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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 4, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DSP Group®, Inc. (Nasdaq:DSPG) a leading global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications, released today the following letter to its stockholders;
Dear Fellow DSP Group Stockholder:
We are pleased to inform you that with yesterday's announcement from Egan Jones Proxy Services that it is supporting the Company's slate of nominees, ALL three of the independent proxy advisory services – ISS, Glass Lewis and Egan Jones Proxy Services - have now recommended that stockholders vote the Company's GOLD proxy card.Is it just a coincidence that the three proxy advisory firms all recommend that Stockholders REJECT the Starboard nominees and vote for the Company nominees?" The answer is a resounding "NO!" They were not swayed by Starboard's false accusations, misrepresentations and attempts at misdirection, and neither should you be swayed. They based their analyses on the facts. The facts are that Starboard didn't present a plan to grow the Company; their nominees lack the experience and expertise required to successfully compete in our markets and Starboard already has adequate representation on the Board. Your Board urges stockholders to support durable value creation by voting for the Company's entire slate of director nominees at the upcoming June 10, 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. As Glass Lewis stated in its report recommending the election of ALL three Company nominees, " Over the last six quarters, the Company has successfully executed on its turnaround and growth strategy. Currently, we believe the board's plan is more likely to result in greater shareholder value than a potential sale of the Company, which until recently was the Dissident's only strategic suggestion. In light of the latest results, which the board believes will result in greater value than a sale of the Company, we believe shareholders should allow the board the opportunity to continue executing on its strategic plan. " Your Board agrees. The Board also believes the loss of ANY incumbent director in favor of Starboard nominees would jeopardize the operational and financial gains that have been achieved and would result in a weaker and less talented board. Here are some key facts to keep in when making your decision:
- DSP Group's stock is one of the top performing stocks among our peer group and industry year-to-date, over the last 12 months, and since our restructuring efforts began in 2011.
- DSP Group has made significant operational and financial progress over the past 18 months despite difficult industry trends impacting our top line. In the recent quarter the Company achieved a number of significant milestones: the highest Gross Margins in three years, the highest Operating Margins in five years and a return to GAAP profitability.
- DSP Group has a clear growth strategy and is on track to meet its strategic goals.
- DSP Group's Board nominees are diverse and have significant strategic, operational, financial and public board experience in our areas of focus and in the places where our operations are performed.
- He led the governance initiatives and operational improvements implemented by the DSP Group Board in the last 18 months.
- He supported the settlement with Starboard in 2012 and participated in negotiations in connection with this year's meeting. Although the Company was unable to avoid a proxy fight, the terms of the recent settlement proposed by him and the Board offered a more-than-fair proposition to Starboard.
- Prior to joining DSP Group, he held CEO positions and board memberships in various technology companies in the defense, telecom, medical equipment and semiconductor industries, including residing five years in Europe.
- Corporate governance experience through memberships in Board of directors in companies such as; M-Systems acquired by SanDisk, Wintegra, acquired by PMC Sierra and CEVA (Nasdaq:CEVA).
- Under Mr. Ayalon's leadership, DSP Group successfully expanded its IP licensing business and created significant value for stockholders with a shareholder friendly spin-off of CEVA in 2002. Mr. Ayalon recognized that the sum-of-the-parts was greater than the whole and that stockholders would benefit from the separation of the IP business from the semiconductor business, by maintaining ownership in both.
- He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Technion, the leading center for high technology graduate studies in Israel, and a member of the executive committee of the University of Ariel, Israel.
- Mr. Ayalon has been instrumental in attracting and retaining key talent among our R&D engineers, the lifeblood of the Company. As Israel has recently garnered the moniker, "the new Silicon Valley", due to the ever increasing presence of large, global technology companies, Mr. Ayalon importance to the Company in helping attract and retain key talent and establishing working relationship with global technology companies that have a presence in Israel cannot be overstated.
- He is a General Partner at Magma Venture Partners, a leading Israeli investment firm that focuses on early stage communication, semiconductor, Internet and media companies.
- He also has been a General Partner of Rimon Investment Fund, a consulting and investment advisory firm.
- He has been an active investor in public and private technology companies in Israel and abroad since 1990 and has led the successful turnarounds of industrial and service companies.
- He has years of experience in strategy and management consulting from his tenure as a founding member and partner of Shaldor, a top ranked strategic advisory firm in Israel and as a consultant at Bain & Company.
- He has served as a board member of a number of high-tech companies including GVT, a leading Brazilian broadband operator, which was subsequently sold to Vivendi in 2009 for $4.2 billion; and Trivnet, a leading player in mobile financial services acquired in 2010 by Gemalto.
- As a General Partner of Magma Venture Partners and as a Board Member, he has been actively involved in several semiconductor companies including: (1) Wintegra, a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in network processors optimized for mobile backhaul equipment which was acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2010 for $240 million; (2) Provigent, a fabless semiconductor company that develops system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission, which was acquired by Broadcom in 2011 for $360 million; and (3) DesignArt Networks, a leader in small cell modem and system design for cellular base stations and high-speed wireless backhaul infrastructure, which was acquired in 2012 by Qualcomm for $150 million.
- Currently a member of the board of directors of CEVA (Nasdaq:CEVA), Autotalks, and other private technology companies.


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TCL2 interacts with GL3 in plant cells and affects GL1 expression. A. TCL2 interacts with GL3 in plant cells. Reporter gene and effector genes were cotransfected into protoplasts derived from Arabidopsis rosette leaves. GUS activity was measured after 20-22 h incubation of the protoplasts in darkness. Data represent the mean ± SD of three replicates. Effectors and reporter constructs were diagrammed at the top of the figure. B. Regulation of GL1 by TCL2. RNA was isolated from 10-day-old seedlings of Col, 35S:HA-TCL2, 35S:HA-TCL1 and 35S:TCL2RNAi, and RT-PCR was used to examine the expression of GL1. Expression of ACT2 was used as a control.
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Third, the panel did not find any little-known, proven STI indicators and methodologies used by other countries that could be easily and inexpensively adopted by NCSES. New technologies for data collection are very promising, but none of them is ready for implementation at a federal statistical agency. This does not mean that NCSES's STI indicators cannot be improved. Indeed, there are several recommendations in this report and others to follow in the final report that propose ways and means for NCSES to improve its STI indicators program.
