole crop.
"You've just told everyone that you won't have a crop this year. Be as positive as you can. Any press is good press if you make it that way."
Finally, Aplin says growers should dare to be different. "Two years ago, we started out growing pumpkins and that's unheard of in south Alabama. Now it's a success. You just never know."
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Chocolate tres leches cake
Remember a few months ago I made a tres leches cake? Ever since I've been thinking about it, but wondering if I could make it into a chocolate cake. Oh boy, I sure could! It's (obviously) a totally different flavor profile, but still just as good as the regular one. I searched all over the internet and couldn't find a recipe that sounded like the one I was looking for, so I just winged it. I wanted a dark chocolatey cake, a chocolatey milk mixture, and chocolate whipped cream. I settled on one of my favorite cakes, Richard's chocolate cake. The rest I fudged. Ha!
Chocolate tres leches cake
I'm not going to post the whole cake recipe, but here's the process.
1 recipe Richard's famous chocolate cake
1 can condensed milk
2 oz chocolate (I used dark but I might use unsweetened next time)
1 can evaporated milk
1 pint heavy cream
2 T sugar
2 T cocoa powder
Bake the cake according to the instructions. When it's cooled, poke holes all over the top with a fork. Don't worry if it's messy, the top to this cake is a little sticky. You're going to cover it with whipped cream anyway.
Combine the condensed milk and the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and heat for a minute or two in the microwave, until the chocolate melts in the warm milk when stirred. Add in the evaporated milk and 1/4 c heavy cream. This is going to make about twice as much milk as you need, but just go with it. Save the extra chocolate milk for hot chocolate or adding into your coffee. Slowly pour over about 2 cups of the chocolate milk mixture and let sit.
To make the whipped cream and finish the cake, combine the rest of the cream with the sugar and cocoa powder and whip until thick. Spread over the top of the cake and serve. Store in the fridge, this cake is even better the second day. Or the third.
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I made this to sample for our customers at our food co-op today using chocolate chips (instead of the 2oz chocolate) and with our in-house GF (and vegan) chocolate cake mix - delish and it took no time at all to make!!! I just discovered your blog and I have added to my blogroll. Fantastic photos, and keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
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|2008-10-29, 17:40
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|2008-11-16, 00:37
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People runs away from him out of pure misunderstanding. But he is a good guy. Not a "nice guy" because I'm all for nice boat situations for those punks. Crucify them...
Now, seriously. This guy reminds me a lot of Kyon. I don't know why. Maybe is his relation with Taiga. And him having someone else to like besides the female tsundere of the day is also refreshing. And his mania for cleaning is hilarious too.
|2008-11-23, 09:08
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singing heartbreak
Still, I wonder that if the fact that his mother likes the 'scary' look of his father and how other people viewed him encouraged him to be a kind of total opposite. Well, i guess it's not 'total opposite', but i mean excel at things a normal 'scary' guy would never expect to excel at. It could also explain why he can be docile at times, to avoid that image he dislikes.
Ahhh, any fanart or pics of Ryuuji as a child? I wanna see that, I'm so curious.
|2008-11-25, 18:21
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The only thing I don't get about him is this: How can he be both sensitive and ignorant of other people's feelings at the same time? It boggles the mind and its the one thing that annoys me about him. Other than that, he has many qualities that I wish I had. I am very grateful that he is not the ridiculously indecisive type like so many other male leads.
|2008-11-25, 18:34
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I'm thinking it's that he lacks self-esteem and doesn't think girls would find him attractive due to his eyes.... and nipples.
Besides that? It wouldn't be much of a show if he confronted Taiga right away. It'd go from 24+ episodes to... 2 or 3?
|2008-11-26, 12:17
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Wtf? nipples? where did that come from? Of course he has esteem issues. I was not being specific to the odd relationship he has with Taiga. He's ignorant of pretty much everyone's feelings most of the time, just acting out of a desire to help.
|2008-11-26, 14:17
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Don't think so. But if you read this thread, you might feel inclined to check out the fan translation that Baka-Tsuki is doing, right now. They are really good reads, IMHO.
|2008-11-26, 15:08
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TY, I will do so, but not now as I am at work.
Anyways. I think Taiga will go a long way to curing some of his self esteem issues. But that relies on her discovering and understanding her true feelings regarding her "dog". Ami confuses him and frustrates him with her 2-faces behavior but he's too much of a nice guy to tell her to STFU. All of the people around him contribute to his personality development. We are all products of our environment. His mother is probably the biggest influence on him for being such a nice guy though.
|2008-11-28, 07:24
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Not liking to be judged so callously, he treats other people the way he wishes others would treat him.
