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Study finds that our pups experience "runners high"
Sometimes it takes a good amount of effort to get myself off the couch and out for a run. But when I manage to get moving, it feels great. On the other hand, my dogs seem to naturally love running and could probably gallop around all day.
As it turns out, exercising is another way that humans and canines are alike. Researchers at the University of Arizona recently found that, like people, dogs experience a "runners high," the rush of positive feelings that result from exercising.
The study originally set out to see if certain species evolved to like running. Sprinting uses a lot of energy and increases risk of injury, so the researchers hypothesized that humans and dogs didn't run because they had to (for capturing prey and escaping predators), but because they became hard-wired to enjoy it.
They compared species who naturally run—humans and dogs, to ferrets, which are considered non-runners. For the experiment, the dogs and ferrets were trained to use a treadmill using positive reinforcement.
The results showed that the people and dogs had higher levels of endocannabinoids, the chemicals that alter and lighten mood, after running, but not walking. The ferrets had the same levels before and after both, suggesting that they derived no pleasure from the more intense activity.
Apparently these days most humans regularly suppress our biological desire to run, but dogs do not. So the next time your pup looks like he wants to get out and play, lace up your sneakers and go out together. You were both born to run!
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Explaining a Seeing Eye dog's vision to children
Whitney and I visited a school on the North Side of Chicago recently, and for some reason the first and second graders seemed particularly interested in color blindness. When one of them asked me if it's true that dogs can only see black and white, I explained that dogs do see some colors, but they can't tell the difference between red and green.
"If we're at an intersection with a stoplight, it's my job to judge when it might be safe to cross." I described the way I stand up straight, concentrate and listen for the rush of cars. When it sounds like the traffic is going the direction I want to go, I take a guess the light is green and command Whitney to go forward. Whitney's ears perk up; she listens for traffic and looks left and right to confirm it's safe before pulling me across.
The students seemed satisfied with that answer and went on with other questions. Are you blind all of the time? When you were at the Seeing Eye school, what was your teacher's name? Does Whitney like to lick a lot? What do you and Whitney do to have fun? Their thoughts eventually returned to colors, though.
One girl told me that her school uniform is red. "But does Whitney think they're green?" I gave that question some thought, and realized I couldn't answer it. When I got home, I did some research.
Dogs see colors, but not the same way humans do. People can see variations of violet, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Dogs can only see blue, violet, yellow and some shades of gray.
My source? An article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association called "Vision in Dogs," written by P.E. Miller and C.J. Murphy. A credible source, but not sure it answers this sweet first grader's question.
If dogs can't see the color red, what do they see instead? Blue? Violet?
Yellow? If any of you blog followers have an answer, by all means leave a comment. I'm curious to know now, too!
Dog's Life: Humane
The many sides of temperament testing
In a gathering storm centered on the policies of animal shelters, temperament testing has become a lightning rod. Some resource- and space-starved shelters—which might have once chosen dogs for adoption based on such specious criteria as color, size, age, breed or length of time in the shelter—now use a series of tests that purport to evaluate a dog's behavior and predict whether the dog will be a good companion for an adopter. Shelters using such tests make several claims for doing so: The dogs they put up for adoption are safer; dogs are selected based on whether they would be good family pets without regard to age or appearance; data gleaned from the tests help shelters find better adoption matches and provide useful information to adopters; and as a result, more people in the community are adopting shelter dogs.
So what's prompting the firestorm? Several issues. No one advocates putting vicious dogs up for adoption, but many people think good dogs are being declared unadoptable because the tests are unfair and the people administering the tests are not qualified. A common refrain is, "My dog wouldn't have passed the test." Further, opponents of temperament testing claim shelters use these tests to hide the truth—that they show low euthanasia rates and high adoption rates by counting only "adoptable" dogs (those that passed the test). This, they believe, deludes a community into believing that there's no pet over-population problem, and encourages people to drop off an inconvenient dog at a shelter. Detractors also claim that testing tempts shelters to focus on quick resolution rather than spending in-house resources on prevention and utilizing outside resources such as rescue groups.
Central to all these important and intense issues, though, is the fundamental question: Are temperament tests valid? That is, can testing a dog in a stressful shelter environment predict later behavior of the dog?
Most people advocating tests agree that "temperament" tests, in fact, are not valid because a dog's "temperament" is subjective. Instead, they prefer calling the tests "behavior evaluations," because behavior can be seen and described objectively. Two such behavior evaluations, Sue Sternberg's Assess-a-Pet and Dr. Emily Weiss' SAFER/Meet Your Match, are the ones most likely to be used by shelters because information about these tests is readily available through workshops, seminars, books, and videos as well as from such organizations as the American Humane Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
"The purpose of the test is to find the gems that don't often come in gemlike packages," Sternberg says. "I wanted to develop a test that would reveal what the dog would be like with the average adopter, not with a professional dog trainer." It begins with hands-off observation in which the tester looks for sociable or nonsociable responses, and progresses to evaluations for play, arousal, resource guarding, behavior with cats and mental sensitivity. The test uses the infamous Assess-a-Hand, an artificial hand on a stick that allows someone testing for resource guarding to safely approach, pet and then try to pull a food dish or chew toy away from a dog. Among other recommendations, Sternberg advises shelters to wait two to four days before testing and have two trained people perform the test.
Assess-a-Pet is not a simple pass/fail test; in most parts of the evaluation, the tester selects among a range of responses and also adds observations. For example, the four responses to a test during which the tester strokes the back of the dog are: moves toward tester in at least two out of three strokes, stays in same spot, moves away from tester, or freezes and becomes more aroused. Although some dogs have extreme responses, most responses land in a gray area.
"Mostly, the tests give us information that helps us determine who we can put the dog with," says Trish King, director of behavior and training at the Marin Humane Society (in northern California), which bases their behavior evaluations on the Assess-a-Pet test. "If a dog is problematic in one area but fantastic in others, we will go out of our way to place that dog because we have the room and the training facility. Unfortunately, other places don't." At the Marin Humane Society, virtually all dogs are held for three to four days before any testing, walked outside in a lawn area to relieve themselves first and tested in a quiet room away from the kennels by two people (one of whom has gone through a full apprenticeship program). Any dog that fails—about 5 percent according to King—is retested at least once within three days, and all dogs who show health problems are tested again once they're healthy.