The panel's final report will offer a comprehensive set of recommendations (including those in this interim report) with priority rankings and implementation strategies, as well as a roadmap for how the recommendations relate one to another. Those recommendations are likely to require longer lead times for data and tool development, as well as coordination with specific divisions of other statistical agencies in the United States and abroad, than those included in this interim report. We will address the net value added of proposed indicators, and we expect to specify which data and indicators can be eliminated by NCSES. Criteria for prioritization will include policy utility and obtaining more comparability of STI indicators in the United States with those published by foreign organizations.
To develop those recommendations, the panel will carry out a wide range of work, including: gap analyses of current STI indicators; performance tests of key STI indicators; ways to improve measures of innovation, technological diffusion, and other key elements in understanding innovation; new data developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; the use of microdata; the possibilities of developing subnational indicators; data linking; the role of institutions and regulations; and NCSES's potential role in coordination of federal STI statistics.
This interim report recommends near-term action by NCSES along two dimensions: (1) development of new policy-relevant indicators that are based on NCSES survey data or on data collections at other statistical agencies; and (2) exploration of new data extraction and management tools for generating statistics, using automated methods of harvesting unstructured or scientometric data and data derived from administrative records. Our six near-term recommendations are in descending priority order. The first five are about new and revised indicators; the sixth concerns new processes and techniques.
RECOMMENDATION 1: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics should explore methods of using existing longitudinal data on labor force mobility related to science, technology, and innovation activities in the United States and abroad. This work should include gap analyses and workshops with statistical agencies to determine how to achieve efficient management of datasets and statistics for human capital indicators. The agency should also use its own data resources, especially the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey, for new employment measures.


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You can't trust them
They will take you money
Those are the things you usually here
Especially from non travelers
Let me give you a different prospective
Yesterday I was trying to find a specific hostel in downtown Cali Colombia.
It is a town of about 3 million people.
The streets and signs didn't make sense
They are always lots of police in these towns.
Sometimes on every corner
So I stopped and asked for directions
To my surprised, he jumped on his motorcycle, let his post and said to follow him.
So there I was, getting my own, personal police escort thru the city of Cali to my destination.
Every time you here a story about the police taking money from someone, 99% of the time it's because they did something wrong. Maybe they were going too fast or whatever
And if they take a bribe then consider yourself lucky.
Its just the way the system works down here sometimes.
And you get off cheaper that way in the end anyway.
The whole time I have been traveling, I have not been asked for a bribe.
But I am heading in to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia soon. So my feelings may change.
And if they do, I will give you the full report (hopefully with pictures).
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The Dog Advisory Council (DAC) held its last meeting before making known the contents of its Standard for Breeding Dogs, the Welsh Government launched its new breeding regulations which lower the licensing threshold from five to three litters and the Associate Parliamentary...Read more
Cavalier Breeders Petition KC to Require Health Tests for Registration
CAVALIER King Charles Spaniels are making the headlines here in the UK again as owners are urged by the Kennel Club to get their dogs MRI scanned for syringomyelia and the chiari malformation (SM/CM) and screened for heart problems. The reminder follows...Read more
Pugs Are Here To Stay
We are on the cusp of a house move and we've been spending our last few weekends in Dorset revisiting our favourite places… one last time. One of these special places is Swanage – a little coastal town known as 'Knollsea' in...Read more
Gazette Relaunch – Still Some Way to Go, Says KC
THE REMAINING members of the Kennel Gazette working party are to continue their work in a bid to resurrect the Kennel Club's former magazine. Confirmation of this was made by the KC today following the sudden resignations of four members of the...Read more
Judges, Get Your Homework In
It is a very long time since I used the excuse of "the dog ate my homework", I'm not entirely sure it worked all those years ago although I do think I earned a teacher's smirk or two with my more inventive...Read more
R-e-s-p-e-c-t Open Shows
LAST WEEK I highlighted the work of the working party which has been set up to look at ways of revitalising championship dog showing and at getting more people to enter more dogs. I touched briefly on the issue of open shows...Read more
Breed Divergence
WE HAVE often talked in this and other columns in DOG WORLD about breeds where the type varies from country to country, most frequently about those that have over the years developed on different lines on either side of the Atlantic. Often...Read more
Zardin in Pictures
IF YOU are the slightest bit interested in Afghan Hounds and their history I'm sure you will have heard of Zardin, the dog who created a sensation when he appeared in and won the 'foreign dog' classes at Crufts in 1909, '10...Read more
KC Making Strides: Dogs Life Manifesto
THERE was a time in the not too distant past where the Kennel Club appeared to be on the verge of assuming pariah status and those in power did not appear to be listening to what the KC had to say. That...Read more
The Problem with the System Is There Is No System
THERE IS a Kennel Club working group currently looking at ways to encourage fresh interest in the championship show scene in the UK. In common with the US entries at shows have been falling here in the UK and a working party...Read more
If At First You Don't Succeed
It's quite incredible, when reading back over old articles, the amount of breeds now thought of as being relatively recent introductions to our canine landscape were actually very well known to our Victorian dog showing forebears. The Leonberger, Tibetan Mastiff, Dobermann, Rottweiler,...Read more
Double Murder Tragedy Shakes the Dog World, & KC Legacy Fund Ignored
THERE is a desperately sad case making the news this week with the conviction of a dog breeder for the murder of his partner and her daughter. John Lowe, who had run a dog breeding business in Surrey was found guilty of...Read more
Something In Return
I THINK it's always worth shouting about when dog people work or donate to 'human' good causes. As we have seen from the response to the Manchester Dog's Home disaster, the public in general has an enormous well of goodwill towards dogs...Read more
Have 'Doodles' Had Their Day?