Still, he has no high hopes of people thinking highly of him.
She beats him as she were some redneck thug with a wifebeater shirt and talks down to him constantly.
If Ryuuji is going to be growing his self-esteem, then he'd cut her off from his charity and demand no more abuse.
The person he rebukes constantly is Ami.
|2008-11-28, 10:47
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I don't think Ryuuji is afraid of telling Taiga what to do however. Well, other then when he notices a pattern of specific physical abuse (e.g. eye poking). The last few episodes revolving around swimming comes to mind, considering how he's constantly pushing her in her "training" and there's also that one specific scene where she tells her to "fix her attitude".
I think he's learned to deal with difficult girls because of Taiga (other then the physical violence, that is) and that has helped him in dealing with Ami as well.
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John missed the Washington Post's revelation of the Department of Justice hiring "scandal" in his round-up yesterday. George Mason University Law School Professor Todd Zywicki helpfully elaborates on it at the Volokh Conspiracy:
Oh my goodness–a bust of James Madison in [the first attorney's] very office! Gracious, a civil rights lawyer who clerked for Charles Pickering–who "congressional Democrats…contended" was hostile to civil rights (apparently since some congressional Democrats "contended it," all of his clerks are disqualified from working in the office).
The other example cited in the article seems odd as well–why is it supposed to be a problem that a graduate of Regent Law School might be interested in working on "some religious liberties" cases. Would we be similarly shocked if a minority graduate of Southern Law School, for example, expressed a particular interest in working on Voting Rights cases, or a former intern at a pro-choice organization was interested in reproductive rights cases?
Todd has more on the "nonideological" bona fides of the career lawyers who offered them as examples and comments:
But if these are the "smoking gun" examples that are the best ones that career attorneys can offer as conservative ideology run amuck at the DOJ, then it seems to me that this says more about the real biases of the supposedly "nonpolitical" attitudes of DOJs career attorneys and the ideological parochialism of the Washington Post than about some sort of hiring "scandal" at DOJ….
John, how did you miss this one?
JOHN adds: What this really shows is the pathetically small extent to which conservatives have been able to make inroads into the federal bureaucracy during six years of what what purports to be–and is, in some respects–a conservative administration.
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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Three South Texas lawmen including the son of a prominent county sheriff will likely spend the weekend in custody on charges accusing them and another officer of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to guard shipments of cocaine.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Dorina Ramos set bond at $100,000 Friday for Mission Police officer Jonathan Trevino, 29, and Hidalgo County Sheriff's deputies Fabian Rodriguez, 28, and Gerardo Duran, 30. The same bond was set a day earlier for their alleged co-conspirator Mission Police officer Alexis Espinoza.
Ramos said it was unlikely that pre-trial services could arrange for their release if any of the men posted bond before Monday.
Prosecutors say the four were members of a task force called the Panama Unit that fights drug trafficking. Instead of combatting the drug trade, prosecutors say the four provided protection for it.
Trevino is the son of Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino. Espinoza is the son of Hidalgo Police Chief Rodolfo "Rudy" Espinoza.
Sheriff Lupe Trevino, dressed in a sport coat and jeans, sat in court with other family members Friday. After the hearing, federal agents who worked the case filed out of the first row of seats in the courtroom, stopping to shake hands with him.
"It's hard, those FBI agents are friends of mine," the elder Trevino said, visibly emotional.
The news that the men would likely not be able to leave custody before Monday came as a disappointment. Trevino said they had spent Thursday trying to meet the conditions of bond. Ramos said if they post bond they will be on home detention and monitored electronically, allowed to leave home for work, religious services and court appearances. Ramos urged them to find work outside of law enforcement as soon as possible.
On Friday, the three lawmen stood among a group of 15 men making their initial appearances on a variety of felony charges. They stood motionless as Ramos read their charges for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and noted that if convicted they could face from 10 years to life in prison.
The federal charges against the men have sent shockwaves through the area's law enforcement community.
The sheriff said the FBI came to his office around 3 p.m. Wednesday to tell him that two of his deputies and his son were targets of an investigation. He said the Panama Unit was formed more than three years ago to help Mission clean up its street-level drug crime, and that he couldn't comment on the specifics of the case because it wasn't his investigation.
