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Water Quality | Standards and Classification
Water quality standards and classifications vary from state to state. States classify waterbodies based on their uses, such as drinking water, contact recreation, and aquatic life support. Criteria are then implemented to ensure a waterbody will safely support the specified uses. States have criteria for a wide variety of issues including bacteria and nutrients. (For information on NEIWPCC efforts in these areas, see the menu at left).
Criteria can be either numeric or narrative. To guide state standards, EPA has created water quality criteria for hundreds of pollutants. Additionally, standards exist as part of an antidegradation policy to prevent the deterioration of water quality. Antidegradation requires that existing waterbody uses and the level of water quality necessary to protect those existing uses be maintained and protected.
Development of appropriate water quality standards is the core component of the Clean Water Act because water quality standards influence so many other CWA programs. These include water quality monitoring, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, nonpoint source programs, oceans and wetland programs, and source water protection. Below is a summary of just a few of the ways in which NEIWPCC is involved with the information sharing, development, and implementation of water quality standards.
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NEIWPCC staff closely follow any developments and changes to our states' water quality standards and related litigation. As new water chemistry and toxicity studies are released, the states and EPA each compile and analyze relevant evidence for a particular toxin or parameter to determine if updates to criteria are necessary. All state water quality standards must be reviewed every three years and formally submitted and maintained in EPA's Water Quality Docket.
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MERIBEL, France (Reuters) - Carolina Ruiz Castillo put Spain back on the alpine skiing map by winning the women's World Cup downhill in Meribel on Saturday, the first victory in the sport's blue riband event by any Spaniard.
At 31, the Chilean-born skier who trains in France outpaced the leading favorites to clinch her first World Cup victory, 13 years after her only podium to date in a giant slalom in Sestriere.
Ruiz Castillo won in one minute 42.56 seconds to bridge a seven-year gap since the last top spot earned by compatriot Maria Jose Rienda Contreras in a giant slalom in Hafjell seven years ago.
It was almost a home win for popular speed specialist Ruiz Castillo as she regularly trains with the French team and had the chance to practice on the Meribel course, which had not been used on the World Cup circuit for 19 years.
"It's a formidable achievement after all the commitment and hard work for so many years in difficult conditions," she said.
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At last, here's an approachable introduction to the widely used Portable Document Format. PDFs are everywhere, both online and in printed form, but few people take advantage of the useful features or grasp the nuances of this format. This concise book provides a hands-on tour of the world's leading page-description language for programmers, power users, and professionals in the search, electronic publishing, and printing industries. Illustrated with lots of examples, this book is the documentation you need to fully understand PDF.
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To prevent roll-outs, I was planning on getting the stock barrel or a J&J Ceramic barrel honed to accept Freak inserts.
It came to my ears that this might not be a good idea there the o-ring on the bolt could grab the insert and pull it into the breech !
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Is there an other option for sale, other then using nailpolish or tape.
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International Hostels - Offering a practical and affordable place to stay, hostels are becoming increasingly appealing to travelers with children.
Hostels can offer families private rooms with en-suite bathrooms and to really keep costs down, the self-catering kitchens are ideal places to prepare packed lunches.
Most international hostels offer games rooms and children will be happy watching TV in the comfortable lounge areas after a busy day of sightseeing. Hostels often organise free activities such as city tours or movie nights.
HostelBookers has revealed their top 10 family-friendly international hostels:
Only 10 minutes walk from Lincoln Park Zoo, this hostel offers four-bed private rooms and provides a common kitchen, tour information, maps and a BBQ area.
Kids can have hours of fun in the games room complete with pool and foosball tables. There are also bikes for rent, board games and a large patio.
With a friendly and personal service the hostel is modeled on homely European-style pensioni and families can stay in the private triple, quad and six-bed rooms with daily cleaning.
Parents can have a break from planning excursions because the hostel organizes free walking tours of the city and staff can even plan trips to Yosemite National Park.
Parents traveling with kids can stay in family rooms at this Georgian style hostel equipped with all the mod cons and bright and colourful decor.
Hyde Park is a short walk and top tourist attractions including Madame Tussauds, the Science Museum and Natural History Museum are within easy reach.
Located in a quiet and safe residential area, families can book private en suite rooms at this charming converted monastery.
There are plenty of activities on offer to keep the children happy including canyoning, sailing and horseback riding.
The hostel offers a free baby sitting service and parents can enjoy some much needed time to themselves on a free city tour.
Just a 10-minute walk from Edinburgh's main Waverly Station and Princes Street, this hostel is ideally located for little legs.
Families can book into the quad rooms. There is a bistro, and parents can also use self-catering facilities.
There is free Wi-Fi access as well as coin operated PCs, laundry facilities and plasma TVs in the lounge area.
This family-friendly hostel is totally geared for children with a TV room, table tennis and cycle hire on offer and families can sleep in the private four and six-bed en suite rooms.
With views of the skyline and the harbour, it's only a 10 minute walk to the popular vintage Tivoli amusement park.
Located in the historical centre of Lisbon, this hostel offers family rooms and provides a free breakfast, free cots and baby highchairs. While the children play in the games room, or run around in the 150m garden, parents can enjoy fantastic views of the river from the 100m terrace.
The reception has a kiddie corner with playhouse, crayons, colouring books and bedtime story books, as well as bike rental and a games room with video games.
Children under six can eat for free at the dinner buffet too.
Located on Collaroy Beach, right on Sydney's superb Northern Beach, the Beachouse is a great alternative to staying in the bustling city centre for families.
Children can play with the free volleyball sets, surfboards, bodyboards, snorkelling sets and bicycles. There is a rooftop pool and BBQ facilities.
Children will appreciate the techie touches in the family rooms, each equipped with flat screen TVs and iPod docking stations.
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The audience gave a huge cheer when Coulter proposed making Calgary and west her country's 51st state.
...former White House senior adviser Karl Rove appears to harbor a certain condescension of his own towards "unsophisticated" Tea Partiers.
"To the extent that the Tea Party is equated with the Republican Party, is that (unfortunate language used this weekend at some of the rallies) a concern for you?" (MSBC's Savannah Guthrie) asked.
"This Tea Party movement is largely novices, relatively politically unsophisticated people, and as a result sometimes their rhetoric is raw and angry," Rove replied. "That's the downside."
