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Twenty-five years ago today–on September 1, 1989–Johnny Winter played the Commodore. The chance to witness the underrated Texas guitar legend in the confines of one of VanCity's finest concert venues (for the second time) was not one I was about to pass up.
Besides, at the time I was really grooving on his latest album, The Winter of '88, especially tunes like "Rain".
Here we have one of the South Granville Business Improvement Association's concierges—they try to make sure your stay on the shopping strip is a pleasant one.
He's modelling one of the SGBIA's courtesy umbrellas.
In the event of an unexpected shower, shoppers may borrow one of these blue brollies from any South Granville retailer (subject to availability) and return it to any other retailer on the strip—handy!
Twenty-five years ago today--on August 31, 1989--Meat Loaf played 86 Street Music Hall, so I went. Here's my Straight review, published in the September 8-15 issue under the headline "The Bat Out of Hell returns for another bite".
While parents of 560,000 students in strike-bound B.C. public schools will be grumbling on Tuesday, another set of parents will be celebrating.
That's because more than 75,000 students will be back in independent schools across B.C.
This includes St. George's, which is where some of the province's super-elite send their kids.
On Tuesday (September 2), St. George's will be hold a barbecue to welcome back the students. Normally this wouldn't be newsworthy except for on that day, kids will likely be shut out of public schools across the province.
I'm not going to identify any of the kids who attend this school because that's not fair when they didn't ask to find themselves in the middle of any controversy.
Thank goodness that's almost over for another year.
The autumn rains may be just in time. I'm not sure we could have gone another month watering the sidewalks and the roads and our lawns.
There's only so much water in our reservoirs; something surely had to give, and soon.
Obviously that would've been the lawns and then the roads. Watering the grass, after all, is a case of Vancouverites going that extra distance to indulge their love of nature.
But not if it comes at the expense of our sidewalks—which must—MUST—be watered!
Why? Because we always have. That's why!
There's one more opportunity on Monday (September 1) to check out the free Taiwanfest celebrations on Granville Street.
In the 600 to 800 blocks, you can take in noodle and rice dishes as well as traditional Chinese medicine, musical performances, travel information, and a whole lot more.
On the north lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery, there are children's games and other activities.
Meanwhile inside Pacific Centre, you can catch a glimpse of the Pili puppets, who've achieved great fame in Asia thanks to a popular movie and TV show.
Cosplay characters of the puppets have shown up at the Metropolitan Hotel and at Holt Renfrew.
Below, you can see some snapshots I took while I was downtown this weekend.
The whooshing sound I heard as I woke up this morning was surely the sound of autumn revving its motor.
Down came the rain—like stair rods, I think people used to say.
Torrential rain can be fun so I was up like a shot. It only takes me about 10 minutes to get up, pack up and be on my way from my sleeping spot.
I paused at the mouth of the parkade—I always take a deep breath before I go swimming.
And I took the time to admire the one hapless resident from the area who obviously thought he could get himself some easy money collecting returnable beverage containers. How hard can it be?)
Above is a photo taken on August 26 at Millbrook, New York, at the Hitchcock Estate that was loaned to Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in 1964 and 1965.
The evening here in Vancouver has been so pleasant and so ominous looking.
I really wanted a photo of the crescent moon, sharp against the deepening azure blue sky. But the dark clouds slowly closed in like velvet curtains—I finally had to give up the chase after 10 blocks and two storeys.
Instead I stopped for a bite at McDonald's.
But I hadn't quite given up on my quest for an evening photograph.
After locking up my bike and trailer I took photos of the intersection of West Broadway and South Granville, looking west toward the clock tower that dominates the southwest corner.
The meat is on the grill and large crowds are in the street in the 200 block of Carrall Street for the Gastown BBQ and Chili Festival.
The event continues today until 7 p.m. and resumes on Sunday (August 31) from noon to 7 p.m. in the same location, culminating in a performance by ambitious local prog rockers Bend Sinister on the outdoor stage.
"Considering we had a little bit of rain this morning, I think the turnout has been absolutely fantastic," festival organizer Eddie Emerman told the Straight. "It just shows the resilience of the Vancouverites."


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A alternative way of looking at Paleo
I am student of the paleo science and lifestyle and read pretty much everything I come across. When people begun to harvest they become shorter, died sooner and so on. True!
But once again, cause and correlation...
Could it be that people become shorter since they were not travelers any longer? Could it be that they died sooner since they were living in villages with more people and thus got sick more often from their neighbors and animals?
So far I have seen no one mentioning these facts.
I am still very interested in paleo and believe we shouldn't eat all this artificially manipulated crap we eat but the ruling about paleo is still out there.
[Edit: I see that people haven't been answering my questions but I lot of other stuff. What a waste of what I see as a genuinely important question. However, with only 1 upvote for my question it seems that the interest is very low.]
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Obviously there a dozens of theories and there is no possible way to truly get to causal relationships.
Do I think that farmers who ate corn and started to harvest wheat suddenly got fat and died from an unhealthy diet? No. Do I think that the movement to an agricultural society was optimal for health? No. Do I think the obesity epidemic is solely based on agriculture? No....
My opinion is that the obesity epidemic is a confluence of four events.
- Starting in the 50s as refined sugar started to hit the market in vast quantities.
- Then somewhere in the late 70s when mass manufactured foods and products started to hit the market.
- The 80s when home entertainment (TV, movies, NES, etc) started to become cheap and widely available (leading to less activity).
- The finally in the 90s when serving sizes just became ridiculous.
Modern medicine also saw huge gains during this time frame, this led to medicine masking the effect of these events on health -- Sure we are using hydrogenated oil, but look people are living longer, etc.
However, now that we have the benefit of hindsight we can see how these incremental changes to the diet have actually been very problematic. We also see an environment where mass manufactured foods are literally EVERYWHERE. But, if we take a step back and consider our biology we quickly realize that humans were just not made to eat this way. And even with 10,000 years of agriculture we have not evolved or adapted very well to eat this way -- primarily because we created a culture where sick people (obese, asthma, genetic disorders, whatever) can thrive. This is a major accomplishment of mankind. We do not just dispose of the weak, we create an environment where everyone can thrive. Complicating this, the effect of eating SAD is not seen in most people until after procreation stages (i.e. late 20s early 30s -- yes people procreate past that, but you know the point). The side effect of that is that natural adaptation (in the Darwinian sense) will not remove these traits from the gene pool.
So given the luxury of hindsight, we have realized that there is a biologically optimal way of eating. We have yet to find a blood test (although we are close) that can reliably tell us how were are genetically designed to eat. But we can use human evolution as a guide. For me that means lots of veggies (including tubers and roots), some meat, some fruits, and some seeds.
Personally, I do not marry myself to the dogma of recreation -- that is, only eat what our paleolithic ancestors ate -- because (1) It is impossible to eat that way (the fruits, veggies, and protein sources are not available today; (2) I believe I have continued to evolve so there are things my body is better at eating today; (3) Which ancestors? I'm not a purebred; and (4) I don't find dogma or prescriptive statements to ever hold true.
I'm with CD on this one...my concerns are far more modern. I will just add a few more points:
In the 70s is also when older wheats were replaced by modern dwarf hybrids, which totally changed the gluten & nutritional profile of wheat. Witness the rise of celiac & other inflammatory disease.
More recently, traditional fats were replaced by industrial seed oils.
Finally, and a bit later, the low fat craze made many of us start eating way more carb (and thus way more modern dwarf hybrid wheat), less meat, less fats.
And then there's the modern industrial meat industry.
I don't worry about whether or not my diet is historically accurate. I don't even worry about paleo "rules". I eat a modified paleo/WAPF/primal diet that has allowed me to lose the weight I wanted without having to go to bed hungry. It has also made me more energetic and less prone to illness. It has improved my skin, hair, nails & teeth, and totally taken care of the early stages of arthritis I was experiencing.
If it turned out that all the evolutionary basis of the paleo diet was just plain wrong, I'd go right on eating what I'm eating.
