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If the marketers have their way, this could be the year that everyone talks tuna. The Tuna Council, which is made up of the "Big Three" U.S. tuna canners, along with the Thai tuna industry, launched the Tuna the Wonderfish! advertising campaign in January, with the goal of growing a category that has been declining since 2003, says Gavin Gibbons, director of media relations at the National Fisheries Institute in McLean, Va.
Even though canned tuna is still the second-most popular seafood in the United States, Gibbons says that with the exception of a slight bump in sales between 2007 and 2008, the industry has watched sales slide for nearly a decade.
Thus, Gibbons says, "the group felt it was time to do a reminder campaign" touting the healthy and easy-to-prepare messages of canned and pouched tuna. Chicken of the Sea, Starkist and Thai tuna suppliers backed the program, which involves a TV campaign, print ads and online marketing. San Diego-based Bumble Bee Foods, which was acquired by Lion Capital in December for $980 million, is also a member of the council and a participant in the marketing program.
John Sawyer, senior VP-sales and marketing for Chicken of the Sea, says canned tuna "remains core to customers' plans and consumers' purchasing behavior." The industry is seeing gains in convenience packaging, such as peel-and-eat cups and pouches, and both albacore and light tuna sales remain strong, "particularly in a difficult economy when consumers are looking for cost-effective protein sources," says Sawyer.
The ads will run throughout the year, says Gibbons, and then the council will evaluate whether to renew the program or not. An out-of-home marketing segment, aimed at 20 health clubs around the United States, is also part of the Tuna the Wonderfish! program, he says.
In addition to a reminder about tuna's versatility, Gibbons says the commercials take a light-hearted approach to delivering the messages of heart health based on its omega-3 content and weight management associated with tuna consumption.
In a similar vein, the Oregon Albacore Commission has its own marketing campaign in the works, according to Nancy Fitzpatrick, executive director of the group, which is based in Lincoln City, Ore.
The commission, she notes, hired Watershed Communications in Portland, Ore., to help prepare "a more pointed message" about albacore. "We want to alert the public that Oregon albacore is sustainable, well managed and [Marine Stewardship Council] certified," she says.
Once the key talking points have been established, the commission and Watershed will then develop a new marketing approach that could be unveiled this summer, she says.
The commission has long provided recipes and brochures to retailers and exhibited at trade shows or done sampling in stores. It also has an ongoing project with fishermen who sell directly to the public during the season, she says. The organization's website lists the boats by port so consumers can contact them about direct purchases.
Last year, the Oregon albacore catch was about 10 million pounds, says Fitzpatrick, which was about average. With that much tuna to work with, she says the goal is to increase domestic sales as well as improve fresh tuna sales by explaining that tuna loins and steaks are easy to prepare. "These are all messages we hope to be working on," she says.
According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, 2009 albacore landings reached nearly 28 million pounds, followed by bigeye at approximately 11.5 million pounds, yellowfin at 6.1 million and bluefin at nearly 2 million pounds. Other tuna species caught in U.S. waters included skipjack and blackfin.
Additionally, Fitzpatrick says the new campaign will address the issue of methylmercury in tuna by using recent scientific data about how the higher selenium levels in the fish can counteract the negative effects of mercury. Albacore, yellowfin and skipjack tunas all have high selenium-to-mercury ratios.
Internationally, more than 60 countries produced fresh or canned tuna in 2010. Through November 2010, the leaders in tuna exports to the United States were Thailand, which exported 307.7 million pounds, followed by the Philippines with 61.6 million pounds and Indonesia with 56.5 million pounds.
Charlie Nishimiya, tuna branch manager for Maguro International in Gloucester, Mass., deals primarily in bluefin, bigeye and yellowfin tuna, both domestic and imported. This year, he says, cold weather and winter storms are keeping boats off the water, resulting in a poor catch. Spanish bluefin and farmed bluefin from Mexico both command a higher price, he says; the former because of the weak dollar and the latter because of lower supply.
Southern bluefin has also been targeted by the Center for Biological Diversity for endangered species status, in part because of the impact of the Gulf oil spill on its breeding grounds. An official NMFS review is under way.
While Nishimiya concentrates on East Coast tuna procurement, in the winter imports come from Thailand and Vietnam. "The yellowfin usually comes from Vietnam," he explains, although with this year's supply the quality wasn't comparable to that of other seasons.
For Gary Lim, controller at Taiwan Seafood & Fish Corp. in Los Angeles, prices for fresh and frozen tuna have been higher compared with last year. "Supply is a little short," he says, so imports are running $6 a pound or more.
Costs are also up, he says, because buyers and ultimately consumers are more selective about what they are buying. "They are more educated and are more picky," he says. And because of this demand for quality, Lim says he doesn't see prices coming down anytime soon.
Tuna is a commodity business "and prices fluctuate based on energy costs, supply and demand," says Chicken of the Sea's Sawyer. "We're fortunate to have a very seasoned procurement team that's pretty savvy when it comes to forecasting. That, in turn, helps us manage our costs pretty well and is instrumental in our relationships with our customers."
