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Lamb Promotion and Research Program Background Information
The Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order) is established under the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 [7 U.S.C. 7411-7425; Public Law 104-127]. . The program became effective on April 11, 2002, when the Order was issued. Assessments began on July 1, 2002.
A referendum is mandated by the act and requires that the Secretary of Agriculture conduct a referendum either prior to its going into effect or within three years after assessments first begin under an order. The order provides that the referendum be held within three years after assessments first begin. On April 1, 2005, the USDA announced the continuation of the Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order. Lamb producers, feeders, seedstock producers and first handlers of lamb and lamb products participating in a national referendum from Jan. 31 through Feb. 28, 2004, voted in favor of the order.
Of the 3,490 valid ballots cast, 2,807, or 80 percent, favored the program; while 683, or 20 percent opposed. Additionally, of those persons who cast valid ballots in the referendum, those who favored the continuing of the program accounted for 84 percent of the total production voted, and those opposed accounted for 16 percent of the total production voted.
Major Provisions
The goal of the program is to strengthen the position of, and to develop and expand the markets for, ovine animals and ovine products. Under the program, producers, seedstock producers, and feeders pay an assessment of $.007 per pound. First handlers pay $0.42 per pound. Importers are not assessed. The Board collects approximately $1.8 million annually in assessments.
The Order provides that USDA conduct a referendum no later than 3 years after assessments began. Subsequent referenda shall be conducted at the request of the Board, at the request of 10 percent of more of the number of persons eligible to vote in referenda, and at the request of the Secretary, or not later than seven (7) years after the assessments began. USDA conducted a nationwide continuance referendum on the Lamb Checkoff Program among eligible lamb producers, feeders, seedstock producers, and first handlers from February 2-27, 2009. On April 23, 2009, USDA announced the results of the referendum. Of the 1,971 valid ballots cast, 1,678 or 85.1 percent favored the program and 293 or 14.9 percent opposed continuing it. Additionally, of those persons who cast valid ballots in the referendum, those who favored continuing the program accounted for 93 percent of the total U.S. production. Therefore, the program will continue with no additional referendums scheduled.
Organizational Structure
The Order provides for a 13-member Board to administer the program. The Board is composed of: 6 producer representative (at least 2 from the geographic region east of the Mississippi River and at least 2 from the geographic region west of the Mississippi River, the other 2 producers will be appointed at the Secretarys discretion), 3 feeder representatives (feeders appointed to the Board cannot all come from one geographic region), 3 first handlers, and 1 seedstock producer. The Order also provides that: two of the producers appointed to the Board shall own annually 100 or less head of lambs, one producer shall own between 101 and 500 head of lambs, three producers shall own more than 500 head of lambs, at least one of the feeders shall feed less than 5,000 head of lambs annually, and at least one of the feeders shall feed 5,000 or more head of lambs annually (the third feeder will be appointed at the Secretarys discretion)
In order for organization to nominate producers, seedstock producers, feeders, or first handlers to the Board, organizations must first be certified by USDA.
Economic Evaluation
Economic evaluations of the Lamb Checkoff Program (Program) have been conducted periodically by Texas A&M Universitys Texas Agribusiness Market Research Center since the Programs inception. In the most recent study conducted in 2014, the return on investment report (Report) concluded that for the period 2002 through 2013, the Program continued to enhance the demand for lamb. The Report cited an estimated rate-of-return of $14.40 for every checkoff dollar invested during the 2002 through 2013 period.
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CONYERS — If you'd like to shape up a bit before gobbling up a Thanksgiving feast, the annual Elks Aidmore 5K Turkey Trot and 1-mile Turkey Tot Trot might be just the thing.
The 15th annual cross country 5K and 1-mile run will be held Saturday, Nov. 23, to benefit children in foster care, most of whom are victims of domestic violence.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. with the 5K kicking off at 9 a.m. and the 1-mile run at 9:20 a.m. Fees are $10 for runners age 7 and under and $20 for runners age 8 and older until race day. Fees are $5 more on race day. Long sleeved T-shirts are guaranteed to all pre-registered runners and on day of the race while supplies last.
The event is an "off-the-road" race using a combination of paved roads and wooded paths. The 5K run is billed as a challenge to both beginner and advanced cross country runners.
According to organizers, the event usually draws about 300 participants, with trophies in the 5K to the overall male and female finisher, the overall male and female master, and the top three (male and female) in the following age groups: 7 and under, 8-10, 11-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70 and over. All participants in the 1-mile run receive a race ribbon. Special prizes will be awarded for youngest runner, oldest runner, families with most members and families with most generations.
Runners who can't make it to the race but who would still like to help out can register as a "ghost runner" for $15 and receive a race T-shirt.
To register online, go to http://beta.active.com/conyers-ga/running/elks-aidmore-turkey-trot-2013. For more information, contact Abe Wilkinson at 770-483-3535.
The mission of Elks Aidmore Inc. is to provide youth and families in crisis with the necessary skills and resources to help heal their hearts, restore their hopes and rebuild their lives, according to the website. Elks Aidmore has provided services to Georgia's children for more than eight decades.
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The last time we paid a visit to Chris Brown's neck, we were up in arms about how his latest tattoo seemed to depict the battered face of his ex-girlfriend Rihanna. So now that Brown is showing off his latest neck ink showing the face of lion, you'd think it would be a lot less controversial. And you'd be right…unless you assume that all these tats are part of a larger narrative. Like a full body comic strip! Does Brown want Riri to get eaten by a lion? Is that what you're saying, Chris!? OK, we're not even going to speculate on the meaning of the animal symbol. Who knows, maybe Breezy is just a huge Simba fan. The singer posted pics to his twitter showing off his latest ink. Situated in the center of his neck, the artwork covers his throat and jugular artery. Damn, he must have really trusted that tattoo artist!
