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Classics of the Italian Opera.
This heart-wrenching opera is a tragic tale of love and loss. Though the opera
is full of beautiful arias, one of it's most well-known aria's is Vissi
d'arte.Tosca sings that though she has been faithful to the Lord and
lived her life as loving as she possibly could, she was still rewarded with
The Church of Sant┤Andrea della Valle, RomeĀAngelotti, former Consul of the Republic of Rome and now a political prisoner who has escaped from prison, enters exhausted. He hides in the chapel of his sister, the Marchesa Attavani. The artist Cavaradossi is working on an image of Mary Magdalene. The Sacristan is shocked that the painting resembles a woman in his congregation. Cavaradossi denies the resemblance: only Tosca occupies his thoughts and his brush could paint the features of no-one else. After the Sacristan leaves Angelotti emerges from the chapel. He knows the artist and trusts him, and so he begs for assistance. Hearing Tosca┤s voice, he hides again. The singer notices the painting of Mary Magdalene resembles the Marchesa Attavani. Tosca┤s jealousy erupts but the artist manages to pacify her. Floria leaves and Cavaradossi offers the fugitive refuge in his home. Gunshots are heard - the escape has been discovered. The men hurry away.ĀA celebratory mass begins. Scarpia, chief of police of Rome, and police agent Spoletta are among the worshippers. They are interested in the Attavani Chapel where they expect to discover Angelotti, but find a fan left there by the Marchesa and an empty food basket. Seeing Tosca return to the church in the hopes of seeing her beloved again, Scarpia decides to seize his opportunity. He cunningly provokes Floria┤s jealousy. When she runs out of the church, Scarpia sends police agents after her, believing that the infuriated Tosca will lead them to the artist┤s secret hiding place.
The Farnese PalaceĀScarpia is in his apartments awaiting news from his agents. His expectations are only half fulfilled: Tosca did lead them to Cavaradossi who has now been arrested but Angelotti remains at liberty. Scarpia hopes to torture the artist into revealing the truth and orders Tosca be brought to him. The chief of police himself begins Cavaradossi┤s interrogation but to no avail. The artist manages to whisper to Tosca to keep the secret at all cost. He is led off to be tortured. His groans and screams make Floria lose her self-control and she reveals the secret hiding place in the garden. Scarpia orders an end to the torture. In agony, Cavaradossi is thrown at Tosca┤s feet by the soldiers. He hears the chief of police and understands that the secret has been revealed. He curses Tosca. Scarpia orders that he be taken away and executed in the morning. In answer to Tosca┤s pleas, he says he will spare Cavaradossi┤s life if she will be his. In Tosca┤s presence the chief of police gives an ambiguous command and issues a pass for her and Cavaradossi, allowing them to leave Rome. Tosca, however, does not realise that the execution will be real. Scarpia runs towards Tosca and, defending herself, she kills him. Staring at the corpse in horror, she carefully removes the pass from Scarpia┤s hand and slips out of the palace.
The platform of the Castel Sant┤AngeloĀCavaradossi┤s execution is to take place here. Overwrought, Tosca rushes in and explains it is to be a mock execution. Mario has to play his part well so the soldiers suspect nothing, and then they can flee the city. The soldiers appear. They fire and the artist falls to the ground. Floria calls his name in vain. Realising he is dead, Tosca throws herself from the parapet.


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After a two-year hiatus, the Viper returns for 2013. The all-new car is now branded SRT rather than Dodge.
Standard safety equipment includes front, side, and side curtain air bags; traction and stability control; ABS; and tire-pressure monitors.
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This is one of my favorite blogs. (Hi Bill!!) In honor of Bill's blog, here's a recap of my day:
We got up and hit the trails. I ran the first 7 miles with Sook. We talked a lot, then split up. I continued for 10 more miles. It was hot. Like 90 degrees. There was lots of poison oak in Serrano. When I finished, I Tecnu'd myself and jumped in the ocean. (Okay, I got in up to my knees.) Then we went to Coldstone for a coffee shake. It was yummy. My sweetie made a great dinner. I did dishes. We walked around the neighborhood. Life IS good.
Okay, I know that was too wordy, but I can't be Bill on my first try. This will take practice.


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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Taiwanese Iron Eggs
The whites (or blacks, really) of these eggs were pretty rubbery, but the yolks had the texture of deviled egg yolks, and retained a lot of good sweet-soy flavor. These salty little numbers would make an excellent bar snack, much more fun than a bowl of peanuts.
2 comments:
- Will said...
I have already heard of them as regular eggs that are boiled until they shrink, but I don't know if a regular egg could really shrink quite that small, so maybe these ones are quail eggs. If they are quail eggs, they should be pretty high in cholesterol for something that small.
Are you a tea drinker? I had been wondering for a while if you're interested in coming to one of our informal tea group's sessions some time (we can drink whisky afterwards if you like).
- September 23, 2010 at 6:18 PM
- sku said...
It would be hard for me to fathom that they could be regular eggs that could shrink that small, but who knows.
As to tea, I'm far from an expert, but I have had, and really enjoyed, some dan cong and puer teas and certainly would be interested in exapanding my horizons. Feel free to drop me a line: firstname.lastname@example.com.
- September 23, 2010 at 8:51 PM


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Robert sez: Scott Snyder is the reason I finally started self-publishing. But it's not his fault.
Let me explain.
Growing up I was the type of geeky writer who, when walking through a bookstore, would look at the copyright pages of novels to see what printing they were in. I knew all the major publishers and their imprints by heart. I could list off editors and their writers and agents and their clients like a kid naming off the stats to his favorite baseball players. Every week I checked out the new fiction reviews in Publishers Weekly and the new bestsellers in the New York Times.
Yeah, for me writing wasn't so much a hobby as something I wanted to do with the rest of my life. In my head major publishing had become, for lack of a better word, romanticized.
Just after college I scored my first agent and immediately thought I had made it. After all, once you get an agent the rest is smooth sailing, right?
Newsflash: nope, not at all.
This agent shopped two of my novels, a thriller and a literary novel, both which were ultimately rejected. But, strangely enough, both novels received great feedback from publishers. Not every publisher really liked the books, of course, but there were some who did. In fact, one senior editor at Doubleday even called my agent telling him how much she loved the thriller ... but just didn't think it was a right fit for Doubleday.
This agent and I split ways and I was agentless for awhile but kept writing. Eventually I signed with another agent, a much bigger agent at a much bigger agency. Before I had signed with this new agent, I asked what would happen if, God forbid, the novel didn't sell. He said, "We go onto the next book." It was the perfect answer, because many agents won't want to waste their time on a new client whose novel doesn't sell. In fact, this particular agent was still working with clients who hadn't sold novels even after eight or ten tries.
And yet, my two novels with this agent didn't find a home. Again, a lot of great feedback from publishers who seemed to genuinely like the books, but no offer.
Then, in the spring of 2009, I came up with this idea of Hint Fiction and word spread quickly across the internet and a very strange thing happened: W. W. Norton approached me about putting together an anthology of very tiny stories. It was one of those publishing ironies, that after all these years of trying to find a publisher, a publisher found me.
A week or two later, Joe Konrath -- maybe you've heard of him -- spent the night at my place. He was in the middle of his insane driving tour to promote his horror novel Afraid. We drank microbrew beer and talked about books and publishing. At this point Joe had started publishing some of his novels as ebooks but wasn't having major success, at least not yet. He mentioned how he was having trouble with his publisher for the followup to Afraid, how his editor wanted him to make changes that he didn't really want to make. While he didn't come out and say it, I think he knew then that he was going to go it alone with that book.
A year and a half later Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer came out to glowing reviews from the likes of The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times. I did a little tour, going from Los Angeles to New York City, and was even interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. It was a lot of fun and a great experience but, I think, really helped kick that romanticized idea of major publishing out of my head. While I loved working with the people at Norton -- I had a lot of creative control, actually, more so than some writers get -- there were still some limitations that I didn't care for. When I had suggested about possibly lowering the price of the ebook for a week or two as a promotion, the idea was immediately shot down with the standard answer that ebooks should cost the same as the paperback.
