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Viscount Astor: My Lords, does the noble Lord accept that shooting is also done for sport?
Lord Harrison: My Lords, with regard to culling, shooting relates to the desire to get rid of certain foxes to reduce a population. In that regard, it is distinct from fox hunting, which involves pleasure and sport.
I support the cull but not the kill. I abhor the desire to gain pleasure from such a sport in the killing fields of rural Britain. It is just not British.
The apologists for fox hunting suggest that it is a traditional sport, practised by generations of our countrymen for hundreds of years. It is not: there is no mention of fox hunting in Chaucer or Shakespeare.
Apologists aver that fox hunting is the glue that holds the countryside together, that its abolition would disembowel those ties of community which are so vital for us all, whether we live in town or country. The noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, tells us that hunting is the main topic of conversation in the village shop, post office and pub. I do not believe it. Is it a greater topic of conversation than the state of schools, the health service, the local bus service, foot and mouth disease and BSE, not to mention the lives and loves of our local Ambridge? If it is true, then I have to say: get a life. Indeed, the fox himself would be astonished to learn that his absence had the capacity to make grown men weep, as the hunters claim. If the fox can be absent from the hunt ball, then it can also be absent from the hunt.
I have greater confidence in the people of rural Britain to maintain and develop loving and supportive communities. It does not need the tokenism of killing a passing fox. It is people, not foxes, who make living communities.
The apologists repeatedly tell us that the fox hunting community is law-abiding and that a ban would encourage defiance of the law on a scale difficult to predict. Those words are unacceptable: you cannot run with the fox and hunt with the hounds when it comes to respect for the law, democratically conceived and popularly supported. It is incumbent on all those who speak up for fox hunting to show true leadership and encourage hunt followers to follow the law of the land.
I reject the balaclava'd intimidation of some of the hunt saboteurs as hotly as I condemn the few bad apples found among the hunt. It is our arguments that should be forceful and compelling, not our deeds towards opponents.
Those of us who are townies are repeatedly told that the country is none of our business, despite the fact that we visit it and pay taxes to farmers to look after it. I find this irksome. When I was a member of Cheshire County Council, I am afraid that I became fed up at being told that only country folk could decide country issues. I notice that these same rural councillors happily voted to close inner city schools that I represented, despite their patent unfamiliarity with urban poverty and its problems. We all have a duty to understand each other's problems, which are often the same problem of root. Solely to sacrifice all for the countryside is to isolate and cut oneself off from the concerns of society as a whole. After all, what do they of the countryside know who only the countryside know? What indeed do they of hunting know who only hunting know?
Karl Marx, who was a real townie, occasionally came to our part of the world to visit his comrade, Friedrich Engels, a distinguished member of the Cheshire Hunt. A century later, I was pleased to be
I tell that story not only to underline the poor leadership that has characterised the countryside in recent years, but also to make the point that as MEPs trying to improve animal welfare throughout Europe, our criticism of bull-fighting was habitually greeted with accusations of hypocrisy. The habitual comment made to myself and the noble Baroness, Lady Castle, was: "Get rid of fox hunting and then we will listen to your concerns about continental barbaric practices". I had no answer then, but today I do. By removing the beam of fox hunting from our eyes, we can today ask our continental cousins, with confidence, to remove the mote of bull-fighting and donkey defenestration from theirs.
I am all the more encouraged about enacting this ban because there is a viable and acceptable alternative to fox hunting; namely, drag hunting. Yes, I know the usual response from hunters is, "What a bore!"; indeed, "What a drag!". But let us examine the case more closely.
Drag hunting preserves all the pageantry and indeed the fun of the hunt while eliminating the cruel pursuit and killing of a wild animal. It also saves the hounds who are slaughtered each year as a result of pursuing the fox, fleeing in terror across dangerous country roads and railway lines. One engine driver friend of mine, now retired, tells me of how once he had to violently slam on the brakes to protect his train passengers as the fox and then the hunt crossed the Chester to Crewe track.
Laying a trail in the drag hunt avoids those needless threats and dangers. Drag hunting avoids hunt havoc. On one occasion, at Byley in Middlewich in Cheshire, local schoolchildren were forced to walk in the middle of the road as the jostling hounds pursued a scent on a highway near the school. Some of the children became hysterical when surrounded by those loose hounds. And there have been other instances where schoolchildren have been forced to witness the hounds killing the fox right in front of their eyes. As a parent, I find such violence in front of children unacceptable, and it does not need to happen. The slaughter of domestic cats by hounds happened in the Cheshire village of Ashton during my time as MEP. That too can be stopped.
The introduction of drag hunting will also reduce unwarranted trespass on people's private property. Such intrusions themselves trespass on the human rights of those who wish to live peaceably in the
Lord Rotherwick: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Does he not agree that replacing hunting with drag hunting would be like replacing tennis with ping-pong?
Lord Harrison: My Lords, many of us enjoy ping-pong, as we are doing tonight in this Chamber.
The next excuse is that drag hunting lacks the unpredictability of the traditional hunt. But that lies in the hands of the drag hunt trail blazers who can lay an imaginative and interesting scent without recourse to endangering train passengers, blocking up rural roads or killing domestic pets resulting from hounds straying to the fox's unpredictable flight of terror.
We are told that drag hunts satisfy only experienced riders, who otherwise leave slower riders in their wake. But that is not the experience of the North-East Cheshire Drag Hunt, which fashions both pace and line direction for the benefit of all its riders. Indeed, that particular drag hunt is a fine example of how drag hunting could be developed as an alternative to the hunt. The noble Lord, Lord Burns, encourages such steps in his report. It is noteworthy that the North-East Cheshire Drag Hunt provides a fallen stock service as well as employing three staff to mind its 52 hounds. What Cheshire does today, Britain can do tomorrow. It is time our opponents stopped being a "drag" on the drag hunt.
After all that, our opponents tell us that, were hunting banned, pro-hunting farmers would, in pique, refuse to allow drag hunts across their land. Frankly, I do not believe it. Are those farmers, who so cherish the spirit of the community and the countryside, going to be so mean as to deprive their fellow countrymen of the enjoyment of the ride across open country just because ignorant townies like me have taken away their ball ?
I am reminded that 100 years ago pigeon shooting was outlawed in our country. But its adherents did not sit back and bemoan their unfair fate. They got up off their backsides and instituted clay pigeon shooting as an alternative. It is a sport at which Britain excels in the Olympics and which gives pleasure to many. But in all this the requirement is the exercise of good leadership by those who seek to represent countryfolk. For too long such leadership has been lacking, with a fatal concentration on the past and not the present. In Britain in all walks of life people have to change as the world changes around them. The pigeon shooters change, the miners change, the shipbuilders in my euro
Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I have an interest to declare. I am a farmer: I do not hunt. For the past 20 years I have been deeply involved in the conservation and protection of the English countryside. For 10 of those 20 years I sat on the Countryside Commission under the remarkable chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Barber of Tewkesbury. I am sorry that he is not well enough to be with us today because I believe we would have greatly benefited from his views.