The three were taken into custody on Thursday.
Federal prosecutors say the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department that conducts internal reviews received a tip in August that Espinoza and another task force member had been stealing drugs. Local police are often assigned to multiagency task forces focusing on drug interdiction. Federal investigators set up a sting.
According to prosecutors, a confidential source working for the government told Duran in September that the drug trafficking organization he was working for needed corrupt law enforcement officers to escort drug loads. On Oct. 19, Duran and another individual escorted a load of 20 kilograms of cocaine north from McAllen to the Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias about an hour away. Duran was allegedly paid $4,000, they said.
The officers earned thousands of dollars more for allegedly escorting four more cocaine shipments in November that were part of the sting operation, prosecutors contend.
The complaint said all four "utilized their positions as law enforcement personnel to escort and protect loads of narcotics." Nothing in the charging documents accuses them of stealing drugs.
Mission Police Chief Martin Garza said Thursday that Jonathan Trevino was the only officer from his department assigned to the Panama Unit and that Espinoza was assigned to an ICE task force that had its own supervisor. The prosecutor's office didn't immediately respond to an after-hours message Thursday seeking clarification on the matter.
Garza said both officers were fired Thursday. The FBI visited his office late Wednesday afternoon to advise him of their investigation and to collect documents related to it. Garza said he cooperated fully and his department would conduct its own investigation.
Espinoza's father did not respond to phone messages seeking comment. Nobody from his department is accused of wrongdoing.
Lupe Trevino said Thursday he was cooperating fully with the federal investigation and conducting his own internal review, but he added that he also has responsibilities as a father.
"It's been devastating to our family, devastating to the organization," he said.
Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant in Dallas contributed to this report.
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Late mail: Cowboys, Sharks and Bulldogs
North Queensland five-eighth Jason Smith has been ruled out of Saturday's game against St George Illawarra with an ankle injury.
The veteran playmaker failed a fitness test this morning after injuring his ankle in the second half of Saturday's win over the Sydney Roosters. Coach Graham Murray says Justin Smith will likely come in to the starting side at pivot for the match at OKI Jubilee Stadium.
Moving on to the Shire, and injured Cronulla trio Adam Dykes, Lance Thompson and Ben Pomeroy will have until tomorrow to prove their fitness for Saturday's NRL match against South Sydney.
All three missed training today and are unlikely to play, although coach Ricky Stuart will wait until Friday morning's practice before making a final decision and naming replacements. Dykes, who is struggling with a foot injury, is the worst of the three with both backrower Thompson (knee) and centre Pomeroy (hip) showing signs of improvement today.
Meanwhile, the Bulldogs have taken a leaf out of American sport and dedicated the number 18 jersey to their fans.
The number will no longer be worn by any player at the club, with a giant number 18 jersey to be on display in the crowd at all Bulldogs home games. Bulldogs chief executive Malcolm Noad says the idea came from the club's recent trip to the United States, where sport's like American football often refer to teams fans as the 12th man.
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Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium ("The Joy of the Gospel"), released Nov. 26, is the first document of his pontificate to reflect almost completely the pope's own mind.
Though Lumen Fidei ("The Light of Faith"), released in July, was Pope Francis' first published work, that document primarily was inherited from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. "The Joy of the Gospel," though, is all Francis.
Spread out over five chapters and 51,000 words, "The Joy of the Gospel" is an intensely pastoral meditation on the New Evangelization that calls Catholics "to believe once again in the revolutionary nature of love and tenderness."
In it, Pope Francis reflects on the need for a loving personal encounter with Jesus Christ, the essential place of joy in evangelization, the crises in the contemporary world, the demand to love the poor, unity in the Church, the authentic role of women in the Church, the evils of abortion and other threats to human dignity and the need for creating "spirit-filled evangelizers." Interestingly, rather than merely analyzing the work that resulted from last year's Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization, the exhortation very much contains Francis' own vision for evangelization.
"I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ," he writes, and he urges repeatedly for Catholics to be joyful in evangelizing.Far from saying, as some have claimed in recent months, that Catholics should not evangelize, Francis insists that every member of the Church has a role to play, and that there is no room for negativity and pessimism. He laments, "There are Christians whose lives seem like Lent without Easter. … An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral!"