SAFER/Meet Your Match
The ASPCA in New York, which receives dogs from their humane law enforcement officers, from the NYC Animal Care & Control, and from owner surrenders, uses the SAFER test to determine whether to accept owner-surrendered dogs. "The ACC dogs that we take have already been evaluated," says Pamela Reid, PhD, director of the Animal Behavior Center. "But for the owner surrenders, we use the SAFER test to get a quick assessment. We've raised the bar on which of these dogs we're willing to accept because we already get a lot of problem dogs from humane law enforcement." Once a dog has been in the shelter a few days, it's given a full evaluation using parts of a 140-test-item behavior evaluation developed by Dr. Amy Marder, a veterinarian now with the Animal Rescue League of Boston. "The full test took an hour-and-a-half," says Reid. "So, we're using a pared-down version based on her research that includes only the parts that are predictive of behavior in the home."
San Francisco SPCA
So, the SF/SPCA devised its own test. "We sat down with all our trainers, decided what we were going to accept or not going to accept, defined our terms, and created a test with objective scoring," Donaldson says. "We've got to have an objective test or our data becomes junk."
Instead of asking if a dog is friendly, for example, they ask if the dog approached a handler within X number of seconds; if it growled for three seconds when a stimulus was within six feet on the right side; and, as the stimulus came closer, did the dog snap or continue to growl. "We're checking boxes and at the end we can see if the dog is above or below our criteria for an adoptable dog," says Donaldson, who notes that dogs often pass the test with suggestions for behavior modification. "Because the criteria were agreed upon by all people in the shelter, and the result is the same whether I test, you test, the test happens this week or next week, no one is forced into a god position."
To determine reliability, they tested their method in two ways: The dog was retested (without behavior modification) a week later by the original tester and the results were com-pared; and three to five testers tested the dog independently and those results were compared. Because results were the same, the test was deemed reliable.
As for valid? "We keep records on all the dogs, but what has to happen and has not happened is the follow-up," Donaldson says. "The issue with our test and with all the evaluations is that we haven't crunched enough follow-up numbers. We have to say we really don't know."
Some data on temperament tests is slowly becoming available, though.
Testing the Tests
She has also begun evaluating dogs in boarding kennels to see whether the tests are as valid for dogs with homes as for dogs in shelters. "On dogs already in loving homes, SAFER is proving to be predictive of aggression and nonaggression," she says. "While we are still collecting and analyzing the data, early reports indicate a strong predictability."
In a separate study, Dr. Marder has been looking at the results of follow-up phone surveys for 70 adopted dogs that were assessed at the ASPCA using her 140-test-item behavioral evaluation. "I was seeing dogs put to sleep that were like dogs in my private practice," she says. "The owners were working on the problems and the dogs were doing fine. So, I wanted to find out which tests in the behavioral evaluation were predictive of behaviors in the home."
Each test-item in the evaluation called for objective observations: Evaluators described the placement of a dog's ears, for example, rather than classifying a dog as "happy." And, the evaluation as a whole was tested and determined to be reliable: results were the same regardless of who did the testing.
To organize the study, Dr. Marder grouped the test items into such categories as possessive behavior, handling, protective behavior, cage behavior and response to fearful stimuli. The dogs' responses were also categorized by such behavior as aggressive, friendly and fearful. The phone surveys made one, two, three and six months after adoption asked about these categories.
In "Pick of the Shelter," (Bark, Fall '03) Patricia McConnell, PhD, wrote, "It is impossible to perfectly predict the behavior of a dog in one context when you're doing the evaluation in another. Period. End of sentence. Impossible." Dr. Marder's results show that this statement is true.
Rather than trying to draw a perfect correlation between a shelter test and behavior in the home, Dr. Marder decided to look at how well (how perfectly) a test predicted behavior, in the same way, for example, that results of an SAT test predict academic success or failure.
Once her numbers were crunched, she concluded that none of the individual test items were 100 percent predictive; each test only indicated tendencies. She also determined that the ability of any test to predict behavior changed over time. "The dogs change in two directions, an increase in behavior or decrease in behavior," she says, and recommends that other information, such as intake profiles and the behavior of the dog in the shelter, also guide predictions and triage decisions.
With this in mind and looking at the broad picture, Dr. Marder's analysis shows that if a dog growled, snapped or bit during any test in the shelter evaluation, the dog was more likely than not to exhibit one of these behaviors again after adoption. But, importantly, by digging deeper into the numbers, she saw that growling during any test at the shelter did not predict snapping or biting after adoption.
When considering categories of behavior, she found three for which positive tests were moderately predictive: possessive aggression, protective behavior and mouthing. That is, if a dog lifted a lip, growled, snapped or bit over food, rawhide or a bed during the test, the dog was likely to show some form of possessive aggression after adoption. Similarly, dogs who lifted a lip, growled, barked, snapped or bit when approached or threatened by a stranger (protective behavior) were likely to show territorial behavior after adoption. And dogs that mouthed during the test were likely to mouth after adoption.
Somewhat predictive were positive responses in categories having to do with aggression to children (dogs were tested with a toddler doll), interdog aggression and separation anxiety. And if a dog showed cage aggression in the shelter, it was somewhat likely to exhibit territorial behavior after adoption.
Of course, what the dog doesn't do during an evaluation is also important. For example, dogs who did not show possessive aggression, separation anxiety or fear of people during the test were not likely to have these behaviors pop up after adoption, either. And a dog's friendliness, or lack thereof, in the shelter tended to be the same after adoption. The number crunching continues as she readies the data for publication.
Testing Assess-a-Pet
For her first study, Smith tracked 839 behaviorally assessed dogs adopted over a two-year period. The results, which she's planning to present at the HSUS/Animal Care Expo in March, show that dogs put into a level-one category (no restrictions) after the behavior assessment stayed in the shelter an average of six days, level-two dogs (restrictions such as homes with older children) stayed an average of nine days, and level-three dogs (more difficult issues) stayed 14 days. Some of the level-one dogs were returned and adopted out again, but none were euthanized. On the other hand, 3 percent of the level-two dogs and 7 percent of the level-three dogs were returned and euthanized (or euthanized elsewhere) for behavior problems. "Our return rate has decreased since implementing an assessment process," she says. "We are making better matches and our euthanasia rate has not increased." Smith believes that because of temperament testing, the shelter is putting safer dogs up for adoption.