One of the things that he achieved during that 10 years was to unite people. When he first took over as chairman of the Countryside Commission the English tribes were warring: the conservationists against the farmers. He did a most remarkable job in bringing together those warring tribes so that they were able to see a common purpose and to work together. That was a tremendous achievement. I believe that it is relevant to the dangers of dividing the country which would result from this Bill .
We have had a number of remarkable speeches and some interesting and important themes have emerged. One is the thread through our history of the British fascination with hunting in its various forms. This theme came out in the very powerful speech of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Bath and Wells and also in the equally fascinating speech from the noble Lord, Lord Bragg.
That made me wonder how far back it goes. There was an echo in my mind of something that I read many years ago in G M Trevelyan's History of England. So I went into the Library and looked it up. It is wonderfully written. Perhaps noble Lords will allow me to read a brief paragraph from that book:
I want to talk about the politics of hunting. It seems to me that the Bill is essentially a political exercise. The hunting interest has shown that it is prepared to compromise. It has recognised that there is a public perception of misbehaviour. One of the rules of politics is that perception, however unfairly, is reality.
I would prefer to move more towards the way in which the medical and legal professions self-regulate; that is, by a body which has statutory authority to ensure that if individuals misbehave they cannot continue to practice. That is the way in which I would hope self-regulation could be explored.
The width of the anti-hunting spectrum, Deadline 2000, is broad. In a sense it is rather like Islam. It spans the rational and compassionate, through the fundamentalists who will not compromise on anything, on to the terrorist fringe who will use any method, however violent, to impose its solution. Even this morning, when I heard Tony Banks on Radio 4's "Today" programme, it seemed to me that he was totally unreceptive to any argument which would allow hunting to continue. Indeed, I think that I would have had as much chance of changing his mind as Mr Kofi Annan had of persuading the Taliban not to destroy the buddhas in Afghanistan.
Mr Banks explained that although he realised that the election would prevent the Bill from becoming law, his objective was that the Labour Party should introduce a pledge in its manifesto to produce fresh legislation after the election. Perhaps I may say, more as a commentator than a participant in politics, that in my opinion that would make little difference to the result of this election, but I believe that it could make all the difference to the result of the following election.
To divide and alienate deliberately the great majority of the people of rural England and Wales would be hugely divisive. We must remember that there is a multiplier. It is not just the people who are directly or even indirectly involved in hunting who mind about this; it is the people with whom they come into contact. It is hard to exaggerate the extent to which there will become a growing support for hunting in the rural areas of England and Wales if it is felt that that interest is being unfairly persecuted.
I remember that in her amazing speech, the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, referred to the comradeship of hunting. Comradeship is an important characteristic. When I was a lobby correspondent, from 1974 to 1990, I went to the Labour Party conferences for 16 consecutive years. One of the most fascinating parts of those conferences was the fringe when the hard Left indulged itself in what in many ways were fantasies. On the fringe, not the main platform, the Trotskyist, Marxist, anarchist and republican movements preached every kind of disturbance. They disagreed among themselves on most policy issues, but they had a tremendous sense of
If the Government still had their focus groups they would be told that a ban on hunting would divide the country in a way which would not only remove any chance of a third term--that would not worry me particularly--but also create a huge distraction from most of the other things that they might seek to do after this election, if they are re-elected.
To save her blushes, I should like to quote some words used by the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu, at the Hyde Park rally:
I have one final footnote relating to a current matter. It was the decision and right of the Government to put this Bill before Parliament. With their majority in the Commons, if they can get the Bill through with as little debate as they can that is up to them. But they do not have the right to decide how the Bill is considered in this House. As long as I am a Member of this House I shall seek to defend its right and duty to consider in detail any legislation which could become the law of the land. That is why tomorrow I shall oppose the Government's proposal to short-circuit that process.
Lord Rotherwick: My Lords, like many noble Lords I declare an interest as someone who lives and works in the countryside but no longer hunts or rides. My local hunt meets a couple of times at my home, and that is a time when all members of the public are welcomed to my home and have access to all parts of my land. It is a time when the lowliest can speak to the highest. That is not something which one finds at many community gatherings.
We have heard arguments about the right to hunt. I believe they show that hunting is justified. Hunting is practised worldwide in such countries as the USA, France and Ireland which are proud of their tradition and do not find it unworthy.
We have heard about the impact of a ban on hunting and the irony that it will probably not save a single hunted species. We have heard that a ban will result in a loss of nearly 100,000 jobs, in addition to approximately 20,000 to 25,000 job losses in farming at the present time. The British Equestrian Trade Association believes that that figure is low. The Prime Minister stated that he would work night and day when important jobs were at risk in the car industry. Do the Government intend to address the loss of jobs caused by this legislation? I note that the Bill remains silent on the subject of compensation. I am somewhat
We have heard that a ban on hunting will result in great cruelty. It will probably result in the destruction of about 20,000 hounds. To ban hunting will result in horses suffering. About 50,000 horses would have to be found new homes, and most would probably be destroyed in knacker's yards. I should be ashamed to be part of a country whose ideology resulted in the destruction of dogs and horses.
Banning hunting would stop much work being carried out in the lowland parts of England. Hunting not only encourages enhancement of the countryside but also was greatly responsible for sculpting it.
We are told that banning hunting would stop around 360,000 carcasses being collected by experienced local hunt staff--hunt staff who are at this time aiding MAFF in destroying livestock infected by foot and mouth disease.
Banning hunting, we are told, would terminate around 4,000 hunt events attended by 1.3 million people. The Burns report said that generally,
Is it right for the Government to make time for a Bill that will result in restricting the liberties of a significant minority? I believe that it is wrong to do so. It will be ruinous for people. It is immoral to do so at a time when this country is beset with foot and mouth disease, and especially when the countryside as a whole is in deep and serious crisis. The countryside is in debilitating pain. Last week telephone calls on farming help lines increased tenfold--I repeat, tenfold. If that is so, I fear to think what the rise in the number of farmers committing suicide might be.
How much do the Government care for these country folk? One has only to look at last week's Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to judge how much care the Government have for the countryside. The spending for next year on agriculture, fisheries and food is due to remain unchanged from last year at £1.3 billion, while there are to be healthy increases in other areas.