Likewise, he calls on Catholics "to abandon the complacent attitude that says: 'We have always done it this way.' I invite everyone to be bold and creative in this task of rethinking the goals, structures, style and methods of evangelization in their respective communities." He also warns against "spiritual worldliness," which is marked by the two extremes of "a purely subjective faith" or "a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism."
In contrast, he writes that the Church's evangelizing "has to concentrate on the essentials, on what is most beautiful, most grand, most appealing and at the same time most necessary. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead."
And this requires an ecclesial renewal that cannot be deferred. He describes a dream of a missionary impulse that transforms everything, "something much more in the line of an evangelical discernment. It is the approach of a missionary disciple, an approach 'nourished by the light and strength of the Holy Spirit' and that remembers always that evangelization is "first and foremost the Lord's work, surpassing anything which we can see and understand." Such renewal is for the entire Church, however, from individual Catholics to parishes and dioceses, and even the papacy itself.
Francis is not calling for some chaotic or haphazard campaign. "A Church which 'goes forth,'" he writes, "is a Church whose doors are open. Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world." Faithful to the Second Vatican Council, he teaches, "today's vast and rapid cultural changes demand that we constantly seek ways of expressing unchanging truths in a language which brings out their abiding newness."
Toward that end, he takes a sober look at the modern world and gives a strong "no" to an economy of exclusion, the new idolatry of money, a financial system that rules rather than serves, inequality that spawns violence and a sterile pessimism. In sum, he writes, "the dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies." Citing Jesus' example of poverty and love for the forgotten and marginalized, Pope Francis wants a "Church which is poor and for the poor."
Pope Francis also warns that "the culture of prosperity deadens us" and lists other grave challenges, such as the priority that is given to "the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial and the provisional"; the proliferation of new religious movements — from fundamentalism to a spirituality without God; the process of secularization that reduces the faith and the Church to the sphere of the private and personal; and the profound cultural crisis of the modern family, which will be the focus of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops next October.
He uses the vivid term of "spiritual desertification" to describe the results of trying "to build a society without God or to eliminate their Christian roots." He adds that there is need for "an encounter between faith, reason and the sciences with a view to developing new approaches and arguments on the issue of credibility, a creative apologetics which would encourage greater openness to the Gospel on the part of all."
Francis diagnoses the failure of Catholics to respond to cultural challenges not through "an excess of activity, but rather activity undertaken badly" and that can lead to discouragement and despair. "A tomb psychology develops and slowly transforms Christians into mummies in a museum," he cautions, adding such an outlook "is a defeatism which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses."
Here he encourages the Church toward unity by saying, "No to warring among ourselves." Francis touches on that war in several ways. He reiterates that "reservation of the priesthood to males … is not a question open to discussion, but it can prove especially divisive if sacramental power is too closely identified with power in general." Similarly, he notes that "when properly understood, cultural diversity is not a threat to Church unity," and he reminds the faithful that "popular piety enables us to see how the Faith, once received, becomes embodied in a culture and is constantly passed on."
And for those who claim that Francis has demoted the Church's teachings on abortion, he strongly condemns the destruction of "unborn children, the most defenseless and innocent among us." He adds bluntly, however, that "we have done little to adequately accompany women in very difficult situations, where abortion appears as a quick solution to their profound anguish."
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Discovering the reasons underlying difficult-to-control diabetes in cats
In general, problems with diabetic control can be categorized as insulin-related, client-related, or patient-related. Although patient-related problems are more common, it is wise to carefully exclude insulin- and client-related issues first, since these are often easily identified and addressed. When insulin- and client-related issues have been ruled out, we then start to look for patient-related problems.Insulin-related problems
Sudden loss of regulation in a previously well-controlled diabetic may be due to problems with the insulin itself. Even if you have no specific reason to suspect a loss of biologic activity with the insulin, it is always wise to just discard the present bottle and start a new one. Insulin is a peptide and, therefore, can be damaged by exposure to heat or extreme cold. With some insulin types, agitation during shipping can also damage the molecule and alter its biologic effects. Another consideration is bacterial contamination; this can occur quickly and result in degradation of the insulin molecules and loss of potency. And lastly, dilution of the insulin can cause problems as the product may behave differently or become unstable. Before conducting an exhaustive and expensive search to identify patient-related problems leading to insulin resistance, it may be worthwhile to replace an older insulin vial with a new, undiluted one.
