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Displaced Iraqi people from the Yazidi community rest in a refugee camp Thursday near the Turkey-Iraq border at Silopi in Sirnak. Roughly 4,500 people remain atop northern Iraq's Sinjar Mountain, and nearly half are herders who lived there before the siege and have no interest in being evacuated, two U.S. officials said. (Ilyas Akengin / AFP via Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon sees little if any need to airdrop more food and water to Iraqis atop Sinjar Mountain because most of the stranded have left and the remainder are in less dire need, a spokesman said Thursday.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said U.S. officials believe the number on Sinjar is now in the neighborhood of 4,000, and that between 1,500 and 2,000 of those are local residents who live there and have no plans to leave.
We believe based on our assessment of conditions on the mountain that it is much less likely that well need to continue to airdrop any more food and water, Kirby said. The last airdrop was Wednesday.
A U.S. assessment team that spent Wednesday on the mountaintop reported numbers far smaller and circumstances less dire than feared. Two officials said they estimated that roughly 4,500 were atop the mountain, half of which were local herders.
That makes it less likely that U.S. troops will need to conduct a major rescue effort, but it does not substantially change the big picture in Iraq, which is in crisis with a problem-plagued government and an aggressive Sunni insurgency.
The Obama administration has been airdropping food on the mountain and contemplating a military-led rescue of civilians who fled there to escape the militant group known as the Islamic State. But it had been unclear how many people might need evacuation. Some had reported them to number in the tens of thousands.
After being briefed on the assessment teams trip to Sinjar Mountain, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that it was far less likely now that a rescue mission would be needed.
Hagel called the assessment a bit of good news. Of the U.S. effort in Iraq, he said: Its not over. Its not complete.
Attacks across Iraqs north and west by the Islamic State and its Sunni militant allies this summer have displaced members of the minority Christian and Yazidi religious communities and threatened neighboring Iraqi Kurds in the autonomous region.
Thousands of Yazidis on the mountain were able to leave each night over the last several days, Kirby said in a statement Wednesday.
The U.S. troops and U.S. Agency for International Development staff who conducted the assessment on Sinjar â fewer than 20 people overall â did not engage in combat operations and all returned safely to Irbil by military aircraft, he said.
The Yazidis who remain are in better condition than previously believed and continue to have access to the food and water that we have dropped, Kirby said. We will continue to provide humanitarian assistance as needed and will protect U.S. personnel and facilities.
The U.S. Central Command said late Wednesday that four U.S. cargo planes airdropped 108 bundles of food and water to the remaining people atop the mountain. It was the seventh U.S. delivery of food and water since the relief operation began last week.
Julie Pace reported form Edgartown, Mass. Associated Press reporter Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this story.
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- At the center of the new regulations - a requirement that lenders assess whether borrowers can actually repay the loans at the end of their short periods. The data suggest few can, which leaves borrowers with no choice but to roll over loans, accept new fees, or taking out new loans altogether. The CFPB found borrowers took out a median of 10 loans over a 12-month period, with median fees of $458, median amount borrowed of $350M. More than 80% of loans were rolled over or renewed within two weeks - manna to the lenders, and the bureau is now taking dead aim.
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The Fourth Annual 'Cruisin' for Critters' motorcycle fun run will be staged Oct. 12, benefitting ACTion Program for Animals.
The event costs $15 per rider. On the morning of the event, sign-ins will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at Las Cruces Motor Sports at 2125 S. Valley Dr., in Las Cruces.
The ride will culminate at the Blue Moon Bar in Radium Springs, where live music, raffles and prizes will be featured. Las Cruces radio personality K.C. Counts will emcee the after-party from 3-6 p.m. Meals will be served at 4 p.m.
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While surfing the Padres' website for information on which pitching prospects Burt Hooton might be coaching in Ft. Wayne, I came across an interesting article about the off-season life of minor league prospects. The linked article focuses on players in the San Diego system; however, it was interesting to read specifics about the pay that these prospects receive and how some of them supplement their income between the end of one season and the beginning of the next.
