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MAKING A KILLING - 'Humane' slaughter
Posted 1 June 2003
This extract is from the Autumn 2003 issue of Outrage - Animal Aid's quarterly magazine which is sent to all Animal Aid members. To find out more about joining Animal Aid click here.
A recent report on the slaughter of 'red meat animals' by the government's official advisory body on agriculture offered 308 recommendations as to how the annual killing of millions of cattle, sheep and pigs can be done more decorously.
Inevitably, all of the media attention settled on just one of the Farm Animal Welfare Council's recommendations - a ban on slaughter without pre-stunning, as practiced by Muslims and Jews.
On behalf of Animal Aid I joined in the debate following publication of the FAWC report - first, with a letter to The Times newspaper and then in a 15 minute debate on Sky Television with senior figures from the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Muslim Council of Great Britain.
In both forums I declared that religious slaughter is a vile and merciless way to treat animals, but that I also have concerns about the way bigots jump on the 'ritual slaughter' bandwagon. As to 'humane' British killing, I have personally visited six slaughterhouses and seen, for instance, pigs shackled upside down by one leg, their throats slashed and gushing blood. I've seen them slip from their shackles and crash head first on to the concrete, thrashing desperately and with blood pouring from their throat wounds. This is 'humane slaughter'. At one slaughterhouse I saw a man with a stick mindlessly beat every animal he unloaded from a transporter. At another, I saw a crippled pig kneed and kicked along an aisle to the place where she was subjected to electrical stunning.
The great conceit of 'humane slaughter' is that stunning renders animals immediately 'insensible' so that they feel nothing when the knife is drawn across their necks.
I am not remotely convinced that the captive bolt (used on cattle) or the electrical 'stun' is effective. The bolt often fails to hit the target square-on. And sending a massive electric shock through an animal's head seems merely to cause another level of trauma that momentarily freezes them physically. Gassing produces its own intractable problems. I base my views on what I have personally seen, on conversations I've had with a scientist at Bristol University who undertook killing experiments, as well as a reading of scientific papers on the subject.
No doubt the introduction of 'stunning' was an attempt to remove some of the horror from the killing business. But whether the frayed sensibilities of the meat-eating public was the prime concern or the suffering of the animals themselves, is difficult to judge. Equally, the introduction of Halal and Shechita slaughter - both of which call for a sharp knife and a clean cut - were also billed as improvements on the old even more nightmarish methods.
I don't know which of the 'new improved' methods is worse. But I do know that both are grotesquely cruel and unjustified. We do not need to eat meat. We are better off without it. Nor can I stomach hearing protagonists of religious slaughter claiming their method is swift and painless - when the evidence shows that animals can take minutes to die, are often cut about the neck numerous times rather than the prescribed one clean cut; and young calves can actually choke to death on their own blood.
The horrors of 'humane' slaughter are also many and palpable, as outlined above. The most dangerous element of the debate that followed publication of the FAWC report was the way the FAWC chairwoman rushed from broadcast studio to print journalist contrasting the horrors of the religious method with the caring, beneficent despatch that is supposedly the hallmark of killing factories operating the good old British system. In other words, she used the spectre of 'ritual' slaughter to sanitise a method employed to kill the vast majority of animals in this country. How convenient, given that, with a couple of exceptions, the FAWC council is composed of men and women who profit from the production, transport, dealing and killing of farmed animals.
Andrew Tyler
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Tyler Eifert had to clear up some confusion while taking a call from his new team Thursday night.
The former Notre Dame and Bishop Dwenger tight end was in his parents' bedroom as about 100 family members and friends were down stairs in his parents' house.
Eifert took the call as the Chicago Bears were on the clock during the TV broadcast of the first round, and those in the room – his mom, dad, sister, two brothers, girlfriend and agent – thought he was going to the Bears with the 20th selection overall.
But it wasn't the Bears, but it was a team close to home.
Eifert was taken with the 21st selection by the Cincinnati Bengals, a team located three and a half hours away from Fort Wayne.
"The whole time, they thought it was the Bears. I said, 'No. It's the Bengals,'." Eifert said Thursday night. "I don't get excited about too much, but that was pretty exciting."
Eifert stayed with his immediate family after taking the call to watch commissioner Roger Goodell announce that he was selected by the Bengals. After that, he came down stairs to his draft party, and the guests saw a different Eifert than they had seen before.
"The face that he made when he came down those stairs after he got drafted was something I've never seen out of him before," said John Goodman, Eifert's former Notre Dame and Dwenger teammate. "You never see Tyler very worked up about anything. He was very worked up about this. It was cool."
Goodman was one of Eifert's Notre Dame teammates to be at his house the night of the first round. He was also joined by Tommy Rees, Dan Fox, Alex Welch, Zack Martin, Chris Watt and Christian Lombard.
"Everybody was waiting for me out there, just a sea of people," Eifert said. "It was really cool."
Eifert's mother, Julie, said it was cool that her oldest child will be within driving distance of Fort Wayne as he starts his NFL career.
"As a mom, I was so excited that he was three hours away," Julie Eifert said. "Where ever he would have gone, it would have been the most special moment. Having him three hours away, I thought, 'Wow, I can drive. I can be there. We can be there for the games.
