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An important essay in The Location of Culture is entitled "Commitment to Theory." In it, Bhabha concerns himself with the practical political gain that can come from writing theory. He wonders if a pamphlet written about and espousing a justified strike would be more effective than theory. Not surprisingly, he argues that we need both. I am interested in the technical complexities of his argument. I have some comments. 1. He seems to make a dichotomy between, on the one hand, artistically and theoretically radical work and, on the other, political pamphleteering. But there are so many types of "discourse" in between, especially a number of different types and levels of journalism. From a practical perspective, leftist journalism might do more for the strike than the theory. Babha's argument is that the pamphleteering and the journalism will inevitably reinstate notions of the self and other that valorizes the oppressed over the oppressor. This understandable, but wrong headed, attempt to "solve" these issues is politically naîve. "Must the project of our liberationist aesthetics be forever part of a totalizing utopian vision of Being and History that seeks to transcend the contradictions and ambivalences that constitute the very structure of human subjectivity and its systems of cultural representation?" (29) Bhabha clearly articulates what theory and radical culture can do that nothing else is able to do — namely, critique deeply enough to understand oppositions rather than taking one side or the other in a simplistic fashion. He also claims that "the very structure of human subjectivity" and, we will learn, culture, is full of tension, assertion, and doubling. The choice between political alternatives might be easy, but dreaming that the victory of your side will lead to a future that transcends the contradictions inherent in the complexities of both our cultures and ourselves is foolhardy.
But Bhabha does not answer this: what good is this deep critique if so few people are aware of it? The best answer I know for this question comes from the American Poetry scholar Alan Golding. In From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), he notes that we shouldn't think of the political value of radical culture outside of the specific, empirical places where these critiques take place. Namely, they are part and parcel of the life of college and university life, and so often around these institutions are towns and cities of a bent that is much more open to radical culture. In short, I believe that the value of theory needs to be measured empirically, not just theoretically. I find Golding's argument a convincing one. Perhaps thinking about our work in terms of the local will help. And, to a degree, this dovetails neatly with some of Bhabha's own thoughts about the importance of thinking "the Other" within our local communities and within our own selves.
2. "Radical critique .. within the political process becomes double-edged. It makes us aware that our political referents and priorities — the people,the community, class struggle, anti-racist, gender difference, the assertion of an anti-imperialist, black or third perspective — are not there in some primordial, naturalistic sense... They make sense as they come to be constructed in the discourses of feminism or Marxism or the Third Cinema or whatever" (38).
In other words, any object we want to fight for, is always already created by being represented and nurtured within an ideological framework. What this means is profound: there can never be total victory. One side can never vanquish the other because it needs the other side of the dichotomy in order for it to be constructed as a political position. Anti-racism comes not because there is objective racism, but because racism has been defined as problematic by a discourse. One of Babha's favorite words is "agonistic," which means struggle but is also the root of "agony." He would never put it this simply, but to be human means to be permanently in political struggle. It is part of our condition. "The pure avenging angel speaking the truth of a radical ... pure oppositionality" (38) will never arrive and will certainly never succeed.
This is not so much pessimism as it is an attempt to rigorously define how politics works — namely, through our own chosen representations. Having a discourse that does this helps us to know what we can hope for. And it shows us how much control we have over our political representations, which is a lot, but not total.
I have yet to look at critiques of Bhabha's position, but I imagine that these reflections must create real opposition. Someone may say that, for instance, anti-racism is not the result of a representation, but the result of painful experience. Anti-racism, in this view, results from nothing other than the treatment of real people, not from representation. Bhabha would respond, I think, that racism is bad, but it is bad because it has been represented as such. This representation can never be total, so the avenging angel of anti-racism probably can never vanquish it all. Or, if something approaching totality comes about, there will be other issues that come to be represented as problems in "the hybrid moment of political change" (41). "There is no first or final act of revolutionary social (or socialist) transformation" (45).
To make clearer the level at which his critique takes place, namely, in the difference between cultural diversity and cultural difference. "Cultural diversity is an epistemological object — culture as an object of empirical knowledge — whereas cultural difference is the process of the enunciation of culture as 'knowledgeable,' authoritative, adequate to the construction of systems of cultural identification" (49-50). Cultural diversity leads to a static view of cultures as self-contained and relativistic, that which is represented rather than that which is part of representation.
Cultural difference, on the other hand, "problematizes the binary division of past and present, tradition and modernity, at the level of cultural representation and its authoritative address" (51). Instead of relativism we get 'enunciation'. Enunciation seems to be the communicative act that cannot fully represent, that there is a slippage. Cultural objects are always already represented, but the structure of any representation, since it is artificial and not natural, is to not fully grasp what it is it's representing. In the words of Jacques Derrida, whom Bhabha quotes, différance is the name given for this slippage at the level of representation.
So, in any culture, an enunciative act is always already contentious, partial, and ambivalent. Bhabha gives the example of how a native intellectual looking for a return to a mythic tradition will be disappointed when they enunciate themselves in part by engaging in "Western forms of information technology, language, dress" (55). Bhabha argues that the past is always a representation, based partly on our desires for it, and that we cannot force it on the present.
When I was in college an anthropology professor of mine described an incident that occurred when he was studying the Kru, an African tribe. He was observing a woman cooking a dish, and he was dutifully taking everything down that she was doing. Then she picked up a can of tuna, opened it, and put it in. My professor remarked that it wasn't a "true" Kru dish. She became quite angry. "It is so an authentic Kru dish," she said.
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Kim Docking talks with Talis to review the Summer Reading Challenge
This podcast was recorded at Walsgrave Church of England Primary School to review this year's Summer Reading Challenge. The Head Teacher Kim Docking talks about how participation in the Challenge has gradually increased over the past two years as teachers and children alike have shared their enthusiasm across the school. The school serves a socially-mixed area, and for this summer, Kim was keen to involve those children who have no exposure to reading over the summer holidays and whose performance slides downwards at this time. So for Walsgrave Church of England Primary School, the strategic importance of the Summer Reading Challenge is about continuing to narrow gaps and ensure that all children enjoy equality of opportunity. Kim is confident that the Challenge has promoted awareness of the library service and has encouraged children to read and enjoy reading. By positioning the Challenge as an integral part of broader literacy initiatves and a thematic curriculum, the school is ensuring that its Summer Reading Challenge gains are sustainable.

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Since hitting the public markets in late 2012, SolarCity (NASDAQ:SCTY.DL) has been one of the hottest stocks in a rising solar industry. The company has proven to be adept at not only growing quickly enough to impress investors, but cut costs and increase long-term value at the same time.
There's never a guarantee that a stock will rise or fall, but here are the three biggest reasons SolarCity could soar over the next few years.
Incredible growth
What SolarCity has done better than any other company in solar over the last two years is grow. In 2013, the company installed 280 megawatts of solar-power systems and expects that to grow to 500 megawatts this year and 900 megawatts-1 gigawatt in 2015.
The ability to scale their sales and installation force is impressive, particularly for a business that's upending the way consumers think about energy. It's the first time that consumers have been offered the ability to be energy producers and SolarCity has created a lease and sales model that makes this transition easy to understand.
As the cost of solar power falls, the market opportunity will grow exponentially, and with a huge lead over competitors in residential solar, SolarCity should be able to maintain a large market share in the space.
Creating more value every day
SolarCity's value for shareholders is based on creating what it calls retained value. This is a present value of the future cash flows of lease customers and at the end of the second quarter stood at an impressive $1.8 billion.
Since retained value is basically the difference between payments from customers and costs associated with building and financing systems, SolarCity benefits from lowering both the cost of installation and financing. On that front, the company is making impressive progress.
Management gave detail in the second quarter on system installation costs and during the quarter average installation costs were $2.29 per watt. That's down an incredible 27.5% from the fourth quarter of 2012 when installations cost $3.16 per watt. Even when sales, general, and administrative costs are included the average system costs just $3.03 per watt.
Financing has made similar improvements, which can be seen by the company's securitization offerings. The first offering opened up a new market for solar but required SolarCity to maintain a lot of the risk on their balance sheet and came with a fairly high interest rate. Below, I've taken some of the highlights from the first and third securitization offering. You can see that the interest rate commanded by the market is significantly lower, the percentage of a system's cost that is securitized is higher, and residential mix is higher.