While canned tuna still dominates sales, Lim says Taiwan Seafoods' fresh tuna business has been building since the early 1980s. His customers, who are wholesalers selling to restaurants and supermarkets, prefer yellowfin, which is geared to American tastes and preparation methods, he says. The Japanese market prefers bigeye and bluefin, he notes.
Americans like yellowfin because it is a firm fish that can take a sear, he says. "Bigeye tends to be slick and Americans aren't sure how to deal with that."
Since he began working in the industry in 1987, Lim has seen more and more restaurants adding tuna to their menus. "Even with restaurants that don't do sushi," he says. From white tablecloth to chain establishments, "everyone is offering it."
Retailers are also keeping tuna in their cases year-round, even though its appeal is stronger in the warmer months.
Both frozen yellowfin and top-grade fresh tuna are staples in the seafood department at Pennington Quality Market in Pennington, N.J. Denise Byzek, seafood department manager, says in the colder months, people back away from tuna because they use it primarily for grilling. And that's also how she recommends customers prepare it.
"I tell them to keep it simple: The simpler, the better," says Byzek.
The yellowfin has been selling for $10.99 a pound, although she did offer it on special at Super Bowl time. The fresh tuna, which was coming from Panama or Vietnam, sells for $18.99 a pound.


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Wow - what a stretch to know what Romney's intent was when that incident occurred in 1960. That's pathetic journalism.
Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man's haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed by his classmate's new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the gang tackled him. The boy screamed for help, but none came. Lock by lock, his hair was lopped off.
Soon after, the boy disappeared from school. Eventually he returned, his hair clipped short and back to its natural brown color.
There was no disciplinary action, but the incident would forever haunt everyone involved save for the lead attacker, Mitt Romney. He forgot about it, married a pretty girl, produced five handsome sons and made hundreds of millions of dollars. Now he wants to be president.
Gay kids have long been a target of bullying. Until recently, incidents could be laughed off as "pranks" and no one suffered any consequences — save for the gay kid. But in the last few years, that has begun to change.
Some say it started the night Tyler Clementi leapt from the George Washington Bridge in September 2010. He'd just discovered that his roommate at Rutgers University had used a webcam to spy on a kiss he shared with another man. Police found Clementi's body seven days later.
Clementi wasn't the only gay kid to commit suicide that September — there were ten in all. Asher Brown, a thirteen-year-old boy from Cypress, Texas, shot himself in the head with his stepfather's Beretta. Seth Walsh, thirteen, hung himself in his rural California back yard just a half-hour after his mother had rescued him from a gang of bullies.
"It is a totally unnecessary tragedy for my children," says Wendy Walsh, Seth's mother. "I don't know where all the hate comes from."
Now bullies everywhere are being held accountable. Dharun Ravi, the roommate who spied on Clementi, was charged and found guilty of a hate crime; last week he was sentenced to thirty days in jail. The Department of Justice brought harsh sanctions down on Walsh's school district, and the local legislature passed "Seth's Law," making it mandatory for schools to formally investigate bullying claims. News of fifteen-year-old Billy Lucas's suicide inspired the creation of the It Gets Better campaign, a web video series designed to show gay kids that there's a better life after graduation.
"That September woke a lot of older, grown-up LGBT members to the fact that while it had gotten so much better for us out in the world, there had been the inverse effect of upping the temperature for kids in school," says Dan Savage, the alternative-weekly sex-advice columnist who started It Gets Better. "I really do think it shifted the culture."
The world swooned earlier this month when President Obama gave gay marriage his personal blessing, but his administration's efforts to combat bullying may actually be his more valuable contribution. Under his direction, the Department of Justice has vigorously pursued schools all over the country for failing to protect gay kids. Obama also endorsed the Student Non-Discrimination Act, a bill introduced by Senator Al Franken of Minnesota to make homosexuals a federally protected class.
"It gives them sort of the same civil rights as racial minorities got from the '64 Civil Rights Act, that women got from Title IX," says Franken. "I think more people are beginning to see this for what it is.... This is a group of people that just overwhelmingly are the victims of bullying and harassment."
When it comes to gay bullying, society seems to be experiencing something of a paradigm shift.
"I compare it to what happened in the South in the civil-rights movement," says Jamie Nabozny, the plaintiff in the country's first gay-bullying case. "The fall of 2010 will be comparable to what happened in Selma."
******Until recently, the only classroom conversation about homosexuality and kids was concerned with how to keep them separate. In the '70s, teachers were routinely fired for coming out of the closet. There was no such thing as a Gay-Straight Alliance in school.
The arrival of AIDS in the '80s forced sex-education programs to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality. That, in turn, triggered a righteous panic. In 1987, Republican senator Jesse Helms took to the Senate floor brandishing a Gay Men's Health Crisis comic as part of his successful bid to ban federal funding for AIDS education materials that "promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities."
Eight states still have language on the law books derived from Helms's "no homo promo" policy. In Texas, sex-ed classes are required to teach that homosexuality is "not an acceptable lifestyle and is a criminal offense." In Arizona, the law forbids schools from portraying homosexuality as "a positive alternative lifestyle."
"There was this fear that if you were talking about gay people, you were having inappropriate conversations with students about sex," says Kim Westheimer, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Welcoming Schools project.