One of the joys of living in this country is being able to walk into a store like WH Smith or any one of our large supermarkets and being able to flick through the vast array of glossy magazines on offer on...Read more
Residents Stage Public Meeting After Second American Bulldog Attack
POLICE, local councillors and residents have staged a public meeting after two people and a dog were attacked by American Bulldogs. One of the people, a 63-year-old man, was seriously injured in the incident, as was his Staffordshire Bull Terrier. The man...Read more
Shih Tzu Club Supports Judge In Topknot Row
The Shih Tzu Club is 'fully supporting' the judge who at its championship show refused to judge an exhibit who had a bow in her topknot rather than an elastic band. Darja Skok Lamut asked Michaela Hall to remove the bow from...Read more
Withholding CCs by Simon Parsons
LOOKING on Higham Press to see who had won in one of my favourite breeds at a recent show, I got a mild shock to see that the reserve CC had been withheld in the males. Thinking there must have been a...Read more
KC Policy Changes Allows for Two CCs; Shih Tzu Bow Incident
THE KENNEL Club has announced the first policy change to result from the work of its Dog Show Promotion Working Party, which is looking into ways to improve and increase the popularity of shows. The new policy will allow breed clubs to...Read more
Born To Breed Dogs
For my birthday last week I received an excellent but scarce book from 1902, Dog Shows And Doggy-People by Charles Henry Lane. Unlike most dog books, in this one the dogs take second place to their celebrated owners from the renowned doggy...Read more
Breeders Should Report Caesarean Sections, BVA Says
Best In Show Daily would like our community's feedback on this form of oversight into breeding programs. Please comment freely on webpages or facebook, and take our poll. VETS and breeders need to work together to ensure that the health and welfare...Read more
Poole and The Labrador
I live very close to Poole, which features heavily in the very popular 'Harbour Lives' series presented by Ben Fogle and, predictably, we once again get to hear about the "beautiful unspoilt beaches, stunning landscape, the (often rare) wildlife that abounds and...Read more
A Salute to Top Dog WFT "Oliver"
THE RECORD for best in show wins at UK all-breeds championship shows was broken at Driffield last weekend when the Wire Fox Terrier Ch Travella Striking Steel won his 19th such award. Previously, the record was held by the Hungarian Vizsla Sh...Read more
The Psychological Fallout From a Fire
I can hardly see my keyboard through the veil of tears; the terrible loss of life at Manchester Dogs Home last night (Thursday) which now stands at 60 dogs and is likely to rise is so appalling and tragic. A 15-year-old boy...Read more
The Blue Paul
It's strange how coincidence often plays a huge part in the world of dogs. I'm just back from my brief sojourn in a surprisingly sunny Scotland. While I was there I managed to indulge in a favourite pastime of mine…visiting old-fashioned bookshops....Read more
Thorny Challenges the World Over: Newbies, Outliers, Is 90 the Right Age to Begin Judging
WRITING a column like this is an interesting process. I am conscious that I am writing for an audience that is predominantly from outside the UK and I am selecting stories or information that I think will be of interest. What often...Read more
Club Responds To Clumber's Removal From High-Profile List
THE CLUMBER Spaniel has been taken off the high profile breed list, which means that bests of breed at championship shows will no longer have to pass a veterinary check. The Kennel Club says the Clumber has been removed from category three...Read more
KC Issues Advice For People Using Facebook and Other Social Media
THE KENNEL Club has issued advice to people using Facebook and other social media platforms to discuss issues concerning KC-based activities such as breeding, competing with and judging dogs. Anyone judging at KC licensed events is warned that in certain circumstances the...Read more
In The Dog House
WHAT DO you think of Blackpool's idea of asking exhibitors or anyone else to suggest judges for a good number of both CC and non-CC breeds at its 2017 championship show? You have to give them full marks anyway for thinking of...Read more
Fixing Up The Mess
WHEN Steve Seymour arrived in the UK from his native Australia more than a decade ago he took a keen interest in the UK Kennel Club and as is always the way someone looking in from the outside asked 'why do you...Read more
The Siberian Husky Fit for Function or Not?
I was very pleased to read in Krystyan Greenland's breed notes in Our Dogs that he has expressed grave concerns about the way our breed is being taken in the show ring these past few years, and especially the last couple of...Read more
An Irish Terrier Argument
One of the greatest pleasures of reading the canine press (and often the most informative) was often to be found within the 'letters pages'. Sadly, with the advent of 'social media' the letters page is becoming an increasing irrelevance as people now...Read more
Dog Breeding During the War Years
Following on from my last post, I'm going to continue with the wartime theme. I'd always assumed that pedigree dog breeding and showing had been forbidden during war. So many times I'd read in various breed books of the tight rationing of...Read more
Dog Advisory Council To Wind Down
THE DOG Advisory Council is to wind down at the end of the year or the beginning of 2015. The gradual demise of the (to give it its formal title) Advisory Council on the Welfare Issues of Dog Breeding will cause few...Read more
The growing problem of canine dementia
WE MOVED to Dorset five years ago and our neighbours were a wonderfully youthful and incredibly sprightly married couple of octogenarians. They would often put us to shame as they were always on the go and the husband would pedal a five-mile...Read more
White Swiss Shepherds
WITH ALL the discussion about longcoat German Shepherds, it's easy to forget that there is another breed which is effectively just that, though only in the white colour, another recessive trait that sometimes turns up in 'normal' GSD lines. This is the...Read more
Helsinki Highlights - Another Ricky Rocks the World
ANYONE who thinks the Finns are a reserved or undemonstrative nation should have been there on the final night of the 2014 World Dog Show, hosted by the Finnish Kennel Club in Helsinki. Sunday's finale was amazing, camp, extravagant, over the top...Read more
When Expediency Backfires
ONE of the things I love about the age of social media is the immediacy you can gauge views and opinions relatively quickly. We've had one such example this week all based around a letter we published from Mike Gadsby of the...Read more
In the Dog House
I'M SURE none of us who watched the (otherwise in many ways rather naff) opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games were expecting to see all those Scotties! Most of them seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, as one would expect from the...Read more
The Truth about Sunny's Death Will Never Be Known
IT WILL never be known exactly what killed the Australian Shepherd Ch Allmark Indecent Proposal (Sunny) who died after attending National Working and Pastoral Breeds Society ch show. Co-owner Robert Harlow told DOG WORLD this week that although some toxicology tests had...Read more
What It's Really Like for Newcomers
There has been some interesting material in Dog World recently about what attracts people to dog showing and perhaps more significantly what puts people off not just going to dog shows but getting involved in dog showing altogether. This week Lee Connor,...Read more
The Pluses & Minuses of Instant Communication Should a Judge Be Penalized for Private Comments
WE'RE still learning when it comes to the deployment of what was once described as 'new technology'. The technology might not be new anymore but the ways in which we use the new tools and resources that the online and digital world...Read more
Launching Dog World Sunday Supplement
WE'RE trying something a little different this weekend, we're launching the Dog World Sunday Supplement. Ten years ago that would have meant that we were printing anadditional newspaper, we would have had to ship those to shops all across the UK and...Read more
Broadcasting Cruelty:Is A Dog Fighting Documentary Informative Or Exploitative?
