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May 07 2012
Note from Pioneer Woman: The above photo has nothing to do with this post. I just wanted to post it.
After six weeks of off/on travel, I'm finally home to stay and probably won't shower for a week. (Wait…what?) More regular posting will resume now that I'm permanently unpacked…but meanwhile, my beloved Marlboro Man has been picking up the slack for me, writing posts about agriculture. If you're not the least bit interested in reading about the cattle market, cow-calf operations, bulls, land management, burning, and artificial insemination, I do apologize.
However, if these topics pique your interest, here is the full archive of the posts he's written so far:
Cattle & Agriculture Posts by Marlboro Man
As for today's post, Marlboro Man answers many of your questions relating to last week's post about Cow-Calf Operations…and about ranching in general. Thank you all for giving him an opportunity to talk about his favorite subject next to football.
Q. If you keep heifers back as replacements, do you need keep them in a different pasture, with a different bull, for genetic diversity? Or do you AI the heifers and keep them in a pasture without a bull?
A. We don't AI (artificially inseminate.) All of the heifers that are being bred for the first time will be kept in pastures by themselves. The bulls used on heifers their first time are usually younger, low birth-weight bulls. We use younger bulls because they weigh less and it's easier on the heifers. "Low birth-weight" means the bulls are expected to sire calves with a lower birth weight; this is preferable for heifers being bred for for the first time. It makes the calving easier.
Q. Is AI used in the cattle industry as well? If it is, what are the pros/cons of AI use?
The main advantage of AI is that it allows you to dictate specific genetics. The biggest negative is the time and management required to synchronize the heat cycle of the cattle being bred—then manually inseminate each animal. On a commercial operation ("commercial" just means we are raising cattle for the production of beef, versus registered operations that are trying to produce superior genetics) it is more cost-effective to let the bull do his work. He can easily identify which cows are in heat.
Q. Aside from sheer number of cows, have you considered artificial insemination to reduce the number of empty cows?
A. Trying to manage the heat cycle of 1,000 cows spread out over 12 pastures would make AI impossible for us.
Q. How do you keep track of which animal is used for what purpose? Do you have several herds of cattle grazing on separate parcels?
A. Our ranch is fenced and cross-fenced into many different pastures. Part of our job is to stock the pastures at a manageable rate and to keep track of what is grazed in each pasture. Usually in the fall and spring, we'll shape (gather to the pens and sort, or sort in the corner of a pasture on horseback) our cows and yearlings to put like cattle with like cattle. Incidentally, we'll be doing this in the coming weeks. I will try to do a post with photos about this process)
Q. How in the world do you keep track of all your cattle, down to which one was bred and how old this one is and when it's time for that one to go…and tell them apart?
A. We keep the cattle separated by pasture. Most of the different types of animals we run are easy to differentiate. Fall cows have babies in the winter and spring cows don't. Steers and heifers are easily determined by their sexual identifiers. Steers and heifers aren't nearly as big as cows, or as small as calves. The only difficult thing to immediately identify is a cow's age, but they aren't generally separated by age except to keep the first and second calf heifers separate. (This is so that you can breed them with lower birth-weight bulls, and so that you can keep a closer eye on them during calving season.)
Q. How do you guard your cattle against coyotes?
A. We take care of some of them ourselves. Also, our state trappers will come assist us with decreasing the numbers. Coyotes are part of the wildlife in our area, so it isn't as much about totally eliminating them (which is impossible to do) as keeping their numbers under control.
Q. How much do the kiddos contribute?
A. Our kids are now vital to the operation. They know how to do the work and they are getting to be pretty good at it. This doesn't just happen overnight. Tim and I have spent lots of time working with them. In the earlier years, taking them with us was more work than it was helpful, but that is what you have to do if you want them to learn. There were many mornings when I would rather have slept until 5:00 am instead of getting up at 4:30 to saddle those four extra horses. But now I'm so glad I did it.
Q. Two questions from a non-cow person: How would a cow get injured by an oil pump jack? And hypothetical — how do you think you would handle it if one of your kids said he/she hated the outdoor ranch life and didn't want to help with any of the cow/horse type chores?
A cow will sometimes rub on the panels around a pump and knock them down or loose, then it will stick its head in there and get injured. It doesn't happen very often.
As far as the kids go, it wouldn't bother me at all if they said ranch life wasn't for them. When I was growing up, I actually didn't like it all that much. It was a lot of work and I would have much rather sat at home and watched cartoons on Saturday morning. Thankfully, that wasn't an option. I want my kids to know how to be good cattlemen and to know how to do the jobs of the ranch. But more importantly, I want them to learn how to work. If they learn how to work, then they can accomplish anything they want.
Q. I'm assuming part of producing the best calves is managing the land usage – how much is grazed over when, and when/how long that land is rested or turned to another use before being used for the cow/calf portion of the operation again?
A. You are correct. The key to any ranching operation is managing your land. It is your most important responsibility. How you stock your pastures and what you stock them with is all part of that process. We don't do any rotational grazing, but we do alternate what we run in certain pastures through the years. You might run cows in a pasture for two years then go to horses for two and then do yearlings for a couple. They all graze land differently.
Q. What pasture management practices do you all use? Good grass has got to be good for fat and happy cows, so how do you insure that your pastures remain lush and fruitful? Burn? Fertilize? Weed control?
A. We burn and weed spray. Usually we will burn whatever is big enough to need it, then we try to weed-spray (using an aerial sprayer) half the ranch each year. We do not fertilize, as you don't see much benefit from it on the native grasses in this area.
Q. Do you save some of these bulls for your own meat? Or do you have to purchase meat in the stores?
A. We do both. I am very comfortable with either option. I have no doubts about how the cattle that enter the general food chain are handled or treated. I only buy choice or better steaks in the grocery store, so they are usually the equivalent of what we raise at home. I do like home raised hamburger better but that is usually because the fat content is a little higher, so most people probably wouldn't like that.
If you want to purchase a steer outside of the usual food chain, one way to do it is to go to a local 4-H show. You don't have to buy the grand champion, just select one of the middle-of-the-road steers. This is not only an excellent way to buy a good steer that has been fed and raised with care, but also to support your local youth who are learning about agriculture,.
Q. I am curious how you pick the cows that you feed to your family. Do you finish them on grain or are they strictly grassfed?
A. We usually only fatten one or two at a time for our own use and we will do it on a grain ration. Personally I like the flavor of grain fed beef better than grass-fed. Cattle only need to be fed a grain ration for about 90 days to be considered grain-fed.
Q. I'd be curious to know what the early indicators are that one cow is better than another for using as a breeding cow?
A. We do it based on confirmation and size.
Q. Did you major in business at university? Or agriculture? Or…?
A. Business. When I first went to college, I wasn't coming back. It took a few years for me to miss the ranch.
Q. Can you address the subject of twin calves?
A. We will leave them on the cow if she accepts them and both are doing well. You need to watch them closely and if one of the calves is struggling, you need to bottle feed it or try to get another cow to take the calf. (Unfortunately you always have a small number of cows that have recently lost a calf.)
Q. Please write about succession planning and passing the ranch to the next generation. Your family has obviously been very successful at this.
A. I've thought about doing a post about how a multi-generational ranch works. I'll put that on my to-do list. The cliff notes version goes like this: You need a lot of hard work, a good education, and a good family.
But most importantly, you'll need a good measure of faith in God. As anyone in agriculture can tell you, so much is out of our hands.
Q. Are the cow/calves more profitable than growing a crop like corn or something else?
A. Row crops are much more profitable than cattle. However, this area (the Flint Hills) is too rocky, which is why most of it was never plowed. But that means it still has its native grasses, which are excellent for grazing cattle.
Q. How much water do cattle drink – and how do you supply it to them, other than ponds.
A. All of our water comes from ponds or creek. We get plenty of rain to make ponds work in our area. As you get further west and the rainfall decreases, people will use some sort of well water, usually with a windmill.
Q. How difficult is weaning? I had a great grandma on a farm in Leavenworth, Kansas and can remember going to sleep some nights to the sound of baby calves. I was told they were being weaned and were crying out for their moms.
A. Naturally, calves are going to bawl the first couple of days they're separated from their mamas, but by the time we wean the calves, they need to come off. A big calf will drink so much milk per day that it can be hard on the cow. We always joke that some of the cows seem ready to go to the pens. It's like they are saying "Alrighty, he/she is all yours, I'm ready for a break."
