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Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) is a genetic disorder. It occurs when a fatty substance builds up in the brain. This causes progressive destruction of the brain. There are three forms:
Given the best of care, all children with the infantile form die by the age of five.
TSD is caused by the absence of an enzyme. This enzyme is needed to break down a fatty substance called ganglioside (GM2). As a result, GM2 builds up. The build up in the brain causes damage.
TSD occurs when both parents pass on the faulty genes. A person can have just one copy of the faulty gene. In this case, there are no symptoms. The person is called a carrier.
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There is presently no treatment for TSD. Treatment is aimed at managing symptoms.
There are no known ways to prevent Tay-Sachs disease. If you are a carrier of the gene that causes TSD, you can talk to a genetic counselor before deciding to have children. Prenatal testing during the first trimester is available.
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St. Petersburg's Parkshore Grill is hosting a Niman Ranch Dinner on Monday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. The dinner consists of an amazing meal prepared by Chef Tyson Grant. The cost is $99 per person. Those attending will enjoy delicious food and a night you will not soon forget. You will also help preserve and maintain Zoe's Edible Garden.
The garden is located outside the front door of All Children's Hospital. As it grows, it is yielding much more than fruits, vegetables and herbs. For young patients, it offers a chance to get outdoors and learn more about where healthy foods come from.
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Diva Maldives. September 17th 2011. Regarded as the highest accolade within the luxury hotel industry, the "World Luxury Hotel Awards" (WLHA) 2011 has declared Diva Maldives as the Best Luxury Beach Resort -among a selection of properties from across the world.
Hosted at the world-renowned Regent Esplanade Zagreb Hotel in Zagreb, Croatia on September 16th2011, the glitzy gala ceremony of WLHA turned on the spotlight on some of the world's most sought hotels, resorts and private islands and it was well attended by a swanky audience of industry personalities and hoteliers.
World Luxury Hotel Awards designates its winners after deliberation of an international panel of judges made of industry experts, and analysis of guests' feedback collected through direct experiences, social media and on-line reviews. The WLH awards create a distinct benchmark on global scale within the industry, by recognizing properties that have taken that extra step in quality and service standards. "WLH awards believe that the overall guests experience is one of the most critical factors in a hotel's measure as a luxury property" says Marinique Truter, Manager of WLH awards.
With a winning combination of flawless facilities and service excellence, as well as world class dining experiences and a genuine attention to details, Diva Maldives shined among luxury hotels and resorts from all corners of the world: Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Mauritius, UAE, Italy, China, South Africa, Cook Islands and certainly the Maldives. "Our passion and attention to details is what we believe makes Diva Maldives the most idyllic island resort" says Dominik Ruhl, the resort's General Manager "a vision that enable us to set a difference in service and turn obsolete luxury into bespoke personal experiences".
At the heart of one of the largest marine protected areas in the country, Diva Maldives is located in the South Ari Atoll just 25minutes by seaplane from Male. Boasting 193 villas and suites in 8 different categories, from villas on stilts overlooking the lagoon to beach villas, the resort embraces the beauty and warmth of this tropical island while offering 7 outstanding restaurants and 6 bars, water sports activities, rejuvenating SPA and wellness center and world-class diving and snorkeling.
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Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke is taking a page out of the President Harry S. Truman book on accountability. The buck stops with Locke when it comes to spurring innovation across the country.
Locke is promising major changes in his own agency as part of the major initiatives the Obama administration is taking to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship in the private sector.
"The country's innovation engine is not as efficient as it needs to be," Locke said last week at the first meeting of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Commerce Department. "When the innovation engine is not working, we don't turn ideas into businesses and we don't create jobs."
To that end, Locke said Commerce will initially attempt to fix two areas: reduce the time it takes to approve a non-Food and Drug Administration patent by two-thirds, and get research and innovation clusters grant funding awarded within a month.
Locke said he wants to get non-FDA patents approved in 12 months. Currently, it takes PTO almost three years on average.
"We know how important it is to being able to attract the investment if you can show you have clear title to that invention or innovation," he said.
Locke also wants Commerce's Economic Development Office to get grants out in 30 days starting January instead of the almost 288 days it takes now.
The end goal, Locke said, is to make commercialization of federally-funded technology happen more quickly and more easily. He pointed to two common examples, the Internet and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) systems, as government investment that translated to big changes commercially.
Commerce is help leading another effort to promote the concept of commercialization. The department along with the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation are running the i6 Competition where they are giving out $12 million, $1 million each to six teams and $1 million each to six small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, to drive technology commercialization and entrepreneurship in their regions.
"We all have to do a better job, and that is why we formed the council," he said. "You are our advisors. The competitive advantage we as a country once had is being matched by others around the world. We just have to look how other governments are putting power behind companies to compete."
Council members are from an assortment of areas - universities such as the University of North Carolina and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, R&D companies such as SRI international, venture capitalists, consultants and owners of companies such as Robyn Chase, who founded Zipcar. Steve Case, the founder of AOL, and Mary Sue Coleman, the president of the University of Michigan, are the co-chairpersons of the council.
"Often times the government is a test bed for innovation," said Ginger Lew, a senior counselor in the White House's National Economic Council. "Since the 1990s, the Defense Department has been an aggressive purchaser of mesh networks and other technologies through the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Hundreds of small businesses have been invited in to sell their technologies and services to DoD, and it's a way many technologies have helped DoD."
Aneesh Chopra, the federal chief technology officer, said the administration also is focusing on advanced technology infrastructure, including widespread broadband deployment and a goal to double the amount of spectrum for mobile broadband by 2020.
Council members didn't let Locke, Chopra, Lew or any of the administration presenters get away without offering some advice and tough questions.
Ken Morse, chairman of Entrepreneurship Ventures, the co-founder of 3Com and Aspen technology, said the government needs to be a more active customer and use its power of the purse to promote the new technologies.
Tom Albert, managing director of Madrona Venture Group, a venture capital fund, agreed with Morse, but also gave agencies credit for being an active buyer of cloud computing services. Albert, however, said one area where the government hasn't driven the market is with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Morse also added that the government needs to pay more quickly as small businesses can't wait 60-to-90 days or longer for money.
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Mostly I use Chrome as my browser, but for some internet radio (pandora) and for my wallpaper/screensaver program (webshots), Internet Explorer is explicitly preferred by the site. Lately, however, whenever I open a second tab in IE (in order to check out the lyrics to a song, or to download a photo from webshots), the dw20.exe screen appears, asking me if i want to Allow or Disallow it to run. I've clicked both. Nothing happens, the little window just keeps reappearing whenever I try to open a second tab in IE -- which it won't let me do. And that has made IE pretty much unusable even for radio (I can only listen to a station, but can't get further info on a song, which requires another tab) and, most painfully, for wallpaper and screensaver downloads -- I can't download any new photos, since that requires a second tab. The dw20.exe screen keeps appearing and won't let the second tab even open, much less load. I've looked for help online but all the help seems dated, referring to Window XP or Vista, but never to Windows 7. Anyone know how to rid me of this beast? Thanks.


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Big Brother Season 15, Episode 14 Recap
Tonight's episode should be pretty basic and lackluster. Covering the 24 hours after Arryn's dramatic HOH victory, there will be just a little bit of shuffling and gaming. Since Arryn quicly acquiesced to the promises she made earlier in the week, the real focus tonight will be filler segments and the Have-Not competition.