I think about how Empires are always grain based, From Egypt to the Roman to China to the USA. Grains are a cheap way of feeding lots of people in an overpopulated, resource impacted society. So I ask myself why were so many people needed? To wage war, maintain Empire and acquire more resources. This is just speculation but I think it holds up, not gonna write a thesis on this topic.
It's not that much of a mystery. Certain plants evolved mechanisms against predators that would eat them. The predators, in turn, developed mechanisms to cope with those defenses.
Since a plant cannot get up and run, it can either make itself difficult to eat, using thorns, or other mechanically useful alterations, or it can evolve to taste bad, or contain toxins and anti nutrients that harm the predator.
The keyword there is harm. These classes of plants evolved to selfishly propagate their own species and avoid being eaten. Humans can eat them, but at a price. That price is shorter statute, tooth decay, shorter lives, autoimmune disease, atherosclerosis, and so forth.
As a simple example: good luck trying to prove that living in close quarters with other humans would have caused dental carries. There's only one thing that does that, which is a specific genus of bacteria, and that bacteria doesn't thrive when you eat meat.
Other plants developed in a different pathway, they evolved to attract insects to germinate via pollen and flowers, and produced fruit to encourage mammals to eat them, and carry their seeds further away.
Animals can run, hide, bite, claw, burrow, to escape predation, so they're less likely to need poison, though some, have infact developed venom. We don't tend to predate those that can kill us with venom, we tend to predate those that are less capable of defense.
I would also suppose that if you were to remove all modern fakery in foods, you'll find that we are evolved to find those foods that are healthy for us to be the same that are tasty. If you go back to a time before pollution, eating fresh fish, mollusks, and shellfish is perfectly safe, eating lots of cooked wild boar is perfectly safe, etc.
You weren't likely to eat oxidized fish oil because to us it smells terrible, and it does so as a signal to prevent us from eating possibly harmful things.
On the other hand, grains were very difficult to harvest and left you prone to roving bands of marauders since you were more likely to stay on your land than starve, thus leading to slave labor, taxes, slavery, and governments. These brought with them higher density populations, sure, , but people could usually run off into the woods and start new lives fairly easily so long as water and fauna were plentiful - but the investment of work into land is what mostly kept them there. It was easier to put up with the taxes of roving bandits who eventually declared themselves ordained by this or that god as king, than give up their grain xenomorphine addiction, and thus delegated themselves to serfdom.
We can even see the effects of grains on our pets. Both cats and dogs are obligate carnivores, when fed their naturally evolved diet of meat, they thrive and live long, healthy lives. When fed dry food which usually has gluten as one of the first ingredients, if not the very first, and then has rice, or corn as the next, live short, painful lives with plenty of diseases that are analogous to what we see in ourselves, when we eat the SAD.
This video is extremely simplistic but answers your question a little bit!

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Think back over your sports experience and consider the teams that have won championships. Would you agree that for the vast majority of them they had players who could perform in the clutch? Consider even our own Denver Bronco Superbowls. We were clutch teams. The Drive, perhaps one of the most clutch sequences in all of sports is one of the crowning achievements on our Hall of Fame QB's resume. I'm always amazed by how certain players simply rise to the occasion nearly every time when the game is on the line.
Peyton Manning is the king of the 2-minute drill. Cardinals head coach Wisenhunt remarked after their gut-wrenching loss to the Steelers in the Superbowl that when the Cardinals drove down and scored to go ahead with a few minutes left in the 4th quarter they had given Big Ben and the Steelers too much time. They were too good a team in the 4th quarter. Kobe Bryant is the king of the 4th quarter and has punished teams for years in the playoffs with his endgame play.
In my opinion, it is critical for a team to have at least one player that can consistently win in the 4th quarter if they want to become a consistent contender year after year.Admittedly, there is always more to winning a football game than simply being great in the 4th quarter. You have to be good in the three before. If you can't stay in a game in the first three quarters you are simply outmatched by your opponent and you could have David Hasselhoff as your QB and you still wouldn't win.
The key here is that if you can stay in the game until the 4th quarter, if your team has that ability to close games you can consistently hold a lead, or win the game from behind if you have players that play their best when the game is close and the time is counting down. In a sport where two or three wins is often more than enough to get you into the playoffs or knock you out of them, owning the 4th quarter is critical.
List of things/people in 2010-2011 that were not clutch.
Lindsay Lohan - her number of return prison tours is beginning to rival Depeche Mode's attempts at career revival.
Paul McCartney - apparently at divorce number 9. I ran the stats and the number of times this guy changes women is inversely correlated to the number of times he changes his hair style. Stats baby.
Rashard Mendenhall - Apparently it truly is possible to ruin your PR repuation in 150 characters or less. I cannot even express the fact that Mendenhall ruined his reputation in 150 characters or less. That's just impressive. I'm not even angry.
Rockies relief pitcher Felipe Paulino - this guy is the anti-clutch. If winning games were meth he would be that Meth Kills board in the middle of town.
Redskins kicker Graham Gano - I actually just feel bad for this guy.
OBL was not clutch - and let's hope he's gone gone, and not Tupac gone.
The 2010 Denver Broncos were not clutch.
What makes this even worse is that Broncos were not even good enough to warrant the need in most games. I had myself so convinced that this Denver Broncos team was just consistently on the losing end of bad luck I broke into my dusty box of college crap to find my old calculator, which was stuffed next my old lava lamp and the Dido CD I swore I never owned.
I approached this issue armed with a bunch of numbers and a calculator with no batteries. Sh*t was about to get real.
After hours and hours of what I call analysis but what any stats teacher would call a trainwreck of Excel spreadsheets, I've come to the conclusion that whatever ailed the Broncos this past year wasn't the result of a few bad breaks. You probably could have told me that, right?
The Broncos were not a clutch team because they didn't need to be. They were down an average of 11.2 points heading into the fourth quarter and even with the offense under Tebow scoring an average of 10.33 points per 4th, it couldn't have overcome that kind of deficit.
Still, this exercise wasn't a complete loss. It has helped me create a new set of opinions on how I think the Broncos need to continue improving to regain their status as an elite team in the NFL. Perhaps breaking down the Broncos 4th quarter closing ability is putting the cart before the Mucho Macho Man, so to speak*.
*I challenged myself to somehow include the Kentucky Derby in this post in some way/shape/form/fashion and that was the best I could do. Derby Fail.
The Broncos Need to Get Good Before They Get Clutch
I'm optimistic that the Broncos have made the necessary changes and are returning the necessary personnel to be a "good" team this year. No stats to support that claim, but my gut feels comfortable expecting as much. I fully expect the average point deficit heading into the 4th quarter to be considerably less than 11.2. Before the Broncos can focus on winning the 4th quarter they must start keeping the game close in the first three. This is critical.
The Broncos have already significantly bettered themselves personnel-wise through the draft and by bringing back a healthy Dumervil. Their coaching strategy is about to take a turn toward a more veteran, run-oriented playcaller. If the Broncos can prove this next season that they can be good enough to win games in the first three quarters and remove the need to close games at the end I will be encouraged. They don't have to win 10 or 12 games, but I if we can put up an 8-spot or so by being solid and lose some heartbreakers in the 4th you won't hear too much griping here.
The Broncos must get at least "good" this season. Getting good is going to start with defense.
The Broncos Need the Defense To Right Its Ship
Miller needs to be solid. I have no doubt this kid will struggle like every rookie at times but unfortunately he, like Cam Newton, are going to teams with the expectation that they are going to earn their keep from the first snap. I'm very excited to see him in action.
Dumervil will need to shake off the rust quickly. Our defense is going to return a captain this year while mentoring a young future captain. The talent will be there, the execution needs to happen. There's a lot of Orange Crush talk being tossed around right now and while I love the way it sounds and I have recently found myself sneaking some of it out of the soda fountain because it makes me feel good, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Let's shore up our mistakes. Let's get at the QB. I want to see an end of year highlight reel of us punishing Rivers to the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou. I want to see us lock up the run offenses tighter than Osama's super secret unreleasable proof of retirement pictures. I want to see improvement so that our defense can set up our offense to get those wins.