Q. Is a steer the primary kind of beef that people eat? Do you sell the calves for veal?
A. Steers and heifers are the primary types. We do not do any veal. I personally don't know anyone who does veal.
Q. What other courses do you recommend to anyone to take while in college if they want to be a farmer or rancher?
A. You need basic Ag Classes but you also need business, finance, marketing—and in today's climate, probably communications.
Q. I was curious how your family got started ranching and how you work the business with your brother. Does he live on your ranch too, and do you share all the duties equally?
A. My brother and I have separate operations, but we work very closely together. He has his ranch that he's responsible for and I have mine, but we help each other and work together a lot. One of the advantages of having a father and brother in the same business is having a built-in consulting team. Together, we make better decisions.
Q. What is the average time you keep a cow for breeding, and also the steers? AND, do the breeding cows get sold for market or sent somewhere else?
A. Usually you will breed a heifer at 1 to 1.5 years of age. Cows are kept for their full breeding life and then they are sold, usually to a packer that specializes in older animals.
Q. If gestation is 9 months and calves are weaned at 8 months, what's happening for the other 7 months before they go to market (since things were laid out as a 2 year/24 month operation). Is it purely "extra" time for the calves to increase in size? I'm curious because I wonder whether it would ever be possible to decrease the cycle or condense the overlap in the event of a missed breeding slot. Or are the cattle always going to be purchased October-December?
A. The cycle has been compressed as much as possible. After calves are weaned, they are sold to the next phase, which is a yearling operation. I'll cover this later, but basically they are run on grass or wheat and grown from the 400-500 pounds to 700-800 pounds. Then they are sold to a feedyard or similar operation.
Q. Speaking of, is purchase time frame something that the ranchers or the purchasers set? Is there a reason you couldn't have a similar cycle of spring-calves with the purchases happening in June/July a year later?
A. The rancher sets the time to sell his calves. The weaning season is determined by the growing season of the grass on the ranch the cattle come from. You want the primary growing time of the calf to coincide with the time when the grass has the highest and best protein content.
Q. Is part of the reason you prefer fall-calving that you live at a latitude/climate that will allow very young calves to live in the winter? Is that something that a rancher further north would need to consider in their cost-benefit analysis?
A. Yes. The farther north you get, the harder it is on the calves in the winter. If you're calving when a blizzard hits, it's not good for anyone. Also in areas where your grass is dormant in the winter, fall cattle require much more feed to get them through the winter. So southern climates are more conducive to fall cows.
Q. Here's a question not quite related…have you been surprised by the fame and fortune this blog has brought?
A. Everything about the blog has been a surprise. As far as fame and fortune, I always tell people that it's impossible to be famous in Pawhuska. Everyone here knows everyone else and to most of them I'm still just the guy they went to high school with or my father's son or my grandmother's grandson. And Ree is my wife or the kids' mother. And the cows and horses really don't care. The only one who has really been affected by all the change is Charlie. His ego is getting a little out of control.
Q. It's very clear that you take excellent care of your animals, but I'm curious if it's good for the cows to be bred back to back like that? How many years of breeding does each cow do? Seems like it must be tough on them to be pregnant and nursing all the time??
A. As long as we do a good job of taking care of them while they're pregnant and nursing, they do fine. It really comes down to making sure they have proper nutrition and care so they can stay healthy and happy.
Q. Can you tell a little more what causes some of the baby calves to die?
A. There are lots of ways for calves to die. Sickness, problems with birthing, and coyotes are the primary problems we have. That's why they take constant management and monitoring.
Q. Is the protein cubes you mentioned, the same as "cake feed" PW talked about in prior posts about feeding? Also the supplemental mineral, is that what might be also called "salt licks?"
A. Yes and yes—although in our area we use salt and mineral from bags, not large blocks. We put them in tubs that are placed in strategic areas of each pasture.
Q. How in the world do you keep track of all your cattle, down to which one was bred and how old this one is and when it's time for that one to go…and tell them apart?
A. The short answer is when you work them in the fall, you separate them by groups and keep them in separate pastures. The reality is, it's constant, non-stop work. Sorting and shaping cattle to keep them straightened out is a huge part of our job.
Q. I've got a question! You mentioned that steers are worth more, and that you assume a 50/50 split between steers/heifers. I was reading an interview with a dairy farmer who mentioned that they use sperm sorting and artificial insemination on their dairy cows – this lets them have mostly heifer calves that will stay on the farm and get milked once they're grown. Is it practical and/or cost effective for you to do something similar, to get mostly steers?
A. See above. It's not practical or cost effective right now. It may be in the future, but that still feels like a long way off.
Q. What is the difference between steers/heifers?
A. Steers are male, and heifers are female.
Q. How did you learn to do all these processes? Did your dad teach you? Did you get schooling for it?
A. I learned just from doing it. There is a lot to know, but most of it is just common sense gained through years of experience.
Q. So is there really any such thing as a grass fed (purely) animal?
A. Yes. They are just cattle that have been raised on strictly grass. There are people that specialize in raising only grass fed beef.
Q. Is it just me or does that calf have an irritated or evil look on its face?
A. He does look a little annoyed.
Q. I know that there are only so many hours in the day and work is work, but are chickens too much extra work?
A. Yes. Chickens are evil.
Note from PW: I'll be getting chickens soon! Heh heh heh.
Q. What breed of cattle do you raise? Crossbreds?
A. We raise mostly Angus cattle but we do have some Brangus and my brother has his Herefords.
Q. And do you keep back all the heifers to breed, or do some of them get shipped off with the steers? Also, what's wrong with a Brahma influence?
A. Most of our heifers will get shipped off with the steers. Only the best of the heifers will be kept for breeding.
Some buyers don't like Brahma's. Brahma's have a thinner hide and will not handle the cold as well as pure Angus or more English type cattle. The flip side is, they do handle hot weather better, which is why many people in the southern states have cattle with some Brahma influence.
Q. Are there a bunch of bulls intermingled among the herd of bachelorettes? If so, do the bulls fight amongst themselves to get a "date?" If the bulls do fight, is there ever a concern they will harm one another? And finally, do bulls really go cookoo when they see the color red?
A. Yes, the bulls will fight among themselves and occasionally hurt each other. That's another cost of doing business.
A bull is either cookoo or he isn't (some bulls are just crazy ) The color red isn't the problem.
Q. Can you talk more about grass fed, organic, grass finished, etc… beef and what the various terms mean to the consumer.
A. This is another topic I need to post about. I'll try to do that sometime soon.
351 Comments and 55 Replies
Salvina On Tuesday, May 8 at 11:46 pm
This has been fascinating to read! I'm a complete city rat from NYC. I know nothing about this stuff, or even think about what work goes into the steak I buy for dinner from time to time. I'm completely taken by ranch life, and I'm so glad you and Ree have given me a glimpse of it
Linda On Wednesday, May 9 at 12:14 am
Dear PW … never ever apologize for posting pictures of a man in chaps (from behind). These are very good for our cardio-vascular system! Also, it is strangely fascinating to get to hear stories from/about your whole family. Brava PW!
Jennifer B. On Wednesday, May 9 at 6:39 pm
I second the motion about the chaps picture! You really should trademark his behind! Okay, enough. I really enjoyed reading MM posts and found them very interesting and informative.
Heather On Wednesday, May 9 at 6:17 am
Dont' tell PW but I am liking MM's posts better than hers.
I am one generation off the farm, my grandfather raised beef cattle and had an egg operation, and I love reading about how things are done in OK. (I am in PA.)
My mother and aunt would agree on the chickens. A childhood spent collecting eggs cured any love for backyard chickens.
Nadine On Wednesday, May 9 at 8:09 am
I enjoy learning about the ranching business, thank you for giving insite to this topic.
alane On Wednesday, May 9 at 8:40 am
Man, I enjoyed your post. I am a farm girl that grew up in Idaho on a small cow/calf operation. My family consisted of 4 girls and then two boys. But we girls got the bulk of the work. And what did I think? I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. It was the dirtiest, hardest work I have ever done. But the satisfaction of doing a job that needed to be done was amazing. I broke a shetland pony and then a Pinto that I rode every chance I got. I helped vaccinate and hand off brands, I drove tractors and helped vet new heifer momma cows.
I am proud of the life that you have made for your children and now as I sit in my suburbia and miss the smell of open air and manure…be assured you are giving them a gift of working with you and feeling that importance that is beyond measure. I enjoy this blog as a fresh and sweet breath of something that is a part of me and forever will be. Thanks.
