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Gathered in Sydney for their twenty-fifth general chapter from September 25 to October 2, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan elected a new leadership team and discerned a new vision statement for the next six years.
The new five-member team responsible for the pastoral governance of the congregation until 2017 comprises re-elected superior, Sister Clare Condon, and councillors, Sisters Veronica Hoey (also re-elected), Bernadette Corboy, Catherine McCahill and Bernardina Sontrop.
"It's both a privilege and an honour to lead a great group of women who serve the Church and society in Australia, Japan, The Philippines, Kiribati and Timor Leste," said Clare.
"It is also a daunting responsibility in these times of great change."
In accepting the role of superior for a second term, Clare told the 187 sisters gathered at St Scholastica's, Glebe, that it was a new time with a new vision statement, and not a case of continuing on with 'business as usual'.
"This is now day one of year one, not day one of year seven," she said.
During her closing remarks of the chapter on October 2, Clare thanked the sisters for their spirit and extraordinary participation in prayer and dialogue. She acknowledged those among the group who had 'stayed the distance' of the week-long gathering despite significant health and physical challenges.
Clare noted that the daily Gospel readings for the days after the gathering were Luke's parable of the Good Samaritan and the story of Martha and Mary. She said both stories highlighted aspects of the congregation's new vision statement which states: "As Sisters of the Good Samaritan we seek God who impels us to be neighbour. Therefore we commit ourselves to: the Work of God, partnership, creation."
Clare continued: "We are to seek God by both sitting at the feet of Jesus every day in our lectio, listening as Mary did, and by tending to our neighbour as the Good Samaritan.
"Monday's Gospel [October 3] is that of the Good Samaritan – our parable of being neighbour. We seek to befriend the stranger. That stranger may be at times the stranger within ourselves or across the table, the stranger who knocks on the door or the stranger from other lands. Our seeking God impels us to be neighbour.
"Today, five of us who you've called forth for the pastoral governance of the congregation will do our best to be neighbour to you and to all with whom we come in contact."
During the chapter gathering, members of the outgoing leadership team – Sisters Clare Condon, Veronica Hoey, Patty Fawkner, Kerin Caldwell and Carmel Pattinson – were acknowledged for their commitment and service to the life of the congregation over the past six years.
It was with great sadness and shock that the sisters received news on the first day of the gathering that Sister Verna Holyhead SGS had died after suffering a stroke a few days earlier. Verna was well known and highly regarded by many in Australia and internationally as a scripture scholar, retreat giver and prolific writer. She will be missed greatly by many.
Clare Condon SGS was born in Jamberoo, NSW. After her profession in 1972, Clare trained as a teacher and ministered mostly in Queensland. She has tertiary qualifications in accountancy, sociology, education and social policy. Prior to her appointment as congregational superior in September 2005, Clare was Chancellor for Stewardship in the Archdiocese of Adelaide and a member of the Adelaide Diocesan Pastoral Team. From 2008 until 2010, Clare was also President of Catholic Religious Australia. She is currently a director of Catholic Church Insurances.
Melbourne-born Veronica Hoey SGS was professed as a Good Samarian Sister in 1978. She has tertiary qualifications in education, special education and religious studies, and extensive experience in disability and student services. Veronica has held consultancy positions in Catholic education, Victoria, and has served as a director and member of the governing bodies of a number of Good Samaritan Colleges. Since 2005, Veronica has been a member of the congregation's council. She is currently a director of St Catherine's Aged Care, Eastwood, NSW.
Catherine McCahill SGS is a native of Townsville. For the past 30 years she has been engaged in education ministry and is currently the Academic Dean at Yarra Theological Union, a recognised teaching institute of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Catherine's doctoral thesis, "Making God Known: Jesus, the Teacher of the Fourth Gospel and the Contemporary Christian Religious Education Teacher", enabled her to bring together her passion for biblical study and Christian religious education. Underpinning this work is her fundamental belief that the ultimate purpose of our biblical study is deeper knowledge and love of the God of Jesus.
Melbourne-born Bernadette Corboy SGS began her ministry with the Good Samaritan Sisters as a teacher, first in primary then in middle and secondary education. During this time she also held positions as principal and religious education co-ordinator. For the past 14 years, Bernadette has been the congregation's Director of Initial Formation and Novices. Eleven of those 14 years were spent in Kiribati. In 2008, when the congregation's cross-cultural novitiate was established in Lawson, NSW, Bernadette moved back to Australia and joined the community there.
Bernardina Sontrop SGS was born in Holland. At age eight, she migrated to Australia with her family where they settled in Seacombe Gardens, SA. According to Bernardina, some of the first people to welcome her family were the local Good Samaritan Sisters. Professed in 1975, Bernardina has ministered as a primary school teacher in Wollongong and Brisbane, and in pastoral ministry at Elizabeth and Seaford Ecumenical Mission, SA. She is currently Pastoral Mission Co-ordinator at St Benedict's Pastoral Mission, Mango Hill-North Lakes, a rapidly growing new housing development on the outskirts of Brisbane.
Congratulations Sr. Bern
Good luck and may everything goes well as you serve Him. From reading this, I remembered that year, 2008 when you left Abaokoro. I am happy that you are in a new position now and may He always guide and protect you along with the new Leadership Team.
All my love,
Grace. Ataniman.
Belated Congratulations to you Sr. Bernie on your appointment.
I trust you still remembers me from St. Louis.
Timoa Tokataam and Family from Suva, Fiji…!
What a lovely surprise to hear from you on our website Timoa. Yes, I do remember you from St. Louis AND that you were interested in becoming a Good Sam brother in those days!! How are you? What is happening in your life now? You are in Fiji from your posted comment.
Sr. Bernadette
Congratulations Sr Bernie on your new role may your journey be fulfiling ,you have done so much for St Benedict's
Very much agree, Pamela. St.Benedict's community congratulate Sr. Bernie and all the sisters on their appointments.
Congratulations to the Leadership Team and all those involved in being able to set such a strong direction for the Good Sams yet again!
Dear Sr.Clare and leadership team, congratulations! Reading about your chapter brings back fond memories of 2005. Be assured of my prayers as you begin this new time.
Congratulations to the team – blessings to you all for the future and may you continue to lead with an openess and humility.
Congratulations Clare on your re-election and to the other members of your team. May you continue the great work of the Good Sams with enthusiasm and joy. Bernadina – special congratulations from me in SA.
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congratulations to all may the spirit of sgs live on Pam Barlow assoc. magnetic is n.qld
May each of the Leadership team be Blessed with great wisdom and gentle humility as you seek to fulfil the new vision. May your Leadership inspire and be supported by, not only all in the Order – but find a place in the community in which each of you so generously serve. God Bless each of you and grant you loving joy each step of the Way
Congratulations to Sr Clare and the members of the Leadership Team. May every day of this "new year" bring new life and vitality as you "RUN in the way of God's commandments." Our prayers are with you in the loss of Verna which will be felt by your sisters and all of us. We were enriched by her weekly sharings in "Oil and Wine"and will miss her words of wisdom enormously.
With much love,
Mary and all the sisters at Jamberoo
Sister Clare and the new Leadership team. Congratulations on your six year appointment. I wish you well with all the decisions that have to be made over this time. I look forward to continuing to support the Good Sams and their worthwhile projects,
Loving congratulations to all – and especially to Catherine – we've both travelled far since the "old days". Thrilled for you. My love Mary
Congratulations to the new leadership team. The Good Sams Foundation looks forward to working with you over the coming years – and reaching our exciting goals!