Around this time I got an iPad. I used it less for games and watching movies than reading and editing. I began to buy more and more ebooks, loving the convenience and the idea that basically wherever I went, I had a book to read (everyone should have the Kindle app downloaded on their phone). The ebook prices ... well, it depended on the author -- sometimes the prices were good, sometimes they weren't. Most of the ebooks released by major publisher were priced at $9.99 or more, with the paperback version costing about the same. One of these ebooks was Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder, a short story collection I had been hearing so many great things about. It was priced at $9.99, and I told myself I would come back to it sometime later.
Before then -- this was in the winter of 2010 -- I had self-published three ebooks, but they were just 99 cent novellas and stories and didn't sell very well. I was holding onto the novels because, again, I had that romanticized idea of major publishing in my head and knew that the sale of a first novel was important. But then, in February of this past year, Random House finally gave in to the agency pricing model at Amazon, meaning they could now set the price to whatever they wanted.
And would you know how much Scott Snyder's Voodoo Heart became?
Not $9.99, but $14.99! (It's currently $11.99 at Amazon.)
While advances are always nice, the one thing authors count on are their backlist. The more books they have to sell, the more readers can find those books and buy those books and keep money coming in for those writers. But when publishers start pricing their ebooks even higher than the paperback books, it's just ... strange. How is that beneficial for anyone? Certainly not for the author and publisher, and most certainly not for the reader. Even if I sold a novel to a publisher and got a decent advance, I knew deep down the ebook price would be really high and would continue being really high, even years and years after publication.
One night Blake Crouch and I had a very long conversation on the phone. Months back he had self-published Run which was doing very well. At the time I was debating whether or not to get my MFA in creative writing, with the plan being that I would eventually teach at the university level. Blake said, "If you could choose between teaching and writing full time, which would you pick?"
I sort of laughed, thinking the answer obvious, and said, "Writing full time."
Blake said, "Then do it."
Blake asked me what my most commercial book was, and I told him it was my thriller The Serial Killer's Wife, which was currently with my agent. He said he wanted to read it based on the title alone and that I should definitely put it online myself (he also hooked me up with his designer, the super talented Jeroen ten Berge). Still I was hesitant, and a while later talked to my agent about it. He confessed that it was harder than ever to crack into the thriller market and understood if I wanted to self-publish the book instead (he has other clients who have been self-publishing too). So this past summer I released the novel (along with a foreword by Blake) and it's been doing well ever since. I have it priced at $2.99, as well as my two other novels, and I've been selling over 1,000 ebooks a month on Kindle and right now earning on average just over $1,500 a month. I recently released another thriller, Man of Wax, which is the first book in a trilogy.
(I also should note that in May of this past year Amazon made one of my titles -- The Silver Ring -- available for free on Kindle (it's now 99 cents). When I initially received the email, I wasn't sure what to think, but then instantly I realized this promotion could be a great opportunity. I quickly added an excerpt from my supernatural thriller The Calling at the end of the novella, as well as an excerpt from The Serial Killer's Wife with a note that said it was coming soon. I thought I would be lucky if the ebook was downloaded over 5,000 times. Turned out that, in less than a month, it was downloaded 25,000 times, and the sales of my other ebooks picked up drastically.)
I'm still with my agent but unsure yet if I ever want to sell another book to a major publisher again. I'm certainly not against the idea, but there will have to be a lot of money to give up all of my rights. If anything, I think the dream for any indie author is to sign with Amazon, as their marketing is completely unmatched. But still, my agent understands the marketplace and continues to try to sell subsidiary rights; in fact, he sent The Serial Killer's Wife out to a film agent who liked it and is currently showing it to some directors. Will anything come from it? Probably not. But still it's good to see that my agent keeps an open mind and is still willing to work with me.
The most important thing I've learned about self-publishing, though, is that just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean you should. Sure, self-publishing has become easier than ever and makes a lot of sense to do so, but writers need to be sure that they have a great product first and foremost. There are novels on my hard drive that I could easily self-publish, but I won't. I know they're not good enough yet, and maybe never will be.
It's also important to note that a lot more work goes into self-publishing. It no longer becomes a hobby, or a dream, but rather a business. There are a lot of upfront costs involved, costs that usually a publisher takes care of. You become responsible for your cover art and your formatting and even your marketing. These can become exhausting, but at the same time, it's all an investment. Ideally, you'll earn that money back and keep earning.
I should also note that I've been lucky. Some writers have a lot of books out with great cover art and product descriptions and they aren't selling at all. A lot of writers spend time on message boards, but I don't find that very useful as mostly everyone on those message boards are writers just trying to sell their books too. What we need to focus on instead are the readers.
After all, without readers, what's the point?
Joe sez: First of all, congrats to Rob and the success he's having. He's doing a good job playing the game, and as the years pass and he keeps uploading professional content, he's going to earn more and more money.
Second, it was very cool that Blake took the time to not only talk at length with Rob about self-publishing, but also endorse Rob's book. Now Rob is sharing his story with the world, which may inspire other authors to take the plunge.
This is why legacy publishers should be very, very afraid. While profits are up at legacy houses (Kristine Rusch has a great post about this) I believe we're at a tipping point. While Kris doesn't believe legacy publishing is going away, I believe it is, because more and more authors are going to discover that they can go it alone. Right now publishers have a bumper crop of titles they can sell at too-high prices while reaping 52.5% royalties. But in two years, as ebook sales continue to climb, authors are going to wise up. They must, because they're getting hosed.
Rob's story is unique to him, but it tells a universal tale of rejection and eventual success. He has found out, on his own, that self-publishing is the way to go. Many others are finding this out as well.
This is how revolutions start. First, there is unrest and unhappiness. Then a few folks figure out a better way, and begin talking about it. Then more and more people try it and share what they've learned. Eventually the status quo changes.
Consider this: if you are a writer, you WILL self-pub eventually. You'll have to, because it will be the only choice left. Now, you can try to suck a few bucks out of the legacy publishing world before it dies IF you're lucky enough to get accepted and IF you're willing to bend over and take their terrible offer. If you do this, I predict you'll be counting the days until you get your rights back so you can self-publish.
Or you can self-publish now, and start earning money now.
Every day you wait is a day you didn't make money.


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He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák. His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jenůfa at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include the symphonic poem Sinfonietta, the oratorio Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, two string quartets, other chamber works and operas. Along with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, he is considered one of the most important Czech composers.
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It's no secret that Senate Republicans, led by John McCain, took aim at Susan Rice. The only question is, why?
It wasn't primarily her views on foreign policy; Rice and McCain actually aren't that far apart on many issues. (They both pressed for U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war, for example.)
Officially, the GOP crusade against Rice was over her statements on what Washington calls simply "Benghazi," the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate that left four Americans dead. But the controversy over Rice's recitation of White House talking points on Sunday television shows was flimsy at best. The real questions about Benghazi are on State Department security practices (Hillary Rodham Clinton's department) and intelligence community analyses (James Clapper's purview), not Rice's spokesmanship.
And by last week, Rice and others had shown that she wasn't the one who wrote the talking points; she merely voiced them.
No matter, Republican senators said; there were other problems they needed to look into. GOP aides drew up dossiers on Rice's record on Africa policy as an assistant secretary of State in the Clinton administration. GOP senators charged that she behaved too much like a political operative, an attribute that never disqualified a secretary of State before. (James A. Baker III, one of the best, was a campaign manager before he became a statesman.)
So, if it wasn't just Benghazi, and it wasn't Rice's record, what was it that had Senate Republicans so riled up?
A big factor was something that would seem to be unrelated: the "fiscal cliff." Senate Republicans may soon face a vote over raising tax rates on upper-income taxpayers, a compromise that will be anathema to their most conservative supporters. A long list of old-right leaders has already issued a letter warning that any Republican who votes for higher taxes will face a primary challenge from the right.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, one of the few GOP senators who has said he might support a tax hike, said Thursday that the fiscal-cliff battle made this the wrong time for a controversial nomination. "To add this to the equation probably would have been more than any of us could bear," Corker told the Wall Street Journal.
A Republican Senate aide spelled out the situation for me more clearly, on condition he not be identified. "Voting for higher taxes is a tough vote," he said. "Opposing Susan Rice is a way to score points, even though it's a sideshow."