Worse still, one might perceive that the Government seems more interested in politics. The expected general election means that the Hunting Bill will probably not become law this Session. So the question must be why the Government are so committed to using up precious government time with such a damaging Bill, which has little chance of success. Why not use the time on business that will benefit a demoralised countryside, such as the rural White Paper? Could it be that the Government are using the countryside that they care and know little about to placate their Back-Benchers in another place? Could it be that they would not have received funding by animal rights organisations to
Lord Monson: My Lords, I first apologise to the House and to the first 12 speakers for having missed their speeches. My wife and I set out in excellent time to drive south for the debate. Unfortunately, continental left-hand drive HGVs piloted--if that is the word--at 70 miles per hour by individuals who evidently have little or no experience of driving on the left-hand side, are perhaps not the best recipe for road safety on our busy dual-carriageways. I suppose that I am lucky to be here at all.
However, I arrived in time for the excellent speech of the noble Lord, Lord Bragg. He made many of the points I should have liked to make and expressed them very much better than I could have done. There have been many other excellent speeches since then, many of them from the government Back Benches.
In a free society--our society has always been considered exceptionally free by international standards--it has been taken for granted that no activity should be criminalised unless it is either harmful to non-consenting humans, directly or indirectly, or cruel to other species over and above the normal mild cruelty inherent in most human interaction with animals, be they wild or domesticated. Hunting with dogs falls into neither category, as many noble Lords have pointed out; not least those two most eminent medical Peers, the noble Lords, Lord Walton of Detchant and Lord Winston. It is therefore an outrage that a ban should be proposed in what still purports to be a free society.
Noble Lords would not be surprised, of course, if people's traditional sports and pastimes were to be outlawed in a dictatorship. When Saigon fell to the communists approximately 25 years ago, one of the first things the victors did was to ban bridge, which they deemed to be a bourgeois capitalist game. Anyone caught playing bridge faced six months in prison. About 40 years before that, as the noble Lord, Lord Vinson, pointed out, the Nazis in Germany--mainly urban and small-town sentimentalists with an unrealistic and romanticised view of the animal kingdom--banned hunting: just what you might expect from them. It is no coincidence that people with an evident neo-Nazi ideology are threatening the lives of those brave Labour honourable Members, Kate Hoey and Llin Golding, who have been calling for toleration in this matter.
As many noble Lords have pointed out, for an animal the size of a fox, hunting is not more cruel than other methods of pest control--indeed, it is less cruel--with the possible exception of lamping. However, in our overcrowded island, lamping is very
Many supporters of a ban, one suspects, have not read the Scott-Henderson report, initiated by Mr Attlee, as he then was, and I suspect that even fewer have read the Cranbrook report, which was actually commissioned by the RSPCA. As Lord Cranbrook once explained to me, he and his committee were very surprised to discover after meticulous research that fishing was more cruel than shooting. But such were the committee's findings. In turn, I have no doubt whatever that shooting is, on balance, more cruel than hunting--for the very simple reason that in hunting the fox is either killed within four seconds, according to the noble Lord, Lord Renton, with his 34 years of experience of hunting, or gets away unscathed. With shooting, alas, very large numbers of birds, hares and rabbits are not killed outright but are wounded. Those that are picked up by the guns, beaters or others at the shoot are quickly dispatched, to the great indignation of some of the city-based tabloids, many of whose readers doubtless imagine that steaks and hamburgers grow on trees. But, unhappily, a great many are never picked up and run, limp or flutter away to die slowly over hours or even days.
Despite that, Mr Blair has, somewhat illogically I have to say, rejected a shooting ban out of hand while declaring himself in favour of a hunting ban. However, a future Labour Prime Minister, as the noble Lord, Lord Nickson, pointed out, will not feel himself bound by Mr Blair's promise. He or she may well rate intellectual consistency above the opinion of focus groups. So shooters should beware, they are bound to be next in the firing line. Incidentally, the "antis" who have become so indignant at the idea of "killing for pleasure" should be reminded that it is the shooter for whom killing is virtually essential in order to enjoy a day out, not the rider to hounds or other hunt followers.
Is everything in the garden perfect as far as hunting is concerned? Most probably not, as was suggested by the noble Lord, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior. On occasion, too little sensitivity and courtesy is shown to householders and other members of the public who unexpectedly come up against the hunt, although one senses that the younger generation of masters have developed rather more tact and public relations skills than some of their elders. But hunting's minor faults, which can after all be rectified fairly easily, are no justification for an authoritarian assault on a great British tradition, immortalised on canvas, in prose and in poetry. This is equally an assault on the chief pleasure and the livelihood of tens of thousands of decent people.
Lord Stoddart of Swindon: My Lords, I decided to speak in this debate because I want to help to show people living in the countryside that there is a substantial body of opinion existing in the Labour Party--I am glad to say that it has been expressed by many contributors from this side of the House today--which understands and has sympathy with their problems and certainly does not want to rob them of their traditional pastimes which they have enjoyed over a very long period of time; in fact, for centuries. That is especially the case when those pastimes also help the rural economy and the farming community, without whose efforts the countryside that urban dwellers like myself so enjoy would fall into rack and ruin. I am really very sorry indeed that the Countryside March had to be postponed until May. I would have loved to join that march. I would have participated in it with great alacrity, to demonstrate my solidarity with the countryside which I so love.
I believe that this Bill is more about class hatred than about the welfare of animals. If it were not, its provisions would be cast far more widely to cover many other kinds of field sports and activities involving the killing of animals for sport. The very fact that animals such as rabbits and rats have been exempted helps to prove my point. Do they not also feel the pain of death that foxes are alleged to feel?
The detailed arguments have already been made by those who have recent experience and first-hand knowledge of this issue, but I want to emphasise that there are still those in the Labour Party who believe in personal liberty as well as the improvement of economic life for the many. We want to fight the increasing tendency of government and, indeed, of Parliament itself, which is supposed to be the guardian of our individual liberty, to intervene in all kinds of ways in every nook and cranny of our lives. I sometimes get the impression that some top politicians will not be satisfied until the only things we are allowed to do will be to get drunk, to fornicate and to stab each other in the back. That is the way they sometimes carry on.
For most of my life I have lived in an urban setting, but at the beginning of the Second World War, I was evacuated from Shepherd's Bush in London to a fairly large farm in Mapledurham near Reading. It was there that I learnt about the pleasures and the difficulties of the countryside, and of the kindness and the consideration of the people living there. The family who adopted me as one of their own were so great; they altered my life completely, quite frankly. It was from them that I learnt my love of animals and the need to nurture them and to treat them with kindness and consideration. Certainly, all the animals on the farm were properly fed before anyone else was fed; they were properly housed and certainly were not ill treated in any way.