The Broncos Need The Offense To Be Clutch
Last year the defense wasn't ready to be clutch. The coaching wasn't ready to be clutch. Our offense, however, was ready to be clutch. The Broncos proved that they could score, just not quite as quickly as the defense bled points. But if this defense gets better our offense needs to return this year and take it to the next step.
The Broncos offense must own the 4th quarter this season. I don't care what it takes. If it takes pictures of Frodo Freaking Baggins on every wall of the locker room then do it! The Broncos need to be able to enter the 4th quarter down by 7 or less or up by 7 or less and come away with a victory. This is what will set the foundation for a championship in the future.
Our defense is playing catch-up right now but they are being led by a guy who has a history of taking worst defenses and making them great defenses. I do find that encouraging.
The more I look at these stats the more I am reminded that none of these things are going to just happen and none of these things are going to be easy. Every other team in the NFL right now is attempting to better their organization (with the exception of the Minnesota Vikings apparently) at the exact same or better rate than us. I hope this process is as short and sweet as one offseason, but I am preparing myself to look for encouraging signs of improvement and play the patience game.
The Bronco Fans Need To Be Clutch
Patience. If there were a pill I could give the Broncos to make them magically better by August but if using that pill meant that every blue pill would be wiped off the face of the planet I would wouldn't hesitate to bring doomsday to the peeps of middle-aged men the world round. I've got to find Bradley Cooper, maybe he still has one from his latest movie...
Unfortunately Pfizer is too powerful to make that an option and we are stuck with the hard way. For me the bottom line is that I can crunch, divide, pretend to graph numbers until I want to put a drill through my temple but the reality is that every stat, no matter how solid, is always an asymptote. It never quite gets you there. That said, I think that working with stats to better understand your team and this game is great. To a certain extent it is necessary.
That said, you can't ever discount your gut and mine is telling me that for some reason I have reason to be encouraged about what is happening within our organization. Maybe next year won't be our breakout year, but I do expect it to be a better year. We've been put through a ridiculous amount of frustration these past few months and it's time for fans to be clutch.
Can we make it out the other side of this disaster and look back and remember these as the tough times of change before the good times began again? Times like these are the fourth quarter for fans. Let's just hope we are only being asked to complete our own 2-minute drill.
That is my case for clutch. You can't hardly beat a team that has it, and it's tough to lose when you are the team with it. Perhaps the Broncos aren't quite ready for that yet, but let's hope that the flashes we've seen in the past turn into a real fire.


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It took two overtime periods, but the third-ranked women's basketball team emerged victorious once again, earning a hard-fought 97-91 win over a scrappy and determined
Chico State squad on Saturday evening at Acker Gymnasium.
Emily Osga and Erin Dautremont scored 23 points apiece to lead the Tritons, who erased an eight-point second half deficit and eventually pulled away for their 14th consecutive victory. UCSD outscored Chico State 15-9 in the second OT, hitting five of their six shots in the period.
After rolling to an 83-61 triumph at Cal State Stanislaus on Friday, the Tritons had to work much harder to get past the Wildcats, but they made the plays they needed to down the stretch to keep their perfect record intact. UCSD improves to 14-0 overall with the win, equaling the two-year old program record for consecutive victories to open a season. The Tritons now stand at 8-0 in California Collegiate Athletic Association play.
Chico State falls to 7-5 overall and 4-4 in the CCAA with the loss. The Wildcats had won four of their last six games before falling to UCSD.
"That was an unbelievable effort from our group tonight," head coach Charity Elliott said. "We simply refused to lose tonight. We were down and we weren't shooting very well from the perimeter, but we kept battling and we found a way to win against a very good Chico team. I'm so proud of this team for how hard they played."
All five starters reached double figures for the Tritons, who shot 49 percent (39-79) from the field. Osga finished 11-of-16 from the floor en route to a new season-high, while Dautremont connected on 10-of-17 and grabbed a game-high eight rebounds.
Daisy Feder scored 18 points, including 11 in overtime, while Chelsea Carlisle finished with 14 points and dished out a season-high 10 assists. Lauren Freidenberg chipped in with 14 points and six boards.
Synchro Bull scored a career-high 29 points on 13-of-23 shooting to lead the Wildcats, who finished at 47 percent (36-76) from the field. Natasha Smith scored 12, McKenzie Dalthrop finished with 11 and Courtney Hamilton and Jazmine Miller put in 10 apiece.
UCSD, which had trailed in the second half of a game just once this season prior to Saturday, found itself down 60-52 with 8:51 remaining in the second half, but rallied to within 62-60 on a bucket by Osga two minutes later.
The Wildcats led 68-62 with 4:02 left to play, but a Feder layup and two free throws from Freidenberg brought the Tritons to within two once again. After Bull scored in the paint to put Chico on top 70-66 with 2:40 remaining, Dautremont scored on a nice feed from Feder to bring the Tritons to within 70-68.
After forcing a Wildcat turnover and coming up empty on their next possession, Carlisle came up with a huge steal and took it down for an easy basket to tie the game at 70 and send it to overtime.
Neither squad led by more than three in the first overtime period. UCSD led 82-80 with five seconds remaining following another big bucket by Carlisle, but Dalthorp was able to answer for Chico State, scoring the tying basket with one second on the clock to force a second overtime period.
It was all UCSD after that as the Tritons scored nine of the first 11 points in the second OT. Dautremont scored back-to-back baskets to open the scoring, Feder hit a three and Freidenberg got free in the paint to stake UCSD to 91-84 lead with 2:06 remaining.
The Wildcats cut the deficit to five at 94-89 following a Harrison three with 13 seconds remaining, but it was too little, too late, as Carlisle followed with two free throws to put the Tritons back on top by seven and seal the victory.
Despite shooting just 3-of-17 from the three-point line, UCSD's offense still managed to score a season-high 97 points on the night, eclipsing the team's previous mark of 92 that came in a rout of Cal State L.A. on Dec. 3.
UCSD will now come home for four straight beginning with matchups with Cal State East Bay and Cal State Monterey Bay next weekend. The Tritons will take on the Pioneers on Friday, before welcoming the Otters to town on Saturday. Both contests will tip-off at 5:30 p.m. at RIMAC Arena.
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Why is spaying/neutering important?
Spaying and Neutering is a very important part of pet population control. Hundreds of thousands of unwanted pets are euthanized every year because there is no place for them to call home. Research has shown females that are spayed before their first heat cycle have no chance of developing mammary cancer which can be life-threatening. Also, females that are spayed have no chance of getting a Pyometra which is a life threatening infection inside the uterus which usually requires an emergency spay. Ovarian and uterine cancer chance is also eliminated. Neutering a male dog helps prevent unwanted behaviors like aggression and urine marking. Testicular cancer is not possible with a neutered male. Also, it is very unusual for a neutered male dog to get a urinary tract infection. Intact make dogs have urinary tract infections more often and they are often associated with prostate gland infections as well. Prostate enlargement is extremely rare in neutered males.
Why does my pet need to be anesthetized to clean its teeth?
Your pet needs to be anesthetized for a dental cleaning because unfortunately dogs and cats will not allow us to open their mouths and work on them for extended periods of time. 50% of tartar buildup can occur under the gum line, so when we clean a pet's teeth, we use our ultrasonic scaling tip to get under the gum line. Awake pets would not tolerate this. Also, it allows us to fully evaluate the teeth with a pet anesthetized. We can see if there is any wearing, root exposure, fractures, etc. Also, if we would need to take x-rays or perform any extractions, your pet would need to be anesthetized. Because dental cleanings can cause some mouth irritation, all of our patients do receive pain medication before the dental cleaning.
What are the most common diseases in pets?