The gay-rights movement began to push back in the '90s. An openly gay teacher in Boston named Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to help educators who wanted to offer counsel to gay kids. In 1999, a judge affirmed that Gay-Straight Alliance clubs had a right to gather on school grounds.
Wow - what a stretch to know what Romney's intent was when that incident occurred in 1960. That's pathetic journalism.
you want to find gays on campus? look first toward the athletic department and then to the administrators...youll find plenty of them there
I went to university in the Anoka-Hennepin section and the only factor about this that amazed me was that someone is lastly doing something about it. A lot of violence went on toward a lot of children for a lot of different factors and the educational institutions never did anything to try to quit it as far as I remember. Sometimes personal instructors would but the section as a whole didn't really health care all that much about their learners.
Lets all throw a pity party and elevate them higher on the Victim pedestal.The only thing lower than these social lowlifes are the whiners who encourage them.GROW UP and quit looking for reasons to be a crybaby.Life's hard.....It's even harder when your Stupid.
Most bullies have always been bullies from an early age. Corporate Bully Romney now wants to be President Bully Romney, having been Schoolhouse Bully Romney. Whether it was a gay kid or a fat kid or a forgeign kid or nerd kid is unimportant, bullying is unacceptable. It is the idiocy of power over those who have none, and it is un-American to allow ANY underdog to suffer ill treatment by those who gain their glory at the expence of those who cannot defend themselves.
I'd like to publish some of these comments -- even Wilk's -- in our print letters to the editor section, ideally with full names/towns. If that's okay, e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
gays are a center target for a lot i wonder if "brad" has ever been harassed in his life ... its nice to know that so much is being done about bulling in all spectrum's and one day maybe we wont have so many annoying dipsticks bulling and harassing people cause of the differences there are between them ....... there is still a lot we can do and a lot more should be done........... westword best blade of grass growing i have read keep up the good work
Hate to break it to you Westword but there are others living in this world who also get harassed besides gays. It seems to me you couldn't possible comprehend the idea of leaving the homosexual issue alone for 10 minutes and writing about other issues. Here is a small list of people who get harassed on a daily basis in our public school system.
Fat peopleSkinny peopleShort peopleTall peopleJewish peoplePeople who wear thick glassesNerdsFashion victimsVirginsGoths and freaksSluts
and the list goes on and on. Your articles are about as boring and dull as watching the grass grow. I think you can spare the general public from your next worthless article..."Cross dressing gays don't always feel accepted while riding the bus".
I went to school in the Anoka-Hennepin district and the only thing about this that surprised me was that someone is finally doing something about it. A lot of bullying went on toward a lot of kids for a lot of different reasons and the schools never did anything to try to stop it as far as I recall. Occasionally individual teachers would but the district as a whole didn't really care all that much about their students.
I wonder how newspapers like Westword survived without weekly stories promoting gay, marijuana, and goth newslines! Patty, you should be ashamed!
i'd like to see your comment after your gay son comes home beaten and bloody from bullying or your daughter is raped just to show her how "real men" take care of women...its knuckle draggers like you that perpetuate this kind of behavior...too bad you had to miss germany in the 30s...youd have really liked that
You're pretty stupid and really pathetic (and really confused).
Wilk the Moron has written in the past:
"It is not the duty of DPS to feed the world. Those kids need to carry lunch and eat breakfast at home like kids have done for two hundred years in this country. Their parents have set a great example of freeloading. Let's not teach the kids to do it for the next 75 years. And how many illegals are we feeding this week?" - Sigh... I hope you're never mistaken for a humanitarian or anyone with a soul. Quick, someone get the garlic and a wooden stake!
"These two are so anti-business that I can't believe the liberal Denver Post, mouthpiece for the N Y Times, has the guts to publish this article! Time after time, these hens vote anti-business. I can't believe the residents of Degette's district are stupid enough to fall for her extreme style of Socialism...unless they are all on welfare!" - You probably used a dictionary to look up socialism, but I don't think you really know what it means. Ask a Frenchman what socialism is and if we have it here in the US. We don't, you backwoods, redneck idiot.
"The very students that need abstinence only instruction are the very same students that fail in school, produce babies like rabbits, drop out, and are dependent on the government for the rest of their lives. They are raised w/o self control and are happy to display no self control when faced with sexual situations!" - Huh. That seems like a liberal idea. Are you a closet liberal, Wilk? It's said that some of the most anti-homosexual individuals out there are secretly gay and that their stance on homosexuality is meant to draw attention away from their true selves. I think you've just proven that the same concept applies to you, but you're hiding something a little different.
To top it all off, you're reading the Westword. You must be a gay stoner goth. You probably also like fish sticks. You probably like to put them in your mouth.
Dirty Dave thinks its ok to be cruel. I wouldn't want to be part of his family or his pet.

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Lesley University presents major installation artist Mark Dion as the fall Strauch-Mosse Visiting Artist Lecturer on October 29
Friday, October 18, 2013
Dion is a major North American artist known for his meticulous installations and featured in the celebrated PBS series "Art 21." The free talk, titled "On Collecting Things, Collectors, and Collections," will be held on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7 p.m. in the Boston Public Library Rabb Auditorium, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.