Securitization Issuance
$54.4 million
$201.5 million
MW Collateralized
Debt Monetization ($/Watt)
$1.24 / Watt
$1.71 / Watt
Spread Over Benchmark Rate
265 basis points
209 basis points (weighted between two tranches)
Residential/Commercia Mix
As SolarCity has lowered costs, contract prices have remained similar at $0.15 per kW-hr, allowing margins and retained value per watt to widen over time. If these margins can maintain where they are then SolarCity's growth will add incredible value to shareholders.
Elon Musk
The wildcard in SolarCity's future is Elon Musk. He's the chairman of the board and largest shareholder, guiding the company's strategic direction. There's no doubt that Musk had a large hand in the Silevo acquisition and will play a major role in its future as a manufacturer. But what else does he have up his sleeve?
With a company as young and full of potential as SolarCity you're really betting on the vision and execution of management. At the end of the day, that comes down to Musk. He's not an innovator I would bet against, and if SolarCity is going to soar to new heights he will guide the way.
Foolish bottom line
SolarCity is currently a $6.6 billion company that is still reporting losses as it fuels future growth. That makes it a high-risk stock, but if the company can continue to grow, drive value by cutting costs, and innovate with new products it could be a big winner for investors.


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Title: Examining governance-innovation relationship in the high-tech industries: monitoring, incentive and a fit with strategic posture
Authors: Hsueh-Liang Wu, Bou-Wen Lin, Chung-Jen Chen
Addresses: Department of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, 1 Ta-Hsueh Road, Taiwan 701, ROC. ' Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC. ' Department of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, ROC
Abstract: Departing from the usual debates regarding the superiority of one governance structure over another, this study aims to complement the prior institutional approach by addressing how a firm|s internal governance, via board competence and managerial incentives, shapes innovation performance. In a sample of 178 Taiwanese firms in the high-tech industries, the study sets out to examine the innovation-enhancing effects of the firm-level governance arrangements prescribed by agency theory. The results show that the effective governance, characterised by vigilant control through a competent board and the incentives of managers through equity ownership, are conducive to the desired and valued outcomes of innovation by aligning the risk differential between principals and agents. This universal relationship is further extended to a contingency perspective that innovation can be more significantly achieved by managerial risk readiness through a tight coupling of internal governance and the correspondingly appropriate strategy profile. The findings stress that governance and a clear posture of differentiation in high-tech environments are, arguably, multiple bases on which innovation is sought.
Keywords: corporate governance; innovation performance; strategic posture; high technology firms; high tech industry; monitoring; board competence; managerial incentives; strategic fit; governance structures; Taiwan; technological innovation; technology management; agency theory.
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Interesting Developements
I need to teach Lisa how to use her link key so she doesn't bury the sidebar to the bottom of the page, long urls sink it posted directly. The blogroll is still here justs at the bottom of the page.
Bill Roggio is back posting at the Fouth Rail and has a gaggle of info as does the other websites he helped establish , Counterterrorism Blog and Threats Watch, don't miss Walid Phares' posts, here and here, both must reads. part of Walid's postings
As we have marked the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, and we review the half a decade of war on terror since, the central question that comes to the minds of both experts and policymakers is this – who is winning the war and where are we in its prosecution? And to refine, is al Qaeda on the retreat, is Afghanistan working, is Iraq surviving the challenge, and is Lebanon's Cedars Revolution on the rise or has it been defeated? Is Hezbollah's war changing the U.S. strategy regarding Iran and Israel? And finally, is the U.S. homeland secure, or is it penetrated and threatened?
All of these are issues of great importance to Americans, Westerners and societies determined to struggle for democracy and freedom. For even though 9/11 was a benchmark in the history of the U.S., it also became a rallying date in the eyes of the Jihadists for more lethal future attacks, not just in America, but also in Europe, India, Africa and other parts of the world that have tasted the wrath of terror since 2001.
The widening of the war on terrorism and the multiplication of its battlefields has critics claiming Americans have been led in the wrong direction, and that the decision to fight the terrorists on their ground was erroneous. Are the critics right? Or are they wrong? Five years after the attacks which sparked this long war, a proper review is in order – a review not only of the enemy we face, but of the war we are engaged in and what the future holds in this regard.
A worthy read and in light of that I do not see the loonbat left making any real gains in congress. Even center right Gubernator Arnold still holds a commanding lead over neo-socialist Phil Angelides and California's conservative districts are the fastest growing. Apparently the GOP has proven to be far savvier poker players than the Dems anticipated building a massive war chest through the grassroots that is now coming into play. We now control the message once agan proven by Clinton's hissy fit and their flagship media "Gray Lady" spinning out of control.
Politics is local nd I just do not see liberals as having as strong a hand as they profess. They are very obvious loud and obnoxious and most of America rejects that, note the limited attendance at protests and the huge popularity of conservative talk radio and internet sites. It can be guaranteed they will claim fraud when the Dems lose again in November. They don't understand that most people in America have a brain that actually functions and vote accordingly to the dismay of the socialists that have taken over the DNC leadership.I live in Boxer/Pelosiville and the natives are restless thus Arnold' strong support as the local DNC falls more under control of Bay Area and Hollywood extreme leftists along with the national DNC under Howlin' Howie.


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Nokia made an interesting decision on 11th February to adopt Windows Phone 7 as their primary strategy. Obviously this meant ditching Symbian. Nokia failed to innovate their smartphone OS over the period of time.
Vlasta Berka, general manager for Nokia Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei during the Nokia E7 launch said, "Just because we're changing our direction in terms of smartphone platform, it doesn't mean that the existing platform is completely broken. We still have obligations to our users, developers, business partners, and customers. Symbian is here to stay. Symbian will still be around, but it's just going to go somewhere around the corner"
Nokia currently has around 200 million Symbian Smartphone users around the world and plans to ship 150 million Symbian handsets in coming months. Besides that, Nokia will also roll out updates for Symbian devices throughout the year. If the updates are going be anywhere like the rumored UI overhaul, I'm guessing Symbian owners would be happy to still stick by it.
Although, Nokia has mentioned about its plan to sell 150 million Symbian handsets in coming months to help transition from Symbian to Windows Phone, they won't be manufacturing any new Symbian handsets. So basically telling us that Symbian is here to stay is just a straight forward lie? Or they meant that Symbian is here to stay until we sell those 150 million Symbian Smartphones?


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Come on lets go on the record with what we see in our magic 8 ball!
Winter 2017-18 Forecast
The winter of 2016-17 was one of the coolest in recent memory. Most locations along the I-5 corridor experienced at least one significant snowfall. The cold anomalies were focused in December and January, with February closer to normal, and March above average SLE and points south. Precipitation was normal to slightly below the first half of the winter after record setting fall rains. February and March however, were anomalously wet. There were several modified intrusions of arctic air, but no significant regional arctic blasts. Temperatures in W. Oregon were about 3-4 degrees below normal in December and 5-8 degrees below normal in January.
December 2017
I view December as a true wildcard month for the upcoming winter with equal chances for a wide variety of outcomes. I have very low confidence in my December forecast. Overall though I think the most likely outcome for December 2017 is something along the lines of December 2007, 2010, or 2011. I see the biggest chances for cold anomalies being toward the beginning of the month and then the week after Christmas. I think there is a high likelihood we see some kind of atmospheric river event in December, followed by either ridging or a split flow. The latter would likely lead to an inversion setup in the lowlands. Overall I expect the month to have near normal to slightly above normal precipitation. With temperatures near to slightly above normal. As for snowfall, I would say chances for valley snow are about as they would be in a typical year. The mountains should see slightly below normal snowfall.
January 2018
Regionally last January was the coldest since at least 1993. Will this year top that? It is possible, but probably not. For analogs January 1968 and 2008 were weighed heavily. I do think we could potentially see more amplification upstream than those years however, leading to a much better potential outcome for cold weather lovers. I see precipitation being normal to above normal. I believe temperatures regionally will be below average in January, though I believe the flow will be much more progressive than last January, leading to a few mild periods interspersed. Therefore, I would expect cold anomalies more in line with Dec 2016, than Jan 2017. There should be quite a bit of cold onshore flow which could bring snow levels to the surface at times. I think there is a better than 50% chance we see a significant arctic outbreak during the month. I expect at least one widespread accumulating snowfall in the inland valleys during the month. Snowfall in the mountains should be above average.
