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|July 29, 2012, 01:45 PM
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Wild hog field dressing/skinning?
Here in lower Michigan, there are increasing reports of Ferrel/wild hogs that have escaped game farms and established breeding colonies. Although I have given up hunting (but not given up shooting), I will make an exception for any hog that I happen to see. Given that, I would like to know what the process is for removing the hair. I know that in the case of a domestic hog, they are scalded and bell scrapers are used to remove the hair from the hide before they are gutted. I do not think that a wild hog is dipped into boiling water to be scolded with the cavity open to the hot water...leaving only skinning as a option; which has to be a chore and does not leave a protective shield for processing hams or bacon in a smoke house.
So hog hunters, what is the process for wild hogs? Are they really skinned and does skinning effect the quality of the meat?
|July 29, 2012, 01:59 PM
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In all the years I've hunted hogs, I have never scraped the hair, just skinned. I don't even field dress them anymore, just hang them by the back legs, cut the hide down the spine, take the backstrap then skin and remove the hind quarters. Too many hogs on the property to worry about processing other parts. Never had any problems with cooking or eating them either.
|July 29, 2012, 02:19 PM
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It is called "scalding"... Google "hog scalding"... Heck... youtube has vids of it...
Must have body intact. My new zealander hog doggin' buddy must gut his in the field to lighten the load as the terrain requires he pack them out on his back...
So he uses a roofers torch to singe the hair off and scrape and repeat until smooth.
|July 29, 2012, 02:28 PM
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""roofers torch to singe the hair off and scrape and repeat until smooth.""
HD: You got a video of this process. We messed around with a standard propane bottle like we all have in our garages......but that was obviously not going to work......or maybe it was and we did not stick to it long enough??
|July 29, 2012, 03:10 PM
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I have never heard of keeping the skin of a wild hog. Gut them, skin them and hang them in the cooler. Never heard of Chicharrones made from Wild hog skin....
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|July 29, 2012, 03:42 PM
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Here is the basics... Shanedog, my buddy, lets his son show how complex the procedure is
|July 29, 2012, 04:32 PM
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Skint alot of wild hogs, Never scalded a wild one
There's a GATOR in the bushes & She's Callin my name
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|July 29, 2012, 07:16 PM
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Scald a domestic Hog, if you are going to do a "Whole-Hog BBQ" or Pig Roast, otherwise Skin it and butcher in the same manner as wild hogs. What you use or toss out is up to your individual tastes. We try to use as much as we can of the 'Good Cuts' them grind the rest for sausage.
|July 29, 2012, 07:26 PM
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My buddy shane swears by leaving the skin on feral hog for the same reasons as domestic. No reason not to. He insists that the american tradition of skinning feral hog is touched in the head. He knows meats from all types of domestic livestock well but prefers the wild pigs over all others.
I say... "Don't knock it 'til you try it..."
|July 29, 2012, 10:15 PM
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|July 30, 2012, 06:43 AM
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In the old days we hunted with a 55 gal drum of boiling water strapped on our backs. But I guess you youngsers are not nearly as strong today !
And Watson , bring your revolver !
|July 30, 2012, 07:06 AM
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Scraping to much work use a weed burner singe the hairs and shave with a sharp knife alot easeir this way.
|July 30, 2012, 07:15 AM
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I was told, but have not seen evidence that confirms this... They skin the wild hogs to get rid of the skin parasites and bugs that might contaminate the meat, especially those killed "in the field during hot weather". The scalding technique I have read of usually happens close to a home or barn during domestic Hog Killing season (Cooler Fall/winter weather).
|July 30, 2012, 08:48 AM
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Find a processor or a ditch, whichever is closest. Usually the ditch wins out unless its under 150lbs, then we consider the processor.
|July 30, 2012, 10:40 AM
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The way I do it is to, carry a good pair of thick latex gloves like the kind your wife might use for washing dishes, with you. This eliminates having to worry about any problems with parasites or anything else getting on you from the hog. I skin the hog and gut it ASAP, and put the meat in a cloth carcass bag for transport. When I get home I hang it outside and wash it real good with a garden hose and high pressure. I then pour a bottle of vinegar on it to kill any bacteria that may be left on the meat, and re-wash it again after about 5 minutes or so. It is now ready for basting with your favorite basting ingredients
and into the smoker it goes.
Since they are such a readily obtained animal in these parts, my formula is:
under 50 lbs= directly to the smoker (whole)
50 to 150 lbs= Quartered and into the freezer
over 150 lbs= Drag to nearest opening, and let the yotes and buzzards get a meal.
I'm probably a little more anal about preparation than some, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. When I hunt I'm really hunting for one to eat, so I tend to take the smaller ones if I can, but will shoot the bigger ones just to get rid of them.
|July 30, 2012, 11:38 AM
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You guys are lucky if you can eat wild hog. On my shooting grounds there are so many pine trees that the meat tastes like turpentine. Really, we call them "piney woods rooters" and the only way to make them palatable is to live-catch them in a trap, feed them corn for 30 days, then kill and process like a domestic pig. Shoot 'em dead, drag them off.
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|July 30, 2012, 12:01 PM
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I've posted this before but it just might offer a quick and easy solution for those of you that've never heard of the method.
Hunt club I once belonged to would often catch wild hogs & castrate the males for later taking......makes what's inedible usable. When they'd either catch alive or shoot a hog it was brought to the camp site whole and ungutted. If alive, it was dispatched via a .22 to the head. The animal was then hoisted by using a welding clamp on it's snout (makes the job a LOT cleaner in the end) and scrubbed down with a rough brush and hosed thoroughly.........removes all the sand and crap that'll dull your blade........the animal was strip skinned using a razor knife with the first cut being thru the skin just in back of the ears and completely encircling the head. The skin was then cut thru with that carpet knife to the animals extremities at about two to three inch intervals. Take care to NOT cut into the body cavity at this point or you'll have a mess. Each strip was pulled down until it just about came free and when all sections were stripped clear the hide was cut free and dropped into a waiting bucket.
The body cavity was then opened and the intestines/heart/lungs were also dropped down into that bucket. Carcass was then washed with that hose and quartered. Finish up by dropping the head into your bucket and you are done.
That method is absolutely the quickest and neatest way I have ever seen for hog cleaning. It enables one to avoid nearly all the pitfalls of field dressing, from cut intestines or bladders to dirt on the meat.
I neglected to state that the strip method also enables you to leave most if not all the fat on the carcass.......sure makes a difference when you fire up the smoker or BBQ.
|July 30, 2012, 12:32 PM
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Scalding and scraping a wild hog is not difficult. My hunting buds and i sometimes scrape hogs for pig in the ground cookouts, proms, etc. We scrape a few hogs every winter for a couple who cure the meat in a walk in cooler.
Its best to scald a hog in cold weather. Its also best done with a hog having long hair: The long hair can be pulled out after scalding, saving scraping time. Do not gut the hog prior to scalding.