For more information or to register, visit www.lesley.edu/markdion. In addition to the public lecture, Dion will visit classes and connect with students at Lesley during his visit.
Mark Dion's sculpture, installation, photography, and works on paper, along with his writings, teaching, and institutional collaborations, explore the historical practice of organizing and studying the world. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and London's Tate Gallery, among many others.
According to Roberta Smith of the New York Times, "Mark Dion has spent more than two decades blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, science and art, natural and artificial, not to mention people's need for order and their tendency to sow chaos."
Dion engages in collaboration and dialogue with the communities in which his work is presented, such as archeologists digging along the Thames, a flock of arborists, or construction workers. Once he collaborated with members of Seattle city government to bring a mammoth Redwood into a custom-built greenhouse to allow the flora and fauna to continue to live within its fragile eco-system, nurtured by manmade systems.
His work is currently featured in Lesley University's fall 2013 exhibition, "Beyond the Wunderkammer," curated by Bonnell Robinson, which runs through October 30.
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. Dion's work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The artist's spectacular and often fantastical curiosity, modeled on Wunderkabinetts of the sixteenth century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001). He has had major exhibitions at Miami Art Museum (2006); the MoMA, New York (2004); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003); and Tate Gallery, London (1999). "Neukom Vivarium" (2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Dion lives and works in Pennsylvania.
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The forecast is good for Friday night, the first night of A Downtown Christmas, from 5-9 p.m., including Santa's Village, Christmas Tree lot, evening shopping, holiday wagon rides to "Shop Stops," hot beverages and goodies, seasonal music and movie and an ice skating rink!
All events are free unless otherwise noted. Take your own picture with Santa. Purchase your Christmas tree at Santa's Village from All Good Produce. Hot Dogs, funnel cakes and hot beverages available. Tour the open shops and events on the Holiday Hay Wagon Ride (sponsored by Deans Farm). Watch "Elf" on the outside screen in the Farris & Farris Parking lot and purchase hot chocolate and popcorn from the Wilson Police Department fundraiser. Holiday music and commentary from the Courthouse Plaza provided by Dave Perkins of Jammin' 99.3 radio. Imagination Station Science & History Museum ($5/person; 3 & under/free) and Whirligig Conservation Headquarters (free) open.
The Ice Skating rink is located at the corner of Tarboro and Pine Street in the parking lot beside the Wilson County Tax Office. $2/person. Skates provided.
The Holiday Hay Wagon will run continuously to allow embarking/disembarking at 5 "Shop Stops" located at:
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Riders will be given a map with open stores and event schedule.
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A Banker's Holiday Wilson Art Center 7:30 pm., Friday, Annual holiday gala featuring "The Men of Distinction" on the Arts Council Pavilion. Five local caterers: SOCO, City Marketing Cafe & Catering, Quince, Jac's Grill and Carolina Cheese Company and Tickets available at all local bank branches, the Arts Council of Wilson and at the door. $70/person. Dress to impress.
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If you've morphed into a boss from hell, you're going to lose more than a popularity contest. Mean or devious bosses will "experience low productivity, employees who will not make decisions, high turnover and the inability to recruit a quality staff," predicts Toni Talbot, owner of Human Resource Management Services in Williamston, Michigan. "Bosses from hell will eventually end up taking the company to hell because no company can survive that kind of management style. Not today, not in this economy." If you had a wretched boss who treated you like a galley slave, relax (a little): Chances are, you've already sworn never to treat your own employees that way. But if you worked for a tyrant and stayed on his or her good side, you may have subconsciously decided the tyrant's tirades weren't a bad way to go.
As with watching the gazelles on a National Geographic special, there are signs that can clue you in that the animals are upset. (By the way, tip No. 1: Never refer to your employees as "animals.") Few people likely aspire to be the boss from hell. Sharon Jordan-Evans, co-author of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, suggests three warning signs of unhappy employees:
1. Avoidance behavior. "If this person doesn't ever seek you out, chat with you, share information readily with you, those are clues that the employee isn't comfortable with you. It doesn't mean you're a jerk; it might be you're just not very approachable."
2. Visible drop in productivity and morale; increased absenteeism. "If people don't seem very enthused, it's time to look in the mirror because very often it has to do with the boss."
3. Heavy turnover. "If you had a revolving door, wouldn't you get the idea that you have something to do with that? But I can't tell you how many bosses don't get it. They say 'Yup, that's just our industry.' And they don't even check. Or they blame it on the age group: 'Well, they just change jobs all the time.' They find other excuses."
Geoff Williams has written for numerous publications, including Entrepreneur, Consumer Reports, LIFE and Entertainment Weekly. He also is the author of Living Well with Bad Credit.
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Quick Snapshot of Gun Safety
Here is a little article that outlines some safety measures for keeping a firearm in the house.
Read it here
The Brady Campaign Has Gone Full Derp.
A friend of mine enlightened me on a recent posting on the Brady Campaign's facebook page. Please see exhibit "A"
That is the picture that was posted and see exhibit "B" on the screen capture of their facebook page.