February 2018
I believe February will be our coldest month regionally in relation to the long term average. I expect near normal precipitation across the NW. I think there is a high likelihood of arctic air, especially early in the month. Later in the month likely some periods of cold onshore flow. Expect the coldest February since at least 2011. I think the inland valleys have a greater than 50% of at least one accumulating snowfall with above average mountain snow.
March 2018
March should be cool and wet early in the month. Trending drier and milder as we get toward the end of the month as is typical. I expect temperatures to be slightly below normal for the month overall with above normal precipitation. There will likely be some foothills snow, but I do not expect accumulating snow at the lowest elevations. The mountain snowpack should continue to be healthy.
Overall I expect another cooler than average winter. Most valley locations will likely see accumulating snowfall at least once. Precipitation should be normal to above average, with a healthy mountain snowpack. I expect at least one regional arctic outbreak in the Dec-Feb period.


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The news wasn't all good for the Cardinals, even after their third straight win.
According to Darren Urban of the team's official website, wide receiver Teddy Williams was lost for the season, after tearing his Achilles in the team's win over the Jaguars.
His one career catch was a 51-yarder, and he was injured Sunday while running down a punt.
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We are delighted to present a two-day workshop that examines critiques of human rights and looks at possible alternative routes to emancipation and progressive politics. We warmly invite interested scholars at all stages in their career and from any discipline to join us. Extensive critiques of International human rights (IHR) by critical legal scholars - especially feminists and postcolonial theorists – have called into question its worth as a path to human freedom and progressive politics. As a facet of liberal freedom and justice at the global level, human rights have been discredited as part of an Enlightenment project that is neither inclusive nor non-violent and which compels a specific way to be and be free in the world. Encounters with the world's `Others' - particularly well-meaning missions to save them - expose the gender, cultural, racial and religious norms on which rescue projects are based and the discomfort caused by these encounters often ends in epistemicide (de Santos) – the destruction of non-liberal/alternate epistemologies.
From this starting point, the workshop seeks to start four conversations. The first interrogates our own assumptions; are the possibilities of human rights really exhausted as a path to freedom? The second grapples with the violence of Enlightenment epistemologies. The third panel draws historical work on the colonial past of human rights into the present moment by thinking about its legacy. The final panel attempts to move beyond the liberal imaginary to rethink freedom - if human rights are not the key to human freedom, what is?
The workshop brings together a host of academics from a range of social science and humanities backgrounds. In taking human rights and freedom as our subject matter at a time of deep suspicion of others in the West, we seek to contribute to a broader conversation about critique and what lies beyond it.
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Workshop: International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives
On October 31-November 1, 2017, the International State Crime Initiative and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, Queen Mary University of London will hold a workshop on "International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives." The program is here. Here's the idea:
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He's the cowardly congressman!
Rep. Dan Donavan has put a hold on town hall meetings in Bay Ridge because the last time he showed up on this side of the Narrows he was heckled by left-leaning Brooklynites who opposed his pro-Trump policies — sending him back to bucolic Staten Island with his tail between his legs.
Reps for the beleaguered Rep. said he now has no intention of crossing the Verrazano to hold a town hall in the near future because he doesn't think it would be a worthwhile use of his time.
"We understand that people have concerns, no one is saying that their concerns shouldn't be heard," said spokeswoman Alexia Sikora. "It's a matter of, 'Are you going to have communication or disruptive rhetoric that's not productive?' "
The revelation came after this newspaper questioned his office about a multitude of "missing" posters claiming Donovan (R–Bay Ridge) is ducking his Brooklyn constituents appeared on telephone poles and phone booths across the Ridge this weekend.
Those posters, which demand Donovan show face in the borough and claim he has never held a public meeting here or even showed up for debates in Brooklyn during his campaign, only prove activist Ridgites are not capable of reasonable discourse, his reps say.
The posters are just a continuation of the disruption that we've seen at previous events," said Sikora.
Donovan's boycott has some residents saying if he can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen.
"The fact that he won't hold a town hall because he doesn't want us to communicate how we're feeling is absurd," said Ridgite Marc Grant. "If his constituents want a public meeting he should give it to us."
And others saw the humor in the posters as a fun way to get Donovan to show up and speak up.
"This is hilarious — it's like putting him on a milk carton," said Ridgite Benjamin Ramirez. "If he's not listening to the people, they gotta get creative with how they call him out. It doesn't matter whether he wants to or not — it's his job."
But the congressman's people say he isn't shutting out Brooklyn altogether.
His reps claimed that Donovan will happily sit down for face-to-face meetings with constituents who set up an appointment via a form on his congressional website, or by calling his office in Dyker Heights at (718) 630–5277 or his Staten Island office at (718) 980–1062.
"Congressman Donovan is in constant communication with his constituents, granting meetings with every single person or group that requests one, and that will always continue," said spokesman Patrick Ryan.
Donovan isn't the only congressman getting heat for hiding from constituents.
The mugs of pols in California, Utah, and Iowa have turned up on milk cartons and posters around those towns as well, according to a popular cable news network.
So Ryan says the new "Missing" posters are par for the course.
"Sadly, we have witnessed the true goals of a small percentage of people who are getting their tactics from a distributed manual on how to shout, name-call, and disrupt," he said. "There's an important distinction between sharing opinions and shouting down people who have different views. That's not civil, not respectful, and not productive, and we are not going to participate in a circus."
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Corner Brook hosts Harris workshop
The Harris Centre, in partnership with the Humber Economic Development Board, is planning a regional workshop and a forestry-related Memorial Presents public policy event in Corner Brook for Jan. 26-27, 2011.
The Memorial Presents event will be held on the 26th, in room LC301, at Grenfell Campus, at 7 p.m. Dr. Rainer Baehre will make a keynote presentation, followed by a panel discussion, an audience question and answer session, and a reception.
The regional workshop will be held at the Pepsi Centre, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. The workshop will consist of a larger plenary session and two break-out sessions covering three primary themes: agriculture, transportation and tourism/cultural industries.
If you're interested in attending either or both of the sessions, please contact Karen Follett at email@example.com. For more information, visit www.mun.ca/harriscentre.
Marine Institute launches mobile version of website
The Marine Institute has launched a new mobile version of its website, making it even easier for students, faculty and industry partners to stay up to date with the latest news and events coming out of MI.
The mobile version of the website, www.mi.mun.ca/m, includes features such as events, contacts, news, registration information and location maps.
The location maps include pictures and addresses of MI facilities such as the main campus on Ridge Road in St. John's, the Southside Marine Base in downtown St. John's and the Offshore Safety and Survival Centre in Foxtrap.
The mobile site was developed by Greg Pike, web editor at the Marine Institute. The creation of the mobile website comes in response to the needs of visitors to the Marine Institute's main webpage, www.mi.mun.ca.
University gets top employer nod
Voters named Memorial University local employer of the year in the annual reader poll in the Scope newspaper.
"We're delighted with the results," exclaimed Lynn Best, manager of Recruitment with Memorial University. "We appreciate the feedback as we work hard to maintain excellent hiring and quality work standards."
Feedback from new employees indicate they chose Memorial because of benefits, reputation, educational opportunities, location, career advancement opportunities and employee development, she said.
"We always knew we had the best employees, and it's satisfying to also be found by the Scope to be the best local employer."
Find out more and consider making Memorial work for you at www.mun.ca/careers.
Application to graduate deadline drawing near
Memorial University is alerting its students who are eligible to graduate this spring to the Jan. 15, 2011, graduation application deadline.
Students eligible to graduate at the spring convocation session should log on to Memorial Self Service to fill out the required application to graduate.
For students wishing to attend convocation, the schedule for the degrees will be posted on the convocation webpage in late February. Students can then indicate if they will be attending their ceremony by returning to Memorial Self Service once the registration option is active in early March as well.
Further information regarding the convocation ceremonies is available at www.mun.ca/convocation/steps.


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Anyone curious about what the average American consumes on a yearly basis? If so, here's an easy to read graphic that shows what Americans consume, pound per pound. Now, if one can visualize all the other "stuff" in those foods... additives, agrichemicals, hormones, antibiotics. Check it out at:
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We currently have vacancies for bus drivers - both current PCV licence holders and those willing to train.