Obesity and dental disease are by far the most common diseases in pets. Obesity affects 50-70% of dogs and cats. Obesity make pets more prone to other diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and joint problems. Dental disease affects 55-65% of dog and cats. By age 3, most dogs and cats have some periodontal disease. When tartar builds up on the teeth, it starts to harbor bacteria and infection results. This infection spreads down the tooth root and affects the periodontal ligament, causing tooth loosening and loss of teeth. Smell your dog's breath once. Bad Breath is NOT normal. Bad breath is due to infection in the mouth. The infection in the mouth can also spread into the bloodstream, affecting organs like the heart, liver and kidneys. Regular dental care is a very important part of keeping your dog and cat healthy
Why should my pet be on year round heartworm prevention?
Heartworm disease is a dangerous, but completely preventable infection where parasitic worms grow inside the chambers of your pet's heart and large blood vessels of the lungs. Left undetected, the disease can become serious and even result in death as worms eventually block blood flow to the heart and lungs. That's why heartworm prevention and early detection are so important. Pets get heartworm disease from being bitten by a mosquito that has previously bitten another infected animal in your area. Mosquitoes transmit the parasites directly from bloodstream to bloodstream. It takes from three to five months for the heartworm larvae to migrate toward the heart, where they begin to grow into reproducing adults. Some have reached lengths of up to 14 inches. Because of the severity of the disease, prevention is key. Year round administration of Heartworm prevention is recommended. Most Heartworm preventatives, including Heartgard protect against some intestinal parasites as well, so every month you are helping to eliminate intestinal parasites from your pet as well as preventing from Heartworm disease with one small chewable. Even with prevention, screening for the disease is recommended for several reasons. Although Heartgard is very effective, no medication is 100%, so by routine screening, Heartworm disease can be detected early. Plus if your pet took his Heartgard and then went outside and spit the treat up or vomited, your pet is left unprotected. By regular screening, the infection could be caught early in the course of the disease, therefore treating the disease with less complications than if treatment would be instituted late in the disease. Merial, the company that makes Heartgard stands behind their product 100%. If your pet is on year-round Heartgard and is tested regularly, they will pay for any treatment caused by heartworm disease if this would occur.
Why should a stool sample be checked on your pet?
Intestinal Parasite Screening's should be done once a year to check for any intestinal parasites. Some intestinal parasites can be zoonotic meaning they can transfer from animal to human. Even if your pet NEVER goes outside it is still possible for them to get intestinal parasites. There are different ways it can be contracted; Fleas, Sharing the same food or water dish with other infected pets, Eating their own stool or the stool of other animals, Digging through the dirt (if there is a egg in the dirt and it is on the pets paw after rummaging they may ingest it while grooming themselves), Multiple cats using the same litter box, Cats that go outdoors and hunt can become infected from their prey, Consuming raw foods that are infected with parasites or their eggs, and 15% of the potting soil sold and used indoor or outdoor can contain roundworm eggs.
What is Leptospirosis?
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection that causes kidney failure, fever, jaundice, abortion, and even DEATH! It infects domestic animals, wildlife (rodents, raccoons, skunks, opossum, cattle, and swine), and humans. It is the world's most common zoonotic disease. This mean's it can affect both animals and humans. This disease is spread through the urine of infected animals and can survive from weeks to months in soil and surface waters such as; lakes, streams, rivers, and stagnant water such as puddles. It is spread when a opening in the skin or mucous membrane (eyes, nose, mouth) comes in contact with infected urine. A dog may be exposed by drinking, swimming, or walking through contaminated water. The symptoms of Leptospirosis are flu-like and can develop into a life-threatening illness. There is a Leptospirosis vaccination that needs be given yearly to all dogs!
What is Distemper (DAP)?
Canine Distemper, Adenovirus (Type 1 & 2), Parvovirus are all potentially fatal viral diseases. They can cause fever, dehydration, vomiting, lethargy, diarrhea, and seizures, along with other symptoms. This vaccination after two years of age is good for 3 years.
What is Bordetella (Kennel Cough)?
Bordetella also known as Kennel Cough is a infectious bronchitis of dogs characterized as a harsh hacking or coughing. It is transmittable from dog to dog. This is a vaccination that is given yearly through the nose.
Canine Distemper, Adenovirus (Type 1 & 2), Parvovirus are all potentially fatal viral diseases. They can cause fever, dehydration, vomiting, lethargy, diarrhea, & seizures, along with other symptoms. There is a vaccination called DAP that protects dogs from this.
What is Bordetella?
Bordetella also known as Kennel Cough is a infectious bronchitis of dogs characterized as a harsh hacking or coughing. It is transmittable from dog to dog. There is also a vaccination for this that is given yearly in the nose.


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|Lionel Richie with Diana Ross
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(HIM): My love,
There's only you in my life
The only thing that's right
(HER): My first love,
You're every breath that I take
You're every step I make
(HIM): And I
(HIM): I want to share
(BOTH): All my love with you
(HIM): No one else will do...
(HER): And your eyes
(HIM): Your eyes, your eyes
(BOTH): They tell me how much you care
Ooh yes, you will always be
My endless love
(BOTH): Two hearts,
Two hearts that beat as one
Our lives have just begun
(HER): Forever
(HIM): Ohhhhhh
(BOTH): I'll hold you close in my arms
I can't resist your charms
(HER): And love
(HIM): Oh, love
(BOTH): I'll be a fool
For you, I'm sure
(HER): You know I don't mind
(HIM): Oh, you know I don't mind
(BOTH): 'Cause you,
You mean the world to me, Oh
(HER): I know
(HIM): I know
(BOTH): I've found in you
My endless love
(HIM): Oooh-woow
(BOTH): Boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
(BOTH): Oooh, and love
(HIM): Oh, love
(BOTH): I'll be that fool
For you, I'm sure
(HER): You know I don't mind
(HIM): Oh you know-
(BOTH): I don't mind
(BOTH): And, YES
You'll be the only one
'Cause NO one can deny
This love I have inside
And I'll give it all to you
(HIM): My love
(HER): My love, my love
(BOTH): My endless love
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|0 likes - like | 07-05-2012 15:01 Hopeazza
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|I love this song...this is one of my favorite songs, so lovely
|0 likes - like | 05-11-2006 02:59 iloveteach
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|LOVE the song - hated the movie!
|0 likes - like | 27-08-2006 06:31 Joaqsgurl
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|One of the all time classic love songs and one of my faves its up there with unchained melody and stand by me
|0 likes - like | 06-11-2005 20:14 lilkatesyboo
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|this is a gr8 song and its nicelt sung by matthew perry and lisa kudrow on friends lol!
|0 likes - like | 06-10-2005 23:25 Aluna
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|?? 2nd comment!? Can't be the 2nd comment ever! Awesome song! Beautiful!
How can someone not like it, it's perfect.
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Homer Blass came to Liberty in the fall semester of 1983 and has taught here since. He earned a BA in history from the University of Tulsa in 1962, an MA in history from the University of Illinois—Urbana in 1966, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Missouri—Columbia in 1981. From 1966 to 1983, he taught history at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.
His father was a printer, and his mother a Baptist Sunday School teacher, so he was raised with exposure to books, newspapers, and Bible stories. By Junior High, he started a book collection of his own and reading and book collecting remain his favorite activities. Since he was born in 1940 and grew up hearing stories from many uncles and nephews on their World War II service, he started with reading more about the war and that grew into a general interest in Military History in the modern period. Extensive reading in C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series centered that interest in the Royal Navy. His Masters Thesis was a study of two Anglo-German naval battles in 1914. Today, he has about 20,000 to 30,000 volumes in a personal library.
At Liberty he has taught courses in several related areas, including American History I and II; Modern Russia; Modern Germany; Modern Middle East; British Empire; American Diplomacy; and American Military History. In 1985 he attended a summer workshop at West Point on teaching military history to undergraduates. His publications include a study on Presidential decision making processes in Vietnam, a series of biographical entries on Turkish leaders for Gale Research, a series of biographical entries on Twentieth Century American military figures for other reference sets, as well as a series of topics on matters such as carrier doctrine for the same volumes. He did a biographical study of Civil War protestors in a freshman history reader and does some book reviews on Civil War items and Christian publications about war and international relations issues.