SOMETHING very odd happened in the UK this week, one of our principal national TV stations ran a documentary on dog fighting. Nothing surprising you might think, especially if the documentary wholly condemned the activity but it didn't and has already received...Read more
A Sheltie Record and Keeping Shows Exciting
SHELTIES featured on the front page of DOG WORLD for the second week in a row this week, but this time for the most positive of reasons. In a remarkable double, the Shetland Sheepdog Ch Edglonian Singin The Blues not only took...Read more
Grading Dogs Motivating or a Spoiler
I DON'T often take issue with Sheila Atter's brilliant columns but I can't bring myself to agree with her concluding remarks in her article from two weeks ago. I've often wondered whether adopting a grading system might help make our shows more...Read more
Controversy at the Sheltie Ring
I HAD a couple of subjects in mind to write about this week then something happened at Southern Counties at the weekend that reminded me of that famous quotation by Shaw, or was it Wilde? That Britain and America are two nations...Read more
Fury, Insult & Heartache – High Profile Breeds and Vet Checks
WHEN THE Kennel Club introduced the mandatory vet checks on 15 so-called high profile breeds at Crufts in 2012 it's pretty fair to say the UK dog show scene went in to virtual meltdown. It wasn't just the tests themselves that got...Read more
The KC Gazette – A Possible Reincarnation
ONE OF Dog World's regular columnists, Steven Seymour, regularly writes about what he sees as the autocratic actions of the UK Kennel Club and he equally regularly calls for the KC to become more democratic and to listen and take notice not...Read more
Dangerous Dog Legislation When Is It Overkill?
NEW LAWS came into force in the UK this week that will mean that owners of dogs who attack on private property – not just public spaces – can now be prosecuted. And owners of dogs who kill will face up to 14...Read more
Confidential Negotiations Taking Place Over Eukanuba's Sponsorship of Crufts
CRUFTS chairman Gerald King was asked at the Kennel Club's annual meeting how P&G's decision to exit the pet care business, which began with Mars' acquisition of Eukanuba, would affect the show. Eukanuba is principal sponsor of the show, and the US...Read more
Dispelling the Myth of Mixed Breed Vigor
SOME SAY that ours is an aging hobby, at Dog World we try to prove that is not the case we sponsor the Junior Handing Association, actively recruit and employ youthful canine enthusiasts and we have people like Lee Connor writing for...Read more
Risky Business – Rabies and Improperly Imported Dogs
IT SEEMS ironic that just when AMERICA'S national association of state vets wants all imported dogs to go into quarantine for 30 days, over here we've been relaxing regulations surrounding importation of dogs. According to the association the data shows that of...Read more
'It's Business As Usual' Promises Eukanuba After P&G Announces Departure From Pet Care Industry
EUKANUBA says it is 'business as usual' for its UK dog-showing interests despite the announcement that its owner, Procter & Gamble (P&G), is to quit the pet care business. Its exit has begun with Mars' acquisition of Eukanuba, Iams and Natura brands...Read more
Crufts Hound Group Winner Dies
THE IRISH Wolfhound from Belgium who won the hound group at Crufts this year has died. Gary Janssens' Ger/Bel/Dutch/Lux Ch Just In Time of First Avenue (James) was found collapsed in the garden and died the same day. He was three years...Read more
An Undeniable Fear To Speak Up
I have shared some of Steven Seymour's writing with you before but that was before he won the accolade of Canine Journalist of the Year at the PAWSCARS just before Crufts. Famed for his Beagriff Griffon Bruxellois Steven is a native of...Read more
Dogworld.TV Celebrates Third Anniversary
BY THE time you read this we will have passed a significant milestone, our dogworld.tv YouTube channel will have notched up two million views and while it took us almost three years to amass the first million the second million has come...Read more
Two More Shows May Review Their Policies on Docked Dogs
THE CAMPAIGNING group Docked and Denied has reignited its crusade to persuade two more championship shows to drop their admission charges. Doing so would allow legally docked dogs to be shown, as the law states that doing so is outlawed at events...Read more
Rabies 'In UK By September'
THERE will be a case of rabies in the UK by September, according to a dog transporter who witnesses puppy smuggling and breaches of the pet travel scheme on a daily basis. Paul Anderson of Pets2go2 travels to the Continent three times...Read more
Innovation Brings Success & Perils Of Puppy Trafficking
A COUPLE of very interesting things happened over here at the weekend as the year's championship show circuit really started to move in to gear. One show saw its entry climb steeply – by almost ten per cent – over last year...Read more
Spring Forward – Brighter Days
OVER here it's quite a significant weekend coming up. Our clocks go forward on Sunday morning giving us an extra hour of daylight in the evenings and we also see the first single group championship show of the year in the form...Read more
A Final Gloss on the Show Year - Crufts
ONE OF the things I love about Sheila Atter's writing is that she writes from the heart and with great passion. And she is entitled to because Sheila has been there and done that. She is an exhibitor with an enviable track...Read more
Ryan Ross Named Outstanding Young Person of the Year at Crufts
ELEVEN-year-old Ryan Ross was named the Shaun McAlpine 'Outstanding Young Person of the Year' at Crufts. A total of 15 Young Kennel Club (YKC) members were nominated for the award which celebrates the hard-working, inspirational and selfless actions of young dog lovers....Read more
A Phenomenal Year for the Afterglow Team - Part 3
It began at the 2012 Pup of the Year final, held in February last year, when top spot was awarded to the American Cocker Spaniel Sh Ch Afterglow Dragon Quest, shown by Mike Gadsby. Ricky was also competing, handled on this occasion...Read more
The Afterglow Saga - Part 2 by Simon Parsons
Following their triumph at Crufts on Sunday night we thought it would be interesting to dig out this feature originally printed in the Dog World Annual in 2012 and written by Simon Parsons which charts the development and success of the Afterglow...Read more
Reflections of Crufts 2014
MY COLLEAGUE Simon Parsons has a passion and enthusiasm for Crufts which is unequalled. Each year, on the first day of the show, he is in the hotel reception barely able to contain his excitement and determined to be at the NEC...Read more
Crufts Day Four - Gundogs, Police Demonstration and Freestyle
By far, the biggest group was the Gundog Group with 28 breeds to judge and a total of 5025 dogs. Some breeds are split up in dogs and bitches as there are just too many of them. This group holds some of...Read more
The Afterglow Saga - Part 1