So we start off tonight with a look back at Kaitlin's departure. Arryn is happy that she succeeded in staying. "I'm extremely proud to have figured out a way to get the majority of people on my side after pretty much being on the bottom of the barrel." Helen hopes that Arryn holds up her side of the bargain, and accurately reads CBS's cliche of the night. "I hope I didn't just make a deal with the devil." Elissa is not happy, and slowly drawls how the pressure of the house made her vote out Kaitlin. Howard echoes a similar thought, but more succinctly.
Andy then gets his token, and much desired, spot on the episode, babbling about how Kaitlin set a record in leaving after her eviction. "I'm sure that Jeremy is waiting with open arms on his boat."
We then move to the HOH competition, and Elissa's futile effort to beat Arryn. "I went from being on the bottom of the barrel to the tip top of the mountain", she sort of exclaims. GinaMarie shows the real enthusiasm, but she's virtually impossible to understand as she goes on about her "BB bunny". There's also a funny shot as Arryn hugs everybody, but her and Elissa both avoid the uncomfortable moment. Elissa is "speechless", and the world is thankful.
Helen, though, is worried that Arryn won't stand up to her promise to put up Howard and Spencer. We get a shot from earlier in the week of them shaking on this deal before moving on to Candice saying "I just want to throw up. Are you serious?"
Arryn and Jessie head into the bathroom to celebrate, and Jessie says she has to play like they're best friends this week. Meanwhile, Candice is straddling Howard, complaining that her and Elissa will probably be put up. Howard says they're just going to have to "kiss butt". Candice also knows about the "game-changing deal", and we get another shot back in time as Jessie informs her of the deal. She tells Howard, and he promises not to tell anybody.
Spencer is now shown talking to Arryn. He wants to make a deal, but she says she has to wait to hear from the house. She tells him that she doesn't want him to go home, and says she respects him. She also says she's under pressure to put up Howard, but doesn't really want to do that. She has no alliance, so she has to make people happy. This pisses Spencer off, but he still looks at her ass in the final shot.
Helen now grabs Arryn and pulls her into the storage room. Helen congratulates her, and then tells her that Candice knows about their deal. We get another shot from the past as Candice asks Helen about that a few minutes before the eviction. Helen complains that Candice was "threatening" her, but she clearly wasn't. They both know that it was Elissa who informed Candice, and Helen is furious. Maybe putting Elissa up isn't a bad idea, and while not against it, Helen says her name has to be out of that conversation.
Elissa and Candice are now complaining about Arryn, who conveniently walks in. Elissa gives her pure glaring looks through the mirror as Arryn wanders around the kitchen. Arryn complains in the diary room how Elissa makes it harder on herself. She did, after all, promise to not put her up. she could at least try to be cordial. Yeah, right.
Fluff time, as the "who wants to see my HOH room" music comes on. Everybody is hiding from Arryn, though, which at least adds another little twist to a boring segment. They finally go in, and there are laughs and fake cheer. Zzzzzzzz! Oops, there is one moment of awkwardness as Arryn complains that Candice has her saying "aks" instead of "ask". Oh boy.
Helen is now holding court in the cockpit room, telling Judd, McCrae, and Amanda about Candice knowing the Arryn deal. She's pissed at Elissa! "I hate to say this, but we have to get her out." Yeah, right.
Fluff time, as we now watch the burgeoning relationship between McCrae and Amanda. Seriously, while I like her I don't need this garbage.
Spencer now heads up into the HOH for his official "kiss the ring" moment with Arryn. He wants to "defend" himself to her, and says that if he wins HOH he would not have put her up. Arryn doesn't believe it, but Spencer says that the house needs to have a "power shift". Again, Arryn says that to save herself last week she had to make deals she didn't want to make. Spencer rebuts this idea of a HOH that is nothing more than to gain protection, and he doesn't believe he'll be safe after this week. "There are other people in the house that can give you more protection", he says. "I'm not mad at you...yet."
It's Howard's turn to state his case, and he complains about the "lies" that are coming out about himself and Candice. She then tells him about what Candice has been saying about her deal with Helen, but confirms that she has to do what they say. She claims that she doesn't want to put After commercials, it is time for a CBS tie-in competition. Sirens scream, and everybody runs to the living room. Somebody named Poppy Montgomery, from an unknown CBS show that just happens to be premiering tonight, is on the screen. Andy claims he knows who she is ("she's a ginger"), but it's doubtful anybody else does. She introduces the Have-Not competition, and they head outside.
It's a police station motif, and after a scripted quip from Judd, this Poppy person gives them their instructions. It's a two-part competition, and I don't really care. Sorry, folks, but I never recap what happens. It's always the same. Diary room stuff is nothing but how they don't want to be Have-Nots, and reading the rules over and over. The results are that this week's Have-Nots are Amanda, Judd, Candice...and GINAMARIE!!! Finally, she has to move out of the bed she shared with Nick TWO WEEKS AGO!!!
When we return to the show, it's more fluff. Elissa is doing stretches, and complaining that there is no gym. Jessie, who is also in the room, doesn't respond. We get more shots of Elissa stretching and doing yoga throughout the house. "I'll do it anywhere." Ugh, why? Why?
Silliness over, Candice is again complaining to Howard. He thinks that they have a chance to save the game, and that if she has something to say she should say it. Wait, what? You're the one who has been telling her to keep quiet! They want to force Arryn to put up Amanda and McCrae. "Go take your bed", he says. "Now you can go get your bed." Perfectly dramatic moment, Big Brother editors.
So Candice does just that, but I have to interject here. This conversation I'm about to recap actually took place way earlier. It happened before the Have-Not competition. It happened before her conversations with Spencer and Howard. Hours earlier, in fact. It was so early in the day that most feed watchers didn't see it.
Candice then comes into the HOH, where Arryn is in the bathroom brushing her teeth. She sits down and complains about how "certain people are running the house", and that this is a crucal week that should result in a big move. Arryn counters that she has "to make the most amount of people happy". She adds that she doesn't want to put up Howard, but a lot of people aren't happy with him. Candice pleads with her to break up Amanda and McCrae, but Arryn won't even consider that as she is the main person who has helped her. Candice claims that Amanda is actually working to put her up next week, but Arryn says she has a "Candice switch" and she doesn't really pay any attention to what she says.
Candice heads back downstairs and tells Howard that she won't put up Amanda and McCrae. She believes they're both going on the block, and Howard says that's not how it sounded last night. Candice is now upset that she may have taken the heat off him and onto her. "That's fine, Howie. Whatever. Have a great life. Whatever happens, happens." Yes, she feels used. He asks if she thinks he's running a game on her, and she backs away from him. "Let's just not talk about it." She wants him to leave her alone, and he walks off.
Andy is now upstairs with Arryn and a number of others, pushing for Howard and Spencer to be put up. Arryn says she is considering putting up Elissa, but Andy says she can't. "Howard and Spencer are such schemers", he says. Andy walks out, and Arryn complains how stressful it is to be in this position. Jessie says she'll be completely supportive of whatever she wants to do, including putting up Elissa. Arryn complains that she's not a "direct target" of either of those men, but she always will be Elissa's main target. Jessie counsels that she should do what is best for her game, not the house's game. (It's interesting how they're making it sound like there was ever this kind of deep thought about going after Elissa.)