Libby On Wednesday, May 9 at 10:29 am
I love the cattle management stuff. I don't even have a blade of grass to my name, much actual land, so I love to learn about this oh-so-different world.
Vicki Gassiot Ford On Wednesday, May 9 at 10:30 am
I love this stuff – from the sister of a rancher…
Libby On Wednesday, May 9 at 10:50 am
Ok, now I have a question. I heard of a farmer recently who was killed by a bull. I know with any animal there is always a risk, and I work with horses, so there is risk, but then also certain extra rules revolving around any stallion, even the most well behaved ones. You may have mentioned it, but do you keep bulls in your pastures year round, and is there any extra protocol for working with them?
Also, do you raise and train your own horses? Where do you get them from? I imagine ya'll don't just have tons of time to spend breaking horses…but do you?
Cheri B On Wednesday, May 9 at 11:29 am
This was a great post- Thanks MM-
Thanks also for the 4H plug- there are ALOT of kids out there learning their way around with their 4H projects. OUr club will be 60 years old this year and as a horse advisor- it si a pretty amazing experience.
Are your kids in 4H?
my Son works on a jersey farm and they do AI- it si improtant for the gernder and milk product desires.
cc On Wednesday, May 9 at 11:40 am
It's clear that you and your family treat your land and animals well. I do wonder, though, if the feed yards you talk about are the same as 'factory farms.' In other words, do the animals spend a few great years with you guys – with plenty of land, water, space and green grass – just to end their lives in extremely pens/spaces almost void of the grasses they grew up enjoying? I understand it's a business, but if that is the last step, I wonder if you have any qualms about the system? Especially given how much attention and care you give them while they're under your control.
Shari On Wednesday, May 9 at 1:00 pm
I love love love my chickens!!!! I love to sit and watch them quietly peck and scratch through the yard. I love that when I come out the door my black little cochin Perry talks to me. I love that my boys everyday are excited to go gather eggs and see if there are any new chicks that day.Yes they do stink and they are messy, but not anymore so than other farm/ranch animals. I find that chickens are much easier to take care of than the house pets we have.
Mary Stubblefield On Wednesday, May 9 at 1:18 pm
Thanks MM for taking the time to answer these questions. As a BIG city"city-slicker" who now lives in the midwest and near farms, although still in a decent size city, I have always be fascinated by ranch life. I know it would kill me the first few days/weeks but my husband and I always have said we would love to work a real ranch – not one of those vacation ranches you can go to – just to see what it's really like. Your posts make me even more fascinated. Thanks for that!
Jomama L On Wednesday, May 9 at 1:33 pm
Bravo MM! Great stuff! I've learned so much from your Q&A and posts. It's also been fun to share your articles with my 8 year old who is fascinated with agriculture. I can appreciate the rising cost of good beef after reading the details of the business. It helps us as a family not take for granted the food we eat and for my children to understand better why I try so hard to buy local, in only the quantities that we need, and the hard work our local farmers put into making these things available. Keep the words flowing, but not at the expense of Ree posting her goodies too!
Kim Maguire in Virginia On Wednesday, May 9 at 1:37 pm
Sounds like MM needs his own Rancher Blog…just a thought!
Susan On Thursday, May 10 at 9:14 am
If MM had his own blog he would also need 4-5 more hours a day and that ain't going to happen. Be happy with what he has time for now…..
Gayle On Wednesday, May 9 at 2:40 pm
Just catching up reading your blog. Saw the picture of Marlboro man's back side. I think that it is greatest picture. I think you have taken pictures like that before. I remember seeing another one. Anyhow, great picture. Good shot of a good cowboy. I love to watch your show. I have to record it because I'm never there when it comes on but I sure enjoy it. The kids are great. You are amazing to me. I don't know how you do all you do. Great book, blog and show. Keep it up.
Debbie On Wednesday, May 9 at 3:31 pm
My husband and I just bought 72 acres, 7 cows, and 2 steers in SW Kansas. Our first calf was born a few days ago and is not nursing. It's been an abrupt introduction to a family cattle operation. We've been milking the (unwilling) cow and tube feeding the calf. Not fun. I'm sorry to have missed this series of posts, but I'll be catching up on them. PW is where I learned what a heifer was!
Rebekah On Wednesday, May 9 at 4:22 pm
OHH, can we come coyote hunt for you?? The first 'date' my (now) husband and I went on was when he came up to visit from his home in West Texas to our place in SW Oklahoma (somewhat near Waurika) and we went coyote hunting on our place and some neighbors ranches.
Mindy On Wednesday, May 9 at 4:54 pm
I love love love MM's posts! Watch out Ree, he's your newest competition!
Michelle On Wednesday, May 9 at 5:03 pm
Thanks so much for mentioning a 4-H or FFA kid as being an excellent alternative to the grocery store for your beef. Two of my girls show cattle, and you are right, their cattle are always treated and fed well, because happy cows make great show cows.
jenny k On Wednesday, May 9 at 6:35 pm
MM, thank you so much for taking the time to write this post! You explain everything so clearly. You are a very good writer, too. I think Ree might have married you as much for your brains and good character as she did for your looks!
Your children are very blessed to have you both for parents….and we readers are blessed that you all are sharing your lives with us. God bless!
Tracy Ballard On Wednesday, May 9 at 7:39 pm
I have a question: Does MM know you are taking photos of his backside when you are doing it, or realize later?
roan On Wednesday, May 9 at 11:13 pm
MM, I really appreciate the time you take writing on this blog. Good sense of humor too ! Charlie's ego and the steer, "He does look a little annoyed". And I really like the red horse you are riding. thanks again. OH Yes, maybe something about the horses later ?
GRATEFUL On Thursday, May 10 at 1:35 am
Mr. Drummond, thank you for taking the time out of your busy life to inform us. That was the most fascinating reading I have done in a long while, and I'm a reader. I have no TV.
I was so impressed with your work ethic and faith in God.
May God bless you and your beautiful family, parents and lands.
Frances in San Francisco, CA
leeann On Thursday, May 10 at 7:54 am
We have a commercial beef catle operation in Florida.
It is nice to see that you all are promoting the beef industry along with everything else you are doing. Thank you and keep it up!
Casey On Thursday, May 10 at 9:52 am
Thanks for taking the time to use this site as a platform for educating non ag folks about our industry. Like you said, in the world we live in now, good communication is vital. Also thanks for the shout out to the 4H program.
Donna On Thursday, May 10 at 10:21 am
Compensation for kids. How do you compensate your kids for the work they do?
If your kids make a big costly mistake what do you do?
Thanks for all the info.
SarahSue On Thursday, May 10 at 11:14 am
When you said you chose cows on their "confirmation and size" I think you meant conformation? Heh. Unless, of course, you got by some sort of spiritual confirmation or something…. which is all good.
Coyote Red On Thursday, May 10 at 12:29 pm
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post. Since I was raised in Michigan farm country sandwiched between two farms, my husband is always asking me Ag questions. Which, I cannot answer, since he whisked me away at age 18 before I had a chance to get past my apathy toward farming and become interested in how things really worked. If we were younger, we would really be ready to run away out west and start a ranch. Alas, we understand our physical limitations at our age, and must be content with the best part of ranching – 1 week here or there riding horses and gathering cattle as a guest. Keep posting MM! (We love you too, Ree.)
Julie Hays On Thursday, May 10 at 1:47 pm
I love the ranching posts! We recently bought 26 acres(and hope to acquire the adjoining 20) and want to burn it in the spring. We live not too far from you in northern Rogers county. I read your article on burning but would like to know more, like what month is the best to burn in OK, should we burn every year or every other year? At this point we only have horses but in the not too distant future would like to get a few cattle, which brings me to my next question. How many cows can you run on our land and not overgraze and how many cows can a bull service? and how do you pick a "nice" bull and by that I mean temperament? I have 4 kids from ages 6-13 and don't want to have to worry too much about an aggressive bull.
Sandy On Thursday, May 10 at 4:16 pm
Reading your posts is such a treat!
At some point in time you decided to go home, be a rancher and opt out of a classic business career. How do you think the Drummond Ranch business would have been different, if you hadn't made that decision?
Emily On Thursday, May 10 at 6:02 pm
I know nothing about cows or ranching, and was surprised by how much money the cows sale for. Considering their value, do you have to worry about people stealing cows? Or is that something that only happens in Westerns?
