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Posner and colleagues1 have made considerable strides studying how the parietal lobe controls covert shifts of attention in the visual-spatial domain. They have recently used the methods developed from using tasks that have simple separable cognitive components in the study of hemispheric control of attention in schizophrenia.2 As part of this study, 12 schizophrenic patients were compared with 30 normal control subjects in a spatial-orienting task. Mean reaction time (RT) was measured as a function of cue condition (no cue, valid, or invalid), cue to target interval (100 or 800 milliseconds), and visual field (VF) (left or right). The normal subjects showed the expected RT advantage for a valid cue that was independent of VF but slightly elevated for the shorter cue interval. The schizophrenic subjects showed no significant difference between the VFs for the valid cue but a strong difference between VFs in
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"Launch of General Aviation Weather Campaign "
Michael Huerta, Anchorage, Alaska
May 4, 2014
General Aviation Weather Campaign
Thank you for joining us this afternoon. It's a pleasure to be here at this great gathering.
Alaska has definitely got weather.
You've got winds, extreme temperatures, lots of icing, and even ice fog. That is why we knew this was the perfect place to officially launch a joint national safety campaign for GA pilots to focus on weather and weather-related dangers when flying this year.
GA leaders such as AOPA, NBAA, EAA and about a dozen others are taking part – asking pilots to join the cause and prepare for potential weather challenges as this year's flying season begins.
Now I know that every season is flying season in Alaska. The Cessna 180 is your minivan. This state has the greatest concentration of GA pilots in the country. And that is why it is so appropriate that we kick off this national awareness campaign about weather here in the Last Frontier.
While most GA accidents are caused by a loss of control, weather is the most lethal of all major causes. Nearly 75 percent of weather-related GA accidents are fatal, according to our partners at AOPA. Our nation has the busiest and most complex airspace in the world, with 188,000 GA pilots. It's a robust community.
But we are not where we want to be on our general aviation fatal accident rate. Last year there were 259 fatal G.A. accidents across the nation, with 449 fatalities. This is way too many. This year, we are down below where we were at this time last year – and that's good, but that's no reason for complacency.
Our goal has been to reduce the GA fatal accident rate by 10 percent by 2018. This is a 10-year effort. During the last five years, the rate has been mostly stagnant. It's not getting worse – but we're not making progress either.
We all need to join together to raise awareness of the dangers of weather and the best way to prepare for it and handle it. We can't do it alone. We need your help.
As part of our awareness campaign – "Got Weather?" – we are asking you to talk to your fellow pilots about the dangers of weather. Or to take a course and improve your pre-flight decision making skills. Be honest about your own capabilities and set a personal weather minima. If you're comfortable with visual flight rules, but you think you'll fly into meteorological conditions – plan another route or go another time.
This safety campaign will run through December and each month we'll ask you to focus on a different weather topic: turbulence, thunderstorms, icing, or crosswinds, for example.
Here in Alaska you have unique conditions and several different climate zones. Winds can be very disruptive because of the terrain. You're flying fairly low – and significant wind shear and gusts can create an obstacle.
You also have complete whiteout conditions during snow storms in the Arctic, making it very difficult to distinguish sky from terrain.
As everywhere, icing is an issue, but it's normal to see very low temperatures here, as cold as 70 below in the winter. Plus in the higher latitudes it can be dark 24 hours a day. You even have ice fog, where the humidity in the air freezes but stays suspended.
During the summer, the temperature can reach 100 degrees in some areas. Lightning strikes can spark massive forest fires with smoke that impacts visibility, not to mention the occasional volcano eruption with ash fallout.
This is not a place for the faint of heart.
Every area of the country has its own challenges. But what unites us all is the need to respect the weather.
With your help we can lower the fatal accident rate, and all of us can enjoy the skies safely. We look forward to working with you, and we appreciate your support for this campaign and your dedication to improving your own skills and helping others become the best pilots they can be.
Thank you for your attention. I'd now like to turn it over to the next speaker.

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THURSDAY, July 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The benefits of moderate hypothermia following perinatal asphyxia can be seen in middle childhood, according to a study published in the July 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Denis Azzopardi, M.D., from King's College London, and colleagues randomly assigned 325 newborns with asphyxial encephalopathy (born at a gestational age of ≥36 weeks) to receive standard care or standard care with hypothermia (rectal temperature of 33 to 34 degrees Celsius for 72 hours within six hours after birth). Neurocognitive function was evaluated at 6 to 7 years of age.
The researchers found that 52 percent of children in the hypothermia group versus 39 percent in the control group survived with an IQ score of 85 or more (relative risk, 1.31; P = 0.04). Similar proportions of children died in both groups. Survival without neurologic abnormalities was seen in more children in the hypothermia group than in the control group (45 versus 28 percent; relative risk, 1.60). Survivors in the hypothermia group had significant reductions in the risk of cerebral palsy (21 versus 36 percent; P = 0.03) and the risk of moderate or severe disability (22 versus 37 percent; P = 0.03), compared to controls. The hypothermia survivors also had significantly better motor-function scores.
"Moderate hypothermia after perinatal asphyxia resulted in improved neurocognitive outcomes in middle childhood," the authors write.
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5.1 This test method measures the concentration of ATP present in the sample. ATP is a constituent of all living cells including bacteria and fungi. Consequently, the presence of ATP is a reliable indicator of microbial contamination in fuel systems. ATP is not associated with matter of non-biological origin.
5.2 This test method differs from Test Method D4012 as follows:
5.2.1 By providing for the rapid determination of ATP present in a fuel (petroleum) sample, a fuel and water mixture sample, fuel-associated bottom water sample, and extracellular ATP freely available in the fuel or aqueous sample matrix;
5.2.2 By providing for a method to capture, extract, and quantify ATP using self-contained test device and luminometer;
5.2.3 By providing a method of quantifying ATP present in fuel or water matrices in generally less than 10 min; and
5.2.4 By providing for the rapid separation of the ATP from chemical interferences that have previously prevented the use of ATP determinations in complex fluids containing hydrocarbons and other organic molecules.
5.3 This test method does not require the use of hazardous materials and does not generate biohazard waste.
5.4 This test method can be used to estimate viable microbial biomass, to evaluate the efficacy of antimicrobial pesticides, and to monitor microbial contamination in fuel storage and distribution systems.