Insulin options
Most feline diabetics are treated with protamine zinc insulin (PZI), insulin glargine (Lantus—Sanofi-aventis), or a pork Lente product (Vetsulin—Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health). Various compounding pharmacies market beef PZI products, but these facilities are not FDA-regulated, and quality control may be a concern. In November 2009, the FDA approved a U40 human-recombinant PZI (ProZinc—Boehringer Ingelheim) for use in cats. It is advisable to switch to this product if a cat receiving compounded PZI becomes unregulated. Dose equivalency may be questionable, so it is prudent to start again with a conservative dose (0.25 units/kg).
The only insulin glargine product currently available is a U100 formulation (i.e. each milliliter contains 100 units). Dosing small cats with a U100 product can be difficult, and practitioners may be tempted to dilute the insulin. However, the slow absorption of insulin glargine depends partly on its acidic pH. Dilution will markedly affect the pharmacokinetics and should never be considered. If anything has been added to the bottle, discard it and start again with an undiluted product.
Client-related problems
Probably the biggest client-related problem reflects the technical difficulties of drawing up small doses of insulin. It is helpful to use a 0.3-ml syringe with a U100 insulin. Also, a syringe magnifier may provide some assistance. However, careful instruction about elimination of air bubbles and other methods to ensure accuracy is essential.
It is prudent to watch the client draw up and administer an insulin dose. Watch carefully for problems with the injection technique, such as intradermal injection or a through-and-through injection. Some owners tend to withdraw the syringe while injecting, so the insulin actually ends up lost in the pet's coat. Checking for moisture on the fur after the injection can be helpful, as can experimenting with a different needle size or length. Practicing with 0.9% saline injections is a safe and effective way to train clients and increase their confidence. Shaving a small patch of hair may let clients visualize the needle penetrating the skin and improve accuracy. You should not need to shave multiple sites unless a client is having difficulty giving injections.


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The Israeli military said it downed a drone launched by Gaza militants on Monday, the first time it encountered an unmanned aircraft since the start of its offensive last week, as new Israeli airstrikes pushed the death toll from Israeli airstrikes to at least 175.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said it downed a drone launched by Gaza militants on Monday, the first time it encountered an unmanned aircraft since the start of its offensive last week, as new Israeli airstrikes pushed the death toll from Israeli airstrikes to at least 175.
Israel began its campaign against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza last Tuesday, saying it was responding to heavy rocket fire from the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel.
The outbreak of violence followed the kidnappings and killings of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank last month, as well as the subsequent kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager in an apparent revenge attack, along with Israeli raids against Hamas militants and infrastructure in the West Bank.
Israel's Shin Bet security service on Monday released the findings of its investigation into the killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, whose death set off days of violent protests in Arab areas of Jerusalem and northern Israel. The detention of the three main suspects in the case, a 29-year-old man and a pair of 17-year-olds, was extended until Friday as they appeared before a court, officials said.
Shin Bet said the suspects, whose names were not released, were motivated by revenge following the killing of the Israeli teenagers. During the investigation, the three admitted to abducting Abu Khdeir and setting him on fire, according to the security agency and police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. They also re-enacted the murder. Four others were being investigated and remained under house arrest for their involvement in the killing.
Abu Khdeir was taken on July 2 near his home in east Jerusalem and his charred body was later found in a forest. An autopsy found that he was burned to death.
Israeli leaders widely condemned the killing and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed those responsible would be brought to justice.
Israel has yet to capture the killers of the three Israel teenagers. It accuses Hamas and cracked down on the Islamic militants in the West Bank after the teens' abduction, contributing to an increase in rocket fire from Gaza that ultimately led to the current round of fighting.
Fighting continued Monday as two Israeli airstrikes struck the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing four Palestinians, according to officials from the city's European Hospital.
The officials said Saddam Moamar, his wife Hanadai, and his father Mousa were killed by an airstrike that hit their house. Their neighbor, Maher Abu Mor, was killed in another airstrike while standing on the rooftop of his home, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
It was not immediately clear why their homes were targeted.
In all, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has said that at least 175 people have been killed in Israeli air attacks, including dozens of civilians.


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Spammers often forge the headers of their email in an attempt to avoid losing their accounts and to evade email filters. These notes may help you track the source of spam. The most important thing is to have a mail reader that can show you the full headers of an email in question. The important lines are as follows:
Who the message is from. This is the easiest to forge, and thus the least reliable.
As distinct from the From:" line. This line is not actually part of the email header, but mail transfer software often inserts it when the mail is received. Many Unix mailers use this line to seperate messages in a mail folder. This line will always be the first line in the headers.
