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A high-performance organization relies on a dynamic workforce with the requisite talents, multidisciplinary knowledge, and up-to-date skills to ensure that it is equipped to accomplish its mission and achieve its goals. Such organizations typically (1) foster a work environment in which people are enabled and motivated to contribute to mission accomplishment and (2) provide both accountability and fairness for all employees. To accomplish these objectives, high-performance organizations are inclusive, drawing on the strengths of employees at all levels and of all backgrounds--an approach consistent with diversity management. For purposes of our review, diversity management is defined as a process intended to create and maintain a positive work environment where the similarities and differences of individuals are valued, so that all can reach their potential and maximize their contributions to an organization's strategic goals and objectives. As part of a request that GAO report on the federal government's performance in managing its diverse workforce, GAO was asked to identify (1) leading diversity management practices and (2) examples of the identified practices in the federal government. This report contains no recommendations.
Of the experts in the field of diversity management we spoke with or whose publications we reviewed to identify leading diversity management practices, a majority cited the following nine practices as leading. Top leadership commitment--a vision of diversity demonstrated and communicated throughout an organization by top-level management. Diversity as part of an organization's strategic plan--a diversity strategy and plan that are developed and aligned with the organization's strategic plan. Diversity linked to performance--the understanding that a more diverse and inclusive work environment can yield greater productivity and help improve individual and organizational performance. Measurement--a set of quantitative and qualitative measures of the impact of various aspects of an overall diversity program. Accountability--the means to ensure that leaders are responsible for diversity by linking their performance assessment and compensation to the progress of diversity initiatives. Succession planning--an ongoing, strategic process for identifying and developing a diverse pool of talent for an organization's potential future leaders. Recruitment--the process of attracting a supply of qualified, diverse applicants for employment. Employee involvement--the contribution of employees in driving diversity throughout an organization. Diversity training--organizational efforts to inform and educate management and staff about diversity. Experts and the literature generally agree that a combination of the identified practices should be considered when an organization is developing and implementing diversity management. We selected 10 agencies with the highest summary rankings from a 1999 governmentwide survey of federal agencies' diversity management programs to review for examples of the implementation of the identified practices. The implementation of the leading practices by these agencies may provide insights to other agencies as they undertake or attempt to strengthen or improve their own diversity management initiatives. We provided a draft of this report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for review and comment. In their comments, agency officials generally agreed with the findings of the draft report.
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D.A. Points' victory Sunday in Houston earned him more than just 500 FedExCup points. He's going to the Masters.
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Henrik Stenson also earned an invite, moving from 53rd to 42nd in the Official World Golf Rankings following his tie for second in Houston.
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Many experts would say that the use of his mother's putter led to his recent victory. Others might state that it was a putting tip from Lamar University golf coach Brian White. My belief is that D.A. Points won the Shell Houston Open because of "cheesy grins."
Points mentioned that he was flashing "cheesy grins" to his caddie, Travis Perkins, on the course and those expressions made them crack each other up. But more importantly, according to Points, those "cheesy grins" also kept him loose under the intense pressure of chasing his second PGA TOUR victory.
D.A. Points was feeling the pressure to keep his job. He had missed nearly 50 percent of the cuts (29/60) since his win at the 2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. This year had gotten worse with him missing seven in his last nine starts. The pressure was immense to play well down the stretch this week at the Redstone Golf Club in Humble, Texas.
The misunderstanding is that the elite players on the PGA TOUR do not get nervous. They do. They are just like you. Pressure is relative. We all feel nervous when the event is important to us. A victory would ensure that Points had a job for another year on the PGA TOUR.
One of the best ways to buffer the pressure is to have a mental game mechanism that keeps you loose when the muscles can get tight. This mechanism can come in many forms. It could be a fun self-statement like "easy-speezy", and you say it every time you feel those butterflies forming. This mental mechanism could be an image of you sitting at your favorite beach drinking your favorite beverage. It can also be an action like making a "cheesy grin".
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Strokes Gained-Putting | 1.140 (10th) | Billy Horschel (2.048) |
Greens in Regulation | 79.17% (T10) | Cameron Tringale (83.33%) | T16 |
Proximity to Hole | 37' 5" (40th) |
Greg Owen (29' 5") | T22 |
Scrambling | 80.00% (5th) | Graham DeLaet (87.50%) | T31 |
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HUMBLE, Texas -- D.A. Points retained his touch through more than a 2-hour rain delay in winning the Shell Houston Open.
Redstone Golf Club received more than an inch of rain and it was a guessing game with how much the conditions changed. Points was immediately tested with a 43-yard chip on the 17th hole that he hit to within 2 feet and then made a 13-foot putt on the final green for the tournament-winning par.