He sometimes provides historical programs for Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy meetings, has chaired topics in the Great Debates series for the local library and YMCA on the contemporary middle east or other former parts of the British Empire, and has been part of the programs for the last several years in the Liberty University Civil War Seminars. An interest in the Royal Navy has led to an interest in Star Trek, and he has done a modular course on Star Trek applying International Relations theory. He also enjoys mystery stories, poetry, and even writes a little of the latter.
He is married to Linda, a former student from Bolivar. They have been married since 1975 and have one son, Scott, now 31 and a part-time Liberty student. Scott is on full time home hemo kidney dialysis. Linda is also a book collector and he assists her on Sundays at Thomas Road Baptist Church where she teaches a 2nd grade Sunday School class. Linda has retired to become Scott's full time care giver. Since she is from western Missouri, and he from eastern Kansas, they like jokingly to call each other "Jayhawkers" and "Border Ruffians."


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I am looking for potential niche business ideas, and I need your help! If there is a Niche Pursuit that you would like to see me try and then fully document the process of starting, then submit your ideas below as a comment!
These ideas need to be something than an individual could get started quickly and be making money within 90 days. A "niche pursuit" could be an online idea or something that would focus on my local neighborhood or ANYTHING in between. There are no good or bad ideas either…think of this as a brainstorming process.
So, feel free to post your ideas below or comment on other ideas already submitted here. This page will remain active for a period of time until I decide to open it up for voting! At that time I will create a new page and list my top 10 niche ideas (including my favorites from those submitted here), and you will then vote on which idea I should pursue over the next 90 days.
So, go ahead leave an idea below of a niche business idea that you would like to see me go after…thanks in advance for your input!
I think domain and/or site flipping would a good pursuit for you to tackle. I have read up on both topics, but still don't feel confident enough to invest money in these methods. It would be nice to follow along with someone to see how they are able to make money with flipping.
Great to see the new blog up! Very surprised that was your first video, your a natural video blogger!
Like Kecia, I think domain flipping would be great to see you tackle. Also making money using facebook ads to promote products. When I think of others i'll be sure to add to it.
I would like you to take a look at buying YouTube accounts with highly viewed videos and putting affiliate links in the description. For more details visit the link below:
I think this is something that not many people have tried or even heard of as a way to make passive income, but I think it has lots of potential and am planning on beginning within a few months myself.
I always say that if you help someone else along your journey, you will move faster to your success. This is my challenge to you.
Find a local person who as somthing to sell (i perfer a physical product), who might be online or not, and build a complete sale system for them online (site, ranking, affiliate code, marketing plan). You will be their only affiliate and IM marketer.
Your are help out in the community, providing more sale for this individual and challenging yourself to build a sale system from the ground up.
Good Luck and I will love to see the progress!
Hey Spencer, great new site. Here's one for you… I'd like to see you setup a dropship site. This is relatively easy to do with a builder like shopify.com or bigcommerce.com then you simply need a supplier who's willing to dropship. Of course, then it comes down to marketing and getting ranked for all the right keywords. The great thing is Google loves these sites because they're legitimate online stores… and even better, they're fairly passive- just emails to deal with, nothing to ship. A site like this could sell for 12-15 months worth of profit as well as far as I know, so it's a great asset to build. You don't see many online marketers teaching this either so it could really help you stand out and we'd all benefit from the case study. Best of luck in whatever you choose to do next.
Sorry, forgot to mention the obvious… profit potential. Assuming you pick the right product with decent margins you could make $1000+ a month with just one sale a day. So assuming a 1% conversion, you'd only need 100 targeted visitors to your site a day (not too tough with all the longtail keywords for specific products) to get the one daily sale and some nice monthly profits. That's just the beginning. Alright, I'm out
Hi Spencer, congrats for this new blog. I want to share my future ideas as well. here's:
1- Making money with adsense
2- investing the money in the rental property business.
3- Building a community websites (ex: a website that run live contests in many categories between tow people or crews, every contest has a 6 hours deadline and start with live broadcasting chat videos. When the contest end people start voting. The winners get the prize.)
4- Flipping houses (buying-fixing-selling with profits)
5- Flipping cars (buying-fixing-selling with profits)
6- Starting an outdoor advertising business (Billboard advertising)
That's it so far. I still in step 1
sorry for my english and hope this will help someone. Thanks!
Storage unit auctions is something that I've been thinking about trying more for fun than as an actual business. I'm sure with a good eye and weak competition you could do alright.
I would like to see some work done with simple membership site/s. Recurring income and easy to set up. Everyone says its easy to just put some info in one or drip feed some info and voila. I would like to see a case study like your adsense sites done. Would be very educational
Hey Spencer, I hope you do decide to tackle domain flipping. I'd love to see the end result to that one.
Hey Spencer, I'm putting my vote in for domain flipping as well
Hi Spence. Trying two stratergies at the moment and just implementied the first. Found a very quick site builder that does good seo for you. Each site has 6 high quality PLR articles slightly modified and a rss feed on the subject from ezine so content is changed each day. Site got on bing and yahoo page 2 for main domain keyword without promotion. Promotion in this first test done is to ping the site, submit site map to the main search engines and then purchased 4 top fiverr gigs that do 10 edu links, 50 social bookmarks, 5,250 profile links (xrummer gig) and a guy does 31,000 stat sites and 350 directory submissions. Just done this so will see the effect, did the xrummer one twice to cover six keywords. Site is monetised with adsense, amazon ads and one clickbank product. Inexpensive for promotions and if 15 percent of backlinks stick will be happy. The second phase experiment for future sites is to buy into Wordtracker's database for keyword research and a peice of software for backlinking called backlink nuke and do it myself, love automation and compare the results for both. Is outsourcing on fiverr better than doing it yourself. Should be interesting.
So the suggestion is to do a little experiment like that yourself for backlinks and promotion. Outsource one site on fiverr and do one using your own software. Advantages, you own the software, disadvantages, you got to do it, yourself where the fiverr out-source is quick and only costs 20-25 bucks.
Thanks for considering. Of course it would have to be a site like fiverr to try to keep the cost down and there are some dirt cheap and good gigs on that site. So you could say, my budget is 30 bucks to buy a domain name, do all the promotion and get a result in the serps that gets my money back + something like that
Hi Spencer,
I would love to know how you would start from scratch and develop a website focussed on Adsence.
Its not really a niche, so this might be very off topic but I would love to know how you would do that. I'm totally not sold on adsense (that was before I saw your monthly report) since over a few months my income on adsense (on a few websites) is 1 whole dollar. Yes. I can buy one whole candy items from those machines in mall
Great job on your sites! I'll keep an close eye out.
For me, I think im is saturated.though i stand to be corrected.i prefer non im
Hi Spenser, great site, and congrats on quitting your day job to live the IM lifestyle. I think you should build a Daily Deal site, but not like Groupon, more like Woot.com. This way, if you use a dropshipper, all you have to do is set the site up, load all of the products, and set which product you want to sell each day. You can probably set it up once a month, and focus more of your time promoting the site.
Hi Spencer,
I spotted your link on Pat's site, SPI. Cool site you have going on here, I haven't been able to stop reading since I found you.
I think discussing how you detect and prevent click fraud will be a great topic. I'm terrified of experiencing click fraud as I've heard newer sites are affected more detrimentally by click fraud.
So it would be great to see how someone who's had so much success with AdSense as you have detects and thwarts click fraud.
I just find interesting niche..
It's €2.4 average cpc and 8000 monthly searchs..low competition also..
look at picture below :
Spencer do you have a guide on building Authority Sites? I know you have some articles however I never saw the guide.
Just curious
I have this idea about niche websites: a niche website directory. You go through all the steps of locating a profitable keyword (using Long Tail Pro or any other tool), and then start building the directory. The site will basically contain a collection of all websites (as much as you can collect) about this specific niche. Each website will have a page containing a short description, the PR, a rating system, and perhaps a review about the website. The added value to the visitor is that he/she doesn't have to Google for their keyword, instead, they'd come to your website directory and find the links that best serve what they want based on your review. You can further extend the model by allowing webmasters to submit their own websites. Based on your approval, those submitted links can grow your database.