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Nearly half the pilots in the Malaysia's air force were from the Chinese minority, rather than the Malay majority. In Nigeria, most of the officers were from the southern tribes and most of the enlisted men were from the northern tribes. Similar disparities have been common among various groups in many places.
In countries around the world, all sorts of groups differ from each other in all sorts of ways, from rates of alcoholism to infant mortality, education and virtually everything that can be measured, as well as in some things that cannot be quantified. If black and white Americans were the same, they would be the only two groups on this planet who are the same.
One of the things that got us started on heavy-handed government regulation of the housing market were statistics showing that blacks were turned down for mortgage loans more often than whites. The bean-counters in the media went ballistic. It had to be racism, to hear them tell it.
What they didn't tell you was that whites were turned down more often than Asians. What they also didn't tell you was that black-owned banks also turned down blacks more often than whites. Nor did they tell you that credit scores differed from group to group. Instead, the media, the politicians and the regulators grabbed some statistics and ran with them.
The bean-counters are everywhere, pushing the idea that differences show injustices committed by society. As long as we keep buying it, they will keep selling it-- and the polarization they create will sell this country down the river.
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And God Created Darwin: Evolution Isn't Just for Scientists, Argues This Professor of Theology. People of Faith Must Selectively Adapt to Darwin as Well
When Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago this month, no one could have guessed the impact his Origin of Species (1859) would have not only on science but on religion as well.
"The name Darwin symbolizes a massive transition of our self-understanding," Boston College Professor Stephen Pope said in a recent talk at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. "Instead of descended from a primal couple specially created by God about 10,000 years ago, we now regard our species as the product of an evolutionary stream of life that has been running at least 4 billion years."
But for many Catholics, science and faith are often competitors, and sometimes even official church teaching doesn't do enough to bring them together.
"There's a way of talking about the doctrines of the Christian faith without treating Adam and Eve as historical figures," Pope says. "But right now we have a parallel theology, with official statements that endorse evolution but a Catechism that completely ignores it."
Still, Pope says, final responsibility rests with individual Catholics to integrate faith and science for themselves. "We all have an obligation to deepen in our faith," he says. "I'm not saying everybody should be a Darwinian or a theologian, but I think there is a call to take faith more seriously and become more reflective people."
The editors interview Stephen Pope
Why should Catholics be interested in Charles Darwin?
Darwin's theories of how life evolves provide the most powerful and persuasive explanation right now of how human beings appeared on the scene. I think Catholics should read Darwin to understand who we are in our biological nature, including some of the capacities that we have for responding to God in our lives.
But more than 40 percent of the American public believes that humanity is just 10,000 years old as a species, and you have to figure at least a quarter of them are Roman Catholic. A recent poll found that 79 percent of Catholics in Florida would vote not to teach evolution in the classroom.
This is despite the fact that Pope John Paul II officially acknowledged that "evolution is more than a hypothesis." Pope Benedict XVI has dismissed the debate over evolution as "an absurdity" that flies in the face of "much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such."
But beyond evolution's scientific validity, Catholics regard the world theologically as a sacramental expression of God's love. The world itself is a symbol of God's grace, God's goodness. It's our habitat, and through it we are given the opportunity to move toward God. So it's important we understand how creation functions.
Do you think Catholics have integrated evolution into their understanding of the faith?
Catholics, like Christians generally, tend to compartmentalize their world into their professional life, their church, their golf game, and we don't often make connections between those things.
Darwin asks us to put together all the different parts of our lives and think about how we're connected to other people as members of the same species. He asks us to look back to discover where we come from. He asks us to look at ourselves now as members of a species that is growing rapidly and doing serious damage to the planet because we don't live responsibly. And he asks us to look forward, because if we're not responsible in the future, the human race is going to be harmed and possibly eradicated if environmental catastrophes pile up.
Evolutionary theory and Christianity have often had a tense relationship. How have believers responded to Darwin?