Points reasoned the greens retained moisture following the rain so he switched from a gap wedge to a pitching wedge on the 17th hole and played a little less break on the final putt. He opened with a 64 and closed with a 66. D.A. was on point the entire week.
Putter: Points took just 23 putts in the opening round and then followed with 32 putts in each of the next two rounds. Points maintained he was still rolling the ball well, but it was just a matter of time until the putts fell. They started dropping on the second hole where he made a 6-footer but it was the 29-foot putt at the third hole that really gave him confidence. For the remainder of the round every putt had a chance to go in the cup.
Strong finish: Henrik Stenson finished strong with birdies on the last two holes. His play on the 18th hole was textbook. He drove it 279 yards and the approach from 133 yards landed within 12 feet of the cup and he made the putt. To birdie both the 17th and 18th holes was tremendous play under pressure, and he qualified for the Masters in the process.
Long ball: Dustin Johnson "over-performed" on Sunday. He made bogeys at both the 14th and 17th holes because he hit it too well. At the 14th, Johnson hit a 5- iron from 223 yards that flew the green and led to bogey. At the 17th hole, he hit a 177-yard 9-iron that covered the flag but also went too far. Johnson made two bogeys hitting what he thought were perfect shots.
Bad start: Steve Wheatcroft had so much riding on the final round and he began in miserable fashion with a double bogey at the first hole. He hit his approach into the wind and it stood straight up in the air, then dropped vertically into the bunker creating a terrible lie. Wheatcroft had no chance with the bunker shot, then sent a chip 6 feet by the cup and missed that for a 6. It was a disappointing start and Wheatcroft did not hide his emotions. As soon as he saw his lie in the bunker his body language was terrible for the remainder of the hole. He did birdie the second but never really rebounded from the bad start by shooting a 74. He went from a tie for third at the start of the final round to a 22nd-place finish.
Low one: Phil Mickelson predicted he had a "low one" in him for the final round and he was accurate. Unfortunately, it was not low enough. Mickelson birdied the first four holes to get to 10 under par but could not sustain the momentum. He ripped off eight straight pars before a birdie at the 13th but followed that with a double bogey on the 14th. He played 1 under on the remaining four holes to finish 10 under.
3-wood: Mickelson played the first three rounds of the tournament carrying a pair of 3-woods and no driver. He put driver in play on Sunday and hit seven of 14 fairways. Mickelson will experiment with a new deep face driver from Callaway before committing to what clubs he will carry at the Masters.
Fred Albers is a course reporter for SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio. For more information on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio, click here
D.A. Points made a clutch 13-foot par putt on the final hole to win the Shell Houston Open on Sunday.
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HUMBLE, Texas -- D.A. Points came back from a long rain delay and made four pars. The last one gave him a one-shot victory in the Shell Houston Open and sent him to the Masters.
Points closed with a 6-under 66 on Sunday, saving par on the last two holes at Redstone Golf Club to outlast Masters-bound Henrik Stenson and Billy Horschel. The final round was halted for nearly three hours because of storms that soaked the golf course.
Points, who picked up 500 FedExCup points with the victory, kept alive the streak of Americans winning all 14 events on the PGA TOUR this year.
The victory gives Points a spot in the Masters, just like his only other victory did two years ago at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with actor Bill Murray as his partner.
By PGATOUR.COM staff
Game on!
The final round of the Shell Houston Open will resume at 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT). Golf Channel will televise the finish.
Twelve players remain on the golf course at Redstone Golf Club, with D.A. Points clinging to a one-shot lead at 16 under.
Play is expected to be completed this evening.
By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent
HUMBLE Texas -- No matter what happens, Henrik Stenson will walk away from the Shell Houston Open with the one thing he wanted more than anything this week.
An invitation to the Masters.
When his ball hit the 18th green and settled 9 feet from the pin on Sunday -- forget about when it hit the bottom of the cup -- Stenson knew that was it. He would earn enough world ranking points – inside the top 50 -- to get into the field for the first major of the year.
"Obviously very happy coming -- as I said to my caddie, walking up 18 no matter what, we're playing for a green jacket in a couple of weeks,'' he said. "That will be nice. That was the main goal coming here. And when I played as well as I did, put myself in a good position, I'm still trying to do well here and then give myself a chance to win this tournament.
"Whether that's going to happen or not, we'll see, but very pleasing finish, four birdies in the last five holes. Some great shots coming down the stretch.''
Stenson, who started the week ranked 53rd in the world, finished just before play was suspended during the final round due to a thunderstorm that hit the area.