Another factor in Rice's downfall may have been old animosities. Things got personal during the 2008 campaign, and Rice acted as Obama's designated brawler on foreign policy issues. That's something McCain is unlikely to have forgotten — or forgiven.
During the campaign, Rice not only attacked McCain's policies, she questioned his judgment, his temperament and even his courage, ridiculing him for "strolling around the market in a flak jacket" during a visit to Iraq.
During a mini-crisis over Russian intervention in neighboring Georgia, Rice offered this: "Barack Obama, the [Bush] administration and the NATO allies took a measured, reasoned approach…. John McCain shot from the hip [with] a very aggressive, belligerent statement. He may or may not have complicated the situation."
I don't think those old grudges were the key factor in McCain's opposition. But they didn't help either.
Rice did her president a favor by bowing out. Obama and his aides know that their ability to do big things in his second term will erode over time; as Rice noted, energy spent on a bitter confirmation battle would be energy robbed from other priorities such as immigration reform.
But the fight made clear that nothing will be easy for the president during the next four years, despite his thumping 332 electoral votes. Republicans are looking for issues on which to bedevil Obama, including other nominations. Just because Rice withdrew is no guarantee that the president's other choices will get a free pass.
Already, the potential nomination of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel as defense secretary is meeting resistance. Hagel's a Republican, but conservatives consider him an apostate (he endorsed Democratic Senate candidates in Pennsylvania and Nebraska; even worse, both lost) and some pro-Israel groups worry that he's soft on Iran.
And Republicans have said they won't be happy if Obama nominates Jacob Lew, his White House chief of staff, as secretary of the Treasury.
About Susan Rice, the GOP aide insisted that "it was nothing personal." He didn't say — but could have — that it was, instead, strictly politics.
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By Marissa Harshman,, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.
While breast self-exams are no longer considered an essential early cancer detection method, health care providers say they still have value.
The goal of self-exams is to increase familiarity with the breast tissue, which will make it easier to notice changes, said Joan Wendel, a nurse at The Vancouver Clinic's Breast Care Center.
"The women familiar with their tissue will be the ones that pick up the abnormality most quickly," Wendel said.
Those abnormalities can then be reported to a health care provider for further examination and, if necessary, testing, she said.
A study of women undergoing breast cancer surgery found that despite frequent screening mammograms, about 40 percent of breast cancers were discovered as the result of lumps or suspicious changes found during breast self-exams, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Breast exams don't, however, appear to affect breast cancer death rates.
An analysis of results from the two largest trials on breast self-exams found no difference in rates of breast cancer death after 15 years between women who did routine self-exams and those who did not, according to the Susan G. Komen organization.
Still, health care providers recommend women conduct monthly exams beginning at age 20. The best time of the month to perform the exam is during the week after menstruation, when the breast tissue is softest and easiest to examine, Wendel said.
Women who don't have monthly periods should pick a date and perform the exam on the same date each month, she said.
The self-exam has two parts: visual and physical.
Women should begin by examining their breasts in a mirror. They should inspect their breasts for bulges, dimpling in the skin and changes in skin color, Wendel said.
Women should also lift their arms above their heads and check the underside of the breasts for unusual bulges or dimpling, she said. Wendel also recommends women examine their breasts while placing their hands on their hips and pressing inward.
Women should also check their nipples for changes, such as discharge or the nipple becoming itchy or crusty, Wendel said.
For the second part of the breast self-exam, women should lie on their back on a bed with a towel or small pillow under their right shoulder, Wendel said. With the right arm raised above the head, the woman should use the pads (not the tips) of her middle three fingers on her left hand to feel for lumps in her right breast, she said.
Health care providers recommend women use one of two methods. One method is to use an up-and-down motion, beginning at the outside of the breast and working across the entire breast. The other method is to use a circular motion, beginning at the outside of the breast and working toward the nipple.
"Either is good," Wendel said. "The important part is covering all the breast tissue."
While feeling for lumps, women should apply different amounts of pressure to reach different depths of breast tissue, Wendel said. After finishing the examination of the right breast, switch arms and check the left breast.
"If you feel something that just feels different, that's the important message to take to your physician or your health care provider," Wendel said.
"Becoming familiar with breast tissue gives women the most information about what's normal for them and what's not," she added.
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Having been in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and beyond to the tune of 20 mixed-martial-arts bouts in addition to far too many jiu jitsu competitions to number, Alberto Crane still comes off as very much a calm and cool customer, with an easy, soft-spoken and mild-mannered personality.
That's when he's not cornering Jared "The Jackhammer" Papazian, though.
"Jared doesn't make it easy," says Glendale's Crane, who trains Papazian at Gracie Barra Burbank. "He's always fight of the night, whether it's a small show or the [Ultimate Fighting Championship]."
On the roller-coaster ride that's been his rise to the UFC stage, one would be hard-pressed to find a bout that's been easy for Papazian, that wasn't nailbiting for his corner and, perhaps most importantly, wasn't thrilling for those in the seats around the cage.
"He's an extremely entertaining fighter," says Papazian's manager and cornerman Darin Harvey. "He never makes it easy on us. You never know what's gonna happen."
Nobody's sure just exactly what's going to happen when Papazian (14-7) enters the octagon on Friday to face off with Dustin Pague (10-5) live on Fuel TV as part of the UFC on FX 3 live preliminary card at the Bank Atlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But Papazian does offer up at least one assurance.
"As long as he comes in bangin', I'll come in bangin' and I know we'll have another fight of the night," he says.
As a trip to Florida and a second fight under the bright UFC lights draws near, the only fight and the only fighter Jared Papazian is looking for is Dustin Pague. Indeed, much has changed since a scrap with 10 guys fortuitously began his MMA days.
"I got jumped by 10 guys," says Papazian, an El Camino Real High product who still makes the trek from West Hills to Burbank everyday. "I started training at 17 years old, just to learn to fight, not to get into it, but it became a passion."
It was a passion that quickly became a professional career, but one seemingly on the fast track to being that of a journeyman. On the regional Southern California circuit, Papazian was quickly thrown into fights in which he was overmatched, he never fought for a promotion more than once and he was developing a reputation as a guy who talked a lot of trash.
"I had a manager that didn't care. I had a manager that just took money," Papazian says. "I didn't really have a home gym or anything."
One example of Papazian's early tribulations came when he signed on to fight Karen Darabedyan, a young Glendale fighter known for his all-around skills. While Papazian was 2-0 and Darabedyan was 3-1, the latter still had far more fighting experience to his name. Still, that didn't stop Papazian from throwing plenty of smack the way of Darabedyan.
"He's changed a lot," says Darabedyan, who's now friends with Papazian and has trained with him often. "Back then, when all of this happened, I didn't know him. He talked a lot of trash.
"From the person I saw at the weigh-ins and before the fight to the person I know now, he's changed [180] degrees."
Papazian was submitted by Darabedyan in the first round and was submitted in his next bout as well. He then won two straight, before losing two straight, as his career had begun to ebb and flow. But things had begun to change for the better, as Papazian got rid of his first manager and Harvey took over the navigation of his career in 2009.
One of Harvey's first acts was to introduce Papazian to Crane, a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt and former world champion who currently owns a 15-5 MMA record and is a two-time former UFC veteran.
"I knew he needed to work on his jiu jitsu," Harvey says. "I saw that he had the heart, he just didn't have the skills. Now he does and he's only getting better."
Crane's first impression of Papazian was much the same.
"He was a stand-up [fighter], he had no ground," Crane says. "He didn't have the right people around him."
While Crane's jiu jitsu is seen as being among the best in the sport of MMA, Papazian credits his mentor in his approach of not trying to force him into being a ground specialist, but working with him to better his grappling defense. Slowly, but surely, however, Papazian's skills have developed to the point that he's now comfortable if the fight goes to the canvas.
"He's changed technically a million percent," Harvey says. "The fights that he won were won on heart, not on technique. Now he's got the technique to go with the heart."
Along with Papazian's development as a fighter, so to came an overall maturation.
"They were teaching me to be more humble, more of a team player," Papazian says. "Before, I would come in with more of a chip on my shoulder."
