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Chicken meal, chicken, brewers rice, brown rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), corn gluten meal, dried eggs, beet pulp, natural chicken flavor, brewers yeast, canola oil, chicory extract, salmon oil, potassium chloride, monosodium phosphate, dried sweet potatoes, choline chloride, salmon meal, dicalcium phosphate, flax seed, zinc proteinate, vitamin E supplement, dried blueberries, alfalfa dehydrated meal, dried spinach, marigold extract, folic acid supplement, zinc oxide, iron sulfate, manganese proteinate, biotin, sage, copper proteinate, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, vitamin A supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, sodium selenite, rosemary extract, ascorbic acid, niacin supplement, riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin B12 supplement, calcium iodate, vitamin D3 supplement.
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First two ingredients are named meat products.
Extensive use of low quality grains and other controversial fillers.
This product has two named meat ingredients at the head of the ingredient list, one of which is in meal form. We note that these two are different forms of the same ingredient (see note about splitting on the main page). In this instance, however, that serves to increase confidence that there is a respectable amount of meat product in the food as the meat ingredients still rate above the first grain even in their split form.
The second ingredient is Brewers rice which is a low quality grain and by-product.
Brown rice is a good quality grain, but Corn is a problematic grain for dogs and is the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. Corn gluten meal is a grain fraction the AFFCO definition of this ingredient is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is another controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food.
We prefer not to see brewers yeast used in dog food, and this can contribute to yeast infections. Rice hulls is filler (the outer casing of rice). Salmon meal is a good ingredient, as are sweet potatoes and blueberries, but these occur a long way down the ingredient list and are only a very minor addition to the food.
Overall, we are reasonably happy with the amount of meat product in the food and there is more than many other foods in this class. It is the use of low quality grains and other problematic fillers that contributes to the low rating this food receives.
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Evidently, I'm not alone in appreciating the sophisticated wit, scepticism and cynicism of the genial Barry Glendenning. His minute by minute match reports are often the most read thing on the Guardian website - with its 33 million (million!) readers. Furthermore, he's the maestro largely responsible for The Fiver; a flipping marvellous tea-time satirical newsletter that brightens up umpty thrumpty inboxes every weekday.
Glendenning also sprinkles magic on the Football Weekly podcast (simply the best bit of football media one can digest) and has started casting his spell on the new Today in Sport - Live! feature which will undoubtedly result in yet more damage to your F5 key as update your PC throughout the day, whilst pretending to do some work.
Anyway, enough of the pleasantries (phew - Ed), EFW was delighted to be granted an exclusive interview with the Big G. So, pull up a chair and join us we chat about paranoid Everton fans, Cash in the Attic and why Dara O Briain is erm....a "fucker".
Satirical daily emails, minute by minute reports, Football Weekly...do you ever long to get out of the office and report on matches? On cold winter afternoons I often yearn for an away day in Crewe or Wolverhampton, sitting in a press box trying to type 300 words of pristine prose to a tight deadline with frozen fingers, but unfortunately my paymasters rarely see fit to unshackle me from my desk, so it remains a pipe dream.
Are there any sports other than football you take a keen interest in? I will watch anything, even that nonsense on Eurosport where blokes compete against each other to see who can ride a motorbike the furthest up a very steep hill, fall off near the summit and then tumble all the way back down while trying to avoid their bouncing bike. As far as keen interests outside of football go, I love horse racing, cricket, rugby and Ireland's national sport of hurling. But like I said, I'll watch pretty much anything: tennis, golf, snooker, darts, rugby league, Aussie Rules, boxing, gaelic football, cycling, motor racing … you name it. There are very few sports that I've never warmed to, but basketball is one of them. I wouldn't cross the street to watch an NBA game. I had a Polish builder doing a job in my house recently and he was trying to extol the virtues of handball, but I wasn't convinced.
How long do think it'll be before a Premiership club goes out of business? I would not be hugely surprised if Portsmouth go out of business by the time I finish answering this question. They seem to be very badly run and while it would be an awful shame for their fans if they did go to the wall, my podcasting partner James Richardson recently made the excellent point that at least there's another team in nearby Southampton that their fans will be able to support instead.
Football fans take themselves too seriously don't they? A lot of them do, but then so do a lot of football writers and pundits. People need to lighten up a bit and realise football's just an ongoing soap opera, much like EastEnders or Corontation Street. You only have to read the comments that appear under certain articles on the Guardian sportblog to see how seriously some fans take it and how completely deluded and unaccustomed to failure many of them are. Some of the correspondence we get from fans who think we're biased against their team is genuinely funny and often astonishingly abusive. One of my favourite emails was an angry email we got from an Everton fan who accused us of deliberately not publishing the Premier League leading-scorers table for a few weeks because Yakubu featured prominently on it. Just to fuel his paranoia, I'm very tempted to publish one with a thick black line through the names of any Everton players that might feature on it ... if only I could find one with any Everton players on it.
You'll be writing about the World Cup for the Guardian, how do you rate England's chances? I honestly don't think England have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the World Cup, which is an opinion that doesn't go down very well with some of my English friends. But they've had Ireland under the heel of oppression for over 800 years now, so I don't care what they think. They might have forgotten what Cromwell did, but I haven't.
If England fail to win the World Cup in South Africa, it'll be the English media's fault for bigging them up again right? I don't care whose fault it is (although a small part of me hopes it's John Terry's fault), so long as they come home empty-handed. England's a great country which has been very good to me, but the jingoistic smugness that would accompany a World Cup win would be unbearable for me as an envious Paddy. Myself and a couple of Irish mates have already decided that if England make it to the final, we're going to spend the 90 minutes of the game doing laps of the London Underground's Circle Line. Then once we reckon the match is over, we'll alight from the Tube and emerge blinking into the sunlight to see what the prevailing mood is on the street.