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HANOVER, N.H. -- The Harvard men's tennis
team recorded four singles victories on its way to the ECAC Team
Championship, defeating the No. 6 seeded Brown Bears, 4-1. The No.
1 seeded Crimson improved to 10-1 on the year as it took down Ivy
League rivals, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown on the way to the
tournament title.
The Bears got an early lift from its doubles teams, scoring the matches first point as it went 2-1 in doubles play. Sophomore Casey MacMaster and senior Alistair Felton defeated Soufiane Azargui and Brandon Burke, 8-6, but the teams of junior Andy Nguyen and freshman Denis Nguyen and sophomore Christo Schultz and freshman Alex Steinroeder fell to Brown duos of Tom Deighton and Michael Riechmann and Sam Fife and William Spector, respectively.
Harvard entered singles play, needing four singles points to secure the win and got just that. Jonathan Pearlman took down Burke in the No. 1 spot, 6-2, 6-3. Meanwhile Harvard got production from its No. 4 through No. 6 positions yet again, as Schultz defeated Spector, 6-3, 6-1, from the No. 4 position, freshman Henry Steer defeated Mike Hill, 6-1, 6-3, in the No. 5 spot while freshman Shaun Chaudhuri held down the No. 6 position taking the match against Fife, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Harvard had a successful weekend throughout the tournament as it went 2-1 during doubles action and 10-3 in singles play.


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Zone 4.25" + SYE/CV
I'm planning on getting the Zone 4.25" lift and I was also going to get the Tom Woods SYE/CV kit to go with it...Is it necessary or recommended to have the SYE/CV even though I'm going with the BL? Also, will I have to do purchase a different SYE/CV kit if I do a Belly up conversion at a later time?
A body lift has nothing to do with the suspension it just lifts the body, so yes a CV driveshaft would be your best bet. When you do the belly up all you will need is adjustable upper control arms which you should already have to adjust the angle of the diff for your CV driveshaft. If you do not have adjustable upper control arms you will never get the driveline angle proper regardless of what type of driveshaft you have.
Thanks for that...it actually answered exactly what i was looking for...I'm gonna order the Zone 4.25" and get currie adjustable UCA and a Tom tail shaft + CV conversion kit to round it out...Does that sound about right, or am I missing anything? I have a Zone lift and I like they're products and I don't do HEAVY wheeling so I felt it was plenty for me, and the CAs + CV finished it off IMO...
Anyone's input is more than welcome
Sounds like your doing it right. 2.5-3" SL is where a SYE kit is recommended. You must get adjustable CA's when you install a SYE to, as mentioned, adjust your pinion angle.
Oh and doing a tummy tuck pretty much requires a SYE and body lift.
I figured that much, that's why I decided to go ahead with the CV + SYE...
Another question...If I have the CV + SYE, do I still need the T-case drop?
You won't need the drop. The t-case drop is just a bandaid and the SYE is the cure.
Perfect...thank you for the help!
Also, is there such thing as a low profile skid...that is not a belly up conversion? Now i'm trying to think farther ahead after all the goodies are installed
The two are the same. Low profile skids are called tummy tucks or belly up skids.
Check out this site for some good skids to choose from. Also look at Rokmen and Savvy.
Ok, thanks...I wasn't sure...Again thanks for the help...You just solidified my decision on the lift, UCAs, and CV+SYE as soon as I return to the states :D
I believe you will need to install MML and BL for a tummy tuck.
You don't need a MML for tummy tucks. It's just recommended, it's also recommended with a BL. UFC has a no BL skid, but I think it's in your best interest to get the BL and go with an even slimmer skid.
I forgot that the kit comes with a BL so he doesn't really have to worry about that.
Here is mine...just to give you an idea.
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Did you do the lopro tcase mount or do you have the bl+mml?
Also, am i gonna need adjustable LCAs right away, or will I be alright with the Zone LCAs provided in the lift?
Cool, thanks for the clarification. :thumb:
Alright, thank you both for the valuable information...you just made everything make sense and answered every question and doubt i had!
I really like the UCF ultra clearance tc skid. Good luck on your project.
Thanks! Only a month and a half and I'll be reunited with my jeep!!
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UCF offers a 10% discount to forum members. Just received my no-body lift required UCF T-Case skid and its a solid piece of equipment.
Under Cover Fabworks, LLC - No Body-Lift Needed Skids
A 1" body lift isn't all that bad. With it you can get an even shallower skid. Also allows raising the gas tank by 1".
UCF No-Body lift skid. Ground clearance increase by 1 1/2"
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UCF Ultra High clearance skid. Ground clearance increase by 3 1/2"
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Though they say you can install their Original skid with the LO-Pro mount and no body lift
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Green also suggested that merger talks, halted on Wednesday, with rival broadcaster Granada were not dead. He said: 'Our objective, as always, was to make Carlton and ITV stronger and more competitive. We will continue to work together with our partners in ITV to deliver value to our customers and our shareholders.'
Although Green said the advertising market 'remains weak and we are unable to predict with certainty the timing of the resumption of growth', he added that when business confidence returns 'new product launches will favour ITV1'.
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'Pettigrew' author wows crowd at final One Book One County event
GREENVILLE — The author whose book was chosen for this year's One Book One County Montcalm selection, Helen Simonson, said she expected to be "thoroughly grilled" at a book signing Tuesday evening at Greenville High School's Performing Arts Center.
She was. And she seemed to enjoy every moment of it.
A crowd of about 400 people listened appreciatively as the author shared details of her writing process, the travails of being a stay-at-home mom attempting to pen a novel and the ins and outs of life on a book tour. The latter, she said, she quite likes.
"I do enjoy being on tour," Simonson said. "It's not really so much about being an author, but about being a wife and mother. On tour there's a bathtub and you don't have to make dinner."
Those hoping to pick up "secrets" of Simonson's writing process may have been somewhat disappointed, but then again, maybe not. Her stories of motherhood, studying for her MFA and the habit men have of commandeering the armrest of any airline seat rolled from her tongue as smoothly as from any standup comedian's. The audience was entirely entertained throughout the duration of Simonson's talk.
When she did get down to the nitty-gritty of addressing the characters from her novel, "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand," it was only to say she intentionally left their descriptions vague in order to allow the reader to form his or her own images.
Likewise, when asked which actors she would like to see play major roles in a possible movie adaptation of the book, she refused to name names.
"It's a great party game and you're all free to cast the movie yourselves," she said. "Your impression is very different from my impression."
Simonson added she did not write the book from some pre-conceived "script" or plan, but instead allowed both the narrative and characters to develop on their own as the writing progressed.
"I literally started with the village, the house, Major Pettigrew, Mrs. Ali," Simonson said. "That's all I had at first. Then I just created the characters as I went along. It's all about letting go of what you want to write about and just going with whoever shows up."
Though the novel was several years in the making, Simonson was initially unprepared for its spectacular success. Instead of being a small, "slow-growing" book, as expected, it rose to number 16 on the New York Times best seller list soon after being published by Random House.
"They wanted me to go on tour after just a week or so," Simonson said. "I ran out and bought a few moderately priced dresses, gathered my teenage boys and said, 'This is a pizza menu. This is a Chinese food menu. And this bulky cube is called a washing machine. Bye.'"