So it seems the Brady Campaign is saying that rape only lasts 30 and all is over? Women that have been sexually assaulted have a difficult time carrying on normal lives and the emotional scars run deep. There have been rape victims that committed suicide because of the emotional torment.
Are we to believe that their soultion is to become a victim and night fight back because of some sheep mentally?
Please feel free to chime in.
A Duty And A Challenge
This past weekend I took my five year old daughter in the backyard and did a little .22 LR shooting, its a benefit of rural living. Taking the opportunity to teach her basic gun safety and handling. If you can imagine, daddy loaded the little 22 Cricket for her, helped her aim ,and told her to pull the trigger. It gave us a little father daughter time and also enabled me to teach her about firearms.
It occurred to me while teaching her about guns that its our duty to educate our youth on the proper handling of firearms. As well as teach them about an Americans constitutional right to keep and bear arms. It also reminded me of an article that Jennifer wrote about a conversation that she had with a young lady.
Its our duty and our responsibility to educate our kids about firearms and safe handling. In a world of common misconceptions about firearms, we have to teach them before pop culture does.
So to the readers I challenge you to educate your kids and also take someone that has never shot to the range and teach them our sport and past time. So much of the fear of guns comes from a lack of understanding and education.
Lets change the face of the gun culture one shooter at a time.
Open Carry Day.
Went to eat... nothing happened.
Went to the book store... nothing happened.
Went to the "organic" market... nothing happened. (though I was avoided)
Went to the local gun shop... Duh..
Went to a woman's clothing store with the wife... Nothing happened.
Went to the video game store... Nothing happened.
Went to Steak House for dinner... Nothing happened.
Went to Liquor store for night cap... Nothing happened.
Went home... Had a good day!
Valuable lessons…
I was having trouble deciding where to start. After a weekend like none I've had before, where I had the opportunity to do things most people in my position could only dream of. From firing the Barrett .50 cal and the M16 the same weapons use by our brave men and women overseas. To classic open bolts like the Grease gun, shooting preferred gangster gun the Tommy gun, to even taking a Rangemaster Pistol class. These were experiences, that before this weekend, were doomed to only be dreams.
Secondly the people were amazing everyone had a warm smile and a hearty handshake. It was truly good company and coming away many new friends is only secondary to the knowledge that there are many other people that value our freedoms as much as I do.
As I sat at my desk back at work on Tuesday, Fat and happy from a good Memorial day, I pondered what was the best part of the whole experience. There were just too many things battling for this spot in my mind to put my finger directly on one.
Only after the smoke had cleared and the last brass had gone cold did it finally occur to me what was the most memorable experience of the whole thing. Needless to say it came as a bit of a shock to realize that be best experience of the Luckygunner blogger shoot wasn't that of my own.
It had been nagging me non-stop since Sunday, this little voice in the in the background describing every firearm, describing every target in minute detail, speaking about every shooter with crisp detail. The thing is the voice wasn't my own.
Every time I would look at a video of this weekend, view photos or read a blog post about it there was a comforting pressure at my back reminding that there was something more that I was missing that was more important then shooting all the firearms, meeting all the people, or the training I received from RangeMaster.
The most important thing about this weekend was the impression that it left on my son. He had been talking about it non-stop since Sunday, he spoke lovingly about the "cool holster" that was worn by Jennifer and made by Michael. He has been carrying around my copy of Arcturus signed my MJM and pretending he is reading it. He has been wearing the safety glasses that Tam Gave him on Sunday, I even had to take them off of him when he fell asleep in bed on Sunday. He has been begging me to watch the RangeMaster DVD we got after the training.
I truly didn't realize how much fun he had and how much of a truly positive experience this had left on him until Tuesday night when I found these drawings in his notebook. As you can see he has drawn the luckygunner shirts we were wearing, the range, and him shooting the Kel-tec .22.
Above all the magnificent firearms I got to shoot this weekend, it was the humble 10/22 and Olegs Kel-tec PF-9 with the Twisted Industries .22 conversion that made the lasting impressions that will last a lifetime. It's weekends like this that will make him a lifetime firearm enthusiast and shooter. Though him and my wife only showed up because we had checked out of the hotel on Sunday and they were just hanging out till we were ready to leave that little bit of time it all it took to make a truly lasting mark on a young mind.
The people at Luckygunner, Magtech, Sellier & Bellot and Rangemaster, have done in one weekend what I could never do in my back yard. It truly brings a tear to my eye knowing that even though I had the experience of a lifetime my son had a better time then me.
I truly must thank Luckygunner, Magtech, Sellier & Bellot and Rangemaster for helping me as a father show my son the joy of shooting, better than I ever could at home. You have earned the loyalty of my family for helping me be the best father I can, you are the reason my son will be a shooter for life.
Heading out to the Blooger shoot.
Getting ready to walk out the door to the Luckygunner blogger shoot this weekend. We will be posting photos and videos of the festivities. So stay tuned for some fun times. Meanwhile here are some videos and links to keep Y'all interested till we return.
When You are ready to take on the RESPONSIBILITY of CCW. PLEASE ensure that you attend training to be a effective and safe user of the tool.