This line can also be forged, but not always.
The address to which replies should be sent. Often absent from the message, and very easily forgeable. However, it often provides a clue. For example, forged spam often has a legitimate Reply-To: field so that the spammer can receive mail orders.
The email address for return mail. Same as Reply-To:
The account that sent the message. Mail software is supposed to insert this line if the user modifies the From: line. Most Mail software is broken in this respect, so this line is rarely present. Some mailers provide an X-Sender: line.
A unique string assigned by the mail system when the message is first created. This is also forgeable in most cases, but requires a little more specialized knowledge than forging the From: line. Also, the Message-IDften identifies the system from which the sender is logged in, rather than the actual system where the message originated.
The format of a Message-ID: field is @
Each kind of mail software has its own style of unique string. Sloppy forgeries often get it wrong, thus a forgery can be confirmed by comparing the message id with some legitimate messages from that same site.
These are the most reliable lines in the header. They form a list of all sites through which the message traveled in order to reach you. They are completely unforgeable after the point where it was injected. Up to that point, they may be forgeries.
Received: lines are read from bottom to top. That is, the first Received: line is your own system or mail server. The last (non-forged) Received: line is where the mail originated.
Each mail system has their own style of Received: line. A Received: line typically identifies the machine that received the mail and the machine that the mail was received from. I.e.:
Received: from foo.com by bar.com id AA15057; Fri, 25 Jul 97 09:39:02
The foo.com" part is the name that the sending machine used to identify itself. This may be forged in the case of spam. The id is for logging purposes and may help system administrators track the spam if you can get them to cooperate with you.
Many mailers will add extra information. For example:
Received: from foo.com ([126.96.36.199]) by bar.com id AA15057; Fri, 25 Jul 97 09:39:02
In this case, bar.comhas inserted the IP address of the sending system. If the machine name does not match the IP address, then you have likely identified the point where the mail was forged. In other words, the machine whose address is 22.214.171.124 lied when it identified itself as foo.com. Any Received: lines that follow are likely to be forgeries.
If the IP address does not make sense (for instance, no component may be greater than 255), then this entire Received: line is a fake. Contact a system admin for more advice in determining if an IP address is bogus. If the entire Received: line is fake, then the injection point is somewhere above in the headers.
Sometimes you will see
Received: from foo.com x.y.alterdial.uu.net [126.96.36.199]) by bar.com id AA15057;
... In this case, the mailer has inserted both the IP address and the real name of the sending system. This will help you identify forgeries and eliminate the need to look up the IP address by hand.
Some mailers may add additional information to the headers, such as Authenticated sender is email@example.com. Forged Comment: lines can be easily added to outgoing mail, so this line is likely to be fake, but not always.
Other mailers may insert their own authentication information in the headers.
Here is an example of a forgery:
From firstname.lastname@example.com Tue Jul 8 13:05:02 1997
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Received: from denmark.it.earthlink.net (denmark-c.it.earthlink.net
[22.214.171.124]) by best.com (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with ESMTP id
NAA21506 for ;
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 13:05:16 -0700
Received: from mail.earthlink.net (1Cust98.Max16.Detroit.MI.MS.UU.NET
[188.8.131.52]) by denmark.it.earthlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5)
with SMTP id NAA12436; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 13:00:46 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from firstname.lastname@example.com by firstname.lastname@example.com
(8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA05239 for ;
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 15:48:51 -0600 (EST)
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Message-ID: <email@example.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 97 15:48:51 EST
Subject: Hot News !
Reply-To: email@example.com
X-UIDL: 1234567890x00xyz1x128xyz426x9x9x
Comments: Authenticated sender is
Content-Length: 672
X-Lines: 26
Status: RO
Obviously, the To: line is a forgery; the actual recipients list was hidden, probably with a blind carbon-copy (Bcc: header)
The "From", "Return-Path:" and "From:" all identify the same email address, but that may be a forgery. You can try mailing to the given address and see if your complaint bounces.
The "To:", "Reply-To:" and "Authenticated sender" lines all identify a different account. Again, these may all be forgeries.
The Message-ID: line is an obvious fake.
The first Recieved: line shows the mail arriving at my service provider from Earthlink. I trust my service provider, so this line is almost certainly valid.