Simonson climbed aboard a soapbox only once all evening, and that in the most charming manner imaginable. The topic was sex and her distaste for the manner in which Hollywood considers it something for the young only.
"I am ticked off that for Hollywood, love and sex are just for those under 30," she said. "We should all hope that we're going to live past 30. I used to deliver Meals on Wheels to women in their 90s and let me tell you, they were still thinking about sex. We should be celebrating all our passions throughout our lives."
Her final thought for the evening was an admission that writing, though one of her loves, is also hard work. By the time she was nearing the end of her novel — which is her first — she admits there were moments when the enjoyment of writing fled.
"There were times I really hated Major Pettigrew," she said. "I was very willing and ready to get divorced from him. I was just happy to get to the end of the book.
"However, Major Pettigrew has been very good to me and he will be an extra relative of mine the rest of my life."
One Book One County organizer Maureen Burns and Dean of Instruction and Faculty at Montcalm Community College Gary Hauck, emceed the event. Burns introduced library directors and personnel from throughout the county who were in attendance.
Hauck admitted he generally sticks with factual books, but was happy to make the leap to fiction in this case.
"I usually prefer non-fiction," Hauck said. "But I have to say, I could not put this book down."
Judging by the standing ovation Simonson received at the end of her talk, that's a common sentiment among Montcalm County readers.


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Millions of adolescents falling behind, especially in Africa – UNICEF report
NEW YORK, 24 April 2012 – Over the past 20 years, adolescents have benefitted from progress in education and public health. Yet the needs of many adolescents are neglected with more than 1 million losing their lives each year and tens of millions more missing out on education, says a new UNICEF report today.
The report, for example, identifies sub-Saharan Africa as the most challenging place for an adolescent to live. The adolescent population of the region is still growing, and it is projected to have the greatest number of adolescents in the world by 2050. But only half the children in sub-Saharan Africa complete primary school and youth employment is low.
Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents highlights other alarming consequences of the benefits of progress not being equally shared among the total of 1.2 billion adolescents – defined by the United Nations as between the ages of 10 and 19 – now living in all the regions of the world.
"The disadvantages of poverty, social status, gender or disability prevent millions of adolescents from realizing their rights to quality education, health care, protection and participation," said UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Geeta Rao Gupta. "This comprehensive report card strengthens our understanding of the problems facing the poorest and most disadvantaged adolescents. It is time to attend to their needs; they must not be left behind."
The report points to a significant need for improved investment in all aspects of adolescents' lives and wellbeing – even in their struggle for survival. Each year 1.4 million adolescents die from road traffic injuries, childbirth complications, suicide, AIDS, violence and other causes. In some Latin American countries, more adolescent boys die as a result of homicide than from road traffic injuries or suicide. In Africa, complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the top cause of death for girls aged 15 to 19.
Children entering adolescence are increasingly at risk of violence – a shift from early childhood when disease and nutrition are the major threats. Adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable to violence in marriage. In a survey in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 70 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 who had been married said they experienced violence at the hands of a current or former partner or spouse.
Adolescents, particularly girls, are often forced to abandon childhood and take on adult roles before they are ready, limiting their opportunities to learn and grown, and placing their health and safety at risk. The report says that over a third of women aged 20 to 24 in developing countries excluding China were married or in a union by the age of 18 with about one third of these being married by age 15.
Adolescent birth rates are relatively high in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, the report says. In Niger, half of young women aged 20 to 24 gave birth before the age of 18.
Globally, 90 per cent of children of primary school age are enrolled in primary schools and secondary education systems have expanded in many countries. Secondary school enrolment however remains low in the developing world, especially in Africa and Asia. Many pupils of secondary school age are in primary schools. Sub-Saharan Africa has the worst secondary education indicators of any region.
Some 71 million children of lower secondary school age worldwide are not in school and 127 million youth between 15 and 24 are illiterate – the vast majority in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The report says significant efforts in advocacy, programmes and policy are needed to realize the rights of all adolescents. Adolescence is a critical stage of childhood at which the right investment can break the poverty cycle and result in social, economic and political benefits for adolescents, communities and nations.
But the report also notes that adolescents should be recognized as real agents of change in their communities. Programmes and policies, while protecting adolescents as children, must acknowledge their capacity for creativity, innovation and energy to solve their problems.
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Прогресс для детей: положение подростков
За последние 20 лет образование и медицинские услуги стали доступнее для подростков. В то же время ежегодно более 1 миллиона молодых людей погибает, десятки миллионов не получают образования. Такие данные содержатся в обнародованном сегодня докладе ЮНИСЕФ «Прогресс для детей: положение подростков».


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underplay theirs. This was a room full of PhDs and MDs and people who had been instrumental in the creation of a myriad of famous companies and billions in market value, yet they often left that out of their personal introduction.
Fortunately women are also more likely to point out the accomplishments of their colleagues, so many intros were followed by shout-outs from others in the crowd reminding the other diners that the cool chick before them, in addition to being from Philadelphia or Boston, had changed medicine forever in some profound way. Very cool to see the support and lack of competition in the room and all around a very different vibe from other events I attended. The best dinner story was probably the one about how one VC partner and her female colleague use "boyfriend" terminology to characterize the stage and progress of their deals in their staff meetings. I have yet to hear any of my male colleagues refer to one of their deals in progress as being in the stage called "friends with benefits." It was pretty hilarious. And yes, I confess that there was some talk about shoes and other essential accessories, as well as the blisters many of us had obtained walking from venue to venue, but it didn't take away one bit from the discussion about healthcare reform or the state of life science venture funding. Mercifully, it was probably the only social event I attended where golf was not a critical part of the discussion agenda.
The overall tone of this year's JP Morgan Lollapalooza was cautiously upbeat, I would say. There are a few promising healthcare IPOs in the pipeline and a lot of opportunity presented by the changing healthcare field. Good companies are getting funded and bankers are busy again. Times are still tough but unemployment is slightly better. Healthcare IT is all the rage and there were even some whispers about early stage investing slowly climbing again. There was so much action around the conference headquarters at the St. Francis Hotel (also known as the worst conference venue on earth unless you love being crushed to death like you were at Altamont for a Rolling Stones concert) that security was even stronger than the airport in Fallujah. You couldn't even enter the hotel without a pre-printed approval email, bona fide healthcare credentials and a DNA sample. Apparently the sponsors were very concerned that the Occupy Wall Street crowd might show up given the high ratio of bankers, but fortunately the only place being occupied was Starbucks. With 99 percent of the attendees from the world of healthcare finance, the 1 percent were the dogs cruising through Union Square with their owners, who were forced against their will to stop to let the homesick VCs and investment bankers pet their furry little charges. "Does your dog lead restructuring transactions?" "That is not my dog!"
Now it is time for all of us in attendance to dig the newly acquired business cards out of every orifice and do all that promised follow-up. As they say in the business, same time next year, guys. See you at Altamont.
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Do you find the Socorro Insignia/Symbol -- either the right one or the wrong one -- seen and drawn by Lonnie Zamora in the depiction above?
The symbol plays a part in the alleged hoax scenario and the real nature of Lonnie Zamora's sighting.
And it also factors into UFO sightings across the board which, to the dismay of the ETH addicts, will explain some important UFO events and sightings.


