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Date: 27-28 July, 2011
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The Certified ScrumMaster course is a two-day interactive session designed to effectively teach Scrum principles and practices. You can expect the following topics to be covered during the course:
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This course is useful for anyone who wants to be successful using Scrum. It's not just for ScrumMasters – but will benefit anyone who is involved in a Scrum Project and in any of the Scrum roles. It's strongly recommended for Product Owners, Product Managers, Project Managers, Functional / Departmental Managers, Development Team Members (including Architects, Designers, Coders, Testers, and others), and Executives involved in transitioning to Scrum within their own organiSation.


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Will Ferrell has accepted Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer/Ferrell doppelganger Chad Smith's "drum battle" for charity.
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In a video posted last week via Funny or Die, Smith called out his lookalike Ferrell for his drumming abilities — or lack thereof. "I've seen your skills," says Smith. "You don't got 'em." During Smith's recent Reddit AMA, Ferrell responded, writing, "Hi, Chad. Will Ferrell here. I saw your video and I graciously accept your invitation to a drum battle. If we can raise $300,000 for Cancer for College I will face off with you in the greatest drum vs. cowbell showdown the world has ever seen. We can do it on stage at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert or in front of a mutually convenient public library. Your call. Also, would you rather fight a hundred duck sized ducks or one horse sized horse?"
Smith poked at Ferrell earlier in the AMA. When asked if the drum battle would actually happen, the drummer replied, "Mr. Ferrell is a delusional imposter. It seems to me that he has gone off his meds and he needs to seek professional help because I am obviously more talented and handsome than he is. You know, his cowbell work is well-documented, but his drumset skills are nominal based on Step Brothers the film. Other than wiping his testicles on the drums, which of course I give high marks to.
"Tell Will Ferrell anytime, anyplace, I'll take him down. I don't want to embarrass him, but I'd say don't bring your family. Especially children. I don't want them to see this." After the AMA, Smith tweeted a picture of himself giving blood with the caption, "Gettin juiced for the drum battle."
The uncanny resemblance between the two stars received renewed notice since Ferrell answered a question about it in his AMA earlier this month, but it's hardly the first time someone has noticed it. In a 2011 interview with Rolling Stone, Smith was told that after Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared on the cover, everyone thought he was the comedian. After mentioning that he didn't think they looked alike, he recounted the only time the two met each other
"It was at the premiere of Ladies Man many years ago," said Smith. "I'm looking at Will and thinking, "People really think I look like him? I don't fucking look like that." He looks me up and down and says, 'You're very handsome,' and walks away. Totally deadpan. I was like, 'You're funny. You're funny.'"
No date or location has been determined for the battle.
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This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone: Will Ferrell Accepts RHCP Chad Smith's Drum Challenge

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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Wildcat Astronaut!
Right on cue, NASA Astronaut Tom Marshburn '82 and his International Space Station crewmates will fly over campus tonight, in a 230-mile-high orbital preview to this Friday's live video downlink in the 900 Room.
It's been fun and an honor to be in the middle of planning for the downlink event, which will also be live-streamed on the Internet (see below). Trivia tidbit: My newsroom office in the college's Julia Johnston House on Main Street is directly below the room where Tom roomed as a sophomore!
You can sign up at the NASA site below for "Spot the Station" alerts. Here are the specs for tonight's flyover:
Time: Tue Apr 09 8:37 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 43 degrees, Appears: W, Disappears: NE
Here are the specs for Friday's campus event:
Davidson College will host a live NASA downlink from the International Space Station (ISS) between 3:30 p.m. and 4:35 p.m., Friday, April 12, in the C. Shaw Smith 900 Room of the Alvarez College Union. Attendees will have the opportunity to question alumnus Astronaut Thomas Marshburn, M.D. '82, about his experiences aboard the ISS, 230 miles above Earth.
The event is free and open to the public; seating is limited. Doors will close at 3:55 p.m. and the half-hour question and answer session will begin at approximately 4:05 p.m. The session will be simulcast to an overflow area outside of the 900 Room as well as online.
A physics major, Marshburn earned a bachelor's degree from Davidson College, master's degrees from the University of Virginia and University of Texas Medical Branch, and a medical degree from Wake Forest University.
Previously, Marshburn served as a flight surgeon at Johnson Space Center, co-chair of medical operations for the Shuttle/Mir Space Program, NASA representative to the Harvard/MIT Smart Medical Systems Team of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, and lead flight surgeon and medical operations lead for Expedition 7 to the ISS.
Marshburn completed his first space flight in July 2009 on Space Shuttle Endeavour. On Dec. 19, 2012, he launched aboard Soyuz TMA-07M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Marshburn is completing his second deployment to the ISS, serving as flight engineer for Expedition 35, and will return to Earth in May.
Marshburn article in Davidson Journal


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Morning everyone. There should really be some kind of preamble here shouldn't there? Ummm.
Well it doesn't look like you're getting much from this quarter does it? Why don't you go and read Jon Henderson's rather fascinating interview with recently retired Australia coach John Buchanan or, indeed, toddle off over this way to find out why Vic Marks is on Michael Vaughan's back.
Now I haven't actually read either of those things, because, well, it's Sunday morning and I've only been up a short while. But hey ho, the headlines look promising, no?
99th over: West Indies 368-7 (Chanderpaul 68 Powell 0) So, overnight it's become clear that Matthew Hoggard won't be bowling for the rest of this game, or indeed, for the game after either. That puts all the onus to break up this rearguard stand on Plunkett and Harmison. Which is unfortunate because, yesterday, Harmison in particular bowled like a blocked drain. The England brains trust has come up with a quite startling solution to his problems, and that is to give him a bowl at the other end. Which is something they failed to try yesterday. His first two balls here are better, and nip back down the slope from short of a length. Chanderpaul's too wary to have anything to do with them. The third however, is rather too full and too straight so Chanderpaul leans forward and pushes it past mid-on with such immaculate timing that the ball runs all the way to the boundary ropes. Powell is given the sixth ball to face, and he survives it through no real effort of his own doing.
100th over: West Indies 368-7 (Chanderpaul 68 Powell 0) Oh god. The only person who can be bothered to bother me with an email is the shameless self publicist Keith Flett, of the Beard Liberation Front, with, unsurprisingly, some guff about beards. Looks like it's the only material I'll be getting this side of lunch from you lot (ok, you few) so I better hold it back awhile. Bet you're on tenterhooks now, right? Absurdly, Chanderpaul now has 292 runs in his last three innings at Lord's without being dismissed once. This isn't going to be easy. Plunkett doesn't make him play, but nor does he hurl down any leg side filth, so I guess that qualifies as a decent start.
101st over: West Indies 368-7 (Chanderpaul 68 Powell 0) Listening to all of Sky's cabal of ex-England captains and coaches give their various theories on how to fix Steve Harmison it occurs to me that, for him, his morning warm up must be a bit like being Macbeth on the moor in that he's soon surrounded by various wrinkled old crones who spout pseudo-profound guff at him - mixing it up with a lot of incomprehensible gnomic nonsense - until his head is filled with conflicting and confused thoughts and he ends up murdering the king and going mad. Or just bunging another one down leg. Anyway, he's bowled a maiden.
102nd over: West Indies 368-7 (Chanderpaul 68 Powell 0) James Lorigan is one lonely reader right now: "as Bangladesh is the only country in the world to have the weekend on friday and saturday and as I happen to be sat in the office in Dhaka I reckon I might be one of your only OBO readers today. Also as we're 5 hours ahead it's nearly hometime for me, so have a great sunday in the office. I'm off for an evening of powercuts, bad street food and my next bout of food poisoning. The Dhaka diet, beats the hell out of Atkins anyday." Not to mention the GU crust-and-soup line. Bangladesh has a Test match of it's own to be enthralled by this Sunday, except that it seems to be raining very hard indeed. Before that started happening India made it to 384 for six by the way of a brace of centuries from Tendulkar and Ganguly.