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|In this study we model the impact of introducing outpatient investigation of pulmonary thrombo-embolism (PTE) to the acute medical unit (AMU) using the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) decision rule. Specifically, we ask what proportion of patients requiring imaging could be investigated without admission, and how many bed-days this would save. We obtained records for all medical patients who had imaging for PTE in a six-month period at a large teaching hospital with a 40-bedded AMU. The patients were categorized into suitability for outpatient investigation using a combination of the PESI rule and practical considerations. Three hundred and fifty-nine separate presentations were identified. From available records, 31 patients (9.2%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 6.6-12.8%) had no contraindications to outpatient management. These patients used a total of 79 bed-days in the six-month period, or 1.1% (95% CI 0.8-1.5%) of the maximum AMU bed occupancy. Around 10% of patients who require imaging for suspected PTE could be triaged to outpatient investigation using the PESI tool. Adopting this method to triage patients of ambulatory care, would have only a modest effect on acute medical bed occupancy, but remains a valid option for motivated patients in the low-risk category.
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Children also suffer from migraines, but they often go untreated because children are unable to describe the pain. See what you need to know about children's migraines and headaches.
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Reid Promises Senate Health Care Bill Will Be Posted Tonight UPDATE: 2,074 Pages
Majority leader Harry Reid, in a press conference with other top Democrats, promised that the Senate health care legislation would be posted online tonight.
Reid said the bill would reduce the deficit and strengthen Medicare by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse from the system.
"The finish line is really in sight," he said, and expressed optimism that the bill would pass. But he was evasive when asked specifically whether he already has lined up the 60 votes needed to bring the bill to the floor, telling reporters that they would have to ask individual Senators.
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YouTube Video Editing
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Anyone who has read this blog before will be aware that YouTube Video Editing, indeed anything to do with videos, sets me into a a panic!
I know that Google is said to like videos and sends more traffic to blogs and websites with videos on – because website viewers, including me, enjoy watching videos. So it's thought to be a good way of generating free traffic.
From my limited knowledge of SEO it seems reasonable to assume that people stay on a page with videos for longer than they might otherwise stay because they're watching the video. But I'm no SEO expert, and as soon as I think I'm getting the hang of what Google wants me to do, along comes some black animal to change the "rules".
However despite all this, videos and I do not "get on".
My dread of videos is due to an early experience of having made a couple of videos of "me" being recorded on my partner's phone describing my Hair Mineral Analysis and Migraine businesses. Believe me, I had no wish to drive traffic to them and quickly consigned the embarrassing ums, errs and shifty glances at my prompt sheet to the bin! I did come up with another method of producing the videos but the end result was not something I was thrilled with. Again because of the voice-over. But that's another story.
Today's post is celebrating the fact that I have revisited YouTube video editing and enjoyed it this time. How come? Because I hadn't recorded ME, I had recorded my beloved Bailey! He is my son's dog who occasionally comes to visit and "check emails" with me.
Bailey is a sweetheart, but has the reputation of destroying any dog toy within about 10 minutes, no matter how indestructible the label claims it is. So Matt always warns me against spending more than about 50p on any toy. However, I'm a glutton for punishment so when I saw a toy in the garden center that claimed to be "virtually indestructible" I got the cash out.
Bailey loved his new toy and because Matt's fiance Elke was missing the fun I grabbed the phone to record it for later upload to YouTube – which was last night's task.
Once on YouTube I played it back and quickly decided I needed to do something about the heavy breathing in the background. That was me stressing about whether the phone was recording or not. So that was my next priority.
Adding Music To My YouTube Video
It was easier than I hoped, and all I had to do was click on the musical note image shown above by the red arrow. That gave me a choice of other people's favorite music. None of it quite matched what I wanted, so I used the search box with a keyword of "dog" and found "Hound Dog Blue" which seemed to fit the bill, and there I was with a respectable looking video.
YouTube Video Editing – Other Options
Happily when I first up-loaded the video, YouTube offered to correct my "shake" – honestly I hadn't been on the bottle! And other options that were available to me on the same row as the musical note, were:
- Information and Settings
- Enhancements
- Annotations
- Captions
At the time of writing I haven't experimented with those. Too much time has already been spent for a non-business activity. But I've learned something I can apply in my business later and found it enjoyable, so that's time well spent.
As an aside, I have tried to turn off the adverts that are appearing, but not yet succeeded, so if anyone can point me in the right direction to do that, I'll be grateful.
So now let me to show you the video. You know you want to see it – it's only about a minute and a half. There's a much longer one
And of course, the other thing you'll be interested in is what happened to the indestructible toy…. Eyes right. Matt very kindly refrained from saying "I told you so".
P.S. Although this is mainly a post about YouTube video editing, as another experiment in my blogging learning curve, I am accessing some of these images direct from PhotoBucket in the hope that my blog will load faster than with them hosted on my own site. All you experts out there, I'd be grateful for your comments and tips.
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What fun!! Bailey certainly went after that toy with avid determination, didn't he?
I thought the video was really easy to watch … I didn't hear any interference from the 'videographer', but maybe the music obscured it … either way, the result is a fun video and an easy way to spend a couple of minutes.
I'll be watching for more first-hand tips as time goes on – video is something I'm totally shying away from … probably for all the same reasons as you. I like to write, but I'm not much of a 'speaker' …
Hi Lily-Ann
Glad you enjoyed Bailey's video. Yes – the music DID obscure my sighs and groans about technology! LOL.
Because Google likes video so much I guess we've got to learn how to do it. You can get software that makes slides from your writing – that's how I got round it with my migraine and hair analysis videos, but – at the time – it was a fairly expensive option. May be cheaper now!!
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The Grain Valley School District will spend more than it brings in this coming school year, but officials hope to make some of that up through new state dollars.
The Grain Valley School District will spend more than it brings in this coming school year, but officials hope to make some of that up through new state dollars.
The Grain Valley Board of Education approved the 2013-14 budget in June. The anticipated revenues are $33.71 million, while the anticipated expenditures are $35.03 million. That leaves a deficit of about $1.32 million.
Marc Snow, assistant superintendent for finance and support services, said a majority of the deficit, $659,100, is coming out of reserve funding to pay for new school buses.
"The deficit looks a little skewed," he said. "Other additional deficit dollars will hopefully be made up with new state money, if that money actually comes to the school districts. That final number relies a lot on the possible $66 million of new money for education that the governor proposed in his budget. We are waiting to see if HB 253 has the veto over-ridden to find out if that new money is coming to education."
Another big addition to the budget is salary increase for teachers and hourly increase for some support staff. An additional $500 will be added to the base for teachers, bringing the district's base salary up to $34,500. Custodians and maintenance employees will receive a $1 per hour increase, and cooks and cashiers will receive a 50 cent per hour salary increase.
Snow said the biggest challenge when preparing the budget is not knowing what the state intends to do. In addition, the sequestration decreased the amount of federal dollars the district received between 5 and 8 ercent. Another uncertainty is county assessments, which have caused problems in other parts of the metropolitan area.
No cuts, however, were proposed to any of the district's programs. Snow said they are watching state funding to see if anything needs to be modified as the year progresses.
"Our preliminary assessment shows a slight increase, but that is before Board of Equalization," Snow said. "That number will likely change."
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Price of Football: Survey of 166 British clubs revealed
The average cost of the cheapest adult ticket in the top four divisions of English football has risen by 11.7% - more than five times the rate of inflation.
The BBC Sport Price of Football survey found that the average price of the most affordable ticket in league football has gone from £19.01 to £21.24 in the past 12 months.
The survey looked at 166 clubs in 10 divisions across British football, including the Blue Square Bet Premier and Women's Super League.
We have recorded the most expensive, and cheapest, season tickets and adult matchday tickets as well as the cost of a cup of tea, a pie and a programme, to calculate the cheapest day out at a football match.
The figures show:
- Only two out of 92 English league clubs offer a day out for less than £20 this season. Last year it was 12.
- In Scotland, 21 of the 42 teams across four divisions offer a day out for less than £20.
- The most expensive adult matchday ticket is Arsenal at £126 and the cheapest £6 at Montrose.