"We have three other kids, and they have stuff on the weekends. Knowing we can drive on Sunday, go to his game and come back, that was very meaningful. It's just a great fit for the family, most of all because it's a great organization, and I think it is a great fit for Ty."
Eifert joins a team that has made the playoffs in each of the last two seasons as a wild card, losing to Houston in the first round both times. And a team with a good corps of young offensive talent with quarterback Andy Dalton, receiver A.J. Green and tight end Jermaine Gresham.
Eifert was taken by the Bengals in the same spot that they drafted Gresham in 2010. Eifert's selection was also the first time a tight end was taken in the first round since the Bengals took Gresham out of Oklahoma.
"It's a good situation and organization to be part of with a lot of weapons on offense," Eifert said. "A great quarterback, a great tight end and A.J. Green is one of the best in the league at receiver. I'm just happy to be part of it."
Eifert said going to Cincinnati is a little like when he signed with Notre Dame, which at the time had budding receiver stars in Michael Floyd and Golden Tate, tight end Kyle Rudolph and quarterback Jimmy Clausen.
"I was just happy to be at Notre Dame, but at this point, I'm happy to be there but I also want to get on the field," Eifert said.
Eifert's father, Greg, said he had the chance to listen to Bengals coach Marvin Lewis at a speaking engagement one time, and the former Purdue basketball player is happy his son will play for Lewis.
"I got to hear (Lewis) speak to a group of us about five or six years ago, and I was like, 'That's a guy I would want to play for,'." Greg Eifert said. "They got a great group of people, and I think it's a place where Ty can do well. He's close to home, where people can come see him play, which is important to Ty. And it's important to us.
"We are excited."
Eifert is the fifth Irish tight end to be taken in the first round since 1978, and he is the school's 64th first-round selection.
The 6-foot-6, 251-pounder joined Ken MacAfee, who was taken with the No. 7 overall selection by San Francisco in 1978; Tony Hunter, who was taken with the No. 12 selection by Buffalo in 1983; Derek Brown, who was taken with the No. 14 overall selection by the New York Giants in 1992; and Irv Smith, who was taken with the No. 20 selection by New Orleans in 1993, as a first-round selection.
He is also the latest in a line of tight ends to go the NFL. He is the seventh Irish tight end to be drafted in the last 13 years.
Jabari Holloway started Notre Dame's recent tight end parade to the pros when he was taken in the fourth round of the 2001 draft by New England. John Owens was selected in the fifth round by Detroit the following year, and Jerome Collins was taken in the fifth round by St. Louis in 2005.
Notre Dame tight ends moved up the draft board after that with Anthony Fasano being taken in the second round by Dallas in 2006, John Carlson going to Seattle in the second round in 2008 and Kyle Rudolph landing in Minnesota via a second-round pick in the 2011 draft.
Eifert had a team-high 685 receiving yards and matched receiver TJ Jones as the Irish's receptions leader with 50 catches last season. He also had four touchdowns and earned the Mackey Award as the nation's top college tight end.
Eifert left Notre Dame as the school's all-time leader in receptions (140) and receiving yards (1,840) by a tight end.
"This is such an exciting time for Tyler and his family," Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said in a statement. "He was faced with a difficult decision following his junior season whether or not to return to school. Tyler returned for his senior season and that decision was rewarded today. He proved to be the best tight end in college football, solidified himself as a first-round draft pick and, most importantly, earned his degree from the University of Notre Dame."
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Step 3: Connect your iphone 3gs your computer and put it in DFU mode i.e. turn off your iphone 3gs and now press and hold both power and Home buttons for 10 seconds and after 10 seconds while holding Home button release power button and keep pressing Home button for further 10 seconds and release it.
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BAM likes managers who manage money on a daily basis and are prepared to back their own judgement rather than follow benchmark weightings.
The five multi-asset portfolios invest mainly in collective investment funds and will use exchange-traded funds for asset classes that would otherwise be difficult to access, such as gold.
Asset allocation is determined through quarterly investment committee meetings but BAM does not necessarily make changes every quarter.
It aims to be nimble in long-term strategic asset allocation, allowing short-term tactical changes to occur within the long-term framework
Income is a theme being explored across most of the portfolios, with the exception of the aggressive fund, where BAM is keen to keep the yield low. The DFM says it is focusing on income not just in the UK and it holds a lot of income funds to reduce risk, as the economy is moving away from a cyclical to a defensive market.
One of the high conviction managers in its balanced and growth portfolios is Liontrust. BAM says the Liontrust equity income fund is not very well known in the IFA market but has all the characteristics it looks for in its underlying managers.
BAM chief investment officer Mark Robinson says: "Liontrust has had a few issues with redemptions but those running the income fund back their own judgement, which is what we like when we outsource."
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Key Localities:
- Afon Wen, Gwynedd: The Afon Wen Intrusive Complex, Gwynedd contains, pinkish twinned crystals up to 3 mm in size associated with chlorite and epidote in small cavities in altered microtonalite (J.S. Mason, unpublished data).