John Mcgee On Friday, May 11 at 10:27 am
Thanks so much for posting about the business side of your ranching operation, and to Marlboro Man for sharing. I started following you because of the pics of the ranch, because one side of my family farmed and ranched in South Dakota, and because my dad was a 4-H'er when he was a kid. It is obvious that what you do on the ranch isn't easy, and I especially like hearing that your children help in every way possible: I find that very encouraging. Thanks for doing the book tour, too: we met you both in Little Rock at a Wal-Mart a couple of years ago, and it's fun to see the context placed by the ranch in your other activities. Keep sharing!
Lady Jennie On Friday, May 11 at 12:01 pm
This was great – really interesting!
debbie musick On Friday, May 11 at 4:36 pm
Can we go back to the photograph which started this particular discussion. The picture of MM's rear in the Wrangler! OMG! I do need one of those! I would frame it!
Jeannie On Saturday, May 12 at 9:03 am
Love the chickens….figure the evil ones are just misunderstood. Yeah for 4-H awesome what it did for me as a kid in western KS… wish my grand kids in KC area have it available to them when they are 8.
Texana On Sunday, May 13 at 7:36 am
Thank you for taking the time to blog about your ranch and how you run it. It was fascinating. Looking forward to more posts from you!
Molly @ View From A Saddle On Sunday, May 13 at 3:54 pm
I am getting chickens very soon!! We are in the middle of ordering a coop (I wish I could have one built custom) and my chickens ship from Cackle hatchery on May 30! I'm exciteD!
Lauren On Monday, May 14 at 9:39 am
I am laughing about the chicken comment- I just finished reading "The Egg and I" about one woman's experience living on a chicken ranch and laughed about as much as I do reading this blog!!
Whitney On Tuesday, May 15 at 2:22 pm
Such a great idea about purchasing good meat from a local 4-H auction! I grew up raising pigs just for 4-H and I guess I just thought our local bank was the one buying my pigs at the auction as a thank you to my parents for banking with them (grew up in a really small town). I took such great care of my pigs every year, that whoever bought them if they had them butchered was going to have some great pork! We're totally doing that this summer at our local 4-H fair…great way to get good meat and also support a local 4-Her! Thanks for the idea!
PattersonMommy On Tuesday, May 15 at 3:19 pm
Blue and yellow are VERY NICE colors! Thanks PW!
MM, thanks for the wealth of information. Wish I could actually use it!
To me, a farm has plants, whereas a ranch has animals. My dad and grandpa were farmers; they drove tractors and grew crops. Too bad I got the farmer gene and not my brother. I'm a wife and mother with no room for farming. Also, Dad did not take us to the farm as children, but for quick trips on weekends when he had to feed (when they did have a handful of hogs and cattle). Dad and Grandpa hired me one or two summers when I was in high school, so I was able to help a little and earn some money. I worked for other farm operations driving combines and swathers the summers I wasn't on Dad's farm during high school. It's a tough business. Work, work, work, work, work!
Your kids are so blessed, SO blessed and those blessings are going to stay with them their whole life through on to your grandchildren.
JoAnn On Tuesday, May 15 at 7:19 pm
I love what MM said about teaching the kids to work not to necessarily work on the ranch the rest of their lives. I grew up on a dairy farm and although I am now a dispatcher I know that part of the reason I have gotten as far as I have as young as I am is because I am a hard worker because I was taught to work.
Julie Hermann On Wednesday, May 16 at 6:27 am
I have always gone to this site for cooking…..but I am so very much enjoying MM's posts about cattle and ranching. He said he would address the grass fed question in a separate post…I am looking forward to this. 'Grass fed' seems to be all the rage and some tell me not to even buy meat that isn't…… I want to know the real scoop. Thanks MM
Leanne On Thursday, July 12 at 1:10 pm
I think some people feel grass fed means strictly organic and therefore must be better for you. That is not always the case. Grass fed also does not neccessarily mean hormone free or free from the many other unhealthy practices that some ranchers use to bring in more money. Also, grass fed tastes different and the fat you see will look different than you are used to as well. It's always worth a taste test but unless the label specifies organic, if that's the reason you're looking for grass fed, then you might not be getting anything healthier than the grain fed package next to it. And, you can get grain fed, organic, meat; If the grain the rancher feeds is organic and their medical practices also maintain the organic status. One of the benefits of raising your own. I highly recommend Ladd's suggestion of buying from a 4H kid on auction day.
Homeschool on the Croft On Wednesday, May 16 at 5:22 pm
My admiration for farmers and ranchers just grows and grows. Y'all are amazing
Marilyn On Thursday, May 17 at 8:48 am
I really enjoy reading what you have to say about your work and family. We farm in Missouri…………row crops and cow/calf operation. My entire family works to make our lifestyle and livlihood work and there is no greater satisfaction than working with family. I appreciate your work ethic, family values and belief in God. M
Julie White On Friday, May 18 at 5:03 pm
Loved this post! VERY interesting! You are a very wise man! GOD has richly blessed you and your family.
Lauren On Saturday, May 26 at 4:34 pm
I have learned so much about cattle from reading your posts! Very interesting. On the other hand, I am rooting for Ree to get chickens! I told my husband that if we ever move out of surburbia that I want chickens. Think of all the beautiful eggs and extra tasty baked goods….and brightly colored chicken coops!
Deborah Fields On Sunday, May 27 at 12:48 pm
I really enjoy reading your blogs, I grew up in rural Indiana and my father ran the last custom slaughter and processing plant (he did not retail) in the state. He worked long hard hours and always double wrapped his meat, he is well known in our area and people still tell me that no one did it like Dad! He talked about what made a good beef to butcher and how they needed to be pinned up and fed grain for 90 days before butchering like you said. I just find it very interesting to read a bout your cattle as I am familiar with some of the processes. I so enjoy your wife and you and the kids on the ranch! I have always been a cowgirl at heart!
Leanne On Thursday, July 12 at 12:58 pm
Ladd, I know you said you keep one or two cattle for your own consumption but I'm wondering why you don't keep more? It seems to me that it would be more cost effective to eat your own meat. Also wondering why you don't have 1 milking cow for your family's use. With 1 cow producing several gallons a day, you would have enough milk and milk based products (cream, cheese and butter for example) to feed your family and handle all the cooking that Ree does. Some days you'd probably have enough to share with your extended family. With a milking machine made for just 1 cow, it would cut down on the amount of work a milking cow requires. I'm just looking for your perspective because that is my plan, starting next year, for myself. Am I biting off more than I can chew?
res On Monday, July 30 at 11:04 am
You crack me up posting photos of his butt in chaps. Even for us city slickers, if you post a photo like that we will immediately notice and not care what the actual topic is about. lol Yeah, there's just something about that, look.
I'm thoroughly enjoying your entire website and even read a few articles including putting up a fence.
CherylJ On Sunday, August 12 at 10:57 pm
Have you considered using Llamas as guardians to help protect your herds from coyotes?
nikki On Tuesday, August 14 at 4:07 pm
so, i've just spent the past hour (or two) reading PW. no, i want you guys to adopt my husband and i for a little while and teach us to be ranchers


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Easter services
Plymouth Heights Church of the Nazarene, 25 Arnett Drive, behind Green High School, Franklin Furnace. "Bow the Knee," a dynamic, dramatic musical Easter cantata, begins at 7 p.m. Friday-Sunday, April 2-4. There are moments of drama with music by the church choir and featured soloists. The cantata is under the direction of Connie Otworth, choir director. Questions, call 740-354-9021.
New Life Outreach Church,, Fort Gay. The church presents Emanuel "God With Us," a play portraying the life of Christ from birth to ascension, at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 2-3.
Twenty-sixth Street Baptist Church, 2510 10th Ave., Huntington. The "Pathway to the Cross," a self-guided tour of dimensional art depicting the life of Christ, opens from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and noon-3 p.m. Sunday, March 29-April 4. Admission is free. Tim Arthur, pastor.
Chesapeake Southern Baptist Church, 43 Township Road 1010, Chesapeake. Maundy Thursday service begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 1, with a remembrance of the last supper of Christ. This will be the first service at the church's new location. Good Friday service starts at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2, with C.J. Adkins speaking on the crucifixion of Christ. Easter celebration begins at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4, and there will be no evening service.
New Life Church, 1101 Cedar Crest Drive, Huntington. Resurrection Day Celebration begins at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4. Pastor Darrell Huffman will minister and share the church vision. An Easter Celebration Concert begins at 7 p.m. and will be a time of worship, drama, video, music and celebrating our Savior, Jesus Christ. For more information, call the church office Monday through Thursday at 304-733-4423.
