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I screwed up Saturdays tests by not handling on the memory walk up bird that I think Trap didn't see.
We failed.
But Sunday was another day, and he performed awesome.
Long story, but he is now known as the duck head dog.
He had a long hunt on the flyer and tried several times to come in, whistle sit and cast back to the long flyer fall area.
Finally brings in the duck.
Nails the memory bird on the hill, and only 2 handles on the blind.
When the bird boys came in, they handed me a duck head?
Trap had found it near the fall area of the flyer and had tried to bring it back. This happened twice.When I would stop him and cast he would spit it out and go look again. In his mind he found the flyer and got totally confused about the casting.
The head must of been from junior the day before.
He breezed thru water.
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Most Chinese internet stocks are rallying today– but Changyou.com (CYOU) hasn't joined the party, as the company continues to fall following yesterday's earnings release.
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CYOU's 3Q13 guidance pointed to continuing moderation in growth and contraction in margins given product cycle issues and stepped-up investments in R&D and marketing. We're cutting our estimates to reflect more conservative growth and margin assumptions. While CYOU's pipeline remains intact, the stock is likely to remain in the penalty box in the near term despite its low valuation of <4x 2013E EV/EBITDA and its recently launched $100M share buyback program.
Nomura's Jin Yoon and Yong Wang, meanwhile, maintain their Reduce rating on the stock:
Changyou's top line in 2Q13 missed our estimates, while bottom line beat due to higher-than-expected margins. The [average revenue per user]-driven growth pattern in the quarter is no different from past quarters. We remain cautious on the sustainability of growth, as we believe excess ARPU growth comes at the expense of game lifecycle. Moreover, we believe mobile game revenue is not likely to be material in the near term while putting pressure on margins.
They believe Changyou's shares could fall to $25, down 24% from yesterday's closing price, and 32% below the consensus target.
Changyou's shares have dropped 0.6% to $32,.72 today, and is off 20% this week.
Youku Tudou (YOKU), meanwhile, has fallen 0.6% to $20.88 despite data that shows its Youku online-video unit has more daily unique viewers than iQiyi and PPS combined. From its press release:


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RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
In response to your stat on escapes getting better. I'm afraid that it is just not so, the basic problem is that the salmon farming industry here in B.C. is "self-regulating" talk about the fox guarding the hen house! The numbers are going down because those are simply the "reported escapes". The industry has become quite sensitive to criticsm and I would suggest for its own best interest that the only reported escapes are the ones they HAVE to own up to because somebody witnessed it!
The bottom line here is that our government sees the industry as some kind of cash cow and has bent over backward to make it easy for them to do business. Often Canadian governments are criticised by business people for its socialist tendencies and extensive regulation but that is not the case with aquaculture. The free hand given this industry is enough to make a laissez-faire capitalist fresh from the 1850's swoon with excitement!
Anyway, tight lines - tyler
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RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
Thanks for the overview of the documentry. So many times out here in the Pacific NW people think that aquaculture is the lesser of two evils,the other evil being comercial gill netting. I'm not so sure in the long run though, at least with gill netting somehow some fish get through but with Sea Lice and disease those few fish will have no chance while we fight to correct the problems of over fishing. Our fight to save wild fish world wide must take on many fronts, from habitat, development to over fishing and now aquaculture. It's a big battle and it's going to be a long one. It is my hope that world wide people of all cultures and back grounds can find a way to unite,(WTO) and fight against the plain and simple greed that causes the complex problems we now have in our enviroment.
I will give the tape to the Wild Steelhead Coalition to view and then pass it on to any that would like to see it.
Thanks, Juro & Trutta.
Address: Steve Wrye
11009 112th Ave NE
Kirkland WA 98033.
PS I'll be out your way from the 20th to 27th of March, if your around would be great to visit with you. Oh ya can you maybe head south and give those stripers a good kick in the butt so they come a month earlier!
RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
Well Luis, finally got my time with the VCR after all the family videos on the blizzard-bound snow days we've had here in the northeastern US. Thank you for sending it to me, it was truly one of the important documentaries of our time. I am devastated to learn that the salmon situation is as bad as I had feared and the aquaculture boom is occuring totally at the wrong moment in the salmon's fight for survival.
A few notes:
Salmon farming is big business: Nutreco, the world's largest aquaculture business
raises 25 times more salmon on west scotland's coast than there are natural salmon
Concentrations have resulted in explosions of sea lice populations contained by pesticides in feed within farms but not treatable in wild fish. The show joins a research vessel who captures AS at sea literally covered with sealice to the point of impending death. The sharp rise in sea lice populations is suspected to be linked to the heavy concentrations of stationary biomass. (Sea lice larvae drift the currents looking for hosts)
Many other diseases:
Extensive farm diseases:
- infectious bacterial
- effects of captivity like cataracts common
- unnatural manipulation of growth rates and genetics
- bacterial diseases epidemics in farms, destruction f infected stocks common
- anti-biotic permeation used to overcome inherent disease outbreaks in farms,
- wild stocks who contact these diseases do not survive
- escapees spread disease, compete and interbreed
- infectious salmon anemia a typical and common ailment
- sealice are proven to become increasingly resistant to treatments at farms
- Norway's rivers have 3 to 1 farmed fish majority returning in their rivers
- 30% hybridization found, increasing every year
Good quote from biologist: "the introduction of new genetic material each year (referring to escapee farm salmon) prevents natural adaptation in wild stocks to occur to deal with the diseases and epedemics caused by farming operations"
Three New Brunswick rivers have up to a 10-1 ratio of farmed to wild salmon returning where wild runs are on the brink of biological extinction
- salmon farming is the fastest growing aquaculture business
- exotic atlantic brood on pacific after pacific species failed
- In British Columbia, 2300 in independent sampling operation - but no DFO sampling being done at all. Fishermen report increase in atlantic salmon occurrences each year in pacific salmon stocks, which are decreasing.
Getting better - 100,000 / year in the 80's
down to 30,000 / year escapement in British Columbia... (and tens of thousands in the atlantic as well / year)
- University of Victoria... proven spawning in 3 Pacific river systems, survival and competition with native species also proven.
- 50% of capelin, sand eels, and herring (bait) caught in the atlantic go to oil for salmon feed
- Directs contaminants back into the human food chain... pcb's, dioxins, and dioxin-like chemicals prominent in salmon feed
- south pacific feed is most free of these contaminants, in comparison
Farming area effluent effect - several feet deep of contaminants, organisms do not survive - clams, worms, etc.