Sources of monetization would be Adsense, and possibly affiliate marketing if you picked up a product to be your niche target.
Please tell me what you think as I am already building the first business model using this idea.
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Booth and the Richmond Grays
About a month ago, I found an obscure cite on line (public domain) that pertained to a first hand recollection that all JWB brought with him to the John Brown Charles Town Deployment (circa Nov-Dec 1859) was a knife. I had to capture the page on line to print it off and now I cannot locate it in my files. This was the only reference I had ever found regarding him bringing a knife with him on the boxcar leaving for Charles Town. It included the usual recollections of Libby and Bossieux, Whitlock, Alfriend regarding him having no uniform, no rifle, but this one particular cite included the mention of "all he brought with him was a knife". In trying to retrace my steps, no luck.
Does anyone have any information on this subject or the cited reference? In light of the turn that my research has taken, this has now become extremely important to me.
Any assistance anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!
I would contact the Surratt House Museum and ask for Sandra Walia, she's in charge of the library there, and she might be able to help you.
Here's the contact info:
Thank you for the suggestion. I've been in contact with Laurie - what a nice lady. She was the one who so kindly referred me to this website and she has patiently fielded my question and provided some additional info. Alas, the one specific reference that speaks to his bringing a knife has not surfaced. According to her source, Booth had both a dirk and a derringer with him during his time at Richmond so it is very plausible that he brought a knife with him on the John Brown deployment. However, It is the specific first hand reference confirming that "all he brought with him was a knife" that I am seeking. What a terrible way to learn the lesson never to discard what appears at the time to be non-significant information. At this point I am endeavoring to look into the difference between a dirk (as in a stage/theatrical dagger) vs. an actual knife (bowie, standard issue, etc.) This may seem a minor distinction and point but in the context of my targeted research, this information is very significant.
Any further information would be greatly appreciated.
I love this website. What a gem!
Thanks for the "props" ;)
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Report: In-app purchases generating record revenue
In-app purchases generated a record 76 percent of total App Store revenue in the U.S. in February, according to a report from Distimo, a company that tracks app performance and metrics. The new report tracks revenues generated through the App Store, so ad revenue is excluded. At least 90 percent of all Asian market revenue came from in-app purchases, Distimo claims. Despite this, freemium apps were found to generate the least amount of revenue per download — just 93 cents per download based on the top 250 apps in the U.S. App Store, which might suggest that developers are hurting themselves by giving away apps in hopes of subsequent purchases, apart from building larger user bases. Paid iPhone apps without in-app purchases generated an average of $2.25 per download, and paid apps with in-app purchases generate even more revenue. iPad paid apps average $4.04 in revenue per download.
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$0.93/download when you generate 100X more downloads is TON better than $0.99/download. In fact, it's a ton better than $9.99/download. This is precisely the entire idea behind the sales model, make the barrier to get people to download your product nil so you can capture as much of your potential paying audience as possible.
Never mind that anyone with eyeballs can see that for the past two-plus years at least half of the top grossing apps are "free".
Unfortunately, the stereotype of people paying several hundred dollars for high tech devices so they can play free games isn't far from the truth. Developers are almost forced to go $0/$0.99 if they want downloads, but then have to balance the game such that a IAP 'coin doubler' or something similar will grease the wheels to make it flow faster and funner.
You want to see a welfare state, the app store is it. People who don't mind paying a few dollars to be entertained subsidize the lion's share of the "customers".
Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on March 29, 2013 at 6:54 PM (CDT)
@Code Monkey,
Maybe I don't represent the majority, but I much prefer the business model of offering a free but very limited demo, and a full version for a fair price, not just pocket change. A good demo can let me know if I'm actually interested in buying the app, and once I'm past worrying about wasting money on software I won't like, I'm willing to actually pay something for it. I dislike the "freemium" model because it results in software that's limited and tedious to use unless you shell out money for partial fixes, and you can end up paying far more that way than just buying the full version outright. I have seen some apps that look appealing to me, but due to their new business model, I'm not interested.
It seems a very unhealthy state of affairs how much mobile software has been devalued, and rather sad that developers are seemingly having to invent ways of tricking people into paying for it.
Posted by Jerome on April 2, 2013 at 12:06 AM (CDT)
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ALBANY, GA (WALB) - A multi-state theft investigation has led to the arrest of a two South Georgians.
Mark Hudson of Newton and Donna King of Valdosta are accused of stealing seven thousand dollars worth of merchandise from a Walmart in Lake City, Florida. Investigators believe they are part of a multi-state ring that stole up to $100,000 worth of goods.
Investigators say Hudson and King went into stores separately, she would stuff items into a beach bag, then they would walk out together. Investigators say Hudson distracted store security while King got away.
Police say they were part of 10, two-person teams that stole from Walmart stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Seven more arrests have been made in Georgia and tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods recovered from several warehouses.
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Chief Executive Officer of Noble Dream Financial Services says the Bank of Ghana should be given the needed space to institute structures for Ghana's microfinance industry to thrive.
According to Ezekiel Owusu Afriyie, the industry would be better off when the regulator gets the process right.
Some sector players have bemoaned the slow pace in licensing of firms, since the Bank's new operational guidelines took effect in January 2012.
Out of the over 550 firms registered with the Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies (GAMC), some 170 have so far been issued with provisional license.
But Mr. Owusu Afriyie says the process is critical to sanitize the industry because some of the players "don't have the right people on board to help them come out with the requirement. So it will take a while; so far as it is something which is going to help Ghanaians, they have to take time, go through it very well and at the end of the day they'll come out with something which will be the best for all of us".
Mr. Owusu Afriyie spoke to Luv Biz Report at the official opening of Noble Dream's ultra-modern head office complex in Ahodwo, Kumasi.
He says the relocation to the city centre is to better serve the needs of clients whilst setting standards in modern banking to delight clients.
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Practicalities aside, money is also how our culture defines value, and being told that what you do is of no ($0.00) value to the society you live in is, frankly, demoralizing. Even sort of insulting. And of course when you live in a culture that treats your work as frivolous you can't help but internalize some of that devaluation and think of yourself as something less than a bona fide grown-up.
This sums up my 20s and early 30s before I lucked into the NYTimes gig and started getting paid, modestly, but livable, to draw cartoons.
Excellent and important column on why the trend of not paying writers for their work is awful. Best line: "But they can get away with paying nothing only for the same reason so many sleazy guys keep trying to pick up women by insulting them: because it keeps working on someone."


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Bobbi Bryant There is hardly any concrete determining factors on who would adapt well to combat. Yes I do know what I speak of. Personally, my father was in Vietnam. He has only spoken about it a handful of times- which are usually just one sentence dreadful remarks. While I have not experienced it, I understand the demands and horrors. But strength comes in a variety of forms and different places. Who are you to dismiss EVERY woman- including me? The notion is insulting. My grandfather was in Korea and in WWII. Both of my parents are retired police officers. My family is full of fighters. I am no different. So please, do not tell me what I can and cannot do.
Bobbi Bryant I did not mean to mic that. That is one situation. Your lack of faith saddens me. I do not look it, nor would anyone ever expect me to be as strong or physically capable as a man. But I am. To you and an outside observer, I am physically weaker than a man. Not true. And I have equally been physically athletic and fit all of my life as well. And I would never allow you to tell me what I can or cannot do. You are not me. You do not know what I am capable of and I do not expect you to, but I would like the opportunity, if I so chose, to demonstrate how I could meet the requirements for combat training. If I cannot meet the grade, then I can't do it. Simple. Easy. It still is offensive. Do not make choices for me or anyone else.
Bobbi Bryant First of all- war-combat-blood guts and gore- while it normally occurs in the world- is not normal. People killing people is NOT normal. No one- men or women- should be in combat. It is an ugly cruel thing that I do not wish on my worst enemy. There is no specific gene strand that says men are better suited for war than women. Most are not capable of murder, but in wartime people change drastically. In life or death situations people are forged into something else. Situations like these changes us all.