You will need:
3 or 4 bodies, firewood, an open and clean 55 gallon drum, feedsacks, scraping knives, a gambrel, a small chain or rope, a tractor with end loader or other machine for dunking the hog, and a platform for scraping the hog.
1. Bring a 55 gallon drum of water to a boil and keep it boiling.
2. Dunk the hog in the water for about 90 seconds.
3. Remove the hog from the water and scrape while one person pulls off as much hair as possible. When the hair no longer scrapes easily repeat step 2 or put feedsacks wet with boiling water on the hide to be scraped. Leave the sacks in place for a couple minutes and resume scraping
4. Hardest part to scrape clean is the head.
5. After the hair is scraped off the skin underneath will be dirty; clean it up.
6. Gut the hog.
Total elapsed time from first dunking for an experienced crew is about 45 minutes. i always have a nice wild hog or two in a pen for special events.
|July 30, 2012, 01:10 PM
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All I can add, in this weather.... Do it quickly.....
|July 31, 2012, 04:15 AM
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Also..I can understand boiling and scraping a domestic pig..but not feral....I guess someone could if they really wanted to tho.....
Hog Hunters never die........They just reload.........
|July 31, 2012, 07:17 AM
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Keg, what PawPaw is describing happens here in FL/GA too with squirrels. The pine forests in the deep south are mostly long leaf, slash, and loblolly pines. All three of those species of pine are what is used for commercial turpentine production. Animals feeding on their pine cones take on a bad flavor.
|August 3, 2012, 08:33 AM
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Yeah..I have heard of this with squirrels.....
Hog Hunters never die........They just reload.........
|August 15, 2012, 02:18 PM
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I just skin them all, remove the head and gut it.
If it small enough I toss it whole into a ice chest full of ice and cover the hog with water. I add 2 or 3 hand full of salt to the mix along with 2 or 3 cups of vinegar. I let this sit for 24 hours and then drain the ice chest and do it again with ice, salt and vinegar for another 24 hours. After 2nd time it's ready to cook or freeze.
|August 16, 2012, 08:17 AM
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I field dress and skin them same as deer. In my opinion, scalding the animal is an unecessary step.
Fire up the grill! Deer hunting IS NOT catch and release.
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Size doesn't matter: It would have been easy for Kreme to revert to every fat joke he's ever heard when writing about "size awareness," but he didn't ("Full Bloom," Inferno, Stephen Lemons, July 28). Sure, the story had a sense of humor -- and even a few fat jokes out of the mouth of Kreme's colleague, Jett -- but it didn't make fat girls look like the poor pathetic losers that most of the mass media portray them as. It made the point that they love who they are.
Also, the truth has always been that a whole lot of guys love rotund girls. Find them sexy as hell, in fact! That full-figured look has always been a fetish to a lot of us. Also, there's been a myth that overweight girls are much easier to get into the sack, which makes them all the more alluring. I mean, any man who isn't attracted to your va-va-voom cover gal must be gay!
For guys like me, there was a lot of news in Inferno this time: Who knew before this column that this big-girls night was going on at Buster McNutty's, that a clothing company called Big Beauty Wear is starting up around here, or that the publisher of Big Butt magazine lives right here in the PHX?
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Good lovin': I'm a big gal myself, and I can't tell you how good it made me feel to read the "Full Bloom" Inferno column! There's actually a place I can go -- Buster McNutty's -- where men will appreciate me and where I will feel totally at home. I had heard about such places in Los Angeles, but I never knew that the Phoenix area is so progressive.
I have always had such a low opinion of myself, because no matter how much I diet, I can't lose the pounds. I'm the kind of person who needs only to walk by a slice of pizza to gain a couple of pounds. I know it's unhealthy to keep adding the pounds, but at least I know now that I can get some good lovin' no matter how fat I get. Maybe my low metabolism isn't all that bad a thing, after all.
Thanks for giving a BBG hope.
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Fat is phat: Thank you for doing a great job on this "Full Bloom" column. We BBGs have a lot of new members to our Yahoo! groups, and we're actually getting men out of the closet!
I have a photo for the skinny chick who went to the club with Kreme [um, that would be Jett]. I think it's a cute pic of her actually having a good time. She doesn't smile much. Ha, I think she needs to eat more!
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Or maybe fat is just fat: You should be ashamed of yourselves! You shouldn't be pushing the dangerous idea that being outrageously overweight is a good thing! I don't care what these crazy women in your column are spewing, weighing 250-plus pounds on the average female frame is unhealthy and gross.
These women are delusional. Most of the men they are appealing to are freaks of nature, fetishists who probably are in need of extended mental-health care and strong antidepressants.
But it's interesting to know that the notion is out there (to this extent) that obesity is desirable, even sexy. Because it's up to health-care professionals to set people straight.
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Easy like Sunday morning: Like the rock group Queen said back in the day: Fat-bottomed girls make the rocking world go round! Fat girls are the best in the sack. I know because I've had a lot of BBWs, and I can tell you they love doing it -- almost as much as they love munching out.
About the girl in your cover story who says fat girls ain't easy, that's a joke! Don't believe me? Well, go to that fat-girls night at Buster McNutty's, and as long as you're not a burn victim or a total 'tard, you will get laid.
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Eat, drink, get laid: What's up? I just finished reading the story about the big girls. That was just too funny! Especially that bit about Big Butt magazine. Is that for real? It's hard to believe that the guys you mentioned like women that big.
I've got a little extra weight, but not that much. Wow! Maybe I should start eating more if I want to hang out at Buster McNutty's. Hee-hee, eat all you want and get laid by hot guys, too. Anyway, good for these ladies! Jett made me laugh with that line: "Where's the buffet?"
Just wanted to write in and say this was a really good Inferno. I've read them all, and this was the best one yet. I think Jett and Kreme should be on TV. I'd watch them all the time.
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You get what you pay for: Are you fucking serious?! A Jett and Kreme story as the cover feature?! I'd rather develop a cutting habit than read that torturous drivel.
Every Jett and Kreme column I've attempted reading has been a literary turd. Thanks for the lack of substance this week, the insult to your readers who look forward to pertinent articles. This was the proverbial "fuck you" to those who support your rhetoric. I can almost see the shadow of a fist flipping me the bird on your front cover.
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A case of selective reading: Sarah Fenske's "The Last Supper" feature was a commendable piece of balanced journalism (July 21), and how New Times reader Rob Frier concludes that Fenske "took sides" against Serrano's is beyond me ("A Welcome Policy," Letters, July 28). It appears that his own bias resulted in a case of selective reading.
However, like Frier, my sympathies in this matter lie with Serrano's. To the reader who asked "what Jesus would do"? I can only surmise that if fired Serrano's employee Terra Naeve were really as tight with the Almighty as she claims to be, He would have helped her find another job.
The fact of the matter is, if Naeve had been leading a group studying human evolution instead of the Bible, her most ardent supporters would be praising the court's decision, not praying for justice to be done. That makes them hypocrites, plain and simple.