Following their triumph at Crufts on Sunday night we thought it would be interesting to dig out this feature originally printed in the Dog World Annual in 2012 which charts the development and success of the Afterglow kennel. FOR THOSE who have...Read more
Mike Gadsby - 'Humble but Proud' Winners Speak to Dog World
Speaking to DOG WORLD less than two hours after his big win at Crufts Mike Gadsby said the success they have achieved this weekend was "humbling" but also made him very proud. The fourth day of Crufts 2014 was a day when...Read more
The Story of the Crufts 2014 Group Winners and Junior Handlers
What an amazing line-up will greet Crufts best in show judge Jack Bispham this evening – and there is still one more finalist yet to be decided, today's gundog group winner. From the first day we have Frank Kane's choice to head...Read more
Crufts The Biggest and Most Expensive Dog show
Things are getting more and more expensive to attend the (still) biggest dog show on earth. Hotel prices go up to triple or sometimes even four times the regular price. All for Crufts, the Mecca of the Canine believers. At least once...Read more
Professors Receive Awards for Revolutionary Work
FOR the second year the Kennel Club International Canine Health Awards have highlighted individuals who have gone a step further towards promoting the health and wellbeing of dogs through their revolutionary work in the world of veterinary science. By rewarding and encouraging...Read more
Scottish gamekeepers Renew Calls to Reverse Docking Ban on Working Dogs
A PETITION calling on the Scottish Government to reverse the ban on tail docking for working dogs has been submitted by the Scottish Gamekeepers Association. The group said many dogs are having to suffer agonising tail injuries while working in thick undergrowth...Read more
Crufts 'Biggest Dog Event in the World', Says KC Chairman on Opening Day
THE PRESENTATION of a £1.6 million cheque, six new breeds and a new competition are all promised for Crufts this year, said Kennel Club chairman Steve Dean in his opening speech today (Thursday). An 'enormous amount of hard work' by the Crufts...Read more
First Pawscars Award Ceremony a Triumph
AS I start to type this column its less than 12 hours since the first Pawscars award ceremony came to a close – and what a close it was, the event was a triumph. But that triumph was not just one for...Read more
High-profile BOBs pass vet checks on first day of Crufts
ALL the high-profile bests of breed passed their veterinary checks on the first day of Crufts. They were the Mastiff, Dogue de Bordeaux, German Shepherd, St Bernard and Neapolitan Mastiff. They were checked by the Crufts veterinary team led by Dr Andreas...Read more
Friends for Life finalist star at Crufts launch
FIVE hero dogs took centre stage at the Kennel Club's official Crufts launch in London on Tuesday. They are the finalists of the show's heart-warming Friends for Life competition, which is judged on the last evening of the show and celebrates uplifting...Read more
Crufts 2014 Live Streaming and Events Information
Crufts 2014 will be streamed live on March 6-9 2014 Courtesy of Eukanuba. Watch here Schedule of Events Day 1- Thursday 6 March 2014 Working & Pastoral Day 2 – Friday 7 March 2014 Terrier & Hound Day 3 – Saturday 8...Read more
Crufts - Highest Entry For Three Years
THERE is no way we can talk about anything other than Crufts this week because this time next we'll all be there, and you will hopefully be sharing the experience because if you are not able to get there then your favourite...Read more
Goodwill and Enthusiasm Bring Together Pawscars Awards
WHAT to write about this week? There really is only one subject and that is the forthcoming Pawscars awards ceremony now less than two weeks away. I'm staggered that the whole thing has come together in quite the way it has. The...Read more
Entries Up, Pup of the Year & Flash Floods Force Relocation
IT HAS sure been a week and canine enthusiasts this side of the 'pond' have had a lot to savour and enjoy. As I mentioned last week the entry numbers for Crufts were announced and they are up. This follows on from...Read more
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 2014: Best in show
US' Top Dog 2013 Gr Ch Afterall Painting The Sky wins Westminster Westminster Kennel Club show in New York finished at around 11pm on Tuesday evening when Betty Regina Leininger awarded best in show to the US' Top Dog of 2013, the...Read more
Fast Judges Earn Incomplete Grade
THIS WEEK I'd like to introduce you to another of our columnists, this time Geraldine Cove-Print. Geraldine writes a weekly column usually focussing on issues surrounding rescue but every so often she looks more widely at the show scene and gives us...Read more
The State of the Union - Radical Ideas for Modernizing the UK Fancy
I'VE MENTIONED it before but when I was in the US last year one of the things that surprised me most was how the dog scene in the US and the dog scene in the UK are facing very similar problems. And...Read more
Exhibitors and their dogs in crisis due to high flood waters
A RHODESIAN Ridgeback breeder and exhibitor is one of the many people stricken by the unprecedented flooding of the Somerset Levels. Janet Nolan, her husband and ten dogs have been marooned for six weeks in their bungalow, surrounded by water. The only...Read more
Canine Alliance Discusses ABS Changes And Draws Up Ten-Point Action Plan
THE CANINE Alliance met on Wednesday last week to discuss the Assured Breeder Scheme and the furore caused by recent changes. As a result it has come up with a 'ten-point action plan' for the Kennel Club to consider.Many concerns were raised...Read more
Think Positive: ABS Breeders Scheme
FOR THE first week of January 2014 we decided to have a theme running through our weekly newspaper, it was to be good news week, think positive week, look at the pluses and remember why we all enjoy this hobby. The problem...Read more
ABS manager answers DW's queries on changes to scheme
DOG WORLD's associate editor Simon Parsons asked the Kennel Club's health and breeder services manager Bill Lambert for his response to comments which have been made about the recent announced changes to the Assured Breeder Scheme (ABS). SP: Over the holiday period...Read more
ABS Members Outraged By Rising Fees
DURING the festive period the Kennel Club sent out letters to all members of its Assured Breeder Scheme outlining changes which caused outrage among some of its members. The KC wrote to explain new procedures and fees following the bestowal of UKAS...Read more
Tragedy Strikes Dog Community
Tragedy has again struck the dog world as we recoil in horror at the photos of Lisa Croft-Ellliot & Carrie Russell-Smith's destroyed rig. Parked on the shoulder due to a break-down, they were hit by a large truck. Unbelievably, Carrie, Lisa &...Read more
Our Next Generation,Jilly's Jaunt and Pedigree Dogs - A Look at 2013
SO here we are celebrating Christmas 2013 when traditionally we look back at all that has happened in the year just gone and assess what has happened and what impact those events have had. For this week we have encouraged all of...Read more
The Pawscars – Get Voting. Ready? Go!