We are looking for friendly, enthusiastic people with a 'can do' attitude to join our team. As a bus driver with London United or London Sovereign you'll be responsible for providing a helpful, reliable and safe service to passengers and also other road users and pedestrians. You'll be responsible for checking the condition of your vehicle, ensuring it is safe to drive and for helping us to meet targets for the reliability of the bus service on your route.
Full paid training to get your Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV) licence is available through our in-house Driving Instructor team.
We offer a range of staff benefits and are proud of our track record in developing our people and for looking after our staff.
We would welcome your application if you meet the following criteria:
Have a driving licence with no more than three points, no unspent drink driving convictions and at least one year's driving experience in the UK
Live close to at least one of our garage locations (see the list HERE)
Are happy to work rostered shifts which will include early starts, late finishes and weekends
Are able to consistently provide the best possible customer service to our customers
Are a safe, sensible driver and can show a real commitment to complying with our safety rules
Can pass the medical requirements for a PCV licence
Have good communication skills, including proficiency in written and spoken English
Are a quick learner and have the willingness and ability to study for your PCV licence or CPC and to pass the required tests.
You will also have to prove you have right to work in the UK (if you haven't got a work permit we cannot consider your application).
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I wanted to give you all plenty of time to gear yourselves up, so to speak, to race in the Second Annual Bilenky Cycle Works Urban Cyclocross Race. Who knows how much Thanksgiving you're going to eat and you may want to bounce up and down on some curbs, but I think that two and a half weeks is enough time to get your asses in shape to be worthy competitors.
The rabblerousing starts at noon, but for all you churchgoers and partypigs, race isn't til three. So no need to hustle your hump, but you will be rewarded for arriving on time with beers and BBQ, which personally turns my cranks a little faster. And to accompany all this festivity, the West Philadelphia Orchestra is rumored to have been secured to play Balkan Party, a.k.a. Gypsy music. I know, I know, you are squirming in your saddles already.
If you can gather from this lovely poster, designed by our own pal Emily, there will be junk to navigate as the entire race takes place in the junkyard near Bilenky's shop.
And if you don't yet know about Bilenky Cycle Works, you need to get your head out of the sand (dude, this is philly! That's not sand!) and figure it out. They build some pretty sexy frames right here in Philadelphia and they are quite the little outfit. R.E.Load boss man Roland, can be seen posing with his custom Bilenky travel track bike on the Kryponite website, here.
But back to the bones:
WHO: YOU, of course!
WHAT: 2nd Annual Bilenky CycloCross Urban Cyclocross Race
WHERE: 5319 North 2nd Street, Philly, PA
WHEN: 12 O'Clock Noon
HOW: $5 to race
WHY: There's even going to be some live tunes!
Sponsored by Quality Bicycle Products
And hey, if you are a scaredy chicken like me and you don't have a suitable bike, then we can just hang out. If that doesn't sell you then maybe you need to see some photos from last year.


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Just to review: color has three attributes:
1. value (how light or dark it is). For example, if you took a black and white photo of a previously colored picture, you would be able to only see the values. (Of course, you know this, but I have to be complete here.)
2. Hue. The "redness" of the apple is it's hue. White and black usually not referred to as hues.
3. The INTENSITY (chroma, strength). This is how strong the color is. How red the red is. In general, paints at maximum intensity are said to have a a jewel-like sparkle. I shall be using the term "saturation" as synonymous with "chroma" in this post because much of the thinking about intensity uses this term, but I know some people think it is wrong, and I should use only the term "chroma". See the chapter Color Theory here for what I think is an easy way to understand terms used to describe colors on both surfaces and from lights.
To have a palette with a wide-range of strong, high chroma, high intensity (in this post they all mean the same thing) colors, you have to know how to avoid "saturation costs".
saturation costs
"Saturation costs" or "graying" refers to the interference between paints when they are mixed. For example, it is common for people who mix orange from red and yellow to find that the orange is just not as strong, does not have the same saturation, as an orange from the tube.
Saturation costs works this way: Assuming two paints are at their most saturated at the start we know that, if they lie across from each other on the color wheel (hue circle), that is are "complements", we will get maximum desaturation by mixing them –to the point of no hue at all, that is gray or black. (There has to be some varying of proportions of one paint to the other based on the tintorial strength of the pigment.)
Color wheels are just approximations and work only for the purpose for which they were designed. For example, visual complement color wheels are not the same as mixing complement color wheels. As you might have guessed, describing colors is infinitely more complicated than the color wheel I show above. A more acute and complicated discussion can be found here. However, it is not necessary to understand what is to follow.
There is nothing magical about desaturation from exact complements. What is often overlooked and is more important for our discussion is that there is also a saturation cost, a graying, from mixing every pigment with any other pigment even those close to each other on the color wheel. However, this saturation cost increases the father apart two colors are on the color wheel approaching the farthest apart, the complement, from either direction where the saturation cost breaks the bank, so to speak, and we get no hue at all, no saturation. We get gray or black.
some modern paints desaturate less with mixing
Position on the color wheel is very important, but some paints are less likely to desaturate than others. The cadmium paints desaturate quickly even when mixed with a white. That can make the colors more realistic since in the real world there are rarely high intensity colors. However, the quinachrodone reds, magenta, and violets mix well as do the pyrrol reds and oranges. For example, to make a really hot pink, what Stapleton Kearns calls "Pornstar Pink" use white, quin red, and pyrrol orange. With cadmium orange and red (and white), you wont get that really bright pink.
A palette with the least saturation costs
The fact that the distance between colors on the color wheel is a good way to visualize the amount of desaturation that occurs between colors dictates that the palette with the least saturation costs can be visualized as having a large number of paints equally spaced around the color wheel. (Karen Jurick, an oil painter, uses a disposable pizza plate for a palette that has a huge number of paints placed around the outside. She has a U-tube video of her palette here but makes no mention of saturation. Of course, some of her paints are already desaturated like yellow ochre.) Choosing paints, not the way Jurick does (by availability) but that are equally spaced around the color wheel and at high saturation assumes the same relatively small saturation cost when mixing neighboring paints, and that mixing of neighboring hues should be all you have to do to get the exact hue that you want. (There will be quirks associated with the particular paint.) If you want to dull, some of my friends say "kill", a paint a bit you can add a paint further away on the color wheel.
The more paints on the palette the less mixing and the more likely that what mixing is going to take place will be with nearby (similarly hued) paints where there is the least saturation cost. (There can be, however, odd reactions between pigments and paints, so beware.) Therefore, following the approach of mixing nearby paints most mixed hues will be a close to maximum chroma or intensity. In addition varying one hue with a hue adjacent on the color wheel will add variety with not much of a saturation cost. For example, dropping in some red violet into a bluer violet passage doesn't kill the violet color but adds some interesting variety.
To be concrete, many watercolor artists aim for maximum saturation of paints, and this "colorist" look is often associated with watercolors (violet shadows, for example.) This kind of palette usually has about five or more yellows, reds, blues, and violets chosen in a spread from warm to cool .
Yellow is the color that is most fragile and vulnerable to desaturation. You cannot stray far from it on the color circle to do any mixing. In her book "Daring Color" Anne Abgott recommends the follow 6 yellows from specific companies (listed from warm to cool) : Gamboge Nova (Holbein), New Gamboge (Winsor Newton), Naples Yellow (Holbein), Quinacrodone Gold (Winsor Newton), Yellow Ochre (Schmincke Horadam), Aureolin Yellow (Winsor Newton.) As you can imagine, this spread is going to reduce your need to mix yellows. They all lighten with additional water. However, she cautions about using anything but another yellow to darken any of these paints. New Gamboge will darken Naples Yellow and Aureolin, Quinancodone Gold will darken Yellow Ochre, and Yellow Ochre will darken Gamboge Nova. Ann Abgott's article here (there's a downloadable PDF worth having) discusses her choices for each hue and is illustrative of this very popular type of watercolor palette. She recommends 7 reds, 5 greens, 7 blues, 6 violets in addition to the 6 yellow mentioned above. If you want to use a saturated palette, her recommendations will work for you particularly if you download and read her article on how to use them mentioned above.