Bobbi Bryant I loved your article. I have the degree focused on this area and everything you have written I have studied to an exhausting level. However, I believe war will ultimately end the current government of Iran if it continues to instigate. But of course, a war with Iran will devastatingly weaken the U.S.
Bobbi Bryant Let me clarify- I don't want to go to a combat zone. However- I do demand the right to choose and have the opportunity, just like you have had. Do not withhold my right because you have misconceptions and generalizations of all women. I assure you that you do not know what every single woman is capable of- so do not generalize us in that way. All I want is for everyone to be judged equally on their merits. If they cannot make the grade, then they are not fit. I'm sorry you have not met a woman of those capabilities.
Bobbi Bryant At the moment- no- our culture will not accept it. But culture is a fluid thing, what is unacceptable now could be acceptable in the future. Or that is at least, what I hope as a feminist.
Bobbi Bryant So you are going to make that choice for me? And yes- that is sexist. Where are the women in this discussion thread??
Bobbi Bryant An excellent analysis! Your piece is very grounded and astute. If an individual, regardless of their gender, can full the requirements that a combat position demands, then he or she should be allowed to do so. Individuals should be solely judged on their capabilities.
Bobbi Bryant I think your grasp of the OWS movement is sadly narrow and inaccurate, since one of the more distinguishable criticisms of the movement is its lack of clarity in goals. Charity is a mechanism for social justice. However, we digress. You have failed to see my point. An individual can have an obscene wealth and still still support the cause. For example, I understand absolute poverty- the kind that Somalians have to experience. I may not experience it, but I can understand and sympathize, and thus support a movement to stop it. Even if it means I have to give up some of my wealth in order to secure another's livelihood. A person can understand a cause or movement despite being on the outside and not benefiting from it.
Bobbi Bryant I used to have that very same view point a few years ago. Now I disagree. How do you know that "celebrities", as you qualified, don't understand the causes they support? In your Kanye West example, you did not give a thorough examination of the man-his background-and the amount of money he gives back through charity which is his credibility. How does Kanye West not understand the cause? He does not have to benefit from it in order to necessarily understand it. A credible supporter of a cause can come from the outside, including one who would see their benefits limited. You have made a gross generalization of a group of people. It is unfair to the individuals and a logical fallacy.
Bobbi Bryant Your reference to being statistically dead is irrelevant to the topic. My reference was used because I addressed your statement, "I don't see the fun... maybe I'm the weird one..." You're in high school, meaning that you are more likely to change your mind. However, that does not mean you WILL change your mind. You discuss you having to deal with people. This is irrelevant and sounds like a personal problem. "You are not exempt... alcohol poisoning, poor judgement, other harm..." The only assured consequence is a hangover the following day. These severe consequences do not usually occur as you are alluding to. Otherwise binge-drinking would not occur as frequently as it is today.
Bobbi Bryant Did you really just use "Boys will be boys" as support for your argument? That's offensively simple-minded. It's not harmless. Boys will be boys mentality allows boys to be hyper-aggressive and even violent. It has also allowed rape and sexual harassment of women because "boys" are taught that they cannot control themselves. Your argument: But boys will be boys. That's what they do and they are not at fault for being what they are. The reality is boys, or girls for that matter, will do what we EXPECT them to do. Kids pick up on the little things like the nuances, make their understanding about their place in the world, and then change their behavior accordingly. Society and parents have the power to change the nature of a child.
Bobbi Bryant Your a senior in high school. Statistically speaking, your going to try it at least once in the coming years. It seems to me that you are passing judgment on those who have binge drank. "Very. Severe. Consequences." Yeah... That's a blanket statement. Many people who have, including myself, binge drank, there have been no consequences. Binge-drinking does not equal alcoholism.
Bobbi Bryant I agree. Great Britain, France and other European countries have less of a problem with drinking because the laws are set at 18 or younger. They made having a drink or two a part of their culture. It's not a big deal and it creates kids that are less likely to drink excessively because its not usual to have more than a couple.
Bobbi Bryant Financial: Inconsequential. The recession began in 2007, was started by bad home loans, not 9/11 or even by the War on Terror, and it trickled to other sectors. Sure, the war and the attacks added heavily on US debt, but it is not a cause of the financial crisis. Years of bad spending and practices brought the financial situation where it is today. But- I digress. Not at all. Osama was not a logical or even a smart man. His actions and motivations indicate how this is true. While he caused a slew of international relation issues, he did not expect all that transgressed. He expected to be held as a hero and a leader for the Islamist Revolution. Please show me proof that he did expect our actions.
Bobbi Bryant You're depressed by the weather.
Bobbi Bryant That is an interesting theory on bin Laden's goals, but I think your giving him too much credit. There is no evidence that he anticipated the American response, and frankly, how could he? What is usually discussed about the goals of the attack specifically, bin Laden wanted to inspire a mass Islamist uprising in the Middle East, then overthrow the US and other such states. This inspiration would be birthed by the fantastic image that 9/11 caused. It didn't happen. Also, he assumed that he would cripple America and the American people. That some how we would roll over because of the scale of the attacks, such as: troop withdrawal from Saudi Arabia and withdraw support from Israel. Also, didn't happen.
Bobbi Bryant It will be good. As long as they have a warrant. Freedom should never be traded for security. Fear should not be used as a tool to take away Constitutional rights, as it is now being done. Otherwise, what is there to fight for- when what we are protecting-freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness- is already lost? F.D.R. said,"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Bobbi Bryant I agree, to a degree, with this: "The interpretation of the US Constitution is a socially constructed one based on the political climate and the inclination of the beholder." This statement has a lot of variables. Interpretation, social construct- basis on political climate and inclination of the beholder. You have successfully outlined the problems with the document itself, not with issue. The American public as a whole has so far not known about drone use, at least from what I've gathered. Do you disagree?
Bobbi Bryant As in Nazi Germany. The people were frightened, suffered a horrible loss in the first World War and then comes Hitler and the Nazi Party providing them security. (Bear with me in this simplistic telling of events). The German public could have that security in return for their silence on the incremental changes that took place which transformed the country into a police state. America post 9/11. The people were frightened and suffered a horrible loss in the 9/11 attacks. Take a vulnerable public and the government can transform into a police state, one right limited or removed at a time.
Bobbi Bryant I don't see it that way. One of their biggest demands was that America should leave the Middle-East alone. Instead, we invaded two different nations including one that they were based out of. Al Qaeda is merely a ghost of itself, if it still exists at all. They did transform our way of life, yet that discounts that most remains the same.
Bobbi Bryant "Immoral stuff"? What would you define as immoral? And whose morals are we going to abide by? Yours? Mine? Michele Bachmann's? US police forces do care about anti-government protests. Does the Occupy movement not ring any bells? The U.S. law enforcement needs to be held in check, which is the purpose of warrants. Otherwise exploitation will be allowed to take place.
Bobbi Bryant Are you saying that if everyone can perform surveillance legally, then the act of using surveillance is suddenly ok? Individuals, as well as law enforcement, are bound to the same privacy laws. Law enforcement is breaching due process, and it will not be made appropriate by allowing you to do the same.
Bobbi Bryant Germany comes to mind.
Bobbi Bryant Stakeout use cannot be justified by being used for "forever". Being watched, observed and recorded is left up to the discretion of law enforcement officials. I should prove their case in front of an impartial judge who decides whether constitutional rights should be infringed upon.


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Tribunal awards workers over £1m
Workers at a cake manufacturer in Hull have won a claim for over a million pounds at a tribunal against their employers.
More than 400 staff at Greencore agreed to take a temporary pay cut until October last year - to help the firm - which makes cakes for some of the UK's biggest supermarkets - during the recession.
But when Greencore continued paying the lower rate - beyond last October - a tribunal ruled all the staff should be paid for the money they've lost out on.


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Veterans Affairs scandal stems from a crisis of ethics: bioethicist
by Michael Cook
| 19 Jul 2014 |
tags: bioethics, ethics committees, public health
The crisis in the the US Veterans Affairs Department is fundamentally a crisis of ethics, according to the former hospital ethicist at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Evelyne Shuster.