The second Received: line shows this inconsistency:
... from mail.earthlink.net (1Cust98.Max16.Detroit.MI.MS.UU.NET [220.127.116.11])
In other words, the machine that delivered the mail to denmark.it.earthlink.net identified itself as mail.earthlink.net but was actually named 1Cust98.Max16.Detroit.MI.MS.UU.NET. This is very likely a lie. However, Earthlink rents POPs from Uunet, so this might be an Earthlink customer dialing in from Uunet.
The third Received: line is completely bogus. If the mail came from a dial-in customer at Uunet, there wouldn"t be any more Recieved: lines. If the mail was being relayed from Uunet, this Received: line would indicate Uunet, not Earthlink. Further, this Received: line contains email addresses, not machine names.
Clearly, this email was forged to make it look like it came from Earthlink but was actually injected from Uunet. Whether this was by an Earthlink customer or some other Uunet customer is impossible to tell without cooperation from Earthlink sysadmins.
Received: from cola.bekkoame.or.jp (cola.bekkoame.or.jp [126.96.36.199])
by srv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA00705
for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 01:15:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: email@example.com
Received: from cola.bekkoame.or.jp
(ip21.san-luis-obispo.ca.pub-ip.psi.net [188.8.131.52]) by
cola.bekkoame.or.jp (8.8.5+2.7W/3.5W) with SMTP id OAA11439;
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:35:50 +0900 (JST)
Received: from mailhost.aol.com(alt1.aol.com(244.218.07.32)) by
aol.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA00075 for <"">;
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:19:42 -0600 (EST)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 97 22:19:42 EST
Subject: You can have what you want...
Message-ID: <email@example.com>
Reply-To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Comments: Authenticated sender is
X-UIDL: vjg79u26gfkjjrty38jf983j309jfyrw
Here, the second Received: line indicates that "cola.bekkoame.or.jp" received the mail from a machine which identified itself as "cola.bekkoame.or.jp", but was in fact "ip21.san-luis-obispo.ca.pub-ip.psi.net". This mail was probably forged from a Psi.net dial-in account.
As a final proof, the IP address mentioned in the third Received: line cannot be matched via whois or traceroute. It certainly doesn"t match AOL, indicating that this line is bogus.


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College Basketball: SNHU women rolling, top St. ABy KEVIN GRAY
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 06. 2013 9:21PM
MANCHESTER - With six games remaining in the regular season, the Southern New Hampshire University women's basketball team is peaking at the right time.
The Penmen got off to a strong start against St. Anselm College on Wednesday night and kept on hammering the Hawks en route a 66-54 victory at the SNHU Fieldhouse.
Sloane Sorrell missed only two shots from the floor and led SNHU with 16 points and seven rebounds, and Victoria Wiseman came off the bench to score 16 points. The Penmen improved to 11-9 overall and 8-8 in the Northeast-10 Conference.
A setback against American International on Saturday - a 58-42 loss - was the only recent game in which head coach Karen Pinkos wasn't excited about the way things are going. SNHU has won five of seven.
"We're on a roll. It just feels like we're playing good team basketball, and we're getting more consistent," Pinkos said. "We had that game at AIC when we simply couldn't make a shot and scored 11 points in the first half, but aside from that, we've been steadily improving."
Sorrell was nearly unstoppable in the first half against the Hawks, shooting 4-for-4 and scoring eight points as SNHU took a 38-19 lead. Starting guard Michelle DeRoma also had a strong game, finishing with 14 points and four assists. Conant of Jaffrey product Brooke Springfield had four points and four assists for the winners.
Briana Jones had 14 points for the Hawks, who dropped to 4-16 overall and 1-15 in the conference. Raquel Johnson added 12 points and Allie Jones 11.
The Penmen consistently attacked the basket, inducing 22 fouls by the Hawks. SNHU made 20 of 25 free throws. The next two weeks will determine if the Penmen finish in the top half of the conference or the bottom half.
"You never know in this league. You can jump ahead two or three spots with a win. You can also drop that many spots very quickly," said Pinkos, whose team scored 28 points off the bench against St. A.
"You always want the team to peak at the end of the season, but you just don't know if it's going to happen. You have to get over those injuries and bumps along the way," Pinkos said. "I'm just glad how things are going right now."


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Ovarian Cysts
I had a CT scan of my stomach and they found an ovarian cyst. What can you tell me about it? What is it? Does it require treatment? Will it cause any problems in the future since I am 36 and going through menopause?