The hour is almost up, so it's time for the moment of truth. Arryn still makes it sound like Elissa is a possibility, and brings in everybody for the ceremony. The first key she pulls belongs to GinaMarie, and is then followed by Jessie, Andy, Elissa (who gives a weird look), Candice, Helen, McCrae, Amanda, and Judd. Yes, Howard and Spencer are nominated!
Arryn says it's "nothing personal", and it's what is "best for my game". The show then ends with Howard and Spencer both saying that it's not over yet for them. Elissa, meanwhile, is "shocked"! Helen is happy that Arryn stuck to her deal, but reminds us that MVP could screw up the whole plan.
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How did the idea for this production come about?Rigoletto has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years. One of the things I discussed with Peter was to try and make the audience feel closer to the story—without setting the opera today, which dates something automatically. It's about finding the right setting in a context that's in the past but not so far in the past that it feels like a museum piece. That way it can have real, immediate resonance but also a kind of purity and universality. So I tried to imagine what a contemporary version of the decadent world of the Duke's palace would be—where people are partying and fascinated with power and money and beauty—and I thought of Las Vegas as the epitome of an American destiny for the events that happen in Rigoletto.How do Verdi's characters fit into that world?I thought the Duke could be a Las Vegas star who has his own fabulous casino and puts on shows, who entertains the masses, makes a lot of money, and provides entertainment for his gigantic entourage, of which Rigoletto is a part—an important part, because he keeps everyone happy and is constantly throwing barbs around. In 1960, when our production is set, Las Vegas sort of shifted. The Mob started to become more clearly affiliated with the town, there was a major influx of Arab money, and there was also a real shift in the relationship to women. It was a sensibility that women were there as sexual objects. Rigoletto has this beautiful daughter whom he loves, and he's trying to keep her protected from all of the temptation and the sex and the drugs and the booze and the money and the organized crime and all the cultural decadence of the day—it just seemed that the story really lined up when I looked at it that way.Describe some of the visual elements you and your design team came up with to tell that story.The opera opens at the casino, with a typically over-the-top, extravagant night of pleasure. There are roulette and blackjack tables, one-armed bandits, cigarette girls and dancers, and lots of men with a lot of money, and lots of women who are arm candy. There's a free-flowing exuberance of liquor and power and drugs and sex everywhere. Later, when Rigoletto goes to find his daughter, we transition to what I think of as a smaller hotel out in the desert, far away from the Duke's casino and from the Strip. One of my favorite solutions is in the abduction scene, where we use elevators instead of the ladder that usually leads over the wall into Rigoletto's home. Also, we have a car to take Gilda's body away at the end, instead of lugging her to the river in a sack. The idea that you'd dump the body in the trunk of a car and drive it to some little gulch somewhere way out in the desert seemed really probable to me.How does it feel to take on such a familiar opera and do something so different with it?It is daunting to approach a beloved classic in such a bold way, but it's also really liberating, because Rigoletto has proven its ability to sustain itself in the face of hundreds of different interpretations over the years. It's like a Shakespeare play, or any great work of art—it can reveal new elements every single time you see it. And it's up to us, as interpretive artists, to help illuminate the story in new ways for new audiences. It's something I've been really conscious of in my theater work, and I'm very excited to bring that approach to the Met. I really believe that the intent behind each action in Rigoletto translates very beautifully to the world that we're creating. It will take a little bit of a leap for some people to go with us, but I think if they do, it will be a very satisfying evening. —Edited by Philipp BrielerThis interview was first published online in January 2012 and in the Met's Playbill in February 2012.
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ELON – Through the collaboration of an Elon bar and a well-known regional brewery, one lucky home brewer will have his American Pale Ale on tap in Alamance and Guilford counties come January.
On Saturday, The Fat Frogg bar and grill in Elon hosted a home brewer's event, announcing Patrick Collins, of Greensboro, as winner of the first "Fat Frogg and Natty Greene's American Pale Ale Brew Off."
"I've been brewing for about four years now," said Collins. And though he's won second- and third-place in other contests, Saturday's contest was the first he won.
Collins said he not only hopes to win when he enters contests, but"it's a great way to learn to become a better brewer." He said, "You get a lot of great feedback from judges."
Anyone was eligible to enter the competition. Peter Ustach, co-owner of Fat Frogg's, said there were about 25 entries.
"Some applicants entered multiple beers," Ustach said.
For example, East of Elon Home Brewing Cooperative, submitted a few of its members' brews for judging. Ian Baltutis, founder of the cooperative, Justin Lee, and Victor Heorst – all of Burlington – submitted "Twin Eagles," "Fire & Brimstone," and "Acrimonious Amarillo Ale," respectively.
Baltutis said about two months ago, "We had a marathon brew day," where the group's members all worked together to create each of the three contest entries. Afterwards, Baltutis said, "We did some of the fine tuning and the fermentation work."
Applicants weren't just from Elon, Burlington or Mebane. Ustach said home brewers from High Point to Hillsborough participated in the competition.
He said most of the participants began submitting their entries last Monday, and Ustach took them all to Natty Greene's in Greensboro on Thursday for judging.
In addition to Ustach, Natty Greene's owners, Chris Lester and Kayne Fisher, Director of Brewing Operations Sebastian Nesson Wolfrum, Head Brewer Scott Christoffel, and Brewery Representative Justin Whitaker tasted the beers and narrowed the candidates down to the top three.
"There's an official style called the BJCP," Whitaker said, explaining the entries were judged based on the Beer Judge Certification Program's guidelines for American Pale Ales. "We judged it on One: appearance; Two: taste; Three: aroma, and Four was the overall finish of it," he said.
Collins looks forward to enjoying his "Halfway Hause" brew at his local Natty Greene's brewpub early next year. "I go there quite a bit," he said, adding Natty Greene's told him they'll try to make the beer available at his other favorite bars in Greensboro.
"It's going to be pretty cool to walk into a bar and order my own beer," Collins said.
"The beer will start getting brewed in January," said Ustach. Natty Greene's in Greensboro will brew 30 half-barrels of "Halfway Hause" for sale in brewpubs in Greensboro, Elon and probably Burlington, Whitaker said.
He explained half-barrels are the standard keg size, and Collins will meet with Christoffel in Greensboro when they begin brewing the 1,500 liters of Collins' concoction.
"We're going to … quadruple the recipe," said Whitaker. He added that Collins will get to meet with Natty Greene's graphic designer to help create a label for his brew's tap handle, which will accompany the beer to various locations in January.
Though the competition's winner is from the same city as one of Natty Greene's locations, Whitaker said the brewing company's intent was to reach out to several community's home brewers.
"We kind of like to branch off in different places," Whitaker said, adding that Natty Greene's will probably continue to sponsor community brew-offs in the future. For now, though, the brewing company has to keep the competitions limited, since producing the winning brew "takes up one of our regular brewing cycles."
Whitaker said Natty Greene's brewpubs in Greensboro and Raleigh will serve "Halfway Hause," as will Fat Frogg and Pandora's Pies in Elon. He said Piedmont Ale House in Burlington may also have the beer on draft, and he'll be looking for more local bars interested in serving the winning brew.
"It's kind of unusual for a contest to offer brewing (the winning beer) and putting it on tap as a prize," said Baltutis, adding this was the second contest East of Elon members had entered. He said the group has been meeting every other Sunday for the past three years, and the contest concept is new to them.