1. Scope
1.1 This test method provides a protocol for capturing, concentrating, and testing the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) present in a fuel system sub-sample (that is, test specimen) associated with:
1.1.1 Microorganisms and hydrophilic particles found in liquid fuels as described in Table X6.1, or
1.1.2 Microorganisms and hydrophilic particles found in mixture of fuel and associated bottom water or just associated bottom water.
1.1.3 ATP detected by this bioluminescence test can be derived from cellular ATP, extra-cellular ATP, or some combination of both.
1.1.4 Cellular and extra-cellular ATP utilized to perform ATP bioluminescence are captured and concentrated from a fuel system sample into an aqueous test specimen (that is, sub-sample) for testing. For example, for a fuel system sample that does not contain any visible fuel associated bottom water, the aqueous test specimen is the capture solution itself described in 184.108.40.206. For fuel system samples that are a mixture of fuel and associated bottom water (that is, free water), the test specimen is an aliquant of the capture solution and associated bottom water.
1.2 The ATP is measured using a patented bioluminescence enzyme assay, whereby light is generated in amounts proportional to the concentration of ATP in the sample. The light is produced and measured quantitatively using dedicated ATP test pens2 and a dedicated luminometer2 and reported in (instrument specific) Relative Light Units.
1.3 This test method is equally suitable for use in the laboratory or field.
1.4 Although bioluminescence is a reliable and proven technology, this method does not differentiate ATP from bacteria or fungi.
1.5 For water or capture solution samples, the concentration range of ATP detectable by this test method is 1 × 10–11 M to 3 × 10–8 M which is equivalent to 1 × 10–14 moles/mL to 3 × 10–11 moles/mL for water samples or capture solution. Assuming testing on fuel phase is performed on a 500 mL volume of fuel the equivalent concentrations is fuel would be: 6 × 10–11 M to 2 × 10–14 M.
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November 11, 2011 - Harry Eagar
The New York Times has a glowing story about the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, who as attorney general had been conducting an investigation of the Penn State child rapes since 2009.
According to the Times, when he left the AG job, where the material had been submitted to a grand jury, he was precluded from saying anything because of grand jury secrecy provisions. This put him in a "tricky" position.
I don't see it as tricky. It's a usual position for a lawyer.
It'll only be tricky if there comes political fallout later, but so far there's no sign of that, as regards Corbett, anyway.
Nut graf:
"Mr. Noonan, who at the time was Mr. Corbett's chief investigation, said the thinking soon evolved into disbelief at the university's lack of action. 'We talked about how this would be a real shock to people, and how shocking it was to us,' he said."
That suggests a degree of innocence about the real world that I don't think anybody growing up in Pa. should have, but I take the point. Corbett -- unlike, say Joe Paterno or your Catholic bishops -- found child rape objectionable. Good for him.
Corbett, by the way, is a conservative, budget-blasting Republican, the kind the newspapers never say anything good about, or so you've been told.
Way at the bottom of the Times story is this little nugget:
"On Friday, the governor finally got the word. The grand jury indictment had been filed under seal, but because of a computer glitch it had mistakenly been made public. Soon Mr. Corbett's office was inundated with calls. Mr. Harley reached the governor in his car."
Computer glitch, eh? Well, those can be arranged. But perhaps it really happened that way.
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Ravel Morrison has been up to some impressive goalscoring exploits in competitive matches lately. Now he's taken it to the training ground as well.
The Football Association on Sunday published a video of Morrison scoring a beauty of a volleyed goal in that day's training session ahead of Tuesday's England Under-21s match against San Marino at Shrewsbury.
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LG announces new Spectrum LTE smartphone
Among the electronic goodies unveiled today at CES 2012 in Las Vegas was LG's new 4G LTE Verizon smartphone, the Spectrum. The phone's big selling feature is its 1280 x 720-pixel high-definition display - it is billed as "the first smartphone for Verizon Wireless to feature a 4.5-inch True HD In-Plane Switching (IPS) display, the same display technology used in premium LG HD televisions."
The Spectrum also includes a Qualcomm 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, and exclusive HD access to ESPN's ScoreCenter application - this includes live game details such as stats, news and video.
Additional features include:
- Corning Gorilla Glass
- Android 2.3 Gingerbread (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade available the first half of 2012); support for Google Mobile Services including Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Search, Google Maps and access to Android Market
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- Support for Dolby Digital Plus, which allows users to stream up to 7.1 channels of surround sound through home entertainment systems
- 8-megapixel rear-facing autofocus camera with LED flash and 1080p video capture
- Front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat
- SmartMovie HD app, to create and edit HD videos on the phone
- Mobile Hotspot capability, to share 4G LTE connection with up to 10 Wi-Fi-enabled devices
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You know how newsstands that used to carry 10 or 20 different kinds of magazines now seem to hold only tabloids? Well, that's about to change.
Bauer Publishing is raising the price on In Touch and Life & Style from $1.99 to $2.99. At that price, they'll still be cheaper than Us Weekly, People and Star, but not by much. Still, Bauer didn't have much of a choice: Wholesalers, who get a percentage of each copy's cover price, hate low-cost titles.
Consumer price sensitivity isn't a simple equation, but it's a good bet that both In Touch and Life & Style will lose a lot of sales. Both are low-quality products that don't compete for the exclusive photos or interviews that produce sales spikes for People and Us. Remember when I said Life & Style might not be growing fast enough to survive? Well, this won't help. If I had to guess, I'd predict Bauer will fold it within the year.
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Tuck: New Rule A Target Of Criticism
We haven't played a game yet with the new targeting rule in college football, and we already have controversy.
ACC coordinator of officials Doug Rhoads that he would have penalized South Carolina's?Jadeveon?Clowney?for targeting on his now-famous hit in the Outback Bowl last season.
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Mike Pereira, the former NFL vice president of officiating, also agreed there was a "great chance" Clowney's hit would have resulted in an ejection in 2013 under the new targeting rules.
Are you kidding me? ?Where was the 6'6" Clowney supposed to hit the 5'11" Smith on that play?
I have a terrible feeling we will be complaining about this rule a lot this year. ?And I agree with Steve Spurrier. ?There is nothing at wrong with ejecting players for targeting. ?It how we come to that conclusion that will produce issues.