Booten-Millers Fork United Baptist Church, Miller's Fork Road, Wayne. "Three Rusty Nails," presented by the children, begins at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 4. Questions, call Jimmie Lester, pastor, 304-525-8564.
Lucinda United Baptist Church, Proctorville. Sunrise service will be 6 p.m. Sunday, April 4, with Jody Thompson preaching.
Big Branch Church, 2072 County Road 31, Chesapeake. Easter Sunrise Devotional Breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4, with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship Service begins at 10:45 a.m. with Randy Henderson preaching. An Easter egg hunt will follow the morning service. Evening service will begin at 6 p.m. with Michael Wright speaking. There will also be a special communion service.
Tri-State Baptist Temple, 1300 County Road 60, South Point. The 2010 Easter series of messages, "By Many Infallible Proofs," by Pastor Tim Jenkins concludes with "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth," on Sunday, April 4. Gospel hour begins at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Visit www.tsbtonline.com. Tim Jenkins, pastor.
St. John's Episcopal Church, 3000 Washington Blvd., Huntington. An agape meal begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 1, with a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. The service features a foot washing. On Good Friday, remember Jesus' crucifixion with readings, prayers and veneration at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2. The Great Easter Vigil will recall how the disciples kept vigil after Jesus was laid in the tomb at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 3. Two services offered on Easter celebrating the Day of Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. First, Holy Eucharist, Rite I (no music) at 8 a.m. and then Choral Eucharist, Rite II, begins at 10:30 a.m. Bring bells to ring and flowers to flower cross.
Sunrise Church of the Nazarene, 531 County Road 17, South Point. A Son-Rise service begins at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 4, with a community breakfast from 8-9:30 a.m. Worship service will continue at 9:30 a.m. and will conclude with a Easter Egg Hunt immediately after. For directions or a ride, call 740-867-4610.
Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, 469 Norway Ave., Huntington. The church celebrates Maundy Thursday Holy Communion at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 1; and the church will have a Easter Sunrise service with Beverly Hills United Methodist Church at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 4, at the entrance to Woodmere Cemetery. A breakfast will follow at BHPC. Everyone is welcome. Questions, call 304-529-4651.
Teays Valley Church of God, 4430 Teays Valley Road, Scott Depot. Two services offered for Easter beginning at 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday, April 4. Both services will feature special music by the "Voices of Praise Choir," worship dance by Kayte Brannon and an inspirational message of hope by the Rev. Dr. Melissa Pratt, pastor. Special children's program part of both services. Call 304-757-9222.
Sousanah Freewill Baptist Church, Charlies Creek Road, Culloden. Easter Sunrise service begins at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4. Sermon by George Leese. Breakfast follows the Easter service. Ronnie Brown, pastor.
Walnut Gap Full Gospel Church, Mount Union Road, Huntington. Sunrise service begins at 6 a.m. Sunday, April 4, with preaching by Brian Lester. Easter service continues at 10 a.m. with preaching by Pastor Al Shaffer. A Easter egg hunt follows service. Ronnie Kirk preaches at 6 p.m.
Seventh Avenue Baptist Church, 240 7th Ave. W., Huntington. A Sunrise Easter service begins at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4, with Bob Hogsett bringing the message. During the 11 a.m. service, the choir will perform their cantata "God's Great Double-Cross," arranged by Bob Withers, pastor.
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, 4298 Prices Creek Road, Huntington. Easter Sunrise service begins at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4. Everyone is invited to attend. No evening service.
Good Shepherd Free Will Baptist Church, 5470 W. Pea Ridge Road, Huntington. Easter Sunrise service begins at 6 a.m. Sunday, April 4, with Pastor Jason Black preaching. A Easter program begins at 11 a.m. and the Rev. Calvin Nida preaches at 6 p.m. Special singing by the church choir at 6 p.m.
Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 6286 Little Seven Mile Road, Huntington. A special Easter Sunrise service begins at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4, with Pastor Gordon Rutherford brings the message. A Sunrise Breakfast served following the early morning service. Special music presented by the Sanctuary Choir during the 10:55 a.m. service.
Milton Baptist Church, 1123 Church St., Milton. Maundy Thursday and Communion begins at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the sanctuary. Fellowship dinner at 5:45 p.m. in the gym. If you are not a regular attendee to the weekly dinners, please call the church by Wednesday, March 31, to make a reservation. There is a nominal fee for the dinner. No Wednesday evening services on March 31. Regular services and activities will resume on April 7.
St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 701 11th Ave., Huntington. The church members will have a Easter Processional from 8-9 p.m. Friday, April 2, around the outside of the church.

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Running Springs is located 6200 feet above sea level in the heart of the San Bernardino Mountains, Midway between Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake. It is populated by a combination of residents and weekenders. We get snow in the winter. Which is the primary purpose this site exists, to provide neighbors a visual snow report? As well as the ability to see if the snow plow has been by. It is a short commute to Down Town was Hwy 330 meet Hwy 18. It gets a little crowded on weekends, and during ski season. The Running Springs area offers activities year round including skiing, snowboarding, cross country skiing, (snow Valley is 10 minutes away) hiking, fishing, horseback riding, shopping, restaurants and other mountain activities.
WebCam located at Wilderness Rd. & Hwy 18 , 3/4 mile west of Running Springs.


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What is the airport code for Southern Illinois Airport?
Airport Name: Southern Illinois Airport
CA Ident:
City: Carbondale/Murphysboro
Region: Illinois
Country: United States
Localization: US-IL
Latitude: 37.778096
Longitude: -89.252031
Type: Airport (Part 139 Class IV)
Use: Public/Civil
UTC Zone: -06:00
Southern Illinois Airport is a excellent airport to head to if you're looking to locate a place to fly. The town of Carbondale/Murphysboro is a fantastic city in the country of United States.
Southern Illinois Airport is located in Carbondale/Murphysboro, United States. It is classfied as a medium airport and as such only available to confirmed aircraft. Southern Illinois Airport is the commonly known code useful when searching for flights into and out of Southern Illinois Airport.
ICAO – The international Civil Aviation Organization airport code is a 4 character code describing every airport globally. They are utilized by air traffic control and airline operations. They are different than IATA codes which are used for reservations. The codes are typically made from the name of the airport or the town it serves.
IATA – International Air Transport Association airport code is also referred to as location identifier. It's a three character designating many airports around the world. These codes are prominently displayed on baggage tags.


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When even a seven-string just isn't low enough.
For when down-tuning just won't go low enough, there's the ESP E-II HRF NT-8B - eight strings of spine-melting possibilities. It sports an alder body with a neck-thru maple neck, 27" scale and 24 extra-jumbo frets on an ebony fingerboard on a thin U neck. And a pair of Seymour Duncan AHB-1b-8 (B) & AHB-1n-8 (N) active pickups pushes all of those low, low notes down the signal path without losing clarity. A Hipshot bridge and Gotoh tuners keep everything cinched down and in tune through heavy crunches and string-stretching leads.
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Use the following instructions to deploy Hadoop using HDP:
Complete all the prerequisites provided here.
Download the HDP for Windows MSI from here.
Downloaded MSI includes full source, binary-only MSI, and documentation for all components. Hortonworks recommends using the binary-only MSI for faster downloads.
Use the instructions provided here to complete the configuration for HDP installer.
Launch the MSI installer with the
clusterproperties.txtfile created previously.
This MSI must be executed on each and every cluster node and must use the same
On each node, run a command prompt in Administrator mode (to use Administrator privileges), and execute the following command:
msiexec /i "<$MSI_PATH>" /lv "<$PATH_to_Installer_Log_File>" HDP_LAYOUT="<$PATH_to_clusterproperties.txt_File>" HDP_DIR="<$PATH_to_HDP_Install_Dir>" DESTROY_DATA="<Yes_OR_No>"
Ensure that you provide appropriate values for the following mandatory command line option:
HDP_LAYOUT: Mandatory parameter. Provide location of the
clusterproperties.txtfile (For example,
The path to the
clusterproperties.txtfile must be absolute. Relative paths will not work.
Optionally, you can also use the following command line options:
HDP_DIR: Install directory for HDP (For example,
d:\hdp). Default value is
DESTROY_DATA: Specifies whether to preserve or delete existing data in target data directories (allowed values are
yes, and
DESTROY_DATAparameter takes care of the following conditions:
During installation, when
HDP_DATA_DIRhas data from previous installation if
DESTROY_DATAis set to
undefined, installation will fail.
During installation, if
DESTROY_DATAis set to
no, the installer will reuse the existing data and would not format the NameNode.