- Brynyrafr Mine, Ponterwyd, Ceredigion: an unusual occurrence of albite, with apatite, rutile and quartz, is found in small (<10 mm long), open cavities in sandstone and mudstone clasts within a quartz-cemented breccia (British Micromount Society Newsletter 35). The albite is clearly post-brecciation and a mechanism to explain their formation has yet to be derived. The assemblage occurs as euhedral crystals (<1 mm), and has also been found, in a less well-developed form, at Castell, Darren, Erglodd, Ystrad Einion and Bwlchysgellyn mines, and although widespread, is restricted paragenetically to the early or 'A1' assemblages (J.S. Mason, unpublished data).
- Cae Mawr Mine, Gwynedd: the tips from this small mine contain common albite, as small pink veinlets in altered microtonalite, associated with quartz, chlorite and epidote.
- Coed Llyn-y-Garnedd, near Maentwrog, Gwynedd: albite is present as small pinkish-buff crystals in Alpine fissure-type veins exposed along forest roads, cutting both sedimentary and igneous rocks (including part of the Tanygrisiau Microgranite). It is associated with anatase, clinochlore and quartz, and was discovered during the Gwynedd phase of the Minescan project in 1997 (Bevins & Mason, 1998).
- Cwmorthin Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: albite forms small tabular crystals associated with quartz on open vein-fractures cutting turbidite-tuffs, discovered during Minescan follow-up work, 2001 (NMW/Manchester Museum, unpublished data).
- Gloddfa Ganol Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: albite is common as complex crystals up to 2 mm in size in an Alpine fissure-type vein association (anatase, rutile, synchysite, clinochlore, apatite) in a brecciated slate matrix. This was discovered during Minescan follow-up work, 2001 (NMW/Manchester Museum unpublished data).
- Hendre Quarry, Glyn Ceiriog, Clwyd: small (<2 mm) colourless to white albite crystals have been described from an Alpine fissure-type assemblage on joints cutting dolerite (Starkey et al., 1991).
- Manod Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: tabular, colourless to white albite crystals, up to 10 mm in size, form extensive coatings on fractured quartz-latite, associated with quartz, anatase, brookite, apatite, synchysite and clinochlore. Some fine specimens have been recovered from this locality.
- Minffordd Quarry, near Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd: pink complexly-twinned crystals have been collected from Alpine-type veins at this (still working) quarry. Specimens in the National Museum of Wales Collection (e.g. NMW 27.111.GR.374) were collected prior to 1927 by G.J. Williams but a more recent (1995) search failed to locate any further material (J.S. Mason, unpublished data).
- Prenteg, Tremadog, Gwynedd: this locality is famous for its splendid brookite crystals, but the outcrop at Prenteg formerly produced rich hand specimens of albite composed of aggregates of 5-10 mm, white, tabular crystals forming extensive areas on dolerite (Starkey & Robinson, 1992). The locality is now protected and not accessible to mineral collectors.
- Tanygrisiau Station, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd: albite is common at this locality as extensive coatings of small (<3 mm) twinned tabular crystals (Green & Middleton, 1996).
- Bevins, R.E. & Mason, J.S., 1998. Welsh Metallophyte and metallogenic evaluation project: Results of a Minesite Survey of Gwynedd. National Museums of Wales, Cardiff.
- Bevins, R.E. & Rowbotham, G., 1983. Low-grade metamorphism within the Welsh sector of the paratectonic Caledonides. Geological Journal, 18, 141-167
- Bloxam, T.W. & Dirk, M.H.J., 1988. The petrology and geochemistry of the St. David's granophyre and the Cwm Bach rhyolite, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed. Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 563-575.
- Green, D.I. & Middleton, D., 1996. Alpine-type vein minerals from Tanygrisiau, Gwynedd. U.K. U.K. Journal of Mines and Minerals, 16, 30-33.
- Starkey, R.E. & Robinson, G.W., 1992. Famous mineral localities, Prenteg, Tremadog, Gwynedd, Wales. Mineralogical Record, 23, 391-399.
- Starkey, R.E., Hubbard, N. & Bayley, M.P., 1991. Mineralization at Hendre Quarry, Glyn Ceiriog, Clwyd, Wales. U.K. Journal of Mines and Minerals, No. 10, 48-51.


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management and regulators closer to creative regulatory solutions, such as performance-based rates that allow the acquirer to capture synergies from consolidation. Reducing the risks that worry regulators (and other stakeholders like environmentalists) increases an acquirer's credibility and speeds regulatory approvals, allowing faster growth. Resolving competing interests builds trust equity, and that means giving up less value to demonstrate a net benefit from a proposed acquisition. The TXU deal has made headlines because the acquirers and TXU's management have been innovative in gaining environmentalists as allies rather than opponents.
The bankers courting C. John Wilder and TXU Corp. are self-aware. They know what they don't know about running a utility. KKR's Henry Kravis said that while working with Wilder, the acquirers "have developed a new vision … of how we can turn TXU into a more innovative, customer-centric, environmentally friendly company, and we plan to work with management to implement it." Institutional Investor magazine has bestowed multiple honors on Wilder, including naming him the best CEO in the electric power sector in 2004 and 2005. He has completed a turnaround plan for TXU ahead of schedule, the company's generating units perform at high capacity factors, and TXU is well on its way toward its goal of "industry-leading, customer-focused financial and operational performance."