It opened up more doors for Papazian, as he quickly began to train with a who's who of local fighters at locales such as SK Golden Boys in Van Nuys, Team Hayastan in Hollywood and the Glendale Fighting Club. And, good results followed.
Papazian was able to string together a run of five straight victories during 2010, a year in which he fought seven times and emerged with six victories. His victorious run ended with a King of the Cage championship loss to Jimmie Rivera. However, the bout began his 2011 fighting year, one in which he would go to battle in three King of the Cage title bouts and go to decision in all three, including a razor thin victory against Abel Cullum in June of 2011 in which Papazian claimed the organization's flyweight crown.
"[Crane] comes out, his voice is done," Papazian recalls of the fight. "That's what saved the fight was me just listening to him scream defend the takedowns."
The Cullum victory and a subsequent title defense over Marvin Garcia highlighted a year in which Papazian went 3-1 and fought 90 minutes' worth of nonstop action.
"An hour and a half of fight time — just scrapping," Crane says. "Nobody does that. Talk about the fighting spirit."
While many prospective UFC fighters earn their entrance into the organization on the heels of impressive knockouts and submission finishes, it's quite clear that Papazian earned his way in with his tenacity — both in the cage and out of it.
"It's the truth. That's what's got him here," says Crane of Papazian's ability to put on entertaining fights. "That's what's gotten him here is his heart. [And his] balls and guts. And the skills are coming."
As the wins kept coming, Papazian persisted in calling upon Harvey to call upon the UFC, in particular matchmaker Sean Shelby, as often as possible in the hopes of earning a spot with the organization.
"I think at the end of the day, the squeaky wheel gets the grease," Harvey says. "He was driving me nuts. Every time he drove me nuts, I drove Sean nuts."
Papazian delivered a simple message, but it was one he repeated ad nauseam.
"I always put on a show, I always come out guns blazing, just give me a shot, just give me a shot," Papazian recites.
Eventually, opportunity came knocking and Papazian knocked back.
He gladly accepted a bout on short notice against the highly regarded Mike Easton on Jan. 20 as part of the UFC on FX debut card. In front of a live worldwide audience on the main card, Papazian didn't disappoint as he and Easton went back and forth in a high-paced donnybrook. The bout ended with Easton (12-1) nabbing a close, majority decision.
Perhaps more importantly, though, it resonated with fans, who were up in arms that the combatants weren't awarded the card's fight of the night bonuses to the point that UFC President Dana White received so much feedback on Twitter that he wrote out bonus checks to both fighters.
"He was a man of his word," Papazian says of White.
So too was Papazian when it came to his outlook on fighting.
"It's important [to win], but I'd rather come out guns blazing and put on an entertaining fight and lose than win a boring fight as a lay-and-pray fighter," Papazian says. "I want people to want to watch me fight."
Plenty more will watch the now 24-year-old Papazian fight again when he squares off with Pague come Friday night.
Win or lose, those surrounding Papazian believe this is only the beginning for the young 135-pound brawler.
"He's right up there now and he isn't even close to peaking," Harvey says. "He wants it so bad."
Though it's only natural to speculate about just where Papazian can go with his burgeoning career, it's rather amazing to look back at where he's come from already.
It really wasn't all that long ago that he was a teenager just looking to learn how to fight.
And it wasn't long after that he was seemingly on the wrong track of a professional career.
"He would be retired by now," says Harvey on Papazian's prospects had he not changed his career path. "He would have more losses than wins."
But along with Harvey, Crane followed. With them, Papazian's found a manager with his best interests in mind and a lead trainer that's now provided a home base at Burbank Gracie Barra and the guidance he's needed.
"I just have a great support system," Papazian says. "It's nice to have a home, just be able to stay in one place."
On top of that, Papazian is quick to point out that he's always had the support of mom, Landi, and dad, Edwin. Through his ascent to being a UFC fighter, he's still found shelter under their roof, an aspect that's allowed him be a full-time fighter.
Through it all, Papazian has seemingly improved himself in more ways than one.
"He's changed a lot," Darabedyan says. "He's very humble now, he's a very good friend of mine. Overall, as a fighter and a person, he's changed a lot.
"He fights with a lot of heart. He's got as much heart as anyone I've ever seen in MMA. He goes on and on."
It's that heart that has earned him his shot with the UFC and it's that heart that has endeared him to those who surround him and the growing numbers who cheer him.
"I'm just a fighter at heart," Papazian says.
Once a training nomad going from gym to gym backed by lackluster management, Papazian has surrounded himself with people he can count on who have aided him in becoming the standout fighter he can be. Oddly enough, he's found the stability he needed, while taking everyone on the wild ride that has thus far been his fighting career.
"When it counts, he's there. Fight time, he's an animal," Crane says. "[When Papazian fights] it's a tough, tooth-and-nail spectacle. It keeps you on the edge of your seat."
Indeed, Papazian has put himself right where he wants to be. He has discovered foundation alongside Harvey, Crane and his teammates. He has found, fought and scrapped his way into the ranks of the UFC. And he's ready to fight to stay there.
"This is where I want to be," Papazian says. "This is the major leagues, they treat me well. This is where I want to be and I'm gonna stay.
"I'm gonna be in the UFC and I'm gonna be a champion."


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Investigators allege that the owner of Alpha Inc., Scott Anderson, 57, of Ocoee, sold counterfeit body armor at gun shows across Florida. Agents believe Scott Williams, 51, of Ocoee, and Arami Rodriguez, 36, of Ocoee, worked for Anderson and assisted in the manufacturing and selling of the fake body armor.
"These suspects sold dangerous products to unsuspecting consumers raking in large profits for themselves," said FDLE Orlando Regional Operations Center Special Agent in Charge Danny Banks.
All three were arrested on one count of organized scheme to defraud and one count of counterfeiting body armor.
The investigation began in August 2013 when Point Blank Enterprises Inc. received a customer complaint. The customer said he purchased Point Blank body armor at a gun show in West Palm Beach and thought the product was counterfeit. Point Blank then determined the armor was fake and contacted FDLE.
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Yaacov Herzog: A Biography
By Michael Bar-Zohar
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If the Oedipal complex didn't exist, we might have to invent it to explain the frustrated, stunted career of Yaacov Herzog. A shadow hovered over him from the day he was born — his father, Isaac Halevi Herzog, was the brilliant chief rabbi of Palestine (and later, Israel) from 1936 to 1948, and his older brother was the equally radiant and charming Chaim Herzog, who would become the sixth president of Israel. These were not easy acts to follow. But as Michael Ben-Zohar, author of a new biography about him, would have us believe, Herzog the younger was special. Bookish and with a wide-ranging intellect (he started translating the Mishnah into English at the age of 16 and as a teenager was pen pals with Clement Atlee), Herzog spent his life as a civil servant par excellence. He was David Ben-Gurion's right hand during the 1956 Sinai Campaign, ran Levi Eshkol's prime minister's office during the Six Day War, and — his most significant claim to historical relevancy — held the first clandestine talks with King Hussein of Jordan, meeting in the back room of a doctor's office in London, both before and after the Six Day War.
The shadow, however, never went away. It's the most interesting aspect of a biography that looks at a man who, standing so close to the most powerful players at the most crucial moments, never really came into his own, never championed a strong opinion or took a definitive political stance. With only one bright, shining exception in Montreal in 1961, when he excused himself for two hours from his role as ambassador to Canada in order to publicly debate a notorious anti-Zionist, he never spoke for himself. For the first 27 years of his life, he was his father's secretary and then immediately submitted himself without question to the state he loved, which he served until the day he died at the premature age of 50 in 1972.
Even in a book as hagiographic as this one, which at times reads like simply a collection of praising testimonials, Ben-Zohar (Ben-Gurion's official biographer and soon to be Shimon Peres's) can't avoid the man's essential limitation: His crippling, self-effacing nature. He must finally admit, sadly, about Herzog that "a person as wise and as gifted as he would surely have been able to formulate an original worldview and to present Israel with important ideas in the areas of his expertise. But he did not do so."