"I dislike it only because of the judgmental power they're giving the referees," Spurrier said. "I know when that celebration rule came in, every time a Florida player did anything halfway with his hands up in the air, we got a penalty, and sometimes other guys would do the same thing and not get anything.
"This is going to be a judgmental penalty, too, and you've just got to hope and believe the referees will look at it closely before they kick out any player."
Amen. ?Fans and coaches who think the zebras impact the game too much in a negative way already will be floored if they start kicking players out for what looks like clean, hard, football hits.


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Root canal treatment, also known as endodontic treatment or endodontic therapy, is a dental procedure in which the diseased or damaged pulp, which is also known as nerve, of a tooth is removed and the inside areas (the pulp chamber and root canals) are filled and sealed. Root canal treatment is usually very successful and has become a common dental procedure; more than 14 million are performed every year with a 95% success rate, according to the American Association of Endodontists.
The goal of root canal therapy is to improve the health of your damaged tooth; therefore, it is designed to save the tooth from extraction and prevent the spread of infection.
The root canal therapy will leave your tooth clean, uninfected and without any pain. It is usually recommended to place a crown over a tooth that has undergone root canal therapy.
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Intel Adapter: SAN plus LAN = FCoE
Intel's 10GBit Ethernet adapters for servers can now run the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet connections.
Chip manufacturer Intel has added Fibre Channel over Ethernet functionality (FcoE) to its 10 Gbit Ethernet adapters for PCIe slots. FCoE supports standardized, fast transmission of data traffic on a Fibre Channel SAN via Ethernet on the local network. According to Intel FcoE support is avo both for Windows and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The new FCoE function offered by Intel's Ethernet Server adapters (see figure) allows both storage and LAN traffic transmissions over Ethernet.
FCoE is a specification by the T11 Technical Committee whose members include Sun, HP, and Cisco besdies Intel. T11 is a subgroup for Fibre Channel interfaces within the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS). The FCoE specification is due for ratification later this year. A free Linux implementation of the FCoE standard became available at the end of last year.
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One of the first hints that Jim DeMint was going to shake up Washington came last winter during an address to fellow conservatives in Dallas.
DeMint had just resigned his U.S. Senate seat to take the reins of the previously wonkish Heritage Foundation, a group known for its conservative research papers.
In the audience was Clemson University political scientist Dave Woodard, a longtime DeMint friend and a co-author who was on sabbatical at Southern Methodist University.
Woodard recalled hearing DeMint foreshadow a bolder vision for one of the country's oldest Republican-aligned think tanks.
"It was more, 'We're not going to sit back and take it anymore,' " Woodard said. "The message was, 'We need to get more involved.' "
Nine months later came the government shutdown, and the former senator from South Carolina was one of its architects.
Shaking things up
In the wake of the 16-day standoff, both sides still are assessing their next steps.
But one thing is clear: DeMint, who quit his Senate seat last year partly because he was fed up with his fellow members of Congress, is trying to change Washington as the head of a formerly stodgy think tank.
For his part, DeMint isn't talking. The Heritage Foundation last week did not make him available for an interview after requests via phone and email from The Post and Courier.
U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., is among those in Washington who say they've seen a significant change in the group's mission since DeMint took over.
"I think they were always viewed as the 'marquee brand,' if you will, with regard to conservative philosophy in Washington," said Sanford, who is well acquainted with the Heritage Foundation, in part because some of his former staffers from his first stint in Congress now work there.
"It was purely academic, and it was purely, 'Here's the philosophical justification for a position you might hold.' ... They provided justification for a conservative viewpoint."
Sanford said that since his return to Congress — a return that DeMint's resignation set in motion this year — the foundation —and its sister organization, Heritage Action — has been more involved in scoring key votes. Heritage Action ranks House members and Senators according to how well their voting record dovetails with the foundation's viewpoints.
"I've noticed a very significant change," he said. "I suspect they still do the academic research, but they're much more politically engaged. ... People on the (House) floor will be talking, 'Heritage Action has "key-voted" this particular issue or not key-voted a particular issue,' and that was never a conversation 13 years ago when I left."
Heritage Action is the foundation's sister group that lobbies Congress to pursue Heritage's conservative goals.
One way it does that is "scoring" votes, compiling a scorecard that lets the foundation's 700,000 members know how their House member and Senators stack up.
There is a faction in the Republican Party that fears that DeMint's bold "for us or against us" strategy is dividing and weakening the party by targeting less conservative Republicans.
That was the concern recently voiced by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
"Right now I think (the foundation is) in danger of losing its clout and its power around Washington, D.C.," Hatch said this month of Heritage under DeMint.
"There's a real question in the minds of many Republicans now," he said, "and I'm not just speaking for myself. For a lot of people, that (question is), Is Heritage going to go so political that it really doesn't amount to anything anymore?"
DeMint, a history
When he quit the Senate last December only two years into his second term to become the Heritage Foundation president, DeMint's exit was met with little sadness among many of the South Carolina Republicans who had elected him.
While he had been routinely and highly praised for his conservative credentials, DeMint, 62, never was seen as a glad-hander or someone who liked appearing at stump meetings or Rotary Club luncheons, as previous South Carolina senators were expected to do.
He also had made it clear that he was fed up with the hurdles that it took to get anything of significance done in Washington. Plus, his Heritage salary — if anywhere close to the $1 million-plus that his predecessor was paid — would make him comfortable for life, allowing him eventually to retire to the beaches of Charleston, as he once discussed early in his Senate career.
DeMint's rise in politics bucked the odds. By most accounts he was a virtual unknown when he ran for Congress in 1998. He was a Greenville marketing professional with no previous political experience who ended up winning the Upstate's 4th Congressional District.
He served three terms in Washington, preaching the traditional GOP mantras of tax cuts, individual retirement accounts for Social Security and lowered business costs through capped lawsuit awards and damages.
It was a far cry from his days growing up in Greenville, where his divorced mother started a dance school in their home. The DeMint Academy of Dance and Decorum supported her and her four children in the 1950s and '60s.
His jump to the Senate came in 2004, following the retirement of Democrat Fritz Hollings. He operated largely under the radar until 2007, when he led a sustained and successful attack on immigration reform — a proposal backed by then President George W. Bush and many GOP senators, including his South Carolina colleague Lindsey Graham.
After Democrat Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, DeMint's stature continued to rise as a darling of the emerging tea-party movement, scoring points by pledging to make health care reform Obama's "Waterloo."