The farmer also hunted. He did so because he believed that the foxes, which devastated the chicken run and killed young lambs in the field, were vermin which had to be controlled to protect the domestic
Anyone who has seen the wanton destruction of a flock of chickens--not for food but for the sheer hell of it--does not have any illusions about foxes being little cuddly creatures which do no harm. I believe that hunting foxes with dogs is no more cruel--it is probably less cruel--than any other form of culling. So why are we persecuting huntsmen and huntswomen?
Where will the banning stop? We have heard about that from many noble Lords, but I shall repeat it because the message has to get home to other people who enjoy field sports. Where will it stop? Noble Lords and others should not imagine that hunting with dogs is the end of the road. The increasingly powerful and increasingly extreme animal rights and welfare organisations, once they have tasted blood, if I can put it that way, will lust for further prey. That lust will be heightened and they will not be satisfied only with fox hunting, the next target will be game shooting; after that, non-food fishing; and perhaps eventually the Grand National itself.
Indeed, as we have heard, some river fishermen have already been harassed by masked animal rights extremists and it has been made clear that angling is a legitimate target for a ban. Shooters and anglers may feel that they are safe because of assurances given by the Government. Let us examine the assurance. During the Committee stage of the Bill, the Home Office Minister, Mr Mike O'Brien, said:
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Did anyone attend this shoot? I'm 3 hrs away and wasn't able to go. I believe this would have been the closest shoot to Springfield, MO though. Maybe next time.
Let us know how it went.
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We were going today, Saturday, but instead going up Sunday 11th. I will let you know as it will be our first time to a GSSF event since joining last year.
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The wife and I shot Saturday and although I had my worst match since 2000(She beat me by 6 sec. It's going to be a long year ) we still had a good time. The weather was unpredictable,sometimes sunny and at times hard heavy rain for shot periods and then light sprinkles,then sunny and hot. We got to see some old friends and meet some new shooters. There seemed to be a lot of first time shooters and that is great.
Good to meet you there!
Ya let her beat ya huh?
That's OK, when Momma's happy, that's a good thing.
Me and Dad shot it yesterday. It was our first time and of course I beat him by 4 seconds It was a lot of fun
My 12 y/o son and I made it up Sunday, he shot well, me not so good. Everyone was very nice, and not much of a crowd compared to Saturday according to the staff. The Glock Armorist from Iowa was there and a super nice guy that spend some time with my Gen 1 and Gen 3 17s.
Thanks for sharing the pictures
Some pics (below) of my son doing what he loves, shooting.
ps. I wish someone would have offered my son a Glock Tshirt !! We got out the door this morning and was driving up when I realized what he was wearing, oh well !!!!
Come on!!! LET me???? I guess I'll LET him say that if he wants!
For the record, he NEVER "lets" me win. I beat him in the first GSSF match we shot in at Hallsville in '98. This now is the 2nd time I've beat him.....and only because he had a bad day and I had a fairly good one!
Hey, I recognize that "bad duck", the guy in the shirt was just as po'd as the duck when he missed with his last two shots and left two plates standing in Heavy metal.
Nice to see you again Butch. I finally got on the road at 2:30 and the trip went well considering I-29 was closed. I took 75 home and it was a much better road than the way I came. Someplace in Kansas I noticed that I had a warning light come on. It was a bulb error, which I was informed by the nice Cass County Sherriff that it meant my headlight was out.
I think this was my last match for the year, It wasn't my best, but I did hit some small personal bests, now I just have to tie them all together. I'll see you next year in Grand Island. Good luck to you in Conyers.
HAH! I love it!
And that's why I haven't really gotten into Heavy Metal yet..... I HATE the idea of leaving a plate standing.....I wouldn't be able to look at my own T-shirt.
Bummer! How bout Milwaukee? That's not *too* far, a day trip for us...come on up, you can ride over with us!
Thanks! I expect I'll need it! This has not been a good year for practice time...I suspect that most of my practice for Conyers just took place yesterday at the Green Valley club!
I have few more pics similar to the one's I posted, but the RO was more in the way, send me an Email if you want them.
Wish I could go to Milwaukee, my niece lives in Beloit WI, right on the way and my wife would love to go play with the new baby. I normally work a 4 on 4 off schedule and both Conyers and Milwaukee fit perfectly until my co-worker decided to take two weeks vacation to close his cabin in northern MN. Losing out on 24 hrs the first week and 24 hrs. the second at 1 1/2x OT pay would make the trip too expensive. But believe me I was trying to figure out something. Maybe next time, thanks for the offer.


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- 2 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil
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You can't always get what you want, unless you're Young-bin, because he's constantly surrounded by people who will go the extra mile for him. It makes me wonder if he ever thinks about how incredibly lucky he is to have survived all the crises he's endured in the entertainment industry and still be able to dream about the future. But then again, perhaps there's no need to worry when everyone else is busy taking care of his career.
As our boys hang out along the coast, Young-bin wonders what Eun-gab's intentions were for giving him the script to Im Hwa-su. Ending up on the streets is a real possibility if he stays funemployed, but Joon says he can provide now that he's got a solid variety gig.
Joon can't say the same for Turtle, calling him out on his bluff of living a life of leisure out of choice. He gapes at Young-bin's suggestion of employing Turtle as his manager since they're practically joined at the hip anyway. Since all Ho-jin does is nag Young-bin all day, Turtle thinks he can handle it, and Joon relents.
Young-bin decides to talk to CEO Kang about Im Hwa-su, a movie the industry has passed on. Without a director attached nor any investors, it may take years before the movie is re-considered, she explains.
She has another offer: a 40-episode Chinese romance drama that is scheduled for broadcast next year. He'll be paid up to four billion won for the entire project, and she knows Young-bin still owes his breach of contract fees to CEO Jo.
She's more than willing to let Young-bin think about both the drama and her offer to rejoin the agency and breezily asks who gave him the Im Hwa-su script. Although Ho-jin signals at him not to, Young-bin honestly tells her that it was Eun-gab.
Once they're alone, Ho-jin admits that he's torn: as a manager, he'd recommend going with the Chinese drama; as a friend, he'd tell Young-bin to choose Im Hwa-su. Furthermore, while CEO Kang has a decent offer, Ho-jin would personally choose Eun-gab.
That's not the answer Young-bin wants to hear, and he only feels more abandoned upon hearing that Ho-jin's going out with Ji-ahn tonight. Picking up a bag he thinks Ji-ahn might like, Ho-jin asks his buddy to buy it for him and go with the Chinese drama.