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1. In the Matter of the Petition of NUI Utilities, Inc. (d/b/a Elizabethtown Gas Co.) and AGL Resources, Inc. for Authority Under N.J.S.A. 48:2-51.1 and N.J.S.A. 48:3-10 of a Change in Ownership and Control, Docket No. GM04070721 (Nov. 17, 2004) ("NUI Utilities") at 14-15.
2. In the Matter of the Reorganization of UniSource Energy Corporation, Arizona Corporation Commission, Decision No. 67454 (Jan. 4, 2005).
3. "NorthWestern Explains Why it Took BBI Offer," Electric Utility Week (May 8, 2006) at 12.
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5. NorthWestern Corp. Press Release; NorthWestern Energy, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Receive Transaction Approval From Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Oct. 19, 2006).
6. See e.g., N.J.S.A. 48:2-51.1, which provides in relevant part, "In considering a request for approval of an acquisition of control, the board shall evaluate the impact of the acquisition on competition, on the rates of ratepayers affected by the acquisition of control, on the employees of the affected public utility or utilities, and on the provision of safe and adequate utility service at just and reasonable rates."
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By Lewis Lazare Media & Marketing Columnist December 14, 2010 10:44PM
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Former New York Times movie critic Elvis Mitchell has been dropped as a critic on the new "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," set to debut Jan. 21. The program will be shown on more than 190 public television stations and on the Armed Forces Network, according to Ebert.
Armed Forces Network reaches an audience of nearly 1 million members of the military and their families in scores of countries.
When producers Roger Ebert and wife Chaz Ebert announced the new program in September, Mitchell was paired with Associated Press movie critic Christy Lemire, who is still with the movie review show. But since that announcement, there had been growing concern about whether Mitchell was the right person for the job. One source who had seen the pilot shot earlier this year with Lemire and Mitchell said it showed little on-air chemistry between the two.
The Eberts are now under pressure to find the right person by Jan. 1 for the show to debut on schedule. One dark horse candidate believed to be under consideration is a young male in his mid-20s with little or no experience as a movie critic or as a TV talent. Another possible option, sources said, would involve a pairing of Lemire with another critic described as a female version of tart-tongued former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell.
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Smashed is a dramatic comedy about fidelity—and what it means to be committed to someone, to love someone, and to need to change your life... when your partner isn't capable of change. Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, in a stellar performance) and Charlie (Aaron Paul) are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking... especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny (Octavia Spencer), and the awkward but well-intentioned vice principal at her school (Nick Offerman), Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isn't as easy as Kate had anticipated, though. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother (Mary Kay Place), forces her to face the lies she's told her employer, and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love. Directed and co-written by James Ponsoldt. Official Web Site
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Matsuri: Nagoya Festivals
Nagoya Festivals 名古屋祭り
Nagoya and the surrounding area of Chubu in central Japan has a number of interesting and in some cases, highly bizarre festivals.
Many traditional Japanese festivals involve a procession with a mikoshi or giant floats pulled through the streets with participants in period dress or happi coats. Inuyama and Arimatsu festivals are matsuri of this type.
Some Japanese festivals are relatively modern and are grand, civic affairs - Nagoya Festival is one such "modern festival."
See below for a listing of Nagoya and Chubu festivals by month.
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Shogatsu (New Year)
Shrines around Nagoya especially Atsuta Shrine are packed with worshippers coming to pray for a successful, healthy and prosperous new year.
Tagata Jinja Hounen Sai
The bizarre Tagata Fertility Festival takes place annually on March 15 and has become increasingly popular with Japanese and foreigners alike. The Tagata Fertility Festival consists of a procession between Kumano Shrine and Tagata Shrine near Inuyama, north of Nagoya, with boisterous participants carrying a 2m long wooden phallus accompanied by participants in costume and musicians.
To get to the Tagata Fertility Festival take a train to Inuyama and then change to a local train to Tagata Jinja Mae.
Konomiya Naked Festival
The ancient and equally strange Konomiya Naked Festival occurs around the end of February, beginning of March depending on the lunar calendar. The festival is proceeded earlier by the choosing of a shin-otoko or ("god-man") at Konomiya Shrine in Konomiya, just outside Nagoya. On the day of the festival proper thousands of men dressed only in loincloths - many of them aged 23 or 42 (ages considered unlucky or yakudoshi) - converge on the shin-otoko in an effort to touch him and thus pass on their bad luck and so rid themselves of evil. The festival can get very rough and the shin-otoko is protected by special shrine guards to prevent him getting killed in the crush of naked flesh.
Inuyama Festival
The traditional Inuyama Festival takes place in nearby Inuyama on the first weekend of April. Thirteen huge dashi floats are paraded around Inuyama dragged by happi-clad participants. Flute players and drummers ride the floats and play the traditional festival tunes for the crowds below as mechanical puppets (karakuri) are also displayed on the floats. The festival is hosted by Haritsuna Shrine and is a lively and enjoyable time with many street stalls selling food and beer. From Nagoya Station, Inuyama is around 30 minutes by Meitetsu Inuyama Line and about the same time from Gifu Meitetsu Station.
Kakuozan Spring Festival
The Kakuozan Spring Festival takes place in early April on the approach to Nittaiji Temple. There is a mix of stalls selling food and bric-a-brac.