Yet despite all this farms complain about high cost (up to 150k/year) of regulatory compliance. Reality is there are no fines for dumping fish or for using dangerous chemicals, escapment, etc. We may be regulating but we're not doing it right... it's not working.
My feelings on the matter - regulate the industry so that farming operations can not afford to mess up... make it catastrophic if they allow fish to escape or contribute to the chemical, biological or other forms of contamination of indigenous fish or environments where they operate.
Steve -
Please email me a mailing address and I will get it to you right away.
Thanks again Luis.
RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
Steve -
Thanks to Luis I have received the tape and hopefully I will be viewing it tonight. Let me know if I should forward it to you for the WSC to review.
I'll also post a review when I finish viewing it.
Thanks LUIS!
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RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
Thanks Trutta,
I'm getting a little bit of a run a round by the CBC. If I don't get it from them I'll bug Juro for it.
Sorry to here about the big farm in Finland. I thought that Finland had started to wise up in the last few years but then many of the big Aquaculture companies come out of Finland. I used to train many of the employees in the Seattle area that worked in the fish farm labs on proper disinfection proceedures. These labs did research on many different fronts including antibiotic uses on smolts that they would infect with diseases that they thought would sooner or latter show up on the farms. Many of these labs were owned by companies from Finland and the ones that weren't were eventually bought up by companies from Northern Europe and moved over seas. These labs were one scarry place to work when you realised that one minor mistake could wipe out an entire fish population if somehow the diseases got out of the lab.
Thanks again for posting and helping folks realize the seriousness of the problem.
RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
Hi Steve:
Yes, it's like a horror story isn't it. I have sent a copy of the tape to Juro who should be getting it any time now. He's promised to pass it along to other interested parties (Juro, could you send the tape to Steve when you're finished with it?).
There's more bad news. I just got a message from the Euro @ group crossposted to the salar list where a fellow from Finland has heard about the impending set up of a huge fish farming operation in the Kola Peninsula. Aren't there any sacred places places anymore?
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RE:Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
I watched that show in horror also. I have to figure that David Suzuki had to have great courage to publish the show and the CBC and BBC to show it. Here in the old USof A it will never be shown.
I have been trying to order it so that I can give it to the WSC out here in the Pacific NW. It apears that it is not for sale as yet from CBC's clearing house. If I can't purchase a copy I would love to obtain one from you. I will gladly pay any costs to you for a coppy.
While there are many reasons that our fish populations are going down world wide this in my opinion will be the end to any chance of getting healthy runs ever again. The sea lice problem will no doubt be the major culprit. Also the issue of 30% of the worlds bait fish are now being used to feed farm raised fish. This comes out at 10 pounds of bait fish to 1 pound of farmed fish.
Thanks for your post.
Steve Wrye.
Bleak Picture for the Salmon of the World
Just watched a very interesting program about the plight of atlantic and pacific salmon and the threat fish farms pose to their survival. The program in question is Nature of Things with David Suzuki which aired on CBC tonight. This particular program is a CBC/BBC collaboration and Suzuki abstained from producing the segment to provide a less biased view of the situation.
Before I give you an overview, I will offer my recording of the program to anyone who missed it and is interested in watching it. The only caveat is that you pass it along to some other interested Forum member when finished with it. One copy to go to the first one who asks for it...
In a nutshell, wild stocks of salmon are being threatened from a number of different sources.
Fish farms are flourishing and threatening salmon on both coasts of north america as well as Europe by transmitting disease, interbreeding with wild fish, polluting vast salty areas, and competing with wild fish.
Additionally, farmed salmon might also present a health threat to humans. Heavily contaminated feed for salmon has been confirmed in some farms in Europe.
PCBs, organichlorid pesticides and other contaminants are absorbed readily by farmed fish through their regular feed. PCBs cause neurotoxins, and aide in the development of various types of cancers. High levels of PCBs and dioxins have been measured in farmed salmon in the U.K.
Finally, large deposits of feces and other contaminants from fish farms also produce pollutants creating an area too rich in nutrients which discharges ammonia and other gases like methane.
As of this date there is no data and no checking regarding possible toxin levels in farmed fish, and therefore there's no advising against consumption of farmed salmon according to Health Canada.
Health Canada does not seem that interested in what's happening elsewhere, only interested in food in Canada. Critics say the agency relies too much on the salmon farming industry for their information. The Feds are not monitoring or producing risk assessment studies, unless adviced of specific incidents.
A possible solution for the farming problem would be to bring farming practices in-shore but this would eliminate their profitability unless all were forced to do likewise.
Why are salmon dying at sea? Some reserachers feel increasingly large concentrations of sea lice are killing salmon at sea. That could be the reason why so many smolts go to sea and so few return as salmon to their native rivers.
In the east coast of Vancouver island, farmed atlantic salmon escapees are becoming the norm in commercial fishermen nets. This is pretty scary because that means that they're escaping in great numbers, reproducing successfully, and thriving as adults and competing for habitat and food against the native species Pacific salmon.
A further correlation of the impact of salmon farming can be seen in the decline of wild salmon fisheries in western Scotland where salmon fish farming has proliferated.
Finally, the view from some farmers is that they're already being regulated to death. However, critics say there are guidelines but no real regulations in the farming industry.
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Buttery cloverleaf rolls look like their namesake. This classic shape usually has three "leaves" but these have four, which is lucky becuase they are so good. As fun to make as they are to eat, the rolls are always welcome at Sunday dinner and at the holiday table.
In a small saucepan, heat the milk until lukewarm (about 95°F). Remove from the heat and whisk in the yeast until it dissolves. Add the oil and butter—the butter may begin to melt, but it's OK if it doesn't melt completely—and then whisk in the sugar. Let rest until the yeast just begins to float to the surface, about 5 minutes.
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Rub a little vegetable oil on a work surface to create an 8-inch circle and put the dough on this spot. Stretch and fold the dough over itself from all four sides to the center, crimping it where the folded ends meet, to form it into a tight, round ball.
Put the dough seam side down in a lightly oiled bowl that's twice the size of the dough. Tightly cover with plastic wrap. Let sit at room temperature until doubled in size, about 90 minutes, or refrigerate for 1 to 4 days so that it slowly rises to double its size.
Mist two 12-cup standard muffin tins with vegetable oil spray.
Put about 1/4 cup of bread or all-purpose flour in a saucer or small cup or bowl.