Botanical artists are, perhaps, the group with the most paints. They are not necessarily used in every painting, but to match exact colors which include not only the body color of the flower but the subtle reflections, they need a lot of different starting points.
there's more to getting your paints at their most saturated (strength)
there are the following considerations
1. the proper dilution
2. glazing
3. adding gum arabic
4. changing water supply
5. cleaning your palette and your brushes
6. the paper you're using
The proper dilution. Most watercolor paints come out of the tube in what I would call a "gummy" state that is only good for dry brush work, if that. Out of the tube, used "raw" on paper, there is no luminosity so treasured in watercolor paintings and no paper texture. Brushstrokes leaves marks too easily, the overall quality is a matte surface, and, most importantly the paint is not at its greatest saturation or at the best value whether that is dark or light. To put it simply, the paint is too thick. It has, at least in some spots, a leathery look that is shiny, probably from too much gum arabic on the surface. It doesn't look like watercolor paint to me because it lies on the surface thickly like a scab. This can happen in puddles on your paper even with dilutions. You're getting more paint for your money by it being so thick just out of the tube, but you can't use it that way.
To get maximum saturation it is necessary to add a little water to the tube paint and maybe distribute the water evenly by mixing on a palette a little bit to get a consistent dilution and all water out of the brush into the paint.
How much water is difficult to judge. As a few perceptive painters have pointed out, the paper you are using is an integral part of the equation mostly because the sizing with gelatin is different from brand to brand. A mark with a big kolinsky brush on 140 lb Arches paper will require less water than on 300 lb Arches paper.
Most books suggest dipping a brush in water and giving it a shake or touching it to an absorbent surface (a paper towel or foam rubber) if you don't want water all over the place. The point is to get the drop of water hanging from the tip of a brush off. Then you pick up paint with the belly of the brush (not the tip because it can wear down and ruin the brush). I think this is too simple a formula, a "one dilution fits all" that won't work. First of all you have to look at the paint and determine if it's the fluidity that you want. Try it on a piece of scrap paper. If it isn't right, add more water or more pigment. Do not depend on the "one shake" rule.
Bruce MacEvoy with his characteristic thoroughness has suggested that you can judge the dilution that will work best by comparing it to liquids we know. His categories are: raw (no dilution) which I would call gummy, syrupy, creamy, fluid, and watery. His research has suggested that paints are most saturated at creamy or fluid concentrations and that you can still get some leathery look at the syrupy consistency. To some extent it depends on particle size of the pigment. Small particle size like the carbon blacks (see my chapter on darks) and Phthalo pigments, for example, do better at fluid dilution.
I find it hard to judge these categories, but I have tried several times to dip a brush in water, cream, and syrup to see if I can determine any thing. The following photograph is a number 14 Kolinsky brush dipped in maple syrup. Look at it.
What you see is a drop that clings to the tip of the brush. Not at all like the full, rounded drop that you can get from water. So, perhaps, this can at least be a warning sign because syrupy is not good. It can lead to even more leathery looks than raw, out of the tube paint.
Charles Reid suggests that you can tell the right dilution (although he is an advocate of the one shake rule) by tilting the palette and seeing how your water and paint mixture flows. At some point every dilution will flow down the palette but the watery dilutions will do so as soon as it is not flat. This is somewhat similar to Jim Kosvanec who suggests diluting until the paint just "beads up" when the palette tips (forms a little ridge at the bottom but doesn't run freely).
The bottom line is that knowing that you need a certain dilution to get the highest saturation and then reading the characteristic fluidity of the paint is the most important issue. Most of the time you can figure it out without much difficulty. The question simply has to be high enough in consciousness to make you notice the consistency of your paint. If you forget or see that the paint is too think, you can blot it off the paper and start again. The one thing you cannot do is add water to a passage already on the paper. The water will wash a hole in the passage. You can add more paint, however.
Glazing. Another way to increase saturation is to build up layers of transparent glazes. The first glaze has to be completely dry. It is not easy to know when a first glaze is dry as defined as not dissolving into the glaze on top of it. I've seem it recommended to let the first glaze dry overnight. Some people used hair dryers. The problem is acute when one wants a high saturation color on an subject such as a flower petal but also a high saturation color on the shadow on that petal accomplished by glazing over the non-shadow color. As one botanical art teacher quipped, "We are lucky that anyone paints anything but other than pale pink sweet peas and lavender clematis, with the odd poppy or sunflower thrown in for good measure!" (that is unsaturated colored blossoms.) in Margaret Stevens, "The Botanical Palette" page 11.
using additional gum arabic
If the paint looks flat or matte (e.g. carbon black) and, therefore, lacks the "sparkle" of highly saturated paint, it can sometimes be remedied by glazing over it a couple of times with a dilution of gum arabic.
Sometimes watercolorists add a few drops of gum arabic to their water for the same reason.
check you water supply
Finally, paint that has found its way into your water supply can desaturate your new paint. I've noticed that old paint has the habit on settling on the bottom of my water container and doesn't necessary wash out when I simply pour the old water out. I have to rub it into solution again with an old brush I keep for that purpose.
Clean your palette (and your brush)
Even a tiny bit of some kinds of paint with high tintorial power left over on your palette can accidently get into another paint and desaturate it. I find this the case particularly with flesh color that I'm mixing because there is often a blue on the palette nearby that I'm using for a shadow color. The blue can muddy or give the flesh color mix a greenish hue.
Ann Abgott has written in her book and shows an example (see here) that 300 lb watercolor paper shows paints more saturated than 170 lb paper. She attributes in to a difference in "sizing", the gelatin that is mixed with the paper pulp both inside and on the surface. (The thickness of the paper is measure in weight per ream –when the weight is measured in pounds. No matter how it's measured the heavier it is, the thicker an individual sheet of paper will be.)
Robert Doak, here, a boutique paint manufacturer, also blames paper for reducing saturation. The paper he blames is made with "animal hide glue". It's not clear to me what he means. Most of best watercolor paper is made with gelatin as a size which is derived from animal protein from skin and bones, but it is usually not classified as a glue like "rabbit skin glue." He markets a special paper for his watercolors (which are liquid). His papers are "lightly sized" with gelatin. I've not tested his paper but that is what is done for "student grade" watercolor paper and the paper preferred by printmakers. He suggests testing his watercolor paints on paper towels which he says are not "sized". In fact, if you want watercolor paper that is not sized with animal products, I have noticed that Fabriano paper in its promotional description states that no animal byproducts are used in the sizing.
Charles Reid, on the other hand, doesn't like 300 lb. paper. He feels that 140 lb paper, or even 90 lb. paper, allows him to make a longer mark with the brush and achieve his characteristic "splashy" style. He attributes this to the special sizing formula used for 300 lb. paper which is, in deed, heavily sized.
There is clearly something to having special paper that's made for watercolors. Without it you will not get the most saturation from your paints, but there seems to be a significant difference between the options. One has to vary the load of the brush with the paper used. As Charles Reid has said, it's best to stick with one paper that you know well.
It would do well to read the next post about "Do we really want high saturation?"
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Some of you may already know Widget, my 'little' Maltese pictured below. At his annual vet check on Monday, we learned that Widget isn't quite as little as he once was. He has gained 2lbs since his visit last year. Two lbs may not sound like a lot, except that Widget only weighed 4.5lbs to start with. Thus 2lbs is almost 1/2 his body weight. That's like a human putting on 50 to 100 lbs.
The vet said no more than 2 treats a day. (I've been guilty of giving him too many treats. Bribes and 'thank you' gifts for doing what he's supposed to do. Widget is a rule breaker. Treats help to encourage better cooperation. Then there were the extra treats he guilted me out of with that 'you love the cats more than me' face. And so on and so on.
So, now poor Widget is on a diet. No more tastes of the cat's (dry) food and only 2 treats a day max. He's not that fond of his dog food, currently Taste of the Wild grain free, so as he's probably not going to eat too much of that, he's allowed to eat what he wants of his dog food.
It's going to be tough - for him AND for me - but I'm determined to follow his Drs recommendations and help him get back his boyish, 4.5lb figure.
Edited to add that I started this thread (1) to journal our progress and (2) to share our situation with you and hear any thoughts and ideas you would like to share. Edited a 2nd time to fix some typos.
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Widget & The Battle of the Bulge
Some of you may already know Widget, my 'little' Maltese pictured below. At his annual vet check on Monday, we learned that Widget isn't quite as little as he once was. He has gained 2lbs since his visit last year. Two lbs may not sound like a lot, except that Widget only weighed 4.5lbs to start with. Thus 2lbs is almost 1/2 his body weight. That's like a human putting on 50 to 100 lbs.