Heritage and shutdown
The Heritage Foundation took a ramped-up change in style once DeMint was picked last year to succeed Edwin Feulner as president. In DeMint's first appearance he told the group's staff it was the only job attractive enough to have him leave the Senate.
"This organization is in a position to do more to save our country than any other organization I'm aware of," he said. "I believe that we have put together here the power, the muscle, the ideas to turn things around."
DeMint took the reins of an $80 million-plus organization that had a lot of respect among conservatives, but also its own budget issues. Deficits grew from $2.1 million in 2010 to $7.8 million in 2011, according to the group's 2011 tax return.
The Heritage Foundation had been launched in 1973 to research and promote conservative solutions to the nation's top policy issues, such as national defense, health care, energy and education. Its values are listed as those based on "the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."
In 2007 it became more political, launching Leadership for America, a 10-year campaign that Heritage bills as its boldest step yet, "a campaign for freedom, a new effort to conserve liberty, and a sustained, clear-headed program to rebuild the foundations upon which our future rests."
The idea for a shutdown of Obama's Affordable Care Act began formulating this year. The effort was led by a variety of conservative leaders, most notably Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a DeMint ally.
DeMint's role included traveling around the country this summer with the Heritage Foundation's sister organization, Heritage Action, on a speaking tour. And while most of America saw the showdown emerge in the 11th hour as budget negotiations and the fight over re-addressing some of Obamacare, played out on the airwaves and in newspapers, the strategy had been crafted months before.
In early August, for example, DeMint spelled out the strategy to TV host Greta Van Susteren on Fox News.
"This is the last chance before full implementation begins in October to stop it," DeMint said at the time. "Republicans have had a number of opportunities to not fund it but they have (funded it) because of the threat of a shutdown. I think the stakes are so high with Obamacare that the results are going to be so devastating to our economy, to jobs, to health care, that it's certainly worth the Republicans drawing a line in the sand and saying, 'We're not going to fund it for this year,' and just stand on that principle.
"Folks say, 'You can't win. The president will stare you down.' The question is: Who believes more in their philosophy, the president or Republicans?"
"This is worth fighting for. Americans deserve better."
S.C. lawmakers react
Current U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who was picked by Gov. Nikki Haley to fill DeMint's seat, said he sees his predecessor as a success. He also doesn't see anything out of sorts with DeMint's style of playing the Washington game.
"Every outside organization does exactly the same thing," Scott said. "The only question is, those who aren't succeeding like he is succeeding complain that he's succeeding. But they hire the same kind of folks all over the country to do what he does. He's done it well."
DeMint has said in an interview that he feels he is far more effective advancing the conservative cause in his new role than he ever was as a senator.
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Graham avoided echoing Hatch's concern that Heritage might be moving in a direction less helpful to Republicans.
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When 18-year-old Christian Champagne first learned about the program he thought he'd try it because once a week, it got him out of geometry class. But what started as an excuse changed his life. "A year ago I was closed off, like 'ehhh,' he recalled. "I didn't care about people. I only cared myself."
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But in this case, he said, unlocking the full potential of young black and Latino men will eventually benefit all Americans. "In this country we have a responsibility to help each other," Marshaun Bacon, a mentor with the BAM program, said. "And so when we see people who are mired in these horrible environments we all have to stand up and do something."
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"So many men, so many opinions," and on the subject of breeding animals there will always be a very wide field of difference. In preceding installments I have tried to delineate various plans, together with their advantages and some of their dangers. It has seemed advisable to lay down no laws but merely to draw attention to facts often forgotten, even if ever known, by most dog breeders.
Superstitions Hard to Eradicate
After each article, correspondence and personal conversations have indicated to me the need for further elaboration upon inbreeding. The old bogeys and superstitions held by so many, and for so long a time, seem all but impossible to eradicate. They pop up even in some scientific circles amongst investigators whose experiments have quite patently been conducted in a wrong or incomplete manner.
An instance at hand is the recent report of a Laura A. Harris and associates regarding inbred bulls and their semen evaluation. Since nothing was stated as to any selection having been made to insure potency when the inbreeding was done, one must presume that this factor was not given consideration. Most certainly through inbreeding one can increase, or lose, not only virility but the many other traits composing an animal. It all boils down to CAREFUL SELECTION.
In this short article, preceding the final chapter which I hope to have ready for the March issue of DOG WORLD, I would like to draw attention to some facts which are so often overlooked or forgotten. Because there are so many misconceptions about closed-up breeding, it might be well to touch upon certain categories of living or animal organisms, starting with humans.
The origin of the human family is mysterious, but history has given us certain examples of consanguinity.
We have read of an old Syrian tribesman named Terah who had three sons and a daughter named respectively Nahor, Haran, Abram and Sarai, by different wives. Contrary to modern custom, the two latter (half brother and sister) married, and their son married Nahor's granddaughter who was twice his first cousin, once removed, and they were known as Isaac and Rebekah. Their son Jacob married his two first cousins (great-granddaughters of Nahor, Terah's son) and had eight sons, who became the founders of the most persistently influential nation in human history, the ever-miraculous Jewish race.
Eight of the twelve founders of tribes have each four separate crosses to Terah, and they passed a law to establish their tradition that their children should not marry into strange families, which law survives in essence today.
Of the many charges brought against the Jews in all of history, nobody has ever levied, or even heard, that of degeneracy.
Wild Animals
In wild animal life amongst deer, foxes, rodents, cats, dogs, horses and cattle, inbreeding, checked only by the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, has prevailed uninterruptedly since time immemorial. As a result, there has been a pronounced similarity prevailing in the age-long result; nor is there any inherent degeneracy traceable to such inbreeding.
Horses and Cattle
Some mention has been made in previous installments of foundation horses from whom almost all of today's race horses stem. Those much more conversant with horse pedigrees than am I could supply interesting and valuable data, I am sure, but I shall not attempt it without a great deal more study being given to the subject than is possible.
A piece of enlightening information did come to my attention some time ago, however, regarding cattle. It has to do with milk-producing Jersey cattle.
Quite some years ago, a daughter of the bull Saturn and the cow Rhea was mated to her full brother, and the resulting heifer was mated to her sire; the daughter of this mating was mated to her full brother and, again, the resulting heifer was mated to the same bull; their calf was put to the same bull and their calf yet again to the same sire.