Rove went on to excuse the violent rhetoric of the Tea Partiers by suggesting that "if you look back at the beginning of other similar movements, whether it's the anti-war movement or the civil rights movement or the pro-life movement, there are angry things said that I suspect in retrospect a lot of people realize are unfortunate and unnecessary."
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with Legal Services, by cutting down on food stamps ..."
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968 you can't say "n*gger" -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff.
You're getting so abstract now you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*gger, n*gger."


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The Donald Thomson Collection is one of the most comprehensive and significant collections of Aboriginal cultural heritage material in the world.
It contains ethnographic, archive, image and sound material, primarily from Arnhem Land, Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, the Great Sandy and Tanami deserts; as well as from Victoria, Solomon Islands and West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). It also comprises biological specimens and material relating to Thomson's academic career as an anthropologist and biologist, and his social justice work.
The collection provides a unique record of the diversity of Indigenous knowledge in Aboriginal Australia: a focus on material culture and technology together with a visual record of ritual, economic and domestic life at critical points in Australia's frontier history.
Material culture items represent ritual, economic and domestic pursuits, as well as technologies (such as raw materials and tools). These objects combine with Thomson's photographic work of around 11 000 images to give an extraordinary depth to the collection.
Objects and images are annotated by Thomson with details of language, kinship and cultural information. For the desert component of his work, Donald Thomson took 7600 meters of colour film, as well as sound recordings on reel-to-reel tape.
The collection was transferred on loan to Museum Victoria in 1973. Field notes, diaries, drawings, photographs, film and recordings all remain the personal property of Mrs Dorita Thomson, while the artefacts are owned by the University of Melbourne.
The Donald Thomson Ethnohistory Collection is the second Museum Victoria collection to be placed on the prestigious UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register. It was inscribed onto the Register in 2008.
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Date: March 26, 2014 05:12PM
The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart (WMT), is on a mission. It wants to ensure that, irrespective of what you want, if you walk into a Wal-Mart store, you should be able to find it. To be able to do that, if Wal-Mart has to compete with just about any kind of retailers, it is prepared to do so. To be honest, it's not Wal-Mart who should be afraid of competition, but the other way round, as whichever new product line this company lays its hands on, it is sure to dominate.
The latest companies that are now under fire are video game specialists like GameStop (GME).
Wal-Mart's Foray into Video Games
Last week, Wal-Mart officially announced its new Video-Game Trade In program, which will enable customers to walk in to a Wal-Mart store and exchange their used video games for gift cards that can be used to purchase anything from the store. Depending on what they exchange, customers can get up to $35 worth of gift cards.
These games will then be revamped and sold at lower prices. This business model replicates that of GameStop, whose stock almost immediately took a 6% hit, and which is sure to have its long-term viability threatened. Customers of Wal-Mart though aren't complaining, as they have one more reason to visit their stores.
Wal-Mart's committed efforts to offer more to its customers continued to show with its plan to experiment with different formats of stores to give more options to its customers.
Dollar Store and 7 Eleven in Radar
Like GameStop, 7 Eleven (SE) too could face some serious competition, as Wal-Mart recently introduced its first convenience store in Arkansas. At the grand opening of the "Wal-Mart To Go" store, Deisha Bernett senior director of corporate communications said it was a "test concept," but the company would surely think about it seriously if it is a runaway success.
Wal-Mart has already opened its smaller Wal-Mart Express and Wal-Mart Neighbourhood Market stores, which are far smaller than the supermarkets yet larger than convenience stores. With plans to expand these smaller formats, the company aims to target the market that Dollar Store (FDO) currently dominates.
Future Looks Bright
The business of retail has huge potential in the largely unorganized retail industries of emerging markets. Governments like those of India, are finally welcoming foreign players and are prepared to offer them a level playing field. The kind of infrastructure and supply chain process that Wal-Mart has in place is so far unheard of in these markets. Wal-Mart's entry into these markets will surely be a success. However, it will be better positioned to capture the deep geography if it were to operate with supermarkets as well as smaller format convenience stores.
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Do you have any view about what WMT is worth?
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The reason is money my friends. No need to argue on anything else.
Authors mostly follow the best seller work types. So unless someone develops something really original, we usually see the alternates of the most popular items.
So yeah, there is no doubt on TF going into a compilation of cliche layouts. This is a fact.
And in order to prevent that, I think maybe Envato can reconsider the quality level, and add a next step of validity rule called "uniqueness" to the file acceptance rules.
I'm sure this will critically reduce the amount of published items for sale in a week, but also will make the items in here more original and more tasty.
There is this weird, unwritten and untold rule that if you put up a shiny left-to-right or up-down slider of photos, or develop a theme which consists of %80 Envato sites' ui looks; it well sell like cupcakes.
I mean heck, even I am on a process of a work to put on sale inspired from other best sellers. I can do more than that. But from what I've seen so far, my best sellers are not my originals and best designs (which are approved by many viewers), but the cliche ones (admin skins with regular layouts).
I always am stuck on with "this one I believe is creative [proven by reviews] but what if this work doesn't sell, what if I can work less on another unoriginal, popular type of work and that sells more with less effort?" and I quit on the deveopment and release it as PSD only.
I've seen so many extremely creative designs in here which only could make 10-15 sells in a month, whic is really sad and this doesn't feel right.
I have a feeling that the majority of TF buyers are not regular template buyers, but software related people that just want a good skin for what they do. This feeling also leads me to the answer of why cliches sell more than works that stand out.
So let's not compare the target audience of e.g. templatemonster and TF here because I don't believe they're the same. Most people buy stuff here because they want to change the item as much as they can, not buy it because it's too creative and to use straight ahead.
I know I'm sort of trying to axe myself with this post, but I love uniqueness and creativity more than a few more bucks =)
Word Big Bird!
Everyone around the internet uses the same techniques these days. The website you referenced is just an example of old techniques, not american. The great thing about the internet is it shows no bias for where you are from. As designers I don't see a difference between the work of someone from the US, UK, India or Malaysia.
it does not matter where you are from, it matters how well you make and design websites ! I am from NY, currently living in India for the last 5 months, I dont think it makes a difference !