However, Baltutis said East of Elon will continue entering contests like Natty Greene's in hopes the group can get some of its brews – like its heritage recipe for Lithuanian beer – produced and enjoyed locally.
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2013: Started all 19 games at either center back or center midfield … Ranked third among field players in minutes played with 1,782 … Went the distance in 13 games … Helped anchor Duke's defense to eight shutouts … Selected to CoSIDA Academic All-District III Team … All-ACC Academic Team.
2012: Saw time in all 18 games with 14 being starting assignments … played in both the midfield and on the backline … tallied a goal against No. 1 Maryland … had an assist in win over Georgia State … played 1,139 minutes overall … helped Duke post nine shutouts and a 0.70 goals against average … played the full 90 minutes in four games … All-ACC Academic Team … ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2011: Played in all 22 games and started 21 at center back ... helped anchor the defense to six shutouts ... ranked second on the team in minutes played with 1,992 ... registered his first career goal in 4-1 win over Presbyterian (9/27) ... added a goal versus Boston College (11/11) in ACC Tournament semifinal ... earned his first career start at Furman (8/29) ... went the distance in 17 of his 22 games ... selected to the All-ACC Academic Team...ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prep: Ranked 35th by TopDrawerSoccer.com in the class of 2011 and third in the region ... A member of the United States Under-18 National Team ... Plays club soccer for DC United Academy squad ... Also was a member of the Potomac Academy squad ... Participated with the U.S. Under-18 squad in training sessions against Major League Soccer teams in February 2011 ... Four-year letterwinner for Georgetown Prep ... Also a standout basketball player for Georgetown Prep.
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Grady Newsome, of Naugatuck, had to be extricated by the jaws-of-life from her 1998 Buick Park Avenue by firefighters and first responders with the Chattaroy Volunteer Fire Department and the Williamson Fire Department, following the accident which is believed to have totaled her car. Newsome was complaining of back, neck and chest pain and appeared to be in a dazed and confused state of mind as she was being loaded into the Mingo County Emergency Services ambulance. She was transported to the Williamson Memorial Hospital for evaluation and treatment.
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The decision by the Secretary of State to make Garburn Pass, between Troutbeck and Kentmere, a 'restricted byway' follows three years of legal argument.
It means that any motorist or motorcyclist using the pass is committing a criminal offence and could face serious legal consequences.
The inspector went through hundreds of pages of documents ranging from maps of 1822, guide books of the 1880s, and photographs of motorbikes using the pass in the 1920s.
The Lake District National Park Authority has also announced that thanks to around £55,000 of Government funding invested in repairs following the 2009 floods, the pass is probably in better condition than it has been for hundreds of years.
"The storms of November 2009 badly damaged both sides of the pass, especially the western side where the track effectively became a river, and most of the surface ended up on the main road," said National Park Countryside Access Adviser Nick Thorne.
"We were able to obtain significant funding under the Paths for the Public Project, funded by Defra, the Rural Development Programme for England, and Cumbria County Council. And we have now completely rebuilt the worst affected areas in three stages with the work being carried out by our own staff, the National Trust, and a local contractor."
THE Bassenthwaite Ospreys have moved home to live in marshes nearer to Bassenthwaite Lake.
After successfully nesting at their treetop summer home at Dodd Wood since 2008, the pair decided it was time for a change and have been gradually building a new nest since returning from their wintering grounds in West Africa.
Fortunately, the new site is visible from the Dodd Wood viewpoint so visitors can still enjoy watching the birds of prey this season.
Ospreys are normally faithful to successful nest sites, so the move was a bit of a shock for staff at the Lake District Osprey Project (LDOP). This is only the second time staff have seen the ospreys change nest in the project's 11-year history.
Nathan Fox of the RSPB's Lake District Osprey Project, said: 'It has been an interesting and exciting start to the season, with the birds deciding to move. We have been working closely with local landowners and farmers to make sure that the birds are fully protected and therefore have a good chance of raising their chicks."
A PAIR of ospreys have returned to their nesting site in the Lake District. The birds are back at Bassenthwaite Lake - 10 years after the first male osprey chose the area for a nesting site.The bird, known as No Ring, was the first to nest in the Lakes for 150 years. Experts say he has returned with the female he paired up with for the first time in 2007.
It is hoped the birds will rear an 11th generation of young after two male chicks were produced last year.
Graeme Prest of the Lake District Osprey Project said: "It is wonderful news that the ospreys have returned for another season and have already mated. With a bit of luck, the female will be laying her eggs soon."
Almost 100 people are part of a volunteer project to provide 24-hour observation on the nest. They also engage with the public about ospreys at the Dodd Wood viewpoint and Whinlatter Visitor Centre.
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Surviving the wrath of the fearsome Sauur—a hideous race of invading serpents—noble Erik and cunning Roo have delivered a timely warning to the rulers of the Midkemian Empire, and are now free to pursue their separate destinies. Erik chooses the army—and the continuing war against Midkemia's dread enemies. Roo lusts for wealth and power—rising high and fast in theworld of trade. But with luxury comes carelessness and a vulnerability to the desires of the flesh. And a beautiful seductress with her ruthless machinations threatens to destroy everything Roo has built and become—summoning catastrophe into his future . . . and terror into his world.
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Salt Creek - 06 April 2008 08:52 AM
This is so draconian, even I cannot underwrite it. Is a bacterium alive? Is a virus alive? It's [Life] not the opposite of anything, but rather a particular configuration of a set of atoms and molecules.
since I don't think your a pantheist how is this not a materialist view that there is no such thing as life/living just different "configurations of atoms"?
One way of looking at it is to consider life as a system of auto-catalyzing and cross-catalyzing biochemical reactions taking place inside a membrane open to the passage of matter and energy and capable of self-replication and response to changes in its environment such that it is subject to evolution by natural selection. There, doesn't that pare away some of the magical thinking associated with this discussion?
OK, so lets define things that meet the above as Life, and define things that don't non-life. Agreed. Then show where it is logically incorrect to assign 0 to non-life and 1 to life.
Not semantics, actually. I offered you in all seriousness a set of criteria to use for talking about life.
Did I leave something out, or are you just acting out the role of some amateur philosopher trying to distill the essence of existence for the nth time?
Unless you are anyone is born with all the answers to all the questions then we are all just amateur philosophers trying to distill the essence of existence. The difference between any two is a matter degree and not the kind that you hang on the wall.
Do you want to understand how "death" occurs? In a single-cell organism it is because that system of reactions stops. In a multi-cellular organism, you can see that cell division has stopped.
Do you think your the only one who understands and/or has an idea of life and death? All the rest of us oboe playing, oxygen thieving, ignorant fuck wit rubes think its magic….......


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Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative— The White House developed the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) in 2008 — including the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) Initiative and Einstein 3 intrusion detection and prevention program. It was the first governmentwide policy to address the threats and challenges in cyberspace.
U.S. Cyber Command— The Defense Department brought together all of its cyber expertise and resources in command. It also gave the military services a way to coordinate and share data on threats and best practices.
DoD Information Sharing— DoD created the Defense Industrial Base pilot to enhance the security of the defense supply chain. It also put the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) on the map as the DIB front door helping to fuse DC3's forensics capability with the National Counter Intelligence Center and the law enforcement community.