103rd over: West Indies 369-7 (Chanderpaul 68 Powell 1) Harmison has now decided that the secret to success lies in removing two studs from his left boot and screwing a new one into the toe end. He promptly sits a half-volley on leg stump and gifts Powell a run, as well as, more importantly, an easy escape from the strike. West Indies now trail by 184. Chanderpaul breaks out a vicious cut as Harmison drifts too wide on the crease but the ball thunders straight to point. Two runs from 30 balls then. I bet they're wide awake in the pavilion....
104th over: West Indies 375-7 (Chanderpaul 68 Powell 7) Ah bejesus, are these two really the best opening bowling attack in the country? Daren Powell has a Test average of five, how long can this possibly take? Why don't they just stick Monty on right now? Powell blocks the ball out to square cover where substitute fielder Lee Hodgson falls over his own feet and allows the batsmen to pick up two runs. As if that wasn't poor enough, Powell drives the next one away with a rustic clout and the ball skims across the turf to the extra cover boundary.
105th over: West Indies 378-7 (Chanderpaul 69 Powell 8) Chanderpaul rides one off his hip and down to fine leg. Harmison is bowling a much better line from this end, though Powell has just knocked that one out to the off for another single, while Chanderpaul has brushed the next away to square leg for another. Powell dangles his bat and then hangs his head, knowing that if he does any more of that he'll gift his wicket.
106th over: West Indies 383-7 (Chanderpaul 70 Powell 12) A good shot by Powell, pulling Plunkett towards mid-wicket but actually just spewing the ball over his, and the 'keepers, head for four. He did slog that very strange fifty against South Africa in the World Cup, Powell, and he clearly thinks he can emulate that as he essays an extraordinary straight drive with a magnificent flourish, marred only by the turn of his head to watch the ball fly past his outside edge and throug to Prior.
WICKET! Chanderpaul 74 lbw Panesar (107th over: West Indies 391-8) Harmison is spelled, and once again he's failed to make any impression on the game at all. Unlike Monty, who's been brought on to con Powell out of his wicket. Before that though, he has to bowl to Shiv Chanderpaul, and his first ball is a full toss loosener that is cracked away through extra cover for four. Oh! He's got him! That's Panesar's fifth wicket! He's on the honours board and Chanderpausls five-hour resistance has come to an end with his score on 74. Again, it was a good ball made deadly by the way the batsman chose to play it: it pitched in the rough outside off, Chanderpaul padded up and watched in horro as the ball bit and turned a foot to hit him plumb in front on the back leg. Lovely stuff, and once again, Monty has done what his elders couldn't. Thank goodness for Monty. There is time left in the over for Jerome Taylor to straight drive four very pretty runs.
108th over: West Indies 396-8 (Powell 17 Taylor 4) Powell equals his best ever Test score by swatting a mighty pull along the grass through mid-wicket for four. Richard Jones, I think your pudding stinks of egg: "We have an England living in the past. On the batting side Vaughan is no longer fit often enough, Flintoff is in creamation (Ashes) trauma, Tresco is under stress and strain. The only slightly bright spots are Bell, Cook and the ever-serving Collingwood (who should be the captain) . On the bowling side Giles and SP Jones are gonnas, although we may have Panesar to replace one of them. It won't be long before Flintoff is an occassional player depending on injury. Harmison is now part of the brain drain and Hoggard enters the world of nagging injury too! Moores has one hell of a job - get rid of most of the team, including some old favourites still very much in the public eye and bloody well start again." A thick edge flies off Taylor's bat but drops short of a disgruntled looking Ian Bell in the slips.
109th over: West Indies 396-8 (Powell 17 Taylor 4) Another loud shout from Monty as the ball slides across the wicket and heads down leg before being cut off by Powell's pad. Oh dear, Monty has sustained a little injury fielding a return catch here, jamming his nail down into the turf. Ah no, it's the spinning finger on his left hand as well. This is not good at all. He's getting a little treatment and some kind words from the physio; Kevin Pietersen has immediately started whirling his arms round in huge windmills, clearly angling for a bowl at the tail end rabbits. This could be really bad: Monty's spinning finger is wrapped up in plaster, he can still bowl, but no, he's taken the bandages off again because he isn't comfortable with them. His first ball back looks unaffected by the problem, which is impressive because it must be bothering him. He completes a maiden.
109th over: West Indies 396-8 (Powell 17 Taylor 4) Another loud shout from Monty as the ball slides across the wicket and heads down leg before being cut off by Powell's pad. Oh dear, Monty has sustained a little injury fielding a return catch here, jamming his nail down into the turf. Ah no, it's the spinning finger on his left hand as well. This is not good at all. He's getting a little treatment and some kind words from the physio; Kevin Pietersen has immediately started whirling his arms round in huge windmills, clearly angling for a bowl at the tail end rabbits. This could be really bad: Monty's spinning finger is wrapped up in plaster, he can still bowl, but no, he's taken the bandages off again because he isn't comfortable with them. His first ball back looks unaffected by the problem, which is impressive because it must be bothering him. He completes a maiden.
110th over: West Indies 401-8 (Powell 17 Taylor 9) Taylor plays an absolutely classic tail-enders drive, screwing the ball of his outside edge and over the slips for four whilst following through towards mid-off with a mighty swoosh. He knocks one down to fine leg and he's now a run short of being the tenth West Indian in this innings to make double figures - which is a real indication of a rejuvinated, and possibly post-Lara induced, team spirit.
111th over: West Indies 404-8 (Powell 17 Taylor 12) Monty continues despite his finger troubles, and his first ball is tidily late-cut by Taylor, rolling away to third man for three runs. West Indies now trail by 149 runs.
112th over: West Indies 409-8 (Powell 17 Taylor 16) Paddy Blewer isn't the first man to discover the miraculous hang-over curing properties of the OBO, but he is the most entertainingly named: "Really struggling this morning after forgetting how bad I would feel if I drank the best part of a bottle of honey vodka. Yet to try the seemingly OBO sponsor Relentless but reading OBO on my crackberry is much better than the work I should be doing." Hmmm, you can just sense Paddy's fragile grip on sobriety behind that email can't you? Sounds like it was a real battle to try and get something vaguely coherent written down. Which doesn't stop me printing it of course. Taylor has started to plonk the ball down in the outfield with a couple of mighty swipes: he gets two to fine leg with a 'hook' and two more to extra cover with a 'drive'.
113th over: West Indies 419-8 (Powell 19 Taylor 20) What a heartening little stand this is for the Windies. Neither of these two had ever given much of an impression that they could bat with such pluck, if not skill. Monty drifts down leg and Prior makes his first noticeable mistake behind the stumps, letting four byes creep past him as Taylor sweeps and misses. And that is quite a shot by Taylor, taking a stride down the wicket and mowing the ball across the line and over towards mid-wicket where it bobbles over the rope for four.