The Football Weekly podcast is hugely popular. Why? Good question. The world and his wife are podcasting about football now, but I like to think we're holding our own, if you'll pardon the expression. At least I hope we are - I very rarely listen to any of our "rivals", because I worry I'll end up absorbing other people's opinions or jokes and passing them off as my own. We try not to take ourselves or the football we're talking about too seriously, which I think is one of our more endearing qualities. It's very easy to become pompous and decide that, just because you're talking into a microphone and being broadcast on t'internet, your opinion is more valid than that of somebody pontificating from a bar-stool down in their local pub. If anyone, including me, falls into that trap on Football Weekly, they're quickly cut down to size. It's important also to remember that you can't please all of the people all of the time, so there's no point in trying. We have a number of listeners who claim to hate our show and everyone on it, especially me, but they still tune in religiously, presumably just to confirm that I'm still a prick. I find that very strange. It's like hitting yourself with a stick or burning yourself with cigarettes for 40 minutes twice a week - why on earth would you do it? I think Cash In The Attic is rubbish so I just don't watch it. I certainly wouldn't Sky+ it just to further infuriate myself at the end of a long day.
Will there be a daily version during the World Cup? The honest answer is that I don't know, but I expect there will be. For logistical reasons, I suspect we'll be doing it from London with added input from our boys and girls on the ground dotted around South Africa.
Can you describe your typical working day at Guardian Towers? I can, but I'm not going to. A lot of people seem to think it's a glamourous gig and I'd prefer not to shatter their illusions.
Is there a sport or other subject you would prefer to write about other than football? I must be the only journalist alive who has no interest in writing a book, but I've always fancied trying my hand at a sit-com. However, I'm aware that the older I get the less likely it is to happen. I'm very, very lazy.
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You like a bit of stand up, any current comedians float your boat? For sheer edginess, I'd have to go for Michael McIntyre. His fearless, ground-breaking routine about people walking past shop windows and doing double-takes upon seeing their own reflection is possibly the funni … no, I'll stop there in case your readers don't realise I'm being sarcastic. There's a lot of comedians I like: I've known Dara O Briain for nearly 15 years, since he was doing gigs in front of 10 or 15 people in assorted Irish clubs and he's doing amazingly well for himself ... the fucker. Dylan Moran is effortlessly brilliant and always has been. I think Chris Rock, Rich Hall, Ross Noble and – on his day – Johnny Vegas are top class as well. I was lucky enough to see Jerry Seinfeld in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas once and that was probably the best $100 I ever spent. It was certainly the best $100 I spent in Vegas, but that's not saying much.
That's it. Thanks very much for brightening up our tea-time (via the Fiver) and bringing large doses of sophisticated wit, scepticism and cynicism into our daily football intake. It's most welcome and no mistake. No problem, although I think you need psychiatric help if you honestly believe that.


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Free Schooling is Not Really Free for the Poor: Corruption in Education and Inequality
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There is a broad consensus among the academics and policy makers that education is one of the most important policy instruments in promoting inclusive economic growth. For example, Stiglitz (2012, P. 275) notes "(O)pportunity is shaped, more than anything else, by access to education", and Rajan (2010, P.184) argues "..the best way of reducing unnecessary income inequality is to reduce the inequality in access to better human capital". A focus on building the human capital of the poor seems triply desirable: (i) it is the only asset that every poor person 'owns'; (ii) human capital is inalienable and thus less susceptible to expropriation, an important advantage in many developing countries suffering from a lack of rule of law; and (iii) returns to education are expected to increase over time with globalization because of skill-biased technological change. Recognizing this unique role of education, a large number of developing countries over the last few decades invested heavily in policies such as free universal schooling (at least at the primary level), scholarships for girls, free books, and mid-day meals. The basic assumption is that such policies would lessen the burden on poor families for educating their children, and thus help reduce educational and income inequality and improve the economic mobility of the children from poor families. However, this widely accepted policy view does not take into account the effects of corruption in schools in developing countries.
Corruption is endemic in schools in developing countries. In Bangladesh, about half of the households reported paying some form of bribe for children's education. A study on seven African countries finds that 44 percent of parents had to pay illegal fees to send their children to school (World Bank (2010)). According to a New York Times report, bribery is rife not only in school admissions in China, even the front row seats in the classroom are up for sale. A recent Washington Post report also highlighted the corruption in admission into reputed public schools in China. The Global Corruption Report (2013) notes that "corruption acts as an added tax on the poor, who are frequently plagued by demands for bribes, particularly when they are trying to access basic services such as education."
In contrast to the common belief that corruption hurts poor more, the standard model of corruption in fact predicts that the rich are more likely to pay bribes, reflecting higher ability to pay. This prediction is driven by the dubious assumption that the probability and severity of punishment for bribe-taking does not vary across households in developing countries. In a developing country, the rule of law is lacking and the poor have little bargaining power; thus the enforcement of law is frequently selective and biased against the poor. In a recent paper titled "Admission is Free only if Your Dad is Rich: Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries", we construct a more realistic model, where the probability of punishment for bribe taking by a teacher depends on the household's economic status and show that bribes are likely to be regressive. The predictions of the model are then tested using household level survey data collected by Transparency International of Bangladesh. We use ten year average rainfall variations across villages to correct for the endogeneity of household income in rural areas. We find that corruption in schools in Bangladesh is doubly regressive: the poor are more likely to pay bribes (conservative estimate of income elasticity is -0.73); and among the bribe payers, the poor pay a higher share of their income. The Instrumental Variable results are in contrast to the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimate showing a positive effect of household income on the amount of bribes paid for education. The evidence thus indicates that OLS regressions may yield spurious progressivity in bribes. At the end of the day "free schooling" is free only for the rich and corruption makes the playing field skewed against the poor.
New York Times, "A Chinese Education, for a Price", November 21, 2012.
Rajan, Raghuram (2010), Fault Lines, Princeton University Press.
Stiglitz, J (2012), The Price of Inequality, W. W. Norton and Company.
Transparency International (2013), "Global Corruption Report: Education", Routledge, New York.
Washington Post, "In China, parents bribe to get students into top schools, despite campaign against corruption", October 7, 2013
World Bank (2010), Silent and Lethal: How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development Effort, IBRD/ World Bank, Washington DC.
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Interesting finding and an important line of enquiry; but doesn't alter the potential value of introducing free education unless bribes increase in line with the reduction in tuition and negate the enrollment effect from the reduction or elimination of tuition. The generality of the title is eye-catching but the results are also likely to be very dependent on the local context. Even if there were no bribes it has long been well-known that the informal costs associated with children attending school (uniforms, books and supplies, foregone household labor, etc) will disproportionately affect the poor; but the emphasis that this research brings to improving governance is certainly welcome.