Cyber coordinator— The creation of the position in the White House and within both the National Security Council and National Economic Council was a recognition of both the importance of cybersecurity and the threat the nation faces. It also lifted cybersecurity to become an issue the most senior managers recognized as important.
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Continuous Monitoring— The State Department demonstrated how it could move monitor its networks in near-real time and increase their security. For instance, State performed world- wide patching of the Google security vulnerability within days. Agencies also are submitting data feeds about the status of their networks to cyberscope.
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DHS Responsibility Grows— The Office of Management and Budget gave the transferred the operational authority of the Federal Information Management Act (FISMA) to DHS in July 2010. DHS now has a more active role in FISMA oversight, will implement continuous monitoring and uses blue and red teams to ensure agency networks are secured. Additionally, DHS established the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCIC) in 2009 as a coordinated watch and warning center to address threats to the nation's critical infrastructure.
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Hidden-camera footage obtained by Mercy For Animals Canada exposed rampant
abuse and neglect at Maple Lodge Farms, Canada's largest poultry producer. The
graphic video shows birds frozen alive, scalded, violently shackled, and cut open
while conscious and able to feel pain.
This was not the first time Maple Lodge Farms violated the law. In 2013, the
company was convicted of causing undue suffering to thousands of chickens during
transport and slaughter. MFA Canada is demanding the company immediately adopt
meaningful animal welfare policies to address the extreme animal abuse
The investigation generated widespread media coverage, beginning with an
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Actress and outspoken animal advocate Pamela Anderson narrates the video from
this graphic undercover investigation into a poultry supplier to Gordon Food
Service—the largest private foodservice distributor in North America.
While still conscious and able to feel pain, birds are violently shackled upside down,
painfully shocked with electricity, and sawed open at the throat. Shockingly, these
abuses are considered standard and legal because chickens are not protected by the
federal Humane Slaughter Act.
The investigation received national and local media attention, including from
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MFA is calling on Gordon Food Service
to implement meaningful animal welfare policies to end the worst cruelties in its
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Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix teamed up with Mercy For Animals to narrate this new undercover investigation at a Seaboard Foods-owned pig factory farm and pork supplier to Walmart. The disturbing video footage shows pregnant pigs locked in tiny metal gestation crates, unable to walk, turn around, or lie down comfortably for nearly their entire lives, and workers slicing off the tails and ripping out the testicles of piglets using dull razors and their fingers.
Following the release of the investigation, the Twittersphere exploded with celebrity tweets calling on Walmart to stop the torture of mother pigs. Jessica Chastain, Jenna-Dewan Tatum, Sia, Pam Anderson, Emily Deschanel, Mayim Bialik, Leona Lewis, Russell Simmons, Moby, Kate Mara, Ellen Pompeo, Elizabeth Berkley, and many other prominent celebrities joined the chorus of compassionate voices everywhere in asking Walmart to let pigs 'live better.'
This undercover video, recorded at a Koch Foods chicken factory farm and slaughterhouse, shows workers carelessly grabbing birds by the legs, wings, and necks and then violently slamming them into transport crates, chickens hastily shackled upside down before having their throats, wings, and chests sliced open while still conscious and able to feel pain, and thousands of animals scalded alive in hot water tanks.
Koch Foods was a supplier to Chick-fil-A, the highest-selling quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the country. Sam Simon, the terminally ill co-creator of The Simpsons, narrated the undercover footage calling on Chick-fil-A to implement meaningful animal welfare standards to prevent some of the worst abuses chickens raised and killed for its restaurants are forced to endure.
An undercover investigation by Mercy For Animals exposed workers at a dairy supplier to Great Lakes Cheese—one of the largest cheese producers in the country—viciously punching, kicking, and beating cows. It also revealed workers hacking off cows' tails with pruning shears, shooting them in the face and nostrils with high-pressured water hoses, and dragging them by their necks with ropes attached to tractors.
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Following undercover investigations by Mercy For Animals, charges of a total of 49 counts of criminal animal cruelty were filed against 10 workers at two livestock auctions in Mississippi Pontotoc Stockyard and Southeast Mississippi Livestock. Using hidden cameras, MFA's investigator documented sheep, goats, pigs, and other animals being kicked, shocked, beaten, dragged by their ears and tails, and deprived of food and water.
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A Mercy For Animals Canada investigator uncovered criminal animal abuse at the largest dairy factory farm in the country Chilliwack Cattle Sales in British Columbia. Workers were caught on video viciously kicking, punching, and beating cows in the face and body, and using chains and tractors to lift sick or injured animals by their necks. Many cows were also shown to be suffering from open wounds, oozing infections, and painful injuries.
The investigation led to a raid of the facility by law enforcement and recommendations of criminal charges against eight workers involved in the abuse. The case also sparked national outrage and massive mainstream media coverage around the world, including by the
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A Mercy For Animals investigator exposed rampant animal cruelty at Butterball again. This time the abuse occurred at a turkey hatchery in North Carolina. Hidden-camera video reveals baby turkeys having their sensitive toes and beaks cut and burned off without any painkillers, workers callously throwing and dropping these fragile animals, and sick or injured birds being thrown into a pit to be ground up alive.
News of this shocking investigation broke first on Univision's top-rated news program,
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other media outlets, inspiring hundreds of thousands of people, including many
well-known celebrities, to speak out against Butterball's continued abuse of turkeys.
Sickening cruelty to baby calves was captured on hidden camera by an MFA Canada investigator at a Délimax-affiliated veal factory farm in Quebec, Canada's largest veal-producing province. Calves are seen crammed into tiny wooden crates, often chained at the neck and unable to turn around or lie down comfortably, and workers are documented violently kicking and beating them. This gut-wrenching investigation received widespread media attention, including an in-depth story on
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CBC Montreal,
and more.
Following the investigation, Quebec's veal producers federation announced it would phase out the use of inherently cruel veal crates. After discussions with MFA Canada representatives, Canada's top grocery chains, including Metro and Sobeys, committed to ending the sale of veal from crated calves by 2018. Loblaws made a similar commitment soon after. MFA Canada is now calling on the Retail Council of Canada to follow suit.
Watch the undercover video here.
Hidden-camera video exposed extreme cruelty to animals at a chicken hatchery owned by Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada's largest meat producers. The shocking video footage shows baby chicks flung by their fragile wings and slammed into metal dividers, live chicks sent through a scalding washing machine, burned, and drowned, and birds being overloaded and roughly crammed into macerators to be ground up alive.
These atrocities were brought to light by a brave investigator with MFA Canada, which resulted in extensive international media coverage, including by
CBC News,
The Huffington Post,
CTV London,
the Toronto Sun,
and The Ontario Post.
MFA is calling on Maple Leaf to implement meaningful animal welfare policies to prevent this kind of blatant animal abuse.
An investigator from MFA Canada secretly filmed workers abusing birds in filthy, overcrowded warehouses at the world's largest primary turkey breeder, Hybrid Turkeys. Workers were caught on hidden camera kicking and throwing turkeys, crushing their spines, and violently beating them with shovels and metal rods. Turkeys with open, pus-filled wounds, rotting eyes, and festering infections were left to suffer and die.