There is no simple answer to this question. It depends on what the cyst looks like and how big it is. Cysts are usually better clarified on ultrasound rather than CT. It is normal to have a small cyst on your ovary every month, associated with ovulation (monthly release of an egg from your ovary). Sometimes the cyst gets a little bigger, but usually goes away. Very large cysts or "complex" cysts require more attention.
It is best to talk to your ob/gyn physician who has the report in hand. He/she can give you more accurate information regarding your case.
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College of Medicine
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Outrage in India (part 2)
As politicians play catch-up, the brutal gang rape and murder of a New Delhi medical student forces the world's largest democracy to take a hard look at the status of women.
- Noopur Tiwari, Journalist, New Dehli television;
- Martine Moscovici, Criminal lawyer;
- Divya Rajogopal, Reporter, Business Times of India;
- Natacha Butler, France 24 Correspondent.
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The magic ingredients for these bewitching apples? A deep crimson variety like Red Delicious, a few drops of food coloring — plus a dash of spicy cinnamon.
YIELD: 6 to 8 servings
- 6 Red Delicious apples
- 3 c. sugar
- 1 c. water
- ½ c. light corn syrup
- ½ tsp. cinnamon-flavored oil
- ¼ tbsp. red food coloring
- Remove stems and skewer apples (see "Tricks for Sticks," below).
- In a saucepan over high heat, with a candy thermometer attached, heat sugar, water, and light corn syrup, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Bring to a boil until mixture reaches 300 degrees F. Remove from heat, and stir in 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon-flavored oil and 1/4 tablespoon red food coloring.
- To make red apples: Dip apples, one at a time, then transfer to a greased baking sheet. Let cool, about 10 minutes.
- To make black apples: Add 1/4 tablespoon black food coloring to your red syrup. (If the syrup has thickened, reheat briefly.) Dip apples, one at a time, then transfer to a greased baking sheet. Let cool, about 10 minutes.


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VRCB Volatility Reduced Compression Bar
Brent Crude Oil (June '13):
- Short Term Trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 05/01/13 @ 101.34. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 05/01/13 @ 99.95. Downside Targets = 96.63 – 94.79.
- June Brent Crude dropped sharply lower on Wednesday following a huge domestic storage injection that put enormous pressure on the market until late in the session when the FOMC meeting announcement was released stating that the Fed stood ready for accommodative action.
- Although Brent was able to rally significantly off the daily lows it still generated a weekly outside reversal pattern and should additional pressure be place on the market heading into the weekend, traders can expect another week of lower prices.
- Projected Daily Range: 2.06
- Projected Weekly Range: 5.34
- Projected Monthly Range: 9.28
WTI Crude Oil (June '13):
- Short Term Trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 05/01/13 @ 92.42. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 05/01/13 @ 91.03. Downside Targets = 88.20 – 86.57.
- June WTI Crude Oil likewise dropped significantly lower on Wednesday following a dramatic increase in storage supplies as it dropped back below the 10- and 20-day moving averages near last week's mid-point.
- Given the current intraday oversold volatility the WTI market experienced on Wednesday, expect a short-covering rally back near $91.75 before rolling over and breaking through the $90 mark as initially projected in Tuesday evenings report.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.85
- Projected Weekly Range: 5.37
- Projected Monthly Range: 7.11
Natural Gas (June '13):
- Short Term Trend is bullish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 04/24/13 @ 4.201 Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 04/24/13 @ 4.200. Downside Targets = 3.988 – 3.875.
- Bearish OVB generated on Wednesday.
- June Natural Gas dropped more than $0.12 lower off the new weekly highs this afternoon following Chesapeake's decision to raise natural gas production. It made new lows into the close of the session while impacting the 10-day moving average.
- Price action heading into the storage report on Thursday is decidedly bearish and should the number come in above estimates, traders should look for the market to drop as low as $4.14 by week's end.
- Projected Daily Range: .125
- Projected Weekly Range: .304
- Projected Monthly Range: .580


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Green Bay, WI – The Green Bay Packers released center Jeff Saturday on Monday, nearly one month after the six-time Pro Bowler announced his retirement.
Saturday started 14 games for the Packers this season before being replaced late in the year by Evan Dietrich-Smith.
Saturday, who entered the league as a non-drafted free agent, played for the Colts from 1999-2011 before joining Green Bay. In addition to making six Pro Bowls, Saturday was a first-team All-Pro twice and second-team All-Pro two times.