The existence of Chris's new tattoo is the most firm news we have about the dude these days. Lately rumors have been swirling about his rekindled flame with Rihanna following his breakup with girlfriend Karrueche Tran. There have been rumbles that the two will make their romance public after the release of Rihanna's new album Unapologetic on November 19th. Even more bizarre, MediaTakeOut is alleging that Riri is already pregnant with Chris's baby! They offer firm and compelling evidence like…she walks like a pregnant woman. Umm, ok. That makes our "Chris Brown Full Body Comic Book" theory sound less crazy.
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Mother vows to pay forward support received to other hit-and-run victims
Christian Carrillo always planned to serve his country, beginning on his 18th birthday, July 13 this year.
Name: Christian Carillo
Age: 17
Struck: March 2
Location: Ayers Street
Mode: Walking
Injuries: Brain trauma, collapsed lungs, broken ribs, broken neck, on life support
Arrest made: Yes
Christian Carrillo always planned to serve his country, beginning on his 18th birthday, July 13 this year.
He wanted to be a Navy Seal. Instead he is on life support, lying battered in a Christus Spohn Hospital bed, unable to speak or communicate with his loved ones.
"I say to him, 'Christian, you're stronger than any Navy Seal could ever think about being,' " his mother, Misty Taylor, said.
But the 17-year-old doesn't know Taylor is his mom.
She's slept at the hospital all but two nights since he was run down while walking along Ayers Street on March 2, the victim of a hit-and-run driver. She's been diagnosed with severe exhaustion. She cares for him as she did when he was an infant. But other than raising his fingers slightly to stop her on the rare times she tries to leave his side, Taylor said it's clear her son doesn't know her as mom, only as the familiar face of a frequent visitor.
"It makes me real sad to know that my son doesn't know I'm his mother," she said. "But I know he will be healed, and I will be there with him and take care of him the way only a mother can, even if he doesn't know I'm his."
Her son wasn't supposed to be walking along the dark stretch of road that night. A CiCi's Pizza co-worker called in sick, so Christian, 17, was asked to stay and work a double shift. So he skipped his usual bus to Robstown and stayed at work past 1 a.m. before starting out for his brother's place on Ayers Street, Taylor said.
Christian still was in a coma when Eric Acevedo, 35, was arrested March 13 on suspicion of causing an accident involving personal injury or death, a third-degree felony.
Taylor attended Monday's hearing in which Acevedo's bail was reduced from a record-breaking $1 million to $100,000. She had to hold back her anger when he smirked at her as she testified, Taylorsaid.
"At first I thought, I just want whoever did this to say they are sorry. Or I want this person to see what he did to Christian, then I realized, it doesn't matter, there's no remorse."
When Mary "Janie" Encinia walked into Taylor's life, Taylor said there was an instant connection: Encinia's daughter Kimberly was killed while walking along McArdle Road last year. Taylor credits Encinia with helping her to harness some of her anger and turn it into faith and reaching out to other hit-and-run victims.
It's a feeling Taylor has been overwhelmed with.
Amanda Arriola, a 23-year-old Ray High School graduate — she was a year behind Kimberly Encinia at the same high school — has been to the intensive care unit at Spohn Memorial practically every day to visit Christian. She hadn't met him before, but as a survivor of a hit-and-run incident about 1:15 a.m. Jan. 1 on Baldwin Boulevard near Fig Street, she's been there. Her case remains unsolved.
"I just try and remember that God put me here for a reason and God saved me for a reason. I don't know what that is yet, but I'm going to find out," Arriola said in a January interview. Like Encinia, sharing faith and hope seems to be part of that purpose.
Erik Schwirtlich, 25, was punched and knocked out as he walked downtown Dec. 1, 2012. He underwent extensive therapy to regain his ability to talk and perform basic tasks. He showed up to visit Christian, Taylor said. The scar on Schwirtlich's head is in nearly the precise spot as Christian's — where doctors removed part of his skull membrane and sewed it into his stomach to preserve the membrane while he heals.
Then there was Vallery Garza, who showed up Friday and started to weep when she saw Misty Taylor. She asked whether she could visit Christian — another complete stranger — because five years ago she was run over during a fight in Robstown and knows the struggle to heal. She and Taylor exchanged hugs, phone numbers and vows to stay in touch.
The outpouring has touched Taylor, who said not only does she plan to be a lifelong supporter of her new friends and all hit-and-run victims, but her faith is restored enough to definitively say she won't be alone.
"Not just me," Taylor said. "I will be doing exactly what Janie is doing for me, giving support, and I know Christian will be, too."
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Digital Art Masters: Volume 5 is another great compilation of top quality art and insightful tutorials. If you have earlier volumes, you pretty much expected that. I've a wonderful time going through this thick 288-page book.
This time, art is categorised into 5 sections: Sci-Fi, Scene, Fantasy, Character and Cartoon. As usual, you see work created from all sorts of medium (2D & 3D), across a variety of art genre gravitating towards concept art. There are 3D modeling on different subjects, digital and background painting and many more.
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CBS and the Elite XC experiment
Well, did you watch it? Last night CBS boldly went where no network has gone before... and it kind of sucked. That's too bad. As someone who counts himself as a fan of MMA, I had high hopes for the big debut. But then, I knew going in that it was an iffy proposition. They try hard, but the Elite XC is still far from the cream of the MMA crop. For the prime time debut, it really would have been nice if this could have been a big UFC event. Heck, even the WEC with that Uriah Faber vs Jens Pulver (VS tonight at 6PM PST) match would have been preferable.
Despite the lack of big name talent, the show still had a shot. Great fights can make up for a lot of shortcomings, and this one had a lot of them to be made up for. To start, the production left a lot to be desired. For example, if you are promising the fans big time fighting, get to it already. It took a full 25 minutes before the first match started. Worse than that, given the way the first two matches played out, fans were left with just over two minutes of actual fighting in the first hour of the show. I was left thinking that the most exciting thing about the first hour was the commercial for Street Fighter IV. Not a good sign.