Horse Festival at Tado Shrine
The horse festival known as ageuma at Tado Shrine near Kuwana in Mie, just west of Nagoya is held on the first weekend in May. Horses ridden by 12 young men (chosen by lot) ride in a procession towards Tado Shrine. Horse and rider then try to climb a 3m high muddy slope to the flat square of the shrine's main buildings, where the round starts again. For the young, local men chosen as riders, reaching the top of the slope, still aboard the horse, is a rite of passage celebrated with jubilation. Many riders are thrown, and the potential for physical damage is to horse and rider is great. Not for the faint-hearted.
Owari Tsushima Festival
The spectacular Owari Tsushima Festival with boats covered in paper lanterns takes place on the 4th Saturday and Sunday in July in Tsushima, a north western suburb of Nagoya. On the Saturday evening five wood and straw boats decorated with hundreds of paper lanterns float on the Tenno river setting the water glittering with reflected light. There are firework displays, flute music and taiko drumming to entertain the thousands of people who attend the festival, many wearing colorful summer yukata.
Nagoya Castle is the venue for a summer festival known as Natsu no yoru no busho matsuri in Japanese. There are displays of Edo period firearms, a night market, Bon dancing and beer hall as well as illuminated lanterns. The castle has a special night opening and Nagoya Castle is lit up.
Nagoya Festival
Nagoya Festival is held in October and features parades of large floats down Nagoya's main streets with participants in samurai costume. Other events include marching bands, flower parades, open-car parades, kagura, and lots of children's activities.
Arimatsu Matsuri
Arimatsu Matsuri takes place on the first Sunday in October with floats pulled through the town famous for its traditional tie-dye Arimatsu shibori cotton fabrics.
Christmas Lights
The JR Towers at Nagoya Station and the Takashimaya Department Store are illuminated with thousands of lights
Other Festivals In Japan
Ako Festival - Ako - December
Coming of Age Day - Nationwide - January
Daimonji Festival - Kyoto - August
Danjiri Festival - Kishiwada - September
Gion Matsuri - Kyoto - July
Hamamatsu Festival - Hamamatsu - May
Hina Matsuri - Nationwide - March
Sapporo Snow Festival - Sapporo - February
Shichigosan Festival - Nationwide - November
Summer Music Festivals in Japan - Fuji Rock, Summer Sonic
Tanabata Festival - Nationwide - July
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10 Ways To Surprise Him After All These Years
When the sex begins to dwindle (it will) and the obligations start to pile up (they do), rather than settle, sweetly shock your husband.
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Men like to feel like king of the castle, but often consider themselves neglected between the carpooling, cleaning and cooking. "Anytime a man feels like he's needed and respected, it makes him feel good," says Julie Orlov, psychotherapist, relationship builder and author of The Pathway to Love. Gather a few friends and family and cook his favorite dinner; it shows him how important he is to you, that you love him, and that you appreciate what good care he takes care of you and the family. The meal doesn't need to be a 10-course extravaganza, but since he often ends up eating what's on your current diet plan or the kids' mac n'' cheese, whipping up what he loves feels truly special.


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Miley Cyrus debuted this year with her corker of an album Bangerz (and I will call it a debut because it basically is one). Tightly constructed with a variety of up-tempo club smashes and heart-string-tugging ballads, it is not surprising that Miley has gone on to arguably become this year's biggest artist.
I will say here that the songs are brilliant. Production, writing and overall exposition is sound and Miley takes centre stage even when collaborating with stars
that were that are bigger than her. Wrecking Ball, Drive, FU, and We Can't Stop are particular highlights.
However, what I want to talk about is the controversy that Miley has caused over the past year. She may have twerked provocatively against Robin Thicke at the VMAs, and she may have deep-throated a sledgehammer whilst riding a wrecking ball naked. She may have openly advocated the legalisation of marijuana and melodramatically spoken about her mental insecurities. However, she has also had the most viewed video on VEVO for Wrecking Ball. She has also won countless awards this year. She has also managed to launch an arena world tour off the back of one album (and it is one album because if she bursts into Best of Both Worlds in 2014 I will be seriously pissed). She has also gained worldwide media coverage for her provocative actions which will undoubtedly be very lucrative when exploited cleverly and enable her to love, money, party without a care in the world.
Well done Miley, well done.
In what has been a brilliant promotional campaign for what has carried the brand Miley Cyrus along at the fundamental core, her music. Miley is an intelligent young woman who isn't afraid to show off her body and she knows how to manipulate music industry to generate those all important single and album sales extremely well. In a recent documentary on the sexualisation of music videos and their dissemination to a wider, unrestricted audience, head of music video at Black Dog Studios Svana Gisler acknowledged that Miley is fully in control of the image that is presented to the general public. She knows what she's doing, and people can't accept that.
It also annoys me when Miley is criticised for exposing young people to such material. Whilst I don't believe that young people should be watching some of the music videos available today, I don't believe that it is Miley's place to restrict the viewing. She is a music artist which has to satisfy BOTH adult and younger demographic needs, and therefore I believe that the discretion of whether the video is viewed or not lays in the hands of the parents.