- Arsenal also have the most expensive season ticket at £1,955, while Montrose's was the lowest at £90.
- In the Women's Super League, matchday adult tickets range from £4-£6, with season ticket prices between £22-£40.
- The most expensive tea in British football can be found in Manchester, where both City and United charge £2.50. The cheapest costs 50p at Alloa and Brechin in Scottish Division Two.
- Kidderminster, in the Blue Square Bet Premier, charge the most for a pie at £4, while the cheapest is in Scotland, where Alloa, Albion and Forfar charge just £1.
- Leeds United sell the most expensive programme in Britain at £4, while Inverness CT's is the cheapest at 50p.
"Despite the difficult economic times we live in, prices at some clubs and at some levels of the game are still exceedingly high," Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation, said.
"It is quite shocking that at Arsenal, for example, the cheapest season ticket is only £15 short of £1,000.
"We would like to see a much greater effort to reduce ticket prices and in particular give the benefit of the massive amounts of media income that comes in at the top of the game to the match-going fan."
The highest price of a day out at a football match in England, Wales and Scotland has gone from £109 to £134.30 in just 12 months, with Arsenal the most expensive club to visit for a second successive year.
A trip to the Emirates Stadium can cost as much as £134.40 with top-price tickets going for £126, a £26 rise on last year's figure and a programme (£3), pie (£3.30) and cup of tea (£2) adding to the cost.
Arsenal's cheapest day out (£34.30) comes in exactly £100 cheaper but it is Newcastle who offer the Premier League's best value day out, with a ticket, programme, pie and cup of tea coming in at £23.
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis told BBC Sport the club was doing its best to offer value to fans with the club's cheapest league ticket (£26) among the most affordable in the division. This ticket is £9 cheaper than last season.
"We've seen ticket prices rise across the game," Gazidis said. "This isn't just a football issue.
"If you look at the prices of entertainment across the board they have gone up significantly in recent years and clearly we now have an environment where people are economically challenged.
"What we have done is try to hold those prices down, for example our Capital One Cup prices have been £10 for adults and £5 for children.
"What we know, because of the tremendous take up, is that there are people who want to watch top class football but for whom price is a factor. That is something we have to be continually conscious of."
Year-on-year average cheapest ticket price (2011 first)
- Premier League: £24.87 - £28.30
- Championship: £20.37 - £21.07
- League One: £15.52 - £18.54
- League Two: £15.29 - £17.06
- Overall: £19.01 - £21.24 - an overall rise of 11.7%
Former FA chairman Lord Triesman told BBC Sport he was "very disappointed prices keep going up". The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation stood at 2.2% last month, down from 2.5% in August, but our survey found the average cost of the cheapest ticket had gone up 11.7 per cent.
"I think it will prevent the next generation from really seeing live football other than on very unusual occasions every so often when clubs will give the tickets away," he said. "Most of the causes of the increases are driven by the salaries paid to players.
"As it is, it will become a sport in which relatively well-off people will be able to go and watch it live and nobody else. That seems to me to be a tragic historic reverse."
Arsenal once again come out on top with their cheapest season ticket (£985) costing more than all but three of their Premier League rivals' most expensive equivalent.
Wigan offer the Premier League's cheapest season ticket (£255) with Manchester City (£275) close behind. Scottish third division side Montrose offer the cheapest season ticket at £90.
The price of a day out at a Scottish Premier League match remains more affordable with only Celtic (£36.30) costing more than £35. Celtic's most expensive season ticket comes in at £609, however, some £409 more than Inverness Caledonian Thistle's cheapest offer.
Did you know?
- Only two out of 92 English league clubs offer a day out for less than £20. Last year it was 12.
- In Scotland, 21 of the 42 teams across four divisions offer a day out for less than £20.
- Out of 166 clubs in England and Scotland only 38 offer a day out for less than £20.
"I certainly think that our clubs in Scotland make a real effort to ensure that football is accessible," Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster told BBC Sport.
"I think our clubs are fully aware of the importance of price in terms of people's decisions to come to a game of football. We've got just over half of our clubs that offer free season tickets, without any charge, to under 12s.
"The cheapest match day ticket, in terms of a season ticket, works out at £11 a game at a club that has a family ticket - that's two adults and two children at £20 a game, so that's real value against any comparable activity that families can carry out."
Kidderminster Harriers, of the Blue Square Bet Premier, sell the most expensive pie in British football at £4, although the club says the product is a large, homemade cottage pie.