I have read your paper fascinatingly, and I have a question. What would happened to children if their parents didn't bribe their teacher?
In your model, children could be disallowed to enroll in school by teachers though they are mandated to go primary school. I wonder whether teachers can do that. Have any teacher done such kind of thing ever?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
To answer whether teachers can deny admission to school while primary schooling is supposed to be compulsory: (i) If teachers cannot deny admission, then our model suggests that the relationship between propensity to pay bribe and income will be non-linear: we should observe propensity to pay bribe to be zero at the bottom of the income distribution, then increase with an increase in income and finally decline with income. We did explore this in our data using non-parametric estimation and found no evidence of non-linear relationship. (ii) Evidence from Household Expenditure survey 2010 shows that there is a significant difference in primary enrolment rates between poor (bottom 30 percent of per capita expenditure distribution) and non-poor households: the enrolment rate is 72 percent for children coming from the poor households relative to 80 percent for children from non-poor households. In any case, enrolment has not reached close to 100 percent at the primary level yet. To conclude, we remain convinced that threat of not admitting a child to school is real. Please also see the following paper in the Global Corruption Report (2013) "Free or fee: corruption in primary school admissions" by Peter Hyll Larsen.
Thank you for your reply.
I'll review your model about the shape of the relationship between propensity to pay bribe and income, and read the Global Corruption Report (2013).
By the way, I'd like to know a case evidence in Bangladesh because the primary enrollment rates could be lowered by child labor caused by poor or unappreciation of parents. Some case evidence would reinforce your study.
I appreciate your kindness.


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Lincoln and Dealing with Change
Nov 18 2012
I saw the movie Lincoln last night. I left this comment on Fred Wilson's post about the movie:
"I saw the movie last night and was deeply impressed with how it was done and the actors rendition of all of their parts. Watching a movie like this gives you perspective on what we have to deal with today in most of our (very lucky) daily lives. The fear & demons Lincoln had to wrestle with must have been tremendous. One line I remember went something like "We can show people that democracy does not have to be chaos."
As I observe start-ups and small businesses I've been involved with, those who have thrived attempt to manage chaos with some sensible structure, coordination among team members, & meaning. Those who don't have that belief/skill set tend to build continuously chaotic companies with high turnover. Like with a child, the first year or so of chaos and sleepless nights are understandable, but after that healthy parents and healthy kids are expected to start "growing" up so to speak and communicate differently."
On facebook I posted: "The movie Lincoln is a must see. So well done. Saw it last night. Definitely gives you perspective regarding what people were dealing with then vs. now. Standing up for your beliefs in a smart, intelligent, strategic way is not easy and most go the easy route because the fear of rejection is so huge in many of us."
The amount of change in our daily lives today gives us very little time to think about our decisions. We often make decisions hastily without taking the time to analyze what is sometimes an overwhelming amount of information. We often don't make decisions at all because we are too used to the the status quo, we worry what people will think of us, or we are paralyzed with the amount of information we feel we need to sift through. In Lincoln's time the conflicting information he was receiving was also tremendous, and in his situation there were people's lives at stake…not just jobs, profits, losses, and Wall Street earnings that many of us deal with today here in the United States.Author: Aruni | Filed under: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, movie reviews, working dad | Tags: fred wilson, lincoln, movie review | 1 Comment »


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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
General Form of an Extended :Meta theorem: (implies (and (pseudo-termp x) ; this hyp is optional (alistp a) ; this hyp is optional (ev (hyp-fn x mfc state) a)) ; this hyp is optional (equiv (ev x a) (ev (fn x mfc state) a)))where the restrictions are as described in the documentation for
meta and, in addition,
mfc and
state are distinct variable
symbols (different also from
x and
a) and
state is literally the
:meta theorem of the above form installs
fn as a
metatheoretic simplifier with hypothesis function
hyp-fn, exactly as for
vanilla metafunctions. The only difference is that when the metafunctions
are applied, some contextual information is passed in via the
argument and the ACL2
state is made available.
See meta for a discussion of vanilla flavored metafunctions. This
documentation assumes you are familiar with the simpler situation, in
particular, how to define a vanilla flavored metafunction,
fn, and its
associated hypothesis metafunction,
hyp-fn, and how to state and prove
metatheorems installing such functions. Defining extended metafunctions
requires that you also be familiar with many ACL2 implementation details.
This documentation is sketchy on these details; see the ACL2 source code or
email the acl2-help list if you need more help.
The metafunction context,
mfc, is a list containing many different data
structures used by various internal ACL2 functions. We do not document the
form of
mfc. Your extended metafunction should just take
mfc as its
second formal and pass it into the functions mentioned below. The ACL2
state is well-documented (see state). The following expressions may be
useful in defining extended metafunctions.
(mfc-clause mfc): returns the current goal, in clausal form. A clause is
a list of ACL2 terms, implicitly denoting the disjunction of the listed
terms. The clause returned by
mfc-clause is the clausal form of the
translation (see trans) of the goal or subgoal on which the rewriter is
working. When a metafunction calls
mfc-clause, the term being rewritten
by the metafunction either occurs somewhere in this clause or, perhaps more
commonly, is being rewritten on behalf of some lemma to which the rewriter
has backchained while trying to rewrite a term in the clause.
(mfc-ancestors mfc): returns the current list of the negations of the
backchaining hypotheses being pursued. In particular,
(null (mfc-ancestors mfc)) will be true if and only if the term being
rewritten is part of the current goal; otherwise, that term is part of a
hypothesis from a rule currently being considered for use.
(mfc-type-alist mfc): returns the type-alist governing the occurrence of
the term,
x, being rewritten by the metafunction. A type-alist is an
association list, each element of which is of the form
(term ts . ttree).
Such an element means that the term
term has the type-set
ttree component is probably irrelevant here. All the terms in the
type-alist are in translated form (see trans). The
ts are numbers
denoting finite Boolean combinations of ACL2's primitive types
(see type-set). The type-alist includes not only information gleaned from the
conditions governing the term being rewritten but also that gleaned from
forward chaining from the (negations of the) other literals in the clause
returned by
(w state): returns the ACL2 logical
(mfc-ts term mfc state): returns the
type-set of
term in
the current context; see type-set.