FBI: 5.5 percent drop in violent crime
According to the FBI violent crime has dropped 5.5% over the last year, according to one criminologist (James Alan Fox) the declines signify success for aggressive law enforcement and corrections programs and comprehensive crime prevention efforts. He said the crime levels could easily rise if the current environment of state and local budget cutting extends to law enforcement measures that are working.
(BWahahahaha I'm sorry i couldn't keep a strait face)
They seem to be puzzled as to why crime falling.... Really?
Or is it the fact that they ignore the recent surge in new gun ownership in the US.
After all it doesn't take a genius to realize that more guns = less crime
Civilian Self-Defense Code of Conduct.
This Article is a copy & Paste from GunFreeZone.net. Sometimes you run across a bit of information that is so good it would be a travesty to rewrite it. I wanted to get the information out again so here it is. This is only highlights please go to GunFreeZone to read the whole thing.
I have chosen to be the First Responder of my Own Safety so:
- It is my responsibility to respect Innocent Life. And the first Life to be respected is my own.
It is more comfortable to lay the responsibility on somebody else (Police, security) that take it oneself. But at the end, it will be the individual who had the ability but chose not to exercise it the one responsible for the loss of an innocent life.
- It is my responsibility not be controlled by extreme emotions.
Don't let the opponent's emotion dictate your behavior and do not let your emotions get you in bigger trouble. Self Defense is also a thinking process but we must do the thinking way ahead of time because when the bell rings, you only have seconds to survive.
- It is my responsibility to train & learn any techniques that will allow me a chance to survive.
start with the basics and that would be NRA's Basic Pistol Class. After that you can start searching for a local instructor in Defensive Shooting or again try the NRA's Personal Protection Inside the Home and Outside the Home. A good source for information might be an Internet firearms forum where you can ask other shooters where to find somebody and what kind of instructor he/she is.Also and a great help would be to take up some competitive form of action shooting like IDPA, IPSC, USPSA, ICORE, etc. Any of these sports will teach you to shoot on the move and from different positions plus will add a slight shot of adrenalin to your range time. It beats being bored to death at a static range limited to one shot per second.
- It is my responsibility to keep and hone the skills I acquired.
If you are one of those, I ask you to go to the range, set up a target at 7 yards, set up your rig as a normally do for every day carry and draw and shoot the one perfect shot. The one perfect shot is defined as the one that will stop a Bad Guy for good. It is the shot that will save your husband/wife/kid from imminent death, it will save YOU. And you don't have all the time in the world to do it! Now, if you make that shot, cold bore without a fuss, great you can either be frank and admit it was the luckiest shot in the world and know that you did not account for the crapload of adrenalin that should be running through your veins during a Lethal Force confrontation plus other goodies that will affect you. You will also admit that you have been lax in your practice and shame yourself in retaking those basic drills and even look for some extra instruction.
- It is my responsibility to keep my equipment in good condition.
A simple turn of a screw (or lack of it) may mean the difference between a life-saving moment or an Oh Crap!
Challenge their morality and their love for themselves and their family. THERE IS NO MORAL SUPERIORITY ON BEING UNARMED. Police cannot respond on time no matter how dedicated they are and most just arrive to draw the chalk line around the corpses or to call the paramedics to see if they can plug the bloody holes in the bodies.
It is my personal opinion that this should be read by anyone willing to own a firearm BEFORE they choose to do so. As said in the article Quoting the late Colonel Jeff Cooper.
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
MRE's and malaise.
These last two weeks have been tough on everyone here in North Alabama, I work and live in the Huntsville/Madison area and Brokentrace Lives in the Cullman area, other than Tuscaloosa these are the two hardest hit areas around. There are definite hard lessons learned as far as emergency preparedness is concerned that I'm glad I learned in this situation and not in something even more devastating.
Lesson #1 Having supplies are good but not if they are in a safe place. A good friend of mine lost most of his house, he told me about how he had his camping equipment freeze dried food with water sitting in his garage waiting for the day he needed it. Unfortunately his garage and all of its contents were taken by the tornado, with all the cans of freeze dried food being so light they were blown everywhere and most of them were useless. The only things left were the 5 gallon jugs of water.
This made me rethink the location of my food stores, I quickly moved them to the center of the house in a area that I reinforced as a tornado shelter anyway. In my house all the rooms are on an exterior wall, there isn't even an interior closet to go to, so I reinforced the area under the landing of the stairs to act as a tornado shelter. Hopefully one day I will be able to build a proper one.
Lesson #2 Communications, having Cell service was fine for the first day or so was OK, but once the batteries and generators on the cell towers started to die the service went down hill VERY quickly. At one point I was assisting the salvation army with their communications using my 2 meter HAM radio.
Having a 2 meter mobile radio was the best ways of communicating after the storm since cell service was out and no power for Internet we could only get updates from people 60 or so miles away with TV and Internet to relay us info.
Having to sit in the car to communicate was a bit taxing so a Handheld is a definite must get for next time. something with 2 meters and 70 centimeters that has a rechargeable and a standard AA battery pack, an external antenna is also a must in this situation.
Lesson #3 Though I didn't run out of fuel I would have been more comfortable with more. I had 2 quarts of Kerosene for hurricane lanterns and general lanterns. I got an extra quart from a friend with a Kerosene heater when it took both quarts to fill all of the lanterns I had.