The result of this intensive and exaggerated inbreeding, by which the last calf had nine crosses of the same original parents (Saturn and Rhea) and no other blood, was Purest, a cow of exceptional vigor and robustness, and an amazing milk producer.
Many such examples as the above might be found in all varieties of livestock but only those in which the excellence lies in strength, vigor and fertility would help to open the eyes of a generation of breeders who have associated inbreeding with a loss of those attributes.
There is perhaps no greater test of physical endurance than the prolonged flight of a racing pigeon; here, if ever, one might expect a constant demand for "new blood," but what are the facts? I have read that Continental and British breeders of racing pigeons vie with one another in "wrapping up the blood" of their stock — that is, in preserving their own strains in concentrated form.
What is true of humans, horses, cattle, pigeons, and every variety of animate beings is, of course, equally true of dogs: By inbreeding and linebreeding we intensify both the merits and the faults of the original foundation parents.
The Syrian tribesman Terah must have had a strong, healthy body and a keen, lively and judicious mind. The cow Rhea must have had much more than a productive udder to commend her highly for being bred upon so heavily. Dreadnought (the Abraham of homing pigeons) must have had not only a deep keel and strong wings, but must have been perfectly balanced throughout. Cottage Queen (the first hen to lay an egg every day of the year except Sundays and Bank Holidays) must have had no ovarian blemish to bequeath to her countless daughters.
We as dog breeders, when considering inbreeding and line breeding, MUST remember that outstanding quality is good; indeed, it is excellent, but the absence of similar faults or shortcomings in the mating pair is every bit as important. We must also remember that by using as our tap-root, or foundation, animals for inbreeding or linebreeding two specimens having a similar fault, it is far more easy to establish that fault in our strain than had we used some other type of mating.
Any student who will take the trouble to study the original forebears of any strain in any species of livestock will find that inbreeding and linebreeding have played a large part in creating their type. There is a persistent belief that such breeding endangers virility and fertility, but the absence of the latter essentials to existence is, in any case, very common, inbred or not.
Many domestic animals are weakly, many are sterile, and any tendency in that direction in a parent becomes, of course, doubled by inbreeding. This belief, therefore, becomes re-established by the experience of those who have inbred their stock. WITHOUT ADEQUATE SELECTION OF SOUND SPECIMENS.
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Before the onslaught of out-sized holiday blockbusters, it's always quieter in the first half of the year. The first six months of 2011 has been privy to films that aren't usually the kind of fare that our cinema is associated with (and we'll be back to overblown gaudiness soon enough). After last year's middling mid-year harvest, this year has been a revelation, with some truly worthy efforts, very often by first-time film-makers, who represent a new brat pack of upstarts and rule-changers. Here's a look at the very best of the lot.
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No One Killed Jessica kick-started the year by turning two enduring industry taboos on their heads, that of first week releases being doomed, and that relying solely on female leads (Rani Mukherji and Vidya Balan) was akin to committing box-office harakiri. Instead, Raj Kumar Gupta gave us an atypically crowd-pleasing tale that was oddly formulaic despite being based on true events (the Jessica Lal trial), maybe because he only wanted to deliver a slick thriller with a pop conscience. What he didn't do was delve into the psyche of everyman criminals like Manu Sharma who come from cloistered political families in which power and coercion are easy bywords. Liberties were taken with actual fact, not least by appearing to catapult both NDTV and its front-woman Barkha Dutt into prime position. However, in the end, his is a film that provides its audience with a kind of collective catharsis, especially in the moving recreation of the candlelight vigil that stirred up the conscience of an entire city, and in an elegiac homage to Jessica Lal performed by debutante Myra Karn in little punctuating flashbacks.
Vidya Balan with Rani Mukherji during the candlelight vigil in No One Killed Jessica
In Dhobi Ghat, first-time director Kiran Rao takes us across air-brushed sea-faces, and along color-saturated city scapes, and through high-rises into a rarefied Bombay of an unlikely sparseness. The unexpected relationships that she tries to flesh out have an exploitative air about them, and at every moment, Rao impinges her 'outsiderliness' on the canvas she's painting, but she does so with as much empathy and warmth as she can muster and before its time is up, Dhobi Ghat does ultimately display the shreds of its city's heart, marking itself out as a human document of a rare preciousness, not unlike the tapes left behind by a young Muslim girl (played by Kriti Malhotra) in the film, that gently fill in the spaces between the stories giving the film a seamlessness that it otherwise lacks.
Aamir Khan as an introverted painter in Dhobi Ghat
Funnily enough, in Shor in the City, the director tandem of Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D K take Rao's mood-painter—director of photography Tushar Kanti Roy—right to the nerve centres of the city and draws out a completely different Mumbai—frenetic, lawless, rife with contradictions. Here we are hoisted straight into the action, into the streets and bottlenecks that are the clogged arteries of a city that doesn't ever skip a beat. It would appear that every piece in this puzzle has been culled out of newspaper articles, and although the film very quickly stops trying to make sense of the chaos, this is a ride that's well worth taking. Another feather in the cap for Balaji Productions, usually known for its chiffon-infested soap operas, and now also for the occasional foray into edgy cinema (like last year's Love Sex aur Dhokha).
Tushaar Kapoor and his cronies in Shor in the City
Amole Gupte's Stanley Ka Dabba rescues the 'children's film' from the throes of hackneyed melodrama—giving us a disarming little fable that is feel-good but never to a fault. The quaint world of classrooms and school-yards, the politics of lunch-boxes, and the delightful ironies that seem to populate the world of teachers, are brought out effectively in a film that is ultimately an amazing feat of editing by Deepa Bhatia. Bhatia and Gupte splice together the choicest moments from hours and hours of candid footage of children who were part of a drama workshop, and come up with a compelling and polished narrative that still has the heart of the impromptu experience it was.
A delightful bunch: the kids of Stanley ka Dabba
Bejoy Nambiar's Shaitan doesn't quite tap into a kind of existential angst like its thematic predecessor, Anurag Kashyap's lost film Paanch, being more glitzy than gritty, but as a caper gone horribly wrong, there is a fluidity to the movie-making in display that almost makes it the cinematic event of the year. Where the formula seems to be rearing its head, like in the back stories some characters are afforded, the story-telling is weak. It's only when the film displays that deliciously elusive streak of devilishness it promises on the blurb, that it really gets into its element. Ultimately, the dissolute bunch at the centre of the action are denied any kind of redemption, nor does the film provide any great insight into the world it seeks to recreate unapologetically and without context. Again, any resemblance to the real-life events it supposedly takes off from is co-incidental and the film owes more of a debt to Western cinema of this genre (like Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave).