WICKET! Taylor 21 c sub (Hodgson) b Harmison (114th over: West Indies 424-9) Harmison - 26 overs, no wickets for 103 - returns and his first ball is gloved over the top of a diving Matt Prior and away for four runs to fine leg after Powell attempted an injudicious hook. Morning Robin Hazelhurst, you sound like a reasonable chap: "Counting chickens of course," 'of course', I reply, nodding bluffly into my pint of Ale, "but this game could be a real test of Strauss' captaincy. When does he declare the second innings? With only three bowlers, and only one of them taking wickets, he needs a big chase to make the game safe, but a lot of time to get the wickets. Windies have scored 400 happily here, he needs a target of at least that to feel secure, but that means racking up 300+ today even if they finish the Windies off now. If he pulls it off, he will establish himself as an excellent captain who won a game with one and a half bowlers. But if he draws, or, God forbid, loses against a weak team, he will be mauled for it." It's true: managing three bowlers through an effort to get 19 wickets is a real bugger. I imagine he'll be tossing the ball to Monty and crossing his fingers come the second innings. That said it's just got a little easier: Harmison adds a vital 'one' to go at the end of his 28-2-103. It's a wicket at long last. Taylor slaughtered a cover drive straight through the air to Lee Hodgson, who clasped his hands around a simple catch - good work fella. Harmison punches the air without any conviction.
115th over: West Indies 428-9 (Powell 28 Collymore 0) While play takes a little break for Daren Powell to get a little treatement after he was whacked on the thumb of his lower hand, I'll dip into my inbox and bring out this from Betsy Barker - wonderful name that, Betsy - "I haven't got a telly and my son Hugh put me on to your over by over commentary, which is great...are you sat at home in a dishevelled state with a coffee and a fag watching on telly or are you in a special room at the grounds?" How do we do it indeed? - oops hold on Powell has just thwacked a tremendous slog sweep over square leg for four, a great shot in its way - well Betsy, we're in a dirigible, a zeppelin-type thing, that hovers over the ground. We're teathered up just over the road in St John's Wood. It's lovely up here, but sadly, though I'm thoroughly dishevelled and nursing several mugs of coffee, I'm not allowed to smoke anymore. Not since that air disaster a few years back when the flammable gas that keeps these things afloat caught fire and scattered the charred remains of one of my colleagues all over Manchester. Oh the humanity. The humanity. Oops, I';m late for the next over....
116th over: West Indies 437-9 (Powell 36 Collymore 1) The West Indies balcony breaks out into riotous grins and chuckles as Powell unleashes on Harmison. Stunning stuff. The first was incredible, he wandered down the pitch, turning the ball into a full toss - to Steve Harmison this, mind you - and sort of rocked around on his heels and clubbed the ball away straight for four. He followed it up with a marvellous cover drive that brings him four more, Harmison shrugs and looks feckless.
WICKET! Collymore 1 lbw Panesar (117th over: West Indies 437, Powell 36 not out) And that's it - yet another victim for Monty's arm ball, which pitches on off and darts on towards middle. The bat is nowhere near it, the finger goes up, and the innings is over. Powell is cut off for an entertaining 36, and Monty has secured his place on the honours board with his sixth wicket, at a cost of 129 runs. His bowling colleagues should be embarassed by how they've been totally out-bowled by him.
So, a fine morning for the West Indies still leaves them 115 runs behind. England's fast bowling has been very disappointing indeed, and it's been left to Monty to keep them on course for a win, and indeed a draw.
1st over: England 1-0 (Strauss 1 Cook 0) Powell, invigorated by his batting, opens with an absolute jaffa that pitches on leg and hurtles six inches across the stumps, just missing the outside edge of Strauss's dangling bat. "Where is the Keith Flett contribution you promised us earlier (Over 100), I've quite enjoyed his previous contributions to the OBO, though personally I feel he doesn't go far enough as I believe that beards should be made compulsory for everyone who is capable of growing one - women included" more strange hirsuite moanings there, from Don Wilson, who's no doubt a card-carrying BLF member himself. Well, as Strauss knocks a single out to backward square, I'll oblige you now: "The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that with Monty Panesar demonstrating the impact of Beard Power on the field on the Saturday at Lords, it is time to look at reviewing the rules of cricket to take account of the increasing hirsuteness of the game. The BLF Hirsute Cricket Rules Revision team has worked through the winter to come up with some initial proposals that will be refined further through the summer. BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, With cricket becoming an increasingly hirsute game a look at the rules is overdue: RULES OF HIRSUTE CRICKET [Draft] : 1) Bearded bowler to clean shaven batsman: The batsman can be out LBW if ball pitches outside the leg stump as well as the off. 2) Clean shaven bowler to bearded batsman: Ball has to pitch between stumps to be out LBW. 3) Batsman and bowler of same facial hair status: no change. 4) If a bearded fielder takes a catch off a no ball it is out." Was that good? It was so long I couldn't be bothered to read it.
2nd over: England 2-0 (Strauss 2 Cook 0) Collymore fizzes his own first ball of the day past Strauss's outside edge. "Afternoon" cheerios Clare Davies, "though as only just up, seems more like morning to me. And bloody hell, after listening since the start, I go out of the room for two minutes and miss that increasingly rare beast that is a Harmison wicket!" Bah, it wasn't worth waiting for Clare. Not unless you're the substitute fielder's mother. And your surname isn't Hodgson. Has there ever actually been a sub (not an official 12th man you understand) who went on to have an England career? Anyone remember Ben Spendlove?
3rd over: England 5-0 (Strauss 5 Cook 0) "Isn't it time that Britain follow India's example and select a Sikh prime minister?" Lou Roper taking us neatly off topic with a touch of culture and politics there, the wag, "And if we must have a Durham fast bowler in the side, how about a look at Graham Onions--who has the added attraction of having a name well-suited to OBO?" Aye, it's just a shame that his wicketkeeping colleague Phil Mustard isn't anywhere near gettinjg a call-up with him. Elsewhere mind you, a 17-year-old quick from Glamorgan has just become the youngest player ever to take ten wickets in a Championship match. That said, as wonderful as the feat is, it was against Gloucestershire, who I can smugly say from south banks of the River Avon, are absolutely rubbish this season. Really really bad. Chortle. Strauss has clumped three out through the leg side.
4th over: England 8-0 (Strauss 6 Cook 1) Collymore, at a pace down below Collingwood's, gives a single to Strauss from the first ball. Ah, me old mucker Tom Boylston has dropped a line to say: "the West Indies are making me sad so I'll ask: are there any hip young cricket gunslingers in the islands, you know, 6 foot five nineteen year old quicks in the Antigua side? Is there some kid from Guyana making runs? Is there any hope that the Windies will resurface? Or are all the Ambroses and Richardses now playing basketball or trying to be Dwight Yorke? Has impregnating Jordan really superceded a hundred at Lord's as the dream of every West Indian lad? Please tell me something hopeful because it's Sunday and I'm fragile." And to be frank my best answer to that is - I don't know. There were a couple of younger players in the World Cup squad - Lendl Simmons is a hugely hyped batsman, but they seem to have disappeared. Ravi Rampaul, who is in the squad for this Test, if not the team, was another well-fanfared young quick bowler, we'll have to see if he breaks into the team. On the old football / basketball thing, my colleague Mike Adamson shrewdly pointed out that if all these young West Indians are playing those sports instead of cricket, why are all the good West Indian basketball players or footballers?
5th over: England 8-0 (Strauss 6 Cook 1) And, uh, this one was a maiden.
6th over: England 8-0 (Strauss 6 Cook 1) Sarwan throws the ball to Crystal Gayle for an over before lunch. "To be fair to the BLF," begins Andy Bradshaw, "their rule changes are nowhere near as silly as the ICC's "Supersub" brainfart they had in 2005." And that gag has neatly filled in the six balls that take us up to lunch. There was nary a run scored off them. Right, I'm scurrying down the ladder and back to the turf beneath to scout out a chip shop that'll provide me with enough saveloys to keep me steaming through the afternoon. In St John's Wood? I'll be lucky eh? See you shortly.


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Bernard Lansky, the Memphis retailer who helped a young Elvis Presley establish his signature clothing style of pegged pants, two-tone shoes and other flashy duds in the 1950s, died Nov. 15 at his home in Tennessee. He was 85.