It is partly the promotional campaign, public stunts and frenetic public persona that Miley has carefully articulated over this campaign why I find Bangerz so enjoyable. It functions well as an independent body of work. However, when placed into relation of the network of promotional grandeur Miley and her team have put into place, this impressive framework raises the quality of the album astronomically.


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With a childlike enthusiasm and zest for life, Paul Kolker can proudly wear the title of lifelong artist. Kolker has been creating art since his elementary school days in the 1940's and now, at 78, his passion for art remains as strong as ever.
"Art to me has always been fun. It has always been a way to speak to people. Art is its own language," explains the Old Westbury resident and Chelsea art exhibitor.
For most of his adult life Kolker has been a cardiothoracic surgeon by day and artist by night. His artistic craft became an outlet for the stress of lifesaving heart surgery in the operating room. "It was my recreation and a great stress reliever from my life-and-death medical career," he states emphatically.
Kolker is one of a rare breed of people who pursued not one, but two of his life's passions. His love of art and medicine both began in childhood, first as an artist when he convinced his parents to sign him up for art lessons. He dabbled in oil paintings initially, some of which are still hanging in his home today. By the time he attended high school he became art editor of the school newspaper.
In the classroom he excelled in the sciences, especially biology. His knack for science and love of animals helped determine his path to becoming a doctor.
"I just loved making sick animals better," Kolker explains.
Ever the artist, his love of animals was the influence for some of his earlier works when he ventured into sculpting. His animal sculptures included frogs, dogs, and even a rainbow trout he caught in a stream at Heckscher State Park in Huntington. Kolker had the fish cast by a taxidermist and then sculpted his two and a half foot catch. Kolker's fish sculpture remains displayed in his gallery to this day.
Similar to many artists through the ages, Kolker has been influenced by the time period in which he lives. In Kolker's case, that would be the digital age. "We are living in a time period in which everything is made up of dots. Even though we don't see them.
Everything is pixelated," That, he explains is the motivation behind his "Pixelation Art". He began the process as early as the 1970's. "I was making circular canvasses that I would put together in different colors," explains Kolker.
As his pixelation art evolved through the years, his works became of larger and larger scale. He eventually outgrew the studio in his Old Westbury home, and in 2001 decided to immerse himself in the art world. "Chelsea has created its own little art universe," Kolker explains. Like a surgeon practicing among his peers in a hospital, he wanted to be where other artists, exhibitors, and curators were, breathing in the life of the art world.
His journey from Long Island to Manhattan, or as Kolker describes it, "Crossing the Jordan river into the promised land," is the inspiration for his current exhibition "Crossing Tenth Avenue."
It depicts the trek he and other artists have taken into the Chelsea art world. The exhibit is a menagerie of his pixelation art, videos, and another art form influenced by our high-tech times: his light box sculptures. With the use of two-way mirrors and LED lights, the two and a half inch deep sculptures give an infinity effect through optical illusion.
To date Kolker has done 40 solo exhibitions in his Chelsea Gallery, while remaining a surgeon and Emeritus chief of cardiothoracic surgery at North Shore LIJ hospital in Glen Cove, until his recent retirement just after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012. "After the hurricane I decided that one career would be sufficient," he said. In his "spare" time he acquired his doctorate in Law.
With his continued love of both art and medicine, Kolker is busily working on his latest exhibition, set to open February 2014, entitled "Speak to me… about healthcare," an artistic message about the current state of the healthcare system.
For more information about Kolker and his works, visit www.paulkolker.com.


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Final Cut Pro Offline Edit with ProRes Proxy…
It has been documented that the newly released feature film "Eat Pray Love" staring Julia Roberts was edited entirely on a Final Cut Pro workstation.
I found this most interesting:
"The editors found an efficient solution in ProRes 422 (Proxy), a new version of the Apple ProRes codec introduced with Final Cut Pro 7. As soon as dailies arrived from EFILM, Assistant Editor Doc Crotzer would transcode the files from ProRes 422 (HQ) to ProRes 422 (Proxy), organize the footage into bins, and prepare the material for editing."
Review this chart, and notice the variations in data rates of the ProRes family of codecs:
Obviously lower data rates = smaller file sizes. The bottom line is working with ProRes Proxy files (Offline copies of original ProRes 422/HQ files) creates a much more efficient workflow that is less taxing on any system.
I've adopted a slick method using my iMac for rough cutting ingested AVCHD footage that has been transcoded to ProRes Proxy via Final Cut Pro's Log and Transfer. Depending on the complexity of the finished project sequence, I can finish and output on the iMac, or – move the project and it's assets over to my MacPro for finishing. The key is prior to outputting, the edited Proxy clips can be re-captured and replaced with higher quality ProRes versions.
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Very clear explanation. The screenshots are very helpful. I work with the standard APR 422, so it doesn't seem worth the extra time to edit in Proxy and then switch back to standard, but this would be useful if I need to finish in HQ or 4444.
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Two debates (updated)
Today I want to call your attention to two on-line debates, each dealing with an important issue on contemporary world affairs.
The first is an extremely interesting back-and-forth between Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan, on the question of whether President Obama was correct in authorizing the CIA to kill several U.S. citizens (including Anwar al-Awlaki) who is believed to be actively aiding al Qaeda in Yemen. You can read the various posts here, here, here, and here, and each links to useful comments from other people as well.