Sumner Redstone not happy with MMA on CBS
CBS Executive Chairman, Sumner Redstone, was asked on Wednesday for his thoughts on the four MMA events scheduled to air on the network as a result of their partnership with Elite Xtreme Combat. Now, if Sumner just said he's not a fan, or he didn't think it was right for the network, I could probably just agree to disagree with him. My issue with his comments, as reported by Reuters, come from the reference that airing the sport on free, broadcast TV, is not socially responsible.
Seriously? Does he watch the network? We all know what would be plugging those open holes in the lineup if it wasn't for the appearance of Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano (American Gladiators, pictured). Yes, another heaping helping of CSI:X reruns, possibly featuring psychopaths that poison/stab/shoot/strangle/etc their victims. If your argument is that airing fictional murderers committing heinous, bloody, crimes is somehow taking the moral high ground when compared to MMA, I'm really not buying it. For those of you interested in some Saturday night MMA, I've attached the press release, with the fight card, after the jump.
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B. Wordsworth
V. S. Naipaul
Three beggars called punctually every day at the hospitable houses in Miguel Street. At about ten an Indian came in his
dhoti and white jacket, and we poured a tin of rice into the sack he carried on his back. At twelve an old woman smoking a clay pipe came and she got a cent. At two a blind man led by a boy called for his penny.
Sometimes we had a rogue. One day a man called and said he was hungry. We gave him a meal. He asked for a cigarette and wouldn't go until we had lit it for him. That man never came again.
The strangest caller came one afternoon at about four o'clock. I had come back from school and was in my home clothes. The man said to me, "Sonny, may I come inside your yard?"
He was a small man and he was tidily dressed. He wore a hat, a white shirt, and black trousers.
I asked, "What you want?"
He said, "I want to watch your bees."
We had four small gru-gru palm trees and they were full of uninvited bees.
I ran up the steps and shouted, "Ma, it have a man outside here. He say he want to watch the bees."
My mother came out, looked at the man, and asked in an unfriendly way, "What you want?"
The man said, "I want to watch your bees."
His English was so good, it didn't sound natural, and I could see my mother was worried.
She said to me, "Stay here and watch him while he watch the bees."
The man said, "Thank you, Madam. You have done a good deed today."
He spoke very slowly and very correctly as though every word was costing him money.
We watched the bees, this man and I, for about an hour, squatting near the palm trees.
The man said, "I like watching bees. Sonny, do you like watching bees?"
I said, "I ain't have the time."
He shook his head sadly. He said, "That's what I do, I just watch. I can watch ants for days. Have you ever watched ants? And scorpions, and centipedes, and
congorees—have you watched those?"
I shook my head.
I said, "What you does do, mister?"
He got up and said, "I am a poet."
I said, "A good poet?"
He said, "The greatest in the world."
"What your name, mister?"
"B. Wordsworth."
"B for Bill?"
"Black. Black Wordsworth. White Wordsworth was my brother. We share one heart. I can watch a small flower like the morning glory and cry."
I said, "Why you does cry?"
"Why, boy? Why? You will know when you grow up. You're a poet, too, you know. And when you're a poet you can cry for everything."
I couldn't laugh.
He said, "You like your mother?"
"When she not beating me."
He pulled out a printed sheet from his hip pocket and said, "On this paper is the greatest poem about mothers and I'm going to sell it to you at a bargain price. For four cents."
I went inside and I said, "Ma, you want to buy a poetry for four cents?"
My mother said, "Tell that blasted man to haul his tail away from my yard, you hear."
I said to B. Wordsworth, "My mother say she ain't have four cents."
B. Wordsworth said, "It is the poet's tragedy."
And he put the paper back in his pocket. He didn't seem to mind.
I said, "Is a funny way to go round selling poetry like that. Only calypsonians do that sort of thing. A lot of people does buy?"
He said, "No one has yet bought a single copy."
"But why you does keep on going round, then?"
He said, "In this way I watch many things, and I always hope to meet poets."
I said, "You really think I is a poet?"
"You're as good as me," he said.
And when B. Wordsworth left, I prayed I would see him again.
About a week later, coming back from school one afternoon, I met him at the corner of Miguel Street.
He said, "I have been waiting for you for a long time."
I said, "You sell any poetry yet?"
He shook his head.
He said, "In my yard I have the best mango tree in Port-of-Spain. And now the mangoes are ripe and red and very sweet and juicy. I have waited here for you to tell you this and to invite you to come and eat some of my mangoes."
He lived in Alberto Street in a one-roomed hut placed right in the center of the lot. The yard seemed all green. There was the big mango tree. There was a coconut tree and there was a plum tree. The place looked wild, as though it wasn't in the city at all. You couldn't see all the big concrete houses in the street.
He was right. The mangoes were sweet and juicy. I ate about six, and the yellow mango juice ran down my arms to my elbows and down my mouth to my chin and my shirt was stained.
My mother said when I got home, "Where you was? You think you is a man now and could go all over the place? Go cut a whip for me."
She beat me rather badly, and I ran out of the house swearing that I would never come back. I went to B. Wordsworth's house. I was so angry, my nose was bleeding.
B. Wordsworth said, "Stop crying, and we will go for a walk."
I stopped crying, but I was breathing short. We went for a walk. We walked down St. Clair Avenue to the
Savannah and we walked to the racecourse.
B. Wordsworth said, "Now, let us lie on the grass and look up at the sky, and I want you to think how far those stars are from us."
I did as he told me, and I saw what he meant. I felt like nothing, and at the same time I had never felt so big and great in all my life. I forgot all my anger and all my tears and all the blows.