The Pawscars – Get Voting. Ready? Go! VOTING for the first set of Pawscar awards starts today. You can have your say by going to www.dogworld.co.uk and click on the Pawscars button. The awards themselves will be handed out at a gala...Read more
DAC Discusses Outcrossing and Breeding Standard
THE PRACTICE of outcrossing being used to help breed away from extremes of conformation was discussed at a recent meeting of the Dog Advisory Council (DAC). The council discussed problems caused by selection for extremes and DAC member Dr Cathryn Mellersh said...Read more
Harrods' of London to Close Pet Department, Kennel Gazette to Cease Publication
IT HAS long been an issue with many in the animal welfare world in the UK that the world-famous Harrods department store had a pet department, well Dog World readers were overjoyed last week when the company announced it is to close...Read more
Members of the UK Parliament Will Discuss Puppy Farming
YOU CALL them puppy mills and we call them puppy farms but whatever we choose to call them they are places to be despised. Looking back through our archive we have been writing on the issues for years but for some reason...Read more
Responding Real-Time to Tragedy
THIS might make me sound sad but most mornings, when I wake up, I reach for my phone and have a look at what has been going on overnight, I look at emails, at Facebook and I usually check the website statistics...Read more
Carrie Russell-Smith speaks to DOG WORLD after the horrific accident
Listen to Carrie Russell-Smith speak to DOG WORLD in a heart wrenching podcast describe the unimaginable events of the crash on November 23. Please Click the PLAY button Below to Hear the Podcast...Read more
Exhibitors 'fragile' after Motorway Horror Crash; Cardigan Corgi Found Unhurt
Due to the enormous concern for Lisa Croft-Elliot, Carrie Russell-Smith and Anastasia Egorova, we will continue to provide updates as they develop. Anastasia "Twinkie" suffered severe injury and remains in ICU with a broken back, collapsed lung and other injuries. If you...Read more
Breaking News -KC plans canine centres worth £4.5m paid for by £12m property deal
THE KENNEL Club is considering buying sites to the value of £4.5m to be used for 'multiple canine activities'. The money will come from the £12m the club will receive from the sale of its property in Clarges Street, London, to British...Read more
Is There a Way Forward for Dog Shows?
Is there a way forward for dog shows? WHEN I was over in the US earlier in the year I was surprised, when chatting with Best In Show Daily editors, that despite the physical distance that separates us, the differing groups and...Read more
Study Highlights Concerns Over Need To Test Drugs On Dogs
Study Highlights Concerns Over Need To Test Drugs On Dogs Dogs around the world are being needlessly tested in preclinical trials for human drugs, claims a study that has found that the predictive success of testing on dogs is often little better...Read more
Newfoundland art at the Kennel Club by Nick Waters
Few breeds of dog have such a fascinating and romantic background as the Newfoundland. Even its size commands attention. Immortalised in literature by Lord Byron and J M Barrie, in art by Sir Edwin Landseer, companion and work horse for man as...Read more
Commemorating Dogs in War at Ypres
This time of year I find really evocative leading up to Armistice day. It is a day that is so humbling and one I feel we should never forget. Conflict past and present is graphically documented but I feel that the animal...Read more
Optimism Returns to UK Dog Show Scene
THERE has been a lot of talk over here about the signs of an economic recovery. Growth has returned to the UK economy and people, it is said, are feeling more optimistic than they have for a few years. In the last...Read more
PAWSCARS Are Coming
LAST WEEK I promised a column that was bit more upbeat, that focused on something positive going on in the world of dogs here in the UK and I'm pleased to say it's a project that I am very closely involved with....Read more
21st Annual Westminster Dog of the Year competition
WHILE politicians in the US were wrangling over – well to be honest over here in the UK we're not sure what they were wrangling about – national politicians here were grooming their pet dogs to take part in the other Westminster,...Read more
Jilly's Jolly Jaunt
SINCE I started writing this weekly column for Best In Show Daily I feel that my contributions have tended to look at the less positive side of our hobby but this week I am able to write about an event which has...Read more
Streamlining the show world by Steven Seymour
THE WORDS in the column this week are not mine, they were written for the newspaper last week by one of our regular columnists, Steven Seymour. Steven is Austalian but settled in the UK a few years ago and is well known...Read more
The Kennel Club Clarifies Position on Registering Mixed Breeds
SINCE the annual general meeting of the UK Kennel Club back in May there has been growing speculation about whether the KC was about to recognize some of the more popular crossbreeds, like the Labradoodle.. Therefore when its readers received their copy...Read more
Dog World-UK Survey: What would make you exhibit more often?
Back in July Dog World launched a survey of its readers. We asked them a simple question "what would make you exhibit more often?" The decision to run the survey was an easy one, every weekend our team is out at shows and...Read more
UK Dog Advisory Council Envisions Orwellian Future
A truly Orwellian vision of dog breeding in the U.K. in the 21st century has just been outlined by the Dog Advisory Council. Last week it issued its latest recommendations to the government and suggests that anyone who breeds a dog should...Read more
The Guisachan Gathering 2013
A sea of 222 Golden Retrievers, their owners and enthusiasts descended on a derelict old building in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland. But it was not just any old building, it is the remains of Guisachan House, the iconic...Read more
Crufts Best In Show and Top Dog Philippe Dies
One of Britain's greatest and most popular show dogs of the '00s, the Giant Schnauzer Ch Jafrak Philippe Olivier, has died at the age of 12. His wins made history for the breed and his final total of 14 all-breeds best in...Read more
Sleepwalking into a 'Dog Welfare and Consumer Crisis'
The issue of how you go about buying a puppy and where you should buy it from is a contentious one. Those of us who are part of the world of dogs – often described as dogdom here in the U.K. –...Read more
On Registering 'Doodles in the U.K.