(mfc-rw term obj equiv-info mfc state): returns the result of rewriting
term in the current context,
mfc, with objective
obj and the
equivalence relation described by
Obj should be
nil, or
?, and describes your objective: try to show that
term is
true, false, or anything.
Iffp is either
t, a function
fn naming a known equivalence relation, or a list of congruence
Nil means return a term that is
equal to
means return a term that is propositionally equivalent (i.e., in the
sense) to
term, while
fn means return a term
fn-equivalent to
term. The final case, which is intended only for advanced users, allows
the specification of generated equivalence relations, as supplied to the
geneqv argument of
rewrite. Generally, if you wish to establish that
term is true in the current context, use the idiom
(equal (mfc-rw term t t mfc state) *t*)The constant
*t* is set to the internal form of the constant term
(mfc-ap term mfc state): returns
t or
nil according to whether
linear arithmetic can determine that
term is false. To the cognoscenti:
returns the contradiction flag produced by linearizing
term and adding it
to the
During the execution of a metafunction by the theorem prover, the expressions
above compute the results specified. However, there are no axioms about the
mfc- function symbols: they are uninterpreted function symbols. Thus, in
the proof of the correctness of a metafunction, no information is available
about the results of these functions. Thus,
these functions can be used for heuristic purposes only.
For example, your metafunction may use these functions to decide whether to
perform a given transformation, but the transformation must be sound
regardless of the value that your metafunction returns. We illustrate this
below. It is sometimes possible to use the hypothesis metafunction,
hyp-fn, to generate a sufficient hypothesis to justify the
transformation. The generated hypothesis might have already been ``proved''
internally by your use of
mfc-ts or
mfc-rw, but the system will have
to prove it ``officially'' by relieving it. We illustrate this below also.
We conclude with a script that defines, verifies, and uses several extended metafunctions. This script is based on one provided by Robert Krug, who was instrumental in the development of this style of metafunction and whose help we gratefully acknowledge.
; Here is an example. I will define (foo i j) simply to be (+ i j). ; But I will keep its definition disabled so the theorem prover ; doesn't know that. Then I will define an extended metafunction ; that reduces (foo i (- i)) to 0 provided i has integer type and the ; expression (< 10 i) occurs as a hypothesis in the clause.
; Note that (foo i (- i)) is 0 in any case.
(defun foo (i j) (+ i j))
(defevaluator eva eva-lst ((foo i j) (unary-- i) ; I won't need these two cases until the last example below, but I ; include them now. (if x y z) (integerp x)))
(set-state-ok t)
(defun metafn (x mfc state) (cond ((and (consp x) (equal (car x) 'foo) (equal (caddr x) (list 'unary-- (cadr x))))
; So x is of the form (foo i (- i)). Now I want to check some other ; conditions.
(cond ((and (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (cadr x) mfc state) *ts-integer*) (member-equal `(NOT (< '10 ,(cadr x))) (mfc-clause mfc))) (quote (quote 0))) (t x))) (t x)))
(defthm metafn-correct (equal (eva x a) (eva (metafn x mfc state) a)) :rule-classes ((:meta :trigger-fns (foo))))
(in-theory (disable foo))
; The following will fail because the metafunction won't fire. ; We don't know enough about i.
(thm (equal (foo i (- i)) 0))
; Same here.
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 0 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; But this will work.
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 10 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; This won't, because the metafunction looks for (< 10 i) literally, ; not just something that implies it. (thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 11 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; Now I will undo the defun of metafn and repeat the exercise, but ; this time check the weaker condition that (< 10 i) is provable ; (by rewriting it) rather than explicitly present.
(ubt 'metafn) (defun metafn (x mfc state) (cond ((and (consp x) (equal (car x) 'foo) (equal (caddr x) (list 'unary-- (cadr x)))) (cond ((and (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (cadr x) mfc state) *ts-integer*) (equal (mfc-rw `(< '10 ,(cadr x)) t t mfc state) *t*)) ; The mfc-rw above rewrites (< 10 i) with objective t and iffp t. The ; objective means the theorem prover will try to establish it. The ; iffp means the theorem prover can rewrite maintaining propositional ; equivalence instead of strict equality.
(quote (quote 0))) (t x))) (t x)))
(defthm metafn-correct (equal (eva x a) (eva (metafn x mfc state) a)) :rule-classes ((:meta :trigger-fns (foo))))
(in-theory (disable foo))
; Now it will prove both:
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 10 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
(thm (implies (and (integerp i) (< 11 i)) (equal (foo i (- i)) 0)))
; Now I undo the defun of metafn and change the problem entirely. ; This time I will rewrite (integerp (foo i j)) to t. Note that ; this is true if i and j are integers. I can check this ; internally, but have to generate a hyp-fn to make it official.
(ubt 'metafn) (defun metafn (x mfc state) (cond ((and (consp x) (equal (car x) 'integerp) (consp (cadr x)) (equal (car (cadr x)) 'foo)) ; So x is (integerp (foo i j)). Now check that i and j are ; ``probably'' integers.
(cond ((and (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (cadr (cadr x)) mfc state) *ts-integer*) (ts-subsetp (mfc-ts (caddr (cadr x)) mfc state) *ts-integer*)) *t*) (t x))) (t x)))
; To justify this transformation, I generate the appropriate hyps.
(defun hyp-fn (x mfc state)
(declare (ignore mfc state))
; The hyp-fn is run only if the metafn produces an answer different ; from its input. Thus, we know at execution time that x is of the ; form (integerp (foo i j)) and we know that metafn rewrote ; (integerp i) and (integerp j) both to t. So we just produce their ; conjunction. Note that we must produce a translated term; we ; cannot use the macro AND and must quote constants! Sometimes you ; must do tests in the hyp-fn to figure out which case the metafn ; produced, but not in this example. `(if (integerp ,(cadr (cadr x))) (integerp ,(caddr (cadr x))) 'nil)) (defthm metafn-correct (implies (eva (hyp-fn x mfc state) a) (equal (eva x a) (eva (metafn x mfc state) a))) :rule-classes ((:meta :trigger-fns (integerp))))
(in-theory (disable foo))
; This will not be proved.
(thm (implies (and (rationalp x) (integerp i)) (integerp (foo i j))))
; But this will be.