Bollen tracked 2,017 dogs that she tested personally with Assess-a-Pet using follow-up calls at six months for every dog and at one year for random dogs. "I tried to do as many components of the test as I could, whether or not the dog was aggressive during the test," she says. Bollen, who hopes to have her results published in a peer-reviewed journal, was unwilling to release actual statistics at this time, but did share some general results.
"I found that if a dog showed overt aggression that caused it to fail one part of the test, it was likely to show overt aggression in other parts of the test," she says. And, of the dogs she deemed adoptable, a high majority showed no aggression after adoption. "My results show that the temperament test does identify dogs that have a tendency to exhibit aggression in certain situations. Performing the test reduces returns because we reduce the number of aggressive dogs who are placed back into the community, and it allows us to make better placements. And, lastly, borderline dogs, the ones that showed behaviors of concern during the temperament test but were adopted out, were more likely to exhibit behavior problems or aggression post-adoption."
The results sound encouraging; however, canine behaviorist Dr. Karen Overall, who is on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, casts a skeptical eye on temperament testing and the data being presented. "I think Amy Marder's work has a lot of potential because she's asking about probability, about how consistent the dog's behavior is over time," she says. "I'm a scientist. Before I can look at findings, the test has to be repeatable and reliable and there has to be objective criteria. We have to codify the behavior … where the dog's ears are, if there's vocalization, and if so, whether it starts low and goes up or goes down, where the feet are, what the hair is doing. And context matters. The people who use the Assess-a-Hand do so to have a safe way to reach toward the animal, but the first set of conditions is whether your test instrument is valid. This test object doesn't mirror the real world, so the answer has to be no. So, don't tell me a dog growled.
"I'm not saying there aren't factors in these tests that will be predictive, but they may not predict what people think," Overall adds. "When I review the tests, I see spurious correlations."
Dr. Overall isn't alone among behaviorists in questioning the tests. "We do our damnedest to find appropriate placements," says Reid. "The test gives us just one snapshot of behavior. We've had dogs that aren't good on the evaluation but were fine with the people who were walking them and cleaning the cages. So we take that into consideration."
Reid joins her colleagues in calling for more research. "The two things that are missing are, first, more studies and greater numbers," she says. "And second, we need information about dogs that fail an evaluation in some way, undergo rehabilitation and get adopted out. We need to know whether the behaviors resurface."
Adds Donaldson, "The anti-testing people are so incredibly well-meaning. I know where they're coming from. You run a test, adopt the dog anyway, and the dog is fine. Clearly there are problems with the tests, but it could be that some tests are valid, that some parts of the tests may have good predictive value. The preliminary results from tests by Emily [Weiss] and Amy [Marder] have value and are a tantalizing reinforcement for some things, but we have to get funding for more research. Before we can save all the dogs, we have to triage; we have to save the maximum number of dogs in a way that makes sense. If testing is not the way, if it turns out that there is no way to test that's adequately valid, then we'll need to stop banging our heads on the testing wall. But then what will we go on?"
Implicit in the work these researchers and behaviorists are doing and in the worries people inside and outside the shelter system have about temperament testing is their concern for the community and for the dogs. Pete Miller, a shelter supervisor at Santa Barbara County Animal Services and a 20-year veteran of the shelter system who believes temperament tests are a necessary part of good sheltering practice, perhaps puts this best: "When a dog dies in an animal shelter, it almost doesn't matter whether the dog was an old favorite or a hopeless case of a violent animal that never had a chance; the dog was alive one second, and literally gone the next. Everything it ever was and every possibility for what it would have been and done—gone in a second. It's the actual fact of the real loss and what it means to kill that needs to weigh most and is the reason there should never be a formula that tries to remove the responsibility from a person or dim the reality of what it means to take away a life."
Editor's Note: This article won the 2004 ASPCA Humane Special Award for Dog Writing.
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Dogs understand pointing better than chimps
A few years ago I took my dogs to the Harvard Canine Cognition Lab to participate in some really interesting research. One of the studies looked at the dogs' understanding of gestures, such as pointing. I didn't think my pups were really making the association in the lab, but at home I do think that they seem to understand when I'm pointing at things. Maybe it's just a shared understanding we've developed after years of living together.
Despite my anecdotal findings, apparently dogs are pretty good at understanding gestures. Previous studies have shown this before, but recent research shows that dogs are even better in this area than chimps.
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany presented 20 chimps and 32 dogs with the same task, retrieving an object that a researcher pointed to. The team found that the dogs were much more successful than the chimps.
The researchers think that pointing may be a human form of communication, which is why the chimps couldn't understand the concept. However, they were puzzled by the fact that the dogs were able to pick up on the pointing.
I wonder if this has to do with the close relationship we have with our dogs. They've evolved around humans and previous studies have shown that they can understand our body language. It's a pretty cool concept!
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Points to more than one common ancestor
A well-preserved skull discovered in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia has been identified as the 33,000-year-old remains of a domesticated dog—making it among the oldest evidence of domestication, according to a report originally published in Plos One.
The discovery means the story of domestication as happening in a single place needs to be revised. It looks very much like domestication happened repeatedly in different geographic areas and who knows how far back.
Although the shortened snout and widened jaw in the Siberian skull offer clear evidence of domestication, this dog is not an ancestor of the modern dog. Nor are equally ancient dog remains discovered earlier in a cave in Belgium. These lines appear not to have survived the last great ice age (which began about 26,000 years ago).
I'm intrigued and excited by the idea that humans were living with dogs—for protection, companionship, help on the hunt—not just in many places but well before other animals were domesticated for agricultural use. The science continues to make the case for a very deep relationship.
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In-home DNA tests are cheaper. Are they better?
Just in time for Christmas, the Canine Heritage Breed Test came out with a 4th gneration test to look for evidence of 120 breeds in your dog's DNA, for the rock-bottom price of $25. Honestly, that seems like a pretty good deal—as long as you don't plan on taking the results too seriously. I know of what I speak.