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Greetings - I'm going to build a very small one-man house (@750 sq ft) in the woods. For several reasons, I am considering beginning with a good metal building with insulation, and then finishing the inside with the partition walls and all the rest. This is to be my residence, not a camp. Looking for economy, but not at the expense of the necessities or my comfort.
Any comments, experiences or advice appreciated. Thanks.
The Unibomber lived in a tar papered shack for a long time. Apparently, he was comfortable there. Have you considered that construction type?
750 sq/ft sounds like an arbitrary number...any particular reason you are thinking about a metal building? Generally speaking, if you have wall heights of 8 feet, and will finish the interior anyway, you will not save any money by going to metal construction vs. traditional stick framing. You might wish to consider wooden framing, like timber frame or similar.
Steel buildings become an economically feasable when you are enclosing a lot of space with wall heights greater then 10 feet.
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Re: Why init.m is not being loaded from Autload folder? [Mathematica 7]
So, if one has a paclet documented application, one can MOVE the ENTIRE
application from $UserBaseDirectory/Applications to
$UserBaseDirectory/Autoload and then it will automatically load when
Mathematica is started and it will still appear on the AddOns Documentation
Center page, and all the documentation will be available in the normal
Seems to work.
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The init.m file doesn't go directly into the Autoload directory, but into
Kernel/ subdirectory of an application directory in Autoload.
So, for example,
This way, multiple applications can be installed into the Autoload directory
Mathematica will be initialized by each one in turn.
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2656 Bridgeway, Sausalito (See Map Below) Phone: 415-332-8083
Neighborhood: Nevada Valley & Marinship North. Website with links to menu is here. Open for lunch and dinner. Free parking in lot.
#3 Overall and #1 Indian Restaurant on the OurSausalito.com Best Lunch and Dinner Restaurants List for Autumn, 2016
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This small, casual restaurant in northern Sausalito has a devoted local following and draws a regular stream of visitors from around the Bay. Consistently ranked highly in many of our surveys despite the informal location in a plain building with no view. Cuisine is a unique fusion of Indian, Mexican, American, Pakistani and pure imagination. Part of the charm here is what we call "the spontaneous menu." There is nothing reasonable you can request that Ashok, the gracious host, won't try to prepare for you. No dairy in your dish? No problem. Gluten free recipe variation? Of course! Mild spices or extra red hot? No problem. Vegetarian or vegan version of a meat dish on the menu? Happy to do it! You can describe your favorite meal of all time in any cuisine and then ask the kitchen to surprise you with something Avatar's-style you're likely to love. I'll stop there — you get the idea that this is a unique, very personal experience that has produced all these individual dining fans. Going off the menu and asking for unique flavor combinations adds to the cost of each dish, and the bill can add up without guests realizing it if everyone gets creative. If you do not enjoy having the restaurant host interacting with you during your meal this is not the right place for you. If you come in on the Ferry, the location is outside of most visitors' walking distance from downtown Sausalito, so a visit requires a drive or a taxi.
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McNeill, who is one of three finalists for the Outland Trophy that will be announced on Thursday night, broke into the starting lineup for the Tigers as an All-SEC Freshman team selection in 2002. He has not given up a quarterback sack in 41 consecutive games, dating back to his first season with the Tigers.
McNeill, a 6-9, 338-pounder, has 38 career starts for the Tigers. He was an unanimous All-SEC pick by the league's coaches earlier in the week and also made the All-SEC team selected by AP and the All-American squad selected by Sports Illustrated.
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The former Cedar Grove High star from Decatur, Ga., will be in Orlando, Fla., on Thursday for ESPN's annual college football awards show where he will find out if he is the third Outland Trophy winner in Auburn history, joining Tracy Rocker and Zeke Smith. That award is presented annually to the nation's top interior lineman on either offense or defense.
McNeill is the fourth Tiger to win the Jacobs Trophy. Offensive guard Lloyd Cheatham won it in 1940, fullback Tucker Frederickson won it in 1963 and 1964 and tackle Kendall Simmons was the winner in 2001.
With McNeill on the offensive front, the Tigers lead the SEC in points per game at 34.2 and total offense with 425.6 yards per contest.
Vandy QB Jay Cutler was named the league's offensive player of the year while linebacker DeMeco Ryans of Alabama won the defensive award. Georgia's Mark Richt was named the league's coach of the year.
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Nets Frame Libby Verdict Around Vile Scheming, Never Mention Armitage, Tie in Reagan
The broadcast network evening newscast coverage Tuesday night, of the guilty verdicts for perjury and lying found against Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, painted the case through the prism of administration opponents who presumed a nefarious scheme led by Vice President Cheney against the heroic Joe Wilson. Though the legal status of Valerie Plame remains in dispute, ABC anchor Elizabeth Vargas and CBS's Gloria Borger described her as an "undercover" CIA agent. And while ABC's Pierre Thomas noted how Plame "had been outed as a CIA operative in a column by Robert Novak," neither Thomas, nor reporters on CBS or NBC, ever pointed out how Novak learned of Plame's identity from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a war opponent outside the Cheney/Karl Rove circle.
CBS and NBC managed to connect Libby to the Reagan years. "Guilty," Katie Couric teased at the top of the CBS Evening News, "the highest ranking White House official found guilty of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal." Over on the NBC Nightly News, Kelly O'Donnell echoed: "What happened here today makes Lewis 'Scooter' Libby the highest-ranking White House official convicted of a felony since the Reagan era and the Iran-Contra scandal."
CBS's Gloria Borger ominously concluded: "The prosecutor said there was a cloud over the Vice President's office. And today he said it's still there. Only now, Katie, it may be darker." Bob Schieffer soon piled on: "I think it's going to hurt the administration because it's going to raise new questions about their credibility when they already have more problems on their plate than they can really handle right now." On ABC, Vargas picked up on how "Joe Wilson...said today he wants Karl Rove fired from the White House. Do you think that might happen?" George Stephanopoulos rationally retorted: "No. It ain't going to happen."
With Brian Williams in Iraq, the NBC Nightly News led with Libby but spent less time on the verdict than did ABC and CBS, though NBC provided time to Tim Russert, a witness for the prosecution, to express how "I take no joy in this, Brian. It was not our doing. We didn't ask to be involved. But when you are asked to testify under oath, you tell the truth."