The investigation sparked an important national discussion about the plight of factory-farmed turkeys and garnered massive mainstream media attention, including from
the Toronto Star,
CTV News,
and CBC's Marketplace,
which aired an in-depth news report. MFA Canada is calling on the turkey industry to require veterinary care for sick and injured birds, install live-streaming video monitors, and ban the practice of breeding birds to grow so quickly they become crippled under their own weight.
Workers viciously kicking, beating and whipping cows in the face and body, sick and injured cows suffering from open wounds and infections, and workers dragging cows by their fragile legs and necks using chains attached to a tractor — these are just some of the routine abuses documented by an MFA investigator at a DiGiorno cheese supplier in Wisconsin.
The shocking video footage made headlines around the world through
United Press International,
NBC National News
and the Daily Mail.
DiGiorno quickly cut ties with the dairy factory farm, while MFA and a state lawmaker continue to press for criminal prosecution of workers. MFA is calling on DiGiorno not only to stop buying from this particular facility, but to implement meaningful animal welfare guidelines for all of its cheese suppliers to help prevent some of the worst forms of animal abuse in the dairy industry.
Watch the undercover footage.
An MFA investigation at a Tyson pig factory farm in Oklahoma uncovered sadistic animal abuse, including workers throwing a bowling ball at a pig's head, and kicking, throwing, hitting, body slamming, and otherwise torturing pigs. The investigator also documented thousands of pregnant pigs crammed in gestation crates so small the animals could not even turn around or lie down comfortably for nearly their entire lives.
The investigation received widespread media coverage from
NBC News,
LA Times,
Mother Jones,
and more.
The abuses caught on tape were widely condemned by animal welfare experts. Following the investigation, Tyson immediately dropped its contract with the factory farm, and local law enforcement is investigating. Tyson is a major pork supplier to Walmart. MFA is calling on Walmart to adopt new animal welfare guidelines prohibiting Tyson and its other pork suppliers from confining pigs in crates barely larger than their own bodies.
An MFA investigator documented horrific animal abuse at this major Walmart pork supplier owned by Randy Spronk, the president of the National Pork Producers Council. During the investigation, workers were seen violently slamming conscious piglets headfirst against the ground, ripping off their tails and testicles without painkillers, hitting, throwing, and dropping pigs and piglets, and confining pregnant pigs in filthy, fly-infested gestation crates barely larger than their own bodies for nearly their entire lives.
While this type of animal abuse outrages most Americans, it is considered standard practice and defended by the pork industry. Mainstream media coverage of the investigation in
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Arkansas Times,
The Huffington Post
and more depicted practices that Walmart calls "unacceptable" and prompted thousands of people to sign
the petition
calling on Walmart to ditch cruel gestation crates.
Mercy For Animals Canada shocked the nation with hidden-camera video of two suppliers to Burnbrae Farms — McDonald's Canada's exclusive egg provider. The undercover investigation revealed thousands of egg-laying hens crammed inside tiny wire battery cages, workers smashing in the heads of baby birds and tossing live chicks into trash bags to suffocate, and dead hens left to rot in cages with live birds still laying eggs for human consumption.
"W5," Canada's leading investigative news program, aired
an in-depth story
about the investigation, which was followed by massive media coverage across Canada, including by the
National Post,
The Globe and Mail,
and the Toronto Star.
The news not only horrified Canadians, many of whom did not realize that battery-cage systems were used in the country, but it sparked an important national discussion about the welfare of millions of animals who are systematically abused in the factory farming industry.
"Foie gras," which is French for fatty liver, is produced by shoving metal pipes down the throats of ducks and force-feeding them three times a day for up to three weeks. This painful process causes the birds' livers to swell up to ten times the normal size. The resulting diseased, fatty livers are then sold as foie gras. Video footage, secretly recorded by a Mercy For Animals investigator, shows the violent and often fatal practice of force-feeding ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras — an Amazon.com foie gras supplier.
Forcing metal pipes down ducks' throats and cramming excessive amounts of food into their stomachs in order to produce diseased, fatty livers is so patently cruel the practice has been banned in California and more than a dozen countries. Recognizing its inherent cruelty, major restaurants and grocers, including Costco, Safeway, Target, Giant Eagle, Whole Foods Market, and Wolfgang Puck, refuse to sell foie gras. It is time for Amazon to follow the lead of these retailers in taking a stand against blatant animal torture by ending the sale of foie gras on its website.
MFA's sister organization in Canada completed its first undercover investigation into the Canadian pork
industry, documenting the standard practice of cramming thousands of pregnant pigs into filthy, metal
gestation crates barely larger than their own bodies. The investigation also revealed workers ripping out the
testicles and cutting off the tails of piglets without any painkillers.
The extreme abuse suffered by animals behind the closed doors of Canada's factory farms sparked far-reaching media coverage and opened the eyes of millions of Canadians to the plights of pigs in their
country. The media frenzy began with an exclusive story on CTV's renowned investigative program
followed by additional in-depth coverage in
the Toronto Star,
on CTV National,
and on CBC National. From there, the shocking investigative video went viral and was seen by millions of people worldwide.
Watch the undercover footage.
Less than a year after an MFA investigation led to criminal animal cruelty convictions of Butterball
workers, a new investigation at multiple turkey factory farms in North Carolina shows that animal abuse
continues to run rampant at Butterball. Workers were caught on video kicking and throwing turkeys,
violently slamming them into tiny transport crates, and allowing sick or injured birds to slowly suffer and
die without proper veterinary care.
Massive media coverage in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving and a television advertising campaign
warning consumers about the ongoing cruelty and violence at Butterball raised awareness among millions
of Americans about the plights of turkeys killed for Thanksgiving dinners.
Hidden-camera video footage secretly recorded by an MFA undercover investigator at a Burger King
cheese supplier has led to the arrest of a manager and two other workers at Bettencourt Dairies, one of the
largest dairies in the country. Workers were caught on video viciously beating and shocking cows, violently
twisting their tails in order to deliberately inflict pain, and dragging a downed cow by her neck using a
chain attached to a tractor.
Following the release of the investigation, Kraft Foods, the largest food company in the United States,
announced a new policy requiring all its dairy suppliers to phase out the cruel practice of tail docking
cattle, among other important animal welfare policies. Unfortunately, while Kraft has taken a step to help
end many of the shocking abuses caught on tape at this dairy factory farm, Burger King — another major
food retailer linked to Bettencourt Dairies — has yet to require its cheese suppliers to make any meaningful
animal welfare improvements.
An undercover MFA investigation provides a shocking look into a Walmart pork
supplier — Christensen Farms — where pregnant pigs and their piglets are forced to
suffer lives of extreme confinement and misery. Thousands of pigs are confined to
filthy, metal gestation crates so small they are unable to even turn around for nearly
their entire lives. Workers slam conscious piglets headfirst into the ground, rip out
their testicles and cut off their tails without painkillers.
Following the investigation, Costco, the third-largest grocery chain in America, and
Kmart, the third-largest discount store in the world, announced they would begin
requiring their pork suppliers to phase out cruel gestation crates. Unfortunately,
Walmart is supporting animal abuse by selling pork from Christensen Farms and
other producers that confine pigs to cages barely larger than their own bodies.