In 2007, the first in-home genetic tests started making the rounds. I wanted to unlock the nuances of my mutt, who was best described as a Labrador Retriever/Husky mix (See Lulu, left). So I sent a cheek swab along with $65 to MMI Genomics (creators of the Canine Heritage test).
I got a call, instead of the promised heritage certificate. Turns out, Lulu didn't match with any of the then-38 breeds in the test. The results showed a little Siberian Husky "in the mix," along with Chow Chow, Chinese Shar-Pei and Akita—none of which were "statistically significant" or made much sense.
MMI offered to refund my money and to flag Lulu's sample for the next generation of testing in a few months, which aimed to include around 100 breeds. I wrote a blog about how I was relieved not to know, embracing the mystery, yada, yada, yada. Meanwhile, true to their word, the folks at MMI retested Lulu a while later. This time she came in with no "primary" matches, and Labrador Retriever as a "secondary" match and Yorkshire Terrier "in the mix." Yorkie? Seriously?
Even though I repudiated any need to know by this time, I jumped onboard when Mars Veterinary launched its Wisdom Panel DNA test, based on blood samples drawn by your vet. Clearly, I wanted to know, and somehow not being personally responsible for collecting the testing sample made me more confident about the results.
The cost: I don't actually remember, but significantly more than MMI's swab test, plus the cost of the blood draw. (Now, Mars has a Widsom Panel cheek swab test as well, for $49.99).
Lulu's Wisdom Panel found that she has some German Shepherd Dog and Labrador Retriever with a "high degree of certainty" and some Brittany with a "medium degree of certainty." These breeds, at least, make sense to me—she looks and acts a little like all three types of dogs.
Ultimately, knowing she's a German Labrittany didn't change a thing about our happy life together, except I finally had an answer when strangers asked, "What kind of dog is that?" (Here's one take on this phenomenon [video].) Worth $25? Probably.
Have you tried a DNA test for your dog? I'd love to hear about it.
Dog's Life: Lifestyle
Study finds that rats look out for their friends
Rats have a bad reputation, but they actually make wonderful pets. I had two before my living situation allowed me to welcome dogs into my family. They were clean and actually quite personable. Reggie and Angie quickly learned their names and would run to the side of the cage when I came into the room. I always thought of them as being very dog-like.
A recent study not only confirmed that rats are smart, but found that they may have empathy for their friends.
Researchers at the University of Chicago placed a free-roaming rat in an enclosure with a caged rat. Once the free rats realized that they could release the trapped rat, they opened the cage every day, even if they were immediately separated (proving the rats were empathetic and not only freeing the trapped rats for companionship).
In the final set-up, the researchers placed rats into an enclosure with two cages—one with another rat and the other with chocolate. They found that the free rats were just as likely to free the caged rats as they were to access the chocolate. Even more unbelievable, the rats almost always shared the treats with the freed rats.
Interestingly when females figured out how to open the cage, they would immediately open it every day. Male rats would occasionally take a day off.
It's pretty cool that there's research showing that animals aren't always just looking out for themselves. I would love to see a similar study done with dogs. When I was checking out the Canine Cognition Lab at Harvard University, the researchers mentioned that they had a canine empathy study in the works and there are other scientists who have tackled the subject.
I do think dogs are capably of empathy, even though I've never seen it in my own pups. I've heard stories of therapy dogs that "take on" the stress symptoms of the patients they visit and pups who won't leave someone's side when they're depressed.
Have you seen your pups express empathy?
Dog's Life: Lifestyle
Results look promising
For anyone whose life has been touched by cancer, and that's most people, any advancement in treating the disease provides hope and is welcome news. A new tool that helps in the treatment of osteosarcoma is a result of Stan Stearns's desire to help other dogs like his St. Bernard Gabriel. Gabriel was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, and succumbed to the disease in 2008.
Stearns is an entrepreneur whose company, Valco Instruments, makes tiny tools used for precision work in laboratories. He developed a small drill that can be used to deliver a tiny quantity of a radioactive isotope to a dog's tumor. This allows doctors to target the tumor accurately without causing harm to healthy cells or subjecting the entire body to chemotherapy. Preliminary results suggest that this treatment alleviates pain and limits the spread of the cancer.
Radioactive isotope therapy is a newer treatment for osteosarcoma, which is often treated by amputating an affected leg, though the cancer still often spreads to the lungs, at which point it's difficult for the dog to survive more than a year. Treatment for dogs can be $6,000, and Stearns's Foundation, the Gabriel Institute, has paid the costs for some families.
The goal of the Gabriel Institute is to conduct and support research into bone cancer with the hope of finding a cure. Though the institute focuses on dogs, the hope is that the research will benefit people with bone cancer as well.
Dog's Life: Lifestyle
A study looks at the characteristics of reactive dogs
As pet lovers, we've always known that animals pick up on our emotions. When I first started competing in rally obedience and agility, Nemo always seemed to pick up on how nervous I was. As I gained more confidence, Nemo also looked more comfortable in the ring.
But could our being male or female affect our pets?
According to a new study, the sex of the person on the other end of the leash has the biggest effect on reactive behavior towards other dogs. The researchers proposed that the higher instance of threatening behavior and bites may be connected to a higher instance of aggressive and impulsive tendencies in men.
The study is certainly interesting, but there could be many explanations for this finding. Perhaps men are more likely to choose dogs that have strong personalities that are predisposed to being reactive towards other dogs. Or maybe men are less likely to socialize their pets. When I go dog events, like group hikes and play groups, the crowd is always mostly female.
What do you think about the study's findings?
Dog's Life: Lifestyle
Study: Dogs behave based on observations of people
My dogs always seem to be watching what I'm doing. I'd like to think they care about my well being, but I think they're more interested in any clues that I might drop food or that it might be dinner time.
A recent study led by Sarah Marshall-Pescini at the University of Milan looks at the information dogs get from watching us and the decisions they make based on that data. Her research focused on what's called interspecies evesdropping, one species (in this case a dog) watching the interactions between two members of another species (in this case two humans).
In the study, the researchers had dogs observe food-sharing between humans. One person, designated the "beggar," approached two people sitting on separate chairs, both holding a bowl of sausages. When the beggar asked for a piece, one person said no and moved one hand in a dismissive gesture, and the other said "have it" and gave a piece to the beggar. The beggar then left the room and the dog was set free to make a choice.