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Comment number 843. Posted by Bluemoaner1966on 19 Oct 2012 17:21
Manchester City - Family Stand
Adults - £465 each
Child (Under 16) £110
You don't have to buy the match programme or the food. Have something before you go at home. They are not forcing people to buy the food.
Comment number 842. Posted by chrislabiffon 19 Oct 2012 17:19
117 - are you trying to suggest a broad UK correlation between academic achievement/effort and wealth? There isn't one.
Comment number 841. Posted by septimuson 19 Oct 2012 16:53
I'm sure that when I was at Rotherham Utd's fantastic new stadium earlier this season it was £3 for a some meat and gravy wrapped in a pastry case not £2.50 are they telling you porky..pies?
Comment number 840. Posted by podilatoon 19 Oct 2012 16:06
Why are matches in other leagues much cheaper? You can watch a match in the Bundesliga for around £10 and some teams there have average crowds of nearly 60 000. For people who say that the Premier League is by far the greatest need to watch replays of games like Wigan vs Stoke on a muddy pitch for a reality check.
Comment number 839. Posted by podilatoon 19 Oct 2012 15:52
Has a law been passed saying that if you like football you have to go watch it, no matter the cost? Like anything else, if it is too expensive then don't go. I'm a big football fan and I've lived in UK over 10 years, yet never been to a match as even the cost of going to my local Blue Square Premier team matches is about £10 more than having a lovely meal out with the misses. No brainer really.
Comment number 838. Posted by mombser2on 19 Oct 2012 14:51
Football is the greatest sport going-
However it is not an essential of life- though it might be for some!
So we have choices and priorities in life-
Its not for government to get involved- Its between the clubs and their fans.
Pay or dont pay--Go or dont go!
Comment number 837. Posted by Rob_Chappellon 19 Oct 2012 14:34
My portly pal, mark has spent the money has saved by only attending Middlesbrough away, and bought shares in his favourite kebab shop Spice Master, 6 West Road, Newcastle. For his £345 investment he gets 10% of his favourite parmos AND a side order of chips with every purchase!!!!
Comment number 836. Posted by RotatorCuffon 19 Oct 2012 14:01
Gave up going to watch years ago. Extortionate prices for entertainment "not guaranteed". How fans can afford to follow their team is beyond me.
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Weird Skin Issue, Possible reaction to tick bites?
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I recently noticed odd looking scabs on my horses legs, chest and under his skin. I've done some research online and I *think* its a reaction to tick bites. He's a rescue and around 200lbs underweight, so I have him pasture boarded for constant grazing.
The scab things are a greenish/yellow in color, look clustered and are on there pretty good. I included an attached picture.
I was wondering if anyone else has had experience with this and what they did for it. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)
Could this horse have gotten into a yellow jacket or Hornets nest?
Looks more like sting recovery to me...........
I think you're on the money with "it's a tick bite". That crusty, icky green/yellow stuff comes in the aftermath of tick bites.
Yes horses can have allergic reactions to them.
I know this horse has a winter coat but do your best to rub your hands all over him to check for bumps<---bumps that could be ticks. This includes under his chin, IN his ears, in his private areas and the anal area. I pulled a tick off one of my horses today:shock:
They are dangerous enough to a healthy horse (Lyme disease) but a horse that's underweight and it's immune system weakened has more of a risk.
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It's best to do that twice daily but once daily will work if he's not at home:-)
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just met a girl named..
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Have at it!
Pronounced like Camero the car but with an a.
are you sure it wasn't cameron??? and sounded like camera... what an odd thing to name your child after
I don't bash someone's name. I think some are....different, but not their fault
Make sure it wasn't Kamera. I work with a girl named Kamera, which sounds like camera. We call her Kam.
Did you start singing "Say click! Take a pic!"
Quoting armywifey26:
Did you start singing "Say click! Take a pic!"
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All Blog Posts Tagged '#Recruitment' - RecruitingBlogs 2015-11-26T12:22:29Z http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blog/feed?tag=%23Recruitment&xn_auth=no 3 Birthdays this year; 1, 10 and 45 - Hurray! tag:www.recruitingblogs.com,2010-03-17:502551:BlogPost:902936 2010-03-17T10:00:00.000Z Richard Johnson http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profile/RichJohnson Imagine the scene, a crisp chilly spring morning on 17th March 2009. The
 banks have recently disclosed their nasty secrets and the country is
 bleeding jobs like back in the 70's. There is a feeling of doom, gloom
 and total hesitation. A business limbo as I seem to remember.