The finish –- those four birdies in the last five holes -– and that 9-foot birdie on the 72nd hole made him the leader in the clubhouse at 15 under. Billy Horschel is still on the course at 15 under with one hole left, while D.A. Points is at 16 under with four holes to play. Jason Kokrak, who is looking for his first win, is 14 under through 15 holes, while Ben Crane, Stewart Cink and Kevin Chappell are at various points on the back nine at 13 under.
Stenson., whose last win came at THE PLAYERS Championship in 2009, finished T8 at last week's rain-delayed Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard. Now he's potentially facing another Monday finish.
Stenson said he played sensible Sunday on his way to a closing 66.
"Didn't make too many mistakes,'' Stenson said. "The only real bad one was on 15, bogeyed a par 5, hit a poor tee shot. Left it in the bad spot in the trap. Had the layup short of the hazard and couldn't get on the green. Only bad one of the day.
"But I came back straight off by hitting a 6-iron to half a foot on 14 and to great 3-wood to the green on 15 to birdie that one and then 17 and 18, four great shots and two birdies.''
Now, Stenson waits. He's done and has to wait for a dozen other players to finish either Sunday or Monday morning.
"I mean, I hope I get a chance to get back out there, it's a playoff at least,'' he said. "I'll take that from here on when you're behind the year, take my chances in a playoff. We'll have to see."


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The truly wealthy never seem to care about tickets. They park where they want and drive how they want, because the penalties never mean much more than pocket change to them. Well they might want to give that a second thought as one extremely wealthy motorist has received an unpredecentedly large speeding ticket in Mumbai.
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After he underwent a second surgery to remove the device, he endured "sudden, swift bleeding" from his spleen, requiring an emergency splenectomy.
State investigators faulted the hospital for having "no documentation in the medical record to indicate when the counts were completed."
"Patients in whom a surgical instrument is left after abdominal surgery are at high risk for serious complications, including pain, perforation, and infection," but the facility's "failure to ensure that the instrument count was correct…created a situation that was likely to cause serious injury or death to the patient."
Penalty: $50,000. This is the hospital's second penalty.
2. At California Pacific Medical Center, Pacific Campus, in San Francisco County, providers failed to implement a surgical count policy to track sponges used for packing a wound. This resulted in a patient who underwent bladder surgery being discharged with a retained sponge.
A routine post-operative test indicated a possible retained sponge, which was confirmed by a pelvic CT that found not only the sponge but also "a large associated presumed abscess cavity," which had to be removed during a second surgery.
When asked to explain how the staff could have followed the policy, "and a sponge was still left" in the patient, the senior director of surgical services replied, "the staff made a mistake in counting" and added that there "was difficulty in getting all the sponges in the counter bags for the final count and that the policy in effect at the time of the retained sponge did not require all sponges be in the counter bags for the final count."
Penalty: $100,000. This is the hospital's fourth penalty.
3. At St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, in Humboldt County, the surgical team forgot to remove a "linear metallic flat object" that turned out to be a visceral retractor from the abdomen of a patient who underwent hernia surgery.
The device, which goes by the brand name of FISH because of its resemblance, was said to be "a baby blue colored, flat vinyl object shaped like a flounder measuring 10 inches in length and 6.5 inches at the widest section. /The surgeon was supposed to have removed the FISH with its attached loop and string, "and pull it out through a small opening" that would then be sewn shut.
The patient went home, but "her postoperative pain level did not decrease as expected. After monitoring the patient's pain for two months, Surgeon A stated that he ordered a CT scan of the abdomen which identified that there was a foreign object in the patient. When he viewed the CT scan, he realized that the 'FISH' was still in the patient."
Penalty: $50,000. This is the hospital's first penalty.
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Cheno Cortina: Vampires in the Guise of Men, Gringos, Robbed Mexicans of Their Property and Hunted Them Like Beasts
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013Reviving our indigenous history.
Many call the Mexicans "immigrants" when in fact we are indigenous and native to the land we love and care for. Many of us put our lives on the line for this great Nation, and as such, we will remind the nation of our history that will never be forgotten despite the attempts to eliminate our history here.
By Juan Montoya
BROWNSVILLE – On the hot dusty afternoon of September 28, 1859, a band of vaqueros under the direction of a red-bearded leader known as Cheno Cortina rode into Brownsville to avenge what they saw as a history of abuses and usurpations by a cabal of newly-arrived businessmen, lawyers and speculators against local Mexican-Americans.
Their resentment and rancor was directed at a number of men who had made it an industry to dispossess the rightful owners of the land and – in concert with new U.S. judges and courts – driving them from their homes as the new authorities looked on.