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Walk the Christian walk: In regard to your article "The Last Supper," I confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. But this article speaks unfairly in regard to God's character. God's character is constant and never-changing. I want to speak of His integrity. God is a covenant keeper. A covenant and a contract are the same. Accountability is required.
God stands by all His covenants, or promises. God expects His people to be covenant keepers as well. God does not expect or ask people to make contracts they cannot keep. Nor does He put them in situations where they would need to disobey His terms. God gives people wisdom, when they seek Him, regarding making such covenants.
According to God's word, once Terra Naeve agreed to the "no fraternization" rule at Serrano's, she had to be accountable for it. Even if it meant she needed to leave the Bible study group to keep her job. God's word did not tell her to break the covenant by disobeying her employer and remain part of the Bible study. God expects Christians to walk according to His commands and ways, but we still must play by the rules. Hopefully, Terra Naeve has learned that she needs next time to ask more questions before blindly signing on the dotted line.
It was unloving for her to force Serrano's to fire her. It was unloving for her to take out her frustration and anger by dragging this into court. It was unloving for her to say her rights were violated. It will be unloving if she proceeds with the appeal. This is about her pride, not God's commands. I believe that God has upheld the Serrano family, as evidenced by the court ruling.
Karen Newell, Phoenix
A wake-up call: I applaud the Serrano family for not being intimidated by the EEOC and Terra Naeve.
Terra signed off on the restaurant's policy as part of her employment agreement. Now she is trying to hide behind a religious pretext that the EEOC is pushing. The article shows that the Serranos tried to accommodate Terra. But rather than accept her mistake, she invoked God's will and insisted she did nothing wrong.
Here's a wake-up call for Terra: Arizona is a right-to-work state, and if you must violate your employer's policies, then hit the pavement. Find a job that will allow you to mentor a Bible-study class. Don't blame the Serranos for a decision that you made of your own free will.
This is just another case of the "I'm a victim" mentality in our society. Instead of accepting that God doesn't pay the rent, Terra Naeve got a lawyer and sued!
The Serranos can look forward to my increased patronage.
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Studying the Bible is equivalent to pressuring young hostesses to drive around with a manager?! To believe that, you'd have to be a moron or so bigoted that you can't grasp reality.
No, the Serranos didn't want to fire Terra Naeve -- they just wanted to control her life 24/7. They claim that they don't "toot [their] horns" about their religion, but they did manage to let your reporter know how much they help out at St. Vincent's Catholic church.
They ban "fraternization" among managers, yet they practice nepotism among management. More hypocrisy. Their lawyer tells the jury that Serrano's employees "can learn the Bible from anybody." Well, anybody except a manager at Serrano's.
To assert some slippery slope is just inane. Even though the Serrano's attorney tried to find evidence of religious solicitation, he couldn't. Of course, lack of evidence didn't dissuade him or apparently his clients from their bigotry.
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Published: August 8, 2005
The memoirs, written by ninth graders, were as flawed as they were vivid: riddled with ungrammatical sentences, spelling errors and absurd punctuation. As they read their work to an audience of parents, several of the young authors stumbled over their own words.
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Peace and Diversity, in the Bronx, is one of 53 small high schools that opened last September as part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's effort to remake public education in New York. And in a way, the students' essays are a metaphor for the inaugural year of the small schools: far from perfect, but with notable achievement and a lot of hard work still ahead.
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Yet across the city, the small schools labored against innumerable obstacles. Chief among them were location and facilities problems, staff turnover, and students' extremely low academic skills, which hit some schools particularly hard. Nearly 70 percent of the students started the year performing below grade level, often far below, in math and reading.
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In interviews and in visits to small schools, it was clear that the schools had built closer relationships between teachers and students than traditional large schools. But it was also clear that teachers in these schools were being called on to perform roles for which they were not trained: counselor, social worker, foster parent. Many spoke of feeling professionally and emotionally exhausted.
''It was a good year and a tough year,'' said Johane Ligond?an English teacher at the F.D.N.Y. High School for Fire and Life Safety, a new small school in Brooklyn. ''It was a very tough year for both teachers and students. But because we love them, I think that makes a big difference. When we push them, they know it's out of love.''
City education officials said they were pleased with the results this year, but conceded the challenges. ''The work is extremely hard,'' said Garth Harries, the chief executive of the office of new schools. ''And the progress is incremental.''
New York City spent about $29 million to start the new schools in 2004-5, and will spend $31 million to open 52 more small schools this coming year. In addition, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $100 million to create the schools. All the small schools must have a community or cultural organization as a partner, a requirement intended to bring in additional money and resources as well as to give the private sector a stake in the schools' success.
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The Edmonton Eskimos want the CFL to take the next step forward in the high-tech communication world.
Acting upon a request from the Green and Gold, the league's head office is quietly working on the idea of having confidential wireless communication between a head coach and a quarterback on the field.
In a nutshell, the idea is to follow the NFL's lead of allowing a coach to talk through a headset to his quarterback on the field - via a radio frequency and a speaker in the quarterback's helmet.
"We would very much support that (idea)," said Rick LeLacheur, the Eskimos president and CEO.
"We wanted it looked at for a couple of years. So no one can steal signals."
The league's head office admits the idea is not on the front burner right now, but it could be discussed at the CFL congress later this month in Calgary.
"There is no real timeline in place for implementation," said Kevin McDonald, the CFL's director of operations.
"There is a possibility that we may do some further testing this spring."
Eskimos quarterback Stefan LeFors would love to see the wireless communication come to CFL games.
LeFors used the technology during his stint in the NFL earlier in his career.
"I think it is a great idea," said LeFors from Louisiana yesterday."It made the process (of sending in plays) so much easier."
As a rookie in the CFL last year, LeFors had to learn the game on the fly - adjusting to the 20-second play clock - while still having to understand Jacques Chapdelaine's play signals from the sidelines.
A speaker in his helmet would have been a huge advantage.
However, before the CFL can even begin to implement the technology, testing needs to be done to ensure a private radio frequency exists between the sidelines and the quarterback.
With every CFL game televised and on radio, there are several frequencies bouncing around the stadiums.
The last thing the league needs is a coach's last-second advice suddenly being transmitted onto a TSN broadcast feed.
There is speculation that the Winnipeg Blue Bombers might be interested in Trevor Gaylor, who was cut by the Eskimos this week.
But if that speculation is true, the Bombers are going to need to deliver an impressive sales pitch to get Gaylor to come north for another CFL training camp. "Right now, I'm trying to find a living down here," Gaylor said from Florida yesterday."I don't really know if I'm ready to start over with a organization."
The lanky receiver - who has battled very inconsistent play over the last two seasons in Edmonton - was very surprised the Eskimos cut him. "It got kind of personal ... for me to get blamed for everything that went wrong," he said.
There is growing speculation in Green Bay about Taylor Inglis being given a chance to become the long snapper with the Packers. Inglis worked out for the Packers last year, but returned to the Eskimos organization when he wasn't offered a contract. Inglis is set to become a free agent on Feb. 16.