For some years now the U.K. Kennel Club has been running a series of "question times" for which senior members and officers of the KC tour the country meeting the grassroots exhibitors and breeders, answering their questions and addressing their concerns –...Read more
Whippet Safe After Quarry Fall During U.K. Welsh Kennel Club
A Whippet is recovering at home after escaping from a caravan at Welsh Kennel Club Ch show and falling into a 90ft deep quarry filled with water and silt. Clive and Barbara Pugh's Rearsbylea Starlite at Ishkamun (Mab) managed to get out of...Read more
United Kingdom KC Chair Gives Annual 'State of Nation' Address
Every year at the Welsh Kennel Club championship show in August, the chairman of the United Kingdom Kennel Club gives what is styled as a "state of the nation" address. At a dinner on the Friday night of the show weekend, the KC...Read more
Dog World U.K. Provides British 'Flavour'
Hello, my name is Stuart Baillie, and I am the managing director of Dog World, the U.K.'s leading weekly canine newspaper. In the coming weeks we hope to bring you a flavour of the dog show scene in the U.K. You'll hear...Read more


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trust for America's Health (TFAH) welcomed the testimony of U.S. Secretary-Designate of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Daschle before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today and supports his goal to prioritize prevention in the new Administration. Daschle testified that the health care system must shift from emphasizing a sick care system to a health care system, helping to prevent disease instead of treating people only after they have become sick. Daschle noted that "our health care system is not oriented toward prevention, and therefore, fails to incentivize the screenings and lifestyle changes that can do so much to improve health. Any health care reform plan must make sure every American has preventative care that prevents disease and disability.... In addition to being sound medicine, [prevention] is sound fiscal policy."
"Daschle hit the nail on the head that prevention should be America's first line of defense against disease, instead of an afterthought," said Jeffrey Levi, PhD, Executive Director of TFAH. "Helping Americans become healthier is one of the most overlooked ways to drive down health care costs and ensure our workforce is competitive in the global economy. Now more than ever, we need prevention to be the cornerstone of health care reform, especially in this time of economic crisis. We look forward to working with the Obama Administration to ensure this vision for a healthier America becomes a reality."
Daschle stressed the importance of community-based disease prevention, and cited TFAH's recent Prevention for a Healthier America study, which found that for every $1 spent on proven community-based disease prevention programs, the country could net a return of $5.60 in health care costs -- a savings of more than $16 billion annually within five years. These findings are based on an economic model developed by res
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Lee Dodson's contractorside.com Website Gets Down to the Business of Empowering Contractors, Tradesmen in The Construction Industry
Lee Dodson, owner of contractorside.com, announced today a major push to place building contractors on a level playing field with clients, news organizations, state and local agencies, and the Federal government.
Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) July 19, 2013
Lee Dodson, owner of contractorside.com, announced today a major push to place building contractors on a level playing field with clients, news organizations, state and local agencies, and the Federal government.
During the last six years, Dodson states, the construction industry suffered dire hardship as the economy plummeted. The industry's normal share of economy until 2008 ran in the 23-26% range, today it is less than 8%, marginally up from 3% in 2009.
Contractors abandoned their small businesses at an alarming rate, preferring to change occupations or to take employment with major builders if possible. Latest information from California reveals a 5% license renewal rate, the average age of a contractor is 58.
Additionally, public perception of the construction industry is at an all time low. In an upcoming article in The Brenner Brief e-publication, Dodson enumerates reasons as to why contractors and trades people have left, and are leaving the business in droves. The main reason is money.
The business has, indeed, shrunk, and with the pullback many reliable clients have left the market. What is left, Dodson says, is a very tough market that sees hard times in the building business as an opportunity to negotiate tough deals that leave the contractor taking cash-flow jobs with little or no profit.
Encouraged by biased news services, unregulated by any agency, and tight budgets give rise to post contractual negotiations, or just plain cheating, and the contractor/ tradesperson has few options. Court is expensive, regulatory bodies have their own agendas, and the public believes construction is a means of larceny on the part of the trade.
The contractorside.com was created as a venue where the tradesperson can detail his or her experience, good or bad, so others in the trade could discover if a problem was on the horizon. They could find out how to work contracts, specifications to avoid said difficulty or to avoid the situation entirely.
"Look," says Dodson. "People in the trades 'do things,' they make things that we all need, and they are generally held in disdain as uneducated, but they are not. Contrary to commonly held regard, they do what the others cannot do. They deserve respect, but now they have to fight government attitudes, regulatory delay, and often, deal with difficult clients and situations."
"This website gives the trades a voice," Dodson stated flatly. "I've seen almost every building situation in my career from bad weather to clients fighting each other, but there's nothing worse than not being paid. The tradesperson is the business, and if that person is damaged people are put out of work, bills don't get paid, and that's where we are right now. It's time we stood up for ourselves by standing together."
Dodson created contractorside.com six years ago under the name thecontractorsside.com. The site did well, but its creator was not satisfied with the robustness of the operation, so he honored all contracts, expressed and implied, and set about a new incarnation. He was seeking a new experience for his clientele.
The creator brought on a new programming staff from Colossal Ventures, and with the invaluable assistance of Colin Ryan, head of the company, set to work adding the availability of mounting pictures, sound bites, videos as part of users' postings. With that, Dodson added space for other trades people to comment on postings and to add articles that might be of interest to the users.
The concept of mounting both negative and positive posts was paramount in Dodson's mind. "We're setting about changing the business by giving, once again, a forum where anybody in a vital business who has something to say has a place to say it."
Dodson notes that women in the trades or connected by family are very interested in posts. "contractorside.com is research," the creator states. "for free. If the person or business is listed, the user can check them out for what to expect in doing business with that particular entity. And, if they have a gripe or an "atta boy," the user can post it."
"I discovered that many in the trade are uncomfortable writing things down, good or not-so-good, but they have no problem telling the story, so I put space to talk it through on audio or video. It works. We're get inquiries already."