With a bench knife, divide the dough into 18 pieces, about 2-1/4 oz. each. Wipe the work surface with a damp towel or mist lightly with vegetable oil spray (don't use flour). Form your hand into a cup by curling your fingers slightly, with your thumb snug against your index finger. Use this cupped hand to press and rotate a piece of dough as if you were trying to screw it through the work surface. It should form a smooth round ball within 5 seconds and pop up into your cupped hand.
Using a bench knife or kitchen shears, cut one piece of dough into 4 small pieces. Roll each quarter in the flour to lightly coat it.
Place all four pieces in one of the muffin cups to form a square. Continue with the remaining dough.
Mist the top of the rolls with vegetable oil spray and cover the pans loosely with plastic wrap. Allow the rolls to proof at room temperature until they nearly double in size, 60 to 90 minutes. The time vary depending on the temperature of the room and the dough; if you made the dough ahead and refrigerated it, the cold dough will take longer to proof.
If using a convection oven, heat the oven to 350°F; if using a conventional oven, heat the oven to 375ºF.
Bake the rolls for 7 minutes. Rotate the tins 180 degrees and swap their placement on the racks. Continue baking until the rolls turn rich golden-brown on top, 7 to 9 minutes more. Let the rolls cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the tin.
The dough may be made up to 4 days ahead of shaping. Kept wrapped in plastic and refrigerated, it will slowly rise to double its size. Shape the dough right out of the fridge. Cold dough will take longer to proof than room temperature dough.
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I think most here are good men. There are different degree's of good. A man who lives with honor and integrity being top priority is among the best of good men. No matter what his worldly position in life is.
I have only been in fist fights as a youngster.
However I have witnessed many people die,,, To many for an average citizen,,both violently, accidentally I have failed trying to save someones life,,, I have had guns stuck to my head,,,to my chest,,and have been surrounded by 6 or 8 police officers with their guns drawn in close proximity to my head and body. That's a lot for a law abiding citizen,,, I have also witnessed "phenomenon" many times over,,,some of which most through the history of man has probably never seen.


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PPPL presents Science-on-Saturday talks this winter
Posted January 25, 2002; 04:07 p.m.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will offer a series of "Science-on-Saturday" talks this winter geared toward high school students but open to all.
Students, teachers, parents and community members are invited to attend the free lectures, which begin at 9:30 a.m. on the Forrestal campus.
The talks will be given by scientists and other professionals who are leaders in their field. Here is the schedule:
Feb. 2 -- "The Problem of Longitude and the Beginnings of Classical Mechanics in the 17th Century," Michael Mahoney, Princeton Department of History.
Feb. 9 -- "What Do Studies of the Solid Earth Tell Us About Life on Planets?" Charles Langmuir, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University.
Feb. 16 "Who Wants To Be a Scientist? A Game About the Expansion of the Universe," Jean-Marc Perelmuter, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va.
March 2 -- "How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking at Structure," Samuel Wang, Princeton Department of Molecular Biology.
March 9 -- "The Science of Radiowave and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas," Raffi Nazikian, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (laboratory tour following lecture).
March 16 -- "Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era," Mona Singh, Princeton Department of Computer Science.
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The opening day of the annual conference began with an enlightening welcome from Florida's state GIS coordinator, Richard Butgereit. He shared a couple of interesting facts about Florida. Between May and August, Florida has gone from a state of extreme drought to very wet due in part to 3 tropical storms and increased frequency of severe storms. Richard's advice – if it thunders, run for cover!
We then had the pleasure of receiving a presentation from the State Archaeologist of Florida, James Miller, PHD, LLC, who shared examples of how GIS has made a profound difference in how they conduct their research and preservation efforts. He explained that GIS is the most powerful tool he has come across to help with his work and explain the results of his work. Examples included research into the Gainesville Depot, which they discovered had been moved 3 times since the 1800's. Efforts are nearing completion to move the depot to its original location and restore it to become a useful building again. The second example was Heritage Park in the Bahamas. Their advice to the creators of the park – you don't need to dig, you need a plan. Their research helped identify points of interest and the ideal location for the park using a combination of physical documents and GIS analysis. Finally, a highlight was the story of their research of Freetown in the Bahamas. Their research combined historic imagery, physical documents and interviews with former residents, including the Cooper family, to document what the town looked like in the past. They were able to identify wells, community centers, grave sites, and get a better understanding of the physical and cultural characteristics of the town. What an honor it was to hear about this research, and great examples of how GIS analysis can help preserve our past!


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With four completely new diesel engines, two new Aquamatic Duoprops, one new Saildrive, new propellers and a completely newly developed electronic platform, 2003 is the most intensive launch year so far in Volvo Penta's history.
The completely newly developed D4 and D6 represent a new generation of diesel engines. Their advanced electronic engine control, common-rail direct fuel injection, four-valve technology and turbochargers provide the kind of performance and environmental properties that until now have been considered impossible. Powerful torque is combined with high output and low exhaust and noise emissions. The D4 and D6 will meet the overall environmental requirements planned for Europe and the US in 2006.
The D4 is the smaller of the two with four cylinders and 3.7-litre volume. The engine has compact external dimension, with an output of 210 h.p.
The D6 has the highest output of the Volvo Penta diesel Aquamatics. Six in-line cylinders, 5.5-litre cylinder volume and a full 310 h.p. output.
When Volvo Cars introduced its first internally developed diesel engine in 2001, it attracted substantial attention due to its good performance features. Volvo Penta is now producing a marine diesel version of the same engine - D3 - and, accordingly, enters a completely new boat segment.
With the launch two years ago of D2-55, Volvo Penta further strengthened its position as a supplier of drive systems for sailboats. The new D2-75 is a compact, four-cylinder marine diesel engine developed primarily for sailboats, but also for smaller motorboats.
EVC - Electronic Vessel Control - is Volvo Penta's new electronic platform. EVC is an integral system that enables a boat's engine, control systems and instruments, as well as other functions on board, to communicate and exchange information. The system is highly flexible and expandable, and can be upgraded with new software.
• Volvo Penta signs an agreement with German boat builder Bavaria to deliver diesel and gasoline engines during the next four years. With an annual production of some 3,000 boats, Bavaria is one of Europe's largest builders of leisure craft.
• Sales of engines and drive systems for commercial marine use is steadily increasing in Asia. A prestigious order is the engines for to the new Governor's boat in East Flores in Indonesia.
• In Norway, Volvo Penta delivers auxiliary engine and emergency genset to the 'Ship of the Year'.
Jim Wynne, inventor of Volvo Penta's Aquamatic drive, is the most influential person in the motor boat industry, according to a ranking in the highly regarded British boat magazine Motor Boat & Yachting.