Today I got out the kitchen sheers & cut Widget's 2 treats (for the day) into numerous, very small pieces which I then placed into a small, zip lock bag. This made it easier to stick to the 2 treat rule and still have something however small to give him during some of those times when he has come to expect a treat. I don't want him to feel too deprived or to think I suddenly don't love him anymore. Dieting is hard enough when you understand the reason. In his case, he has no idea why I've suddenly stopped giving him the things to which he had become accustomed.
By cutting his 2 treats into smaller pieces, I can at least give him a number of tiny treats right now to try to buffer the pain of getting started on his new diet. It actually did help today to make things easier for both of us. As time goes on I'll work on slowly decreasing the number of times per day he gets a treat, working towards a goal of giving him 1 to 2 whole or half treats daily (same amount just not cut into so many tiny pieces).
He ate maybe 1/4 cup of his dry dog food today - his choice as to qty. Right now he's lying around looking pitiful and giving me his 'no body loves me anymore' face.
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Dream - cutting up the treats is a great idea! For animals (dogs especially) love is expressed by food - that is why training goes so much better with food rewards (even tiny liver ones) than just with verbal approval. An animal does not really understand human's psychological need for approval - but they understand a piece of liver quite well. Our human preoccupation with weight control (a relatively new phenomenon in the world's history - starvation has been the norm for most of history) just does not compute for a dog. If the weight is actually causing health issues (like heart, breathing, exercise, etc.), it obviously must be adjusted. But you are so right to do it gradually. Our dogs do not get a sense of satisfaction at depriving themselves of what they like (humans feel quite virtuous when dieting at first). They just think something has gone wrong with their world and can actually get depressed over it. Good luck with this new program . He is so tiny that even a slight increase in exercise would also help. You have so much experience with animals that it will probably be harder on you than on him. Also maybe he has actually found a way (not intentional on his part, of course) of getting your attention back on him and off those dratted cats!
be strong! he'll adjust, but you're right, it's hard. It was so much fun to give our kitty treats... he doesn't like canned cat food or any other human food, but he'd do darn near anything for a squirt of cheese whiz. Now he gets small measured amounts of kibble morning & evening, and that's about it. And he's still a big cat, but his weight is right (or at least close) for his size.
Hang in there, Widget!
ROTF, stillwood,
Love that last line - 'dratted cats' - Widget would get a kick out of that one. It's true, actually. I have been a bit more focused on him since the start of this diet thing.
Because he is so tiny, the effect of just about everything is magnified. Right now he isn't experiencing any health problems - yet, but his Dr is very concerned that those extra pounds could in time result in a host of problems from diabetes to heart disease, collapsed trachea, joint damage, etc, etc. Any way you look at it I need to adjust MY behavior; otherwise, he might even gain additional weight. He's 7 or 8 now. (I forget exactly.) Approaching middle age either way. No longer able to eat like a puppy.
Thank you, critter,
It is difficult, but I'm determined to do what's best for him. Cutting the treats up to make more pieces has actually made it easier, at least for me. At least I have a tiny something to give him when he looks especially deprived.
Glad to hear that you were successful in getting your cat back down to fighting weight. I have one cat that begs (& begs & begs) for treats and will eat 1/2 the bag if I let him. Last night I was thinking this is a good time to cut down on his treats, too. I have this tendency to want to spoil them all.
It was lots more fun to spoil Eliot, too... But we also want to give him the best chance of being here with Joyanna through high school... so when the vet said put away the treats, we did. We now give him his favorite kibble (which isn't the dental diet stuff he's stuck with at meals) as a treat, but just one or two pieces at a time. He could lose a pound or so still... he's a little over 18 pounds, but at 16 1/2 he'd be downright "trim," so he's doing fine, but it would sure be more fun for all of us if we could reward him with cheeze whiz!
We made changes gradually for Eliot, too... no reason for him to think his world is suddenly in turmoil... Fortunately, he's devoted enough to his humans that extra scritches & belly rubs helped make up for the sudden dearth of cheeze whiz.
Those big eyes and pitiful mews or whines are hard to resist, though, aren't they?
I don't remember if you ever mentioned if Widget likes carrots or not. I found that several of my dogs liked vegetables especially carrots. Good low calories treats!
I can so understand poor Widgets dilemma...I have the same problem!
I had tried Izzy on the Taste of Wild Grain free....she (who eats everything including socks) refused it. BUT I switched her to Blue Wilderness grainfree.
Same goodness....and she likes it!!!
I also put the cats on the feline version, so far so good!
Good luck with the "two treats" a day. Does Widget like carrot sticks? That is what I switched Izzy too....and since the rabbit gets one, she thinks is is great.
I have been working on getting weight of my food stealing, begging pig of a dog. He has lost over 20 pounds, still could loose a few more.
First I laid the law down to my DM who I found out was feeding him the leftovers out of the ice box. I also get tiny treats.
With the vets help I put him on the doggie Diet drug that suppresses their appetite. In his case it only suppressed his appetite for dog food any thing else he would still eat.
I cut the amount of food he get in half and tried to increase the amount of thing to keep him busy.
I also found he loves the Freeze Dried Beans that I get from Oh! Nuts a one pound bag is a lot of treats and I can give all I want to him.
I have a friend who mixes green beans in with his dogs food to help bulk it up without the extra calories. That way they still eat the same quantity, so they aren't feeling deprived. He was able to get them back in "show weight" fairly easily, and the dogs love the beans!
Andre does not like the canned ones but he loves the dried one
We got through our 1st 'diet' day much, much better than expected - pretty good actually. There was one humorous part last AM when Widget came in from his morning walk and received only a tiny 1/2in or less sliver cut from his usual treat. After waiting a few minutes for his REAL treat (which never came) and after lying around for a minute or two giving me the sad face, he promptly gave up on me, stuck his head under the corner of his dog bed and emerged with a treat, a variety he didn't like as much as his usual treats and which he had apparently 'buried' there for just such a moment. I had to laugh, and for his thrift and preparation, I let him have that one 'on the house' (didn't subtract it from his daily 2 treats) this time.
Later when he wasn't in the room, I checked under his bed to make sure he didn't have a whole stash under there. I only found one of his favorite 'bones' and a rawhide stick. Can't be sure the little guy doesn't have treats stashed elsewhere though. I had forgotten about this tendency. His predecessor used to 'bury' things all around the house, including under sofa cushions. Widget is too small to access sofa cushions, but there must be a million other hiding places around here for an enterprising canine.
I gave him 1/2 cup of his dry dog food plus those 2 treats (treats marketed/sized for 'toy' dogs) and nothing else. He didn't quite finish the dog food, so I think we are doing well.
Green beans are great--my late Sheltie was on seizure drugs that made him really hungry, but he couldn't afford to gain weight so I would add a bunch of green beans to his food dish and that seemed to really help, at least he didn't go around looking at me like he was about to starve to death anymore.
You're off to a great start! Keep resisting those big brown eyes... Even with kids it's hard to stick with "I'm being mean for your own good" stuff, and it's harder with pets since you can't explain!
If you have never owned a toy sized dog (under 10lbs), you probably can't begin to imagine some of the ramifications of his small size - and remember, Widget's normal weight is 4.5-5lbs, so he weighs only 1/2 the max size of a 'toy' dog. He is so small that one of my cats used to chase him around the yard. Seriously. I once caught myself in the front yard telling the cat to leave the dog alone, something you probably don't hear often.
It's hard to think in terms of Widget's size, and the photo doesn't include anything for size comparison. For starters, Widget is smaller than a small, adult female cat. If you have a Cocker Spaniel, for instance, you may think of that as a small dog, but just to put things into perspective, on average it would take 7 Widgets to equal a single Cocker Spaniel. In the cover photo, what you are looking at is a LOT of hair and something comparable to a good size rat. Sometimes I call him 'rat dog' when I'm teasing him. ;-)
Friends have had dogs that small, so I understand some of the concerns... I've never even had a cat whose weight was (or "should be) anywhere near 10 pounds, LOL.