The study found that the dogs were five times more likely to approach the person who shared a piece of sausage than the person who chose not to share.
My dogs, particularly my food-greedy Shelties, are particularly clever at figuring out who is most likely to give them food. In my house, we like to call it "identifying the weak one." While the study didn't exactly surprise me, it's interesting that eavesdropping on third-party interactions is a quality that we share with our dogs. The information gained from eavesdropping is considered an important input for decision-making in many other animals, including humans.
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International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative announced that it will hold its annual Manufacturing Week, featuring the 6th Annual ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness, on Oct. 19-22, at the Hilton Austin Airport in Austin, Texas. Themed "Making Moore for less," ISMI's Manufacturing Week will focus on the impact of current market events and provide actionable data-driven solutions for front-line issues affecting chip factories and their management teams.
"The industry is currently facing an unprecedented period of uncertainty, and making every dollar count is key to a fab's survival," said Scott Kramer, vice president of manufacturing technology. "Our goal this year is to highlight productivity improvements that will produce significant cost reduction benefits over time."
This year's ISMI Manufacturing Week will offer two days of short courses and workshops on October 19-20, followed by the ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness, consisting of two more days of rich collaborative sessions on fab and equipment productivity, yield and metrology, environmental design, simulation and modeling, statistical methods and other critical areas. Supplier exhibits and technical poster sessions will be scheduled throughout the week as well.
More than 300 technologists, fab engineers, and managers gathered to discuss volume productivity issues in the semiconductor industry during the 2008 ISMI Manufacturing Week. The 2009 conference is open to both ISMI members and the general public. For more information, please visit our website ismi.sematech.org/ismisymposium.
Note: call for papers will start March 2, 2009 and abstract submissions will be accepted until May 4, 2009.
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After the two not-so-good weeks in a row, we knew if we could go to Kansas and Charlotte and get two top-fives or maybe even a couple of wins, we would make a good rebound in the points.
Working out the kinks
During Friday's practice we were just really, really tight and I couldn't get the car to turn into the corners. The track was getting slicker as practice wore on but the Pedigree boys worked hard to make it better before qualifying.
For qualifying, we didn't want to leave anything on the table. It was a decent lap but we were still just a little bit too tight and ended up starting 11th. Afterwards, the guys went to work on the car making all kinds of adjustments. During the first practice on Saturday, I was third fastest and during Happy Hour my car was the fastest on the track. We all felt much better after practice.
Getting in gear
The race started and there was a caution before we ever finished the first lap. After the restart, I really fought hard to get my car to the front of the pack. We ran in the top five for a while, but my car was getting tighter with every lap.
Around lap 76, the green-flag pit stops started. I brought the Pedigree car into the pits so the crew could give me four new tires, fuel and a chance to fix the handling problems.
A caution came out around lap 198 and my crew chief, Todd Parrott, and I both agreed that I should stay out to regain some track position. At that point I felt like I had nothing to lose and that gamble really paid off.
I restarted in third and was even able to get to the front and lead a couple of laps. But because the car was so tight, I just couldn't hold off Joe Nemechek and Ricky Rudd.
That was about all the car could do when Greg Biffle passed me in turn four as we raced to the checkers. So we settled for a fourth-place finish.
I had a lot of fun racing Ricky and that No. 21 car. That was pretty cool — I let him go there at the end and was cheering for him and the Wood Brothers to get that No. 01 car. The Wood Brothers have had some ups and downs in the past few years and it would have been really cool for them to bust out a win.
Overall, it was a great run for all of us and I'm really proud of my guys. We kind of dug ourselves a hole in the points, but this chase isn't over. Since some of the other championship contenders struggled, the top-five finish this week moved us up four spots to fourth place overall! We've got to try to beat these guys every single week and win some more races before the season is up.
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PC Ian Swalding was on his way back home to Bletchley after the accident on the Leighton Buzzard road last Wednesday.
PC Swadling, who lived in Newton Leys with his wife Catrina and their three year old son Jack, was a serving officer with the Metropolitan Police Service for 14 years. Catrina is expecting their baby girl in June.
He was currently working on the Harrow Weald Safer Neighbourhoods Team in the borough of Harrow.
Ian's wife Catrina, who he married in 2006, has paid tribute to a loving, family man who will be missed very much.
Catrina said: "Ian was such a dedicated family man. He could not wait to get home to see Jack and loved being with his family. He had many interests including skiing and had been to France several times, we also had skiing holidays in America. He was looking forward to when Jack was a bit older and he could take him. Ian was a great father and was really able to get down on a level with Jack and all of his nieces and nephews. He was brilliant with children and young people.
"He also loved fishing and would go fishing and fished on the lake near where we live. He was a real lover of the outdoors, enjoyed camping and had been to the New Forest several times.
"He was a really wonderful man; his only fault was his love of sweet treats like chocolate and biscuits which we would all tease him about.
"He never worried about anything and was a really happy go lucky guy; we will miss him more than words can say."
Ian's sister Teresa Swadling said: "Ian was a wonderful brother. He was a real joker and when he was younger he was really mischievous. We are all so shocked by what has happened to him. We will miss him so much, and so will so many other people."
Harrow Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Dal Babu said: "Ian was an excellent officer who will be sadly missed by the borough and the community he served. Our thoughts are with Catrina and all of his family and this very sad time."
Colleague, PC Craig Debenham, from Harrow Weald Safer Neighbourhoods Team said: "I worked with Ian almost every day for the last two years. He was always fun to work with and extremely keen. He was also very knowledgeable and you could learn so much from him. He was always there when you needed him and happy to help with anything. He was the heartbeat of the team. He was more than just a colleague; he was also a friend and will be sadly missed by all of us."
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"They are very intense, but it's cool that they're so dedicated and so passionate," the Jacob Black depicter in "Twilight" shares his opinion about his obsessive fans.
Featured in the August issue of Interview Magazine, Taylor Lautner has the chance to speak up about his fans, especially those who are obsessed with him. "They are very intense, but it's cool that they're so dedicated and so passionate," the Jacob Black depicter in "Twilight" says. "They're the reason we're here doing this sequel (The Twilight Saga's New Moon). So I'm thankful for the fans. I like meeting them. But, yeah, they're pretty intense. Sometimes it becomes a little overwhelming."