Volvo Penta is providing the engine power on board the unique newbuilding, the East Indiaman Götheborg. A total of five diesel engines from Volvo Penta provide the machine plant in the well-known sailing ship.


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Just last year, the Senate rejected a cynical effort to muzzle critics of this administration and its allies in Congress, McConnell said in a reference to the DISCLOSE Act, which fell short in the Senate last July. Now, under the guise of transparency, the Obama administration reportedly wants to know the political leanings of any company or small business, including those of their officers and directors, before the government decides if theyll award them federal contracts.


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Last Sunday, a lesbian joked about her sexual orientation as she hosted TV's highest awards . The next night, a transgendered man cha-chaed on "Dancing with the Stars." Hours later, a Navy lieutenant and his domestic partner got married the minute the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" went into effect.
And that's just what happened in the real world. Meanwhile, in Gotham City, a lesbian crimefighter patrols rooftops with her young female sidekick. And in Riverdale, all-American home of perpetual teenager Archie Andrews and his pals, a gay classmate is graduating to his own comic book.
Aren't comic books supposed to be fantasy?
Not necessarily, according to the publisher of Archie Comics. "This is entertainment, but that doesn't mean we can't be inclusive," Jon Goldwater told TODAY.com. "I am very proud of the fact that we are as close a reflection of the world as we can possibly be."
Last year, a handsome new student enrolled at Archie Comics' mythical Riverdale High and caught Veronica's fickle eye before breaking the news to her that he was gay. Since then, Kevin Keller has developed a fan following and, having starred in a 4-issue miniseries, will graduate to his own ongoing series in February.
And in another Archie comic that peers into the Riverdale gang's future, it's revealed that Kevin will get married — to another man. Set to hit newsstands in January, "it's actually the story I'm proudest of since I've been at Archie Comics," Goldwater said.Story: Archie Comics unveils gay character
Gay characters are not a complete novelty in mainstream comic books, but they are a relatively recent development: Prior to 1989, the industry's self-policing Comics Code Authority forbade any reference to homosexuality. The Code was in created in 1954, the same year the Senate held hearings on whether comics encouraged juvenile delinquency — a belief fostered by psychologist Fredric Wertham, who wrote that "Batman stories are psychologically homosexual" and called Wonder Woman "the lesbian equivalent of Batman."
Wonder Woman may not be a lesbian (even if she does come from an island populated solely by women), but Batwoman is: DC Comics is touting her as "the first LGBT character to star in an eponymous series published by either of America's Big Two comic book publishers." According to J.H. Williams III, the comic's award-winning artist and co-writer, "her being a gay character is not the number one formative aspect; it's only one aspect."Story: DC do-over: Superman and friends start over from scratch
Williams' writing partner, W. Haden Blackman, said the pair feel "a lot of responsibility to show her in meaningful adult relationships." So in "Batwoman" No. 1, currently on sale, the Jewish redhead (not to be confused with Batgirl, a separate character with her own series) flirts with a lesbian police detective in her civilian identity in between battling bad guys.
"One of my aunts is a redheaded lesbian; she's been in a committed relationship for 18 years," Blackman said. "Seeing how she lives her life has helped."
Though Batwoman's crime-ravaged Gotham City and Kevin Keller's wholesome Riverdale are polar opposites, the two characters share a bond beyond sexual orientation: the military. Kevin's father is a war hero, and in his future storyline, he'll become one as well. And Kate Kane (Batwoman's secret identity) is a colonel's daughter who was dismissed from West Point under "don't ask, don't tell" when she refused to lie about her sexual orientation.
"A lot of my friends came from military backgrounds," said Blackman, who grew up near a military base. "It really informs who she is — her desire to serve."
At Thursday's Republican presidential debate, a gay soldier drew boos from the audience when he asked the candidates if they would "circumvent the progress that has been made for gay and lesbian soldiers" by reinstating "don't ask, don't tell." Similarly, Peter Spriggs of the Family Research Council, a Christian lobbying group, deplored the "obvious social and political agenda" of Archie Comics' gay marriage storyline, telling Fox News that "a comic book series usually seen as depicting innocent, all-American life is now being used to advance the sexual revolution."Video: GOP debate audience boos gay service member
"We do not have a political agenda in any way, shape or form, but we do have a social agenda, frankly," Archie publisher Goldwater said in response. "I will admit to unconditionally making certain that people of every race, creed and color are represented in Archie Comics.
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"Thankfully, by and large the reaction has been overwhelmingly popular, but some people don't like it," Goldwater added. "You just have to understand that's going to come with this and not take it personally."Story: New Spider-Man boasts big multicultural changes
As for DC's Batwoman, Goldwater said: "I think they should be proud of it, but we paved the road; we had the courage to be out front."
Even so, Williams and Blackman do not shy away from the notion that Batwoman could become a gay icon in much the same way Wonder Woman has been adopted as a symbol of the feminist movement. But, Blackman, said, "the danger of labeling a character an icon is that there's a tendency to not have them evolve or show weakness — it's a really fine line to walk."
"To show her as a real person as much as possible — to me that's a much more powerful statement," Williams agreed. The goal, he said, is to craft "a story that anyone could relate to, regardless of sexual orientation."
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I was getting ready to turn right on red at an intersection in downtown Houston and had turned my head left to watch for oncoming one-way traffic. The walk signal had already started flashing orange and had about 5 seconds left to go (the light turns green once the timer expires) when I started going right
If you're turning on red the walker has the right away. You're lucky you didn't hit him, because you would have been in the wrong
turning on red
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You are pretty clearly in the wrong.
(c) A pedestrian may not start to cross a roadway in the direction of a "Don't Walk" signal or a "Wait" signal. A pedestrian who has partially crossed while the "Walk" signal is displayed shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island while the "Don't Walk" signal or "Wait" signal is displayed.
You just have to wait until it turns green again. Not that complicated
infinite number of lights due to the walk signal pedestrians
My buddy thinks that anytime a pedestrian walks into the street they are okay to do so
frick you, seriously. Try driving in Honolulu, that's exactly what happens. Don't want to hear your little bitching about some louisiana traffic.
Pedestrian has the right a way 90 percent of the time
Sec. 552.003. PEDESTRIAN RIGHT-OF-WAY AT CROSSWALK. (a) The operator of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing a roadway in a crosswalk if: (1) no traffic control signal is in place or in operation; and (2) the pedestrian is: (A) on the half of the roadway in which the vehicle is traveling; or (B) approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger. (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a pedestrian may not suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and proceed into a crosswalk in the path of a vehicle so close that it is impossible for the vehicle operator to yield.