Julie Lansky, the clothier's granddaughter, confirmed the death.
Bernard Lansky and his brother Guy started a retail business in Memphis in 1946 with help from a $125 loan from their father.
After World War II, the store started selling Army surplus goods on Beale Street. When the supply dried up, they opened a high-fashion men's store, where Bernard Lansky established his reputation as a natural salesman and storyteller.
Lansky Bros. ended up supplying Presley with pink and black shirts and other outfits.
Even though his style of dress changed over the years — eventually encompassing his famous sparkling jumpsuits — Presley shopped at Lansky Bros. the rest of his life.
After Presley died at his Memphis residence, Graceland, in 1977, Mr. Lansky picked out the white suit and blue tie in which the singer was buried.
"I put his first suit on him and his last suit on him," the retailer was fond of saying.
Mr. Lansky became a favorite of the Elvis faithful who flocked to Memphis by the thousands for annual gatherings in Presley's honor.
Lansky Bros. kept drawing the fans even after moving in 1981 from the Beale Street entertainment district to the Peabody Hotel, a downtown landmark a few blocks away.
Bernard and Guy Lansky parted ways in the 1980s, family members said.
In 1997, the Presley estate opened a nightclub called Elvis Presley's Memphis at Lansky's old store on Beale Street. It closed in 2003, and the building was left unused.
Mr. Lansky and son Hal came out with a line of 1950s-style clothes in 2001, and one of their four shops in the Peabody was called "Lansky 126," the street number of the old Beale Street store. All four shops are open to this day.


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This reminds me of Lupicia's Bonne Nuit, another champagne-flavoured black tea. Both Champagne Rose and Bonne Nuit taste exactly like real champagne! God knows how Lupicia has managed to do that! The dry leaves of Champagne Rose smell of grapes and muscat (quite similar to Fanta Grape). The liquor has a fruity black tea base, which complements the sweet, candy-like grape flavour very well. I am not getting the strawberry flavour that everyone has mentioned, perhaps the grape flavour is so potent that my taste buds have become too occupied to entertain other flavours :P As I am drinking the Japanese version, there are tiny pink and silver pearls among the tea leaves. I am not sure whether they contribute any flavours to the tea, but it certainly is a nice decorative touch! Next time (I think I still have a sample from Lupicia?) I am going to try it iced! :)
Btw, just want to point out that the name of this tea is Champagne Rosé instead of Champagne Rose, so I guess it should have nothing to do with rose flower at all. ;)


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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Bluewater Lake Drops 1,300 Acre-Feet
Area residents need to be prepared for well below average water availability this year. This warning was part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Feb. 1 report. Year-to-date precipitation is still well below normal at 68 percent. Storage in Bluewater Lake is down from a year ago, at 3,300 acre-feet, as compared to 4,600 acre-feet last year. This equates to 56 percent of the average storage of 5,900 acre-feet for this time, according to the hydrological report...more
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1 big eggplant
1 big onion nicely chopped
3-4 big tomato nicely chopped
2tsp chilly powder
1 green chillies nicely chopped
4tsp oil
1tsp turmeric powder
1tsp onion seeds
salt to taste
1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
hand full of coriander leaves for garnishing
1) Brush eggplant with oil, poke some holes on the eggplant with a fork and place it under the broiler or on the gas top.
2) Frequently, turn the eggplant upside down, until fully roasted.
3) Cool it and peel off the blackened skin.Mash it completely and keep aside .
4) Heat oil in a pan.
5) Saute green chillies,Onion seeds and onion until golden brown.
6) Add red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and salt and saute for a few secs.
7) Add tomatoes and saute until oil separates.
8) Garnish with coriander leaves.:D.Enjoi!


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The deadly health effects of asbestos exposure have been known and documented since Roman times, when asbestosis was known as the "disease of slaves" who worked with the substance.
By the early 1900s, it was becoming apparent to the medical community in Europe that there was a connection between asbestos and the high incidence of respiratory disease among those who worked around it.
In the United States, the connection between asbestos and respiratory disease had been scientifically proven in studies commissioned by insurance carriers and the asbestos industries during the 1930s. Lawyers have argued that the asbestos industry weighed the cost, and decided that it would be less expensive to simply conceal the evidence, allow workers to die and pay whatever legal costs might be incurred as a result. Meanwhile, the federal government, reacting to the S.S. Morro Castle tragedy (a shipboard fire) in 1934 became the largest buyer of asbestos products.
In 1977, the corporate conspiracy of silence was exposed, and the industry that reaped large profits while disdaining human life has been paying a staggering financial price ever since.
Incredibly, asbestos is still legal in the United States. In 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency passed a ban on asbestos that was overturned by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under corporate pressure. This however may soon change; U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has reintroduced a bill in Congress called the "Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007" (S. 742). Sokolove Law is leading the way with its very own grassroots initiative "Ban Asbesetos Now".
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Under the laws of every state and the District of Columbia, those who have been injured by corporate malfeasance and neglect, such as in the case of those diagnosed with mesothelioma, may have a right to sue for compensation. There are also environmental laws governing the use, handling and disposal of asbestos products, both at the federal and state level. State standards may be stricter than federal ones; however these can vary from one state to the next.
Likewise, the laws governing civil action can differ from one state to another; some state laws, greatly favor the plaintiff. Other states, lean more toward favoring corporate defendants.
Herein lies one of the challenges of pursuing legal action. Aside from the long latency period (malignant mesothelioma symptoms, especially in it's most common form, pleural mesothelioma, may not appear until fifty years after asbestos exposure), a typical mesothelioma lawsuit may involve numerous defendants, which may be located in multiple states. Because of the long latency period, it requires a great deal of research to determine who is ultimately responsible and under which jurisdiction such a case may fall. This is one reason that there are law firms in asbestos litigation that are national ones with offices in multiple states.
There is also the issue of the law itself. Over the past quarter century, there has been an increasing legislation and policy that favors corporations over the needs of people. Many states have passed laws intending to restrict the rights of plaintiffs to sue corporate defendants. U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) attempted to introduce a bill in 2005 that would have eliminated a plaintiff's right to sue altogether. Instead, those suffering from asbestos-related diseases would have had to recover their damages from a federal fund. This bill died in committee, was re-introduced, then tabled; no action have been taken on it since June of 2006. The point here is that laws regarding asbestos and mesothelioma are constantly changing, and not always in favor of victims.
Originally, asbestos litigation was often heard in federal court. However, as the amount of litigation has increased and public awareness has grown, these cases have been shifted to the state level. However, corporate defendants invariably appeal any judgment in favor of the plaintiff, meaning that the case moves up to an appellate court. Because the cost of settling such litigation has been so high, many asbestos corporations have entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Many more claims are presented to bankruptcy trust funds than in court.
Asbestos cases brought in state courts tend to move faster than those brought before the federal court. For that reason, mesothelioma lawyers will almost always seek to have an asbestos suit heard in a state court, if they can.. If the Federal courts begin to conduct trials at a faster pace, this trend may change.
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Asbestos litigation has generally been favorable to the plaintiff, although no one can predict the outcome of any specific case; most of those favorable awards are reduced on appeal, particularly when punitive or non-specific awards (i.e., pain and suffering, loss of consortium, etc.) are involved. Awards that can be quantified and documented (medical expenses, loss of income, etc.) are more frequently upheld.
In addition, those who have a diagnosis of mesothelioma with documentation by medical professionals have a much better chance of getting a judgment in their favor. The main reason is that mesothelioma has only one proven cause, whereas other forms of asbestos cancer, such as lung cancer, may be due to a number of causes. Asbestosis is another specific disease; however, the burden will be on the plaintiff to prove that the disease is actually asbestosis. Here again, a medically documented diagnosis will go far in getting a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.