Nice that the "problem" for Widget is the treats and not his regular food... it was really hard to switch from giving Eliot free access to food to giving him 2 little scoops each day. Blake always self-regulated his intake, so he'd just get a cup of food in his dish in the morning... when he could see the bottom of the bowl, he'd make those last kibbles "last," just like a kid getting down to the last few jelly beans in an easter basket!
He is probably the size of our Jersey Wooly rabbit, who is still a baby, but maybe 2 lbs of fur and fluff.
Widget is totally adorable, regardless of size!
SHould have said "good" or "helpful" rather than "Nice" above... nothing about weight issues is ever "nice!" :-)
Thanks, critter,
Having the cats around eating their yummy cat food doesn't help either. When you get right down to it, it was when the cats came into the picture that Widget began to gain weight, something which really escalated over this past year. (No, I don't plan to get rid of the cats, just explaining.) As soon as the cats arrived, Widget decided that their food smelled a LOT better than his. He started begging for their food, giving me the 'you love them more than me' face, and even plotting ways to get into their food - and he managed the latter a time or two despite my best efforts at keeping it out of his reach.
About a year ago, my efforts to resolve some of the cats' issues, made matters worse still. Cocoa, who was raised completely feral and w/o any human contact until he was a good sized kitten, had learned to come into the house and was comfortable everywhere except the master suite, which being cave-like continued to frightened Cocoa despite all my best efforts. Instead of coming into the MBR to sleep with us, Cocoa would lie on the floor just outside the MBR to sleep.
As a last resort in my effort to help Cocoa get over his fear of the MBR, about a year ago I started 'treat therapy'. I put a bag of Temptations cat treats on the night stand, brought Cocoa onto the bed, and gave him 1. He would eat it and leave the room, after I repeated this for a week or so, Cocoa learned to enjoy coming to the bed for a tasty treat. It worked so well that Cocoa now spends a lot of time in the MBR and even sleeps in there.
Unfortunately, watching me give treats to Cocoa only made Widget all the more sure I like the cats better than him. In an effort to be even handed, soon I was giving Widget a number of treats while I was working on 'training' Cocoa. In time I even started giving Widget some of Cocoa's treats. This is how things really got out of hand this last year.
I thought it would be very difficult to get through the evening, when Cocoa often joins us in the bed wanting a treat, and do so w/o caving in to Widget's desire for treats. Oddly enough, it wasn't anywhere near as difficult as I thought it would be. Cutting Widget's treats into small pieces helped, and I did take this opportunity to cut back on Cocoa's treats, too, since he is now over his fear of the bedroom; but there was more to it than that. Something else changed. I found that as soon as I changed (mentally), as soon as I made up my mind that under no circumstances was I going to give Widget a bunch of treats, Widget changed too, instantly. He didn't even bother giving me the sad faces anymore. He just ate his dog food and took a nap. I'm starting to think this may be a lesson (for me) in how our beliefs and behavior truly do influence theirs.
BTW, that cheese wiz gave me a good laugh. It's a funny image. As part of my ongoing attempt to make friends with my other cat Kitty, I give her some alone time and a private treat every 3 or 4 days. Sometimes that treat is 1/2 slice cheese, that gooey, American, s/w cheese. I tear it into tiny pieces and hand feed her. It seems to be helping substantially to win her trust and overcome some of her jealousy toward Cocoa. I must say, though, I hadn't considered cheese wiz - and I'm not going to now either as I don't want to have to wean her off of it.
Our vet uses cheeze whiz as a treat/reward/bribe... squirts a little line of it right on the shiny exam table. :-) It's probably not much different than the cheese you use, just easier to store and easier to give in small quantities. I think we were fine when he'd just get a half-inch squirt to lick off my finger once or twice a day, but then people discovered he'd take it straight from the can, and sometimes I think he stayed up on his hind legs with his mouth open until it was as full as he could manage. (I remember saying "Good grief, his eyes are popping, I think that's enough!!")
Hi slvrwilo,
Widget LOVES vegetables, everything except carrots. He hates carrots. If he accidentally gets on in his mouth, he will spit it back out. Dogs are supposed to like carrots, so I realize he is the exception. He loves broccoli, raw or cooked, and will eat all he can get. He also loves cabbage, green beans, and even collard greens and is learning to enjoy cauliflower.
I asked the vet about giving him vegetables right now while he's trying to loose weight. She said, 'yes' to all of the super low cal veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, collards, cabbage, but she specifically said NOT to give him any carrots right now - and she repeated that 3 times, so it was clearly important to her. I have had vets recommend carrots for a snack in the past, for dogs that were not overweight.
Since I, too, have been on quite a few diets, I understand her reaction to carrots. When referring to foods as low cal or high cal, all things are relative. While carrots are very low cal when compared with many human snacks, they are actually higher in calories, carbs, and sugars than the other vegetables mentioned. Even many human [reducing] diets restrict green peas and carrots to 1/2 cup a day (or something like that), while allowing unlimited amounts of the other veggies. Also, diabetics must limit carrots (and peas) but not so much the other veggies. But the effect of a carrot or two on a human weighing 100lbs and up is much different than that on a 5lb dog.
Widget's very small size and correspondingly low energy needs no doubt play a part in this, too. Because carrots do have more calories, carbs, and sugars than the 'free' veggies, even a few baby carrots could make a difference with such a tiny guy like Widget. With a larger dog, a few pieces of carrot might not matter.
Widget also LOVES baked potato and sweet potato. We don't have them frequently, but when I have one, I often cook a small one for him, a practice I started so I could eat mine in peace. At the time it seemed a harmless thing, since he didn't have a weight issue then and since both vegetables have lots of nutrients. As you might expect, she said, "No" to the baked potato altogether. She did say he could have a very small piece of sweet potato on rare occasion as a replacement for one of his 2 treats - but not frequently. I'm not sure why she allowed a small bit of sw pot sometimes but no carrots at all, unless she allowed the sw pot because of its high nutrient content.
I'm embarrassed to admit that for years now I've been giving him an entire small to medium potato or sweet potato - and believe it or not he can actually pack away the whole thing and beg for more. He is going to be unhappy the next time I serve either of these 2 spuds. When he smells them in the microwave, he expects to get one, too. It will be an adjustment for sure.
ROTFLMHO at the image of the cat on his hind legs getting his mouth filled with cheese wiz! OMG, that would make an adorable line drawing or cartoon image.
You just gave me an idea.
Widget is afraid to ride in the car (result of being flown here, alone, in the cargo hole of a plane at 2mo) and he doesn't like the vet's office either. By the time he gets there he's already in a panic state from fearing the car will take off and fly every second of the ride over. Then strangers start prodding him, so he never gets a chance to calm down - plus he has to fear the ride back.
He is completely unafraid of the normal things like Tstorms and fireworks, just cars. Monday, after all the discussions around fireworks and fearful dogs, I asked the vet for something to calm Widget for his occasional car rides. I did this mainly because all the talk of fireworks reminded me that here on the Atlantic coast we sometimes have to make a mad dash out of town in front of an approaching hurricane, and I would hate to have to do it with an hysterical, yelping dog in tow. The vet gave him valium to take only for car rides, not daily.
I'm going to buy a can of cheese wiz before his next apt and take it with me to the vet's office just to see if that trick of squirting a tiny bit on the counter while we are waiting might help to distract him so he can relax. He will hopefully already be substantially calmer due to the valium. Maybe a little cheese wiz will help him to enjoy the process more. A dollop once or twice a year shouldn't hurt. He won't eat the treats they offer him. This time I took his treats with me, and he refused them, too, but I figure w/valium maybe...
momcat, wren, & ecrane,
Widget LOVES green beans. All kinds. frozen, canned, fresh. They're all good to him. I like the wide Italian style beans, the ones we used to call Kentucky Wonders. Sometimes I will open a can or steam some fresh or frozen ones in the microwave and share them with him. They make great treats.
I used to love those (oh nuts) freeze dried vegetables & fruits. There was one type I really loved a lot, but I can't remember which one now. Apparently, everyone loved it, because the store would often be out of that one. It might even have been beans. Not sure. I tried them all, but I used to buy multiples of the one variety.
That's a good idea. I'll have to make a run to Earth Fare for some of those (for us both).
He also likes freeze dried liver for his daily treats. Although he's eating a different treat right now, that's what he eats most of the time. At least the liver has no carbs or additives unlike most treats and like the beans it keeps well in that form.