 I'd recently invested in new premises but I had to half my workforce,
 which left my very faithful part-time administrator and me. Luckily, I
 had treated my clients well over the last 10 years (Birthday No 3,… Imagine the scene, a crisp chilly spring morning on 17th March 2009. The
 banks have recently disclosed their nasty secrets and the country is
 bleeding jobs like back in the 70's. There is a feeling of doom, gloom
 and total hesitation. A business limbo as I seem to remember.

 I'd recently invested in new premises but I had to half my workforce,
 which left my very faithful part-time administrator and me. Luckily, I
 had treated my clients well over the last 10 years (Birthday No 3, April
 19th 2000(another story)) and they, in turn, were being fantastic with
 me. I continued in business through 2009, mainly from the temporary
 market.

 With ideas floating crazily around my mind and a little extra time on my
 hands I stumbled across Twitter. I think it was Chris Moyles from
 Radio One that said that Stephen Fry was tweeting about his journey
 whilst in the Far East.. Sounded good to me!

 I logged on. (Birthday No 2, 17th March 2009)

 I picked the name @JobRich, I
 wanted something that would sum me up quickly. My name is Richard and I
 have a passion about jobs. That seemed to make sense.

 Wow, what to do first? I think Stephen
 Fry was the first person I followed. I remember asking him a
 question and being a little disappointed that he never answered. LOL! I
 followed a couple of local people as well as generally interesting
 people and had some amazing in-depth conversations.

 I had started networking! This was great! Never having been a
 comfortable networker in the past I was now instigating conversations. I
 was learning about things that I had never had access to in the past. I
 had found an audience along with a true learning source and all things
 were equal.
 As I was here for business! I starting noticing the correlation of using
 Twitter for business purposes and looked into web tools that others had
 been Retweeted.

 I used / use the following and have put my comments on also. They are
 in no order.

 · PowerTwitter http://powertwitter.me/
 - Runs nicely with Firefox (they're working on Chrome), user friendly,
 shows pictures automatically, allows you to copy and paste a shortened
 url to a weblink, Reweet button.
 · Tweetspinner http://tweetspinner.com/
 - Allows (to some level) the management of your account. Purge up to 40
 people at a time that don't follow back (we've all been there!)
 Revolving Bio and url, great if you want to manage a few ideas at a
 time)
 · TwitterVision http://beta.twittervision.com/
 - I could watch this for hours!
 · TwitterCounter http://twittercounter.com/
 - Graphs are easy to understand and make you feel good. Compare
 followers and following, most popular Tweeters.
 · TwitterFeed http://twitterfeed.com/
 - My saviour! Having many RSS links that need to be uploaded, these
 guys come highly recommended.
 · TwitterGrader http://twitter.grader.com/
 An excellent tool for finding people in your geographical location.
 · WebsiteGrader http://WebsiteGrader.com
 As a newbie on the block with regards to SEO and web business in
 general, this has been a great source of information that is easy to
 understand and gives you a tick list for important things to be looked
 at on your web design.
 · Twitt(url)s http://twitturls.com/
 A great tool for some light-hearted fun on a Friday afternoon
 · WhatsYourTweetWorth http://www.whatsyourtweetworth.com/
 How sad! And always depressing.
 · Twibbon http://twibbon.com/ -
 Nice App for sharing causes, you can join one or create one, I did http://twibbon.com/join/Ba-Recruitment-10th-Bday

 There are a few more but most of them are not superstars, they just seem
 worthwhile to link with for some inane reason. Time will tell.
 So as I'm being so honest with you, please let me know if you have other
 tools that you find useful. Please use the comments box below. Thank
 you.

 Bringing you up to date with my Twitter progress, I have recently been
 on a mass de-following project. I have looked through nearly 2,000
 accounts and have parted company with people that either haven't
 tweeted; for 3 months plus, people that love and #ff people too much
 (it's all nice but I really don't have time) people with job streams,
 (however there are a few choice ones! LOL), automatic streams where you
 can really tell that these people aren't really saying those things.

 I've started to look for quality.

 I have lots to give (in my own way) and I have an awful lot to learn
 still. I have truly thoroughly enjoyed my first year on Twitter and
 would highly recommend people to enjoy it. But remember it's not the
 only tool we have.