Joon shows up on the variety show set and grows jealous when a pair of female crew members laugh at Turtle's jokes instead of his. He admonishes Turtle in front of them and orders him to fetch some coffee, only to scold him again when Turtle goes the extra mile to go to a coffee shop.
He happily accepts an instant coffee from a staffer instead and lectures Turtle to learn a thing or two from Ho-jin on how to be a good manager. When Turtle asks if being a manager is no better than a slave, Joon tries to save face in front of the girls while quietly chiding Turtle once more. Aw, poor Turtle.
On his date, Ho-jin tells Ji-ahn that Young-bin will probably sign with CEO Kang. She's relieved to hear that their relationship hasn't affected what she feels should be an objective decision.
Turtle is in a gloomy mood when Young-bin enters his room, asking how his day went. Given the hard time Joon gave him today, Turtle respects Ho-jin even more now for putting up with Young-bin over the years.
He admits the Cha cousins are difficult to handle, adding that Young-bin's fickle-mindedness couldn't have been easy on Ho-jin or Eun-gab. At the question of whether Young-bin should team up with Eun-gab again, Turtle advises that he listen to Ho-jin on this one.
Speaking of whom, Ho-jin chats with Joon, who confesses to purposefully being hard on Turtle today. Joon disagrees with Ho-jin on giving their friend a break, saying that everyone has it rough in the beginning, and the toughness will be good for Turtle.
Ho-jin argues that all new managers find their jobs demeaning and even question why they even do it, but those words don't reach Joon's ears. Meanwhile, Turtle tells his viewers that he'll be taking a hiatus from broadcast since he has a job now. He bids them well, and tells his young viewers to do well at school and succeed later in life.
Eun-gab arrives at work to an alarming surprise in the form of CEO Kang. He asks if she's here to check in on him, but she comes right out with it—why did he give Young-bin the Im Hwa-su script? She asks if he's still got a lingering attachment to Young-bin, and when he admits as much, she advises that he give up since she's made an offer Young-bin won't be able to refuse.
She's amused when Eun-gab replies that Young-bin isn't motivated by money. She thinks it's unlikely the actor will turn back to the agent he dumped and warns Eun-gab against approaching Young-bin again. Eun-gab says they'll just wait and see.
Ho-jin is out in a cafe doing research on Im Hwa-su when Young-bin calls to complain that he's bored alone at home. He calls Eun-gab and pays him a visit at his new office, even venturing a joke about the name of his new agency.
After dancing around the awkward topic of Young-bin's potential new agency, Ho-jin tells Eun-gab of how much Young-bin wants to work on Im Hwa-su. He's here to get Eun-gab's opinion on what Young-bin should do because Eun-gab has offered some sound advice in between all the yelling over the years.
Eun-gab replies that Ho-jin nor Young-bin have ever really listened to him so they should do whatever they like. He knows Young-bin always prefers movies, and they both know that Im Hwa-su might have a future if they score the publication rights to it. Eun-gab would like to help but it'll only look like he's trying to lure Young-bin to sign with him, and Ho-jin says that's fine.
Ho-jin says he'd still like to work with Eun-gab and thinks that Young-bin might like to as well. Eun-gab smiles at the idea of being on Young-bin's good side again and considers asking around to put Im Hwa-su back on the movie roster.
Joon upgrades his wardrobe by raiding Young-bin's closet while yelling at Turtle again. Young-bin giggles in his chair, amused by the ongoing master-slave dynamic. Turtle calls up the stylist as commanded, and when he pleasantly thanks her, Joon barks at him for flirting with his employees instead of doing his job.
Turtle steps out to continue the call and asks the stylist if she knows anyone he can set Joon up with, thinking that a girl might calm him down. She says she knows a ton of girls who are interested in Joon, so he can set it up.
Eun-gab and Ho-jin seek out CEO Ahn on one of his fishing trips on a serene lake. The man still hasn't forgotten how Young-bin betrayed him last time, and they run before the angler can throw his latest catch at them.
Cut to: Ho-jin and Eun-gab fishing while CEO Ahn enjoys some coffee later. He believes Im Hwa-su is a good project and is optimistic about securing a production company if Young-bin signs on. In a sing-songy voice, he promises to work with them if they manage to reel in a big catch.
Eun-gab whispers that he's never been fishing while Ho-jin admits to being afraid of fish. Ha. Just then, Eun-gab's rod tenses, and all three of them work together to reel in a big fish.
Ho-jin arrives home to find Young-bin munching on snacks and reading over the Chinese drama scripts. Young-bin says his heart is with Im Hwa-su, and then Joon walks in with a huge smile on his face—his variety show scored Moon Geun-young, and he'll be acting as her manager for the next two days. Neither Ho-jin nor Turtle can hide their jealousy, much to their actors' annoyance.
Eun-gab and Ho-jin drop by a run-down office which belongs to another CEO whose script Eun-gab once passed over three years ago. CEO Park says Im Hwa-su was supposed to be his final movie before retirement, but the actor pulled out of the project and his company has been suffering ever since.
He still owns the publication rights to the movie and wonders if Ho-jin really has read the script. He says managers typically are only interested in how much screen time their actors get or how their characters will be portrayed, which sounds like a passive-aggressive insult against Eun-gab.
Frustrated now, Eun-gab asks if he'll hand over the rights to the movie or not. Ho-jin jumps in to defuse the situation, saying that CEO Ahn has already agreed to work with them. Eun-gab sighs when CEO Park asks for a 30 percent stake and 300 million won for the movie's development, and the CEO storms out.
Eun-gab is still worked up even though he knows these arguments are avoidable when CEOs like that man only have their own interests at heart. He thinks they can talk to someone younger who also has a stake in the movie, but Ho-jin is determined to persuade this man and settles in to wait.
Turtle has about enough when Joon yells at him again for playing music in the car before his variety show shoot. He asks why Joon is treating him this way and warns him that he'll get really angry if it continues. But when he turns back, he sees an extra-sensitive Joon listening to music through his earbuds, who's missed his whole speech.
When the crew breaks for lunch, Turtle informs Joon that filming will continue until tomorrow. He already told the crew that Joon can make it, which once again ignites Joon's short fuse. But Joon slaps on an enthusiastic face in front of a crew member and whispers that they each have a role: He's the angelic actor and Turtle is the evil manager.
"Haven't you learned that already after hanging out with Young-bin and me all this time?" he asks. Turtle apologizes and says he can make it up to him by setting Joon up on a date. He practically guffaws when Joon thinks he has a shot with Moon Geun-young, which only opens him up to more lecturing.