Environmental Codes
As laws regarding litigation differs from state to state, so do the environmental regulations regarding its handling and disposal. In many states, any company planning to remove and dispose of asbestos must file reports and abide by several requirements; this may include private homeowners as well. In other states, such reporting requirements for private homeowners may be optional (although recommended); other states may have no such requirements.
A state's law may have very specific requirements for the handling of asbestos; any deviance from these requirements may necessitate the filing of a variance form, in which the contractor must explain why standard procedures will not be used, and how the job will be handled.
If you are looking for the law in your state, asbestos regulations and policies may be issued either through the department of environmental quality (DEQ), department of health, or some other agency.
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Tell me about BARF(32 Posts)
I'm considering it for my pup who does seem to have a bit of a sensitive stomach. However, I also have two young dcs and a job!
Is it a faff? I've heard of the benefits but not sure I can commit to it if its a lot of work.
Where do you get your raw meat from?
Does it work out more than you paid for kibble?
Can I mix kibble and raw to keep costs down?
People who I know who have moved over to BARF highly recommend it, and their dogs look great. BUT they have all said the beginning is pretty hard work as the dogs adjust. Expect alot of trots! But this settles down and is is very easy.
Personally, I have yet to try it though.
There are companies that you can order from online and they deliver but you have to have alot of freezer space as they only go to each area once a month. We would be raw feeding full time if we had the freezer space as our dog gets a bad tummy from wheat etc.
So atm because we can't feed raw full time we went to the next best option. We feed Wainwrites wet trays and the dry kibble (only grain in it is brown rice), it's got a very high meat content and raw meat/bones. We also buy the big bags of frozen beef chunks from Pets at Home and he has this a few times a week instead of the wet trays. His stomach is completely normal on this diet.
His wet is £8.99 for 12 trays, he's 33kg so needs one full tray (1 tray is for a 25kg dog) and a mugful of the kibble a day, or he gets 5 big chunks of the raw and a bit of kibble 2x a day. He's only 12 months and a big breed so we still give him slightly more than an adult dog, we'll cut his food back slightly when he's matured. His kibble is about £33 for a huge sackful which lasts a few months. The bags of beef are about £5-6 and these last about a month if he has it for both daily feeds 2x a week. Chappie is £1.65 for a large can and he was on one of these a day plus kibble so was about £2 a day to feed him on that, it costs us about £1.20 a day on the Wainwrites and raw.
Raw feeding is the cheapest way you can feed if you buy in bulk from online companies. Wainwrites/other premium food is cheaper than feeding cheap rubbish as they need alot less of it, our boy was a rescue and arrived eating Chappie, he had horrible runs and wind. Since we swapped over we are spending alot less on food, his wind has gone and so have the runs.
If you switch to BARF, it's important to do it slowly and it's easier on thier tum if you indroduce each new meat 2 weeks apart. Start with chicken then 2 weeks later add turkey or another poultry, rabbit, pork, green tripe etc, beef and leave lamb until last as it tends to be the meat that most dogs get the trots on if introduced too early. You can feed chicken wings but bash them with a hammer and keep hold of them while the dig chews until you are confident that they are chewing them up properly, lambs ribs/spines are great, they can get through the bone easily - Our boy has these about once a week for his supper (I get these from Morrisons, they sell them as stock bones).
I am sorry but I totally disagree with Rikalaily.
Our pup is 18 weeks old. When she arrived her poo was all over the place and she hated her kibble with a passion. we took her to the vet and they put her on Royal Canin dodgy stomach food for puppies which was an absolute fortune. She then refused to eat it.
I decided to take the problem into my own hands and move her straight over to BARF. Not had any dealings with it before but just read and read and read.
I've not taken ages to introduce anything. She has green tripe, fish, lots of chicken with bones. beef hearts, tongue, liver, kidney. the works.
She bloody loves it all.
Her backside as it's euphemistically called in this house couldn't be better. The shit is tiny, black and hard.
I don't feed vegetables apart from what's in the green tripe.
I work on the principle of 80% muscle meat including heart, tripe etc. 10% bone (always raw and not the legs of cows as the bones are too hard for her to chip off and ingest). and 10% kidney, liver etc.
Honestly, dog has never been easier to deal with. I will never never go back.
I work a very long week as I'm self employed and have two children aged 9 and 12. it's not really that difficult as long as you have a good sized freezer and can find butchers to talk to. The only thing the butcher doesn't want to do for me is mince green tripe. Bought lots of chicken from Tesco too as that is nice and cheap for legs / wings.
I freeze everything. the only thing i really don't like is raw chicken being wiped across the kitchen floor as she loves it so much she tries to run off with it as it is highly prized. She now eats that outside as i can't have my youngest rolling around on a floor with potential salmonella germs everywhere.
Hope this helps Honestly best thing we ever did for her.
I didn't answer your questions - how rude. Sorry
Is it a faff. Yes definitely more of a faff than driving to the shop, buying huge bag of kibble and driving home. Perfectly reasonable amount of faff in my life, then yes. At the moment it is more faff than it will be long term as I am learning. once i get used to it, i imagine it'll settle down into very low levels of faff. You do need to remember to take tomorrow's food out of the freezer or you'll leave yourself short.
I answered where i get it from - local butcher who's dead nice and has lots of bits in the back - other customers get really interested in the purchase of bizarre bits so it makes for lots of conversations. chicken legs etc I get from Tesco that are frozen. they're nice and cheap. I don't buy minces as I don't now what's in them apart from Green Tripe.
as you can buy Wagg for next to nothing I am sure that it is far more expensive than that. I wouldn't imagine it's more expensive than Royal Canin but I haven't worked it all out very carefully as I'm not doing it for thrift as much as a happier dog with shit that I can cope with. Constantly foul runny poo that needed hosing off the pavement wasn't something that I could live with.
Personally I wouldn't mix raw and kibble. Kibble is supposed to be fed as a complete meal with everything a dog needs. I'm not sure I understand what you'd gain from doing both.
She's having 150g of sardines in tomato sauce and 200g of tripe for tea. not a nice mixture to us but she seems well happy! she had a small piece of oxtail for lunch which took ages for her to eat and tripe for breakfast.
You dont' need to ensure that every meal is balanced but a week needs to be so so she had a good bit of liver yesterday.
Barf is much much cheaper than feeding kibble
You will have much less poos than feeding kibble
Your dogs will have fantastic coats
Your dogs will be really healthy
Your dogs will have fab teeth
Dogs will luuuuuuurve it.
You will need a lot of freezer space (but then you have to have space for the mega kibble bags)
The first time may seem daunting but I guess you feed yourself and your family real food - it is easier than that
Start with one meat source and feed for a couple of weeks
Add in a second meat source gradually etc etc
I don't find it a faff, I order my food from Landywoods freeze it into meal size portions. then just chuck it down for the dogs twice a day - easy.
Look on the Pet Forum for a crowd of evangelical fanatics who can bore you to death on the subject of raw food.
It's a fad which will pass. I think you need to be unemployed to put in the long hours of preparing food and telling everyone else about it.
Thanks all. Is it a fad though? It seems like common sense and of course no pet food co. is going to promote it. May keep researching...
We feed our 2 labs on raw meat, it costs about £10 a week to feed both of them and the only faff for me is doing the supermarket shop on the right day so we don't run out.