In some cases, the post is legally delicate, whistleblowers, and the like, so anonymous posts are accepted. All posts are edited before final approval by the company, and are referred back for edit if necessary, but most are posted expeditiously.
contractorside.com is the answer to Yelp and other websites that can be critical of people or companies in the construction business to level the field for trades people with this resource.
Dodson spent forty-one years in the construction trade, has written many articles for trade magazines, has served as expert witness in court cases, and has acted as mediator in many construction related issues. He is currently contributing to The Brenner Brief e-newspaper and has written and published two books, Infiltration, a fictional account of a terrorist attack in southern Arizona, and This Never Happened, a high desert murder mystery.
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Rally bulletin- gps requirement
With only 30 days remaining until online registration, BAJA RALLY organizers have announced the details surrounding the mandatory GPS requirements for all riders participating in the inaugural BAJA RALLY.
All participants in the BAJA RALLY are responsible for recording their tracks as they navigate each stage of the RALLY. This is for course compliance purposes and is the sole responsibility of each participant. The rally organizer needs to evaluate the route that each participant traveled compared to the actual course so we can verify the participant followed the correct route. Upon registration and technical inspection on Friday October 4th, each participant must deliver their GPS unit to the organizer. A sticker with the participant's information will be affixed to the device and it will be "cleared out". GPS units will be returned to each participant just prior to the first stage. At the finished of each day's timed stage, the organizer will collect each GPS device. This bulletin will address many of the questions and concerns that participants may have.
Recommended GPS units:
GARMIN 60, 62, 76, 78 (all variations of these)
Trail Tech Voyager (organizer will collect the micro SD Flash Card from such devices)
*Please note that participants will need a device to display their "cap heading" for any off-trail navigation and to confirm they are traveling in the correct direction coming out of selected course notes. Therefore, any GPS unit which displays the numeric "cap heading" in a large, viewable format is favored over units which have the numeric "cap heading" in smaller, harder to read format.
*LOWRANCE- (organizer will collect the micro SD Flash Card from such devices). These devices are not preferable for compliance but may still work for participants. However, any participant who uses the a LOWRANCE is obligated to either:
A) Assist the organizer in converting the .usr file to a .gpx file after each stage.
B) Assist the organizer in opening a GOOGLE EARTH file of his/her tracks after each stage.
*Very simply, we are trying to make sure we can see where you went so that you can be given a bona fide timing score for each stage. Significant deviations from the actual route will result in time penalties of various durations at the sole discretion of the organizer.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What if I break my GPS, it runs out of batteries or I lose my GPS?
A: You will get a minimum 4-hour penalty for the stage (subject to change)
Q: If I fail to record my tracks for any reason, can I still continue in the rally?
A: Yes, even if you have a failure and consequential penalty, you will be able to continue in the rally on successive stages.
Q: Can I show up to the rally without a GPS unit and simply take the penalties each day? A: No. Each participant must leave the start of each stage with a functioning GPS unit.
Q: Are there any other purposes for the GPS requirement?
A: Yes. The rally organizer may, at its sole discretion, give each participant a small piece of paper with GPS waypoints (and corresponding descriptions) printed on it at the beginning of each stage. These waypoints are to aid a participant toward an extraction point, highway or to help the participant get back onto the proper route.
Q: Can any of these guidelines change and is it likely they will?
A: Yes. These guidelines can change but it is not very likely.
Finally, the rally organizer chose to use this GPS requirement in the inaugural BAJA RALLY to keep compliance costs down for the participants and organizers alike. It may seem archaic compared to currently available technology, but the cost is low. While the organizer has the task of verifying each participant's tracks against the actual course on Google Earth after each day's stages, the burden of recording the tracks falls solely on the shoulders of each participant.
Inquiries about the GPS requirement can be made directly to BAJA RALLY at
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Could You Really Do One of the 'Toughest Jobs'?
By Gary Strauss
Thom Beers has created a mini-empire with a growing number of cable TV shows focusing on blue-collar, often dangerous professions. Tonight, Beers' testosterone-fueled programming climbs onto broadcast TV with America's Toughest Jobs (NBC, 9 ET/PT).
The first of four NBC series under a development deal with Beers and co-producer Berman/Braun, Toughest Jobs blends the rough-and-tumble occupations featured in such Beers hits as Discovery's Deadliest Catch and History's Ice Road Truckers with a twist: 13 neophytes compete to see who performs best in positions ranging from oil rigger to lumberjack.
The ultimate winner gets the pooled tough-guy job salaries, which Beers values at "well over" $250,000.
"Every time I do a series, I get people telling me they could do that job and (asking) how can they get to do it," says Beers, whose Original Productions has 14 reality shows under contract at eight networks, also including TruTV's Black Gold, History's Ax Men and National Geographic's L.A. Hardhats. "I thought it would be interesting to get people out of their office towers and cubicles and put these jobs in context."
NBC hopes Beers' show, which is inexpensive to produce compared with scripted programming and potentially attractive to advertiser-coveted young male viewers, will fuel a new network franchise. "This is the next evolution of the reality show. What we've done is taken the essence of Thom's shows and added a competition element," says Craig Plestis, NBC's head of alternative programming. "This is about real consequences and real work. If you screw up, you're out."
A familiarity with Beers' cable shows attracted about 4,000 applicants to Jobs. Contestants range from a 22-year-old recent college grad to investment bankers and fashion models whose idea of hard work appears to be confined to aerobics workouts and juggling briefcases and lattes.
"These are people looking for a change and a new life experience," Plestis says. "It's a journey of discovery for a lot of them."
Some of tonight's more comical moments focus on the attempted blue-collar work ethic of Wall Street executive Amy Brodsky, 40, who quickly realizes that the backbreaking work of crab harvesting in freezing Arctic fisheries is far more difficult than she expected.
"This is living life," a sore and dehydrated Brodsky says on tonight's episode. "Going to a Ritz-Carlton spa is not living life."
Beers notes that female competitors "kicked butt" in several episodes. "The women manned up big time — it's hard to find women in the worlds of fishing and logging."
Judging by some of the criticism levied by real-life crab boat captains tonight, most of the contestants shouldn't have considered quitting their day jobs, although most did make a change after the taping of the 10-episode series.
"Only two went back to what they were doing," says Beers, who has begun filming NBC's next tough-job reality series, Shark Taggers, due next summer. (c) Copyright 2008 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. <>>


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