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Borini joins Liverpool as Maxi leaves
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has made his first signing at the club after completing the signing of striker Fabio Borini from Roma, on the same day that Maxi Rodriguez left Anfield to return to Newell's Old Boys.
Rodgers is reunited with a player who he took on loan from Chelsea to previous club Swansea City in the second half of the 2010/11 season, which ended in the Welsh club winning promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs.
Borini scored 10 goals in 26 appearances for Roma last season, and he was an unused member of the Italy squad which reached the final of Euro 2012.
It feels really good [to be a Liverpool player]," Borini told the club's official website, "and to be back in England as well.
"It's a top club that has won a lot of trophies in the past - and will do so in the future we hope as well.
"I've got the trust of the manager and the club, which for me is very nice and I'm proud to be here."
Rodgers added that the 21-year-old, who will wear the number 29 shirt, is a player who is destined for big things in the future.
"He's technically strong," he's a good finisher with both feet, he can play central or on the sides in a 4-3-3 up front, he's quick, and he's tactically very good.
"He is arguably the best physical player I've worked with in terms of his pace, power and fitness.
"Mentally, he's very strong. We've got a player who is on the up and someone who I think Liverpool will benefit from."
Maxi Rodriguez has left Liverpool to rejoin Newell's Old Boys in his native Argentina after two-and-a-half years at Anfield.
Winger-forward Maxi, 31, arrived at Liverpool from Atletico Madrid in January 2012, making 73 appearances and scoring 17 goals.
He fell out of favour under former boss Kenny Dalglish, with new manager Brendan Rodgers hinting that the Argentine player and his family were struggling with life in England.
"Liverpool Football Club can today confirm that Maxi Rodriguez has joined Newell's Old Boys in Argentina," Liverpool said on their website.
"Everyone at Liverpool FC would like to thank Maxi for his contribution to the club and wish him all the best for the future."
Maxi left Newell's in 2002 to join Spanish club Espanyol, from where he moved to Atletico in 2005.
He became skipper at the Vicente Calderon but was allowed to leave before the 2010 World Cup, then becoming a fan favourite at Anfield.
Rodgers had said earlier on Friday that conversations with Maxi led him to believe he and his family were keen on returning to Argentina, but this move comes quicker than anyone could have anticipated.


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On this day: Karl Marx dies
March 14 1883: The most revolutionary of thinkers
Perhaps the most famous thinker of all time, Karl Marx died in 1883 at the age of 64. The father of communism, the man whose theories of work, class struggle and alienation transformed the world in the 20th century and continue to appeal to many today, was buried in his adopted home of Highgate.
Born in 1818 in Trier, a town in what was then Prussia, he was descended from rabbis on both sides of the family. But Marx's father, vineyard-owner Hirschel, found his religion left him subject to antisemitic discrimination, and he duly renounced his faith to become a Protestant.
For Marx, who spent his adult life variously in Brussels and Paris before settling in England, where he would spend days in the reading room of the British Museum, both faiths were as bad as each other.
He famously wrote in an 1843 work, the Contribution to Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right¸that religion was "the opium of the people", a tool of capitalist systems with which the powerful and the elite could subdue the workers.
Many would agree that Marxist philosophy, contained most famously in the 1848 tract The Communist Manifesto and also in the text co-written with Friedrich Engels, Das Kapital, was consigned to the dustbin of history with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But while now Marxist governance exists in practice only in rare cases today – indeed, some would argue the philosophy has never really been applied - one would be hard-pressed to deny the impressive legacy of Karl Marx.
What the JC said 50 years after Marx's death:Karl Marx, the father of Socialism, passed away, little dreaming of the tremendous forces he had set in motion from his seat in the Reading Room of the British Museum where, year after year, he had evolved his theme. Nor, we may be sure, did his contemporaries in London realise the full intellectual structure of the practical, poverty-stricken dreamer who studied and worked among them and was presently to become the idol of many, the abomination of still more, and the symbol of and inspiration of red revolution over a great tract of human society.
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Michael Ende was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1929. After attending drama school from 1948 to 1950, he worked variously as an actor, a writer of sketches and plays, a director of the Volkstheater in Munich, and a film critic for the Bavarian broadcasting company. His first novel for children, Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver, was published in Germany in 1960 to great popular and critical acclaim, and both radio and television series based on the Jim Knopf books were soon produced. In 1973 he published another award-winning children's novel, Momo. When The Neverending Story was first published in Germany, in 1979, it immediately became the number-one bestseller and remained in that position for three years. It has since been published in many different languages all over the world, including Japanese, and has enchanted readers in each country in which it has appeared.
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Photokore (www.photokore.com) announced today it has entered into an agreement to sell the microstock photo agency in its entirety to an undisclosed buyer based in Asia. Sean Mooney, the founder and CEO of Photokore, confirmed the sale today.
December 13, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Founder of Photokore, Sean Mooney, will retire as CEO of Photokore (www.photokore.com), the stock photo ecommerce website he founded in 2010. Mooney sold controlling interest in the Asia-based microstock photo company this month to an undisclosed group of Asian buyers.
Mooney, who launched Photokore in 2010, quickly grew the company's share of the Asian imagery market by offering localized image search in multiple Asian languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesian, Filipino, and Thai), and an easy-to-use website. With a diverse range over 2 million photos and illustrations from thousands of contributors from over 130 countries; the Photokore quickly grew in sales and reputation.
"Our success in growing sales throughout the Asian region in such a short time span brought me great satisfaction," said founder and CEO Sean Mooney. However, I believe I've proven what I set out to prove - that Asia is a great source of creativity, and has a strong demand for great images. Now, the time has come for Photokore to develop further, something that this new investment will allow."
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November 16th, 2015, 11:47 PM #1
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SAS has some very nice tools that help affiliates populate their web sites....Make A page...Product Showcase...etc.
When a merchants data feed is broken or unpopulated....the tools can not do their job.......Point is that everyone looses.
I can't make money with screwed up or absent data feeds......SAS doesn't make as much money......the merchant is not making sales.
It is holiday season. Best time to make sales.............and some merchants can't spend the time to keep their data feeds intact.
I have begun to drop merchants that go for long periods of time with a broken data feed.You must climb this mountain. There is no elevator. ---- Don't stick your finger in the liquid nitrogen.
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November 17th, 2015, 02:36 AM #2
It never ceases to amaze me how a merchant will set up a program, build a date feed, and let it go to hell, and then when sales drop, their answer is to lower their commission rate. They spend the time and effort, and pay the cost for a program, and then cannot keep up with what is needed for it to prosper. And then they blame the affiliates.
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November 17th, 2015, 07:16 AM #3
This month, across all networks, has seen a larger than normal amount of merchants jacking with feeds (and not updating).
Have removed over 50K products in the past two weeks. Will NOT be promoting those merchants for a long time to come. They have been replaced.
Furthermore, any merchant with a feed older than two weeks is gone. There are exception, like merchants who have very niche or custom products.