Our basic staples are frozen chicken pieces (Tesco Value, £3 a shot, lasts a week per dog), frozen white fish pieces (under £2 a bag, lasts a week), green tripe (from Pets at Home), an egg (in the shell) and a small dollop of natural bio yogurt. Depending on what's available in the supermarket they might also get sliced heart, various offal, pigs trotters, oxtail, ribs, whole fish (from the reduced shelf!), etc to add some variety.
So it's easy enough to buy what you need as part of your supermarket shop and you don't need an enormous freezer either.
The hardest bit is at the beginning as you work out how much of everything to give them. The proportions we work on are 50% bony meat (wings, thighs, drumsticks, ribs), 30% muscle meat/fish, 5- 10% offal (some dogs are more sensitive to it than others) and 10% egg/yogurt.
The rule of thumb for knowing how much to feed them is 1-3% of their bodyweight, so our 20kg lab has 400g approx in total over a day and her sister who is more prone to weight gain has the same, even though she's a bigger dog.
We've been doing it for 3 years and I know by eye exactly how much of everything to chuck in their bowls and we usually feed it straight from the freezer too, as it stops them swallowing their entire dinner in 2 gulps and forces them to chew it which is excellent for their jaw muscles.
The benefits, for us and the dogs, far outweigh any minor inconveniences. Everyone comments on what amazing condition they are in, how shiny their coats are and how healthy they look. The vet also commented on how healthy the 4 year old's teeth are, because of her food.
Their poos are tiny and firm and don't smell at all which is the best bit for me.
I'd recommend raw feeding to anyone and while I know it is seen as a 'fad', I think actually more and more people are waking up to the fact that commercial dog food is nothing but a way for the manufacturers to make money and has nothing to do with nutrition at all. As dog owners we are more than capable of feeding our dogs a balanced diet in the same way that we manage to feed ourselves and our children a balanced diet so we are doing just that.
err its not a fad ... its a return to what we were doing yonks back only then it was usually the local abbatoir or butcher supplied the meat and bones. BARF may have a "new name" but its just more dogs owners finding out about it and having to give it a reconisable short name so indicate a feeding preference ( kinda like a vegitarian using the word to give an ide to others about their preferences rather than long winded explanations !)
Now, as said, you can get other commercial suppliers as there are fewer abbatoirs.
I dont think its a faff... just remember take the food out the freezer ... well actually its not a disaster if you dont cos the dogs can get frozen meat easliy off a bone.
My dogs love turkey wings and necks especially.
Feed cooked vegetables / rice with minced meat couple times a week. I am not unemployed and just find an hour or two every so often to bulk cook cabbage , carrots etc and bag up to put in the freezer.
It takes them longet to eat than wolfing down stuff out of a bowl, it cleans their teeth much much better ( My 8 year old dogs have no tartar build up on their teeth at all unlike many dogs their age), their poos are drier and less smelly that normal doggy poos ( so easier to pick up and dispose of).
Its cheaper than tinned dog food.
one supplier...... there are others
I get wholemeal biscuit locally as its cheaper and mix it sometimes with the meat.
I would never go back to tinned meat for my dogs.
You know when you were little and dog poos on the pavements were white? That's because dogs back then (I'm only 35 so we're not talking that long ago, really) were fed on raw food/bones, not bulk produced crap that contains masses of ingredients that dogs don't actually need, which results in the huge, smelly turds we see everywhere today.
tazzle I thought the veggies were supposed to be raw?
You don't have to give veg at all, but some veg are digested better once they are cooked, afair.
We tried giving veg for a while but it was a pita, frankly, so we just give green tripe instead.
Viggle yes they are.
Basically you are trying to mimic as closely as possible the natural diet a dog would have had in the wild. So lots of bones/skin etc with the meat and a small amount of raw veg as would be found in, say a rabbits stomach.
I keep all my carrot/broccoli scraps & throw them in with the meat. Once every 3 weeks or so roughly chop up some greens, carrots, whatever else is going soft in the fridge or is cheap at the supermarket bung it in the magimix for a quick blitz & freeze in small portions so a few tablespoons can be mixed in every 2 or 3 days.
My dog also loves to take a whole carrot or apple out to the garden for a good chew.
You learn what the dog loves and can tolerate poos wise- if you find something upsets them then avoid it as you would yourself.
Kibble is a relatively new fad in feeding animals, raw food has been given for years, to me its more natural & she is healthy& happy on it so it suits us.
alwaysworking Most the long term raw feeders on the Pet Forum recommend a slow switch, partly to get them used to chewing it all up properly and most dogs don't do well with sudden diet changes, I'm glad that your dog was fine but over the years if I'd changed any of my dogs diets that fast they would have had severe runs for a week. I only gave the same advice as would be given there if this had been posted on that site by people who have been raw feeding for a very long time.
My boy gets a mix of kibble and raw/wet food as he's only part raw fed, we haven't got the freezer space to store a months worth of raw food and we can't afford to buy it weekly from a butcher (he's 35kg and still growing, if I fed 3% of bodyweight he'd need around 1kg of raw a day which is a huge amount to store for a month). He doesn't get a full meal of raw and kibble is only a complete meal if it's fed at the right quantity, give less and you can top it up with something else, he mainly gets it to slow down his eating, he swallows chunks of meat (even chunks the size of my hand) and his wet food whole but has to chew the kibble so it stops him throwing up after his meal.
We introduced raw because our much loved late greyhound had a very sensitive tum and had colitis. We moved him to raw and he adjusted so easily and beautifully we never looked back, and of course it made sense for our other dogs to go over to it too. We didn't do a long period of acclimatisation and we also break the rules now by occasionally feeding kibble (e.g. when we are away for a weekend) but this is not a problem.
We have a chest freezer and get the bulk deliveries every so often. Don't understand the reference upthread to spending hours on preparation - it's really no bother to put a plastic bag of food in the utility to defrost !
As others do, we also do liver occasionally (they go mad for it), chicken wings, regular feedings of oily fish, and they will get things like leftover rice,pasta, veggies etc . For treats, they have the odd pig ear, and I keep a box of biscuits/bonio too.
All dogs are looking healthy and happy, a good weight, with shiny coats, and lovely firm small poos.
i'm not a raw obsessive or evangelist but it works brilliantly for us and it was especially important for our old boy. I can't tell you the relief we experienced when he had been so ill, lost so much weight and then we found something he could eat happily and enjoy that agreed with him, and helped him put back his condition.
Dogs have lived with man for thousands of years as scavengers, eating rubbish and human poo rather than real meat. So raw meat isn't any more "natural" than commercial dog food.
I couldn't do BARF because of the mess and smell. Do the dogs have to be fed outdoors, and what about flies and maggots?
Eh? What mess and smell?
Meat that has been frozen whilst fresh, then defrosted and fed to the dog on the day doesn't smell.
Does the meat that you eat smell? Does the meat you eat have flies and maggots on it?
Of course it doesn't, so why should the meat you feed your dog?
One of my dogs eats in the kitchen as she lifts out the piece she wants and chews it over her bowl. The other one likes to take each piece to her 'spot' so she's fed in the utility room. A quick squirt with a bit of Dettox on the floor where she eats is all that's needed. It's not as though they leave any of their food lying around.
these do frozen or ambient bricks
no hassle at all - you just need freezer space to store and then microwave (or thaw overnight) for lovely fresh meat & bone
mix in kibble - more if poo too hard. less if runny.
for very dodgy tummy, the fish or tripe are best (fish not fatty enough for longer term use)
we thought my dog wasn't going to see her 2nd birthday before we tried BARF. She's almost 12 now
the completes she wouldn't eat enough of, and gave her the runs!
no mess - just licked-clean bowls!
the chew-bones i leave around are for de-stressing and most dogs would benefit from regardless of general diet.