(thm (implies (and (rationalp x) (integerp i) (integerp j)) (integerp (foo i j))))


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USDA announced on Feb. 28 that it has reached an out-of-court settlement agreement in the lawsuit filed against it concerning the pork checkoff referendum. At issue were the actions taken by then-Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman in calling for the referendum and the subsequent outcome.
The lawsuit – filed by independent pork producers in Michigan, the Michigan Pork Producers Association and the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) – argued that the secretary did not have legal authority to call for a referendum on the pork checkoff, did not have the legal authority to terminate the pork checkoff and, citing the numerous irregularities in initiating the referendum and the voting process, maintained there was no clear determination of the true outcome of the vote.
A key component of the settlement agreement allows for the continuation of the mandatory checkoff.
Other provisions in the settlement agreement include:
The agreement requires a distinct separation between the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the National Pork Board. In effect, that means that NPPC's role, as general contractor to implement checkoff-funded pork promotion, consumer education and research initiatives will be terminated. In the future, the National Pork Board will assume full responsibility for implementation of those programs.
The agreement specifically points out that "all NPPC staff who perform predominantly checkoff-related functions… shall be given the opportunity to transfer their employment to the (National Pork) Board." To qualify, any current NPPC staffer's compensation must be at least 50% allocated to the Pork Checkoff Program to be eligible. This rule applies equally to the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) positions at NPPC, too. Therefore, any NPPC employee who has performed predominantly non-checkoff related functions (of a policy-setting nature) may not be employed by the National Pork Board while performing those non-Checkoff-related functions for NPPC nor can they be employed by the National Pork Board for two years after ceasing to perform those non-Checkoff related functions. The restriction basically applies to the NPPC staff in Washington, DC.
Joint communications efforts with NPPC and the National Pork Board will no longer be allowed at the national level. However, state pork producers groups may sponsor communications containing both checkoff and non-checkoff issues and materials.
The settlement agreement also calls for a survey of all eligible pork producers and importers to be conducted by the USDA sometime after June 2003. The purpose of the survey will be to evaluate the effectiveness of the settlement agreement and the on-going allocation of checkoff funds. If at least 15% of producers and importers express concerns about the pork checkoff and favor a referendum at that time, one will be held in accordance with the Pork Act. USDA or its successor responsible for overseeing the checkoff will pay for survey costs.
Annual meetings of both NPPC and the National Pork Board, scheduled for March 8-10, may proceed as planned, according to the agreement. However, after the annual meetings, NPPC or any succeeding or similar organizations may not be involved in nominating producers or importers to serve on the National Pork Board.
Additionally, the agreement provides that the National Pork Board may lease the office space from the NPPC, who owns the headquarters building in Clive, IA, at fair market value. Following the transition period, NPPC staff offices can no longer be housed at that address.
Finally, with the agreement, all claims against USDA were resolved.
On behalf of the plaintiffs of the lawsuit, Pete Blauwiekel, producer from Fowler, MI, stated: "Through this settlement, we have been able to help pork producers across the U.S. maintain their access to promotion, research and education funded by the checkoff. We believe that USDA's participation in the Settlement Agreement reflects their genuine concerns regarding the referendum and the way it was conducted."
Blauwiekel says the injunction was filed on behalf of pork producers to ensure they got a "fair shake" in the referendum. "Without the checkoff, the future of pork production would have changed dramatically, especially in a state like Michigan where there are already only a small number of pork producers."
A general statement by NPPC regarding the agreement reads: "NPPC has agreed to this settlement for a simple but extremely important reason – this settlement fulfills our overarching goal of continuing the highly effective pork checkoff for the benefit of every pork producer."
The NPPC statement further discloses that in the future NPPC will focus their full attention on legislative policy and regulatory issues. Those activities will continue to be supported by noncheckoff or unrestricted funds.
National Pork Board President John Kellogg, Yorkville, IL, noted that their primary order of business now is to identify an interim-CEO to oversee checkoff-funded programs, to move forward with those programs and to set a timeframe to interview CEO and CFO candidates.
"We're still working out the details on how many days we have to make the full transition. It's the intent of the USDA, and us, to do it as soon as we can but to do a very good job of it," Kellogg notes. "Fortunately, we've got Pork Forum coming up next week where we will all be together and we can get into action. It provides us the opportunity to talk about moving forward instead of talking about 'what-ifs.'"
Kellogg say there will be time allocated for a joint session of NPPC delegates and Pork Act delegates "so that somebody from USDA can come and explain to the whole group the details of the agreement."
USDA officials acknowledged that plans for World Pork Expo were so far along that any substantial changes in that event would be very disruptive. "That will probably be the last major event under the current organization," notes Kellogg.
"We're looking forward to the opportunity to continue to provide programs. And, we're certainly open to new ideas and the opportunity for change," Kellogg added.
Timely updates regarding the checkoff referendum and the administration of checkoff-funded programs will be posted here at www.nationalhogfarmer.com.
For more information about the settlement:
- Click here
to download a complete copy of the settlement agreement. (This requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download free at www.adobe.com.)
Or, visit www.nppc.org for pork checkoff referendum news.


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Investing in the Future of Livestock: An Interview with Dr. Ilse Koehler-Rollefson
|Worldwatch Institute's Supriya Kumar spoke with Dr. Ilse Koehler-Rollefson, projects coordinator for the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP). LPP supports people in marginal areas to encourage socially sustainable livestock production.
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"We want to focus on animal culture, not animal industry," said Dr. Ilse Koehler-Rollefson, while on a visit to Washington, D.C. last year.
"Everyone is worried about a growing human population, but what no one is paying attention to is the fact that livestock populations have grown twice as fast as human population has in the last 50 years. Even more concerning is the fact that the rate of culling is 7 times higher than it was 50 years ago," said Koehler-Rollefson. These are just a few signs of how unsustainable current methods of livestock production are.
LPP was started in 1992 by a small group of veterinary and other concerned professionals, including Koehler-Rollefson, to support pastoral societies and other small-scale livestock keepers through research, technical support, advisory services, and advocacy. "Many government policies are now focused on industrial and factory farms. Our mission is to address any gaps between the needs of the small-scale livestock keepers. We also work with family and smallholder farms as well."