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While you should be able to get a business credit card now (since banks want you in business at least 2 years) the reality is that as long as this is a closely held venture (only a few owners) they will almost always want personal guaranties. That has become even more restrictive with the economic situation. To get a business card without the personal guaranties you should call the telephone number on the back of one of your current cards and ask to speak with a customer service representative. An excellent personal history coupled with strong financials should do the trick.


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Lee P. BreckenridgeProfessor of Law
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Professor Breckenridge specializes in environmental and natural resources law. She began her career as an attorney with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, where she worked on some of the agency's initial regulatory efforts to implement the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Professor Breckenridge continued her environmental work as an assistant attorney general with the state of Tennessee and the commonwealth of Massachusetts. She served as a law clerk for Judge Gilbert S. Merritt on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1977-1978.
Before joining the faculty of the School of Law, Professor Breckenridge was chief of the Environmental Protection Division for the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, where she was engaged in a wide range of litigation to enforce the requirements of federal and state air and water pollution statutes, hazardous waste management requirements, and wetlands and tidelands protection laws.
At Northeastern, Professor Breckenridge teaches courses in environmental law, wildlife and ecosystems law, land use zoning and planning law, and property. She also works with students on independent study projects focusing on a variety of related topics, such as urban environmental justice, affordable housing and federal lands management. In her research and advocacy work, she has a particular interest in aquatic ecosystems and in the evolution of property and regulatory systems to manage conflicts over water flow and quality. As a member of the board of directors of the Charles River Watershed Association and a participant in other government task forces, she has advocated for new policies and regulations to manage urban infrastructure and land uses in order to maintain adequate water quality and instream water flows in rivers and streams.
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- "Green Infrastructure in Cities: Expanding Mandates under Federal Law," 45(6) Trends: ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Newsletter (August 2014).
- "Special Challenges of Transboundary Coordination in Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems," 19 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 13 (2006).
- "Can Fish Own Water?: Envisioning Nonhuman Property in Ecosystems," 20 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 293 (2005).
- "Maintaining Instream Flow and Protecting Aquatic Habitat: Promise and Perils on the Path to Regulated Riparianism," 106 West Virginia Law Review 595 (2004).
- "Non-Profit Environmental Organizations and the Restructuring of Ecosystem Management Institutions," 25 Ecology Law Quarterly 692 (1999).
- "State Enforcement and Settlement Policies Regarding Internal Compliance Programs" 5 Corporate Conduct Quarterly 4 (1997) (co-author).
- "Reweaving the Landscape: The Institutional Challenges of Ecosystem Management for Lands in Private Ownership," 19 Vermont Law Review 363 (1995).
- "Protection of Biological and Cultural Diversity: Emerging Recognition of Local Community Rights in Ecosystems under International Environmental Law," 59 Tennessee Law Review 735 (1992).
Selected Chapters
- "State Surveys: Massachusetts," in 4 Waters and Water Rights, Third Edition, ed. R. Beck et al. (2009) with supplements (2014).
- "Ecosystem Resilience and Institutional Change: The Evolving Role of Public Water Suppliers," in Cities of the Future: Towards Integrated Sustainable Water and Landscape Management, ed. V. Novotny et al. (IWA Publishing, 2007).
- "Fractal Federalism: Evolving National-State Relations in US Environmental Law," in Government Structures in the USA & the Sovereign States of the Former USSR: Power Allocation Among Central, Regional, and Local Governments, ed. J. Hickey et al. (Greenwood Press, 1996), 275.
- "Making Waste Recoverable: European Waste Oil Programs," in America's Future in Toxic Waste Management, ed. B. Piasecki et al. (1987).


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Bernhard replied to scubanurse's topic in Patient Care QuestionsI'm glad we have the right to pronounce death on scene. Medics may decide due to "safe" signs of death, as rigor mortis, livor mortis and non survivable injuries plus asystolie. Working a code for some time with no effort (ROSC) is up to the emergency physician we then have available on scene. As far as I know I never had ever worked someone who now shows an appallic syndrome. Either they died soon after or they survived. Secondary survival rate has dramaticallly increased with new CPR algorithms, in my starting years (end of 1980ies) this was more or less randomly. I at the moment recall just one patient before 2000, where the neighbour started CPR:this neighbour was a seasoned medic, his assisting daughter an experienced anaesthetics nurse, basic equipment available for them plus the ALS station and receiving hospital just a few minutes away. As I entered the room, the patient already was e.t.'d, we just had to attach ECG and provide defibrillations. Patient left hospital a week later, totally recovered. Since then I had a few saves, more and more since ~2000 when we started using AHA/ERC algorithms. Actually, to answer the question in the topic, yes, I once transported a death person. Transporting bodies is ruled out in our states EMS law (and was back then, but it is time.barred anyway...here's the story: We had a call in the church just neside the station. With service in full progress we CPR'd between all those praying people, somewhat scary (but not the first time for me, yes, they already talked about me to write a book). We moved into the ambulance, then pronounced dead after some while. Chaplain came into the ambulance and said a few words. Dispatch notified us about enhanced arrival time for the hearse car (sp?), so the supervisor, who was on scene in another role, felt the urge for a decision. His first suggestion was to drop the body off in our station so we were available again. I talked him out of that. The chaplain notified, that he had the keys for the local morgue, which happened to be just around the corner beside the cemetary. So the supervisor decided to take this opportunity...and we drove the body in our ALS ambulance slowly into the cemetary. Just as we arrived there, the hearse car arrived. Disclaimer: things have changed since then, I never would do this anymore (meanwhile, I'm supervisor myself, maybe this call was one of the reasons), it was totally against the law, noone has ever found out and all went well. At least I learned (talked a bit with them), the burial services are quick enough to wait on-scene. People are very pragmatic here - next time I'll tell the story about the other chaplain calling us, as he found out that the dead person wasn't medically cleared, up to his arrival... To adresse another perspective mentioned here: After having some incidents I took a crisis intervention class to be trained to handle the relatives. Was an eye-opener! Never would like to work in crisis-intervention myself, but I use the skills to handle non-medical situations since then. I strongly suggest such a training to all young medics! (BTW: have a happy new year, everyone!)
Bernhard replied to dragonpaco's topic in Funny StuffLet's see. Last week I was mistaken for a towing service by a very confused young police officer at scene of a vehicle accident,was target of heavy flirting by a 89 year old woman at a nursing home, fallen out of bed, vomited, short of breath/possible aspiration - but instantly fell in love with me,rescued a cat from a tree (OK, this wasn't a real call, just spotted the cat in distress on a private walk).We'll see what follows next week.
We're in chat. Where is everyone else?
BTW: I'm still in chat now at this very moment. Oktoberfest was nice, I visitied with my new workplace colleagues. I didn't serve a shift this year, though. Friends reported it was relatively calm, just the usual ~400 patients per day..
That's 3:30 AM on friday over here...(UTC+2). I'll do my very best...
I'll be there... See you!