Joon orders him to get him cup ramyun because Turtle has made him lose his appetite for lunch. Turtle does as he's told, but then accidentally trips on a wire, causing the food to go flying. He picks up the food and stands there on set, feeling insignificant.
Ho-jin is still waiting at the office when CEO Park finds him there in the dark. He's impressed when Ho-jin knows about the 1981 mystery thriller film Suddenly at Midnight, and when he makes another barbed stereotype at managers, Ho-jin says that anyone could be a good or poor critic of movie scripts, including managers.
He admits that although he's still has much to learn about the movie industry, he firmly believes that Im Hwa-su is a good project. He might be Young-bin's manager, but he's also his best friend and that friend genuinely wants to do this movie.
He asks CEO Park to reconsider, and the next thing we know, Ho-jin calls Eun-gab to say that CEO Park is interested but there's an additional stipulation: He wants an apology from Eun-gab. Eun-gab makes a huge fuss about the demand and says he'll be right over.
Cut to: Eun-gab bowing to CEO Park in apology. Heh. He agrees to CEO Park's demand of 170 million won and a 17 percent stake, and Ho-jin sends him a silent thumbs-up. They reflect on their efforts afterward as Ho-jin says his work is done now.
When Eun-gab points out that Ho-jin is wriggling out of responsibility, the latter says he learned it from him. They share a good laugh over that and Eun-gab pats him on the shoulder.
While Turtle ends his day alone at a bus stop ignoring Joon's calls, Eun-gab speaks with CEO Ahn as he arrives home, and stutters when CEO Ahn asks if Young-bin has signed on with him.
Ho-jin calls, and Eun-gab tells him to proceed with bringing Young-bin into the project, and that Eun-gab will step aside. What's important is that Young-bin works on a project he enjoys, regardless of whoever he's working with.
He tells Ho-jin to give Young-bin the good news, but not say a word that Eun-gab helped him secure the movie. He knows Young-bin won't like hearing someone else helped him out, and from now on, he's nothing more than a stranger to him.
So Ho-jin tells Young-bin the good news about Im Hwa-su, adding that he's got his work cut out for him. Ho-jin explains that's why he's been so busy lately, but Young-bin is reluctant to believe that Ho-jin did all that legwork on his own without saying a word.
Ho-jin says he wanted to wait until it was a done deal, lest he be on the receiving end of one of Young-bin's fits. Young-bin can't shake off the feeling that his buddy is leaving something out, but then he's reminded of the fact that he still needs to talk to CEO Kang.
Joon arrives home in a rage looking for Turtle because he left without a word. He bursts into Turtle's room and asks if working at an actual job was too hard for him, but Turtle says he just hates life and hates Joon most of all.
He admits that felt like a loser today, fetching coffee and ramyun, all while being ignored. He just couldn't take feeling any more pathetic and decided to come home. Both Ho-jin and Young-bin sympathize with him, saying that they had it tough too at first. They look to Joon, who initially berates Turtle a bit more before apologizing to him.
"Say it again," Turtle says. Joon apologizes again and confesses that it was all to teach Turtle a life lesson. He promises to go easier on Turtle tomorrow, and Ho-jin makes sure that they shake on it.
He picks up a call from Ji-ahn just then, which spurs Joon and Turtle to both yell at him for abandoning them for a girl.
Young-bin finds Turtle in the closet making preparations for Joon tomorrow. Upon hearing Ho-jin's efforts in Im Hwa-su, Turtle remarks that Young-bin is lucky to have a manager like Ho-jin and Eun-gab.
He corrects himself a second later, since Eun-gab is no longer his agent, and the mention is off-putting to Young-bin, who's decided to sign with CEO Kang. Young-bin thinks that Turtle has matured a bit now that he's working with Joon, but they can still laugh about having a beer before facing tomorrow.
Young-bin calls CEO Kang about getting him signed on to Im Hwa-su versus the Chinese drama. But she lies that she's visiting her hometown and offers to discuss the project in a few days' time since things can still change.
She makes sure to confirm that CEO Ahn is spearheading the movie and mentions that she's sent along the contract with Ho-jin. As it happens, the written offer is even higher than she initially mentioned: a 1.5 billion won five-year contract with a 20 percent share of profits.
Eun-gab is called out to a meeting with CEO Ahn, who is enjoying lunch with CEO Kang. He accepts a bowl of makgulli while eyeing the other man, who joins in on teasing Eun-gab about when he was much bigger. But Eun-gab dishes it right back, saying that CEO Ahn ate even more than he did.
But that's enough talk about the old days, and Eun-gab would like to know what this lunch meeting is all about. CEO Kang says she nearly fell for the ruse, believing that Eun-gab only helped Young-bin in order to steal him away from her.
She says his efforts were for naught because Young-bin won't be doing the movie. CEO Ahn agrees, pointing out that he believed Young-bin was going to sign with Eun-gab. Adding insult to injury, she says she's doubled the money in Young-bin's contract, and if he does the Chinese drama, he'll have a good chunk of change in his pocket.
She asks that Eun-gab step away from Young-bin now, and he in turn asks her to take good care of him. They drink to that to seal the deal.
Joon wraps up filming with Moon Geun-young and wonders if he should buy her a cake because it's her birthday tomorrow. Turtle agrees to go out and buy one, but he's completely broke ever since he gave all his money to (scam artist) Seung-hyo.
Joon reluctantly hands over his card and gapes when Turtle gets an expensive cake. Turtle grumbles when he hears the cost will come out of his paycheck and is upset that he's missed dinner too.
He reaches into the cake box, only to touch the cake itself, to Joon's annoyance. Joon hurries to hide the cake behind him before Moon Geun-young arrives. He sings her a happy birthday and moves aside… to reveal Turtle devouring the cake himself.
Turtle isn't the least bit sorry and smears the frosting on Joon's face before wishing the actress a happy birthday and storming out. Joon chases after him with Geun-young not far behind and they have it out on the street.
Joon fires Turtle on the spot, threatening that he won't be able to work in this industry anymore. But Turtle says he never wanted to end up in entertainment, and when Joon tells him to stay away from Young-bin, Turtle bitterly says he won't hang out with Joon anymore.
He gives Joon a new nickname of "Nation's Prostate" to go along with Moon Geun-young's status as "Nation's Little Sister." Needless to say, the actress doesn't appreciate it and chases after him.
Young-bin and Ho-jin head down to the parking lot to meet with CEO Kang's employee, who pulls up in a fancy new convertible. He's here to drop off a physical copy of the contract as well as the car here as Young-bin's new ride.