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The special mentions of the year include Sanjoy Nag's Memories in March, which overcomes its linguistic clunkiness and the slightest whiff of pretension, to create a story of deeply moving cadences, as a mother (Deepti Naval) coming to terms with her son's death in an accident discovers that he was gay. Finally, Luv Ranjan's Pyaar Ka Punchnama gives us a sultry trio of emotionally manipulative women, who have their men positively pulverized, but instead of coming across as resolutely anti-woman, the film goes on to show that the depiction of women in cinema has now come full circle, and such unsympathetic portrayals are sometimes more authentic than stereotypical. A crackling script by Ranjan and gung-ho performances by the three male leads allows the film to transcend its B-movie credentials and stand tall as a bonafide work of art (and also one of this year's sleeper hits).
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The best performances of the year feature some of our more seasoned actors playing women grappling with loss. For Juhi Chawla in I Am, it is more than just a physical or material loss, it is the loss of identity. As a Kashmiri Pandit returning to the site of her most harrowing memories, Chawla is stoic and dignified and chips in a well-judged performance in an otherwise lack-lustre film. Deepti Naval is a study in restraint in Memories in March, taking her time to negotiate her character's grief but ultimately sculpting a performance of breath-taking beauty, and somehow carrying Rituparno Ghosh's more stilted turn (as her son's gay lover) with her. Both actors ultimately create a lilting sense of cinematic synergy.
Deepti Naval with Rituparno Ghosh in Memories of March
Vidya Balan is one contemporary actress who never ceases to surprise. In No One Killed Jessica, she takes on the less showy part (leaving the fireworks to co-star Rani Mukherji), but is so remarkably moving that we are immediately given a window into the interior world of a woman who doesn't get time enough to mourn the cold-blooded murder of her sister, and is instead thrust into the forefront of a battle for justice in which every other person seems to be a conspirator. There is an imperturbable sadness that she holds within herself and Balan keeps it understated and simmering under the surface. Of course, Mukherji (in what is being touted as her 'comeback') is all fire and brimstone as the journalist who launches a media offensive that ultimately is instrumental in bringing the murderer of Jessica Lal to book. It's an archetypal role, the composite of several journalists and Mukherji's performance almost restores the legacy of the much beleaguered Barkha Dutt (albeit in a contentious manner). It is the only star turn of any import this year.
A star turn by Rani Mukherji in No One Killed Jessica
Another actor honing his nascent star appeal, is Prateik. While he is gauche and whiny in Dum Maaro Dum—in Dhobi Ghat, as the young washer-man Munna, Prateik exudes a charismatic vibe, and a gravitas that sits easily on his young shoulders. There are conflicts that he essays with almost casual indifference, adding volumes to the languorous charm of his character. In Shaitan, Gulshan Devaiya's character loses steam mid-way and doesn't quite develop into an iconic anti-hero for the ages, but the actor springs off the blocks in blustering fashion. He gets the chutzpah of his character just right, and there is a flair with which he orchestrates the shenanigans on-screen. Partho Numaan, who plays the eponymous character in Stanley ka Dabba, gets the playfulness down pat, but he also draws us beautifully into the heart-breaking world that Stanley inhabits outside the cheer and din of the classrooms. It is a performance that deserves full marks.
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Amongst memorable supporting turns this year, in Shaitan, Rajeev Khandelwal makes the most of his angry cop role despite being given a backstory that almost seems like an afterthought while Kalki Koechlin is showcased well—beautifully etched in still frames, and woven into the cinematic language of the film she inhabits. In Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Divyendu Sharma makes us root for the underdog even as he sinks further and further into an increasingly pathetic cesspool of thwarted desire, because there is that natural spunkiness that lies underneath that Sharma uses well to make his character sympathetic and identifiable. Like Deepti Naval, Manisha Koirala is fast developing a reputation of being one of the great actresses in exile. In I Am, she simmers with a warmth and luminosity that makes her underwritten part of a Kashmiri woman come alive. It's a Manisha who is very much redolent of the cinema of her prime like Dil Se or Khamoshi—those expressive eyes still speak volumes, yet now they contain so many more untold stories.
Divyendu Sharma with Ishita Sharma in Pyaar ka Punchnama
Radhika Apte is a revelation in Shor in the City, bringing an idle sensuality to her role of a repressed housewife who gets her husband (Tushaar Kapoor) hooked on to reading the bestsellers that he has been illicitly publishing. Apte makes this unlikely transformation seem entirely plausible with her winningly persuasive bearing; she also sparkles in a short cameo in I Am. Also in Shor in the City, Pitobash Tripathy brings a manic energy to his part of a petty thug who is a bit of a nutcase. It is a stock character of sorts, but Tripathy is like an Energizer bunny on steroids and entertaining as hell. Elsewhere, Deepak Dobriyal has a townie appeal that makes him a shoo-in for parts like the best friend in Anand Rai's Tanu Weds Manu. His warmth, effusiveness and impeccable comic timing gives him the aura of a leading man in the guise of a bit player. Finally in Stanley Ka Dabba, Divya Jagdale, a well-heeled veteran of the Mumbai stage, gleefully serves up a slice of delectable joie de vivre as a Chemistry teacher with a flair for irony (and no, she doesn't need to wear a red sari and shimmy in the rain like all those Chemistry teachers who came before her).
If there is one film that belied expectations this year it was Vishal Bharadwaj's misdirected 7 Khoon Maaf, which riffed off from Ruskin Bond's short story but failed to recreate any of its elemental passions. Priyanka Chopra's Susannah did not strike the tiniest chord, because this is an actress who inhabits only the surface of things, but even stalwarts like Naseeruddin Shah and Irrfan Khan faltered. It wasn't a gallant failure... merely an insipid one.
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Villa Marie will be ready to take all comers
About 50 of the 100 beds at Villa Marie — a new seniors facility in Red Deer — may be available for dementia care when it opens at the end of the year.