What does emerge here is a portrait of a brilliant man with a particular gift — one surely undervalued amid the screaming and yelling that can sometimes characterize the political culture of modern Israel. Herzog knew how to look at an issue and examine it objectively, coolly, from every angle. He could condense various arguments to their key points and lay out for his superiors the many different, competing solutions to any problem. He applied talmudic thinking to the political realm — asking questions more than providing answers.
These were the skills that precipitated his rise within Israel's Foreign Ministry once he left his father's side and abandoned his ordained career path in the rabbinate (though he was ordained). The aforementioned Sinai Campaign was his big break. As the head of the American section of the ministry, he spent much of the war at Ben-Gurion's bedside — the old man was often sick and in his pajamas — drafting letters to Eisenhower and to the secretary general of the United Nations. Ben-Gurion was determined to disentangle Israel from the Sinai in the most profitable way possible, not a simple task after a war widely looked on as a crude colonialist adventure. But Herzog went to work and did the job well and carefully. From then on, he was Ben-Gurion's man, first sent to Washington to act as minister at the Israeli embassy and then, in 1960, appointed ambassador to Canada.
Given the amount of space that Ben-Zohar devotes to two hours of Herzog's life in Canada — 40 pages and an accompanying audio CD — clearly he thinks these were the most important. Besides being a highly competent civil servant, Herzog was a true believer in Zionism: not the variety that sees the Jewish state as a reaction to the Holocaust, but rather a Zionism rooted in a deep belief in the historical Jewish right to the land. So when aging British historian Alfred Toynbee repeated his infamous slur of calling the Jews a "fossilized" civilization and then comparing what had happened to Palestinian Arabs in 1948 to what Jews suffered under the Nazis, Herzog, according to Ben-Zohar, felt an unprecedented level of "anger and indignation" and, spontaneously and without government approval, decided to challenge Toynbee to a debate.
In the heavily covered meeting that took place at McGill University, it could easily be said that Herzog devoured Toynbee, eventually eliciting, through expertly executed Socratic method, what seemed like an almost total recant of all Toynbee's remarks and a promise to come see Israel for himself. Herzog emerged triumphant, scoring a victory for a pre-1967 Israel that still stood on shaky legs. And it was not just his eloquence and arguments that did the trick, but his person, as well.
Herzog represented this perfect kind of Israeli diplomat: fiercely nationalistic, yet a European gentleman (you can hear the lilt of his native Ireland in the debate CD); deeply pious and religious, but not afraid to engage with the secular world. Herzog was nonconfrontational. Abba Eban said he had an "inability to regard any Jew as an opponent." (Sounds lovely, especially now, but if that isn't the definition in Israel of political impotence, I don't know what is.)
But when it came time for him to take his father's place, to assume real authority, Herzog collapsed. In 1964, he was offered the job of chief rabbi of Britain, which would have meant leaving Israel and government work and fulfilling, as Ben-Zohar puts it, his "most natural destiny." His father and grandfathers were all part of rabbinic dynasties; it would have placed him in a position of power. But after deciding to accept the offer, he had a complete physical and mental breakdown that incapacitated him for months. You don't have to be Freud to see that, when push came to shove, Herzog just couldn't replace the father.
Even worse, when he finally started making his way again in Israel, establishing himself in the prime minister's office by developing a warm working relationship with Levi Eshkol — who shared many of his Old World quirks — Herzog was confronted with the great Israeli mother, blunt where he was subtle, straightforward where he was nuanced: Golda Meir. As one of Herzog's colleagues put it, "Herzog admired Ben-Gurion, loved Eshkol and feared Golda."
Ben-Zohar never comes out and says it, but the implication is clear: Golda killed Herzog. From the moment she took power in early 1969, his position in the prime minister's office just kept being marginalized and marginalized until it was nearly nonexistent and he became little more than just a glorified secretary. But he never complained, never threatened to quit — even as he was kept out of meetings and his advice ignored. His duty, he told his bewildered friends, was to serve the state. Within two years, he had a stroke and died.
Not every public figure is worth a 350-page biography. These works, it seems, should be reserved for people who managed to either change the directional flow of history or stand defiantly in its stream as it crashed against them. Herzog did neither. He never emerged from underneath that shadow. This is no crime. In the end, this makes him much like us than like any of the great leaders of history — all too human.
Gal Beckerman, a regular contributor to the Forward, is writing a history of the Soviet Jewry movement,to be published next year by Houghton Mifflin.
This story "The Shadow That Never Went Away" was written by Gal Beckerman.
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Gal Beckerman was a staff writer and then the Forward's opinion editor until 2014. He was previously an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review where he wrote essays and media criticism. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Bookforum. His first book, "When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry," won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award and the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, as well as being named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post. Follow Gal on Twitter at @galbeckerman


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A Denver District Court judge today set the week of Oct. 17 to hear two redistricting lawsuits filed by Democrats and Republicans over new congressional boundaries.
"However long it takes we can accommodate you," Judge Robert Hyatt told the parties, adding, "That's not meant to encourage you."
That got a big laugh from the attorneys: Mark Grueskin for the Democrats, Richard Westfall for the Republicans and Maurice Knaizer, representing the secretary of state, who was sued by both parties.
Members of both parties sued after the 2011 legislature failed to come to an agreement on new boundaries for Colorado's seven congressional districts. The boundaries must be redrawn every 10 years after the census to make sure each one contains roughly the same number of people.
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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Monday, March 5. All times are Eastern.
Alcatraz (Fox, 8 p.m.): It's a rather slow night for TV, simply because a.) Mondays are usually slow, and b.) it's no longer February sweeps, so the pattern of repeats to new episodes is going to start to seem a little random. Fortunately (?), Fox appears to be cutting its losses on the rapidly-shedding-audience Alcatraz and is airing two episodes tonight, which will give all of you looking for an awkward blend of police procedural and science fiction drama something to do for at least two hours of your evening. The rest of you can just hang out in comments and chat with the always enjoyable Will Harris.
The Voice (NBC, 8 p.m.): So, as it turns out, NBC was unable to figure out a way to make this show all auditions, which means it's time for the rapidly-diminishing-returns-y excitement of the battle rounds. Emily Yoshida will be there, provided she can defeat one of our other reviewers in a review-off.
Being Human (Syfy, 9 p.m.): Tonight's episode title: "I've Got You Under Your Skin." Normally, we'd just groan and ask the show to stop changing the names of song titles to fit its vaguely supernatural needs, but this one has kind of an edge to it. Phil Dyess-Nugent once had himself under his skin. He got a rash.
RuPaul's Drag Race (Logo, 9 p.m.): We think it's sort of cool that RuPaul has built this Logo empire and become a reality TV kingpin. If we're being honest, we think Ru deserves it far more than that Tyra Banks. Oliver Sava mostly agrees with us, but he'd rather not piss off Tyra. She'll come at you!
Smash (NBC, 10 p.m.): Tonight's episode is entitled "Let's Be Bad," and that's just a bad idea all around, as a certain portion of your audience is going to go all Statler and Waldorf on you and say, "You don't need to start being bad." Noel Murray will laugh, but he'll also give the show time to find itself.
Scrubs (11 a.m.): We've finally come to an episode of Scrubs that Myles McNutt just doesn't have much to say about, and it only took a full season and part of a second one to get to that point. Myles is as surprised about this as you are, but he vows to soldier on and write all the more for next week's piece.
Batman: The Animated Series (1 p.m.): Oliver Sava reviews an episode called "Avatar," and it apparently has nothing to do with blue people, a mystical war between light and dark, or the Ultima series of computer games. Instead, it's all about Ra's al Ghul, the supervillain who's always good for a laugh.
Family Feud (GSN, 7 p.m.): Since it's such a slow night tonight, we wouldn't be offended if you spent the entire night watching old episodes of Family Feud on the Game Show Network. In fact, we think that might be what we do. Let's survey 100 commenters on what they'll watch tonight and see.
The Bachelor: The Women Tell All (ABC, 8 p.m.): Apparently, the women have some things to say about whatever it is that the bachelor did on this latest season of the show. We haven't really been paying attention, but the magazine covers at the supermarket sure seem angry about whatever's happening.
The Lying Game (ABC Family, 9 p.m.): It's the first season finale of this show where long-lost identical twins switch places, and in an even weirder twist, Charisma Carpenter—who starred in a story very like this for Lifetime—is guest starring in tonight's episode. What's up with all the weird twin storylines?