Installer does not check for the data correctness.
During installation, if
DESTROY_DATAis set to
yes, installation will remove previous data and format the NameNode.
During installation, if no data exists in
$HDP_DATA_DIRthen the
HDP_DATA_DIRis created irrespective of the value of
DESTROY_DATAand NameNode is formatted.
The following example illustrates the command to launch the MSI installer:
msiexec /i "hdp-win-1.1.msi" /lv "hdp.log" HDP_LAYOUT="D:\config\clusterproperties.txt" HDP_DIR="D:\hdp\hadoop" DESTROY_DATA="no"
(Optional): Configure compression for HDFS. Download the
zlib1.dllfrom here. Copy the downloaded file to either
or to
C:\Windows\System32. To use GzipCodec, ensure that you copy the downloaded file to
Use the instructions provided here to start the HDP Services.
On a cluster node, open a command shell and execute the smoke test command script as shown below:
cd %HADOOP_NODE_INSTALL_ROOT% Run-SmokeTests
The smoke tests validate the installed functionality by executing a set of tests for each HDP component.
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Duplicator - Multigraph, Model 100, 1930s Reg. No: ST 032360
- Summary:
- Duplicator, Multigraph Model 100, manufactured by the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation possibly in the 1930s
- Description:
- Consists of grooved cylinder drum in which type can be slotted. Inking was either through the broad spooled ribbon for "typewritten" form letters, or with printing ink applied to the rollers, for regular printing.. Line length is 7.25 inch. paper feed and recovery plates are demountable. with spare ribbon, parts, user's manual.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from National Museum of Victoria, 1981
|310 mm (Height), 410 mm (Width), 250 mm (Length)
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|Trade mark "Multigraph".marked "model 100 serial number 638647".
|Addressograph-Multigraph Corp, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 1930-1939
Date uncertain; the Addressograph-Multigraph Corp was formed in the early 1930s.
|STAMPED OUT - History of the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation: http://stampedout.net/information-022-am_his.html (accessed 13 April 2011)
Dave Robison Posted on 13 Apr 2011 5:27 AM
The Multigraph model 100 was introduced by the American Multigraph Sales Co. in the late 1920s shortly before their merger with Addressograph (to become Addressograph-Multigraph Corp.); the machine pictured was probably made sometime in the 1930s. Inking was either through the wide ribbon mentioned, for "typewritten" form letters, or with printing ink applied to the rollers, for regular printing. The paper feed table is mounted upside-down in the above photo.
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- people in the U.S. have this name View Linda Mcraney on Whitepages
Meaning & Origins
Of relatively recent origin and uncertain etymology. It is first recorded in the 19th century. It may be a shortened form of Belinda, an adoption of Spanish linda 'pretty', or a Latinate derivative of any of various other Germanic female names ending in -lind meaning 'weak, tender, soft'. It was popular in the 20th century, especially in the 1950s.
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Scottish or Irish: variant of McCraney.
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LEBANON, Tenn. (August 9, 2008) – John Wes Townley had a tough night at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday. After qualifying 18th and getting early damage, he fell back as far as 31st. With smart pit strategy he worked his way back up to 14th place, but within a few laps after that his night was over.
Townley started the 150-lap race in 18th place, but a caution in the first five laps of the race but a damper on his hopes. On only the fourth lap of the race an accident occurred right in front of Townley. He suffered damage to his left-front fender which forced him to pit several times under caution to repair the damage.
When the race resumed on lap nine, Townley was back in 31st place. Even with the fender damage, he was running fast lap times and began working his way forward. He was up to 27th when the next caution came on lap 37. During that caution crew chief Chad Norris called Townley to the pits for right-side tires and an air pressure adjustment. The two-tire stop helped Townley gain some much-needed track position and he returned to the track in 14th place for the restart on lap 42.
Just when things were turning around, Townley was the victim of an accident only one lap later. Several trucks spun in front of him and with nowhere to go he ran into the back of Terry Cook's truck. There was extensive damage to the front of the Zaxby's Ford F-150, so Norris told him to drive it to the garage. The team determined the damage was too severe to continue and their race was over. Townley ended up 30th after completing 42 of 150 laps.
"We had a fast truck," Townley said. "We had a little bit of a fender bender at the start of the race. I bent the left-front fender in a little bit. We got to the pits and got that taken care of and unfortunately, they had already thrown the green. We were doing all we could do to stay on the lead lap. We had a really fast truck with the times I was running out there. We were running some times up there with leader. It's just real unfortunate because we were coming up through the traffic on the restart. I just got behind some guys and they got tangled up. There was just nowhere for me to go because I was already packed in. This is unfortunate. The guys at Roush Fenway gave us a real fast truck and I've got to thank my sponsor Zaxby's today. We've got to keep our heads up. We'll come back and get them next time."
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series returns to action at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday, August 20. Townley will pilot the No. 09 Zaxby's Ford F-150 at Bristol.
About Roush Fenway Racing
Roush Fenway Racing operates 13 full-time motorsports teams, five in NASCAR Sprint Cup with drivers Matt Kenseth, Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and David Ragan; four in the Nationwide Series with Kenseth, Biffle, Edwards, McMurray, Ragan, Erik Darnell and Colin Braun; three in the Craftsman Truck Series with Darnell, Braun, Travis Kvapil, John Wes Townley and Bobby East; and one in the ARCA RE/MAX Series with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.


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(1) New Issue! Our Jan/Feb 2012 issue is finally at the printers. Print subscribers should get their magazines in a week to ten days; e-subscribers should get their full-color pdfs in about twenty minutes. Not a subscriber? Please subscribe right now, here.
I have posted two articles from the new issue to the website: Jeannette Wicks-Lim's The Great Recession in Black Wealth, and John Miller and Katherine Sciacchitano's Why the United States Is Not Greece.
(2) Various Occupy-Related Links have been occupying my browser tabs, which I'd like to clean up. (Are we going to get tired of playful deployments of the "occupy" metaphor? Are we already tired?)
Here they are:
(a) David Graeber on Giant Puppets: On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets, and why cops hate them more than they hate the black bloc. Look for a review of Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years in our March/April issue.
(b) Vanity Fair Oral History of OWS: Revolution Number 99. This is good despite quoting the annoying Jeffrey Sachs. They quote David Graeber, which is cool.
(c) Jo Freeman 2nd-Wave Document: I must have known about this before, but forgotten. Newly salient. The Tyranny of Structurelessness.
(d) Oakland Police Backpedaling on Crime During General Strike: I try not to link to Daily Kos, given its Dem-friendliness, but here's a good piece: No Surprise, Oakland Police Chief Lied to Discredit Occupy Oakland. More on this from KTVU.
(e) Solidarity Economy Briefs from the Solidarity Economy Network: Briefs for Occupy from SEN: Occupy the Economy!
(f) Occupy Portland Outsmarts Police. I can't remember if I have already posted this from the Portland Occupier.
(g) By Yours Truly in the Boston Occupier: Bursting the Economists' Bubble. I already posted the text of this here. It is now in print–15,000 copies are being distributed at T-stops across Boston and beyond.
(3) Keystone link: I don't think we should believe that the Keystone Pipeline won't be built because Obama has backed off from it for now. To remember how important it is that it not be built, check out this piece by James Hansen: Silence is Deadly.
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Hello, I'm having a problem.. My wii just got updated. I softmodded my wii at 4.2E and everything worked. My sis wanted to check the nintendo channel but she had to update first, she said. so she went to the wii-options menu on the left bottom of the screen and updated my wii. it's still on 4.2E but my usbloader is giving me an error now.. I tried loading my nand backup but it didn't work. Then I tried to re-virginize it but the wadloader doesnt work anymore, it freezes after mounting device. can anyone help? Thanks!
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(AP) PHOENIX - Star Wars fans have more than just Episodes 7, 8 and 9 to look forward to.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said at the annual shareholders meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday that the company is developing "some standalone movies" featuring Star Wars characters.
The news is likely to set off a new round of speculation about what's in store for the Lucasfilm franchise. The buzz has been at fever pitch levels since The Walt Disney Co. said in October it was acquiring the studio for $4 billion.
Iger didn't say which characters might be featured in the standalone films. Some Star Wars characters such as bounty hunter Boba Fett have been given bigger treatments in comic books.
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These guys are showing off with their Colonial British and Victorian inspired pad. Best of British is game here so expect cravats and top hats. The concoctions are where it's at: they make their own liqueurs, cordials, bitters and shrubs so naturally the drinks are insane. We love the Baron Collins with vodka, blood orange juice, lemon juice, saffron cordial and homemade lemonade.