The 17-year-old star, moreover, says that he and his co-stars in the vampire drama movie often have encountered screaming fans. "We've met many different fans: the criers, who come around quite often; the hyper-ventilators who stop breathing and have to have a medic come. We've definitely seen some passion," he admits.
Asked on how he feels toward those obsessive fans, Taylor claims "I don't even know. I don't know if it's really hit me yet. They're just passionate for the series and for the characters, and we're just lucky enough to be a part of this. I don't think it has much to do with me personally; it's more because I'm playing the beloved Jacob Black."
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Brian Shaw loves to tell stories.
Ask him why he didn't play Darrell Arthur more, and he might launch into a story about Phil Jackson and the Lakers.
Ask him about the development of a certain player, and he'll tell you about his time with Paul George and the Indiana Pacers.
Talk to him about his difficulties relating to his players, and he'll have a story about when he played with Larry Bird.
Every answer is an anecdote and every anecdote a reminder that Brian Shaw has experience.
That experience is what made him such an attractive hire for the Denver Nuggets in the first place. He'd learned under the Zen Master, worked with Kobe Bryant, helped develop Indiana's defense into a juggernaut and George into a star and played with some of the league's legends. That's the résumé of a head coach.
The problem is experience can take someone only so far. At some point, he has to become his own coach, not simply an amalgamation of his influences.
In Shaw's season and a half in Denver, the Nuggets were a patchwork of his previous stops. They rarely doubled in the post, a tactic Shaw brought from the Pacers. Though the roster was built to George Karl's preferences -- positionally versatile, athletic and ready to run all day -- Shaw wanted to slow things down, preferring a half-court-oriented, inside-out style to run-and-gun.
At least that's what he preferred at first. Before his first season at the helm, Shaw said he wanted to play a slower pace. Then, when that wasn't working and the players were clearly frustrated with the offense, he relented and urged his players to run.
It was almost the inverse this season. At media day, Shaw said he wanted to run more, but when the team started losing, he decided to dial down the pace, stating, in a bizarre twist, that this team wasn't built to run. Perhaps management intervened, but under Shaw, the Nuggets never settled on an identity, never truly adjusted.
Shaw also inherited Jackson's off-court tendency of calling out his players -- at times, even his whole team -- through the media. He'd constantly throw guys under the bus, even if they had a good game.
Before the season, Shaw said he thought Kenneth Faried was the MVP of Team USA during its run to the FIBA Basketball World Cup gold medal. He even compared him to Dennis Rodman. Only, after praising him, he quickly cut him down:
"I don't know if [Faried] had an understanding of the real work that Dennis put in after games, getting on the treadmill or elliptical or StairMaster [for] 45 minutes or an hour after every game, because he had to be in tip-top shape and train at the level he played," Shaw said.
This is the downside in taking a big swing. While the Nuggets reached the playoffs in all nine of Karl's seasons in Denver, they made it past the first round just once. Fifty wins and the ability to book your first-round accommodations early was indeed a treat, especially after a stretch in the '90s and early 2000s when the team was handed a lottery ticket eight years in a row. But the treadmill of moderate success can be fatiguing. Even though Denver was losing the reigning coach of the year, Shaw offered a chance for something different, something more.
But change only at the coaching level is a half-measure. If the Nuggets do indeed want a different future, they have to be willing to invest in it fully. Handing Shaw a Karl team was never going to cut it. So whether it's Alvin Gentry or Mike D'Antoni or interim coach Melvin Hunt -- himself a Karl disciple -- the next Nuggets head coach has to be on the same page as management, and together, they all need to move on from the past two vexing seasons.
As Shaw's tenure showed, you can't look to the future while still holding on to the past.
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This was the first time I had ever photographed Matt Damon, who was working in the Harz region of Germany with George Clooney at the time. Matt completes a trio of covers: Esquire's "The Most Famous Men in the World."
I instinctively felt that the nature and other offerings of Harz National Park, with its tall birch trees, would complement Matt Damon's effortless, relaxed style. Somehow from the get-go the woods allowed me to create moments that really felt like frames out of one of Matt's films. While capturing all of this, I really enjoyed talking to him about 20th-century history. All along nothing, felt labored, and I knew I was getting my shots very quickly.
It's remarkable how he's able to create the kind of tension I love so quickly in a frame, a frame that could easily be from a film.
I really like this moment. He was far away from his work this day. There was total silence in the woods. Just the snapping of the twigs and branches and then suddenly this moment. I reckon I was trying to figure out what I do next, which is the beauty of shooting on film: You get a moment to rest and you have to stop.
To the untrained eye, the woods look so wasted, which is not because it was man made, but completely due to bark beetles that chewed through all the birch trees; just total destruction. I asked Matt to give me a "Wings of Desire" moment and, bang, there it was.
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My gf and I were up in Massachusetts this past weekend, and were able to buy some squash blossoms at a farmers market.
I had some fun cooking them up - not that I knew what I was doing. I've never actually eaten them, just seen them on Iron Chef. But they were pretty good.
We'd like to try them some more, either cooking them or in restaurants. Any recs? Farmers markets near center city or NW philly that have them? Restaurants that serve them?
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If you are a woman or a girl, any fears you may have of Islam and especially Muslim men are completely justified. Islam is a political and religious system that enslaves, maims, rapes and murders girls and women simply for being born female. If you are a white woman, you are in particular danger from these men because while we might be able to avoid allowing white men into our homes to rape us, it is much more difficult to deal with the onslaught of daily terror if you have live surrounded by Muslim men, to have to shop where they shop, to have to walk down a sidewalk where they walk. There is no safety for women where Muslim men exist and they have a special hatred for white women.
The left in the U.S. and W. Europe, claim to fear the right – especially in countries like Germany where the right is (wrongly, as anyone who knows W. European history is aware) blamed for starting WWII – yet, they have no fear of right-wing, Muslim extremists. They love them. They welcome them with bags of chocolates and kisses from little blonde-haired girls. (By the way, the parents of the girl coerced into giving kisses to disease-ridden Muslim boys as they arrive in Germany should be cursed to the depths of Hell! They are child abusers!)