When I said I was better, he began telling me the names of the stars, and I particularly remembered the constellation of Orion the
Hunter, though I don't really know why. I can spot Orion even today, but I have forgotten the rest.
Then a light was flashed into our faces, and we saw a policeman. We got up from the grass.
The policeman said, "What you doing here?"
B. Wordsworth said, "I have been asking myself the same question for forty years."
We became friends, B. Wordsworth and I. He told me, "You must never tell anybody about me and about the mango tree and the coconut tree and the plum tree. You must keep that a secret. If you tell anybody, I will know, because I am a poet."
I gave him my word and I kept it.
I liked his little room. It had no more furniture than George's front
room, but it looked cleaner and healthier. But it also looked lonely.
One day I asked him. "Mister Wordsworth, why you does keep all this bush in your yard? Ain't it does make the place damp?"
He said, "Listen, and I will tell you a story. Once upon a time a boy and girl met each other and they fell in love. They loved each other so much they got married. They were both poets. He loved words. She loved grass and flowers and trees. They lived happily in a single room, and then one day, the girl poet said to the boy poet, 'We are going to have another poet in the family.' But this poet was never born, because the girl died, and the young poet died with her, inside her. And the girl's husband was very sad, and he said he would never touch a thing in the girl's garden. And so the garden remained, and grew high and wild."
I looked at B. Wordsworth, and as he told me this lovely story, he seemed to grow older. I understood his story.
We went for long walks together. We went to the Botanical Gardens and the Rock Gardens. We climbed Chancellor Hill in the late afternoon and watched the darkness fall on Port-of-Spain, and watched the lights go on in the city and on the ships in the harbor.
He did everything as though he were doing it for the first time in his life. He did everything as though he were doing some church rite.
He would say to me, "Now, how about having some ice cream?"
And when I said, yes, he would grow very serious and say, "Now, which café shall we patronize?" As though it were a very important thing. He would think for some time about it, and finally say, "I think I will go and negotiate the purchase with that shop."
The world became a most exciting place. One day, when I was in his yard, he said to me, "I have a great secret which I am now going to tell you."
I said, "It really secret?"
"At the moment, yes."
I looked at him, and he looked at me. He said, "This is just between you and me, remember. I am writing a poem."
"Oh." I was disappointed.
He said, "But this is a different sort of poem. This is the greatest poem in the world."
I whistled.
He said, "I have been working on it for more than five years now. I will finish it in about twenty-two years from now, that is, if I keep on writing at the present rate."
"You does write a lot, then?"
He said, "Not any more. I just write one line a month. But I make sure it is a good line."
I asked, "What was last month's good line?"
He looked up at the sky, and said, "The past is deep."
I said, "It is a beautiful line."
B. Wordsworth said, "I hope to distill the experiences of a whole month into that single line of poetry. So, in twenty-two years, I shall have written a poem that will sing to all humanity."
I was filled with wonder.
Our walks continued. We walked along the sea wall at Docksite one day, and I said, "Mr. Wordsworth, if I drop this pin in the water, you think it will float?"
He said, "This is a strange world. Drop your pin, and let us see what will happen."
The pin sank.
I said, "How is the poem this month?"
But he never told me any other line. He merely said, "Oh, it comes, you know. It comes."
Or we would sit on the sea wall and watch the liners come into the harbor.
But of the greatest poem in the world I heard no more.
I felt he was growing older.
"How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?" I asked him one day.
He said, "You mean how I get money?"
When I nodded, he laughed in a crooked way.
He said, "I sing calypsos in the calypso season.
"And that last you the rest of the year?"
"It is enough."
"But you will be the richest man in the world when you write the greatest poem?"
He didn't reply.
One day when I went to see him in his little house, I found him lying on his little bed. He looked so old and so weak, that I found myself wanting to cry.
He said, "The poem is not going well."
He wasn't looking at me. He was looking through the window at the coconut tree, and he was speaking as though I wasn't there. He said, "When I was twenty I felt the power within myself." Then, almost in front of my eyes, I could see his face growing older and more tired. He said, "But that—that was a long time ago."
And then—I felt it so keenly, it was as though I had been slapped by my mother. I could see it clearly on his face. It was there for everyone to see. Death on the shrinking face.
He looked at me, and saw my tears and sat up.
He said, "Come." I went and sat on his knees.
He looked into my eyes, and he said, "Oh, you can see it, too. I always knew you had the poet's eye."
He didn't even look sad, and that made me burst out crying loudly.
He pulled me to his thin chest, and said, "Do you want me to tell you a funny story?" and he smiled encouragingly at me.
But I couldn't reply.
He said, "When I have finished this story, I want you to promise that you will go away and never come back to see me. Do you promise?"
I nodded.
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But his voice broke.
I left the house, and ran home crying, like a poet, for everything I saw.
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That this young man may be being treated poorly is possible. I ran away at 8 for a bloody good reason. I was worried about my survival. Parents and certainly step parents can be monsters.
As far as I can see there are two obvious choices. 1, visit the authorities. But this entails its own problems. 2, run away.
I ran to the bush. But I had already learned how to hunt and fish. I was lucky. I also had a pristine country to escape within. And a slack government that never cared to chase me. This was 1972 Australia after all.
Were I to run away today I would call cattle stations and search out jackaroo positions where a live in position was offered. There must be something like this in the US.
In the case of over-protective parents that would be extreme, in the case of purely malicious parents, well, that is a different story.
Family should care for you, they don't, there was a baby found still alive half buried in a flower bed with its head in a plastic bag and umbilical cord still attached recently. Graphic I know, for that I'm sorry, but not all parents are saints.