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Hard Lessons to play Mickey Finn'sWritten by Laura Kruse | | firstname.lastname@example.com
There are lessons to be learned at Mickey Finn's Pub on Aug. 1. Hard ones. But with a brand-new album full of rock 'n' roll to perform, Augie Visocchi of the band The Hard Lessons promises a good time.
"We have really great shows in Toledo," he said. "Our latest drummer, Ryan Vandeberghe, has made the band the best it's ever been, and we're playing a lot of the new songs from 'Arms Forest.'"
Released on May 26, "Arms Forest" is the newest album from the group, which is comprised of Augie, Ryan and Augie's wife, Korin.
The Hard Lessons originally began as a duo in the winter of 2003, when Augie and Korin not only noticed each other on the campus of Michigan State University, but also the guitars in their respective dorm rooms.
"We sort of fell into making music together," Augie said. "I was getting into some delta blues music at the time, and Korin had this really cool old Stella, which was the brand Leadbelly and Charlie Patton played at times. From there it progressed to writing some songs on my four-track, some of which became early The Hard Lessons songs."
Quite quickly, Augie and Korin's private jam sessions transitioned from playing for fun to something more.
"There were so many opportunities on campus that we took advantage of," Augie said. "In the span of a couple weeks, we played our first gig at a battle of the bands, won $400, recorded a demo for free and pressed a run of CDs to start booking gigs. We played our first club gigs in Ypsilanti, Grand Rapids, Detroit and Lansing that winter [of 2003]."
With their band name taken from the writing on the inside of Korin's inherited Stella guitar, Augie said The Hard Lessons have always been about playing good old rock 'n' roll — nothing more and nothing less.
"That's becoming increasingly hard for people to understand, as the Internet constantly creates microscopic genres within genres," he said. "We don't subscribe to that. I think it's really sad that a lot of people don't listen to music anymore. They relate to it like a fashion accessory. They need to know what box a band fits into so they can brag about it on their blog and identify with the promo photo more than the lyrics."
Now that their newest compilation is on store shelves, The Hard Lessons have been traveling the country via van to share the songs from "Arms Forest" with music lovers everywhere. Just don't try to label them as simply artists.
"At our level, band members are more than just artists," Augie said. "This means we work with the artists designing record sleeves, put together mailings and book shows. We have a manager and a label who help out with that as well, but it is still a lot of work. [Korin] and I both write songs. She handles a lot of the finances. I end up driving the van most of the time."
When that van makes its stop in the Glass City, Augie encourages Toledoans to come see what The Hard Lessons are all about. After all, he said, "We're more than just neighbors, Toledo. We're family."
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Comment Re:Not until Google+ allows pseudonyms (Score 1) 456 456
You are definitely missing this point: The mere theoretical possibility to replace Google (or any other corporation) does not in any way eliminate their responsibility for their own policies. Even if MY restaurant does not have racial segregation, that does not excuse YOUR restaurant for implementing racial segregation. If we want an integrated society, we need to hold all spaces with racist policies accountable.
Obviously I'm not calling Google racist or comparing their policy to segregation; but I AM saying that, just as brick-and-mortar spaces must grant certain rights to the public which have been established over time, so virtual social spaces are a domain for the establishment of public rights, of standards for the treatment of the public, which are enforced whether through legal or social mechanisms.
Comment Re:Not until Google+ allows pseudonyms (Score 1) 456 456
You do not have to be on Facebook or Google plus. I know more than a few people that live pretty active lives that are not.
Hi LWATCDR. I don't know your real name, although I'm using mine. I just wanted to say that, whatever you think about the policies within G+ or facebook, I think it's very dangerous to accept this "love it or leave it" logic. The problem is that social web sites are kind of like public spaces, or anyway, spaces open to the public. Google has the power to decide what kind of space G+ will be: what will be the rules, how will their power to expel users be used? It is very important that they not be granted a right not to be judged according to the policies they implement. In a digital community, source code is a form of legislation. Like a government, Google must be held responsible for how it uses its power.
Simply put, if G+ is a space without privacy, Google is to blame for making our world a little less private. (For better or for worse -- many people believe we have too much privacy, although I am not one of them.) Either way, Google cannot be granted immunity simply because people had the choice not to sign up. Perhaps we don't have to worry so much since people can choose to ignore G+, and most of them probably will -- but we do have to worry, because every other web service may also decide to govern their virtual space in the same way, and then what choice will we have?
(Well, I will be choosing p2p communications, but all you other suckers are fucked.)
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Comment Re:Lack of tooling (Score 1) 442 442
Oh, and I'd like to take an off-topic moment to point out why I think *nix people are horrible user interface designers: because all *nix command line interfaces are AWFUL.
Unix interfaces are designed for completeness, not learning curve. The model of learning is that you learn a whole little language, and then you use it. You may say that that just "sucks," but show me a Turing-complete point-and-click learn-as-you-go interface and we'll see which is easier to use.
TL;DR: GUIs are easier to use because they do less.
Comment Re:Bye-bye! (Score 1) 997 997
the standard 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (which we have Henry Ford to thank for - he carefully researched the optimum working time for assembly line workers)
Ford was indeed one of the first companies to grant factory workers an 8 hour work day, and a 5 hour work week, but this was not the result of some scientific calculation of "optimum working time". This was at a time of violent conflict between industrialists and labor, and such rates were a concession to the demands of labor, meant to win the favor of employees.
PS. I just read that, at the same time that Ford shortened the work day to 8 hours, it also doubled wages (to $5 per 8 hour day from $2.34 per 9 hour day).
Comment Re:Not the first, won't be the last (Score 2) 347 347
And the Nobel Prize isn't quite what it used to be, at least the Peace Prize isn't what it used to be. I mean, they gave one to Obama for what they thought he might do, not what he has actually done.
They also gave one to war criminal Henry Kissinger, and one to genocide apologist Teddy Roosevelt -- I don't think it was ever all that honorable. One must imagine that, had he won, Hitler would have gotten one.
Comment Re:Low success rate? (Score 1) 205 205
Wow. I had a well crafted response but I realized it was a waste. I can't teach you human compassion in a slashdot comment..
Any level of effort spent posting to slashdot is justified, if you can teach just one person human compassion.
Comment Re:open source ipad (Score 1) 199 199
OK, the difference between a for-profit and a non-profit is that the non-profit does not pay anybody dividends. A non-profit is legally forbidden to reward its investors (who are called "donors"). So, actually, it's completely different, since the entire purpose of a for-profit is to pay dividends to the investors.
A monolith on the moon certainly isn't going to pay anybody dividends in proportion to their investment. Either no investors get paid, or everybody gets the same "dividend" (even those who didn't invest), depending on how you look at it. Either way, it's a non-profit.
WRT OpenMoko, I don't know about their "original mission statement", but they were quite clearly attempting to make a phone with an open hardware platform. And now the company is making another hardware platform unrelated to phones. It's a company full of hardware designers who produce hardware as a product for sale. So I think it's fair to judge them on that basis.
Finally, the difference between taxation and theft is that taxation attempts to take from all in order to enable collective purchases, while theft does not exist to enable collective purchases.
It's really pretty simple.
Comment Re:Better Use? (Score 1) 199 199
In fact I can think of no better use for a tiny drop in the total sum of money floating around the planet, than a mass exercise in artistic expression. It's kind of the ultimate way of saying, here we are.
This is the question isn't it?
Certain activities are excess, certain are essential. You can't play the game forever: the food people eat is essential to their survival. Art is not, and as excess, it exists only in a situation of abundance of the essential.
The only reason excess can be derided, rightfully, is that the abundance of the essential, and thus art, exists amidst (and indeed is made possible by) the deprivation of the essential from a vast majority of humans. Art and excess are the privilege of the few amidst the many who live in a world of scarcity.
I do realize that one can make the argument that if we wait for justice before beauty, we will just end up with a world that is without both. It is unfortunately rare to see this position coupled with the candor to admit injustice.
Myself, I do not think we should refrain from all fun until the chimera of social justice is conjured -- and I am certain that even the poor and starving, that even those in concentration camps and prisons, find energy to devote to humor and celebration. However, given the state of the world, the message of such a piece of art as this is, to me, a message of the harshest disregard for human suffering and equality.
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Comment Re:Get thee to the Supremes (Score 1) 438 438
No, the OP was quite correct: you lose the constitutional right to privacy when you are arrested (not convicted). RTFA for the relevant supreme court decision.