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell began her report:
"Brian, to give this some perspective, what happened here today makes Lewis 'Scooter' Libby the highest-ranking White House official convicted of a felony since the Reagan era and the Iran-Contra scandal. Today aides say President Bush stopped to watch TV as the guilty verdicts were read. Once the ultimate White House insider, today Scooter Libby walked out of court a convicted felon."
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the video against the closed-captioning to provide transcripts of the March 6 ABC and CBS evening newscast coverage:
ABC's World News with Charles Gibson. Tease from substitute anchor Elizabeth Vargas:
"Welcome to World News. Tonight, a high-ranking White House official found guilty of lying in the investigation of who leaked a CIA agent's name, a case that leads to the highest levels of government."
Vargas led the newscast:
"Good evening. A man who was once in the Bush administration's circle of most-trusted advisors is tonight a convicted felon. A jury found Vice President Cheney's former Chief-of-Staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, guilty of four counts of obstruction of justice, making false statements, and perjury. It happened during the investigation into who leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer, whose husband was an outspoken critic of the President's case for war in Iraq. The trial has shed new light on how the administration dealt with tough questions about the war when it became apparent Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. ABC's Pierre Thomas was in the courtroom today."
Pierre Thomas: "Scooter Libby was stone-faced as the verdict was read. But his wife was visibly shaken, fighting back tears as each guilty count was announced."
Ted Wells, attorney of Lewis Libby: "We are very disappointed in the verdict of the jurors. He is totally innocent, totally innocent."
Thomas: "Vice President Cheney released a statement saying he was 'very disappointed with the verdict' and that he was 'saddened for Scooter and his family.' But the jury believed the prosecution's argument that Libby lied to cover up a campaign by the Vice President's office to discredit a critic of the administration's Iraq war policy."
Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor: "It's sad that we had a situation where a high-level official, a person who worked in the office of Vice President, obstructed justice and lied under oath."
Thomas: "At its heart, the prosecution said, the Libby trial was about a Vice President and his staff obsessed with pushing back against critics. Back in 2003, Vice President Cheney was apparently furious about an opinion article written by Ambassador Joe Wilson that challenged the case for war. The Vice President was concerned enough to cut the Wilson article out of the newspaper and make notes on it. Within eight days of the article's publication, Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, had been outed as a CIA operative in a column by Robert Novak. The prosecution said Libby lied to impede their investigation into who leaked Plame's identity. Today at least one of the jurors said Libby was not the only one involved."
Denis Collins, Libby trial juror: "He was the fall guy. He was tasked by the Vice President to go and talk to reporters."
Thomas: "Throughout the trial, prosecutor Fitzgerald used Libby's recorded grand jury testimony to detail the Vice President's fixation with Wilson's charge. Mr. Cheney even micro-managed the media response to Wilson."
Lewis Libby, former Cheney Chief-of-Staff, in audio of testimony: "Vice President dictated to me what he wanted me to say to the press."
Thomas: "Mr. Cheney also asked President Bush to release the details of a highly classified national intelligence estimate, or NIE, to select reporters without informing the Defense Secretary, CIA Director, or the National Security Advisor. Ultimately, no one was ever charged with leaking Miss Plame's identity, something not lost on at least one of the jurors today."
Collins: "There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here?' Where's Rove? Where's, you know, where are these other guys?"
Thomas: "Libby's defense attorneys say any false statements were due to a bad memory. They plan to appeal. But if this conviction stands, Libby faces up to 25 years in prison. Elizabeth?"
Vargas: "All right. Pierre Thomas, thank you. And our chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos joins us. The Vice President, as Pierre reported, said he was disappointed in the verdict today. We had a different statement from the President."
Stephanopoulos: "Oh, definitely. The President's staff came out and said he respected the jury's verdict even though he was saddened by it. And it is really unusual, Elizabeth, for someone like the Vice President to actually criticize a jury's verdict. But a senior White House official told me they recognize the Vice President was very close to Scooter Libby, and he felt strongly about it."
Vargas: "There's already debate, meantime, about whether there will be a presidential pardon of Scooter Libby. What are the chances of that? Democrats are today calling on the President to promise not to pardon him."
Stephanopoulos: "They're calling on him to pledge not to pardon him. But Scooter Libby's allies are already saying the President should pardon him and should do it fast. The White House is just not going to talk about this, Elizabeth. They're not going to touch it. But they're not going to rule out a pardon down the road."
Vargas: "In the meantime, Democrats are also calling on the President to, quote, 'do something' in light of today's guilty verdict. Ambassador Joe Wilson, who wrote the editorial that started this whole thing, said today he wants Karl Rove fired from the White House. Do you think that might happen?"
Stephanopoulos: "No. It ain't going to happen. The White House is going to try to hold the line. They're going to try to hold the line on not commenting about this at all, but the Democrats will keep up the pressure. Meantime, though, they know they can't do much about it. So they're going to also continue to use their oversight power on the scandal at Walter Reed and the problems with wounded vets throughout the veteran system."
Vargas: "But is the verdict and the reactions today another sign of the schism between the President and the Vice President?"
Stephanopoulos: "It sure is. It does show a little daylight between them. But a White House official told me there are absolutely no plans, no plans at all for the Vice President to leave."
CBS Evening News. Katie Couric, in opening teaser:
"I'm Katie Couric. Guilty: Scooter Libby is convicted in the CIA leak case, the highest ranking White House official found guilty of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal."
Couric led:
"Hello, everyone. After ten days of deliberations, a federal jury in Washington convicted Vice President Cheney's former Chief-of-Staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, of four criminal charges in the CIA leak case. Libby is the highest ranking White House official convicted of a felony in two decades ..."
Gloria Borger: "It was a verdict that shook the White House, and ground zero was Dick Cheney's office."
Patrick Fitzgerald: "The results are actually sad. It's sad that we had a situation where a high-level official, a person who worked in the office of Vice President, obstructed justice and lied under oath. We wish that had not happened, but it did."
Borger: "The jury found that Lewis 'Scooter' Libby lied about his conversations with reporters regarding the identity of an undercover CIA agent. The Vice President's former chief of staff, who sat motionless when the verdict was read, said he simply forgot the conversations because he was so busy with national security matters. The jury didn't buy it."
Denis Collins, Libby trial juror: "How he could remember it on a Tuesday, and then forget it on a Thursday, and then remember it two days later-"
Borger: "His lawyer will ask for a new trial, and if that fails, Libby will appeal."