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According to U.A.W. talking points, the Japanese car market is closed to foreign imports, and the yen is kept artificially low. Utter insanity on both counts. The customs duty on new cars imported to Japan is exactly zero, and the yen is so obscenely expensive that Japanese carmakers openly threaten to leave and privately are shifting as much production as possible out of the country. Unbeknownst to talking point readers, Japan has had a thriving car import market for decades. For more than a year, imports to Japan showed an uptick. TTAC has been taking about this for quite a while, here, then here and also here.
Today, The Nikkei [sub] did wise up to the fact that imports are getting hotter in Japan despite a tepid new car market. The Nikkei sent a reporter to an Audi showroom, interviewed a BMW customer, and noted a societal change: "My wife prefers foreign cars, so that's why we bought one," a bank employee who traded his domestic car for a BMW told The Nikkei. "They have lower fuel efficiency than Japanese cars, but that is not a big problem because we drive only on weekends."
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot announced its first piece of casting when producer Michael Bay told the world that Megan Fox was going to be April O'Neil. TMNT fans across the world rejoiced at that piece of news…sorry, the sarcasm font kicked on there for a second. Today a new piece of casting has been announced. This time we find out Alan Ritchson will play Raphael.
Ritchson, formerly Smallville's Aquaman, will play the red bandana wearing bad boy of the group. Deadline is reporting that the Jonathan Liebesman directed flick has started the casting process for the turtles, so we can expect to hear about the rest soon. The film plans to use motion capture, so Ritchson will both act and provide Raphael's voice. That's one down and three to go. The film is currently slated for a May 16,2014 release. What do you think about Ritchson playing Raphael?
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What, no Phage here to tell me how whacked out this theory is? On noes, could this theory actually have some validity? 201 million years of built up gasses below the otherwise stable North American Craton.
Well if it blows, those that are left are gonna wish they had blown with it, that's for darn sure!
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24 September ~ 23 October, Planet: Venus, air signs
character features:
Between Libra and Sagittarius Scorpio. A special interest different from each other and different financial things. Good use of his character contrasting characteristics. You are a real distinction between people like to explore things. In the bleak autumn born into this constellation rough and stubborn, you intense pace of life will make close to you perplexed. You love psychology often filled with contradictions. Emotional betrayal you absolutely can not stand, and will make you love as opposed to the original view. You have a pair of extremely keen eye, insight into the pros and cons of human weakness and opportunities. In addition, your mystique, selective, aggressive, fanatical and uncompromising spirit, frequently to the people left a deep impression. There is no way to get rid of the troubles frequent haunt you, make you feel exhausted. Strong performance of the prominent character of Scorpio. Great endurance so that you dare to meet the difficulties and obstacles, and to conquer. Whether life or emotional aspects of the intricacies of the subject, not only will not make you tired, but it will also add fun to your life.
Scorpio require frequent interruption is busy. You like to do it in person hands; like to improve their working and living environment; like to update their own ideas, not like the life of idleness and powerless, and that will make you lose vigor and vitality. You do not accept any failure, if the problem is a setback, you will have a strong psychological allergy. Then you will start from scratch, with a strong will and indomitable spirit, re-run to success. Do you like the dramatic scenes, director scene from time to time on you along the way. Best not to become obstacles on the road ahead, this is a dangerous competitor and a formidable opponent. You will never forget the lessons of failure and their hurt.
Scorpios love of power, like to have their own way of thinking. Money and material for you is indispensable, but it is not bound his hands and feet, their own businesses, work on helping you, always keep in mind, will go for your generosity. Birth horoscope, Mars in Aries, Scorpio or Capricorn, or the influence of the ecliptic Section I, X, VII or IV palace, this character will be more prominent. Different to the ecliptic your constellation Scorpio people who are good at waiting for their favor timing. When the time comes, and you have selected the way to go, then any strength there is no way in addition to blocking you advance, you'll have withstood any hardship test. Where others have failed or abandoned array escape just you build their own successful performance of the Holy Land. You like a prudent and well-thought-adventure, it will use its own charm and charisma to achieve the purpose of his or her own. Very many prestigious financiers, your birth horoscope Scorpio has a strong influence. Scorpio frequently showed interest nature quite understand the business sense, the more difficult business, the more you from profited. This is not easy to get along with people, everything to the best par. Your material desires must be fully met. According to legend, the the Scorpio symbol of death, inheritances and gifts ecliptic Part VIII Palace end up "Jin" Ryoen, so far, the Scorpio people are still enjoying spouse frequently in material life to your interests. Also Scorpio, you may go to the other extreme, you happiness in this world, wealth without loving, but to start their own beliefs, or heart experiencing the mysticism of the commotion.
Scorpio Men
Absolute awareness and a strong desire to roll in your mind, and often takes you to a melancholy world of passion and loss. Precisely here, you will feel the true value of life and fun.
You tenaciously subjected to any hardship test, the torrent of desire on helping you cut with scissors to destroy all obstacles on the road ahead. Are you good at guessing the weaknesses of others, be good to catch a woman's weakness and touches your mind sees. In love, you are always in a dominant position, in your opinion, as long as the purpose is good, and nothing to lose.
Because of your indomitable spirit, you will be successful where others have failed.
Only when you transcend his nature, you can be freed from the shackles of inner self-torture, full of great spiritual strength, creativity becomes unimaginable.
Birthday horoscope in Taurus and Venus affect women will fall in love with you. Whether you are a spiritual life or you will achieve the harmony of the meet.
And gentle obedience Cancer women combined, your feelings will be very harmonious, life would be full of poetry.
Pisces women will make you really feel the joy of life.
Pragmatic, brave Leo women will change your character, and you freed from the depression and the intricacies of obsession.
Scorpio women
Only passion, disappointment and tears in order to feel their presence and joy. You can withstand Unfortunately baptism and live life test. Like the dramatic change. You will feel or impression that the great attraction of sex. The charm on helping you unimpeded forward on the road of life. Once you have found the men in their own meaning. You will be a good companion. Brave, hard working, hard test, you will exhibit the most selfless quality of a housewife.