Bernhard replied to Firefighter01's topic in Meet and GreetReally? How come that? How do you do this? Just wondering if that's really in your "job description" or if I just don't understand something. BTW: I see my task in EMS to safely get to the scene dispatch already was suspicious enough to assign a valuable resource (my crew & my ambulance) to, assess the situation and decide if it's either an emergency to be treated immedeately, an issue which has to be transported to hospital or a doctor's office, something we "just" need some ambulatory help (and call a doctor for house visits or point to an open doctor's office - they have to provide 24/7 coverage here), another thing we may offer help (lift patient back into rolling chair, call police, ...) or nothing at all (false alarm, ...). Doing whatever my findings in #2/#3 needs. Preparing for next call. Goto #1. Glad, my system has all those options in #3 and let me decide (if the public or dispatch didn't before). This opens a bunch of possibilities to provide the needed level of care, and yes, you have to be very sure about what you do. Maybe this system is close to this community paramedicine thing mentioned here, just that it's not me who provides that but the regional physicians association. Oh, to answer the OP's question: I'm neither an EMT nor a medic, technically, since those job titles don't exist in my country. I'm a german Rettungsassistent (2 years education, highest level of non-physician emergency care in Germany, so somehwat compareable to a Paramedic in the U.S.). Living in Germany's most southern state: Upper Bavaria, near citiy of Munich. So much for my excuse for lack of understanding, bad grammar and funny spelling. In english AND german...
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Bernhard replied to spenac's topic in Funny StuffParty? BTW, regarding "party": y'all missed (the real) Oktoberfest this year...when I find time over the holidays I will write a short report about my shift.
Bernhard replied to Fenta's topic in Meet and GreetWelcome to emtcity, Fenta! Great to have the german area covered a bit more. Ah, and don't get me started on that "Notkompetenz" thing which doesn't really exist. No, don't. Please. Thank you. Our fellow collegues here wouldn't even understand this urban legend.
Bernhard replied to Bernhard's topic in Funny StuffBut in NYC noone would really care about or even stop to look, I guess... ...only the button and the sign would be stolen soon.
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Bernhard replied to Arctickat's topic in Funny StuffActually, I just had a year of this.
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Bernhard replied to EMT_Journalist's topic in Meet and GreetAnd vorenus isn't even from Bavaria... Even in germany where we have a lot of nation wide regulations in EMS there are a lot of details specific to the different federal states. So you will find significant and sometimes disturbing differences between state's EMS systems and sometimes between one district and the other or even from one village's company to the other. Despite the fact, that education levels and requirements are the same nationwide, there is a standard for vehicles (even EU wide) and only four large organizations have 90% (just my rough estimation) of the market. So even here in our little country the understanding of the whole EMS system "en detail" would be a lifelong task. Continuing changes included... If you try this for the "EMS world" as you stated, and that means really worldwide (surprise: there are more countries than the U.S. having an EMS system), then prepare for some real strange experiences. Just to have a general impression about varieties in medical/EMS systems, read Wikipedia.
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THERE's THE LITTLE GIRL!
This is a discussion on Stopped by an off duty cop within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; No he dose not have any record mabey a speeding ticket, and no it is in no way a small town....
No he dose not have any record mabey a speeding ticket, and no it is in no way a small town.
THERE's THE LITTLE GIRL!
Does this guy also go by the name Gecko45 or Specops?
there is that imitation mary jane...
stories like this have me to think the teller has been sampling
At that point he is attempting to enter your car and has no legal right. He has also tried to block your means of egress. If he hasn't identified himself as a cop, you have no need to hang around. First I would have attempted to go around, but if that was impossible or he was overly agressive, I probably would have drawn on the guy.The driver gets out and walkers back to your door, it's warm out so your windows already down. When he gets to your door he reaches into the car and shuts down the engine leaving the keys in the ignition.
As another poster said, I call BS though. If the cop claimed to be drug 50 feet he would need proof. He would need ripped up clothes, scuffed shoes, and abrasions. If his knee was jacked up he would need a doctor's or emt's report for verification. I doubt he would make the claims without evidence. It would mean a big chance of getting administrative leave or worse. I just don't see this story actually happening.
Remember the teacher telling you to Bring enough for everybody? That applies to gunfights, too. ~ Sarge @ Sarge's Roll Call
I'm not going to write much more about the actual incident because like a few who made a good point of not saying to much until after the trial is over, that is due to take place in June. And he was able to make bail so he can still work and all that. I will revisit the actual situation after the trial is over and keep my eyes out for any articles to back up what I'm saying. Again this story was from just what my buddy passed on to me. I just wanted your guys opinions on what you would do in the situation(and not on what you thought the probiliaty of it is) where your way forward was blocked and a man in plain clothes started approaching your vehicle without identifying himself as a LEO or otherwise.
Point being I did not allow him to get any closer.
I also have to call BS, but if this actaully did happen to me I would put my car in reverse (if traffic permitted) and gotten away as soon as the car stopped in front of me, then call 911. If I couldn't reverse due to traffic I would put the windows up, double check that my doors were locked and draw my weapon. If that idiot didn't identify himself as a cop thats his own fault.
If he were to get to my car and my window was down(still unidentified), sticking his arm inside is a pretty sure way to get your arm broken if not worse.
Walk softly ...
Have a relative who claims that her and her husband were just walking down the street, minding their own business when 3 cops pulled up and arrest her husband for domestic violence. . Then they arrested her for "absolutely no reason" at all. .
Oh. .
They were out of town
It was 1:30 AM
They were walking back to their hotel
They were ****-faced drunk
She interfered with the arrest
She had narcotics in her purse
But those cops had NO reason to bother them. . . . . .
Somewhere in the Pacific NW
I'm trying to play this story out as many ways as possible, and for me they never would've got that close.
Worse case though for someone else, I can see them getting to your car. Maybe you think they have a question or need help? Once they reach though you pull off which leads to them getting dragged. I just can't see someone letting a person reach that far in their vehicle.
Sorry, like the others, this is a BS story.
As for someone reaching into my truck window and failing to identify themselves: the very least they would receive would be having their forearm cut to the bone by a razor-sharp Benchmade.
"It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it."
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it." ~ Clint Eastwood
"I hope this changes."
most defiantly would have at least thought of drawing my weapon. Your on some backroad and a random car pulls in front of u blocking you in, He wouldn't have gotten close enough to my car to reach into. Probably would have either backed up and floored it or just got out of the car and confronted him (dumb yes I know)


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No hot water in shower
There are 3 showers in my house that only have lukewarm water about 84 degrees. The water will come out at 105 degrees for a couple of seconds before cooling down. It's a symmons temptrol control. All the sinks in the house produce plenty of hot water. The limit stop has been turned up in the showers and I have also replaced the spindles. There is still only lukewarm water. What else could be the problem?
Are both hot and cold supplies for the showers/entire house fully open? The Temprol valves won't work correctly if the water pressure is out of whack.
Water pressure is good. When I moved in in December the water pressure was low but it has since been fixed.
Are any of these tub/showers? Are you able to increase the temperature by turning the handle counterclockwise? It's very strange that all 3 are affected.
One is a tub/shower and the other two are stand up showers. The temperature does increase but caps out at a lukewarm temperature, even when it's turned all the way to hot.
It seems to me as if there's a volume problem. On the tub, if you have it on full hot, is there a noticeable difference in pressure and volume compared to full cold?
It's also possible that cold water is getting mixed into the hot side from another fixture.
As a double check, what steps did you follow to set the limit screw?
Do you have any single handle cartridge style faucets in the house?
Took the knob off and loosened the screw- at least two turns but the water wasn't any warmer when I tested it. The kitchen sink is a single handle faucet- plenty of hot hot water.
These are from the instructions to set the limit. Not sure if it makes a difference since you moved the screw out not in. Might be worth a try.
To set the limit, open valve to maximum desired temperature and turn
in limit stop screw until it seats.
Try the tub test for pressure/volume and temperature.
To check for crossover, turn off the cold water supply to all of your fixtures and see if the problem stops.