Merchants that have good, regularly updated feeds get traffic and a higher than average conversion rate (5-8% depending on the niche). Also, these merchants get additional brand reinforcement when we serve contextual banner and text ads when their products are displayed. When their products are not on the site, no additional branding is triggered - just their competitors'.
No time for merchants that won't support their affiliates...Salty kisses, Sandy toes, and a Pirate's heart...
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November 20th, 2015, 01:44 AM #4
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I do understand it. But you have to promote your products for better sale.
November 20th, 2015, 08:56 AM #5
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November 20th, 2015, 10:48 AM #6
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Lots of merchants don't understand how important a good quality feed is for affiliates to promote their products. The biggest datafeed nightmares are broken images, duplicate products, poor descriptions,...One merchant even has their product prices two decimals more than the actual product prices on their entire feed. I couldn't believe it when I saw every products were priced at ten thousands and hundred thousands of dollars...The AM said the IT guys made the mistake and since corrected. Geez, You would think the AM should at least check the feed after the IT guy submitted to him?
In the past month, I have sent at least a dozen emails to different merchants regarding their datafeed issues. I really wish the merchants and their AMs do their jobs so I don't have to spend so much time on policing their feeds. Com'on, you guys have a whole affiliate team, affiliates are mostly one man/women business, I only have so much time and I would really like to spend my time on promoting your products, not back and forth on your feed issues or link issues.
November 20th, 2015, 02:52 PM #7
The tools that leverage the feed are getting better and better, so it's never been more important than to have a high quality, frequently updated feed. We promote the Product Discovery Bookmarklet, the Product Showcase and Make A Page to our affiliates above pretty much all other tools and they are all feed dependent in one way or another.Wade Tonkin - Affiliate Manager - Fanatics
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November 22nd, 2015, 06:53 PM #9Bill / Marketing Blog @ 12PM - Current project: Resurrecting my "baby" at South Baltimore..
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What boggles my mind even more, is that all modern websites are run by a database. If you have a database to run your site, then it's child's play to dump out a datafeed and ftp it to the networks. All that needs to be done is to get access to the database and simply dump the info needed once a day. It's very easy. OK, maybe this is overly \simplistic in that some effort should be used to keep the datafeed at a reasonable size...but I digress.
I guess my point is, is that if you can make one datafeed, write a program that does it once a day every day and then you have datafeeds that are never out of date. Datafeeds should never be one off manual operations. They should be created by a proigram that runs over and over, this is the computer age where automation is easy.Expert who says Moo
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Michael Jackson's public memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles takes over the airwaves today, starting at 6 a.m. and lasting until at least 11 tonight. Nearly every broadcast network and plenty of cable channels join in with live coverage, interviews, fan reactions and the occasional music video.-- Emily Yahr
6 a.m. "American Morning" (CNN) kicks off with Kiran Chetry in Los Angeles.
7 a.m. "The Early Show" (CBS) with Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith joins in from the Staples Center, and so does Meredith Vieira on "Today" (NBC).
11 a.m. MSNBC has Chris Jansing reporting live.
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10 p.m. "Primetime: Family Secrets" (ABC) focuses on the custody battle over Jackson's children with Debbie Rowe; "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" (Fox News Channel) reports from Los Angeles; Lester Holt reports on "Dateline" with reaction from fans.


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A man accused of killing a woman and burning her body in a car in San Francisco has pleaded not guilty to murder and arson charges.
District Attorney George Gascon says 29-year-old Almon Johnson was arraigned Wednesday in the Jan. 24 killing of Vanessa Herrera.
According to court documents, police found Herrera's charred body in the passenger seat of a car illegally parked in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood.
Investigators believe Johnson killed Herrera in Sacramento earlier that day and then drove her body to San Francisco, where he set the car on fire.
Gascon says the motive for the killing and the relationship between Johnson and Herrera is still under investigation.
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4:00pm Thursday 22nd May 2014
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HOUSING plans could be in the pipeline for a field in Davenham.
The land, known as the 'donkey field', off Church Street, is being looked at as a site for potential development.
Davenham Parish Council has received a letter outlining potential plans.
Clr Andy Duff, chairman, said: "About 15 or 20 years ago the owner applied to get some housing on there.
"At that time it was rejected and we tried to buy it as a parish council.
"Through this property company now they've put in something saying they would like to build there."
He said the field, opposite the church, is a self-contained area that overlooks the Bulls Head car park.
Access would be from Church Street.
Clr Keith Carter said: "If we've got to have houses somewhere I don't see it as being a particularly horrible place to have them."
Clr Brian Robinson said: "They're trying to say it's a wonderful place and won't effect the village landscape but we will comment on that when it comes.
"We need to discuss it when the plans come through, we can't discuss it now because we don't know what the issues are."
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On 13 September 2011 the book entitled "Values of Christian Democracy" written by Mr. Horst Langes, Honorary President of the Robert Schuman Foundation and Mr. Norbert Neuhaus was solemnly presented in Strasbourg.
The opening speeches were given by Mr. Joseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP Group and Mr. Jacques Santer, President of the Robert Schuman Foundation.
"The book is dedicated to the Christian democrat ideas with its basic principles. It presents a wide range of topics and concepts - such as for example social market economy, tolerance and freedom of religion" opened Mr. Daul the book presentation. He later pointed out: "For our Group, it is a constant and permanent task, to make a policy that remains easily recognizable. It is equally important to rediscover this idea of man; based on the Christian conception".
In order to achieve political success, it is wiser and more useful to reflect on the question as to what actually constitutes the reality of man and society. And still more, what is the meaning and purpose of life? From this reflection on temporal and eternal realities one can reach an understanding that offers a useful guide for practical action and planning which should enable everyone to shape a politics that serves the genuine good of man.
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She's had the Baby, you're a daddy -- now what? James Barron draws on his own experience, the experiences of countless others, and on insights from mothers on what they think new fathers should know to offer advice on balancing the demands of being a good father and a good husband, from the infant through the toddler years. He includes tips on:
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Bought a 24foot stock trailer in Dec 07. It came with Jing Lun 235/85R16 Load Range E tires. One year ago while hauling a light load 150 miles from home a 4inch wide strip of tread pealed off. Two days ago the same thing happened, again 150 miles from home. Where are the Kendra tires made and what kind of waranty do they come with? There is only one review, what experience have your customers had with the Kendra trailer tires?
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The true contribution of a coach
It's still the school holidays in that part of Germany where I live, which is why we currently have a young lad at the office who earns himself a few Euros during the summer weeks. He was born in Mainz and supports Mainz 05.
Last week, on Monday afternoon, one of my colleagues, faking innocence, casually asked him: "What do you think about the new coach?" The teenager looked up, somewhat bewildered, and replied: "What do you mean? Who's got a new coach?"
"Mainz have", my colleague said, stunning the boy. "Guy called Thomas Tuchel, or something along those lines." This additional info came as a relief to the Mainz fan, who quickly said: "Oh, you got that wrong. Tuchel is the coach of the Under-19s." It was only when he saw the other guy's slightly gleeful grin that it dawned on him he should really check the latest wire reports.