Koehler-Rollefson visited Washington, D.C. to advocate for livestock keepers in national and international agricultural policy decisions at the High-level Consultation for a Global Livestock Agenda to 2020. Other groups at the meeting represented big names and organizations in the livestock sector, including the International Livestock Research Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. But no one, other than Koehler-Rollefson, was present to represent smaller-scale livestock producers and pastoralists.
LPP uses three main approaches in their advocacy efforts. One approach is the Biological Community Protocol (BCP), which aims to empower livestock keepers as stewards of biological diversity under the protection of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Under this Convention, countries are committed to support and protect local and indigenous communities who are helping to improve biodiversity.
Their second approach is the Ark of Livestock Biodiversity project in India, Kenya, and Pakistan that determines whether the nutritional value of products from indigenous livestock production is better than industry-produced livestock. "What we found in India is that consumers are also willing to pay a higher price for these products because of their nutritional and medicinal values," said Koehler-Rollefson.
LPP's third approach is to advocate for expanding livestock keepers' rights through the implementation of an international legal framework for livestock keepers working to conserve biodiversity. "Currently, there is only an international convention for farmers who are working to preserve plant biodiversity. We are pushing for an equivalent framework that would give these pastoralists rights and also include them in policymaking and breeding decisions."
When asked about the biggest challenges faced by LPP, Koehler-Rollefson said, "Changing the mind frame of people. Most people, including animal scientists, are too concerned with the 'gross paradigm,' or the belief that productivity is the bottom line. They are so focused on output that they neglect to consider the side effects of such a system, such as greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, and the spread of diseases."
She added, "We need to educate policymakers and make them realize that food security will not be accomplished by merely producing more. We need to show them the value that these pastoralists have in not only providing food, but also in protecting our environment and preserving our natural biodiversity. With their years of experience, these keepers are the true ambassadors and their voices need to be heard."
For more information on the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, please visit their website by clicking here.


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Jazz luminaries perform in January at East Coast Jazz Revue�s �Where Rivers Meet� to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.
Jazz luminaries perform in January at East Coast Jazz Revue�s �Where Rivers Meet� to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.
The nonprofit presents the show Jan. 18 at the Grover C. Fields Performing Arts Center in New Bern. The doors open at 6 p.m. with the show an hour later.
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Britain's best booty shakers have gathered to decide who's the top twerker
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Via DailyMail
From American popstar Miley Cyrus to an Australian vying to become Prime Minister, the global phenomenon of twerking has gone mainstream.
And now the UK's first ever twerking championships has taken place in London's King's Cross.
Ten of the best twerkers in Britain lined up at Scala nightclub to prove their jiggle and jerking credentials to a sold-out crowd.
Is the apocalypse upon us yet?
The dance craze, started in the New Orleans 'bounce' music scene of the early 90s and has now become so mainstream it was even honoured with an official entry in the Oxford Dictionaries Online.
The top spot on Thursday night – worth £200 – was awarded to a 19-year-old from Tottenham, East London who goes by the stage name of Mizz Versatile.
She told MailOnline: 'I've been dancing for years. Twerking recently came up and I decided to learn.
'I tried different ways of moving my bum and practice whenever I have time.'
At least she's dedicated to mastering her craft…
Mizz Versatile, who has a daughter aged two-and-a-half, said the venue was packed and the crowd were extremely loud as they cheered on the competitors, who were selected from regional heats.
The full-time dancer, who is a size 8 and 4ft 9in, said her success was down to her technique during the 30-second rounds which include freestyle and splits.
'It's not about the size of your bum. People with large bums can not move to save their life,' she said.
She said her friends and family were proud of her twerking success and dismissed people that criticise the raunchy dance move saying 'to be honest they probably just can't dance.'
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Kangaroos and Their Pockets
You may ask, "Is it possible that an animal could have a pocket?" Surprisingly, kangaroos have a "pouch" on their bellies where baby kangaroos are fed and protected during their development.
The appearance of a joey (baby kangaroo) whose head appears from its mother's pouch arouses feelings of compassion in us. This baby, coming out of the womb when it was only one centimetre (0.393 inches) long – that is before it was fully – developed – reached its mother's pouch after a three minute journey.
There are four different nipples in the pouch of the mother. The new-born sucks the nipple that issues a milk with just the right temperature and amount of fat for a new-born. The other three nipples, on the other hand, contain milk meeting the needs of an older baby. In a few weeks, the new-born stops suckling its nipple and finds another nipple from which issues a milk prepared for its own needs. As it grows older, it finds a third nipple with the type of milk specially prepared for its needs.
Children! At this point, you must ask yourself the questions, "How can a baby kangaroo one centimetre long know the right nipple that would meets its needs?", "How has the mother kangaroo placed milk in her four nipples with such different ingredients?" What is more, the milk the new-born baby sucks is hotter than the other milk from the other nipples. Their ingredients are also different. This being the case, how did the mother kangaroo manage to heat this milk? How has she added the necessary ingredients to this milk?
Remember, it is not the mother who has accomplished all these things. The mother kangaroo does not even know that the milk issuing from the nipples is different. It is unlikely that she could compute the temperature of the milk produced by her nipples. She cannot manage to provide each nipple with different kinds of milk. She cannot even know that they are different. She is only a kangaroo living under Allah's watchful care. Her baby's needs are taken care of by Allah. Our Lord, the All-Compassionate and Most Merciful, has placed the most appropriate milk in the most appropriate place for the babies, that is, in the mother's pouch.
A baby kangaroo spends its first six and a half months in this pouch. After spending the next eight months both in the pouch and outside, it leaves it once and for all.
Meanwhile, before the first joey leaves the pouch, a new brother or sister crawls into the pouch. They both live in the same pouch for a long time, without giving any harm to one another. Each joey sucks on the nipple with the milk containing just the right ingredients for their needs. Then, how do the two siblings know which nipple to suck? The answer is obvious: by Allah's inspiration.
Kangaroos are awesome with their huge bodies; the body is one and a half metres long and the tail one metre (39 inches) long. Thanks to their long hind limbs, the kangaroo family can traverse a distance of eight metres in only a moment. While running, they maintain balance by their big strong tails. Do you think their feet have become large by coincidence? Or, do you think their mother estimated that they would need large hind limbs to leap? Of course, none of these give us the right answer. Nothing has come into existence accidentally. Allah, the One Who creates everything according to the needs of creatures, has also created kangaroos like all other creatures in their most perfect form.