Ted Wells, attorney of Lewis Libby: "We have every confidence that ultimately Mr. Libby will be vindicated."
Borger: "Like most things in Washington, the heart of this case involves a political dispute. Libby was at the center of the White House's case for war in Iraq. His boss, the Vice President, was rattled by this, an article in July 2003 attacking the administration's rationale for war, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It was written by Ambassador Joe Wilson, who was sent to Africa by the CIA to look into whether Saddam was buying ingredients there to make a nuclear weapon. Wilson said he was not. Cheney wanted Wilson discredited. He knew that his wife, Valerie Plame, worked at the CIA. On a clipping of Wilson's column, he wrote, 'Did his wife send him on a junket?' To undermine the importance of the mission, Cheney wanted to spread the word that Wilson's wife sent him, and he asked Libby to do it. Today Wilson said he still wants answers."
Joseph Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador: "Well, I think the President and the Vice President both owe the American people a full explanation of what they know about this matter."
Borger: "Libby, who is 63, now faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. He's not likely to get the full sentence."
Andrew Cohen, CBS News legal analyst: "I think the judge will want to make an example of him, so it wouldn't surprise me if he gets a sentence of a year and a half or two or even three years."
Borger: "During the trial, the jury never heard from Cheney, but the prosecutor said there was a cloud over the Vice President's office. And today he said it's still there. Only now, Katie, it may be darker."
Couric: "And, Gloria, why didn't the Vice President end up testifying?"
Borger: "Because it could have backfired, Katie. He was a witness for the defense. There was a always the chance that if he took the stand, he could have been ripped apart by the prosecution. And that could have made Libby really look even worse."
After asking Jim Axelrod about the possibility of a pardon, Couric turned to Bob Schieffer:
"And, Bob, Scooter Libby was the Vice President's right-hand man. How badly does this reflect on Mr. Cheney, in your view?"
Bob Schieffer: "Well, I think very badly, and it's hard to conclude otherwise. I mean, the prosecutor did not prove any underlying crime here, but he convinced this jury that Scooter Libby lied. Well, you have to ask, 'Why would he lie?' Clearly, because he did not want what was going on in his office and in the Vice President's office, where he worked, to come out. He was talking to the Vice President. He was getting memos from the Vice President. He was saying this and that and trying to work with the Vice President, so there are a lot of fingers pointing tonight at Dick Cheney, and I think this is not only going to hurt the Vice President, Katie, I think it's going to hurt the administration because it's going to raise new questions about their credibility when they already have more problems on their plate than they can really handle right now."


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You should already have an attorney. I'd call him first then depending on what he says LEO's.
This is a discussion on Speak to attorney first? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; First post here. Here's a quick scenario with a question to follow: You are threatened by a man with a knife, you draw your weapon ...
First post here. Here's a quick scenario with a question to follow: You are threatened by a man with a knife, you draw your weapon and he flees without you needing to fire upon him. When you call the police to report the incident should you contact an attorney before even explaining what happened to the police? Seems like you could inadvertently implicate yourself just by describing what happened. At what point, if at all, do you consult an attorney?
You should already have an attorney. I'd call him first then depending on what he says LEO's.
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Get to a safe place and call 911 ASAP. Give basic info and description of what he looked like, what he did, and which way he went, also tell dispatch you are armed and your location. Tell the responding officers the same (i.e. man pulled 3 inch black knife on me, i drew pistol, he flew that way. White male 6 foot, black short hair, white t-shirt, bluejeans...). Follow all their instructions about safety and your pistol.
Yes, it is good to consult with an attorney before talking to the police, but I will help them respond to an emergency situation with as much info as possible and appropriate.
I'd just call the police. Your just reporting an incident, same as if you were in a traffic accident. Give them the facts only and don't worry about the lawyer unless they start asking questions that do not pertain to the information that you gave them.
Call first. The first one to call is almost always considered the complainant. If he calls before you and claims you pulled a gun on him for no reason, you will have more difficulty being believed.
You didn't shoot him, why wouldn't you report an attempted armed robbery? You are the victim, by reporting the crime you give some credibility to your actions with the LEO's and DA.
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You stopped a situation where there was no real action taken other than the dirtbag running away???
No need for an attorney, just call the PD and explain your situation.
Be sure you were defending yourself or those around you from a percieved threat. A man with a knife IS A THREAT...he ran away...call 911 immediately.
Stay armed...use common sense...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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This might be a stupid question, but why even declare that you pulled a weapon? I can understand calling and notifying police concerning the incident with description of perp, but unless there are witnesses, I dont think I would even say anything about me pulling my weapon.
If you don't tell the police that you pulled the gun and they find out later you will lose credibility about the whole incident.
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I guess I'm curious as to why you would call the police. The incident is over, the perp is gone and the point is moot. You have succeeded in defending yourself without firing a shot. I think I'd go home, pour myself a glass of single malt and celebrate the fact that because I've exercised my 2nd Amendment rights I have not become a statistic. The only time I would call the police is if I had to fire my weapon in self defense.When you call the police to report the incident
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I would personally call. I think it is better to be safe than sorry in this scenario. If the BG calls later and reports a guy pulling a gun on him, you would be more likely to be believed. Just my 2cents...
I would call my attorney first if there is no ongoing threat.
Self-defense is affirmative. You are affirming that you committed what would otherwise be a crime (brandishing, assault), and you need to show that you are not guilty of a crime due to circumstances.
It's your word against his, and you are admitting you drew a weapon. What happens when he tells a different story, and doesn't turn out to be the unbelievable dirt bag you assumed he was (i.e. no record, A student, track star, etc).
"Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must." - The Duke of Wellington
Better to be the complainant.
My biggest concern isn't that the BG will call. Rather that a third party (maybe anti RKBA, maybe from an angle that didn't see the BG, maybe got there late in the action, maybe etc) dropped the dime.
You don't call. You drive away. The third party reports what they think they saw -- complete with your plate number.
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Could it be Mujahideen?
Militants armed with automatic weapons and grenades attacked luxury hotels, hospitals and a famous tourist café in India's commercial capital Mumbai.
• Who is behind the attacks?
Witnesses say the attackers were young South Asian men speaking Hindi or Urdu, suggesting they are probably members of an Indian militant group rather than foreigners.