The pseudo-Satanist group that calls itself The Satanic Temple has extended their hand to these right-wing religious extremists. The Satanic Temple frauds are not occultists of any kind, but a disinformation group. No Satanists abide the Muslims, who were the first in the Old Testament to invent the concept of Satan (or Sheitan), believed by some to be the Yazidis or people like the Yazidis, whom the Muslims have been murdering, enslaving, prostituting and raping the women and girls to death! By the way, this has been going on for a long, long time, but only recently made international news. So, they are very great enemies of all Satanists and we Satanists do not help our enemies!
Joining the pseudo-Satanist, pretend-occultists, skep-dick, left-wing political group are the Catholics, the Lutherans and, somewhat surprisingly, a lot of Evangelicals, who are welcoming Muslims into the U.S. (And the Catholics, led by their filthy, perverted, misogynist old pope and the Lutherans are, of course, complicit in bringing their fellow, misogynist, right-wing extremists into Germany, as well.)
On this same crazy train, are hordes of liberals from all over the world – all supporting right-wing, extremist religious fanatics who hate women and girls and have said – repeatedly! – that they want to either convert or kill us. (See Louis Farrakhan and his Muslim Brotherhood and their cohorts, #BlackLivesMatter, #FuckYoFlag, etc. and the rest of the "kill whitey" brigade who are committing all kinds of crimes against white women, including a shocking number of attacks and rapes on elderly white women.)
What sort of hellish chorus-line is this?
Since when do liberals, especially U.S. liberals, openly defend right-wing extremists?!
They are wonderful, these liberals, at coining silly, victim-blaming, reality-distorting terms, like "Islamaphobia." They've, also, invented Trans-phobia to try to shame women who are afraid of being attacked by men in previously-all women spaces like locker rooms and rest rooms. They came up with Whore-phobia in a pathetic attempt to shame women who have survived being prostituted by men and want to talk about it. Oh, you don't like being raped by johns? Then, you are "whorephobic."
Islamaphobia is the fear that every Muslim you see is a terrorist, they say. In fact, relatively few Muslims are terrorists and the chances of being the victim of a terror attack by anyone is fairly slim. This is true.
But, there are many more victims of Islam – women who have been assaulted, attacked and raped by Muslim men – many of us are white Western women, but the liberals have made it clear that our lives don't matter. We are "Islamaphobes!" they say. And what about the children raped by old men, the women and girls sexually mutilated and tortured by Muslims and their patriarchal political, social and religious system? What are they? Are they Islamaphobes, too?
Here in the U.S., wherever there are Somali refugees, very black Muslims directly from Africa, there is the human trafficking of little white girls and white women. Are these trafficking victims both "Islamaphobes" and "Whorephobes?" The liberals say, "Yes."
Who are liberals, exactly? What kind of people harbor this much hatred for women and girls and so much love for those who want to hurt and kill us?
The liberals in this country and in W. Europe have a lot to answer for. The best that we can hope for is that they are simply ignorant people who will become educated, at some point, and reform themselves. But, this seems unlikely from my observations. What I see is Evil – the same evil that the pseudo-Satanist fraud, Greaves, of the Satanic Temple social justice warrior group, says does not exist. Being assaulted by Muslim men, being threatened by them, the rape and trafficking of white, American girls and women – it is all simply a figment of my "superstitious" and "phobiac" imagination, apparently.


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1990 BMW 5 Series 535i 4dr Sedan
WOW! What a pleasurable car to drive. This car makes you want to simply go out for a drive. The design of the cockpit helps the occupants feel like they are part of the car. In the sport mode this car is a fast and tight luxury sports car. It's very agile, and responsive. I was searching for one for about a month when I just got a smoking hot deal. Be patient, and you will find a very nice model, that you will not regret buying.
My favorite feature is the sport mode option. The car is very fast and well, sporty in this option. It turns the luxury sedan into a performance vehicle.
1990 BMW 5 Series 525i 4dr Sedan
I purchased the vehicle with over 230k and I personally have put about 90k mostly highway miles. The vehicle is in remarkable condition for its age (nicer than most 2 to 3 year old cars) and is very easy to work on. The automatic went out at 250k but I was able to purchase a rebuilt one for 1200 and installed it myself. Considering I purchased the car for 1300 this was not a bad deal. I perform all maintenance myself (including tires) and I have multiple connections across the country for parts. After installing a performance chip and tweaking the air intake system I am averaging 29 mpg highway and 25 in the city. Excellent car for the money for either the do it yourselfer or the avg driver.
Design style,reliability, and comfort. The 525i makes for an excellent communter car especially when you look at the cost. While I could afford a new BMW, why bother? When I can own 4 vinatge models that look as if they rolled of the showroom floor and not have to sale my kids.
Not a big fan of timing belts on the M20 engine. This has been the death of many an e34 due to owner neglect. (they must be changed every 60k miles) For the avg driver I reccomend either a 535i which comes with a timing chain, or a 91 and up 525i. electrical system pain to troubleshoot.
1990 BMW 5 Series 525i 4dr Sedan
love car, hate all its problems. Many
electricl problems. Battery always
stalling. BMW dealership
more acceleration
1990 BMW 5 Series 525i 4dr Sedan
I thought i bought a real dream but it
was all a nightmare. i bought this 90
525I with 120k on it in 98. it ran
great for couple of miles then fell
apart. the drive shaft fell off $600,
crank shaft $1000, electrical
problems. i can go on and on.
the barking and handling, rides smooth. great heat and a/c.
build quality and manicaly
1990 BMW 5 Series 525i 4dr Sedan
Purchased with 71,000 miles now have
141,000. Car has been very reliable
and fun to drive. handles great and
only the lack of real power is a
downside. Despite lower hp, this car
cruises at 85 and handles great. Been
an excellent ownership experience.
Handling, brakes, build quality, style with sport wheels.
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Hello penguins,
Screenhog made a new post on Club Penguin's Community Blog! He made a list with things we should check before the party ends. Check out his list:
Hi everyone, it's Screenhog.
We know lots of you are still questing in the Underground – exploring the mazes and discovering treasure. Here's a list of other things that you definitely need to check out before the party's over:
- Rule your kingdom at the thrones in the Night Club Lounge
- Hold a tournament at the Rink with jousting and snowball targets
- Check out the Beacon at the Lighthouse – there's a big bonfire
- The mirror at the Ski Hill tries to answer your questions
- The princess castle at the top of the Coffee Shop – the fountain even has Koi fish
- If you go to the Gift Shop market, you'll see a special Medieval Party catalog
- The snowball throwing contraptions at the Snow Forts
- The Book Room has been turned into an old library, with scrolls everywhere
- There's a wizard's hat in the Lighthouse… have you picked up one yet?