They're both taken aback, and while Young-bin admits that the perks are nice, Ho-jin picks up on the reservation in his voice. CEO Kang calls to make sure that Young-bin has received the contract, then follows up with the news that Im Hwa-su will be casting a different actor.
She says she heard it from CEO Ahn himself and they can talk about the details tomorrow. The good news is that they can prepare for the Chinese drama immediately, and she hopes that Young-bin will have good news for her as well.
They take the car out for a spin, and when Ho-jin wonders if this is too expensive of a gift, Young-bin says he doesn't even enjoy driving. Ho-jin is still confused by the news that CEO Ahn changed his mind since he had verbal affirmation that Young-bin would be attached to the project. And that's when Ho-jin finally confesses that he went to see CEO Ahn with Eun-gab.
Speaking of whom, Eun-gab's wife worries that he's fallen into another depressive episode. Before he can tell her otherwise, Young-bin and Ho-jin stop to see him. With Ho-jin's encouragement, Young-bin says he heard how Eun-gab helped out with securing Im Hwa-su.
He tells him how CEO Kang said the movie would go to another actor, so they came to see him. But the thing is, Young-bin won't be able to take the car. When asked why, he answers, "Since I have to work with you."
Eun-gab is utterly flabbergasted and wonders if something's wrong with Young-bin before exploding in celebration. Young-bin admits that he spoke out of anger last time, and he really does appreciate Eun-gab for trying to secure Im Hwa-su.
He points to Ho-jin for part of the reason too, and Eun-gab breaks into a smile and praises Ho-jin for being so clever. He gets a good laugh at the situation, then asks what will happen to this car.
Young-bin says they'll give it back after taking it out for a drive. Eun-gab: "Can I drive?" They hit the streets, where Eun-gab snaps at Young-bin when he jokingly asks if Eun-gab will buy him a fancy car. Eun-gab admits he's in a much better mood now because "we're together again."
Finally, but also for how long? I feel I can never tell with Young-bin who seems to jump ship whenever there's a bump in the road. This episode's cliffhanger sounds like an addition to the many similar endings before it with Young-bin's open declaration that changes in the following episode. So as much as I'm happy that he's teamed up with Eun-gab again, I'm afraid that the next narrative conflict will be more of the same—where Young-bin gets upset that something else didn't go his way and changes his mind without any regard of the consequences.
He's incredibly lucky to have people like Ho-jin and Eun-gab to put out the fires he creates without asking for much in return. Both of them knew how much Im Hwa-su meant to Young-bin and went out of their way to make it happen. Young-bin, on the other hand, didn't lift a finger to secure his next project and kept other people waiting on a decision. Not only that, the potential pitfalls to his career are mentioned but never executed including the recent threats from CEO Jo about blacklisting him in the industry.
I would've loved to see Young-bin struggle more with this decision between CEO Kang and Eun-gab since he was a free agent. While they were busy arguing about whether Young-bin would choose money or loyalty, we have so little insight into how Young-bin felt about the whole ordeal. Everyone else is busy pulling the strings that his character is left to react to the outcomes.
But his ongoing difficulty isn't quite as frustrating as Joon, who I was just rooting for in the previous episode. I wasn't surprised when Turtle became his manager nor when I thought he acted like a jerk who was bitten by the celebrity bug. But what I did find unsettling was his reasoning to purposefully act entitled because he wanted to toughen up Turtle's skin. And while the few days at the new job gave Turtle a better appreciation toward Ho-jin, neither Joon nor Young-bin seemed to realize just how much of themselves their friends put up with. If it's possible for Eun-gab to selflessly do everything he can for Young-bin, then surely we can pray for a day when Joon and Young-bin do something to show their appreciation for their friends.


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Water safety and drowning prevention experts Mindy York and Marlene Bloom, co-founders of the Baby Otter Swim School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, have produced a DVD (Ten Minutes For Life) to help put a stop to deaths due to drowning. Through this informative DVD, they hope to help save lives throughout the U.S. and across the globe.
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My words found themselves, dazed and confused, on the page in the esteemed publication Redbrick. You can see the edited-for-paper version at the Redbrick website.
And it's good. I'm pleased with it. But I'm here today to talk about the extended, nearly-double-the-length version that I've just unleashed onto the internet. It's almost dangerously bloggy, but I felt its home remained with Redbrick, not least because it starts:
"Los Campesinos! were the first band I ever wrote about for Redbrick, back when my cheeks were rosier and I still believed in Santa. Comparing them to the musical version of fizzy pop, I gave Hold On Now, Youngster… an 8. A couple of years and a couple of hundred listens to the album later: this is a public apology."
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Timber is thought about royal because old times as well as is thought about to provide an abundant feeling to anything it was contributed to. In olden times, the furnishings was totally made from hefty timber as well as the sculpting on it deserved seeing.
Right here is a checklist of leading 10 most costly timbers on the planet, which have actually been utilized for many years for any kind of carefully crafted art piece:
10. African Blackwood
Clinically referred to as Dalbergia melonoxylon, is a plant that belongs and also tires blossoms to Fabaceae family members.
The tree belongs to lumber specie as well as is mainly utilized for production of furnishings and also music tools. The timber is under the danger of over harvest as there is no appropriate strategy to save it as well as the plant has a reduced price of germination. The tree has elevation of 4-15m and also has spiny shoots and also grey bark.
9. Sandalwood
Out of the timbers, sandalwood is the most typically understood as well as commonly made use of timber in the globe. It is a kind of timber that comes from trees in Santalum category.
The timber is made use of thoroughly for its oil; it has medical residential or commercial properties as well as is additionally utilized in cosmetics. The timber is additionally utilized for spiritual objectives like Hindus utilize its paste throughout routines, in Jainism the paste and also saffron are combined as well as is utilized to praise the gods, in Islam the paste is utilized to use it on the tomb of the Sufi as mark for commitment, it additionally utilized in Chinese and also japanese faith.
8. Ebony.
The timber is black in shade as well as has a great appearance. It is important decorative timber with a smooth surface when it is brightened.
The various types consist of Ceylon ebony, discovered in Sri Lanka and also South India; Gabon ebony, located in West Africa; Makkassar ebony, discovered in Indonesia as well as is costly since of its multi tinted, opulent timber grain. Ebony is under risk at lots of areas, primarily Africa, due to its unlawful cut down and also investors take benefit of it as well as gloss common timber with black and also market it as ebony.
7. Agar Wood.
Called Oud, agar, oodh and so on is resinous heartwood that expands in Gyrinops and also Aquilaria trees when they obtain contaminated with mould. Prior to infection, the timber is odor free, light tinted and also light in weight and also as an outcome of infection, the timber obtains a scent and also end up being thick and also dark.