Firing your coach five days before the first league game of the new season is, as far as I'm concerned, a record. I say "as far as I'm concerned" because the German media found a precedent, saying something similar had happened in 1996, when VfB Stuttgart appointed a new head coach a mere four days prior to the first matchday.
(Incidentally, they promoted an assistant by the name of Joachim Löw on what was supposed to be an interim basis. Löw promptly won five and drew one to be given the job for good.)
However, the way I recall it, Stuttgart's original coach in 1996, the Austrian Rolf Fringer, was unpopular with the players, the fans and the board - but he was not fired. In the week leading up to the season opener, Fringer was offered the job of Swiss national coach and asked Stuttgart to let him out of his contract. As hinted, the club president's reaction amounted to "God, I thought you'd never ask!" and thus the guard was changed on short notice.
Well, unprecedented or not, the timing of Jörn Andersen's dismissal at Mainz was, at the very least, highly unusual. Though strangely fitting. That's because the past weeks and months have seen coaches hogging the headlines with surprising regularity - and regularly surprising us.
In mid-July, there was a minor altercation during a press conference ahead of a pre-season preparation tournament at Schalke's arena. Someone who was there told me that Schalke's new press officer introduced one of the men sitting behind microphones as "Bayer Leverkusen coach Bruno Labbadia".
Hamburg coach Bruno Labbadia, it seems, didn't feel the mistake was the slightest bit funny and shared this opinion with those present. But the fact remains that the mistake was easy to make, as you really needed one of those dreaded spreadsheet applications to keep track of who was coaching whom, since when - and perhaps even why.
The trend was probably started by Felix Magath. In early May, with four games left in the season and his team in the title race, he announced he would leave Wolfsburg and take over at Schalke in the summer. Twenty days later, Martin Jol jumped ship at Hamburg to the utter amazement of anyone who wasn't privy to what happened in the very inner circles. And another five days later, Cologne's coach Christoph Daum announced, literally hours before the deadline, that he'd evoke a get-out clause in his contract, which amazed even the members of the inner circle.
(Cologne's vice-president Jürgen Glowacz said Daum called president Wolfgang Overath at 7pm on the last day of May, a Sunday, and opened the conversation by saying: "Well, I'm off, then." Overath had no idea what Daum was talking about - and the same went for business manager Michael Meier, whom Daum called a bit later. "I've been caught by surprise," Meier told a reporter. "Guess I'll have to go over to the clubhouse now and see if we've received a letter of cancellation by fax.")
And then, of course, there was the above-mentioned Labbadia. Five days after the Daum stunner, Labbadia was let out of his contract by Leverkusen and signed with Hamburg - a move made possible in part by the fact Hamburg paid Leverkusen an undisclosed transfer sum, estimated to come to some 1.3m Euros.
"I detest the job-hopping of coaches," Leverkusen's general manager Wolfgang Holzhäuser said. "This has got to stop." He wasn't referring only to Labbadia, now with his third club in as many years, but the whole new trend of coaches doing ... yeah, what exactly? ... well, moving about as freely and as unsentimentally as the players, I guess.
Maybe this is only fair. A coach who's got to live with the fact he can never build a team that will stay together for more than one or two seasons could be forgiven for, himself, going where there's more money and more potential (Daum) or where they'll grant you more power (Jol - when he left for Ajax, Hamburg's chairman Bernd Hoffmann said: "Ajax offered him the far-reaching authority he wanted").
I suspect that a coach like Magath would tell you that this is also fair because it levels the playing field: in the past coaches were always at other people's mercy and would get fired at the drop of a hat, now they try to call the shots and be more in control of their own destiny.
But of course there is, in the transfer market, a crucial difference between players and coaches. You can assess a player's contribution fairly accurately, but you'll never know what - if at all - the coach is contributing. Let alone what makes a good or a bad coach.
According to Mainz's business manager Christian Heidel, Andersen had been as good as fired back in March, following a heavy home defeat against Aachen. But then the coach promised to be more communicative and play less defensive football, so he stayed on the job - and won promotion. During the pre-season training, though, Andersen seems to have rediscovered his old self. "He didn't follow the path we had decided on," Heidel says. "There was no communication at all between him and the team." Losing a Cup tie to a fourth-division side did not, we can safely assume, improve his standing - and so Andersen went from scapegoat to hero to scapegoat again in just seventeen weeks.
That's quick, but not untypically quick. The above-mentioned Löw stayed at Stuttgart for two years, winning the German FA Cup and reaching the Cup Winners Cup final. But then he lasted only one season at Fenerbahce, was fired after less than six months at Karlsruhe, returned to Turkey - and was given the boot at Adanaspor all of three months later. Was he that good at Stuttgart, and that bad elsewhere?
After the first round of games of the new season, my local newspaper's columnist was rather surprised by Wolfsburg's strong performance, concluding: "Wolfsburg's big plus is that only coach Felix Magath has left the club. And it suddenly looks as if he had less to do with the team's success than we thought."
Now, how much is "less"? Last week, the well-loved former radio commentator Manfred Breuckmann said he didn't understand all that talk about the coaches at Schalke and Dortmund, because: "A coach's share in the team's showing comes to only thirty per cent, at the most." That line caught me by surprise. Because thirty per cent, if you think about it, is actually an awful lot, isn't it?
Ah, maybe it's all got to do with the club. Maybe there are clubs where the coach makes all the difference and clubs where the coach has next to no discernible effect. You doubt that?
In 2005, Greuther Fürth finished 5th in the Second Bundesliga under coach Benno Möhlmann. In 2006, they were 5th again. That must have frustrated Möhlmann, because during the next season, he declared he would not extend his contract as Fürth were not upwardly mobile. The team finished 5th. In 2008, under new coach Bruno Labbadia, Fürth came 6th. Labbadia went, Möhlmann returned, but Fürth still finished 5th.
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We went past a pet store near our place a few weeks back, and found one of these balls. They are extremely hard, and can not be chewed, which is great, but they have holes in the side of them, so you can stuff them with hay, and they also have a little rattle inside where the rabbit cant reach it. The 3 bunnies play with it non stop, and all we can hear all night long is the rattle inside the ball. When they are outside on the lawn, they throw it around and argue over who is playing with it So this morning we went back to the store and bought 2 more. So now Stu has a red one, Mr Bunny has a blue one, and flopsy has a yellow one. (flopsy is more interested in sitting on top of hers, and then doing a digging motion so that she actually walks backwards on the ball!
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Stu and her red ball.
Stu hopped into Flopsys house (where she is staying until her eye gets better) to play with her ball
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Thanks guys, the rabbits are very protective of their own ball at the moment, but it might be because 2 of them are new, and so much more exciting than the old blue one
I got them from the Semaphore Pet Shop on Semaphore road. I will post the brand name tonight (when I get home) to see if you can buy them online. Cause I live in South Australia, and thats a long way to go to buy a ball
Or I could post you some if you cant get them online. That would be easy
PS: Fluffy Bunny: Mr Bunny says HELLO MR. BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Bunnymum, we were really worried about flopsys eye yesterday, it got really bad but this morning it is now back to 100% normal! We are so relieved, and she is a very happy bunny now (especially with her new ball)
Yeah, I probably can't drive across the ocean for a bunny ball, my boyfriend already thinks I am bunny crazy! LOL! Glad that Flopsy is doing better for you
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I have seen thos balls in other pet stores in the US. I will look at some places and see if I find one!