An MFA investigator documented an ongoing pattern of cruelty, egregious
violence, and severe neglect at Ontario Livestock Sales, one of the oldest and
largest livestock auctions in southern California. Law enforcement charged the
owner and seven employees with a total of twenty-one counts of animal cruelty
after an MFA investigator exposed workers throwing, beating, stomping on, and
kicking animals. "Downed" animals — those too sick or injured to walk — were sold,
transported, and left to slowly suffer and die.
Management at this auction facility witnessed downed animals and even
participated in routine violence and cruelty to animals in clear violation of
California law. The city of Ontario's mayor and a senior councilmember declared the
abuse "shocking" and called for the owner and employees to be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Hidden-camera footage obtained by Mercy For Animals led to the arrest of Roberto Celedon for three
felony and 10 misdemeanor criminal charges related to his illegal slaughter operation in Los Angeles
County, California.
The shocking video evidence shows animals being violently pinned down, having
their throats crudely sawed open, and slowly bleeding to death. This case graphically illustrates the cruel,
inhumane and illegal abuses that farmed animals are all too often subjected to in California and across the
During a raid of the facility, Los Angeles County Animal Control officers seized dozens of sick,
injured and emaciated animals. These animals are now being rehabilitated at The Gentle Barn, a sanctuary
for farmed animals in California.
An MFA investigator documented appalling abuse and neglect at a Butterball facility in Shannon, North Carolina. Butterball workers violently kicked and stomped on birds, dragged them by their wings and necks, slammed them into transport crates and left turkeys to suffer from serious untreated injuries and infections.
MFA reached out to the local district attorney to uphold state anti-cruelty laws and to charge Butterball for its criminal violations. Using evidence from the case, the state issued a search warrant to raid Butterball. For two days authorities documented Butterball's neglect, generating extensive media coverage from CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS, and news giants United Press International, The Associated Press, Reuters, and USA Today.
Watch the undercover footage.
What's really in a McDonald's Egg McMuffin? An MFA undercover investigator exposed appalling cruelty at the fast-food giant's major egg supplier. Hidden-camera footage shot at Sparboe Farms - the fifth-largest egg producer in the country and a significant egg supplier to McDonald's, Target, Sam's Club, Supervalu, and Hy-Vee - revealed hens crammed into filthy battery cages and dead hens left to rot alongside birds still laying eggs for human consumption. The investigator also documented workers burning off the beaks of chicks without painkillers, sadistically and maliciously torturing animals, and throwing live birds into plastic bags and leaving them to suffocate.
The investigation received unparalleled international media attention - airing on ABC's Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and 20/20 - and prompted McDonald's, Target, Sam's Club, and Supervalu to immediately discontinue their relationships with Sparboe Farms. Following the investigation, MFA filed a legal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Sparboe for making false and misleading public claims regarding animal welfare practices.
Working undercover at Iowa's largest pig factory farm - which confines thousands of mother pigs to barren metal crates barely larger than their own bodies and supplies pork products to major grocery chains, including Kroger, Safeway, HyVee and Costco - MFA's investigator documented management training employees to use dull clippers to cut off the tails of piglets, to castrate them without painkillers and to throw piglets across the room - comparing it to a "roller coaster ride." The investigation also revealed mother pigs - physically taxed from constant birthing - suffering from distended, inflamed, bleeding, and usually fatal uterine prolapses, and sick and injured pigs often left to languish and slowly die without proper veterinary care.
Stirring massive mainstream media attention, the investigation also raised awareness among millions of people about how the majority of pigs are raised and killed for food in the United States.
Undercover footage from this factory farm - which raises over 10,000 calves for use on dairy farms - documented workers bludgeoning calves with pickaxes and hammers, burning out their horns without painkillers, standing on their necks, pulling them by their ears, and leaving them to suffer without veterinary care.
The investigation sparked national outrage, caused the live-cattle stock price to drop, fueled efforts to halt legislation to criminalize whistleblowers for videotaping animal cruelty and holding abusers accountable, and prompted countless consumers to consider the plight of calves born into the dairy industry for the first time.
Hidden camera footage secretly shot at a Texas fish slaughter facility revealed shocking cruelty, including workers cutting, slicing, skinning, suffocating and dismembering live and fully conscious catfish - an excruciatingly painful practice harshly condemned by veterinarians. It is now widely accepted that fish feel pain. In fact, fish process pain in much the same way as mammals. In the U.S. each year, approximately 8.4 billion fish are killed for food. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 80% of farm-raised fish are catfish, with Texas as a leading producer.
MFA contacted all 181 Texas House and Senate members to address the abuse by introducing new legislation to specifically prohibit "skinning and dismembering of all live, conscious animals" during the 2011 legislative session.
This undercover investigation exposed the inherent cruelty of crated veal production - whereby baby calves are chained by their necks in filthy stalls, where they can't turn around, walk or engage in natural behaviors. The majority of veal sold in the U.S. comes from calves raised in this abusive manner, yet five states and all 27 countries in the European Union have outlawed the practice.
Immediately following the investigative release, Costco Wholesale, the third largest grocery chain in America, adopted a policy against purchasing veal from producers that use the create-and-chain production method, and Bob Barker, Emmy Award-winning host of The Price is Right, urged consumers nationwide to boycott veal and dairy. The expose prompted Ohio decision-makers to vote in favor of a veal crate phase-out in the state.
Hidden camera video recorded at this Central Ohio dairy farm reveals sadistic and malicious cruelty to cows and newborn calves. The undercover footage exposes animals being beaten in the face with metal pipes, repeatedly stabbed with pitchforks, having their tails broken, and being kicked, thrown, and punched by employees.
As a result of the investigation, a farm worker was arrested and convicted on six counts of cruelty to animals, numerous dairy suppliers ended their relationships with the facility, support was generated for a statewide animal protection initiative, and consumers nationwide learned about the dark side of dairy production.
Calves having their tails cut off and horns burned out of their skulls without painkillers, workers hitting, kicking and shocking cows, sick and injured animals left to suffer without proper veterinary care, and cows forced to live in filthy and overcrowded sheds - these were the abuses uncovered during an MFA investigation at Willet Dairy in Locke, New York.
The investigation garnered national media attention and led to a criminal conviction on grounds of cruelty to animals, and the introduction of a bill in New York State to prohibit the cruel and unnecessary tail docking of dairy cattle.
MFA's investigation at Country View Family Farms provided consumers with a jarring glimpse into the nightmarish world of pork production, documenting the standard practice of keeping thousands of pregnant pigs confined in two-feet wide metal stalls called "gestation crates" that are so small that they could only take one step forward or backward and could not turn around or lie down comfortably.
The investigation also uncovered workers tattooing sows by repeatedly driving sharp metal spikes into their flesh, tossing piglets like footballs, and neglecting sows with untreated injuries.
Hatching over 300,000 chicks each day, Hy-Line is the largest hatchery of egg-laying breed chicks in the world. An MFA investigator documented the harsh, industrial nature of today's hatchery environment - where day-old chicks are thrown, mutilated without painkillers, dropped, and neglected to die. This investigation, which sparked international outcry, revealed the standard industry practice of throwing unwanted male chicks into a grinding machine while still alive. These chicks are useless to the industry because they do not produce eggs or grow large or fast enough to be raised for meat.
The largest egg farm in New England, this factory farm confines millions of brown egg-laying hens in tiny battery-cages - so restrictive that the birds can't fully spread their wings or walk freely. MFA's hidden camera footage exposed birds trapped in the wire of their cages and workers throwing live birds into trash bins and breaking their necks.