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Author Notes: One of the many things I love about Delicata squash is you don't have to peel it. The skin is thin and beautiful and adds to any dish you might create with it. This is my new favorite way to have it, based on a side dish I had recently had at a local hot restaurant. The squash is presalted to amp up the crispy-potential and sharpened with lime. The relish is cooked in apple cider which brings out the fruit flavors, and can be made a few days in advance. This light side dish is easy, beautiful to look at and has a great contrasting flavors. Hope you try it! - ChezSuzanne —TheWimpyVegetarian
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Serves: 4
Cook time: 30 min
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Delicata squash
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Currant, Fennel and Apple Relish
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Crispy Delicata Rings
- Slice the ends off of the squash. Slice into 1/2" rings and remove the seeds with a spoon. Reserve the seeds for another use or roast them with some cayenne pepper, salt, and cumin and sprinkle over the finished dish.
- Lightly salt the squash and let sit for 30 minutes. Completely dry off with paper towels, removing the salt. Heat enough oil to coat a saute pan over medium high heat. Lightly salt the squash rings with fresh salt and add them to the pan. They should sizzle the moment they hit the pan. Don't crowd them or they'll steam more than they'll brown. Sauté until lightly browned (about 2 minutes per side).
- Remove to a plate and grate lime peel over them and squeeze lime juice on them. I used the juice and zest from 1/2 lime for each Delicata.
- Top with the Currant, Fennel and Apple Relish and serve warm. Optional: top with spiced roasted squash seeds.
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I once thought stories like that were actually true. Thankfully, although my own interview was a traumatic experience I'd like to forget, I now know that the Cambridge interview is a much more structured and logical experience than the horror stories circulated over the years. In an effort to shed more light on the interview process, I called at the office of long-time Cambridge interviewer to Malaysia and Southeast Asia, Dr Visvanathan Navaratnam of Christ's College, Cambridge (pictured here).
I still remember two years ago, when I was a mere A-Levels student, walking into my interview dressed impeccably in a suit, right up to the tie, expecting to find a large intimidating bushy-eyebrowed Cambridge don dressed in full black robes staring hawkishly down wire-rimmed glasses at me behind a huge oak desk and barking at me to hurry the hell up. I'd heard all the horror stories about Dr V Navaratnam; that he was a demanding taskmaster, that he yelled at interviewees, that he asked you so many scientific questions that you eventually broke down and ran out the door crying for your mummy. Instead the door opened and out stepped this genial-looking Asian man dressed in an open shirt and with large glasses. I blinked. This was Dr V. Navaratnam, interviewer extraordinaire, the evil Cambridge don who ate undergraduates for breakfast, looking as laid-back as a surfer dude on an Australian beach in summertime.
My interview proceeded rather smoothly, even though it focused heavily on stuff that I wrote in my additional Personal Statement. Dr Nava said that this was because of the fact that the interviews are designed to test interviewees' ability to think on their feet and create logical arguments to back up their assertions, not only to test their academic prowess. It's all spelled out on this page, which clearly answers the question "What are we looking for?" "Students who enjoy a challenge." And that, folks, is what Cambridge is all about; one big fat challenge.
However, there was a tale going around that both last year's successful applicants had their hands shaken by Dr Nava as they left the interview room, with him saying "I hope to see you in Cambridge". Dr Nava assured me that interviewers don't leave telltale clues as to whether a candidate is successful or not, and that he spoke to the applicants simply because he really DID want to see them get in. He was just very good at predicting the successful candidates. Candidates should remain positive throughout the interview, no matter what the interviewer says, because the interviewer's behaviour is supposed to be completely neutral.
When I asked him about KYUEM (my old A-Level college), Dr Nava replied that he thought very highly of the college and remarked on their high standards, saying of KYUEM candidates "they are quite impressive". Regarding the controversial EEE offer given to certain candidates applying to Christ's College, he said it was a sort of psychological test by the College. "They want to see what happens when the student isn't under stress to perform well academically," he explained, stating that while Cambridge colleges usually LIKE to stress their applicants, Christ's sometimes decides to experiment in the opposite direction. Usually, however, the students perform well in their exams anyway.
Regarding the actual power of interviewers to make offers and to decide which candidates get in, he reassured me that there was no way that the interviewer could allow a candidate in, unless said interviewer happened to be the Senior Tutor of the college to which the particular interviewee was applying, and the interviewer was very impressed with the interviewee's performance. Unconditional offers are rare, although one was recently documented in a rival A-Level college when an engineer currently studying in Queen's College was reportedly admitted on the spot. However, Dr Nava was quick to affirm that interviewers only writes down his views for the colleges' admissions tutors to peruse and make the final selection. No interviewer should be "easier to get past" than any other, as they compare notes on candidates before submission to the University.
His general advice to students is to aim high, because Cambridge University is all about excellence. To gain entry, some part of the application will have to be outstanding and catch the University's attention, be it the Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA) score, the Bio-Medical Admissions Test (BMAT) score, or the Law National Admissions Test (LNAT). Of course, the interview also counts, but it is not everything. In recent years, several Colleges that have experienced declining academic performance have revised their admissions policy to favour academically-minded applicants. As such, candidates can no longer expect to gain admission purely on their extracurricular achievements, whereas examples abound of successful applicants who have outstanding academic prowess but mediocre extracurricular merits. In short, the nerds have it lucky, ladies and gentlemen.
Dr Navaratnam and Dr Richard Barnes, Senior Tutor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, are set to leave for Southeast Asia on October 17th for this year's round of interviews. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all applicants the best of luck, and to advise you all to aim high. If you do get in, come pay me a visit in Jesus College. We have the best lunch for the best price (and served by the best-looking waitresses) in Cambridge. Honest.


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Katie writes in:
The article on budgets was *great.* I've long felt guilty for not doing the whole formal budget thing, especially since I always liked and did well at math. (Like you, however, spreadsheets cause my eyes
to roll back in my head.)
But here's a question/comment on one bit. You said: "First, this doesn´t work if you´re already spending more than you make. That type of behavior is not sustainable. If your credit card balance is going up each month, no amount of budgeting or planning matters until you´ve reached a point where that credit card bill goes down each month."