Strong private feelings of desire and jealousy, what you need is not her husband enjoy the beauty of their eyes, but your faithful love and no retained. If you are in love, being fooled or encountered a rival, you will have a strong revenge. When related to your personal interests, your most powerful weapon is the tough talk.
Frequent vent grievances target, especially on the subject of love. However, the character of your ability and rich features will give people around impressed.
Birthday horoscope Taurus male is your ideal choice. Common life will make you appreciate the true meaning of love and wonder. Pisces men also affective appeals.
Cancer men into your life, Scorpio women can do whatever they want to exercise the powers of the housewives.
Scorpio children
Excitement and feelings is the main part of the Scorpio child character. A child psychology is very complex and difficult to understand. Silence reticent, calm and collected, but the heart is slowly accumulating desire or dissatisfaction, and the formation of the latent unrest factors.
Never underestimate a child, you may become the best, and it may become the worst. If you feel themselves to be libelous or contempt, you will have a Mingxinkegu discontent, causing you to rest on its laurels or does not make progress, these feelings will continue until you become an adult.
In addition, the the Scorpio child physical and mental reserves a special pneumatic need to make strenuous efforts to play wit, this strength will burst out.
All mysterious things can cause your passion. In medicine, chemistry, history, or research work, you will demonstrate talent. You have a special ability to reveal the mystery or figure out what fans suspected topics.
This is a self-centered, very attractive to the people, to this point in your Qinghai era to demonstrate. To the people around you frequently impressed.
Do not force you to do things you do not want to, you need to choose the way to go, once selected, you will come up with a hundred times in other people's perseverance and courage to learn and work.
Your ideal way medicine, metallurgy, police career, research, military, oil or volcanic-related occupations, engineer, sculptor or dangerous career.
Scorpio born within 10 ° of the basic character:
Date of Birth: October 24 to November 2
Character: domineering character of mystery and rich, it is difficult to see the whole picture of your inner world from the calm exterior. You can be an outstanding person, may also go the opposite. Do you like the circuitous way to achieve their own ends. In the eyes of the difficulties never discouraged. Indecisive youth to adulthood, your character will really show it. This personalized love private person. If you have more tolerance and compassion, you will be more respected.
Power source: divide and conquer
Date of Birth: November 3 to 12 days
Character: temperament ambiguous, both proud and timid, warmth and cold, both longing for sex and self-restraint. When someone to commit to you, you will not read sensibilities. Very easily become an emotional suppression and extreme Dongan. You vulnerable to all kinds of desire driven, once you overcome nature, it will radiate a powerful driving force, and showed remarkable talent in occultism, psychology or inventions.
Power source: extreme
Date of Birth: November 13 to November 22, 2011
Character: there is no way to curb the nature and strong passion, your motivation may be, may also become your weakness, these two tendencies mainly depends on your emotional sublimation, or you become a victim of passion. You really need to give you to bring the spirit of balanced living environment full of happiness and fraternity atmosphere. You may become destructive jealousy always left guard.
Power source: Love
Famous people born in Scorpio: Paganini (Italian composer empty), Tuo Dostoevsky (Russian novelist), Marie Curie (Polish physicist), Picasso (Spain famous painter), Charles de Gaulle ( President of the Fifth Republic of France), Alain Delon (the famous French movie star), Lancaster (United States film actor), Indira Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India), Mitterrand (French President).
All in all, Scorpio:
- A strong desire to Scorpio said: "I need".
- Way to express love: complex.
- : A strong desire.
- Desire: to find a tolerant wife (or husband).
- Fraud: Due to the excessive self-confidence and like complicated.
- Like: seek out the precious objects.
- Afraid: the others bad faith.
- Weaknesses: frequent presence of a latent sense of crisis.
- Favorable conditions: perseverance.
- Adverse conditions: not good at work.
- Holiday life: to change their room furnishings, or tinkering at home.
- Expenses: more harm than good things.
- Mascot: Dragon.
- Lucky Metal: iron.
- Lucky stones: ruby.
- Lucky Day: Tuesday.
- Favorite color: red.
- Lucky numbers: 9,18,27,36.
- Hidden place, vineyards, luxury entertainment, the latest hotel and prosperous place.
- Lucky plants: red pepper, blades of grass, thistle, wormwood.
- Living conditions: covert and full of mysteries and antique furniture.
- The ideal living Country: Norway, Malaysia, Syria, Bulgaria, Australia, Queensland.
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Scorpio In November
This is Scorpio have confidence in ourselves the stage, you can face their own shortcomings and weaknesses, and the courage to overcome this time suitable to make long-term planning.
How to make themselves worthy of trust, is important during this period Scorpio self-discipline, even if no one asked you, you should also self-demanding.
There are opportunities from friendship turned into love, the other party may have some performance so that you admire, you will each have feelings, there are possibilities for further development.
If the community or work with the people living in areas related to the responsibilities you are very heavy, this is a busy period, if the boss may be Chancellor and ringing bells, and not busy.
Important astrology Jupiter is retrograde, so you want to 6,7 months from the balance sheet and outside, religion, publishing the chance that you will make a correction, it will be a turning point in his career to continue or abandon, or guidelines on how to adjust the this period is an important issue.
Hai Wang Xingshun OK, so you have the opportunity to awaken from self-deception. For example, in the past you put an object as a good bad, or you put a good object crowded out, then your subconscious will make you awake, feeling there will be evolutionary, purify opportunities.
First settled within, then pay attention to the bustling outside, is an important time to do homework, outward ambition can be adjusted slightly.
There are elegant transportation, these elegant are classmates, friends, with your enjoyment of life, an eye-opener, you will see so you aspire to lifestyle or attitude to life, so to give you inspiration.
Peach outbreak, contact the interpersonal relationships are pleasant, appreciate you, the majority of people are kind to you, there are many possibilities.