It's scary that you thought that was acceptable.
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Description Fringe-leaf Wild Petunia's multi-branched stem may reach a height of 2 ft. but is usually less than a foot tall. The perennial's short internodes give the plant a compact, leafy, bushy appearance. Its showy flowers are petunia-shaped and vary in color from lavender to purple.
Flower April - October (in south); June - August (in north).
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Range Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and e. Kansas, south to w. North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Texas.
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sooooo jealous
anna and carl i am green with envy..
reading your blog is the greatest procastination i have ever found so please, keep them coming.
your photos are absolutely breathtaking and your descriptions of the trip so far have been very entertaining. i wish i could be there instead of on stuvac.
have a great remainder of a trip, i will be awaiting the next entry with anticipation.
much love xx
A not so gentle stroll in the mountains
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3rd of June: Lake Churup
So you may remember us mentioning something about a short day hike to help us "acclimatise". Well picture this: a corolla sedan packed with 5 adults, windows down, peruvian pop music blasting out the windows, while we 4wd our way up through little villages to the start of our little hike. At a mere 3800 metres above sea level. And so we start hiking. Up. And more up. And more and more and more up. Actually we go straight up for the next 2 and a half hours till we reach our goal of 4450 metres
The only other person in our trekking group is Ken, a 58yo Canadian who just retied from teaching and left his wife and 3 kids at home to come travel Peru. He is good company, a down-to-earth guy, but an absolute nut hiker...he puts both Carl and I to shame!
Lucky us got a flat tyre only about 1km from Huaraz on the drive back down...and I have never seen a older, rustier, wonkier car jack than what got pulled out of our boot. Long story short, the jack collapsed (suprise suprise) and the car dropped down to the ground (I don�t think changing the tyre on a hill helped much either). We ended up flagging down another car and borrowed their nice new hydrolic jack, though by now the car was way too low to use it, so the car was jacked up by the nuts of the actual wheel rim, while rocks were placed under the axel to actually hold the car up
4th of June: Day 1 of the Santa Cruz Trek
Another windy switchback road (there seems to be many of these in this country), takes us to the small vllage of Cashapampa where we are to start the trek. While our donkeys are being loaded with all our gear, we just start walking! Strange feeling to not need to do anything. But we don�t complain hehe! And just in case we hadn�t done enought of this thing called "up" yesterday, here is another 3 hours of it straight away, just to get us warmed up...argh! The hiking really is tough (think ironmonger�s spur dad), but it is all oh so worth it as the views are spetacular! Endless snowcapped mountains, sheer cliffs on either side, as we follow the prettiest bubbling creek with occasional rapids up this valley.
Finally after 3 hours of hiking we stop for a break, and we are led to believe by our guide�s very poor english that this is our lunch stop (it is midday), and that we are just waiting for our donkeys to catch up with the lunch. So naturally we don�t eat any of our snacks and just save room for lunch. Finally what we believe to be our donkeys arrive, but then they just keep walking right on past us
Our camp for the night was along said creek, with sheer rock walls on either side, and a beautiful glacial mountain at the end of the valley. Ands horses, cows and donkeys in the foreground. A campsite from heaven! And what made it even better was our camp was all set up for us (cook tent, dining tent, and sleeping tents), and we were served popcorn and hot tea/milo while we waited for our 3 course dinner to be cooked! Talk about spoilt!!
5th of June: Day 2
An early morning wake up is made so much easier when you are handed a hot mug of tea and a tub of hot water to wash in, then fed banana pancakes for brekkie! Then off we go a-walking, leaving camp all set up behind us! No work for us! (apart from our guide, we have a cook and a donkey dude, the two of which pack up camp and load the donkeys, overtake us during the day to reach the next campsite before us and have it all set up by the time we wander in!) Today is an easier day of walking, past some gorgeous lagoons and (with a slight intended detour of switchbacks up a hill) we have clear views of more spetacular mountain ranges, including mt Alpamayo, where we can even see some crazy climbers way up there
Now I don�t think I�ve mentioned anything about our guide yet...Ana has just turned 22, and only qualified as a trekking guide in May. This is her first overnight trek (which is cool...everyone has to start somewhere and nothing wrong with being young!) but I always think that something a guide should know is where they are going. Multiple times during the 5 days she took us along some path before sheepishly turning us back to find the right one. One time there was even a sign pointing her in the right direction and she ignored it! We gently suggested that we follow the sign�s advice. But luckily for us there were other tour guides around whom she could get correct directions from, otherwise we may still be out there!!
6th of June: Day 3 aka the dreaded climbing of the pass day
So camping at 4200metres is a tad on the cold side, and when we crawl out of our tents its still about -5degrees
Heading down the other side of the pass is a lot easier, and it made us feel good passing all those silly people heading up the other way (as if you would climb a hill that big! hehe). Another camp ready and waiting for us in another meadow, but this one is also chockers with local kids out grazing their sheep and goats. As they all slowly start to gain confidence they start bugging us to play a game of soccer with them...like we haven�t done enough exercise today!! But we do give in, and quicky realise how good these kids are...we are huffing and puffing again very quickly!! The field is only about 20metres long, is flanked by boggy marshes that the kids have to keep fishing the ball out of, and the goals are ever changing in their size...I swear that the one I was kicking to was only about 1metre wide at one stage!! But jolly good fun, shame the kids never want the game to end...but before we gringos collapse in a pile on the ground, we call it quits, softening the blow for the kids with a peace offering of our precious precious lollies
I should also mention that I was constantly amazed at the amount of gear that constantly appears off these 4 donkeys backs...they were carrying, among other things, 6 tents, 2 tables, 6 chairs, all our clothes and sleeping gear, food for 4 days for 6 people, 2 gas bottles, lanterns, buckets, and most importantly...a bottle of vino tinto for the last night!
7th of June: Day 4 of trek...which means hot showers are in the not so distant future!
Ah, waking up dreaming of hot showers, a warm bed, a meal without potatoes (apparently there are about 600 varieties in Peru...I really don�t want to try them all, but at this rate I feel like I am going to!) and a nice cold beer! And according to Ana, only 2 hrs of easy walking to get there! Well let me tell you that Ana needs to improve her english a tad more, at least enough to add the words "more up" to her vocabulary! Because at least 80% of it was straight up! But finally at the top, in a little village called Vaqueria, and back in our minibus, our legs can have a break for a while. And I have to say that all the effort, every single molecule of energy burnt over the past 5 days was so worth it, because the hike was absolutely gorgeous! (I think I need more adjectives to describe it properly hehe).