We don't have ANY credit cards, so that's not a problem. To be honest, I doubt if any credit card company would give us the time of day. (I do want to get a secured card at some point, with the goal of rebuilding a bit of credit.)
But we're currently at a stage that's a variation of what you described. Since we can't use a credit card, we often wind up playing a sort of "musical-bills" game with such things as our electric, water, gas, trash, phone and so on. By this I mean that we will either skip a month of paying one of them, or make a short payment on one or more. The next month, we try to catch those up, but sometimes then need to repeat the process with another bill going short.
Occasionally we get a small windfall: selling something, or a gift of cash for a birthday, or the like. This usually goes into making sure *everything* is 100% current… which is a wonderful feeling! But then comes a month (such as this one) where the power bill is extra-high, or gasoline prices spike just as I need to make several trips into the city for doctors' visits. When that happens, all too often the following month begins the cycle once again.
Beyond the standard advice on cutting back as much as possible, or earning more, do you have any particular suggestions to help get us off the merry-go-round? I know the best solution is to have more coming in, and I am hoping (now that my medical issues are being dealt with properly!) I can get back to writing and actually SELL something again. But meanwhile, treading water has gotten rather old.
Many people find themselves at this "treading water" stage and are unsure how to get past it. Basically, it amounts to spending almost exactly what you earn, with the irregularities from month to month causing trouble.
The solution here is usually just a few pebbles on one side of the balance or the other, just enough to cause the tipping to begin.
Where can you get those pebbles from?
A bit of extra income This is the perfect type of situation for some small-scale earnings online doing things like Mechanical Turk (see my notes about it) while you're watching television or relaxing in the evenings. You're not really looking for a job per se, but something that can earn a little bit whenever you have a few spare minutes to work.
A bit of extra diligence You don't need to make radical cuts. You just need to be a little bit extra diligent when it comes to your spending. When you're standing at the checkout line, make the conscious choice not to buy a pack of gum or a People magazine, for example. Get just a sandwich and a water cup without the value meal – you don't need the fries anyway. Then feel good about the little choices you made – and watch as they slowly add up to a better balance at the end of the month.
A bit of sharing Go in with a friend or three and get a membership at a bulk-buying warehouse. Go there to buy your toiletries and split the cost on jumbo packs. Buy a four pack of deodorant, each of you take one of them, and reduce your deodorant cost by about 30%. Do the same for paper towels, toilet paper, milk, garbage bags, and countless other things. Go beyond that and share larger things with your friends – you don't both need a toolkit. Just put tools in one kit and pass it around as needed, for example.
A bit of self-improvement Spend your evenings learning about the things you've always been curious about. Check out books from the library on it, or surf through Wikipedia on the topic. Try doing the things you learn about. Learn about a topic – and learn how to learn, as well. You'll come out of it with more knowledge and perhaps more skill – and it won't cost you a thing for entertainment.
A bit of mutual support Support your partner when he does things that are financially smart. Reinforce the idea that spending less is the good thing to do. You'll find that with people around you supporting this kind of behavior, particularly the people you spend the most time with, it becomes more natural to spend less money.
A bit of friendship This attitude spreads to your closest friends as well. Don't be afraid to admit that you're having financial challenges. Be willing to talk about money with them and encourage each other to make better choices. Engage in non-expensive activities together – most activities are made fun by the people you do them with anyway.
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Jim and Lula were married in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas on May 6, 1904 by Reverend E. L. Spurlock. Jim was 23 and Lula was 17.
The year before Kermit was born, his parents, Jim and Lula, his older sister Flora "Gae", who was five, and his older brother, Daniel "Dan" Andrew, who was three, lived at 357 Gardner Street in Whitewright, Texas in 1910. His father, Jim, was age 30, and his mother, Lula, was 24.
Jim and Lula had been married for six years when they had their first child. Jim was born near Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky in 1880 and Lula was born near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1886. By 1900, both sets of parents arrived in Texas with their families, Jim with his parents in Savoy Town, Fannin County, Texas and Lula with her parents, four brothers, and two sisters by 1892 when Lula's youngest sister was born in Hunt County, Texas.
Sometime between 1891 when Jim's younger brother, John, was born near Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky and 1898 when Jim's youngest sister, Estelle, was born, Jim's parents arrived in Fannin County, Texas with Jim, the oldest child, his younger brother John, and three sisters born in 1885, 1886, and 1890 near Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky. The youngest sister, Estelle was born in Fannin County, Texas in 1898.
Kermit's dad was a rural mail carrier and the family rented their home. Lula was a homemaker. I do not know anything about their life at home in the growing up days of the children and wonder about their school days, what they did for playing, and if they attended church.
I know my dad graduated from Whitewright High School, probably near the end of May, 1929 when he was almost 18 from a newspaper article about him 12 years later in 1941 in Athens, Henderson County, Texas where he was pastor of the Athens First Methodist Church. In the same newspaper article, it mentioned that he was a student at Paris Junior College, probably when he was 18 and 19 years old in 1930 and 1931.


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Especial de la Semana: Costillas en Salsa Verde
You may know Sara Markel-Gonzalez from her Queens roundups and Taco Thursdays. She'll be introducing you to Mexican specialties and helping you find where to try them around the borough.
This week's special is costillas de puerco en salsa verde con verdolagas. Translation: pork ribs in salsa verde with purslane. Tender pork ribs, the meat nearly falling off the bone, swimming in a spicy tomatillo salsa, complemented by the slightly sour, fresh, green flavor of purslane. It's the kind of dish a grandmother would make—simple, hearty, and comforting. Scoop up the sauce in warm tortillas with a bite of red rice and a spoonful of creamy beans. Stewed meat in a warm, green chile-flecked sauce—perfect for a cold winter night.
I found this particular version at the tiny, mostly take-out restaurant and bakery El Cilantro on Broadway in Elmhurst. El Cilantro, aside from their small menu of tortas and tacos, has daily steam table offerings of Mexican home-style dishes, such as the costillas, at a much lower price than many neighborhood spots (around $6.00 for specials, as opposed to $11.00 or even $12.00) although the portions are much smaller. Still, the specials come with rice, beans, and tortillas. And for an even smaller, cheaper option, the items are offered as taco fillings as well. A good way to try something new. Next week: tortitas de queso.
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