Exit opportunities for frequent journey pleasant, even luxurious, travel may also have encounter, perhaps someone proposed to you to stay, so you have adventurous impulse.
The pursuit of a stable life makes you want to calculate your own money, wealth becomes your focus. Figure out the amount of their property, is to determine whether the courageous Scorpio reasons that could allow you to generate a little more courage or concern.
Scorpio Overall Horoscope in 2014
You would fight with the surrounding environment changes strongly in 2014. Especially since 2012, you've gotten great encouragement from good adaptability. Since then, you couldn't help changing constantly, and you would be more determined than before. Jupiter's phase position in November could be more beneficial for you. The trine formed by Neptune could enable you to recognize some of your shortcomings bluntly and humbly, and make changes. You'd better have great courage and perseverance to face.
Scorpio Career Horoscope in 2014
If you plan to start a new project in this year, then you;dbetter work harder. While Jupiter's orbit would help you make good performance at work. In fact, you might encounter some troubles at work, but you must frankly face these problems, and try to find ways to solve them; You would get some good advice, which could give you great help. If you want to do better, you'd better strive to overcome difficulties while humbly accept other's advice. If the current status of work does not meet your expectations, you'd rather consider trying a new project or a new working environment.
Scorpio Love Horoscope in 2014
Your emotions would become more complex and intense in this year. You would not be interested in the current love slowly, you might even want to end this poor relationship early. You desire to pursue intense love, from one extreme to another. Fortunately Jupiter could protect you to avoid too dangerous extremes. If you are already married, you'd better restrain yourself in mid-2014 in order to get along with your lover more harmoniously. Your partner could not leave you to do anything you want. You'd rather think more about how to create a harmonious family, not the blind pursuit of your personal emotional experience. If you are still single, you might have more opportunity to meet new opposite sex in 2014. Especially at the end of the last three months, you would be invited to some activities. You might get the positive help in finding new love from these activities.
Scorpio Wealth Horoscope in 2014
Jupiter's trajectory motivates could make you hold responsible attitude on major issues. This is a good time to tackle difficulty. If you have financial trouble, you'd better actively seek solutions. You could solve any sticky problem if you tried hard. Especially in the first half of 2014, you'd rather not worry about the short financial problems. In the second half of 2014, you might get more income than usual, which is the return for your efforts.
Scorpio Relationships Horoscope in 2014
What do I need? How could life brings surprises? These are the questions often appeared in your mind. These ideas would be more intense than before in 2014. You might get tired of bland human communication, and sometimes you would even feel disgusted about some human contact and socializing. Thus you might look very high-hearted. You'd better not bring spiritual pursuit into normal interpersonal relationships. Learning to deal with all kinds of people is also a sign of maturity.
Scorpio Studies Horoscope in 2014
You might encounter some obstacles in studies in 2014. These obstacles are mostly derived from your unstable sentiment. So you'd better learn to regulate your sentiment, which is what you must do in 2014.
Scorpio Health Horoscope in 2014
You would be energetic in 2014. Throughout the year you would be very excited. You would continue to overcome various difficulties. You might feel relatively tired after excitement especially in the last quarter of 2014. You'd better replenish vitamins, while relax yourself moderately. You'd rather arrange a small vacation for yourself to keep relaxed.
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JAJARKOT, DEC 29 - Thanks to growing public awareness, the increasing level of media outreach and consultations by various organisations, the Jajarkot district has been seeing a gradual rise in the number of registered cases of violence against women.
A total of 500 cases concerning sexual abuse and assaults, domestic violence, rape, child marriage, caste discrimination and physical assaults were registered with the Women and Children Office, a government entity working in the district to safeguard the rights of women and children for the last two years.
Traditionally, victims do not report such cases to concerned authorities due to fear and shame, poor education and poverty. "The number of registered cases was hardly a hundred previously," said Sachim Shrestha, officer at the Women and Children Office. "The rise in the number of reported cases also shows that the overall cases of violence against women are still increasing."
Meanwhile, in an effort to raise the concerns of women and children, paralegal committees have been set up in 20 VDCs of the district with around 300 members working to provide services. Of the cases registered, a majority involved husbands and family members, said Shrestha.
Seikh Chandtara, chairperson of the National Women Commission, said that most of the cases of violence against women happened within the family. Young victims never file formal complaints with concerned authorities since they take it as a cause of shame on them and their family, said Chandtara. "Due to social stigmas and insecurity, such cases are never reported. However, recently, the increased level of awareness among victims and society has led to a rise in the formal registration of cases," she said.
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'Don't you dare' give in to temptations at university, Cambridge magistrate warns student Jack Low after he is caught with cannabis, MDMA and hallucinogenic mushrooms
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Magistrates have given a stark warning to a student caught with drugs not to "dare" give into temptations as they give him a second chance so he can go to university.
Jack Low, of Blinco Grove in Cambridge, pleaded guilty to possession of MDMA and psilocin, a hallucinogenic mushroom, and possession with intent to supply of cannabis at Cambridge Magistrates' Court.
The 18-year-old was stopped on his bike in Cambridge last November where police found £373 worth of cannabis.
When his mobile phone was checked, officers found texts suggesting he was supplying the drugs and when his home was searched, mushrooms and MDMA were found.
But Jeff Lewis, mitigating, said the MDMA and mushrooms were for personal use and Low was "addressing many issues in his life" and taking steps to address his "bad behaviour".
He said: "This is a massive wake up call for this young man. Clearly he has acted very foolishly. He has done a lot of soul searching and recrimination in relation to his lifestyle.
"He has been read the riot act on the situation he has got himself into. He wants to leave his stupid habits behind him."
Chief magistrate Julie Ferguson questioned Low on his future plans and the International Baccalaureate student said that while he had wanted to be a police constable before his convictions, he was now set to study psychology at university.