In order to get back to Huaraz, we need to cross another pass (luckily this time in our minibus!), and the dirt road to cross it was some of the best switchbacks I have ever travelled. It took us an hour just to get to the top, and then another hour to get back down the other side!
Ana was very determined over the past 5 days that we each pay our 65sole park entrance fee, so determined in fact that she would ask everyone she could, and stick her head into every semi-official looking building to try and find where we could pay! But to no avail, until just as we were leaving the park she found someone willing to take our money, and we had to cough up. Bugger.
Finally back in Huaraz, and a couple of well deserved beers later, we fell into an exhausted but very happy sleep :)
Today, 8th of June: Lazy Day
The word "lazy" pretty much sums up today quite nicely, and there is not much more that needs to be added. Tomorrow we catch the bus back down to Lima, before meandering down Peru�s south coast. I�ll have to buy a new bra when in Lima, as mine mysteriously disapeared when we got our washing done...hmmm! Bugger too as it was a brand newey!
Anyway, I hope you are all well, we miss you heaps, but we are having a ball and at this rate will have to be dragged home kicking and screaming.
Till next time, much love, Anna and Carl xx
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A brief reminder. According to all records, Jay Carlisle was responsible for first popularizing the Labrador Retrievers to the U.S. As a matter of fact in the 1950s, the LRC itself recognized him as "singly the most important person responsible for the Labrador's popularity in America."
Jay Carlisle got his first Lab in 1933 and founded Wingan Kennels. To operate the kennel and train the dogs he imported a master dog trainer from Scotland named Dave Elliot. Dave was revered by his peers for his understanding of every element about dogs -- how they think, how they learn, how they work, how they should look. (Trivia: It was Elliot that introduced whistling and handling to retriever trials).
Three years later Elliot wrote and Carlisle published a book called The Labrador Retriever. The book contains four short chapters and is illustrated with photos of the champion Labradors of the time. The first chapter is the breed standard. The second chapter are some insights into training the breed. The third chapter is a presentation on why there should never be a split in the breed between dogs used for trials and dogs used just for hunting. The final chapter is advice to judges for finding the best dogs at trials.
So what can we extrapolate so far. The Labrador Retriever was, is, and always was intended to be a WORKING animal. That was their function.
Form follows function. When the football coach needs someone to protect his quarterback, he looks for a very big, strong man. When he looks for a running back, he looks for someone with speed and quickness. Similarly when beauty contest judges are looking for a winner, they look for exaggerated beauty features like big toothy smiles, large breasts, slim waist and toned legs.
According to Richard Wolters in his book Duck Dogs the split in the breed between field and show began in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the guardianship of the conformation side of the breed was turned over to people who paid lip service to the working side but had no actual involvement, in particular Helen Warwick. Under her powerful tutelage as the breed columnist for twenty years of the AKC Gazette, the show side of the breed became anglophiled -- enamored with how British show Labs (the split had already occurred over there) looked, importing studs and dams from England, and importing judges from England to judge at Labrador specialties.
So what do we take from this? When the function of the Lab became winning conformation shows (read "beauty contests") those fanciers moved the form of the Lab to accommodate that function. It was the show side that derivated from the original breed type, not the field side.
And so now I show you scans from Carlisle's and Elliot's book The Labrador Retriever.


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Vitamin-D is essential for bone health and is especially beneficial for older adults and women going through menopause. But what is it?
Vitamin-D is a fat-soluble vitamin, found in very few foods, and is needed to maintain strong bones. It does so by helping the body absorb calcium, one of our body's main building blocks, from food and supplements. Vitamin-D can also be produced from within when ultraviolet rays strike the skin and trigger vitamin-D synthesis.
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Vitamin-D is vital to your body's health for a number of reasons. First, it is important because your muscles need vitamin-D to move, kind of like the tin man needs oil to move his joints in the fan favorite, the Wizard of Oz. Second, nerves need vitamin-D to carry messages between the brain and every single part of your body. Third, vitamin-D is essential to your immune system because it needs vitamin-D to fight off invading bacteria and viruses. Also, together with calcium, vitamin-D also helps protect older adults from osteoporosis. Vitamin-D plays a role in almost every function of your body, which is why vitamin-D is found in numerous cells throughout your body.
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Now that you know how to expose your skin to vitamin-D, while taking precautions of course, it's important for you to also know the ineffective ways to produce vitamin-D. Unfortunately, skin exposed to sunshine indoors through a window will not produce vitamin-D. Also, cloudy days, shade and having dark-colored skin also cut down on the amount of vitamin-D your skin will make.
So how much vitamin-D do I need?
The amount of vitamin-D your body needs will depend on your age. Here are the average daily recommended amounts of vitamin-D according to the Food and Nutrition Board:
- Birth to 12 months old: 400 International Units (IU)
- Children 1-13 years old: 600 IU
- Teens 14-18 years old: 600 IU
- Adults 19-70 years old: 600 IU
- Adults 71 years and older: 800 IU
- Pregnant and breastfeeding women: 600 IU
According to this data, babies need the least amount of vitamin-D, while older adults need the most. Everyone else requires the average amount of 600 IU.
How do you know if you're getting enough for your body?
Because vitamin-D comes from so many different places—the sun, food and supplements—the best way to measure your vitamin-D status is through your blood levels. In general, levels below 30 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L) are too low for bone or overall health and levels above 125 nmol/L are probably too high. Levels of 50 nmol/L or above are sufficient for most people.
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In general, young people have higher blood levels of vitamin-D than older adults. And males have higher levels than females. By race, non-Hispanic blacks tend to have the lowest levels. In contrast to that, non-Hispanic whites tend to have the highest levels. The majority of Americans have blood levels lower than 75 nmol/L. Older adults, females and non-Hispanic blacks should watch their vitamin-D consumption.
What happens if you don't get enough vitamin-D?
People do become vitamin-D deficient if they do not consume enough or absorb enough vitamin-D from food; their exposure to sunlight is limited; or their kidneys can't convert vitamin-D to its active form in the body. In children, a vitamin-D deficiency could cause rickets—where bones become soft and bend. In adults, vitamin-D deficiency leads to osteomalacia, causing bone pain and muscle weakness.
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With hot flashes, irritability and the frustration of sudden weight gain during menopause, it's easy for nutrition to take a back seat. However, when good nutrition practices are ignored, problems can arise.