 Oh and Birthday No 1 was me arriving at a very mature and extremely fun
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The earthquake that devastated Haiti on Tuesday has prompted an outpouring of technology-enabled donations. What's new this time around is donating by text messages. What's not new: Online donation scams.
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Who is this vixen, and what has she done with America's Sweetheart?
We've seen Taylor Swift shake it on stage in some tiny shorts and glide down the red carpet in a LBD or two, but this may officially be the shortest look she's ever worn! The Suno design shows off almost every inch of her endlessly perfect pins!
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MLA calls government's communications budget a waste of taxpayers' money
Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 11:38 am
Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson believes the Alberta government is wasting taxpayer dollars on unnecessary and overpaid communications staff.
Anderson referred to the Canadian Taxpayers Foundation (CTF) findings that showed the government has 214 full-time communications staff across all government departments at a cost of $23 million.
�This is a classic example of bureaucratic waste and out-of-touch priorities,� Anderson said. �There is simply no way to justify having well over 200 communicators each making more than $100,000 a year on average. It just shows the PC government is more concerned with spin and image than actually delivering good government for Albertans.�
According to the CTF, the average government communications staffer earns $107,844.88 annually.
Those figures, according to David Sands, spokesperson for the Alberta government, are misleading.
�Of the 214, 137 of those are classified as public affairs officers and they would earn within the range of $50,000 to $89,000,� Sand said.
�The remainder would be managers and department heads.�
The figures don�t include communications staff employed by Alberta Health Services, according to Anderson.
Anderson said the communications staff and their salaries is symptomatic of the PC culture of waste and entitlement.
�You�d think with all these highly paid communications experts on the government payroll, they wouldn�t have to contract out these kinds of projects,� Anderson said.
�If these people aren�t doing the jobs taxpayers are paying them handsomely to do, what exactly are they doing?�
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We have pictures from next week's episode of The Big Bang Theory, "The Cushion Saturation" and wow does this episode look juicy. Warning, the following definitely reveals a spoiler about the episode!
After a paintball game, Penny gets paint on a couch cushion, and, of course, it happens to be in Sheldon's spot. Meanwhile, the paintball game ends up perfect for Wolowitz who ends up in bed with Leonard's ex, Leslie Winkle.
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It refers to the type of yarn used to weave the cloth; nothing to do with the cut of the finished garment . High twist yarn is harder and stronger than "low twist": fresco is a high twist cloth, flannel a low twist. As i understand it, it has to do with the angle and tightness with which the separate strands of wool are woven together to make the yarn.
I suggest you lurk on the forum for a while longer before you buy anything...
Affects the texture and how warm the suit will wear too. A low twist yarn, like you would find in a flannel or a tweed, will be fuzzier, trap heat better, and be warmer. Higher twist yarns will allow you to weave something like fresco, which has fairly wide spacing between threads, allowing it to breathe. Try that with a low twist yarn, and you wind up with the durability of tissue paper, though it would probably be very soft and comfy to wear.
Perfectly fine. It'll still be a solid navy suit, the fabric will just have a little depth to it from the basketweave.


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I'd rather see 9 cents up everyday for weeks than 1$ in a day then poof. More stable and regular upward trend sound better to me. It is not the up we would like but still it is up. On the other end, the price is still attractive for buying and it is derisked, wow what a deal. What more can we ask for. I'll try to add soon if it keeps under $3, already multiplied by 15 my position since a year ago so an extra 2x or 3x would be nice. The near result is not an issue, the real target is end of 2015 where a large part of the full potential should have been expressed and everything expected will either be realised, in process or announced and soon to be realized.
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Re: Tony Blackburn and presenters speaking
Absolutely right - radio presenters really are just opeining and closing channels. The input levels are pretty much correct for jingles, feeds, phones, music etc. The processing takes care of any minor unevenness. The biggest risk is leaving a fader that should be closed nudged open - the processing will give it quite a boost.
Christopher England <(Address removed)> said:
al wright <(Address removed)> said:
If you were
brought up by the BBC (and most people in radio were) then "pull down to
open" is sensible and intuitive. It works just fine for radio where
input levels are basically all consistent and you are concentrating on
which source is going out and when.
Didn't they also have (and still have under certain conditions like OBs,
etc) a 'man behind the glass' actually dealing with all the levels
anyway, so all the presenter/DJs were in effect doing was, as you say,
source selection and mixing?
I've never been sold on which orientation is the more sensible and
intuitive, and to me I'd guess it's whatever orientation one originally
trained on becomes second nature. The beauty of the early digital desks
was that you could tell them which orientation you wanted, which gave
the best of both worlds.
I remember being told that the original BBC desks were designed so that
should an operator lunge forward from a heart attack he wouldn't open up
sources that might interfere with the output. Or maybe it was so that
the big heavy running orders and scripts wouldn't inch the faders
To me, in lots of ways the current orientation makes more sense as it
sort of mimics an orchestra conductor's cues for instruments and the
'volume' they are played at.
But, I guess neither orientation is truly 'wrong' any more than which
side of the road we drive on - as long as everybody is doing the same!