One sign of the quality of their exchange is that I found my own views shifting back and forth as I read each one. In the end I think Greenwald has the better of the argument -- at least so far -- but that may well be because it's closer to my own prior views. I don't really believe Obama's decision puts us on a slippery slope to totalitarianism, but I do think there is a genuine danger in allowing any president the authority to order the killing of a U.S. citizen without due process.
I am also deeply leery of the increasingly widespread use of the "state secrets" doctrine to defend executive actions from public scrutiny, simply because I do not trust people not to abuse their authority in the absence of accountability. Moreover, the "state secrets" doctrine is a powerful tool for threat-mongering ("trust me, if you knew what we know, you'd be really, really scared"), and keeping people terrified is a good way to get them to go along with all sorts of foreign policy foolishness.
But read their exchange and make up your own mind. And kudos to both of them for conducting it in a spirited but civil fashion. (UPDATE: Sullivan has a new reply to Greenwald and others here.
The second debate I can't resist plugging is a Bloggingheads conversation I did last week with Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation. The topic is "AfPak Dilemmas" and it is mostly a discussion about conditions in the region and the proper course for U.S. policy. Peter and I have different views about the nature of the challenge we face in Central Asia, and about the merits of continued military involvement there. Those disagreements are clear in our conversation, but we had an excellent exchange of views and some of you may find it enlightening.
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TUCSON- Tucson Wildlife Center opened Arizona's first state-of -the art wildlife hospital on Tuesday Oct. 30.
President & Co-Founder Lisa Bates and Supervisor Ray Carroll and other dignitaries and reps were in attendance. This grand opening took place at Tucson Wildlife Center (13275 E. Speedway Boulevard).
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Crime time. . .
Thirteen words tell it all.
◆ To wit: One of the letters sent by a student at Chicago's Benito Juarez Community Academy to its sister school (Benito Juarez High School) in Mexico City recently read:
"I like to go downtown because my neighborhood is too violent. Is yours?"
◆ Backshot: It was one of 200 student letters that accompanied Gov. Pat Quinn on his trade mission to Mexico last week.
A child's plea. . .
In the midst of the same-sex marriage muddle comes an appeal from a 10-year-old girl, Braiden Neubecker, who lives in River Forest with her brother, Michael — and their two dads.
It is an essay written by Braiden that was included in the legal briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, which is now hearing cases dealing with same sex marriage.
Braiden was adopted in 2009 after living with five foster families. She and her family paid a visit to Sen. Mark Kirk's office a few weeks before his announcement last Tuesday that he was supporting gay marriage — and they left him her essay, which reads, in part:
"Love is important!
"It doesn't matter who people love, as long as they are happy. Everyone should have the right to marry who he or she wants. You may not like two men being married, but for them, it's normal.
"My two dads should be able to be married and have the same rights as any married couple. How would you feel if you couldn't marry someone just because the government said you weren't allowed to. If I loved someone and wasn't allowed to marry them, I would be really sad.
"My family has taught me that even if you don't agree with someone, you should still be kind and respectful. The government should too. Also, my church tells me that you should treat other people the way you want to be treated. . .
"Before I lived with my two dads, my life was horrible. My old family never treated me well. They wouldn't stand up for me. If my foster sister fought with me, my old mom would just sit there and watch me get hurt, so I would have to fight back. Each time I was at foster home, the foster parents promised me they would keep me safe and treat my brother and I equally. But they always broke their promise.
"I moved five times until my dad and daddy found me. They also promised that they would always love me and keep me safe and they would treat me equal to my brother. I was four when I met them. Now I am ten and they have kept their promises. They do so much for me. They never hurt me or my brother. I feel so safe.
"I believe I can do anything with my two dads. Would there be any purpose to ban the marriage of two men or two women when they can treat children the same or even better than other couples. I hope that you will do the right thing and let anyone marry who they want to."
Braiden's parents, David and Lee Neubecker, were married in San Francisco in 2004 when then-mayor Gavin Newsom was issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. But their marriage was nullified when Newsom was told he had no legal standing to issue the licenses. They are currently waiting to get married (again) when Illinois makes it legal.
Downton blabby. . .
Former GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich and wife, Callista, are the latest "Downton Abbey" junkies — hooked fans of the hit Brit TV series. Gingrich told folks attending a National Review breakfast he identifies with the to-the-manor-born star (natch) of the series, Lord Grantham, and claims: "One night last week we were up until 2 in the morning, because we had to see the next one. We're well into season three now. You're never bored."
Sneedlings . . .
Saturday's birthdays: Paul Rudd, 44; Zach Braff, 38, and Karen Stefani, ageless. . . Sunday's birthdays: Russell Crowe, 49; Francis Ford Coppola, 74, and Jackie Chan, 59 (right).


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An anonymous reader sends word that the 2014 wireless spectrum license auction has surpassed $34 billion. "A government auction of airwaves for use in mobile broadband has blown through presale estimates, becoming the biggest auction in the Federal Communications Commission's history and signaling that wireless companies expect demand for Internet access by smartphones to continue to soar. And it's not over yet. Companies bid more than $34 billion as of Friday afternoon for six blocks of airwaves, totaling 65 megahertz of the electromagnetic spectrum, being sold by the F.C.C. That total is more than three times the $10.5 billion reserve price that the commission put on the sale, the first offering of previously unavailable airwaves in six years."