The material dealt with timber is recognized as jinko, agarwood, jinko and so on and also is of wonderful value in several societies due to its scent and also is commonly made use of as fragrance and also scent. The finest high quality of agar timber is extremely pricey and also the rates could be U$ 100,000/ kg.
6. Pink Ivory.
Pink cream color, likewise called red cream color, purple cream color or umnini, is a wood from Africa. It is utilized to produce various sorts of items like blade manages as well as billiard signs.
The tree is primarily located in Mozambique, South Africa as well as Zimbabwe.
The timber in South Africa is sustainably preserved and also secured and also is reduced just with approval. The components of the various other compared to timber are made use of as treatments as well as medications.
5. Lignum vitae.
It is profession timber as well as is likewise called guaiacum or guayacan and also pockholz in Europe as well as is of Guaiacum category. They are locals of north coastline of Africa and also Caribbean and also are an essential plant for export in Europe because 16th century.
The timber is made use of where product with sturdiness, toughness as well as thickness is called for. The timber is generally gotten from Guaiacum sanctum as well as Guaiacum officinale both the trees are slow-moving expanding and also little. The material of the timber is as well as has medical buildings utilized to treat joint inflammation as well as coughings.
4. Purple timber.
Clinically called Peltogyne comes from a category with 23 varieties and also all of them birthed blossoms. It is from Fabaceae household as well as is located in the exotic rain forests of south and also Central America. They originate from Brazil, Suriname as well as Guyana jungles.
The trees are tool to huge sized with elevation of 30-50m as well as trunk has a size of around 1.5 m. The timber is really difficult as well as water immune. The tree is costly due to the fact that of its lovely timber, which transforms from light brownish to purple in shade, when reduced.
3. Dalbergia.
It is a category of moderate as well as little sized bushes, trees as well as lianas of Fabaceae family members as well as subfamily Faboideae. The category is extensively dispersed as well as is discovered in exotic areas in South and also Central America, Madagascar, South Asia as well as Africa.
The varieties are lumber trees as well as are high in worth due to the fact that of their great smelling as well as stunning timber. The timber is solid, hard and also is resilient and also keeps its form. The timber has a thickness of 770kg/m dice as well as shade differs in between gold to deep brownish.
2. Bubinga.
Clinically referred to as Guibourtia, comes from a category of blooming plant and also Fabaceae household. The category has 16 types which 13 are discovered in exotic location of Africa and also 3 in South America.
It is frequently made use of to create luthiers and also many various other tools like bass guitar, drums. The timber is likewise made use of to create high top quality furnishings as well as high top quality devices like handles, back manages and so on.
1. Bocate.
Out of the timbers, sandalwood is the most typically recognized as well as commonly made use of timber in the globe. The timber is made use of thoroughly for its oil; it has medical residential properties as well as is likewise made use of in cosmetics. The timber is additionally made use of for spiritual objectives like Hindus utilize its paste throughout routines, in Jainism the paste as well as saffron are combined as well as is utilized to prayer the gods, in Islam the paste is made use of to use it on the tomb of the Sufi as mark for dedication, it additionally utilized in Chinese as well as japanese faith.
The material repaired timber is recognized as jinko, agarwood, jinko and so on and also is of terrific value in lots of societies due to its scent as well as is usually utilized as fragrance as well as scent. The timber is likewise made use of to create high top quality furnishings and also high top quality devices like handles, back manages and so on.
Bocate comes from Cordia category and also borage household of Boraginaceae. The plants in the category birthed blossoms and also have regarding 300 speices of trees and also hedges. The majority of the types are discovered in warmer area and also are typically called manjack, whereas a number of types from Central America are called bocate in Spanish.
The fruit of regional types are frequently utilized as veggie, raw or prepared as well as in India, in Hindi it is called lasora. The timber is made use of to make doors as well as furnishings in south as well as Central America. It is likewise utilize to make music tools like guitar.


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As some of you already know, I refuse to have a Facebook page, and here are the reasons why:
1) I am old-timey and want you goddamn kids to get off my lawn.
2) I kind of hate people.
3) I'm waaaaaay too busy to put up with any bullshit. (To which one may reply, "Then why do you work for the Mercury? BURN.")
4) I would probably hurt your feelings by unceremoniously "unfriending" you.
5) Justin Bieber would have another reason to continue his restraining order against me.
6) Facebook, like rock 'n' roll, the Tea Party, Justin Bieber, and the Old Spaghetti Factory is gonna be SO OVER, in like, five minutes.
That being said, I understand why some of you like Facebook. And I totally understand why Efi Thodi, the lady in this video, is in desperate need of some… ANY… social network. The name of this song is "Se Gnorisa Sto Facebook" which loosely translates to "OMIGOD, Brad Pitt is totally my Facebook friend, which means he's gonna marry me, right? Right? Too bad he got eaten by a shark."


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The source of the documents revealing the strategy of the Heartland Institute's campaign to undermine the public's understanding of climate science — including by producing and distributing K-12 curriculum materials propounding climate change denial — revealed himself to be Dr. Peter Gleick, the hydroclimatologist who heads the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.
"Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that climate change is becoming a part of the nation's culture wars," reported The New York Times (February 15, 2012). The documents in question were obtained from the Heartland Institute, a non-profit organization best known for its attacks on climate science, and posted at DeSmogBlog (February 14, 2012), which "exists to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science on climate change."
Almost half — 47% — of Americans surveyed in 2010 agreed that "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals," and 38% agreed that "the universe began with a huge explosion."
The State of State Science Standards 2012 (PDF), published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, is a new report offering a survey and evaluation of the state science standards in all fifty states plus the District of Columbia. Among the major problems across the country: "An Undermining of Evolution."
A poll of Protestant pastors in the United States found that they "overwhelmingly believe that God did not use evolution to create humans and think Adam and Eve were literal people," according to a press release (January 9, 2012) issued by LifeWay Research.
The National Earth Science Teachers Association released the executive summary of its 2011 on-line survey on climate change education, which examines (PDF) the responses of 555 K-12 educators in the United States who teach about climate change.
A new poll asked respondents about their views on evolution and climate change, what they regard the scientific consensus on those topics to be, and whether it matters to them whether candidates for president share their views.
A new CNN/ORC poll included a question about evolution, with few surprises in the results.
A recent Fox News poll (September 7, 2011) included a question about evolution and creationism.
"The U.S. political debate over climate change is seeping into K-12 science classrooms, and teachers are feeling the heat,"
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For the second time in his "young" career, Albert Young surpassed the 100 yard mark, this time in a game that the Hawkeyes won. Young left early in the second half due to cramps, but he could have ...
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