Propane is a second. though one bottle of propane for the grill was enough I quickly learned that there wasn't any to spare around, when I went out looking for some I couldn't find it anywhere so I will try to have at least 2 bottles for next time.
Coleman Fuel or "white gas" I will get one more gallon for my camping stove and lantern, one gallon was enough but now if I need it again I will be short, along with more matches and lighters.
Lesson #4 a power inverter is a great thing, with a small 175 watt power inverter and a 12v to USB adapter I was able to keep all my rechargeable items charged, from laptops for my son to watch movies on to cell phones. Though one around the size of 1000 watts would have been better, at least that way I would have been able to charge several items at once, Also I will be getting a set of solar panels and a charge regulator to recharge car batteries to run these items rather than using fuel to do so.
Things done right. I have 6 cases of MRE's and several other dehydrated food stores available and 4 cases of bottled water with 10-1 gallon jugs. with that a grill and a camping stove, hot water and food prep was covered. In fact as things started to thaw in the fridge we ate better the first couple of days in order to prevent the food from going to waste.
I had enough ammo to defend my family if need be from looters or people that wanted what we had, but not enough for a long duration SHTF scenario, this will be remedied soon from luckygunner.
Why would you NOT arm you wife or daughter?
The acting could be better but the points are well made.
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Hi, this is the first time growing lima beans and it looks like they are quite productive. Just having a hard time deciding how to harvest. Should I wait until the pods get rubbery to harvest, or do you pick as they plump? It's been hard to tell which are big enough. Alternatively, do some just let them dry on the bush? Thanks, Adam |
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- Posted by farmerdill 8a Ga (My Page) on Wed, Sep 14, 11 at 12:44
Nice looking beans, as always, farnerdill! Are those bush? I read cangreen is bush. Are they pretty easy picking? |
I pick green limas every 2 days...3 at the most as I love the greener and more tender ones rather than the larger starchier ones. I raise Fordhook 242 bush |
- Posted by farmerdill (My Page) on Wed, Sep 14, 11 at 16:24
- Posted by perrynewbegining MD (My Page) on Sat, Sep 24, 11 at 19:29
Planted limas for the first time this year. (Fordhook 242) Mine were slow to grow, and started falling over when they were 6" to 8" tall. Got annoyed with them and just let them go. The plants at the ends of the rows grew up through the fence, and flourished. The directions on the seed packet said nothing about support. We like the larger limas, but are apprehensive about trying them again next year. A lot of work for the few we got, but they sure were good! |
I just let the plants lean over. Mine have produced pretty well and are still going strong. The early ones are large plants now. The bush beans have produced far better for me than pole beans which quickly "top" out, but the bush beans are more indeterminate. |
- Posted by caroliniannjer ColumbiaSC (My Page) on Mon, Sep 26, 11 at 12:07
About support for bush lima beans: down here in SC ours seem to be growing much bigger than expected (well... certainly much bigger than they used to up in NJ). So a little support is helpful, unless the rows are very widely spaced. But they don't need much support--a bit of netting strung between posts is enough. |
Bumping this thread. My first time growing limas, and they're getting ripe to pick now for fresh beans, but getting the pods open is a trial. They don't pop like pea pods, they don't zip open. I'm beginning to dread the prospect of shelling all those beans. |
You can get pretty good at it. |
I just press my thumb into the middle of the non-curved side and open it apart. |
- Posted by farmerdill (My Page) on Tue, Aug 6, 13 at 21:02
Don't follow you? Most varieties of lima beans shell easily when full, certainly easier than an English pea, southern pea. or green shellie. There are a few varieties that have a shell that resembles shrink wrap but not many. |
OK, perhaps my difficulties in shelling these things indicate they aren't quite ripe to harvest yet. Although the beans do look ready once I extract a few. I want them as green shellies, not dried beans. |
Well, I am reposting how to shell those green limas after picking and shelling some today. Twist the pod and it will open some...pick the beans out. I pick every 2 or 3 days to keep them tender. Nickle sized beans are great in the Fordhook 242. The first set is near the base and I notice that young one are setting on the top as a second set. |
Sorry, I or it made a duplicate. |
This post was edited by wayne_5 on Wed, Aug 7, 13 at 12:42
Some lima varieties are much easier to shell if you cut a narrow strip of the curved edge of the pod away with a sharp knife. Don't eat limas raw. Like many legumes, they have toxic properties when raw. |
These Jackson Wonders are more like dime sized, which I think they're supposed to be. I'll go out tomorrow and see if I can extract any, |
So these are the limas. I'd rather have them on the smaller side, as baby limas, but it's a lot easier to shell them when they've grown larger. Still have to say they're harder to shell than peas. |
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As Pamela Margles notes in her review of of Angela Hewitt's newly released Bach: Art of the Fugue in this issue of The WholeNote (page 77 of the print edition) "it was four years ago that Hyperion released all of Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt's recordings of Bach's solo keyboard works as a 15-disc boxed set. It was a huge project, but it didn't include Bach's monumental late work, The Art of the Fugue."