In addition to the two specialized dementia units with a total of 24 beds, there will be other areas of the building that will be secured for residents' safety, said Truman Severson, vice-president for innovation and business development with Covenant Health, on Monday.
"We will be ready for whatever type of resident Alberta Health Services needs us to look after," Severson said.
"We're looking to secure potentially 50 per cent of the building."
Work on the facility, which will allow seniors to age in place without having to move as their care needs increase, began last May in Clearview Ridge on 4.6 acres of land west of 30th Avenue and south of 67th Street.
It is directly south of Clearview Market, a new commercial centre under development.
The province is working with Covenant Health to build the facility in Red Deer, and another one in Calgary, that will be demonstration models for the new concept in care.
Severson said construction of Villa Maria was about 40 per cent complete as of the end of January.
"The framers should be finished all of their work within the next two weeks and some of the work has already started on the interior of the building.
There's already some insulation and drywall going on."
Roughing in electrical and mechanical has begun.
Construction should be complete by the end of November.
"We're presently looking at right after Christmas to begin the admission process."
Rents for supportive-living residents at the non-profit Covenant Health facility will be about $1,700 per month, including utilities, food, housekeeping and care.
Villa Marie will open about the same time as residents will have to move out of 49 AHS-funded beds at Symphony Senior Living Aspen Ridge, a privately-owned and operated seniors living facility in Red Deer.
Symphony is getting rid of 40 assisted-living beds for dementia patients, four assisted-living beds for non-dementia patients and five transition beds for people coming out of hospital.
Dean Cowan, said his wife, who's in one of the dementia beds at Symphony, can't afford to remain at Symphony where only the rich can afford dementia care without AHS funding.
It currently costs the Cowans about $2,200, but that cost will escalate to well over $5,000 without the AHS subsidy, he said.
AHS will be working with families to relocate Symphony residents.
Cowan fears with the waiting list for beds, his wife will likely be moved out of Red Deer and they will have no option but to live in another community until a bed opens up in Red Deer.
"You know how you have that awful feeling," Cowan said.
Colleen Carpenter, who recently moved her 91-year-old mother out of an AHS assisted-living bed at Symphony, said the province should be doing more to care for its seniors.
"They should be bulldozing Red Deer Nursing Home and building a new facility. They've got $16 billion in an Alberta Heritage Trust Fund," said Carpenter who is now looking after her mother in her home.
"Valley Park Manor was suppose to be converted to a 60-bed transition building. What's happened to that plan?"


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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts
led the fight against the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
During the Warren Harding administration, the United States
significantly reduced the size of its navy.
In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover
repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
issued warnings to the Japanese government
In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies which
established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
In 1934, the Soviet Union complained that the United States had little interest in stopping the expansion of
President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"
expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover.
During the 1920s and 1930s, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy
reflected the sentiments of a majority of the American public
The Neutrality Act of 1935
included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict.
The Neutrality Act of 1937
allowed warring nations to purchase goods in the United States if they paid cash.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech
received a decidedly hostile response by the American people
In 1937, after Japanese pilots sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in China, President Roosevelt
accepted Japan's claim that the bombing had been an accident
what was the result of negotiations involving the League of Nations.
was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt
Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt
declared that the United States would remain neutral.
In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to give fifty American destroyers to England
ignored the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts
In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public
believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States
In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan
allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England to be returned when the war was over.
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States
Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is FALSE?
The State department assumed the Japanese would never attack the United States.


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IEA Report on Cogeneration and District Energy Launched
21 April 2009: During the annual meeting of COGEN Europe (the European Association for the Promotion of Cogeneration), which is taking place in Brussels, Belgium, from 21-22 April 2009, Tom Kerr, International Energy Agency (IEA) Senior Energy Analyst, launched a new IEA report titled "Cogeneration and District Energy: Sustainable Energy Technologies for Today…and Tomorrow." The report highlights that cogeneration and district energy – technologies that are widely available and cost‐effective – can largely contribute to global energy security and climate change mitigation.
The report further finds that many countries, including Denmark, the Netherlands and the Republic of Korea, have successfully used combined heat and power (CHP) and district heating and cooling (DHC) as a strategy to lower energy imports and dramatically increase energy supply efficiency. The report identifies the solutions that some countries have used to advance CHP market penetration, setting out a ''how to'' guide with options to consider when implementing the policies. Kerr underscored that these technologies do not need significant financial incentives, but rather "the creation of a government 'champion' to identify and address market barriers that frequently impede greater use of CHP." [The report]


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Three men accused of supporting a group that allegedly planned to fight alongside a Pakistani terrorist group were sentenced on conspiracy and weapons charges by the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 7, 2003.
Donald Surratt, of Maryland, formerly a U.S. Marine Corps instructor, received a nearly four year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy and gun charges in connection with a group that prosecutors called a "Virginia jihad network." Khwaja Mahmood Hasan and Yong Ki Kwon, both of Fairfax, Virginia, were sentenced to over eleven years in federal prison. They were members of a group that visited a terrorist training camp in Pakistan after September 11, 2001. All three pleaded guilty on August 25, 2003.
The sentences handed down by the District Court are the first since a federal grand jury charged 11 men with conspiracy to fight with the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, which is designated as a foreign terrorist group by the U.S. government. Tayyaba has focused its terrorist activity on removing India from the disputed region of Kashmir, located on the border with Pakistan.
U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty described the defendants as "American citizens" who "allegedly met, plotted and recruited for violent jihad." Nine of the eleven defendants are U.S. citizens. According to the initial indictment, which was released in June, the men purchased weapons and ammunition and trained with them at local firing ranges. They also trained by gathering for paintball games in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
On September 22, 2003, a fourth defendant, Muhammed Aatique, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to helping other defendants "in preparing for and beginning a military expedition to be carried out from the United States against India," according to the plea agreement.
The seven other defendants were indicted on additional charges in September. Two of the defendants, Ismail Royer and Masoud Khan, face charges of conspiracy to wage war against the U.S. and conspiracy to provide material support to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
The other men facing charges, including violations of the Neutrality Act, are Seifullah Chapman, Hammad Abdur-Raheem, Caliph Basha Ibn Abdur-Raheem, Sabri Benkhala and Ibrahim al-Hamdi, the son of a Yemini diplomat, who has already pleaded guilty to possession of a semi-automatic weapon.