EdgarAllan I've been using the Prize Choice products on your link with my dog. On the packets of meat they say to add equal portions of carbohydrate and veg/fruit which I have been doing. I very much like the way this mixture slows my dog's eating down - unlike complete foods which are gone in seconds. Perhaps that's not an important factor though. I've been buying a selection of the meat packs (tripe, beef, lamb etc) and the chunks of meat bags. I was quite happy with this approach (and the dog seems to love it) but having read further around the subject plus looking at this thread I'm now very confused.
- Some of the information about proportions of organs/skin/bone make me think I've been far too random with what I've given him. It's meat and some of it has bones. I've not really analysed it further than that which makes me feel I've not taken it all seriously enough
- The stuff about introducing new meats gradually make me think I've been far to chop and changey
- the carbohydrate and veg I'm just completely confused about!
- I'm at a complete loss to know how to reconcile the all-meat approach with the 'no more than 25% protein' approach
I really hadn't expected feeding my dog to be so complex, though I very much like the non-processed as that ties in with what we do as a family.
re the veggies bossybritches22 and viggle.
It was and is my understanding is that the veggies should be cooked is because that if a dog were killing any prey and eating it whole the veggies in the animals stomach would mostly already be partly digested and therefore the bits not really designed for a carnivores stomach (starches / carbs) less of an issue.
Having said that I have seen them pinch raw carrots and swedes from the horse
nowt is left around long enough to smell... and definatley no maggots !!!!
as to saying that because dogs have co existed / scavenged form man for thousands of years so meat is not "natural" ..... I think that in the past mans diet was certainly nowhere like as processed as it is today so bothe were more "natural". One could also say that in letting dogs food get processed like ours they too are suffering for it ( obesity, bad teeth etc !!!).
all i know is that i've gone from a puppy with a gippy tummy and constant squits to a dog with small, firm black coloured poo with very very little effort. If she'd had a bad stomach, i'd have stopped and waited for it to clear up.
I don't really care what other people do / don't do or whether in five years' time no one else feeds raw meat. the dog doesn't seem to care either. I think you can read too much about all this and I'm happier to be guided by my own dog and the vet than a webforum.
we live near the james wellbeloved / royal canin factory and it stinks. tripe definitely has an odour though but the dog loves it so i forgive her. she doesn't fart as much any more which was vile so the smells in the house are actually less than before.
I started feeding raw because the dog, Lab/Curly Coated Retriever cross, was horribly allergic to pretty much everything. After trying lots of specialist and bogglingly expensive foods we switched to raw and never looked back. Since then we have switched two puppies, both who had raw immediately we brought them home and one adult dog, who took one look at what the girls were eating and refused to eat the kibble that he'd arrived with.
I feed a mixture of mince blocks and gnarly beef lumps from Pets at Home, chicken leg quarters, 'backs and bums' (carcasses that have had legs, wings and breasts removed), turkey necks and giblets, ducks necks and giblets and occasionally venison bones, all from the local market. I also buy pork ribs, turkey drumsticks, fish, mince, liver, kidney, heart etc. from Tescos. I have also had a fair bit of luck with the Reduced section. Quite often the really unappetising stuff is marked down very low and the dogs don't care if the steak looks a bit green. Oh and I have a couple of pheasants that I was given, sitting in the freezer. The old dog isn't really a fan so I'm hoping the puppy will like it. They also get the odd raw egg. More lately as the new puppy likes them.
The only dog that hasn't embraced raw feeding with total enthusism has been the new puppy. She is sooooo fussy. She's a retriever dammit and they are supposed to be total chow hounds but she's picky and will turn her nose up and walk away. I've had some luck with mixing egg into her mince and also hand feeding lumps of meat to her at the same time as Old Dog but she'd really prefer not to bother. She likes bone better than meat (all the better for sharpening the piranha teeth ;) ) and will happily eat the backs and bums and the bones out of chicken legs but reject breast meat and steak chunks. She is however mad for yoghurt and scrambled egg, neither of which I would normally feed. I presume she was fed them by the breeder because she clearly knew what they were and got really excited.
Raw fed dogs smell nicer, have beautiful coats, clean teeth and small, unoffensive poos generally. It is also what dogs are naturally supposed to eat. They are carnivores and did not evolve to exist on big bags of corn, beet pulp, rancid fat, meat 'by products' and chemicals.
I've not found it to be any real hassle and it certainly smells less than kibble or tinned dog meat. The stuff my Mum feeds her dachshund reeks and at the momement I'm using Applaws and Fish4Dogs as training treats and they stink too. I am a very lazy feeder now, if their poo looks to have too much bone I add more muscle meat, too soft and I add more bone. To begin with I worked about percentages but after nearly 12 years I don't even think aboutvit any more.
There really is very little mess either. Big chunks and recreational bones are eaten outside when possible or in the hallway, which has laminate flooring. Anything else is eaten from a bowl which is then licked very, very clean. We sometimes get maggots in the bin in the summer but only when I am lazy about double bagging meat wrappers and just throw them in. That would be equally a problem with meat for human dinners too.
It is certainly not a fad for us.
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Yeah, it doesn't smell... apart from tripe. That is vile and gets fed outside.
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I finished all 3 Wilton classes last winter, and I just got an e-mail from my instructor that they are FINALLY going to offer a gum paste class!! I am SO excited. I've been in a slump for awhile and am just dying to learn something new.
No one else around here seems to share my excitement, so I just had to share with you all.... lol!!
That's awesome ! I wonder if they're offering them here too. I'm going to have to make some calls.
That's great! I've been trying to find a local class in gumpaste but I don't think the cake stores want the competition. They want you to buy their's!
Good luck with it!
Great news Melissa!! You're gonna learn so much!! My teacher did private lessons in her home but she charged too much. I couldn't afford it. I go to a cake supply store to get all my stuff & have made friends w/ the owners. There is a man that comes in all the time there that does gumpaste. He is very, very good!! He is going to start teaching classes there!!! He isn't charging anything!!!!!!! I can afford that!! All you have to pay for is your supplies!! He loves the art of gumpaste so much that he wants to teach it. I'm very excited about this!!!! I'm so happy that you will be learning gumpaste!! Go get em'!!!!!!
I know how you feel when no one around you gets excited over the cake thing! I feel they should jump up w/ excitement when I show them a new cake or tell them something I've just learned. Oh, well I guess that's why I call it my hobby!! They have theres & I have mine!!
Enjoy your class for me melissa, I don't have time to take any classes right now. Will have to wait until summer at the very least.
Isn't it funny how we get so excited over something like this! I am the same way! I am taking a weekend class from Toba Garrett the end of next month..gumpaste flowers too! I can hardly wait! Good luck to you!
Oh cool Hope you have a blast MrsMissey
That's great MrsMissey! One day.....
Ooooh! How fun! I'd be excited if I were you too! What a great skill to learn.
Toba Garrett! Wow! Let us know how it goes.
Enjoy your class! I would love to take a class like that, but the only ones that I hear of are Nicholas Lodge and he is VERY expensive. How do you find out about the various classes being offered?
..see what I mean...see how excited you all get! I love it! Thanks! I will gladly share anything I learn with all of you!
We need to have a DOS on the East coast some time!
Enjoy your class! I would love to take a class like that, but the only ones that I hear of are Nicholas Lodge and he is VERY expensive. How do you find out about the various classes being offered?
For this class..there was a notice in the ICES newsletter. The price for the two day class is $250 Sure hope it's worth it!
Debbie..I agree! I'm ready when you are LOL!!
It will be worth it! Wish I were going. It's not the tuition so much as the time off from work and the travel and lodging! Maybe next year for the Ladycakes DOS I will have to come up with something to teach so I can catch a break! Cowboy Hat maybe?
Sounds great! How do we go about getting some people together?