Hi Debbie,
Widget says, "thank you!"
I didn't have any idea how tiny he really was until the 1st time I gave him a bath. I was shocked. When the hair is wet - and Maltese actually have hair not fur - he looses 2/3 of his size instantly.
Seriously, they don't have fur. They have no undercoat. The long hair grows out from the skin like human hair. Even the texture is not like animal fur. It's more like the hair of a small child with thin, fine, straight hair. The 1st time you hold one it's weird how incredibly soft they are, but not 'fur soft' like a rabbit, although that is also a wonderful experience to the touch. If you cut a Maltese dog's hair really short, it looks awful, because you can see the skin (which is pink) - no undercoat.
Thanks again.
That's funny about Izzy who eats socks not liking Taste of the Wild. Is Izzy doing any better now with her unusual 'snacks'? Widget was on Blue for quite a while. I only changed him to this for something different. He doesn't like any of them. He probably would if I wouldn't have spoiled him SO badly over the years. Before the raccoons and cats, he was my only 'child', so you can probably imagine that I bought him every toy and treat I could find. It's one of my vices. I'm trying to quit.
Oh, and, alas, I'm no stranger to the diet thing myself - or the need for it.
I was actually planning to switch Widget back to Blue when he finishes this small bag of TOTW. Over the years he has eaten all of the top foods, and I don't think he likes any of them - although I thought he liked Evo Ancestral Diet at one time, but I understand that product was sold a year or so ago and has likely changed substantially and not for the better. One reason I switched from Blue was those round nutrient 'bits', forgot what they call them. Widget hates those, which alone wouldn't be so bad except that he takes them out of his dish one at a time and tosses them on the floor for me to step on - ouch - and vacuum up daily.
The reason I decided to go back to Blue was Cocoa. Cocoa actually eats the Blue dry dog food. He used to stop off at Widget's bowl and eat some on his way to the cat room to eat his cat food. I've never seen a cat eat dog food before, and Cocoa doesn't eat any of the other brands, just Blue. I figure that must say a lot for the quality of Blue, or at least for the quality of the proteins it contains. Your comments about how Izzy likes Blue have convinced me. I'll get some as soon as we finish this.
I'm not sure what this tells us exactly, since it's apples vs oranges, but a few weeks ago when I ran low on the cheap cat food I feed the raccoons, I made up the difference with some of Widget's TOTW, since he doesn't like it anyhow. I was surprised to find that even the raccoons were not impressed. They argued over the cheap cat food, and only ate the TOTW dog food when there was no more cat food. It's not a fair comparison, since it was cat food vs dog food, but it was also a high quality product vs the cheapest, grocery store cat food. They clearly preferred the cheap cat food.
Today I had steamed, fresh broccoli for lunch and shared some with Widget. He would eat his volume (if not his weight) in broccoli if you let him.
This time of year when fresh broccoli is abundant and relatively inexpensive, I buy 1 to 2 bunches every time I get groceries. I steam it and share it with Widget. I also love it raw with hummus, and Widget is more than happy to have it raw, as well.
(As a 'bonus', here is my personal recipe for a favorite, healthy lunch, a veggie wrap comprised of 1/4", lengthwise slices of raw broccoli and/or cauliflower with lettuce, all wrapped in a spinach tortilla slathered with hummus. Yummy & crunchy. The hummus acts like a healthy and flavorful condiment, adding moisture to the works. I especially like the garlic hummus for this. Garden fresh tomato slices would be a nice addition, too.) Widget, however, takes his raw broccoli plain, sans wrap.
You are dead on! My cats eat Izzys food also. AND...one thing I really like about the Blue Wilderness, is that since Izzy has been on it...she no longer goes after the cats food.
I have seen a change in her eating habits since switching to "no grain" aka not as many "non food" snacks. Won't lie, it is expensive to have cats & dog on it but when you count the vet trips gone....it really saves in the long run.
Neither Izzy nor the cats would eat Taste of Wild, and they started "accking" up the food again.
This is going back a few posts, but I'd be careful on feeding canned veggies to animals, there tends to be a lot of salt and maybe other things like preservatives, etc. I would always stick with fresh or frozen, that way all you're getting is the veggies.
The green beans are a good idea. I cook brown rice with chichen or fish for my dogs. I've cooked for them since reading a book called "Foof Pets Die For." For weight loss I recommend Red Star nutritional yeast (I buy it from www.bulkfoods.com). Both dogs and cats seem to really like it. Elliot would probably love it. I had a cat who would put her yeast dish in the middle of the kitchen floor if I failed to notice that it was empty. It is rumored to help repell fleas. For sure it's a great low fat food. I think www.food.com has recipes for dog treats. I know I've seem recipes for both dog and cat food and treats on the web. We have minimal vet service here and I think the home-cooked food really helps to keep my dogs healthy. One of them is overweight, though, she returned to me after the peoplw ho had adopted her split up and left town. They had kekpt her on a more restricked diet of dry food and she gets greedy over the fresh food which my dogs are accustomed to. Once when I turned my back on some live I was cutting up for their food she snatched a one-pound chunk of liver off the counter. She and it disappeared without a trace and she said, "Liver, hwat liver? What's for dinner? "
With five dogs, four of them big, I have to cook every day or two. For a little dog you could cook once a week or less and freeze portions.
My neighbor Dana loves dogs and has three small ones. After Amiga had surgery she refused to eat until I gave Dana a bowl of chicken and rice for her. It disappeared in a flash andd I provided food while she recovered. I am the only non-family person that Amiga likes. The first time I visited she crawled into my lap and fell alseep, amazing Dana.
Dana does lots of rescue work and works with the free animal clinic which is open here during the winter.
A long post to basially recommend checking out cooking for your pets.
Just remember another friend, Barbara, who fed her large overweight dog six cups of chapped vegetables with his food every day until he got trim. We have a lot of dog lovers around here. kb
Home prepared food is a great option, but you have to prepare yourself for a bit of research to learn what's needed. It's very important to keep the correct balances (like calcium/phosphorus ratio) and supplementation in mind when you cook for your pet. Easier to do with raw, but not hard once you understand where you're going.
I belong to a great email list which helps with all kinds of dog diets, raw, cooked and kibble-based.
Even if you don't want to DIY, you can learn what's good and what's not for your pet.
Hi Debbie,
For quite a while i had Widget and the cats on Blue. I don't think Widget will ever love it quite as well as Izzy does. He did eat it back when we had it, but he always prefers cat food and 'real' meats and vegetables. Still, I was very much impressed by the fact that Cocoa (cat) snacked on Blue dog food the entire time we had it on hand.
To keep Widget out of the cat food, I put 2 straight chairs in the cat room and put their bowls on top of those chairs. The cats can easily hop up onto the chairs, but Widget cannot. That works most of the time to keep him out of their food, but he is crafty and determined, and has found a way to get the food whenever I forget and leave the dish too close to the edge. He will stand up on his hind legs and flip the cat's bowl over onto the floor, spilling kibble all over the place and making a huge mess.
I do plan to switch him back to blue very soon.
You are right. Thanks for reminding me about the salt issue. Most canned foods are very high in sodium. Being so small, it only takes a tiny bit of salt to cause Widget to drink and drink and drink, a clear sign his body is struggling with all that sodium.
I had bought some 'no salt added' canned beans just for him. Thanks to your timely post, I looked through the cabinet to find the 'no salt' variety. They were SO nasty tasting, but he ate almost the entire can. That particular day he seemed particularly hungry, so I put the beans in a plastic container (drained) and handed them out as treats throughout the day.
Another food which is very high in sodium is cheese. That single slice of American cheese has over 1000mg sodium. I don't give Widget cheese for that reason - because it makes him try to drink a small ocean dry.
Widget's diet is going well. Cutting his treats into a number of small slivers has been very helpful. Most mornings when we get up for breakfast, we still have a 1/3 to 1/2 of 2nd treat remaining from the day before.
He eats beans, cabbage, broccoli, etc when he gets super hungry between meals. Even when he gets hungry, he only eats just enough kibble to take the edge off of his hunger. Thus I find that I can give him unlimited dry dog food. He eats less than 1/2 cup of it a day, regardless.
Glad the diet's going well! I'm glad he likes the veggies, it makes it so much easier when they're not looking at you with that "I'm about to starve to death" look in their eyes.


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