The attacks were claimed by a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen in an e-mail to news organisations. Deccan is an area of southern India.
Analysts say that while it is not clear whether the claim is genuine, the attacks were most likely carried out by a group called the Indian Mujahideen. The name used in the claim of responsibility suggests the attackers could be members of a south Indian offshoot or cell of the Indian Mujahideen.
• Who are the Indian Mujahideen?
Indian police say the Indian Mujahideen is an offshoot of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), but that local Muslims appear to have been given training and backing from militant groups in neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.
SIMI has been blamed by police for almost every major bomb attack in India, including explosions on commuter trains in Mumbai two years ago that killed 187 people.
Police said the Indian Mujahideen may also include former members of th Bangladeshi militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami.
• Why are they suspected of being behind the mumbai attacks?
In an e-mail to various media in September, the group denounced Mumbai's police anti-terrorist squad, accusing them of harassing Muslims.
"If this is the degree your arrogance has reached, and if you think that by these stunts you can scare us, then let the Indian Mujahideen warn all the people of Mumbai that whatever deadly attacks Mumbaikars will face in future, their responsibility would lie with the Mumbai ATS and their guardians," it said.
The Indian Mujahideen have made credible claims of responsibility for most of the recent major attacks on civilian targets in India over the past two years.
The Mumbai attacks appear to have been carefully coordinated, well-planned and involved a large number of attackers. A high level of sophistication has also been a hallmark of previous attacks by the Indian Mujahideen.
The Mumbai attacks also focused clearly on tourist targets, including two luxury hotels and a famous cafe.
In May, the Indian Mujahideen made a specific threat to attack tourist sites in India unless the government stopped supporting the United States in the international arena.
The threat was made in an e-mail claiming responsibility for bomb attacks that killed 63 people in the tourist city of Jaipur. The e-mail, signed by "Guru Al-Hindi", declared "open war against India" and included the serial number of one of the bicycles on which the bombs were left.
Witnesses in Mumbai say the attackers in Mumbai singled out Americans and Britons in their attacks.
• What other attacks have indian mujahideen carried out?
The group first emerged during a wave of bombings in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in November last year, sending an e-mail to media outlets just before some of the bombs exploded.
Their next attacks were the Jaipur blasts.
On July 25, eight small bomb attacks in the IT city of Bangalore on July 25 that killed at least one person and wounded 15. There was no known claim of responsibility.
But a day later, at least 16 bombs exploded in Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat, killing 45 and wounding 161. Shortly before the blasts, an e-mail in the name of the Indian Mujahideen was sent to local media warning that people would soon "feel the terror of death" in the name of Allah.
It said the attacks were revenge for the Gujarat riots of 2002, when around 2,500 people, most of them Muslims, were killed by Hindu mobs. A later e-mail accused several state governments of harassing, imprisoning and torturing Muslims and threatened consequences if they did not stop.
In September, at least five bombs exploded in crowded markets and streets in New Delhi, killing at least 18 people.
The Indian Mujahideen sent out an e-mail moments after the first blast in New Delhi, saying the explosions were to prove its capability to strike in the most secure of Indian cities.
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The Vermont women's hockey team will be hosting a "Pack the Gut Challenge" Friday night at 7 p.m. as they face No. 5 Boston College at Gutterson Fieldhouse.
The goal is to break the Hockey East regular season attendance record of 1,498. Admission is only $2 and all proceeds from a second period Chuck-a-Puck as well as five percent of merchandise sales will benefit Meals on Wheels in Burlington.
Meals on Wheels is a non-profit organization that delivers home-delivered meal service to people in need. Senior assistant captain Danielle Rancourt who helped plan the event volunteered with the organization this summer.
"We are very excited to welcome Boston College and the entire Burlington community to our Pack the Gut game on Friday," said head coach Jim Plumer. "I'm so proud of our assistant captain Danielle Rancourt who conceived this event, and we are very much looking forward to the opportunity to support Meals on Wheels, and to showcase our team and the sport of women's hockey in what promises to be a fast-paced and exciting hockey game. "
Meals on Wheels will be selling special edition "Pack the Gut" t-shirts at the game. They will also be accepting check and cash donations for the organization.
"Our department and student-athletes are excited to partner with Meals on Wheels," said Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing, Promotions and Special Events Krista Balogh. "We look forward to hosting hundreds of fans at the Gut this Friday while raising awareness and funds for the Meals on Wheels program to support their exceptional work in our community."
The Chuck-a-Puck contest will be sponsored by Redstone Lofts, the premiere on-campus UVM student residence. Three winners will receive a gift card to restaurants downtown.
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Okay, I have Blender 2.23 (I am going to get a newer version soon) and am having trouble figuring out how to invert an object. I have finished one side of a ship, and now I wish to duplicate and invert it so I can complete the other half without trying to remake the 2000 vertices exactly the same. So, essentially I need a mirrored duplicate of one side.
BTW, I recently aquired 3DS Max 3.1 but I wanted to finish this project before starting to learn how to use it.
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Mihaljevic disappeared from a Bay Village shopping center in 1989, and her body was found four months later.
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Bye, Bye Twinkies! Hostess closed due to union Demands!
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#2 Nov 16, 2012
The striking workers--who still numbered in the thousands--were making it impossible for the Irving, Texas, company to continue producing its baked goods, Chief Executive Gregory Rayburn said.
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#3 Nov 16, 2012
A lot of fat ppl gonna be mad!
#4 Nov 16, 2012
The Union killed the Twinkie.
#5 Nov 16, 2012
!8500 people unemployed barring a last minute buyout.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the majority of them voted for Obama Claus.
Soooo sorry.
In developing news........
Planned "Black Friday" walkouts by Wal-Mart employees at various outlets........too stupid to figure out they have NO union protection , and are listening to very bad advice......good chance they will be terminated on the spot , and being a low-skilled employee , will be replaced in 5 minutes.
Anyone looking for a gig?
Linger around your local "Wally World" on the day after Thanksgiving. If any of these mental midgets decides to walk off the job , you'll probably get hired on the spot.
#6 Nov 16, 2012
Obama would never let such a thing happen. He's for the little guy!
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#8 Nov 16, 2012
You idiots. Workers are underpaid and abused. They deserve better. WHY should the owners be multi-millionaires sucking the blood of everyone, including consumers, while workers struggle to make ends meet?