I don't think my class will be very expensive... I sure hope not anyway. It is just through my local Wilton instructor and/or her mother. I don't know if it's an 'official' class or just something they are putting together.
One day, if I am getting a lot of business and can justify it... I would like to go somewhere and take a few classes from somebody really professional!
..I don't know. Maybe Ladycakes or cali4dawn could give us some info. I think they had an informal DOS recently.
I am excited for you I am keeping an eye out for classes like that too but have yet to find anything
Have fun and post your creations here please
OK Ladycakes or cali4dawn ~ how do we go about getting some people together for a DOS?
Hey! I just realized I'm a Forum Addict! Not that I didn't know that I was addicted but now it's in print!
I would love a DOS on the east coast!
The numbers are growing! Let's definitely work on this one! How many more people are interested? Who has a suggestion for a place or the room to do it at their place? After we get some people together maybe we can get a central location and go from there?
I would not mind doing one in the midwest at my house. I have enough room to have people in several different areas and I have a nice kitchen set up.
Of course I would have to run it by my husband first, but there are plenty of hotels to stay at in my area.
Good luck in your class! I'm jealous. The only place around me that offers any sort of classes is a Micheals craft store a few hours away. I think they just do the first few Wilton classes - none of which I have taken because their samples on display look horrid!! They have a Wilton I cake on display that looks a hundred years old and covered with dust and a fondant ribbon cake that my 6 year old could have done a better job of!
Have fun and tell us all about it, so I know what to do with my Wilton Gumpaste Kit that I bought to teach myself!!
The numbers are growing! Let's definitely work on this one! How many more people are interested? Who has a suggestion for a place or the room to do it at their place? After we get some people together maybe we can get a central location and go from there?
Really..let's get to work on this! I can provide the space! I can have Tom empty out the showroom floor and that would hold at least 100 people!
...at this point we may want to start a new "thread" titled East Coast DOS or something and see what kind of response we get?!
Although I don't have the room, I would love to. Can I be of any help?
Absolutely Mchelle! I don't know about thecakemaker but I've never done this before!
I've never done anything like this but am very interested! Do you want to set up the "thread"? Let's see who's interested and start getting some ideas together.


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Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America by David Serlin. University of Chicago Press, 2004, $25, 244 pages
After World War II, the U.S. underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of new medical technologies. Plastic surgery, wonder drugs, artificial organs, and prosthetics inspired Americans to believe in a new age of modern medical miracles and the power of medicine to transform the lives and bodies of the disabled and those considered abnormal.
"David Serlin relocates the American fascination with using medicine to realign body with identity. [T]he quest for true self became a hallmark of Americanism in its grand struggle with world Communism." -- Journal of the American Medical Association
"David Serlin's remarkable book...presents four mid-20th-century case studies of troubled bodies. Analyzing veteran amputees supplied with prostheses; the A-bomb victims brought to the United States for plastic surgery in 1955, known as the Hiroshima Maidens; African American entertainer Gladys Bentley, who reported herself cured of the lesbian lifestyle by hormone treatments; sex-change pioneer Christine Jorgensen." -- Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
David Serlin holds a Ph.D. in American Studies. He is coeditor of Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics and of Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism. Professor Serlin received the 1997 Gustav Meyers Center Award for a Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America. He teaches at the University of California in San Diego.
David Serlin's voice sounds young on the phone as he tells me about his early life: "I was born in Thousand Oaks, which is in Ventura County near Los Angeles. At three and a half, the family and I went east, where I grew up. This is the start of my third year back in California, as Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UCSD."
"One of the very popular courses you teach is called 'Politics of Bodies.' At the Smithsonian you've lectured about medical science and society. You combine your many interests in your remarkable book about body image and medical consumerism. So what do you make of body modification these days?"
"It's fascinating, you can turn on a reality TV show and watch someone selecting a new nose or a major body change."
"Which we then watch being made," I interject, squeamishly, "in living color -- the actual surgery."
"The desire to want to change yourself is a very old story. On a show like Extreme Makeover [or The Swan], there will be a woman looking in a mirror, saying, 'That's not the real me. I want a surgeon to help me become the real me.' People believe they can trump nature with technology."
"In New York, there's a person known as the Cat Woman, who is using cosmetic surgery to give herself feline features. She's had so much work done on her that she does resemble a cat."
"Or," says David Serlin, "there's the woman who has had several ribs removed and spent $50,000 on surgeries so that she can look like a human-sized Barbie doll."
"This is getting a little terrifying, no?"
"Or is it an extension of consumer culture that we're seeing?" says Professor Serlin.
"It seems to be at such an extreme, though; they're almost inventing themselves out of existence. Some of these folks have had so much surgery, their own features are gone somewhere else."
Professor Serlin disagrees: "People have been modifying their bodies for millennia. Scarification, circumcision, tattooing, piercing. There's a whole range we participate in. Is making yourself look like a cat, or removing ribs, body modification that's gone into a postmodern head spin, or is it just the evolution of something that's been going on for thousands of years?"
"Yeah," I say, "but it's coming to us now through the channel of medicine, which makes it so odd."
"Health, advertising, marketing, and entertainment have all been rolled together. Earlier, medicine was seen as something private. Today, people are participating in it [selecting surgeries], calling in to shows, e-mailing doctors."
"Plastic surgery, you write, started in response to the horrific wounds suffered by WWI soldiers."
"Actually, plastic surgery was first employed at the turn of the century, by people who wanted to change their self-image. German Jews who emigrated to the States and German Jews in Germany wanted certain traits changed so that they wouldn't have the stereotypical appearance of a Jewish face. A lot of skin lighteners and bleaches were also on the market for African Americans. But it's really after WWII that the kind of professional discipline we think of as plastic surgery developed. Surgeons who began as emergency medical practitioners in operating theaters in Europe returned home and took up reconstructive surgery."
"And with these procedures," I say, "comes the idea of replacing organs and rebuilding humans."
Professor Serlin pauses. "During and after WWII there is an unbelievable explosion of medical technologies, then cutting edge medications and devices -- everything from cortisone to dialysis machines."
"When does the idea of organ banks arrive?" I ask.
"In the '40s and '50s. The first are tissue and eye banks developed by the military. Blood banks, with the ability to separate plasma and store blood, are begun during the war. The ability to harvest organs, and transplant, that comes in the 1960s."
"Just after WWII, there is a group of women in Hiroshima called 'Keloid Girls,' disfigured from the effects of the atomic bombing. From them, a Methodist minister named Tonimoto selected 25 and brought them to the States."
"Yes," says Dr. Serlin. "These young women were hidden by their families, kept in cellars and not allowed to work, because their beauty was destroyed. A lot of their families were Shinto Buddhists and believed a disfigured child was evidence an ancestor had committed some terrible crime. Tonimoto organized the women, and they met in private in his church to share their experiences. Tonimoto had studied at Emory University. He had contacts in the U.S. and made arrangements. The 25 brought here were to be medically treated for their disfigurements."


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Composition of Trade between Australia and Latin America: Gravity Model
This paper aims to analyse the value of merchandise through a broad category of trade between Australia and nine selected Latin American countries by using a gravity model focusing on the period from 1998 to 2004. The traditional cross-sectional data is a useful tool to understand this bilateral trade focusing on exports and imports through primary products, manufactured products, and total merchandise trade. The general thrust of the analysis regarding trade composition implies that Australian trade with Latin America has been shaped by political and economic variables. The trade of primary products is explained by economic distance, openness, population, and political influence. Economic mass along with economic distance are significant explanatory variables in the trade of manufactured products. Political influence on bilateral trade has been significant in most Latin American countries – captured by a dummy for presidential changes – exceptions are: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
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