Thanks mrmac!! Save me a flight to Austraillia!! LOL


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A Southampton pensioner was jailed for 16 months after police found more than 1,200 degrading images of girls he had downloaded on to his computer.
The city crown court heard officers made visits to John Longstaff's home, following his conviction several years earlier when he was jailed for four years for abusing girls.
The 68-year-old confirmed he had been looking for girls and insisted they were clothed models, but when they examined the images, they were found to involve explicit photos of pre-teen Japanese girls.
Longstaff, of Kern Close, Maybush, admitted 20 charges of possessing and making indecent images.
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BUENOS AIRES, June 25 (Reuters) - Argentina's industrial output contracted 0.9 percent in the twelve months to May, Economy Ministry data showed on Thursday, marking the 22nd consecutive monthly decline on the previous year.
The figure was slightly better than the median forecast in a Reuters poll of 10 analysts for a 1.0 percent fall.
On a month-on-month basis, industrial output rose 0.2 percent in May, the ministry said. (Reporting by Buenos Aires newsroom; Editing by Chris Reese)


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Young Researchers Announced For The Indo-German Grand Science Slam
"India's youngsters are ready! Future of Indian research and Indo-German research collaboration is outstanding" states DWIH Coordinator Dr. Fischer
October 11, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The German Embassy New Delhi and the German Research Foundation (DFG) have announced the six finalists who will present their slam topics at the Indo-German Grand Science Slam to be held on Saturday, 27th October 2012 at the Millennium Indraprastha Park, Sarai Kale Khan.
The call for participation was made in early September and the response was fantastic with a total of 46 applications received from leading young researchers in top institutions all over India including University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Patna, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, Manipal University, Anna University Chennai, Bangalore University and University of Hyderabad, among others. The Grand Science Slam also received entries from Indian researchers of prominent universities abroad such as Technical University Darmstadt, University of Oxford, University of Hohenheim-Stuttgart, Rheinische Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität Bonn and Cluster of Excellence-South Asia Institute Heidelberg.
The names of the young finalists who will be presenting their research are Ms. Japleen Kaur Pasricha (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dr.Sajad H. Ahanger (Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad), Mr. Ahan Dalal (University of Hyderabad), Mr. Bidus Kanti Das (Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur), Mr. Vikas Shabadi (Technische Universität Darmstadt) and Mr. Debdoot Sheet (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur). The topics they will be presenting include Contemporary German Pop literature: Christian Krachts "Faserland"; Uniting Boundaries and Dividing the Empire; Can a Plant Biologist make a Farmer smile?; Don't waste a 'waste'; Nano-electronics, Spintronics, Multiferroics; and, Ultrasonic Histology, respectively.
Slammers were invited to submit their entries from medicine/physiology, "green" life sciences, physics/mathematics, geo sciences, chemistry and process engineering, informatics and social sciences. Out of these 46 entries, an eminent Jury in Germany shortlisted the best six that will get to present at the Grand Science Slam. Each slammer will get five minutes to present their research in a simple, fun and creative format, which will be followed by a five minutes Q&A session with the jury and the audience. Two winners decided by a jury collectively with the audience will be awarded a fully paid learning opportunity to work in the research group of an eminent researcher in Germany.
On that occasion, the German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner said: "Germany and India are perfect partners - also in science and research. The Indo-German Grand Science Slam unites young bright minds from India and Germany and shapes the Indo-German cooperation of tomorrow. The upcoming Indo-German Urban Mela, the inauguration of the German House for Science and Innovation in New Delhi and the Grand Science Slam are landmarks in our bilateral science and research relation."
Speaking on the selection process, Dr. Torsten Fischer, Director, German Research
Foundation (DFG), the official coordinator of DWIH New Delhi, says, "The quality of applications we received for this Indo-German Grand Science Slam in India has been fantastic. It reflects the potential of India's research community and the promising future of Indo-German research collaboration. The selection was based purely on quality and relevance to area of science selected."
As one of the highlights of the "German Year in India 2011/2012", the Grand Science Slam will also mark the inauguration of German House for Research and Innovation in New Delhi (DWIH New Delhi), a 'one-stop-shop' for students, researchers and potential partner institutions on higher education, research landscape and funding sources in Germany. German House for Research and Innovation in New Delhi (DWIH New Delhi) is an initiative of the German Government with the support of the Federal Foreign Office (Auswartiges Amt - AA) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung - BMBF) for increasing cooperation between German and Indian academic and scientific communities. Four DWIH have already been established in Sao Paolo (Brazil), Moscow (Russia), New York (USA) and Tokyo (Japan).
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Seamer Liam Plunkett admits he was delighted to play his part as Durham all but guaranteed a second successive LV County Championship title on Friday.
Plunkett starred on day three with figures of 6-85 to help dismiss Nottinghamshire for 384 in their first innings at The Riverside - a total that ensured the visitors would follow-on.
Notts were then reduced to 52-2 in their second innings and Plunkett insists he and his fellow Durham bowlers were in their element as they grabbed the bonus points needed to ensure they will remain champions come Saturday's conclusion.
"We didn't really feel any pressure going into today," he said.
"We knew there were two days left and we just had to bowl our line and length and hope we could grab the wickets we needed.
"We knew they have some talented batters in their own right and we just thought 'this is our pitch'.
"Our bowlers are a little different to theirs, and in the end we got them down to about 200 less than we made."
Plunkett was also pleased to have played his part in helping wrap-up the title after being 12th man for the winning side when Durham secured their first championship at Canterbury last season.
"Not getting picked for Durham is heart-breaking," the 24-year-old added.
"I've been here since I was 16 - so this year to play most of the games when I've been fit has been awesome.
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Wrigleyville was up in smoke Friday afternoon after a 3-alarm file broke out at a bar in the Chicago neighborhood, reports NBC Chicago. The blaze started in the 3300 block of Clark Street, sending plumes of smoke and flames high into the air in the busy area. The fire allegedly began at the Roadhouse 66 sports bar and grill, but it's not clear what actually caused the blaze. So far, it's unclear if there were any injuries. The Chicago Transit Authority is planning to keep the nearby...Read Full Story
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A day after a potent winter storm passed through southeastern North Carolina, the region is still gripped by the storm's impact.
What little thawing of roads was possible yesterday, when temperatures never reached above the freezing point, refroze overnight. The region could see a repeat tonight.
Temperatures rose above freezing for a short time today giving road crews a chance to make some headway, but with temperatures dropping again, many people could find themselves homebound again tomorrow.