Hmm the direction I had said to loosen the screw to increase the hot water but I did try it the other way. Turning it in made the knob turn less and had colder water. I did try loosening it even more but still not hot water. Also, I tried the hot water in the washing machine, which is upstairs on the same floor as 1 stand up shower and the tub/shower, apparently that also does not get hot water for more than a few seconds. The tub has the same temperature and the pressure seems good, to me anyway. I did not try shutting the cold water off yet.
What type of water heater do you have? Conventional/Tankless?
Were you able to get full hot water out of the tub?
A heating guy came and I believe replaced a mixing valve and said the water pressure would be better. He was there for other heating issues (furnace wasn't starting up all the time) so Im not exactly sure what he did for the water pressure - it wasn't terrible before he came anyway. I have a tankless water heater. Water from the tub is the same temperature as the shower.
Have you ruled out cold water crossing over to the hot side?
I don't know much about tankless but I'm thinking it's not firing at 100%. Have you checked the water heater operation?
Do you have a hot water recirculation system installed?
I just moved in in December so I'm not sure about the hot water recirculating system. How would I check for that?
It's an old furnace but I was told it was still 84% efficient and if there was hot water in the sinks then it was producing hot water. I have not yet ruled out cold water cross over.
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Paradise on Fire: Syed Ali Geelani and the Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir.
By Abdul Hakeem.
Leicester: Revival Publications.
pp265. PB. 2014. £12.99
Two foremost freedom fighters of modern times include Yasser Arafat of Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Imam Shamyl of Dagestan and his efforts to resist Russian encroachment in Chechnya. If one were to add a third, it would be Syed Ali Geelani's popular resistance against Indian occupation of Kashmir. How strange that these three tragic and long-standing political tragedies have been directly supported and sustained by three leading global powers, namely the United States, Russia and India, and all in the name of national interest, freedom, democracy and human rights?
The book under review is an interesting study of the Kashmiri people's popular resistance against Indian hegemony through the life and struggle of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, whose heroic efforts to liberate his people from political subjugation has turned him into a powerful symbol of Kashmiri freedom and self-determination.
The author of this book is an Indian writer and researcher, writing under the pseudonym of Abdul Hakeem, because 'If I did not, the Indian Government would detain me for sedition; the intelligence agencies label me a 'Pakistani agent'; the police harass and the security forces torture me; the media would demonize me and the judiciary convict me. Also the society would, by and large, isolate me and my entire family. I must state the obvious that these components of Indian establishment, individually or collectively, are not naïve. They will not do any of the above to me for writing this book. They will instead implicate me for some state-orchestrated violence or any other trumped up charge. In future, I will gladly reveal my identity if ever India behaves constitutionally and practises secular democracy.' (p xii)
Consisting of a foreword, sixteen short chapters, appendix, endnotes and bibliography, this book is, in the words of the journalist Lauren Booth, '…the story of one man's self-sacrifice told through the struggle of an entire people. Paradise on Fire is a call to the conscience of humanity. I pray that people from every part of the world will respond to this call and join the Kashmiri people in their non-violent resistance to oppression and occupation.' (p viii)
Born in a small hamlet of Khonus near Sopore in northern Kashmir on September 29, 1929, young Geelani's father struggled to maintain his family on his meagre wage of 10 rupees a month, but he was determined to provide a decent education to his children. At primary school Geelani learnt Urdu, Arabic, Persian and other languages under the tutelage of a Hindu pundit. After this, he completed a theology course at Oriental Night College before joining University of Kashmir where he completed a degree in Urdu and Persian with honours. He then became a teacher and gradually became involved with various local political and religious movements, seeking to free Kashmir from Indian hegemony following the collusion between Maharaja Hari Singh, the Hindu ruler of Kashmir, and the Indian Government in 1948.
Despite Indian promise to offer the Kashmiri people the chance to determine their future through a referendum, this pledge was never fulfilled and, not surprisingly, more than 800,000 Indian troops are now stationed in Kashmir to ensure Indian hegemony is sustained through sheer force and military power.
Being a political biography, this does not provide a strictly chronological study of or survey of Syed Ali Geelani's life and struggle for freedom. Instead this book is an intermesh of history, biography, popular politics, demography, regional power-play with global politics, diplomacy and strategy.
In the last chapter of the book, the author states, '…I do not draw any conclusions from the discourse presented in this book, nor have I any solutions to offer as such. The reason is simple: too many shifting elements, regionally and internationally, are presently in play that will influence outcomes for this 'paradise on fire.' (p 218)
This is an important book that focuses on a topic subject, one that is often forgotten and neglected by the world community, and the author deserves credit for highlighting the plight of the Kashmiri people through the life of Geelani.
Unfortunately the book has not been copy-edited carefully as it contains too many spelling mistakes, even so I recommend it to those who are interested in South Asian studies, biography or contemporary politics.
Muhammad Khan, acclaimed author and researcher; he is currently writing a book on Muslim modernism in colonial India.


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An enzyme called telomerase may hold the key to causing cancer cells to self-destruct, a Melbourne scientific conference was told yesterday.
Telomerase has a kind of "Jekyll and Hyde" function in the body, helping good cells to multiply but also encouraging bad cells - such as cancer cells - to do the same.
But scientists have had success in arresting and even diminishing human tumours in mice by effectively making telomerase have a negative effect on cells, causing them to destroy themselves.
Renowned scientist Elizabeth Blackburn told the BioCom 2003 conference that the studies brought scientists closer to understanding cancer growth, but the next step would be to find out how to make the telomerase destructive for bad cells without damaging good cells.
Professor Blackburn, a former Melbourne scholar who is now professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, later told The Age that scientists were looking at using telomerase to help destroy cancers, but also trying to find ways of "switching off" the enzyme, without which cancer cells do not survive.
The job of telomerase is to "top up" the ends of DNA when the cells are multiplying.
In healthy cells, it is turned on, but in a regulated way, Professor Blackburn said. It had already been found that telomerase was overactive in more than 80 per cent of cancer types.
"The funny thing is it's so common - it's amazingly common - that cancer cells have just turned their telomerase up full-blast," Professor Blackburn said. But for reasons not yet fully understood, withdrawing the enzyme makes a cancer cell stop growing and even destroy itself.
"It doesn't like that sudden change because it's been completely adjusted to a life of high telomerase," she added.
The animal studies, which looked at a range of cancers, showed that cancer cells were highly susceptible to this approach. But while she was optimistic about its potential, Professor Blackburn warned that scientists were still a long way from clinical trials with the method.
The trick now would be targeting the approach so that it destroyed only bad cells.
The next step might be in looking at bladder cancer, Professor Blackburn said, a common disease whose treatment could be contained so that it did not affect the rest of the body.
"Basically what we're trying to do is to sneak a bad component of telomerase into the cells that will most avidly take it up, which are the cancer cells," she said. "And then they will do their damage there, we hope, rather than in normal cells."
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Google has been dominating desktop internet search and advertising for almost a decade now. It has deployed an aggressive strategy which is swiftly occupying the mobile space. Google is dominating the global mobile search market with a market share of 97% for mobile searches worldwide. Optimising its core expertise, Google has managed to anticipate the mobile demand and is constantly optimising its services to anticipate future trends. Visiongain estimates Google' s mobile search advertising revenues to reach $2.85 billion by 2016.