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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), children older than 12 months should consume three daily servings of vitamin-D fortified milk and milk products. Also, the AAP states that eating dairy foods such as milk, cheese and yogurt during childhood and adolescence will help build strong bones and reduce the risk of fractures and osteoporosis later in life.
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Prepare recipe as directed—except do not cover with crust. Pour chicken mixture into pie plate. Cover tightly with foil; freeze 2 to 3 months. Freeze pie crust separately. Before baking, thaw overnight in refrigerator. Heat oven to 400°F. Place pie crust over chicken mixture as directed. Bake as directed, adding 5 to 10 minutes to baking time.
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UTSA vs. Houston football game moved to Friday, August 29
PROVIDENCE, R.I. The American Athletic Conference has announced UTSA's season opener at Houston has been moved to Friday, Aug. 29, to accommodate a national television broadcast.
Originally scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 30, the first-ever contest in the Cougars' new Houston Football Stadium will be televised by ESPNews with an 8 p.m. kickoff. Houston won the inaugural meeting, 59-28, on Sept. 28, 2013, at the Alamodome.
The Roadrunners now will play three non-Saturday games - the first such contests in program history - this fall, as the home opener against Arizona was moved to Thursday, Sept. 4, and the home contest with Southern Miss was changed to Thursday, Nov. 13, both for national TV.
"It's very exciting for our program to have three of our games moved to prime time on weeknights for national TV broadcasts," head coach Larry Coker said. "This creates a tremendous amount of national exposure for UTSA, the type of publicity you really can't put a price tag on. I know our players are really fired up about having the chance to play in these types of games. It's a testament to how hard everyone has worked in a short amount of time to build this program into one that is considered for national TV games."
UTSA posted a 7-5 overall record and 6-2 mark in its inaugural campaign as a member of Conference USA last year. The Roadrunners began spring drills on March 26 and will play the Fourth Annual UTSA Football Fiesta Spring Game presented by HealthTexas at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, at the Alamodome.


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Janesville woman throws own "life celebration" in place of funeral
Diana Brown gathers with friends and family to say "so long"
Diana Brown, 52, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September, and doctors told her she only had six to nine months to live.
To hear her tell it, Brown doesn't think she'll last that long.
So to save her family the pain and expense of a funeral, Brown decided to throw a party in celebration of her life.
Sunday afternoon at Emmanuel Church in Janesville, the many people she touched in her life got a chance to share their stories and their love for her.
Those people included family and friends, but also people who knew Diana from her job as a server at the local Countryside Restaurant, like John and Rita Jay.
Though they didn't know many of the faces staring back at them from photographs displayed at the event, the Jays said Diana's pictures were truly a reflection of her personality.
"It's just kind of a mirror of her life. She enjoyed life," John said.
"Life is for the living. I just admire her. She had the most wonderful outlook," John continued.
One by one, Brown's friends and family poured their hearts into a microphone. Her daughter, her mother, her best friend, and others said some of their final words to a woman who touched their lives.
Then, Diana Brown returned the sentiment, appreciating the chance to hold her granddaughter tight in her arms and the chance to tell people "thank you" and "I love you."
"It's never goodbye. It's just until later," Brown said. "I love you all so much, and please remember, you all have helped me in this journey."
The service ended with a prayer circle, with some asking for some higher being to bring healing to Brown.
"Maybe the Lord will say, hey, maybe we'll give her another couple years. You never know. Stranger things have happened," John said.
But Diana seems to have accepted her fate and to be looking forward to what comes next.
"I'll be waiting for our next journey when we'll start all over," Brown said.
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Grim's Tales: Teas are all around us, seriously
It's Friday, and I am at one of my usual Thursday and Friday "offices." I spend those days skipping from bakery to coffee shop to café, to restaurant or anywhere in Pine River with a wifi signal. Honestly, the wifi here is better than the Internet at our Pequot Lakes Office, so if it weren't for the fattening effects of chai tea and sawdust rolls, I would have it made.
I am drinking my very first pomegranate oolong tea, and it reminds me of when I didn't care for tea at all. Nine months in China can tend to make a person more tea savvy. Big surprise.
I'm sure I tried green tea before China, but I don't know when. I had long compared tea to hot water filtered through grass clippings. I still don't care for iced tea, except in an Arnold Palmer, but I have warmed up to tea.
My adventures in Chinese tea began with a fairly exotic, somewhat uncommon type of tea. My friend Eva, a teacher from China, had taken me out to dinner to celebrate my arrival. She ordered us a tea made from roasted barley called maicha. Cha, in case you were curious, is Chinese for tea.
The tea tasted very much like grain, as you might imagine, but you might not expect that to be a good thing. It was actually quite pleasant. My next experience with tea, again initiated by Eva, was at a Muslim restaurant where we ordered a chrysanthemum tea.
Now, chrysanthemum tea is really pleasant, not necessarily due to the flavor, but it smelled like a field of flowers.
Perhaps the most extensive experience was our trip to Ten Fu's Tea. I needed souvenirs for friends and family, and I knew that some of them enjoyed tea. I asked a long-time American expat, named Zeb, for suggestions. He took me, and fellow Bemidji State University grad Kirsten, to Ten Fu's, and we drank tea for literally hours.
Tea service was free there. We could sample almost every variety of tea in the building without cost. While doing so, Zeb described the intricacies of tea and tea service. He pointed out that our server used hot water to clean and warm all of the glasses and instruments involved, and she didn't bend her elbow when she served tea.
Zeb also described the various parts of tea sampling, including smell, mouth feel, and a sort of secondary taste that you sample by exhaling with mouth closed.
We sampled green tea, pu erh, and oolong. Pu erh is one of the oldest varieties of tea in the world, made from compressing shredded tea with binders into a brick or puck. Oolong is a specially processed tea which is sometimes mixed with a single drop of champagne. I don't care much for the red pu erh, but the green colored oolong tea has a very strong earthy, even buttery or nutty, flavor that it is perhaps my favorite tea.
Now, I am not tea crazy. Yet, as with other consumables in life, I am now semi obsessed with harvesting my own tea ingredients. This summer I will likely be planting chrysanthemums, lavender, chamomile, and other tea flowers. I am already planning woodland outings for rose blossoms, plum blossoms, blueberry leaves, and other wild ingredients for tea. I learned last fall how to ferment wintergreen to process it for tea use, and that was simply delightful. Hopefully it only gets better from there. This might be a very interesting year indeed. Let me know if you have suggestions or want to join in, and maybe we can arrange something.