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In my mind, the season officially starts tonight in our nation's capitol as the Washington Nationals christen brand new Nationals Park when they host the Atlanta Braves. Tim Hudson takes on Odalis Perez, one of two opening day or second-day starters who are "not like the others," the other being Mark Hendrickson in Florida. Tomorrow's opponent, Matt Chico, is debatable, but I hesitate to say anything because he's pitched the Phillies tough. It's always interesting to see what teams come up with after an entire off-season of rebuilding, and an entire spring to prepare. Some fans get Johan Santana. Others get Mark Hendrickson. Shades of Calvin Maduro.
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Four reasons why Obama should not send Hagel to the Pentagon.
On foreign policy, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is one of the good guys: knowledgeable, thoughtful, responsible, and non-ideological. He's shown a consistent willingness to question his party's verities. He courageously challenged the Bush administration's Iraq war policies, he opposed the nomination of ultra neo-con John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, he's opposed trigger-happiness over Iran, and he's even been willing to question the most sacred cow of all: blind U.S. support of Israel, come what may.
He's also the wrong choice for defense secretary.
Here's why.
1. He's a Republican
Nominating Hagel for SecDef sends the world a simple message: even Democrats don't really think Democrats are capable of running the Defense Department. Three of the last four secretaries of defense have been Republicans -- and two of the three were appointed by Democrats. If President Obama nominates Chuck Hagel, Republicans will be four for five.
Some argue that by appointing his second Republican secretary of defense, President Obama will be making a gracious bipartisan gesture, one that will buy him respect and -- perhaps -- greater cooperation from Republicans in Congress. But that's wishful thinking. The current crop of Republicans on the Hill are already reasonably cooperative on defense issues, and they've made it amply clear that they're not interested in cooperating with the Obama administration on non-defense matters. Nominating Chuck Hagel as SecDef won't change that.
All nominating Hagel will do is needlessly undermine Democratic efforts to eliminate the so-called "national security deficit." Since Vietnam, the Republican Party has been viewed by voters as the most-trusted party on defense issues. Democrats have fought hard to change that, and in the last few years, they've finally seen some success: as Matt Bennett and Jeremy Rosner recently noted, voters this November said they trusted Obama and Romney equally on national security, and gave Obama a 12 point edge on "international affairs."
But nominating Hagel risks ceding much of the ground Democrats fought so hard to gain. A Hagel nomination will suggest to voters that when it comes to defense, even President Obama has a sneaking suspicion that Republicans are better than Democrats. Is that really a smart message for the president to send?
2. He's a conservative Republican
Lest we forget, Chuck Hagel's general reasonableness on foreign policy doesn't mean he's a closet Democrat. He's not. He's anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, and anti-gun control. His record on immigration issues is not bad, but he's iffy on civil rights issues and criminal justice issues, opposed to affirmative action, generally hostile to Democratic party positions on taxes, and his record on environmental issues is dismal. And no one should assume his record on domestic issues is irrelevant to his potential performance as defense secretary. Will a man who supported a ban on abortions performed on military bases be a good steward for military women and female dependents? Will a man who has voted against anti-discrimination measures designed to protect gays and lesbians be able to support gay and lesbian service members?
3. There are plenty of qualified Democrats
Is the Democratic bench really so shallow that Obama needs to nominate a conservative Republican as secretary of defense? That's an easy one: no. There are lots of well-qualified Democrats who'd just love to be SecDef.
To name a few, there's Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a former Army Ranger who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. There's Washington state Congressman Adam Smith, the ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee. There's Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There's Ash Carter, who's currently serving as deputy secretary of defense.
And that's just the middle-aged white guys.
4. How about a woman, Mr. President?
Seriously, in the year 2012, when an African American man has become president, and women and African Americans have served as secretary of state and as national security advisor, President Obama can't think of anyone except a white, male Republican who's qualified to be secretary of defense? Susan Rice, once considered a strong candidate for secretary of state, has been thrown overboard already. With a man -- perhaps Kerry -- expected to be nominated to head the State Department, wouldn't it be nice for President Obama to nominate the nation's first female secretary of defense?
And what do you know -- there's even a popular, exceptionally qualified woman already out there: Michèle Flournoy. Full disclosure: I worked for Flournoy from 2009-2011. But I think that makes me more, not less, qualified to sing her praises. I didn't know her well when I started working for her in April 2009, but by the time I left more than two years later, I had come to respect her enormously.
They say "no man is a hero to his valet," but Flournoy was a heroine for virtually everyone on her staff, which ought to count for something. She's calm, honest, and knows the Defense Department inside out, which would let her get off to a running start. She's served in the defense departments of two administrations, and spent her time outside government in defense-related think tanks. She's married to a retired Navy officer, and has a first-hand understanding of how military life affects families and servicemembers. She's earned the respect of the military's old boy network, and the devotion of the young women and men committed to making the Defense Department a better institution for everyone.
And, Mr. President? She's even a Democrat.
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