The party's all done May 16. Let us know what you like best – and anything new you'd like to see for future medieval parties.
OK, Screenhog is showing us what he should do at the Medieval Party, but a lot of penguins already did these. Anyways, good list, but Screenhog should post it earlier.


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Fine Silver & Silver Filigree Islamic Talismanic Disk (
Bugis People, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
19th century
diameter: 5.8cm, weight: 13g
This silver disk is a known as a
and was used by the Islamic, seafaring Bugis people of South Sulawesi (formerly known as the Celebes) for their
talismanic or protective properties. Such disks were worn by the children of noble and well-to-do families, suspended on chains, usually one on the back and
one on the chest.
Each side of
is embellished with designs in fine filigree silver and applied flattened granulations, a type of work known as
telur ikan
(fish egg) work. One
side is taken up by a stylised blossom motif contained within a circle, all decorated by scrolling floral patters. The other side has a central star motif within a
circle, all decorated with scrolling filigree.
The disk is in fine condition with excellent patina and clear age. There are minor losses to the applied filigree due to age and wear.
Similar examples are shown in Richter (2000, pp. 214-16).
Richter, A.,
The Jewellery of Southeast Asia
, Thames & Hudson, 2000.
private collection, UK.
Inventory no.: 1618
This Item is available -
Ask about this item
to see more antique jewellery from Asia.
The Bugis child on the far right in this early photograph
wears a
disk on her chest. A matching disk would be
on her back. The pubic cover is a
, also made of silver.


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Anyone who has to ride their horse on the roads knows what a gamble they take each and every time hoof hits tarmac — but I think we can do a lot more to help ourselves than we currently do.
For many years I hacked an ex-racehorse around the roads in Surrey, and it's a joy to me now, living in Hampshire, that I can ride straight out onto the New Forest and barely cross a road. When I do go on a road, the cars here are so considerate that rarely do you encounter one that doesn't slow down.
I spend less time in the saddle than I used to – and it has been an interesting time. While passing riders on foot, on a bike or in a car, I have noticed how unfriendly they are. Surely it's polite to say hello to each other? Walkers do!
Non-riders often accuse riders of being "snooty" and as reluctant as I am to say this, I do get why this is — there are riders out there who do not acknowledge, let alone thank a car that has slowed down for them.
Earlier this winter I drove past a hunt in Surrey. They were all over the road — it sometimes happens — but they were so engrossed in what they were doing they made no effort to move over for me. As I edged my way past, not one of the riders turned to look at me nor thank me.
This was the same hunt that has been in the press over the years trying to fight its cause to the public, to tell people that it is friendly, inclusive and non-classist. The sight of people dressed up to the nines on horseback not thanking a car trying to drive past it is enough to make me — a former news editor at Horse & Hound — angry. Imagine how someone unhorsey is likely to respond to this?
Riders not thanking car drivers is a huge bugbear of mine (as you can probably see!). Even if you're deep in conversation with a friend, lost in thought or just fed up of taking your hands off the reins as a stream of traffic goes past, I believe it's our duty as a rider to be polite, friendly and encourage traffic to slow down by thanking people.
If you don't, next time they see a horse they will drive past at speed — and who can honestly blame them? If you're struggling to control your horse, a nod will do — the car will be able to see you're in trouble.
I've actually been known to get out of a car to ask riders I slowed down for why they didn't even acknowledge my presence. And I'm not some middle-aged Pony Club chairman, just someone who is anxious to avoid their own demise at the hands of an idiot who is quite frankly fed up with snotty horsey people and thus doesn't think to slow down.
I've also been known to turn the air blue when a car has sped past — and quite fairly so I reckon — but surely credit where credit is due?
We are all road users, increasingly we are all countryside users, and we have to get along. It's absolutely crucial that acknowledge people who slow down for us.


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Former Arkansas governor and host of the Huckabee show on Fox News, Mike Huckabee, was speaking in New Hampshire when he compared how we're treated at TSA checkpoints in airports to how people are treated in the communist nation of North Korea.
He was speaking to a partisan crowd at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit and said 'My gosh, I'm beginning to think that there's more freedom in North Korea sometimes than there is in the United States."
"When I go to the airport, I have to get into the surrender position, people put hands all over me, and I have to provide photo ID in a couple of different forms to prove that I'm not going to terrorize the airplane," he said.
After taking a few shots at the cumbersome policies of the TSA, he pivoted to voter ID laws, which have been a contentious issue for some time now.
(Read More: Huckabee: In 2008, Obama Had Almost the Same Position on Homosexuality as 'Duck Dynasty' Stars)
Huckabee has long insisted that requiring an ID for someone to cast a vote is a simple measure that will ensure integrity at the polls, which Is something most conservatives agree with.
"If I want to go vote, I don't need a thing," he said. "All I gotta to do is show up and I can give 'em anybody's name, and that's okay."
He also took a shot at Obama, who again repeated the common talking point for the left on Friday when he claimed voter fraud doesn't exist, even though there's been many documented cases and more revelations are coming out as investigations continue.
"The president reminded us yesterday that there's no voter fraud," he said.
He then explained that he's going to show up to the White House unannounced one day and ask for a tour. Upon being asked for a photo ID to proceed he would say "I figured if I can vote without one, I ought to be able to come in and look around without one too."
His speech rounded up a day full of fellow conservative speakers that included Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Newt Gingrich. He and the rest of the speakers were glad to take shots at the IRS, which has been coming under increased scrutiny as more evidence is presented that the deliberate targeting of conservatives was much more sinister than Obama and the rest of the Democrats have admitted.
He closed his speech arguing for the dissolution of the IRS, calling it "the criminal enterprise formerly known as the Internal Revenue Service … that is able to crush any citizen, any organization."
He later told MailOnline that he's serious about disbanding the IRS after they inquired about his speech.
"When I look at what they have become, and threat that they are to the liberty of Americans, it's very frightening to me," he explained.


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