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Department of Public Works
1155 Old Central Road
Central, SC 29630
Ph: (864) 653-2053
Fx: (864) 653-2048
The Public Works Department is experiencing delays in brush and debris pick up. These delays are due to several unforseen problems ranging from employee illnesses, emergencies, an abnormally high volume of brush and debris generation and the return of our students for the fall semester. In addition, the Sanitation Department's Recycling Division's workload has increased significantly in the past 2 weeks. We want all our citizens to know that we are working diligently to get all brush and debris picked up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
The following should be used by all residents of the City of Clemson concerning the use of the cart system and other services provided by the Public Works Department. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Please do not hesitate to call the Sanitation Department if problems arise at 653-2047.
1. All garbage and refuse must be in plastic bags before being placed in rollcart. (Microwaves, vacuum cleaners, and TV's should be put out with your regular garbage. See E-Waste/E-Cycle page)
2. On your day of collection, roll your cart to the street side in front of your house, but DO NOT PLACE IT IN THE STREET.
3. During the week, between collections, store your rollcart away from the street side.
4. Always place the lid back on the cart when you deposit trash to keep rain and neighborhood pets out.
5. Our collection day begins at 7:00 a.m. and will usually end around 4:30 p.m. Carts should be placed at the street by 7:00 a.m. on collection days and removed by sunset on collection days.
6. The Cart is owned by the City, but keeping it clean, routine upkeep and protecting it from being stolen is the users responsibility. Take care of it, don't abuse it, and it will last a long time.
7. Stolen, damaged, or abused carts are replaced at the property owner's or the responsible agent's expense.
8. Do not place items such as Poisons, Acids, Caustics, Explosives, Construction Materials (i.e. concrete, wood, bricks, etc.), Furniture, Oils, Gasoline, **Paint, & Paint Thinner, Kerosene, Toxic Substances, etc., in the rollcart.
**Paint-- Remove the top of the paint cans and mix with kitty litter or with concrete, let the contents completely dry. Once in a solid state throw into the rollcart with the household garbage.
9. The cart must not be used for any other purpose than storing and collecting garbage.
10. Do not mark, write, paint, cut, or alter the cart in any way.
11. Each cart has a serial number which is recorded by residence, so do not trade carts with your neighbors.
12. The City maintains ownership of the cart at all times, so if you move either within the City or outside the City, notify the Public Works Department at 653-2047.
13. If your cart is stolen or damaged call the Public Works Department at once at 653-2053.
14. There will be no collection on City holidays (unless notified). These holidays are regularly announced in the newspapers as well as posted on this web site. Do not roll out carts on these days unless otherwise advised.
15. In bad weather during the winter months, especially in snowy and icy conditions, the Sanitation Department will attempt to operate normally, and each resident may choose whether or not to roll out their cart. If collection is postponed entirely, listen to local radio stations for details as well as this web site.
16. Handicapped residents may make a written request to the Public Works Department for special pickup consideration at their home without placing their garbage and recycling at curbside. (Physician statement required) The Sanitation Department will then make a determination as to whether a pickup is warranted and act accordingly.
1. Have recycling bin at curbside by 7:00 a.m. on collection day and remove from street by sundown on collection day.
2. All recyclables must be placed in your recycle bin.
3. Acceptable material:
No. 1 & No. 2 Plastic
All No. 1 Plastics
All No. 2 HDPE/ milk jugs only
All tin cans and aluminum cans
Glass(brown, green, and clear)
Leave all labels on containers
Rinse all items
Remove caps/lids from all containers
All plastic 1-5 accepted. (Look on the bottom of the plastic containers to find the number)
White or colored computer printout.
White or colored ledger paper.
White or colored letter head/business forms and copy paper.
Telephone books, message pads, envelopes, magazines, and junk mail.
Used oil can be placed at curbside on the same day as your regular garbage pick up. Call the Public Works Department 864.653.2053 and request an oil recycle container. This container is placed under your vehicle to allow the oil to drain directly into it as it drains from your vehicle. Turn the oil filter upside down in the oil recycle container to allow the oil to drain from the filter. Once it has drained wrap the oil filter in a plastic bag and sit it on top of the oil container at curbside. An empty one will be left in its place, if one is available on the recycle truck.
1. Bulk junk items such as stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, sofas, chairs, tires, etc., can be placed on curbside to be picked up. However, there may be a small fee for some items. (tires/appliances)
2. Large limbs and branches of 6 ft. in length or less can be stacked at the street side for pickup (preferably parallel to the street to accommodate City Brush Tractor).
3. During leaf season, leaves may be put at the street side for pickup.(see season schedule)
4. The Sanitation Department also operates a container service for local businesses and apartments. For further information call the Public Works Department at 653-2047.
5. The Sanitation Department will not remove contractor generated debris such as tree surgeon waste, shingles, building materials, cross ties or special waste.
6. The Sanitation Department picks up cardboard boxes on Friday mornings for residents. Call 653-2053, 24 hours in advance to place a work order. Place the cardboard out on Thursday night, broken down, lain flat and stacked neat. Place all packing material in a trash bag.
Cardboard Boxes for Businesses are picked up by the City of Clemson, 864-653-2053, should you need to be added to the cardboard list, or have a problem with your existing service.
Curbside collection No charge
Roll Cart Service .50/cubic yard
One pickup per week (Res.San) $12.00/month
Each additional pickup/week $12.00/month
One pickup per week (Com. San) $9.25/month
Each additional pickup/week $9.25/month
Pickens County Lanfill tipping fee $8.50/pickup
Special Order pickup $3/pickup
Container Service (6cys)
Once weekly per pickup service $56/month
Each additional pickup/week $56/month
Pickens County landfill tipping fee $8.50
Special order pickup $30/pickup
Special Handling
Yard Waste (grass clippings) No charge
Leaves No charge
Limbs/Household No charge
Limbs/Contractors $7.5/cyd
White goods (appliances) $2/item
Tires, Batteries $2/item
Load-A-Truck (Brush only) $20/day
Wood chips (mulch)
Pick-up No Charge
Delivered (min 5cyds) $10/cyd
NOTICE: IT IS AGAINST THE LAW, to dispose of computers, computer monitors, televisions, printers, and any other type of electronic equipment as well as parts of any of these items in the the landfill.
These items must be recycled. Place these items curbside. We will have a special pick up for all E-Waste that will be marked by the GPS System on your regular Sanitation pickup day.