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Local not-for-profit Hoboken Volunteers will host its 12th annual Belgian Beer Nite tonight at 7 p.m.
Supporters can head to the rooftop of the Dubliner, at First and River streets, for Belgian-style beers. A $20 donation is suggested.
Proceeds will benefit Hoboken Volunteers, a group that helps connect local volunteers and businesses in need.
Different organizations and charities have been the chosen recipient of the proceeds, said organizer Tim Skennion. For the past few years, Hoboken Volunteers has been that chosen organization.
The Boulder Beer Co. donated the wheat beers, and a cash bar will be available for other drinks.


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Construction work has resumed along River Street in Hoboken as of this morning
The roadway is closed between First and Fourth streets as crews are out with jackhammers and heavy equipment.
Traffic is being diverted along Hudson Street and Sinatra Drive through the area. Cross streets are also closed off due to crews at work.
Due to the unpredictable access to driveways and off-street parking this week as a result of the resurfacing work on River Street, Hoboken will provide free garage parking to residents affected by the work.
Free parking will be available from 8 p.m. today until noon on Friday in Hoboken municipal garages B and D.
The entrance to garage B is located on on Second Street between River and Hudson streets. Garage D's entrance is located on Hudson Street between Second and Third streets.
Residents who need to exit a garage on River Street are advised to do so by 8 a.m. on Thursday, park in a municipal garage, or on the street, officials said.
The remainder of the resurfacing work on River Street between Fourth Street and Hudson Place will take place during daytime hours after residents in the area raised concerns about the original plan of working during late nights.
Milling work is scheduled to resume today, with paving tentatively scheduled for tomorrow.
Residents and visitors are advised to expect traffic delays in the area and to consider alternate routes. Parking will also be limited in the area.
City officials are also reminding drivers and pedestrians in the area to be aware of any construction signs and vehicles in the work zone.
Free garage parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis for residents.
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After welcoming the first lambs, 'Lambing Live at Saltholme' will now continue for much of April, and the public is invited to go along and see the new arrivals. Guides will be on hand to provide information and visitors will also be able to suggest names for the newborns.
Liz Morgan, Marketing officer at Saltholme, said: "Lambing season is always a great time of year to visit. And this year it's even more special, as visitors will be able to see our lambs closer than ever before in our brand new sheep shed.
"Shetland sheep can have a range of interesting markings. With the expert information from our guides, by the end of the event, you'll know the difference between a Smirslet and a Gulmoget, or a Yuglet and a Skimret. Whatever their colour pattern, they are all extremely cute!"
Toby Collett, Assistant Warden at Saltholme, explains how important sheep are in managing the reserve: "Our flock helps keep the grass levels just right for breeding birds. Species like lapwing and redshank aren't keen on nesting in longer grass and the sheep help us keep it just how they like it.
"They may not be wild animals, but they're certainly an important member of the wildlife family here at Saltholme."
Liz added, "We hope that experiencing the arrival of a new generation of sheep first hand, will inspire the next generation of our own youngsters to love wildlife as much as we do."
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Florence Nye Dillon Glenn, 87, of Amarillo died Wednesday, May 7, 2003.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Llano Cemetery with the Rev. Perry Hunsaker of St. Paul United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel, Fifth Avenue and Pierce Street.
Mrs. Glenn was born in Happy on Feb. 8, 1916, the daughter of Lewis Reed and Laura Marion Nye Dillon. Following her graduation from Happy High School, she lived in San Antonio and Burbank, Calif. She married D.E. "Charlie" Glenn in 1951 and returned to Texas, where they settled in Amarillo.
She was an accountant for auto dealerships and later was a firm administrator for the CPA firm H.V. Robertson and Co. She retired in 1978. Nye was an active member of St. Paul United Methodist Church, Eastern Star, Daughters of the Revolution and Mayflower Descendants.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1989; a brother; and three sisters.
Survivors include two nephews, Reed Dillon of Boerne and Wood Bray of Dallas; four nieces, Marion Lemons, Alto Frye, Dorothy Dunning and Joe Engleking; numerous great-nieces and great-nephews; and a special friend, Marilyn Ault.
The body will be available for viewing from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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MeMo is on vaca this week. This is the real kind of vaca, the kind that involves a lot of picking up of hermit crabs and thinking oooh, look at their tiny legs, not the kind that involves a lot of phone calls to the office.
Those who think I am a bit too wedded to pop culture will be gratified to know I am in the middle of two books, one on Buddhism and one on the history of the universe (not this one). As near as can tell, what they have in common is what Moby told us already: We are all made of stars.
Meaning the cosmic kind, not Sienna Miller, whom Keith Olbermann so endearingly calls Burnt Sienna. But if you think this will cleanse me of all desire, including wanting to know what Britney and Kevin will name the offspring, you're dreaming.
Of one thing I am sure. There are three important worries in the world: terrorism, missing children and weather. Today, CNN was reporting on a Saharan dust storm heading for Florida. This sounded rather bad. But the nice CNN guy (Miles O'Brien, I think) interviewed an expert who said, well, you get a bunch of these in the course of a year. Mostly, they make the sunrises and sunsets kind of like the ones in New York, where pollution intensifies the colors.
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LA Weekly Crime blogger Dennis Romero Monday reported that LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley is extremely unhappy with California's prison realignment program.
Because the program gives County Sheriffs, such as LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, the authority release incarcerates to home detention or release them early, Romero believes the best solution is to prosecute, prosecute prosecute. A big part of his plan is to ensure that defendants are charged with the most serious charges allowed to ensure that as many offenders as possible will serve their sentences in state prisons.
Some believe this strategy will negate the realignment process altogether. A better strategy, they feel is to focus on rehabilitation.
Still, Cooley said he intends to instruct his prosecutors to throw the heaviest of books at defendants, leaving no stone unturned in their prosecution strategies. At current, the Los Angeles County DA's office is also taking the idea of training other jurisdictions how to "get the most out of sentencing" under advisement.
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I can see the frustration for sure. Sometimes it's hard to convict someone of a serious crime, and then finally when they do and get a stiff but fair sentence, someone can just let them out? Somethings got to be done probably on the drug-offense front because we have WAY too many people doing time for non-violent drug crimes. I know at the mid to upper levels there is violence in the drug racket for sure, but we just need to look back to the prohibition era to see that making something illegal often sets up bad consequences.