Google is currently facing a difficult task in forming a more cohesive internal strategy, which, if left too long, might see its strategic advantage in mobile evade it. This report analyses Google' s unique business methods, how it is leveraging its core competencies to consolidate its position and whether its strategies are effective in overcoming market barriers and industry challenges.
Google is adding value to its existing online services and products by ensuring their availability on mobile platforms. Geo-target targeted information and data collection are enabling it to harness the full potential of mobile advertising. Its accelerated deployment of free services and open-source models is squeezing out competitors and conferring upon it a significant competitive advantage, allowing it to quickly overtake established market players. By 2016, visiongain expects Google' s Android to hold a 46% market share in the mobile OS segment. Find out in this report what areas Google is investing and if it is successful in acquiring and increasing its market share.
Google is committing considerable resources in order to better assert its market position, spending in 2010 more than $3.76 billion in research and development and $7.31 billion in acquisitions. It has been active in seeking new partnerships and making numerous acquisitions in order to offer competitive products. In addition, Google is expanding into new markets and investing in new technologies which it believes will shape the future of mobile. This report investigates Google' s ventures and projects and evaluates their potential with regards to product innovation, evolution in the mobile segment and the demands of the market.
The mobile industry is undergoing significant structural changes as a result of convergence and technological progress. Google is quickly dominating a broad spectrum of activities pertinent to industries beyond data services and the internet. It is proving to be one of the biggest and fastest-growing conglomerates in digital services and its enterprises affect everyone, from end-users to multi-national corporations. It is staking a place in the mobile operating system with Android in a bid to turn it into a multi-purpose OS but it is also facing significant challenges due to fragmentation issues. The success and the challenges of this particular mobile venture affect a vast and diverse number of companies and associations. Read this report to understand the intricacies of industry relationships which have evolved around the Android OS.
We conducted an independent and unbiased non-vendor affiliated assessment of Google in mobile. This report offers a global and holistic view on a company whose name has found its way into the English language dictionary in just over a decade. We believe our research will help you to better assess the market potential of the company.
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text: killahrat September 08, 2013 8:37 PM What a pair of boring races, this shoot out crap has ruined the championship. No one really put in much of an effort apart from Westmoreland and Bridewell. Why take risks when there are only 3 points up for grabs. The paying public were robbed. Reply Report abuse 24 agree 5 disagree


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|I should add that some people go by 5% total organ meat, but that is just secreting organs. Muscular organs are muscle meat.
|It is 5% liver and 5% other organ (secreting organs like kidney or spleen). Non-secreting organs like heart are actually fed like muscle meat.
Progressing from pre made to "I actually have to think about this" raw diet
I've been told that liver has to be 5%. The other 5 are non muscle organs. Muscle organs are counted as meat.
But there are diff schools on this
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|The way I understand the organ meat to work out is this: 5% secreting organ, 5% muscle organ. Secreting organs would be liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, muscle organs would be heart, gizzard, trachea/esophagus, stomach may fall into that category as well. Think in terms of the function of that organ.
|According to the USDA site, beef liver is approximately 70% moisture. So I'd imagine if you fed 1 ounce of liver a day, you'd only have to feed 0.3 ounces of dried liver.
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The % I'm going by is 5% liver and another 5 of organ meat. And the dehydrated liver does count but you need to account for the water when you factor it in.
Maybe someone can tell you how to do that, not my strength lol. I don't worry about being exact, it all evens out in the long run.
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It's been several months since I started Stella on raw. We got through the initial bile throwing up, constant poop watching, first turkey neck meal, chicken back meal, Bravo recall, etc....without having a heart attack! I started out with the pre made raw and am trying to add "regular" meat to help defray some of the cost! I have to confess that the premade is so nice and easy....everything all ready to eat but pretty expensive. I want to continue with raw but need to look at alternatives. I found a butcher recently and was able to get turkey necks and chicken backs considerably cheaper.
I kind of feel like I am back to square one because I am not sure just what to feed on a daily basis. Stella is 80-85 lbs and almost 3 yrs old. I figure about 2 lbs is about what she should be eating. I don't have a scale so everything is a guess on my part. Does this sound about right for her daily food.....
1 chicken back and/or 1 turkey neck, 1 lb premade, and about 1 lb of meat (so far I have used chicken breast and beef kabobs) I have been giving her dehydrated liver treats as treats....do these count as the 5% organ meat? Or do I need to get some liver from the store? How big of a piece of liver do I give? Oh and I throw in some sardines a couple of times a week and eggs every now and again.
I know this is long but I am worried about my girl's nutrition. My family thinks I am nuts feeding raw.....
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I've posted several tutorials here and have tried to help out those who have asked for help in any way possible. I've even opened my shop up to anyone wanting to come by and use my tools and equipment for their own projects, with or without my assistance.
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How is Nature doing? Biodiversity, sustainability, and biomass
Last Friday, I posed the question under what definitions of Nature one can say that it is doing badly, and whether there were other ones under which it was doing fine. I was explicitly interested in how Nature is doing now relative to decades or longer periods past, though of course once one has a definition one can judge future trajectories with it too.
For those who want to cut to the chase, I personally would advocate moving towards a composite index of Nature on this planet, because no single goal would seem to capture what people really think when they talk about Nature. Such indices are already being developed for the oceans (see http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/). Yet, I could not find overall indices for world 'Nature', so it would seem there is a vacuum there for some organisation to fill. Presumably, as with the oceans, there will be moves under way to create such indices. I think they would be onto a winner.
There were many interesting reactions to the question of how to define Nature and whether it was hence in bad or good shape. One type of reaction was 'how dare you pose the question' which I presume is by people who have already decided on the 'obvious' answer.
A more serious and recurrent answer was 'biodiversity' and there is no doubt that that diversity has been rapidly reducing the last few centuries. Some openly said biodiversity should be the definition and it was also implicitly the answer by all those talking about the great extinctions of the past and the one we seem to be hurtling towards. And just to remind you in case you are wondering, I am not a climate change denialist though I am sceptical that anything but geo-engineering will halt climate change.
Still, I have always been ambivalent about thinking of Nature as 'biodiversity' and not just because of the obvious point that surely the state of 'Nature' should include some notion of volume and not just variance.
It is not hard to see the appeal of biodiversity as a measure of Nature: the more biodiversity, the more potential for yielding benefits to humanity. Also, the greater the biodiversity, the quicker the recovery would be from any temporary changes in the environment. Perhaps most importantly, the sheer love of variety would have one appreciate more diversity. So if we are to think of 'Nature' as a composite thing for which we would want some kind of index to measure its current state by, then biodiversity should surely be in that index. Commensurate with this, I am all in favour of breeding programs for endangered species and plant-seed banks as a means of preserving diversity.
The problem for an economist is that we can engineer biodiversity: if we were to truly take biodiversity as the state of Nature and we would like there to be more Nature, then the obvious question becomes 'what type of diversity would you like to see'? Given that we have become much better at genetic engineering, the production of Nature would simply end up being a matter of setting enough labs to the task of creating more diversity.
As soon as one puts this kind of logical consequence to proponents of biodiversity, they invariably back-peddle and start to argue that human-made diversity somehow does not count as real. But that is just a cop-out. If one does not want to add to 'Nature' by paying for more man-made bio-diversity then clearly diversity is not the be-all and end-all of Nature but at most a part of it.