"That is when everyone started writing to me of course," says Hewitt. "You know, why haven't you done The Art of the Fugue." She hadn't even performed it before then, she says, let alone contemplated recording it. "Growing up, it wasn't even really considered a keyboard piece, or even anything you performed much. For one thing it had long been considered something of an academic work – Bach seeing what he could do with fugues, double fugues, triple fugues, mirror fugues. And there was the fact that in the first edition it was written as an open score, one voice per stave, like a string quartet."


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An informal survey by the Chicago Tribune showed this to be bad news to most residents but not a surprise. They preferred to pay rent and were not looking forward to moving. Marina City architect Bertrand Goldberg, who was 64 in 1977, did not approve of this parceling. He said each entity was dependent on the other. Condominiums would be offered to residents first. Existing leases would be honored, meaning that some residents had close to a year to decide whether to buy or move. On September 15, 1977, Marina City Sales, Inc., a new company led by Charles Swibel, announced condominium units would be offered for between $26,000 and $80,000. Studios would be priced from $26,000 to $34,000. One-bedroom units, $42,000 to $56,000. Two-bedroom units, $74,000 to $80,000.
The group complained about high-pressure sales tactics, including sending sales literature to residents in an envelope with THE END IS COMING written in large red letters. When sellers refused to release the full text of an engineering study, tenants hired their own engineer to inspect the building. Several cases of deferred maintenance were found. Marina City said the repairs were minor and they would make them, but they would not put this in writing. Against what totaled $32 million in mortgages on the entire complex, Marina City was expected to gross $41 million from the sale of condominiums. (Today, the residential units have an estimated combined value of about $200 million.)
Enter Fast Eddie Three years later, on July 8, 1980, a class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court charging Charles Swibel with monkey business in the condo conversion. The suit charged that a city council ordinance, supported by 10th Ward Alderman Edward Fast Eddie Vrdolyak (a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1989 and in 2007 was indicted in a fraud and kickback scheme) allowed Swibel to make very large profits by selling 50 condo units to Vrdolyak at bargain basement prices.
It required city council approval because the original Marina City was a planned development, a special zoning package, explains Howard Swibel. It required a change in the plan that it was going to be privately-owned apartments. So the city council had to approve it, but why would the city council not approve it? Swibel points out that his father was given the task of selling 896 apartments as quickly as possible. So they were looking for investors people who werent necessarily going to be individual residents but might be, basically, bulk purchasers. Vrdolyak, says Howard, was a friend of his fathers. They dealt with each other all of the time. He said hed be willing to borrow the money from the bank to buy the units. He paid the list price, there was no discount. And he got the same kind of financing package that other people were able to get from Continental Bank. And then there were the missing assessment records Three days before the 1980 class action lawsuit was filed, it was learned that several assessment records from 1978 for a portion of Marina City owned by Charles Swibel were missing from the Cook County Assessors Office. They were found the following week. The deputy assessor, Arthur Murphy, said the assessment for that part of the building was not affected, and the missing information could have been reconstructed. Swibel still owned the first 19 floors of both towers, which was used mostly for parking. He had sought to lower his property tax assessment, based on income statements. There were charges that Marina City was under-assessed because 25,000 square feet were missing from the total square footage noted by the assessors office. However, Murphy said that by basing the assessment on the propertys income, the amount of land was not relevant. |
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We caught these two big titty chicks chilling out by the pool getting some sun on their big ass nattys! We got there just in time to see them lather eachother up in baby oil! What a sight! My boys and I had a blast with these two huge racks! Nothing better than titty fucking and hitting skins while lounging poolside!!


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Reiki & Seichem
Receiving a Reiki and Seichem treatment is a deeply holistic healing experience. It treats the mind, body and spirit connection. Our current state of health is a reflection of how energy is flowing within our body. If we are feeling below par or have an illness or disease, energy flow is hindered or decreased. Reiki and Seichem Healing works to strengthen the body's energy levels and restore the natural immune system: harmonising the body and mind.
How does a Reiki & Seichem treatment work?
In a session, the practitioner places their hands on the client with the intention to send healing. The Reiki & Seichem energy begins to flow automatically. The energy (because of its universal consciousness) will communicate with the client's inner life force (Qi) and find any blockages. The client is encouraged to relax and enjoy the soothing, warm sensation of energy flowing through them.
The Reiki & Seichem energy flows into the body through the chakras. These are 7 main energy centres within the body that regulate the flow of Qi and take in the universal life force energy and transform it into subtle energy. They radiate the Qi outwards and around the system through meridian pathways which carry the healing to other parts of the body. When the energy finds a blockage, it clears it.
When should I try Reiki & Seichem?
Most can be helped by using Reiki & Seichem. The treatment works well as a stand-alone session, but is also excellent when combined with complementary therapies such as acupuncture and nutritional therapy for example. Reiki & Seichem may aid relief of symptoms for a variety of illnesses:
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What happens during a Reiki & Seichem Session?
The client lays down on a massage bed fully clothed. The practitioner then place their hands on or above different parts of the body. The practitioner uses their intuition and is guided by the universal energy to move their hands to where needed during the session. The session will often finish on the head or feet in order to ground the patient and bring them gently back to wakefulness.
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