And of course, those who are arrested are indeed treated like those who are convicted. They are held in the same facilities, subjected to the same restrictions and punishments, and not socially separated in any way. The guards do not even know which is which.
It is said that the COURTS treat the accused as innocent until proven guilty, which is true in a certain way, but no one could ever say such a thing about the "executive branch."


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She was a Washington County native and the daughter of the late Ralph L. and Anna Lee Higgins Dugger.
Karen was employed by Burlington Industries until the closure of their Johnson City facility. She was currently employed by Walgreens Pharmacy, Johnson City.
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A noun usually used to replace the insult "pussy" or to describe a girl who is very permiscuous and is known to have a loose vagina. Reference of winsock deals with the floppyness of the vagina as it would appear blowing in the wind.
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When one man is penetrating another man up the bum, goes in too deep, thus resulting in second man's intestines being pulled out his rectum, resulting in something that looks rather like a windsock.
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getting air in the condom
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Link—ping is well-known for being one of the earliest dioceses in Sweden, second only to Skara. The monastery vreta Kloster north of Link—ping was founded in 1128 and the oldest parts of Link—ping cathedral date from the 12th century. During that period, several attempts were made to set up a separate Swedish archdiocese based in Link—ping. However, when the plans were successful in 1164, Uppsala was chosen instead. In 1598 Link—ping was the site of the decisive settlement of the dispute between the Catholic King Sigismund I of Sweden and Poland and his uncle Duke Charles of S—dermanland. This defeat forced Sigismund to confirm the resolutions of the council of Uppsala, thereby recognizing the fact that Sweden was essentially a Protestant state. This ultimately led to the rise to the throne of Charles (Karl IX; de facto at the Riksdag at Link—ping in 1600 and formally four years later) and the end of the short-lived Swedish-Polish personal union.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. Steven Spielberg had a great day at the Academy Awards nominations, where his Civil War saga Lincoln led with 12 nominations.
It was not so great for Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper and Ben Affleck, whose films did well but surprised Hollywood by failing to score directing nominations for the three filmmakers.
I just think they made a mistake, said Alan Arkin, a supporting-actor nominee for Afflecks Argo.
Lincoln, Argo, Bigelows Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller and Hoopers Victor Hugo musical Les Miserables landed among the nine best-picture contenders.
Also nominatedwere the old-age love story Amour; the independent hit Beasts of the Southern Wild; the slave-revenge narrative Django Unchained; the shipwreck story Life of Pi; and the lost-souls romance Silver Linings Playbook.
Spielberg was snubbed for a directing slot on 1985s The Color Purple, which earned 11 nominations, including best picture. He also was overlooked for director on 1975s Jaws, another best-picture nominee.
I never question the choices the academy branches make, because Ive been in the same place that Kathryn and Ben find themselves today, he said. Spielberg, who finally got his Oscar respect in the 1990s with best-picture and director wins for Schindlers List and another directing trophy for Saving Private Ryan. Im grateful if Im nominated, and Ive never felt anything other than gratitude even when Im not gratitude for at least having been able to make the movie. So I never question the choices.
Especially this time, when Lincoln has positioned itself as the film to beat at the Feb. 24 Oscars. Its nominations include best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis for his monumental performance as Abraham Lincoln, supporting actress for Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting actor for Tommy Lee Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.
Oscar directing contenders usually are identical or at least line up closely with those for the Directors Guild of America Awards. But only Spielberg and Life of Pi director Ang Lee made both lists this time.
The Directors Guild also nominated Affleck, Bigelow and Hooper, but the Oscars handed its other three slots to David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook and two real longshots: veteran Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke for Amour and newcomer Benh Zeitlin, who made his feature debut with Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Zeitlin, whose low-budget, dream-like film about a wild child in Louisianas flooded backwoods won the top honor at last years Sundance Film Festival, said he never expected to be competing alongside the greatest filmmakers alive.
Im completely freaking out, Zeitlin said. Those guys taught me how to make films. The VHS pile that was on the VCR when I was born was past Spielberg movies, and thats why I started wanting to do this, was watching them thousands and thousands of times.
Other nominees were caught off guard over how the category shook out.
I would be lying if I didnt say I was surprised, Russell, a past nominee for The Fighter, said about Bigelow.
Lee, who won the directing Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, agreed that there were surprises but pleasant ones, particularly for Zeitlins inclusion.
Newcomers, veterans, a European, Lee said. Its great company, and its an honor to line up with them, and encouraging because there is a newcomer.
Colleagues of snubbed filmmakers were not so happy.
That put a damper on my enthusiasm, Argo co-star Arkin said of Affleck, an A-lister whos arguably proving himself a better director than actor. I thought his work was the work of an old master, not somebody with just two films under his belt. I thought it was an extraordinary piece of directing.
I would have loved him to have been recognized in this, Hugh Jackman, a best-actor nominee as Hugos tragic hero Jean Valjean for Les Miserables, said of director Hooper. But no one will be able to take away the achievement, nor really that the eight nominations that `Les Miz has are more shared with him than with anyone.
Composer Alexandre Desplat, who wrote the music for Zero Dark Thirty and Argo and earned a best-score nomination for the latter, said he was puzzled over Affleck and Bigelows exclusion.
I think they both deserved to be nominated, Desplat said. Unfortunately, I dont decide.
Zero Dark Thirty has had backlash in Washington, where some lawmakers say it falsely suggests that torture produced a tip that led the U.S. military to Bin Laden. Its hard to imagine that affecting the films Oscar nominations, though, given Hollywoods history of playing loose with facts in depicting true-life stories.
Yes, it was a surprise, Spielberg said of Bigelow.
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Cambridge, Mass. - The Holy Cross men's and women's track and field teams traveled to Cambridge, Mass. Saturday for the Harvard Invitational. Sophomore Andrew Maggio (Chelmsford, Mass.) finished second in the 200 meter dash, while Amanda Dupuis (East Sandwich, Mass.) took eighth in the 60 meter hurdles. There were no team scores from the event, but other schools who sent representatives were URI, BU, BC, Providence, UMass Lowell, Hartford and the host school Harvard, amongst others.
Maggio covered the 200 meters in 22.61 seconds, bested only by a runner from Bryant who crossed the line in 22.61 seconds. Junior Michael Ricotta (Cross River, N.Y.) took seventh in the 400 meter dash, finishing in 50.69 seconds. Maggio would take eighth in the 400 meter, finishing .02 behind Ricotta in 50.71 seconds. Senior Christopher Bier (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) took ninth in the 60 meter hurdles with a final time of 8.96. In the field events, junior Patrick McGuire (Franklin, Mass.) cleared 12.02 m in the triple jump, taking 11th place home for the Crusaders. Sophomore Jonathan Mederios (New Bedford, Mass.) was the highest placing Holy Cross entry in the shot put, throwing a distance of 13.19 meters. Freshman Nicholas LeBlanc (New Bedford, Mass.) took 14th in the event, throwing 13.08 meters. Junior Samuel Hutchins took 14th in the weight throw with a final distance of 12.54 meters.
Dupuis qualified for the 60 meter hurdle finals with a heat time of 10.21. Her time in the finals dropped to 10.13, which earned her eighth place. Dupuis also took 12th in the high jump, clearing a height of 1.50. In the triple jump, Dupuis cleared 9.82 meteres to take 19th place in the event. Freshman Chantal Couture (Taunton, Mass.) placed 21st in the shot put with a throw of 9.70m. Sophomore Sarah Murphy (Auburn, Mass.) was the highest placing Crusader in the weight throw, throwing 12.43m earning her 11th place. Her teammate sophomore Katherine Clifford (Norwood, Mass.) threw for 12.25m and took home 13th place. Junior Christie LeTarte (Lunenburg, Mass.) and sophomore Laura Flannery (Franklin, Mass.) took 15th and 16th places with throws if 11.95m and 11.91m, respectively.
The Harvard Invitational fell on the first day of final exams for Holy Cross and the Crusader travel roster was limited due to the academic obligations of the students. The Crusader track and field teams will be back in action on Saturday, December 16 in the Boston University Mini-Series in Boston, Mass. Events are scheduled to start at 8:00 am.


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Short form of Martin or of Martina and Martine. It has sometimes been used as an independent boy's name since the latter part of the 20th century, being associated particularly with the comedian Marty Feldman (1933–83), the pop singer Marty Wilde (b. 1939 as Reginald Smith), and the country-and-western singer Marty Robbins (1925–82).
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