One can then up-scale the notion of diversity and redefine 'Nature' as being about a diversity and richness of habitats, under which definition it is again fairly clear it is not doing so well. The appeal of this alternative definition is much the same as that of simple biodiversity but the upgraded definition is now a bit more impervious to the obvious engineering riposte. It also is much closer to a notion of 'sustainability' in that greater habitat diversity more clearly involves a regenerative ability.
With habitat diversity we get closer to what a lot of conservation is about, with the protection of unusual habitats leading us to be careful of pristine environments. Again, it is a definition I would intuitively agree with, though once more it would be the case that if this is truly what we value then we should not be squeamish about setting our labs to work on the question of how to create (or re-create) whole habitats complete with appropriate fungi and bacteria. Of course, we are moving in this direction too, though I personally think we should be much more forthright in this. For the life of me, I can't see why we should not welcome straightforward engineering in this realm.
A completely different conception of Nature is to define it solely in terms of the services it can provide us humans with, i.e. to define Nature in terms of its usage value. This was of course the definition used in the millennium report on this and by that definition, the state of Nature is ambiguous. For sure, there is no doubt that all kinds of habitats have reduced but they have in the main given way to other habitats, not wastelands (though there are some of those too). It would need some kind of composite index of Nature's value to tell us whether it has reduced. If we simply think of those services as 'food production' then in fact Nature has grown in the last few decades, though perhaps the potential for more Nature has then declined.
Conrad at Troppo furthermore mentioned that if we think of Nature as being about sheer volume of living material or animal mass, then perhaps Nature would not be doing so badly either.
Sheer biomass has a lot of appeal as a measure of Nature. One can try and measure it; it has a democratic feel to it (every ounce of living material is worth the same); it includes us humans as well as any other animal; and one can quite easily weigh different types of biomass more heavily if one feels some things are more natural than others (surely the umpteenth tree is not worth as much as the first elephant!). It also has obvious positive connections to human service value and restorative powers so it partially captures those as well. So if I had to chose a single measure of Nature, I would probably go for biomass, and I was being clever about it I would transform biomass using a continuous CES love-of-variety utility model.
Still, even (transformed) biomass is not ideal because it fails to pick up the advantages of habitat diversity and its connection to usage value is too loose. What would thus be ideal is a Nature Index including biodiversity, habitat diversity, services to humans, and sheer biomass.
Yet, it is interesting to consider the question of whether biomass has in fact been reducing or increasing in the last few decades. Let's consider that question on Wednesday.
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Biomass is dumb; 99% of all life mass is bacteria. We could wipe out out every other vertebrate inhabitant of the planet and still end up with pretty much the same number. It makes 'whale' and 'dead whale' equivalent, as there's always going to be something making a meal of 'dead whale', which is true about just about anything that doesn't die in fire and go up in smoke, so apart from burning, it's not clear to me that biomass can really go down.
So, really we can answer your question sooner. Find out how much fossil fuel we're burning plus the contribution from thawing permafrost, measure the increase in concentration of CO2 in the air and the oceans, any difference in carbon is biomass increasing or decreasing.
Actually I quite like Dr Nick's contribution of Planetary Boundaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries.
As for diversity, I'll see your 'create diversity and the lab' and raise you. Every living thing that has sex increases diversity more in seconds than any human lab can do in six months, but I like your thinking. Bring back the Thylacine I say. 😉
I do not think that it is at all obvious that any measure should include some notion of volume – in fact I think it is obvious that volume/mass/population is irrelevant (except inasmuch as insufficient population implies less diversity).
The most obvious candidate for a defensible measure is to base it on a notion of information content / order. Once information (as, for example, embodied within the genome and proteome of some individual) has been destroyed, it cannot be recreated – so that is a real loss to the universe. This also applies to the order replaced with disorder when some physical artifact of the natural world is destroyed.
Your bio-engineered diversity argument does not worry me, either – current genetic techniques amount to either "cutting and pasting" from one genome to another, or turning on or off the expression of a set of genes. This activity does not increase total information content.
You *could*, instead, create large numbers of new individuals by randomly mutating existing genomes and selecting out the viable individuals – any such viable individuals would represent a tiny increase in information content. However, to offset even the information loss from the extinction of a single species in this way would require a massive devotion of resources – there's a *lot* of accumulated natural selection that's gone into making that species what it was yesterday.
In terms of habitat creation, you are on firmer ground – although the most successful examples in history have been accidental (human cities are after all artificial habitats). Deliberate attempts are usually copies of naturally-occuring habitats – for example artificial reefs.


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Legislative Session Has Challenges, Potential
The election is over and the dust is finally settling on the national scene, as well as on at least one congressional race in Utah. All the so-called political experts have their never-ending opinions on why things turned out the way they did, but I think most people realize it's now time to move on and get to work.
The biggest challenge the Utah Legislature has this year is to keep Utah the best-managed state in the Union. We've seen some positive momentum with the economy, and need to do everything we can to keep that going. More importantly, we must not do anything to hinder economic growth.
We face some challenges that we have to overcome. First, with the election results, we now know that the health care reform, or Obamacare, is here to stay, and we have to deal with the realities of that. Utah does have the option to decline some of the adult coverage expansion in Medicaid, which will be controversial but saves money. However, Utah will still have to fund $40 million in additional costs starting in 2014, rising to more than $150 million in 2017. Second, we have the constant challenge of how to improve and better fund our children's public education. Third, we need to find ways to get more higher education students to complete their degrees and do it in a more timely fashion.
The governor's 2020 Initiative is definitely a step in the right direction with the goal of 66 percent of Utahns securing a post-secondary certificate or diploma by 2020. The College and Career Readiness programs (CCRs) that our Southern Utah secondary schools are already implementing help students to think beyond high school graduation and give them the tools and skills they need to eventually complete their degrees at a technical school, ATC, college or university.
In my senate district, we have some important projects to work on:
• Getting the new Southwest Applied Technology building built. It's been near the top of the Utah Legislative Building Board list for three years, and hopefully this year we can secure the funding to start building.
• Moving forward with legislation to change Dixie State College to university status.
• State funding for the new Utah Shakespeare Festival building, so our area economy can start reaping the benefits of additional visitors.
• Road and water issues, including the Lake Powell pipeline, in all of Southern Utah require legislative action and leadership.
• The ongoing battle with the federal government over more control of our public lands and prairie dogs is a fight that needs to be continued.
In some ways, it's a challenging time for the Utah Legislature, yet I also see it as an exciting time with tremendous potential.
Southern Utah is such a beautiful place to live, and we have so much to offer. If we work together, we can continue to see great things happen here.
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FRESNO, Calif. -- Senior Rufie Fessler continued to lead the Bulldogs throughout round two of the Winchester Classic in Meadow Vista, Calif. on April 20th.
Fessler shot two-over par, 74 on the day to sit in a tie for ninth place out of 57 players. On the tournament, Fessler sits one-over par, 145 (71-74).
The Fresno State men's golf team battled round two to finish the day in ninth place out of 11 teams. The Bulldogs sit 25-over par, 601 (302-299) and trail four strokes behind co-host Nevada.
"We are in a bit of slump right now," head coach Mike Watney said. "It's a good thing we have a little time before the conference championship."
Johnny Partridge and Troix Tonkham sit six strokes behind Fessler at seven-over par, 151. Partridge (78-73) and Tonkham (75-76) sit in a tie for 30th place.
The Bulldogs tee off the final round of the Winchester Classic on Sunday, April 21. Check www.gobulldogs.com for the recap.