The investigation prompted the Maine Department of Agriculture and state police to raid the farm on grounds of cruelty. Grocery chains nationwide dropped the farm as an egg supplier, following MFA's expose
As part of a landmark civil settlement, the mega-farm pleaded guilty to 10 counts of cruelty to animals, agreed to pay over $130,000 in fines and restitution, and handed over authority to the state of Maine to conduct unannounced inspections of the facility for the following five years.
Just four weeks before California voters went to the polls to cast their ballots on Proposition 2 - a modest initiative requiring that egg-laying hens in the state be given enough room to walk, stand and stretch their limbs - MFA released startling footage from inside Norco Ranch, the state's largest egg producer. The video showed birds packed in cages so tightly that they could hardly move, live birds neglected on dead piles, and hens injured and trapped by cage wire.
Prop 2 passed with overwhelming support - making California the first state in the nation to ban battery-cages.
An egg supplier to major grocery chains across the western United States, Gemperle Enterprises is one of the nation's largest egg producers. Covert footage recorded at the facility by an MFA investigator uncovered hens left to suffer from untreated injuries and infections and workers roughly cramming birds into cages, tearing birds out of cages by their fragile wings, kicking, stomping and throwing them, and hurling them into "kill carts."
Working in the "live-hang" area of this massive turkey slaughterhouse (where live birds are snapped into shackles on the slaughter line), MFA's investigator secretly filmed workers throwing, punching, kicking and ripping the heads off of live birds.
The investigation also revealed conscious and thrashing turkeys having their throats slit - spotlighting the disturbing reality that birds are exempt from the federal Humane Slaughter Act.
As Ohio's largest egg factory farm, Ohio Fresh Eggs confines millions of hens in restrictive battery cages, where the birds live each day confined so tightly that they are unable to walk, spread their wings, or engage in other simple, natural behaviors. Undercover video from this facility reveals birds suffering from open wounds and infections, dead birds rotting in cages with hens still producing eggs for human consumption, live hens in trash bins, and other deplorable abuses that are commonplace in factory egg production.
A major egg producer in Ohio, Weaver Brothers Egg Farm subjects millions of hens to a life of deprivation, confinement, and neglect. Video footage recorded at this United Egg Producers' "Animal Care Certified" facility reveals hens coated in feces and packed in tiny cages, birds suffering untreated infections, corpses left to rot on cage floors, birds trapped in cage wire, and a live hen left to die in a trash bin.
Going Undercover with MFA: A History of Results
Mercy For Animals has achieved major, measurable successes through our investigations. Following our first two egg farm expose, Giant Eagle grocers pledged to boycott eggs from producers who "force molt" their hens — the practice of shocking hens into a laying cycle by depriving them of light and food. In response to the House of Raeford investigation, numerous employees were fired and Denny's restaurant chain ended its supplier relationship with the slaughterhouse.
Similarly, grocery giant Trader Joe's terminated its business relationship with California egg producer, Gemperle Enterprises, after MFA exposed the egg farm's merciless practices. After the Buckeye Veal Farm expose, Costco Wholesale committed to ending the sale of veal from producers who use a crate-and-chain production method. This policy will spare months-old calves from being chained by their necks inside individual two-feet-wide crates so small that the calves are unable to turn around, walk, lie down comfortably or clean themselves.
Recently, MFA investigations have helped pass landmark legislation; prompted one of the country's largest egg producers to move away from battery cages; led law enforcement to raid an investigated facility, resulting in a landmark civil settlement; raised international awareness of the egg industry's disturbing practice of killing unwanted male chicks by throwing them into grinding machines; and enlightened countless consumers through thousands of television, newspaper and radio stories.
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I want to thank the person who added the small garbage pails next to the tee signs on a number of the holes. They also spray painted the stumps and tripping hazards throughout the course. I'm not sure who did this or if they're even on the forum here, but we greatly appreciate it so thank you!
On a side note, the new course has officially been in the ground one year this month so happy anniversary Seviren!


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35 Years Ago: AC/DC's 'Powerage' Album Released
Australian rockers AC/DC were teetering on the brink of worldwide stardom when they released 'Powerage' on May 25, 1978, and though the album didn't quite get them there, it marked an important period of transition for the band and remains a favorite of many fans who feel it is an underrated classic.
Their previous album, 'Let There Be Rock,' had helped the group finally break into the all-important U.S. market, and with 'Powerage' they were poised to bring their raucous brand of heavy-blues rock 'n' roll to audiences all across America. But in retrospect, it doesn't have a standout single, and though there are many strong songs and performances, it remains frustratingly uneven.
'Powerage' marked the studio debut of bassist Cliff Williams, who replaced Mark Evans, though Evans later said that some of his performances are on the album. It's the last studio album of the classic Bon Scott era to be produced by Harry Vanda and George Young, and it features the unusually treble-heavy sound that marked much of that period of AC/DC's career.
The album is bookended by a pair of classic tracks, kicking off with 'Rock 'n' Roll Damnation' and closing with the fist-upside-the-head fury of 'Kicked in the Teeth.' Both of these tracks — along with other standouts like 'Down Payment Blues,' 'Riff Raff,' 'Sin City' and 'Up to My Neck in You' — feature the signature marriage of straight-ahead Angus Young guitar riffing and Bon Scott vocal pyrotechnics that made the band's early work so compelling.
The rest of the album's tracks are decidedly weaker. There's nothing particularly wrong with songs like 'Gimme a Bullet,' 'What's Next to the Moon' or 'Gone Shootin',' but they're fairly rote tracks that pale in comparison to the stronger material. (Note: The editor of this website, and at least one other member of the writing staff, do not agree with this last sentence. But we do believe in freedom of speech.) There's nothing on the album that's anything short of very well-played and well-sung, but the weaker tracks have a generic quality that could have come from almost any AC/DC release throughout the band's entire career.
The album's first pressing featured very different mixes of some tracks and the addition of 'Cold Hearted Man,' which would eventually see wider circulation through a series of vinyl re-releases and via the 'Backtracks' box set in 2009. The tour for the album was captured for 1978′s live album 'If You Want Blood You've Got It,' and in 1979 AC/DC broke worldwide with 'Highway to Hell,' the defining album of the Bon Scott era and the last before his tragic death.
'Powerage' is a much-overlooked album in the AC/DC canon, perhaps most significant historically as the transitional record between 'Let There Be Rock' and 'Highway to Hell.' But its legend has grown over time, with rockers from Keith Richards to Eddie Van Halen praising it as one of their favorite AC/DC outings, and with artists including Guns N' Roses, Twisted Sister, Great White and Bruce Dickinson covering its songs either live or on record.


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Carte & Plan d'accès
Port O'Call Lodge has a free courtesy bus servicing Cairns city or Cairns domestic and international airport three times a week, please contact the Lodge directly for times and availability.
Alternative transport options from Cairns city and the airport are available details are as follows:
Sun Palm Australia Coach have a frequent shuttle service between Cairns and Port Douglas which can be booked through us for AU$47.00 one-way, or Exemplar Coaches for AU$39.00. Simply provide us with your accommodation pick-up point or flight details and credit card information.
Major car rental companies have desks at the airport and offices in the city. By car the journey takes approx 1 hr 30 mins along the world-famous Captain Cook Highway with its breathtaking views.


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