Ms Ferguson sentenced the student to 100 hours of unpaid work, which had to be completed by September. He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
She said: "You are in very serious trouble and I suspect much of your remorse has developed from the fact you were caught. We want you to move onto the next stage of your life and leave this stage of it behind.
"You have limited a lot of options for your life as a result of this. We hope you are able to move on to university in September and put this behind you.
"You will be exposed to a lot of temptations and risks when you go to university and I am looking you straight in the eye and saying don't you dare."


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Football looking for elusive first winCrusaders Head Coach Steve Briggs took his football team to play Gettysburg Saturday, losing to the explosive offense of Gettysburg, 42-28.
The Crusaders were down by 21 points in the third quarter, 35-14, before the tide started to shift.
Sophomore running back Merle Moscarello scored from five yards out with 3:33 left in the third quarter to cut the deficit to 14.
Sophomore running back Tim Wade added a touchdown early in the fourth quarter to decrease Gettysburg's lead.
Moscarello made an impact in his first collegiate start, running for 176 yards and a third-quarter touchdown.
The Bullets pulled out a trick play to score their last touchdown with a halfback pass from junior halfback Fred Caruso to junior wide receiver Alec Pacelli.
The Crusaders fell behind largely due to the play of Gettysburg senior wideout Aden Twer. Twer was on the same page as junior quarterback Zach Miller throughout the game, connecting seven times for 135 yards and two scores to lead the Bullets.
The Crusaders had an opportunity to tie the game with eight minutes left in the game, but their drive went three-and-out to turn the ball over.
A pass from sophomore quarterback Cam Olson to sophomore wide receiver Colin Buckley on fourth-and-three fell incomplete to end the drive in Crusaders territory at the 41.
Gettysburg grabbed the ball, taking advantage of a short field to score.
Olson threw for two scores in his first collegiate start, amassing 308 yards passing.
With the loss, the football team is still looking for its first win, falling to 0-4 for the season. The obstacle Briggs and his team have to overcome, now, is finding a way to reverse fortunes for the remainder of the season.
When asked about how he was planning on beating an opponent like Gettysburg, Briggs said: "Tackling them in space, as we call it, and I think we did a pretty good job of that. What we did, was give up some big plays. That's what hurt us."
Even though the score makes it appear the game was easily won by the Bullets, it was actually a gritty back-and-forth battle until midway through the fourth quarter.
A late interception led to a subsequent Gettysburg touchdown, putting the Bullets two touchdowns ahead of the visiting Crusaders, and that is how the score remained.
Junior quarterback Taylor Kolmer, spoke about the current predicament the team is in, saying: "Obviously, right now we're not where we want to be. A couple close games, games that we could've -- should've won, but that's in the past."
Even though the team hasn't started the season way they hoped, Kolmer explained that this team had been in a similar situation last year and managed to pull itself out of the fire by ending with a winning record.
"We really turned it around last year." Kolmer said. "And we're hoping for the same thing this year."
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Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kelly Rowland, Kris Jenner, Jennifer Hudson & More Attend Tina Knowles' Masquerade Ball
This past weekend, in celebration of Mama Knowles' big day, her daughters Beyoncé and Solange threw a huge Masquerade Ball in New Orleans that reportedly cost them over $100,000. Friends and family of the Knowles clan, including Jennifer Hudson, Monica Brown, Kelly Rowland, The-Dream, and even Kris Jenner were all spotted arriving at Muriel's Jackson Square in horse-drawn carriages, before being escorted past screaming fans for a night of fun, music and good times.
The woman of the hour, Miss Tina, looked amazing as she arrived in style with her new "bae," actor Richard Lawson by her side.
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Yellow is definitely Solange's favorite color. She arrived with her boyfriend Alan by her side. Solo currently lives in New Orleans.
Solange's son Julez arrived in a separate carriage with Angie Beyince.
Monica Brown was spotted inside with her hubby Shannon Brown and Jay Z.
Beyoncé looked stunning in a white dress and plum lip as she posed next to her publicist Yvette.
Kelly Rowland was killin' 'em as she werked a black risqué dress while posing alongside Jennifer Hudson, Tina Knowles and Beyoncé.
Julez was the luckiest 9-year-old in the world last night. He's so handsome.
Kris Jenner made a splash at the party.
The-Dream went as Phantom of the Opera.
Kelly Rowland spotted leaving in a gorgeous white coat. Loving that bob, Kelly!
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text: Middle East Middle East Faine Greenwood on Feb 27, 2013 @ 1:17 AMFeb 27, 2013 @ 1:17 AM PublishedBahrain bans Guy Fawkes masks in effort to quell protestsAn Egyptian protester wears a mask of the Anonymous movement during a protest in Tahrir Square to call for the fall of Islamist President on Jan. 24, 2012 in Cairo.Guy Fawkes mask owners, beware: the "V for Vendetta" style masks favored by protesters the world over have been banned from import into Bahrain, and offenders could face prison time. Hassan Fakhro, the Kingdom of Bahrain's Industry and Commerce Minister, announced that the plastic face masks from the 2005 movie were now illegal, in an effort to prevent protesters from wearing them to remain unidentifiable, wrote the Independent.Read more from GlobalPost: Bahrain: the forgotten uprising According to RT.com, Fahro claimed in the Bahrain Official Gazette that the move was made "in the public interest."The mustachioed and pale white masks are used across the world, and have found particular favor among Middle Eastern anti-government protesters, perhaps explaining Fakhro's eagerness to ban the iconic images.In the United Arab Emirates, the masks were banned back in November, wrote the Gulf News, as they are thought to "instigate unrest." Some retailers were selling the masks emblazoned with the colors of the UAE.The masks are widely sold in the USA and in other regions, and retail for $6.99 at US outlet Party City.