State and local governments continue to warn drivers not to head out unless they absolutely have to. Many schools, governments and businesses have closed again today for what is a third day off for many people.
In Wilmington, the Highway Patrol has warned drivers to avoid ice-covered Kerr Ave. near Bavarian and Farley drives. Troopers also issued a warning about Hale Swamp Road in Shallotte.
Also in Shallotte, the fire department says DOT crews have cleared Main Street at Naber Drive. Major icy conditions still exists on roadways in heavily wooded areas and some neighborhoods.
Brunswick County leaders have implored drivers to stay home. A firefighter reported several cars have slipped off Lanvale Rd. in Leland, and rescue crews are having trouble reaching them.
The NCDOT said the work crews did ahead of the storm to prepare roads has helped. Still many major roads were reduced to rutted sheets of ice. Meanwhile neighborhood streets look more like ice rinks than roadways.
Brandon Justice lives in Nashville, TN, but has spent the past several weeks traveling around the east coast helping to clear snow and ice from covered streets and parking lots.
"We started about 3 a.m., and what the ice melt basically does is we throw it down and it just breaks it up, that's all it really does. That way we can come through and shovel it all off to the side," Justice said.
A full thaw may not come until the weekend. The forecast is for a high temperature around 50 Friday with more warmth and even some rain moving in through Saturday and Sunday.
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NEARLY a quarter of a century on and still nobody on the European Tour can beat what Welshman David Llewellyn did in Biarritz in 1988.
En route to his only Tour victory – winning the World Cup with Ian Woosnam the previous season did not count – 60-year-old former national coach Llewellyn achieved two feats that remain in the record books.
His 72-hole total of 258 has been equalled only by Woosnam and his third round 60 has never been bettered either. Matched no fewer than 15 times, including by Cardiff's Bradley Dredge in winning the 2003 Madeira Island Open, but never bettered. Latest to fall just short of the magical 59 was American Ryder Cup player Brandt Snedeker on Saturday. He stood over a putt of just under 20 feet on the final green at the HSBC Champions in China, but after an eagle and 10 birdies it still had to go in – and it didn't.
"I was disappointed – in a career you might only get a couple of chances," Snedeker said. "It just stinks not doing it.
"When I made eagle at the 15th the idea of shooting 59 came to me, but I knew I needed to make birdie at the last three holes. I definitely had some nerves going."
Snedeker can still say he is the only man to score a 60 in either a World Golf Championship or a Major – remarkably, the record for golf's four biggest events has been stuck at 63 ever since Johnny Miller first did it in 1973 – but 59 sounds so much more special.
The biggest problem for the FedEx Cup winner was that Mission Hills was a par 72 and he needed therefore to get to 13 under for the day. That is a tall order, even with five reachable par fives. But whatever the par, the pressure builds in the same way.
Only a week earlier on the par 71 Mines course in Malaysia two more Americans, Bo Van Pelt and Nick Watney, also needed a closing birdie for a 59.
Neither of them could even get a par. Van Pelt double-bogeyed for a 62, while Watney bogeyed for a 61.
And only last month South African Branden Grace went round Kingsbarns in Scotland in 60. He had to eagle the par five ninth – his last – but had to be content with a fifth successive birdie. Again, it was a par 72.
Next week's Hong Kong Open on the par 6,734-yard par 70 Fanling course might see the European Tour's first 59.
Ian Poulter has gone closest, shooting 60 two years ago, although with preferred lies it does not qualify as one of the record-holders.
Llewellyn's 60 came on a par 68 lay-out, while there have been four 60s on par 69s – three of them at the Monte Carlo Open and then Phillip Archer at Celtic Manor's Roman Road course in the 2006 Wales Open.
That was a golden opportunity. Requiring a birdie on the last Archer struck a 134-yard wedge to seven feet, but it clipped the left edge and stayed above ground.


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Dickerson lets his play make case
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- It didn't go over well when Chris Dickerson talked the talk. But the Reds outfielder has walked the walk, too, and no one can call that into question this spring. Last month near the start of camp, Dickerson irritated manager Dusty Baker when he publicly aired his disappointment of a perception that he was being overlooked for center field. It appeared that it was Drew Stubbs' job to lose. Whether or not that was the case then, it's a wide-open battle now. Dickerson is batting .371 (13-for-35) with one home run, six RBIs and a .405 on-base percentage. He was already in the hunt for the vacancy in left field when camp opened.
"After the first week, I knew I had something to prove," Dickerson said Wednesday morning before he went 1-for-2 with two steals vs. the Giants. "That's the case with every Spring Training. That's how you have to approach it." "Hey, man, that's how you do it. You play your way into it," Baker said. "You don't talk your way into it. And he's playing." After a 2-for-20 start, Stubbs has also heated up and is batting .297 (11-for-37) with a team-leading eight extra-base hits, including four homers. Now it's quite possible that the Reds won't name an everyday left fielder or center fielder when camp breaks. With Dickerson, Stubbs, power hitter Jonny Gomes and right fielder Jay Bruce, Baker is contemplating a mix-and-match setup for the regular season that can vary depending on the situation day-by-day. On top of that, either Dickerson or Stubbs could be the leadoff hitter. "We'll see. Certain guys are more conducive to hit than other guys," Baker said. "Certain days I might need a better defensive team out there [depending] on who's pitching for us. There are a lot of different factors when you make the lineup out every day. You put guys in a position where they're most likely to succeed. They might not like it sometimes." Baker has alternated Stubbs and Dickerson in center field throughout spring. On Wednesday, Dickerson started and gave way to Stubbs after two at-bats. Stubbs was 1-for-3 with a two-run home run.
It appears that no matter what combination of outfielders Baker employs, Dickerson has likely crossed the first hump of making the team. But he's no longer worried about, or at least publicly talking about, his role."At this point, we're all just here to get prepared to contribute," Dickerson said. "Wherever and whenever that is, I just want to be ready. I want to contribute to the overall success of the team. That's all I'm concerned about. When or where doesn't really matter." Each day before games, Dickerson likes to stretch a string out from his locker and stare down the line at three beads with one eye opened. He believes it helps with his depth perception. Before batting practice, Dickerson also takes practice swings with an odd-looking contraption that's strapped around his left knee and left forearm. The device is called "The Pitcher's Nightmare." Dickerson is hoping there's truth in advertising when he gets into the regular season. "I got it randomly and tried it out. I loved it," he said. "It's improved my hand position and getting through the baseball more. I don't want to get too crazy with peripheral tools but those two have helped me a lot." Besides better hitting, Dickerson obviously needs better health. Last season, Dickerson batted .275 with two home runs, 15 RBIs, 11 stolen bases and a .370 on-base percentage. He was limited to only 97 games because of numerous injuries, including a severely sprained left ankle. This spring, Dickerson has been both healthy and hitting. "I came out here and did the work and worked with Brook [Jacoby, the hitting coach]," Dickerson said. "I was lucky I got off to a good start and felt really comfortable at the plate. It's carried over throughout spring. Hopefully we can build from there and take it into the season."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.