The VA's director, Eric Shinseki, was forced to resign after it was discovered that employees were generating fraudulent statistics to improve their performance reports. The problem was particularly acute in Phoenix.
The New York Times decried "poor management, a history of retaliation toward employees, cumbersome and outdated technology, and a shortage of doctors and nurses and physical space to treat patients." The Wall Street Journal lamented a "corrosive culture" which had damaged patient care.
But not long ago, VA was at the forefront of quality care and patient safety. It had identified weaknesses in its ethical culture and had set up a multi-million dollar program to deal with it called Integrated Ethics. How did things…
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'Informed consent has become a fetish' – American bioethicist
by Xavier Symons
| 18 Jul 2014 |
tags: informed consent
In a recent Hastings Centre Report article, bioethicist Barbara A. Koenig argues stridently against traditional informed consent models for genetic testing:
"My view is that the focus on consent in contemporary biomedical research has become the modern equivalent of a fetish".
Koenig believes that the 'full disclosure' model of informed consent is impracticable. She recounts her experience developing genetic testing protocol after the mapping of the human genome in the 1990s:
"Even then, we recognized that the ideal of full disclosure of all risks and benefits of a particular genetic test, ideally by a trained genetic counselor,would collapse once the volume of genomic data increased. If it took an hour to counsel a patient about one condition, what would happen if panels of test could simultaneously offer multiple findings?"
Koenig proposes a model of consent whereby decision-making is outsourced to a 'representative citizens group' educated in basics of genetic testing. This group would…
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Nasal growth found on woman's back after stem-cell treatment
tags: clinical ethics, clinical trials, stem cells
An experimental Portuguese stem cell trial has resulted in a woman developing a nasal growth on her back.
In 2006 the anonymous woman attended a Portuguese hospital where tissue containing olfactory stem cells were taken from her nose and implanted in her spine. The hope was that these cells would develop into neural cells and help repair nerve damage in the woman's spine.
Eight years later she had a spinal growth removed in a US hospital. Doctors investigated the growth and discovered it to be composed of "mostly of cysts lined by respiratory epithelium, submucosal glands with goblet cells, and intervening nerve twigs".
The cells had continued to grow as olfactory cells rather than morph into neural tissue. The growth was secreting a "thick, copious mucous-like material" which seems to have been pressing against the patient's spine, causing considerable discomfort.
"It is sobering," says George Daley, a stem cell researcher at Harvard Medical School…
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Top scientists call for restrictions on pathogen creation
tags: anthrax, public health
A prestigious international group of scientists has called for a limit on the creation of potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs). The scientists, calling themselves the Cambridge Working Group (CWG), drafted a statement earlier this month warning of "fallibility" of even the safest virology laboratories:
"Recent incidents involving smallpox, anthrax and bird flu in some of the top US laboratories remind us of the fallibility of even the most secure laboratories, reinforcing the urgent need for a thorough reassessment of biosafety."
In the past two months three separate incidents have occurred in the US alone, involving smallpox, anthrax and avian influenza.
The CWG suggested PPP researchers convene and establish stricter guidelines, just as in the Asilomar process:
"A modern version of the Asilomar process, which engaged scientists in proposing rules to manage research on recombinant DNA, could be a starting…
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Couples flock to Thailand for sex selective IVF
tags: ivf, sex selection
Thailand has become a top tourist destination for women seeking gender-selective IVF. The country is one of just three that permit gender selection – the other two are the US and South Africa – and it offers the most affordable procedures.
Hundreds of women from China and Hong Kong travel to Thailand each year, and that number is set to increase. Alfred Siu Wing-fung - just one of a number of Hong Kong health tourism agents - sells 'gender selection IVF packages' to about 200 Chinese couples a year.
Siu estimates about 10,000 gender selection cycles were carried out in Bangkok last year, at an average cost of $15,000 per treatment.
While medical equipment and drugs are imported, clinics are staffed mostly by Thai doctors and nurses trained overseas.
Around a dozen clinics in Bangkok offer the procedure.
The Medical Council of Thailand is campaigning to have the practice banned. However, in light of…
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Are bioethicists tools of policy technocrats?
by Michael Cook
| 18 Jul 2014 |
tags: bureaucracies, ethics committees
Although bioethicists are believed to provide fearless independent advice, challenging policy-makers to make the "right" decisions, a Swiss expert in bureaucracies contends that this is often not the case. Writing in the journal Governance, Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva, contends that bureaucrats use ethical experts to get their own way when they have to deal with controversies like GM foods or embryonic stem cell research.
"… establishing ethical experts as a new category of expertise alongside scientific experts actually bolsters the technocratic domain in areas where it is contested, thus reinforcing the authority of experts and bureaucrats in the policy process, rather than democratic control."
After studying the decision-making process in various issues in the European Union, Littoz-Monnet concluded that "ethical experts have become a crucial tool of governance in the hands of policymakers who might wish to protect technocratic decision making in contested,…
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A novel idea for decreasing euthanasia rates
tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia
As the debate on assisted suicide in the British House of Lords approaches, a group of five academics from Switzerland and the UK have come up with a novel idea to keep the incidence of euthanasia from rising rapidly: legalise assisted suicide.
In a July 12 letter to The Lancet they observe that the incidence of "hastened deaths" in countries with carefully regulated assisted suicide is much lower than in Belgium or the Netherlands where euthanasia is legal.
The exception to this is Switzerland, where assisted suicide has been legal since 1918. But the authors point out that Swiss suicide is not tightly regulated. In the Netherlands and Belgium, where both assisted suicide and euthanasia are on the books, patients overwhelmingly choose euthanasia. Why? The authors believe that it is easier to ask someone else to kill you rather than to do it yourself.
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Corrupting the peer review process
tags: peer review
Peer review is supposed to protect us against junk science. But what happens if the peer review is junk science? The Journal of Vibration and Control, a member of the SAGE publishing group, has revealed what happens and it's not pretty. SAGE has announced that the JVC is retracting 60 papers by a Taiwanese researcher, Peter Chen, formerly of National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan.
According to a press release from SAGE:
"[Peter Chen] created various aliases on SAGE Track, providing different email addresses to set up more than one account. Consequently, SAGE scrutinised further the co-authors of and reviewers selected for Peter Chen's papers, these names appeared to form part of a peer review ring. The investigation also revealed that on at least one occasion, the author Peter Chen reviewed his own paper under one of the aliases he had created."
In the…
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Distelmans under fire over Auschwitz trip
tags: Belgium, euthanasia, Wim Distelmans
Belgium's foremost practitioner of euthanasia who is also the head of the government euthanasia regulator has become collateral damage in the debate across the Channel. As the war of words intensified in England ahead of a debate today in the House of Lords over Lord Falconer's assisted suicide bill, the Daily Mail ran a feature about Dr Wim Distelman's controversial plans to tour Auschwitz in September.
Although Dr Distelmans insists that the purpose of the "study tour" is a deeper understanding of human rights, suffering and palliative care, the people who responded to the Daily Mail were aghast.
A Jewish Labor member of Parliament Labour MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, commented: "To make the notorious Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz the centre for a congenial study-trip is preposterous, if not obscene. Whatever one's views on euthanasia – and I am against – it is abominable to describe…
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Transforming ethics this summer
by Michael Cook
| 16 Jul 2014 |
tags: bioethics, films
Yes, in our on-going quest for cultural relevance, we have uncovered bioethics even in the summer blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction (Rotten Tomatoes rating of 17%). Writing in Slate, Jonathan Moreno, of the University of Pennsylvania, and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, reports that the Stanley Tucci character shout at one of the autobots, "I know you take the bioethical issues very seriously!"
"In the film, Tucci plays an arrogant CEO who wants to transfer the brains of deceased Transformers into his man-made Transformers. Is that ethical? And does he think that those Transformer brains are the equivalent of their minds? Is that even metaphysically possible? The warm and fuzzy autobots are understandably offended. Unlike this captain of industry, they seem to have a moral compass in their glove compartments.
"Whatever else one says about this insanely discontinuous CGI slugfest, the Tucci character's…
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