EVERY job should be Unionized! UNIONS built the Middle Class in the USA, and gave us 40-hr week, 8-hr day, worker safety regs, etc.
Notice that the miners who died a few years in the Sego mine in WV were non-Union! ALWAYS the case!
¡Con Unión se vive MEJOR!
Those of you who support the bosses are traitors to the USA people.
And the country is better off without Twinkies, believe it.
#9 Nov 16, 2012
No more Twinkies and no more Ho Ho's. What a bright future it is that generations out will be endowed with. Taxes up the wazoo and not even one Twinkie or Ho HO to be found. I suspect those who will be hit hardest are those who voted to legalize marijuana. All those voters with the munchies and no Ho HO's or Twinkies to be had. Should they kill Captain Crunch, there will be revolt at the weed clinics.
Way to go Barry and good luck when Michelle finds out that there will be no more Twinkies or Ho Ho's. There will be h*ll to pay for that.
#10 Nov 16, 2012
They sure are. The Union heads won't be hurting and they just ensured that thousands of workers are now unemployed. The same thing happened in Cleveland when the Union heads wouldn't budge after months of striking. The Steel Corporation couldn't operate on what was being demanded by the Union heads and wound up having to shut down and move it's operations. Thousands of jobs were lost and the communities that depended on the revenue lost were devastated.
#11 Nov 16, 2012
Another case of why the Unions aren't that highly thought of was w/respect to a friend who worked for GM who didn't feel that the his union didn't work in his best interest. He didn't much care for the fact that there were across the board raises. He sharing that he had spent the time on education/training to fine tune his skills and only to be given the same across the board pay raise along as someone who held an entry level position emptying trash and sweeping floors. He shared as well that essentially he was to vote Democrat.
The problem with the unions is time lost when they have to shut a line down, etc due to restrictions that the Union places on what union workers can and cannot do. A line may have to shut down for an extended period of time because only a union member is allowed to perform certain duties. Even if it is so much as turning a machine back on/get the line up and running again. Time lost is money lost.
#12 Nov 16, 2012
Maybe you should speak with some of the miners in that not all want to be unionized in that they want nothing to do with the unions. And your boy that you voted for has declared a war on coal. Not to mention between the rise in natural oil use/the competition with it and the regulations imposed upon the coal industry has led to massive layoffs. There have been massive job losses in the coal industry, coal stock plummeted, as a result of Barry being re-elected. Save your S for someone who doesn't understand that a war on coal means w/respect to miners who will be negatively impacted. Unionized or not.
#13 Nov 16, 2012
Union, rather. The UMWA.
#14 Nov 16, 2012
And WHY would an entrepreneur invest his time and capital to eke out a marginal profit? He's ALREADY wealthy. Ask the workers who no longer have jobs if they'd rather he "stay in the game" or take his ball and go home.
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LOL!!! You speak as if twinkies are a good thing? Wrong.
And Obama did this? LOL!!! How amusing. Now I suppose since Obama has been re-elected, if the weather is bad, that will be his fault as well?
You conservatives are incredibly twisted mentally.
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#17 Nov 16, 2012
Bull. Companies do things due to his re-election and then blame him? LOL...
Ask those dead miners what they think of non-Union coalmines who won't comply with Federal safety regs... oh but they're dead. The fruits of Union-busting.
Coal miners fought long and hard for Unionization and better conditions, and since the coal industry won't comply, the F them, good, close all the mines.
About time the coal industry figure out a way to get at the coal without destroying the environment, eh? If you can't grasp that, then YOU go live in a town with the mountain sliding into the streets.
#19 Nov 16, 2012
Care to point out where I said Obama did it.
It's not up to me or anyone else to decide what someone should or shouldn't eat. I do know one thing there will be thousands of people who'll now be wondering about putting food on the table and to make sure that they and their loved ones have enough to eat. So hey, what's thousands more to be added to the list of the aunemployed. Those union heads sure did work to their members best interest didn't they. I can guarantee you they won't be wondering where their next meal will be coming from or how to pay their bills. Good luck to the communities now that will see their tax base adversly affect by the loss of revenue generated by those Hostess plants being shut down. The ripple effect from Hostess shutting down can't be underestimated as well.
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#20 Nov 16, 2012
That pro-company propaganda is flimsy. Why should we have a society where bosses have endless excuses to abuse workers (as in underpay them) and the workers are supposed to have no recourse? F that. UNION!!! Unions made this country free. Companies and the govt have been militating against Union power since 1950.
Perhaps with the awakening consciousness represented by the re-election of Obama, we will also see a resurgent workers movement!
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#21 Nov 16, 2012
The fault is with the companies who insist on maintaining a feudal social relation of production, workers with no power, we're supposed toworship the owners who are in fact parasites and fascists... but you nitpick on the Unions as if they're the problem!
The problem with Unions is to the extent their leadership has SOLD OUT to management! Look at the current situation with Verizon. That is exactly what is happening.
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#22 Nov 16, 2012
Well, you can blame the company, who insisted on treating their workers like crap! They wouldn't pay a decent wage, and the workers refused to accept it. GOOD for the workers.
Let this be a lesson to corporate America... the time is coming when you listen to the workers or WE WILL SHUT YOU DOWN!!!
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#23 Nov 16, 2012
Save it. The person who shared what he did when I asked about that tragedy, well his grandfather was a past President of the UWAE so I think he knows a little more than you do, fckwit, about the mining industry and who/who doesn't wish to be unionized. If you knew anything about the industry, you would know that mining is most listed as the most dangerous occupation and every time they enter a mine there's the potential that they may not make it home. Unionized or not. The miners are a unique group of people and not as you seem to believe to be all of the same point of view. Again, you obviously don't know squat because all miners don't want to be unionized for various reasons. Why don't you GFYS about the coal industry in that you are just like that POS in the White House who has declared war on the coal industry as he wastes billions of tax payer dollars to throw at green energy companies that have gone bankrupt or are failing.
You just that monster in the White House sure love to push unions and using the coal miners ... while in the same breath declaring war upon the industry.
Here ya go...
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Raising Small Groups of Pigs
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When done correctly, you can put pork in your freezer at a lower cost than what you would pay in the grocery store, and possibly even make some money when you have extra pigs to sell. When raising your own pigs, you control the feed and additives, so you know exactly what they were fed. You also have the satisfaction of producing your own meat.