Love Broker (Bravo, 10 p.m.): Jessica Jardine checks out the latest new reality show from Bravo, which sounds like it might be a real-life version of The Love-matic Grampa from The Simpsons but is probably just about real people looking for their soulmates. How boring! We wanted a talking love tester!
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Reelz, 8 p.m.): Here comes Clint Eastwood, ready to make your day (yes, we know that's a different movie) and give you a night of good, old-fashioned Western excitement. In addition to starring, Eastwood directed this one, in one of his first turns behind the camera.
Wild Things (MoMax, 9 p.m.): We can't say we "recommend" this movie, if you've never seen it, but if you're looking for a steamy potboiler that's completely self-aware about its ridiculousness, well, there are few better examples than this. And Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, of course.
NHL Hockey: Sabres at Jets (NBC Sports, 8 p.m.): So, as it turns out, there's a hockey team in Winnipeg again, and they've been named the Jets, just like it was 1986 again or something. Anyway, here's your chance to catch them on TV, and it's even broadcast from Winnipeg! How exciting that will be!
Californication (Sunday): It's all too easy to forget that Rob Lowe—yes, that Rob Lowe—plays a recurring character on this show, who's meant to be sort of the worst pretty boy movie star in the history of the world. Kenny Herzog never forgets, but, then, he's Rob Lowe's number one super fan.


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PoultryNet® 12/48/3 Electric Netting
A prefabricated, portable electric fence that has 12 horizontal strands (11 conductive), is 48" tall installed and has string verticals every 3". Built-in line posts are spaced every 10'.
Keeps in chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry while keeping their ground-based predators out. Recommended for active, flighty birds. The taller 48" net is more likely to discourage large predators such as coyotes and dogs.
Arrives to your door as a preassembled fence. One roll (164 ft) weighs only 24 lbs. You will need a fence energizer to electrify the net.
Which PoultryNet® is right for you?We offer many fences to fit your situation, including complete kits, different heights and lengths, multiple colors, drivable posts and positive/negative options for dry soils. Visit this link to compare all PoultryNet options.
No extra gates needed. Just turn off the energizer and pull the first post to create an opening. For added convenience, a PoultryNet® Gate can be used to provide easy access without the need to turn the energizer off.
Common Uses
- Contain and control the movement of chickens, ducks and other poultry on a daily or weekly basis.
- Rotate poultry to fresh grass as a food source and to reduce disease risks.
- Keep small flocks in the backyard. When managed well, chickens are an indispensable garden tool—turning pesky insects and weeds into rich compost.
- Keeps out deer, bear, raccoons, rabbits, foxes, coyotes, stray dogs and skunks.
- Can be used to contain and control livestock other than poultry, such as sheep, goats, cattle and guard dogs.
|PoultryNet® 12/48/3
|48" installed
|Horizontal Strands
|12 (11 conductive)
|Vertical Strands
|Plastic strings, spaced every 3"
|Roll Length
|82' or 164'
|Premium Superconductor
|Electrical Resistance
|35 Ω/per 1000'
|Line Post Options
|Single Spike (SS)
Double Spike (DS)
|Line Post Material
|White PVC, 0.60" diameter
|Spike Length/Diameter
|Distance Between Posts
|Horizontal Spacings
|2", 2", 2", 2", 4", 4", 4", 6", 6", 8", 8"
(from bottom to top)
Each roll comes with 1 Warning Sign and 1 Repair Kit.
- #201825 - $1.12 per ft (164' roll with single spike posts)
- #201820 - $1.55 per ft (82' roll with single spike posts)
- #207015 - $1.18 per ft (164' roll with double spike posts)
- #207010 - $1.76 per ft (82' roll with double spike posts)
See PDFs and videos above for additional installation instructions.
Electric fence is a pain barrier, not a physical barrier. A common mistake is not electrifying it. Animals may escape or become entangled (and may die). On a % basis, entanglement is very rare, but it can and does occur. If animals are scared or starved it will not keep them in. The first time you put the animals in the net, you should be available to watch them for a while. That way if one were to get into the fence and get caught, you can turn the power off and get them loose.
Netting must be moved when tall grass covers the lower "hot" strands. The alternative? Apply a strip of herbicide to kill vegetation.
Warning! Due to risk of fire, do NOT use continuous output energizers with electric netting or electro-plastic conductors such as rope, twine or tape. Use only with a low or wide impedance intermittent pulse energizer. (Fi-Shock™ brand energizers which are sold as low impedance, continuous current output should NOT be used with electric netting.) All energizers sold on Premier's website use an intermittent pulse and are suitable for use with electric netting.
Dry conditions and wintertime usage may reduce the effectiveness of electric fencing. Ice and heavy snow can flatten netting and thereby damage it.
Dry or frozen ground may cause post spikes to bend or break if inserted with force. Pilot holes may be needed. We recommend using drivable or single spike posts in hard soils. Double spike posts provide more stability when the ground is soft.
With PoultryNet, the bottom hot wire can slip off of the plastic portion of the end posts onto the metal spikes. This will cause a dead short and no energy will be on the fence. Unhook the energizer and slide the hot wire back onto the post. Reconnect the energizer to the net and test.
Listed below are recommended optional components. Your particular situation may require alternative recommendations. Please call and talk to our fence consultants if there are any questions at 800-282-6631.
Posts and Accessories
FiberTuff™ Post, 48" tall, 22mm diaItem #208055 -
Fiberglass-reinforced support posts for ends, corners and major directional changes. Commonly used with electrified net fences.$4.98
Energizer Kits
Solar IntelliShock® 60 Energizer KitItem #113350 -
Solar powered 0.60 joule energizer used with electric fences to contain sheep, goats, poultry, swine, cattle and horses. Effective against predators.$273.00
Energizer Kits
HotShock 5 (Plug-In) Energizer KitItem #1120052 -
A versatile 110V AC or 12V DC unit which can be used as a plug-in energizer or as a battery energizer. Adapts from one style to the other in a few seconds.$150.35
Energizer Kits
HotShock 5 (Battery) Energizer KitItem #1120053 -
A 110V AC or 12V DC electric fence energizer used to contain poultry, cattle, sheep, goats, horses and guard dogs. Effective against predators.$119.80
Energizer Kits
Kube 4000 (Plug-In) Energizer KitItem #115111 -
An economic 110V wide-impedance electric fence energizer kit used for medium length fences.$217.70
Fence Connectors and Accessories
5-Light Wireless Fence TesterItem #200006 -
Low cost 5-light wireless tester to measure approximate fence voltage. Used to determine if your energizer/charger is working properly.$15.00
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Warning SignItem #346000 -
Attaches to an electric fence for netting to warn people that the fence is electrified.$0.98
Fence Connectors and Accessories
PowerLink™ 4.0, 30" longItem #335500 -
Make instant, in-field connections between electric fences without the need of turning off the energizer. Simple to use and effective.$4.50
PoultryNet Gate (4 ft x 48" tall), black/white with black postsItem #340605 -
Provides easy access in/out of netting enclosures without the need to turn off the fence energizer. Same electrified mesh as 48" tall PoultryNet®.$58.00
Posts and Accessories
NetPost 15/48/SS (white) - For: PoultryNet 12/48/3 or Chicken Net 12/48/3Item #202202 -
Replacement line posts for Premier's netting. Designs for each type of net, double or single spike.$2.32
Posts and Accessories
NetPost 15/48/DS (white) - For: PoultryNet & Plus 12/48/3 or NoShock Chick FenceItem #207012 -
Replacement line posts for Premier's netting. Designs for each type of net, double or single spike.$3.30
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Repair Kit for PoultryNet, PoultryNet Plus, ElectroStop, ElectroStop Plus & E'StopItem #201710 -
A handy repair kit that includes all of the essentials to patch tears and holes in electric net fences.$2.00
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Brass Ferrules for NettingItem #200500 -
Neat item used to repair broken horizontals in electric netting.$0.14
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Cord retainer (replacement only) for 13mm/.51" & 15mm/.60" net postsItem #200800 -
Clip designed for the spikes on standard netting posts. Keeps bottom black strand from sliding up and creating a gap at the bottom of the net.$0.12
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Replacement - Electrical clip for nettingItem #200900 -
This clip is designed to connect all the horizontals on any electrified netting together electrically.$0.25
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Top Cap (replacement only) for 15mm/.60" dia net postsItem #202203 -
Replaces lost, misplaced or broken plastic caps (for posts 0.575" in diameter) on netting posts. Holds top strand of net in place so there is less sagging.$0.20
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Jody R from Virginia
This product is A+. I have own electric netting for 15 years now. I recommend it to everyone who owns any type of livestock. Remember one thing because it pays for itself by just having easy labor. No pounding poles, no digging poles. Just plug to energizer and enjoy. Please recommend this product to everyone!!