Gimme Shelter
Pigs require very little space. While textbooks say pigs can get by with a minimum of 20 square feet per pig in an outdoor area, they need more room to roam. Plan for a minimum of 50 square feet per pig, preferably a little more. When designing your pig pen, keep a few things in mind. Pigs learn to manure near their water supply. Therefore, we want to keep the water at the far end of the pen, away from feed and shelter. Also, research has shown that the pen should be about twice as long as it is wide.
Pigs are natural excavators and will try to dig out of any pen. Many folks have found it useful to put one strand of electric wire inside the pen at ground level to keep the pigs from digging under the fence. Do not put the electric wire across the pen entrance. The pigs will remember it and will be reluctant to go out the gate when it's time to go to the butcher.
The shelter need not be extensive. In fact, a three sided shelter, open on the fourth side is ideal. The overall size will depend on the number of pigs you plan to raise, but the roof doesn't need to be any higher than four feet. The shelter is needed to provide relief from the weather. It needs to be dry & have some form of bedding for younger pigs during the cooler months, and provide shade from the sun during the warmer months. Leave openings under the eaves to allow summer heat to escape.
If you have a barn, you can forego building a separate shelter, and raise the pigs in the barn. This is often done in a horse stall. However, you will need to remove the manure on a regular basis. Outdoors it's absorbed by the ground. Generally, raising pigs in a barn requires more labor than an outdoor pen.
When To Do It and What Kind Of Pigs?
Pigs grow best in moderate temperatures, 60-70°. You should start your project in early spring, around mid April, or in late summer. With constant access to feed, a 50 pound pig will reach a market weight of 250 pounds in about 100 days.
Always start with healthy pigs from a reputable breeder.Do not buy pigs from a livestock auction as they have been exposed to other pigs and may get sick. There are still a few hog farms in this area that are willing to sell you feeder pigs. Call your Extension office if you would like their names.
Any modern commercial breed will work for your project. Crossbreds grow faster and are more efficient than purebreds. Try to avoid the Landrace breed, as they tend to be light muscled. Exotic breeds such as the Pot Bellied Pig are not good choices.
Select either gilts (females) or barrows (castrated males). Do not accept any intact boars as they tend to produce a "boar taint" which sometimes imparts an off taste to the meat. Start with pigs weighing a minimum of 50 pounds, especially if they are to be raised outdoors. A lighter pig will not do well in cooler weather. Never raise one pig by itself as it will not grow well. It needs a friend just like all of us.
Feed and Water
To grow efficiently, pigs need access to feed 24 hours a day. This is usually accomplished with a self feeder which can be purchased at the feed store, or you can build one yourself. See the plans in this section.
Fifty pound pigs should be fed a commercial hog feed containing around 16% protein. Once the pigs reach 125 pounds you can go to a 14% protein feed. My personal recommendation is to keep them on the 16% feed for the whole time.
Many folks are tempted to feed table scraps. That's OK but is no substitute for commercial feed. Table scraps should only be a treat and not the main course. Pigs eating table scraps are not getting a balanced diet and will grow slower. Anything poisonous to humans (i.e. rhubarb leaves) will also be poisonous to pigs. It should take about 650-750 pounds of commercial pig feed to get a 50 pound pig up to a market weight of 250 pounds.
Pigs require a constant supply of fresh, clean water. Contrary to popular belief, pigs do not sweat ("sweat hog"). Their only relief from heat is to breathe rapidly, drink a lot of water and urinate frequently, or build a wallow to lie in. The best waterers are automatic ones that the pig learns to turn off and on. These range from an attachment fitted on a 55 gallon drum, to a "nipple" type that is screwed onto the end of a hose. A 5 gallon bucket in the corner of a pen doesn't work. They will turn it over immediately and then play with the bucket.
If you have a hose running to your pen, bury it an inch or two under the soil. Otherwise, the sun will heat the water to nearly boiling and the pigs will refuse to drink.
Other Management
Pigs require very little management. Every day you should make sure the feeder has feed, the water is running and no one has escaped. For the most part, they will stay healthy. You may find it necessary to treat your pigs for internal parasites when they are about 125 pounds. This can be accomplished by putting medication in the feed or water, or giving the pig an injection. However, if the farmer had already wormed your pigs before you bought them, this additional treatment probably will not be necessary.
This Little Piggy Went to Market
The day will come when the pigs reach market weight. Someone needs to haul them to the butcher. You can do it with a pick up truck or horse trailer as long as you have some sort of ramp for loading. Or, there are commercial livestock haulers that will transport the pigs for you.
When moving pigs, keep in mind that they do not like to be pushed. Take your time and let them move at their own pace. Patience is the key. Your loading ramp should have solid sides so they can't escape, and you should follow behind with a pig "hurdle" (see below) made of plywood to keep them from turning around. In fact, a hurdle should be used whenever you are moving pigs.
Call around and find a butcher that you are comfortable with. Small butcher shops tend to be booked several weeks in advance, so start calling well ahead of time. Most butchers have a "standard cut". However, they will generally cut the meat to your specifications for a slight increase in price.
A 250 pound market hog will yield a 184 pound carcass. When the carcass is cut into retail cuts you will receive roughly 140 pounds of meat for your freezer. This will vary depending on the amount of trim (fat) that has to be removed. See the attached sheet for the actual carcass breakdown.
Other Factors
Earlier it was mentioned that you could raise your own pigs and put pork in your freezer below the grocery store price. Here's how to do it.
You have to feed at least two pigs, which means you will sell at least one. What many people do is feed 5 pigs and sell the other four to relatives, neighbors, friends, etc. You build the costs of your pig into what you charge them, and you put your pork in the freezer for nothing, or even make a little money. Keep in mind that you are supplying the labor and expertise to raise the pigs. Your friends only put up the money and then have a year's supply of high quality pork, cut to their specifications and delivered to their doorstep. It will be the best pork they've ever eaten (or at least they'll think so).
Raising market pigs is a short term, low investment project that requires very little management. It is an excellent family project and if your children are interested, it could also become a 4-H project. Once you try it, I think you'll find you want to do it every year.
Prepared by Michael P. Fournier, former Penn State Extension Educator
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