Edward M from North Carolina
Have used Premier Electric Nets since '97 with all manner of livestock, in pasture to woods. Presently working with 15 nets with Speedrite 12000i charger. Quality, durability, and longevity are excellent.
Brittany C from Kentucky
Believe the hype. This fencing is a godsend. It was recommended on YouTube vlogs I watch (Justin Rhodes & ART and BRI to be precise) and I'm so glad I trusted their judgement, and so are my chickens.
In addition to this I have the 100 ft, green, double spike Permanet. It's my favorite but it's definitely much heavier and harder to handle than this netting (164 ft, single spike). I haven't had much of a sag problem but my land is really quite level. I've had mine in the same place for about 3 months now and I've only had to shore it up once and that was due to extreme winds and took only about 5 minutes.
Bryan M from Rocky Mountains
These are excellent resources for ranging poultry when used with a fencer. We have experienced very few losses since using these fences [PoultryNet® 12/48/3 (164' x 48" white/black roll), double spike].
The only drawback is they come in 17 segments which makes creating a rectangle of ANY kind impossible. Why not 16 or 18 segments? Also, the quality varies from fence to fence. On some fences the plastic balls on the top strand don't hold the fence strands well but with other fences of identical model we have not experienced any problems.
Connie R from Maryland
I love it. My first order was single post. This time I got the double post. I like that better because it is easier to step in especially if the ground is dry and hard.


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This magazine is an archived publication and may contain dated technical, contact, and link information.
|Publication Number: Date: May/June 1999
Issue No: Vol. 62 No. 6
Date: May/June 1999
"Doing Futures" - Creating a Preferred Future in Highway Safety
by: Lorena G. Beauchesne
The Federal Highway Administration has started a process to identify the actions it must take now and in the future to "create" the future it desires.
Improving Safety Through Peer Exchanges
by: Barbara Kenefake and Ayman Smadi
National peer exchanges, began in 1994 by the FHWA's Office of Motor Carriers, help to identify the "best practices" related to selected specific elements of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance.
National Transportation Week, May 16-22
by: Karen Haas Martin
From May 16-22, the transportation community will celebrate National Transportation Week to increase public awareness of transportation and to educate the public about transportation issues.
An Immediate Payoff From FHWA's NDE Initiative
by: Adrian T. Ciolko and W. Phillip Yen
Advanced nondestructive evaluation and nondestructive flaw-detection technologies played a vital role in the successful emergency structural evaluation of the Cochrane Bridge in Mobile County, Ala..
Designing Highway With Older Drivers in Mind
by: Elizabeth Alicandri, Mark Robinson, and Tim Penney
Aging affects a wide variety of skills that are critical to safe driving. Indeed, studies have shown that older drivers have high rates of crashes, injuries, and fatalities on a per-mile-driven basis. As the percentage of Americans aged 65 and older continues to grow, this significant problem grows in magnitude.
FHWA's Driver Performance Laboratory
by: Kathryn Wochinger, Cathy Emery, and Elizaabeth Alicandri
The Driver Performance Laboratory at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center investigates issues of driver performance related to highway and traffic engineering and to the design of in-vehicle information systems.
The National Driver History Initiative
by: Brian M. McLaughlin
FHWA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are sponsoring a driver history pilot project in nine states to improve systems for recording traffic convictions and for exchanging driver safety information among courts, police, and licensing agencies.
by: J. Dan Turner
Currently, no nationally recognized definitions of work zone or work-zone accidents exist. FHWA is involved in an effort to develop a standardized definition of work zone to enable researchers to assess the current state of work-zone safety and to recommend possible countermeasures to eliminate or mitigate safety problems.
The National Work-Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
by: T. Peter Ruane and Gerald Ullman
Opened in February 1998, the clearinghouse has the most comprehensive library of information on work-zone safety.
The outcomes of the National Transportation Safety Conference, held March 2-3, 1999, are the beginning of a transportation safety action plan and a memorandum of understanding signed by government officials and chiefs of industry, trade, labor, and law enforcement, pledging to make safety a priority in their organizations.
1999 International Highway Transportation Safety Week, June 1-5
The aims of the activities of this special week are to promote the message that all drivers are responsible for ensuring safe highways and to educate the public about the efforts to improve truck and bus safety.
Human Factors Recommendations for TMC Design
by: Nazemeh Sobhi and Michael Kelly
An ITS-class traffic management center (TMC) incorporates a large number of sensors to collect and communicate traffic-flow data. They may employ data fusion and automated information processing to combine and translate the information into a form that can enhance operators' knowledge of the status of the roadway environment.
FHWA's International Geotechnical Engineering Scan
by: Thomas K. Saad and Jerry A. DiMaggio
In March 1998, a team of geotechnical and structural engineers from FHWA, state highway agencies, and industry went to Canada and Europe to discuss practices for implementing load and resistance factor design methods; to investigate innovative contracting practices; and to identify new or improved mechanically stabilized earth-wall technologies, ground-improvement methods, and in situ testing procedures.
Does Asset Management Deserve a Closer Look?
by: Dena M. Gray-Fisher
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved an asset management strategic plan that outlines AASTHO's activities to advance asset management among the organization's members.


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Settlement in Victorian hep C lawsuit
A woman infected with hepatitis C at a Melbourne medical clinic says the settlement of a class action will end years of torment and heartache.
More than 50 women were infected at Croydon Day Surgery in 2008 and 2009 by drug-addicted anaesthetist James Latham Peters.
The women reached a $13.75 million settlement on Monday with the clinic, its director Dr Mark Schulberg and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
One of the women, who cannot be named, says she has suffered ongoing mental health issues and a family breakdown since becoming infected.
The woman said the settlement, which still needs approval by the Victorian Supreme Court, would allow her the stability she needed to rebuild her family.
"(It means) the end of torment and heartache," she told reporters
"It's done and it's over and we can move on with our lives."
Slater and Gordon principal lawyer Julie Clayton praised the bravery and patience of the women in dealing with a major public health incident.
"It has been a nightmare for our clients. Their faith in the medical system has been seriously tested," she said.
"An out-of-court settlement will allow them to focus on the future."
Ms Clayton said there were around six women who had been infected who had not yet joined the class action.
The formal application to settle the action will be heard in the next fortnight.
The trial for a separate lawsuit, involving a woman who refused to join the class action, has been adjourned until Wednesday.
Peters was jailed in 2013 for 14 years, with a non-parole period of 10 years, after pleading guilty to 55 counts of negligently causing serious injury.
Peters injected the women with the same needles he used to give himself doses of the opiate Fentanyl while working as an anaesthetist at the abortion clinic in 2008 and 2009.
In jailing Peters, Justice Terry Forrest said he caused vulnerable women to suffer needlessly.
"The physical damage caused by your conduct and the associated emotional harm cannot adequately be described by me in words," he said.
"You breached the great trust that every patient places in his or her treating doctor."


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New Year messages from Japan
Only in Japan could the re-election of a party that has run the country for 53 of the last 57 years be greeted by global financial markets as a breath of fresh air.
But that is how the Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory is being interpreted by global investors, if not Japanese voters themselves.
Everyone expects Shinzo Abe to spend yet more money the government doesn't have, and to pressure the Bank of Japan into spending trillions more as well - in a desperate bid to push up prices and finally reflate the economy.
There aren't many economists I speak to who think, with all of Japan's structural problems, that Mr Abe's two pronged stimulus programme will deliver lasting economic growth. But international investors do seem to think he will succeed in pushing down the value of Japan's currency.
Why does this matter for anyone outside Japan? It matters because it highlights three big themes for the global economy that I suspect we will keep coming back to in 2013. They are: central bank activism; competitive depreciation; and, for the umpteenth time, the great challenge of achieving decent growth in advanced economies laden with private and public debt.
Inflation pledge
I won't dwell on the central bank activism - I've said a lot on that subject in my last two posts. But it should be said that Mr Abe had put a rethink of national monetary policy front and centre of his election campaign, long long before it became a hot topic in the US and UK.
As well as proposing a lot more old-style deficit spending on public works and the like, the soon-to-be Japanese prime minister campaigned on a pledge to raise the Bank of Japan's inflation target to from 1% to 2%, insisting there should be unlimited monetary stimulus until that target is reached.
If that sounds odd to you, remember that Japan is a country which has had falling prices, of and on, for years. Consumer prices fell almost continuously between 2009 and 2011, and most forecasters expect the inflation rate to be negative in 2013 as well.
The idea behind this, roughly similar to the Carney argument for a nominal GDP target, is that the only way to stimulate activity, in a deeply deflationary environment is to convince people and businesses that you really will spend whatever it takes to ensure that prices and nominal demand will be higher next year than they are today. So, in theory, businesses and individuals will finally decide to spend and invest.
Mr Abe threatened to revoke the central bank's independence, if necessary, to achieve all this. But he might not have to, given that the current Governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, finishes his current term in April, and his two deputy governors are up for renewal as well.
One front-runner to replace Mr Shirakawa is Kazumasa Iwata, the president of a respected economic think tank who has talked previously about setting up a 50tn ($596bn; £368bn) fund to buy foreign government bonds in a bid to force down the value of the yen.
We know central banks can debauch their own currencies on the exchange markets, even if the depressed state of the domestic economy makes them unable to reliably produce inflation or decent economic growth at home. But we also know that such a strategy is not necessarily going to do down well with the rest of the world at a time when many other countries are dealing with the same problem.
Currency battles
That brings me to the second theme for 2013: which is competitive depreciation.
We talked a lot about "global currency wars" in 2010". If things don't go well for the global economy in the first half of next year, I suspect we could hear about it again in 2013.
If you look at the growth strategy of nearly every major economic region next year (with the partial exception of the US), it relies more than ever on the support of exports.
Put it another way, many countries are once again hoping to borrow from other nations the demand they cannot generate at home. We know, by the laws of arithmetic, that at least some of them are likely to be disappointed.
Which brings us to the third theme from this election in Japan - unfortunately the same one that Japan has been teaching us (if we bothered to pay attention) since the 1990s. That painfully obvious but important lesson is that growing your way out of the debt-ridden aftermath of a financial crisis is really, really hard. And when political elites cannot deliver deep-seated structural reforms, it is more of less impossible.
The stock market rose by nearly 2% on the election result, but as Carl Weinberg of High Frequency Economics points out, Japanese stocks are still at barely 20% of the level they were at in 1989. Industrial output and employment are back to where they were 22 years ago. And the stock of public debt stands at 230% of GDP.
The rest of the world has tolerated Japan's efforts to push down its exchange rate in past years, out of sympathy for its exceptionally sorry plight. But the more their own situation starts to resemble Japan's, the less sympathetic its Western trading partners may become.


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howtonetwork necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 27 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a nice crisp, sharp and friendly looking web site design to improve the tired and boring site we have been using for a few years now.
The mission is to show via a web site what our company is about which is friendly, approachable, trustworthy. We teach Cisco IT networking courses in a bootcamp fashion.
The company has helped hundreds of people pass their exams and have a successful career over the past 7 years. The problem is that our site now looks old and cluttered and is hard for the reader to follow with his or her eyes.
We are going to have a site with about 20 pages on and at least 9 will be reached via the home page. The home page is http://www.networksinc.co.uk and will feature much the same content, especially the movie.
1. Colour scheme must comply with the logo (link below)
2. Background (to left and right of page) to be grey #c8c8c8
3. Text will be black on white background
4. B99designs » Launch a Design Contest - Design Brieforder to be same blue as the logo (link below)
5. Top text the same colour of blue
6. The header must feature the log on the top left..to the right of that a faded or transparent image or a person working on IT equipment like a server or router and to the right of that (top right) the freephone number 0800 083 6277 and under that a live chat icon
7. Each page will have a photo in a polaroid style with the name of the student and 'Passed CCNA' in the white part of the photo frame at the bottom. There are several photos in the attached link.
8. Bottom of the page footer will have Copyright Networks Inc. Ltd 2002-2009 and the word 'Sitemap' which will link to our sitemap.
8. Navigation links will be to the left and say:
Case Studies
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Why Us?
About Us
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9. We really...really like the clean layout and incons on:
10. We will be adding logos from http://www.trust-guard.com
Here is the logo folder and some student photos who have agreed to supply them for the site.
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Apple issued a handful of updates to its iLife '08 suite today, bringing laughter and joy to users of iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, and the overall suite of iLife. Okay, maybe not laughter, but perhaps a little bit of joy. Maybe.
iLife Support got updated to version 8.3, which appears to only address stability and "minor issues" across all iLife applications. In fact, stability, compatibility, and fixes for other minor issues appear to be the recurring theme across all of the updates, including iWeb 2.0.4, iMovie 7.1.4, and iPhoto 7.1.4. The iPhoto update, however, contains one extra tidbit of happiness: "This update contains new holiday greeting card and postcard themes for use with Apple print products. "
You can get all of the aforementioned updates through Apple's website, or through Software Update if you have the software installed on your machine. Have fun.


text: The Power of Sport. For every Special Olympics athlete, there are many more waiting for their chance. Help us reach one more person who wants to participate. Download Country Fact SheetAbu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates will be the host of the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The Games will be held in March of 2019. Abu Dhabi is the first place in the Middle East-North Africa Region to be host of a Special Olympics World Games. Learn moreSpecial Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.


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Read more news at: https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news
Corona Light Presents Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Nation Tour
Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, December 7 at 9 a.m.
The Milwaukee Brewers today announced that Miller Park has been selected as a venue for The "Corona Light presents Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Nation" tour in 2013. The concert will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2013.
The concert will also feature special guest Eric Church—whose new album "Chief" was selected as "Album of the Year" at the 2012 Country Music Awards—as well as the Eli Young Band and Kasey Musgraves. Miller Park will be the fourth stop on Chesney's 2013, 17-stop tour and is one of three Major League ballparks that will be visited (also Target Field in Minneapolis and Angel Stadium of Anaheim).
"I believe what we've created on the road is something special," said Chesney. "The fans, myself, the band, the crew. But it's really the fans who have given us a wonderful, unique life. What we've all built together is the 'No Shoes Nation.' There is no better name for this tour."
Chesney will mark his 20th year of touring with this tour and his previous 10 tours have each reached more than 1.1 million fans across the country. Chesney made a visit to Miller Park in October of 2010 as an artist in Farm Aid's 25th Anniversary concert.
"Kenny Chesney has a long track record of being one of the industry's most popular touring artists, and we're proud to have Miller Park included on his tour's itinerary," said Milwaukee Brewers Chief Operating Officer Rick Schlesinger. "Miller Park is not just a great place to watch baseball, it's also a terrific concert venue. We have hosted several major tours since 2001 and we look forward to welcoming Kenny and his fans to this very special event."
The 2010 Farm Aid 25th Anniversary concert at Miller Park hosted a crowd of over 35,000. Other major concerts staged at Miller Park and surrounding grounds include George Strait's Country Music Festival (2001), N'Sync (2001), Bruce Springsteen (2003), Randy Travis (2004), Bon Jovi (2005), and Kid Rock/Sugarland (2008).
Tickets will go on sale Friday, December 7 at 9 a.m. at Brewers.com/Chesney, by phone at 414-902-4000 and at the Miller Park Box Office. Ticket prices will be $45 for the Terrace, $90 for the Field and Loge Infield, $115 for Field, Loge Outfield and Club Level; $140 for On Field, and $235 for the Sand Bar (plus applicable service fees). Miller Park capacity for the show will be approximately 41,000.


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