The leader of this band – which held Brownsville for the next three days – was Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, the younger son of Doña Estefana Goceascochea de Cavazos y de Cortina, the matriarch of Cameron County, and a daughter of Jose Salvador de la Garza.
He was a lineal descendant of Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon, military captain and original settler of the town of Camargo, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande, and of Don Jose Salvador de la Garza, son-in-law of Blas Maria, also an original settler of Camargo.
Jose Salvador de la Garza was the grantee of the Espiritu Santo Grant, where the City of Brownsville is now located. "Cheno," as Juan was known to his friends and family, was the son of Don Jose's daughter, Estefana by her second husband.
Doña Estefana was one of the pioneer Latinas who came to South Texas.
"She was truly a very strong woman, and after her husbands died, she single-handedly ran the ranches that were on the original Espiritu Santo Grant," Cavazos said. "One of her sons, Sabas Cavazos, became one of the largest land owners and most successful ranchers in Cameron County. Juan was more rebellious, but was more comfortable running the ranch with the other hands out in the llano."
For many years, the land grantee ranch families tended to their crops and livestock on either side of the Rio
Grande. At the time, the river was not a border, but rather a geographic feature that provided water for crops and domestic use. But with the arrival of the U.S. military signaling the start of the U.S.-Mexico War in 1846 changed that forever.
Cortina, being of military age, 22, (he was born May 16, 1824) and a loyal citizen of what was then Mexico, did his duty to his native country and fought at the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma – the first two battles of the Mexican-American War.. After the war was over and U.S. control was extended to the northern banks of the Rio Grande, he settled in his mother's ranches and helped her administer their operations.
Cheno did not take to school learning and, though unlearned, he was by nature kindhearted, aggressive, spirited and brave. His nature – and his sympathy for the underdog – made him hugely popular with his fellows and the common people. It was his defense of one of these humbler ranch hands that set him at odds with the new authorities and ultimately culminated in his decades-long wars against whom he saw as oppressors to Mexicans in South Texas.
Among these newcomers who came to make their fortunes were names like Charles Stillman, Samuel A. Belden, Elisha Basse, Robert H. Hord, The Mussina Brothers, Richard King, Mifflin Kennedy and others. They quickly set out to make their fortunes, often disrespecting the rights of local Mexican-Americans.
Cortina issued pamphlets against them calling them :"Flocks of vampires, in the guise of men, Gringos" he wrote, robbed Mexicans "of their property, incarcerated, chased, murdered, and hunted them like wild beasts".
As Prescott Webb notes in his book, "The Texas Rangers (pp. 175-176): "Not only were the Mexicans bamboozled by the (different Anglo political factions), but they were victimized by the law. One law applied to them and another, far less rigorous, to the political leaders and the prominent Americans. The Mexicans suffered not only in their persons, but in their property. The old landholding Mexican families found their titles in jeopardy and if they did not lose in the courts they lost to their American lawyers. The humble Mexicans doubted a government that would not protect their person, and the higher classes distrusted one that would not safeguard their property. Here, indeed, was the rich soil in which to plant the seed of revolution and a race war. High and low were ready to support a champion of Mexican rights, one who would throw off American domination, redress grievances, and punish their enemies; and just such a champion arose in the person of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina."
And so the stage was set for the confrontation that would launch Cortina into the annals of border lore.
On July 12, 1859, Cheno had drunk his morning coffee at the Brownsville Market Place, and was riding home, at the corner of 12th and Washington streets, when he saw Robert Shears, the City Marshal, unmercifully beating on a drunken Mexican who had been a former servant at Cortina's ranch. Webb tells the story:
"The unnecessary brutality of the Marshal causes Cortina to remonstrate, mildly enough in the beginning. Shears, exasperated at his interference answered with an insult that called for action. 'What is it to you, you damn Mexican?' Cortina promptly shot the Marshal in the shoulder took the Mexican behind and galloped out of town in the grand style of an American cowboy or a Mexican vaquero on a holiday."
After that several clashes took place with the authorities in which Cortina was successful in putting to rout those who came to arrest him, not only the sheriff and his posse, but later even a group from Brownsville called the Brownsville Tigers, and later even the Texas Rangers. It wasn't until Major Peter Heintzelman was sent with U.S. forces that Cortina was forced to leave South Texas and seek refuge into Mexico. His version of the events was recorded in his memoirs titled "Fifty Miles and a Fight."
But when he and his men took over Brownsville, this illiterate "bandit" said:
"(…) There is no need of fear. Orderly people and honest citizens are inviolable to us in their persons and interests. Our object, as you have seen, has been to chastise the villainy of our enemies, which heretofore has gone unpunished. These have connived with each other, and form, so to speak, a perfidious inquisitorial lodge to persecute and rob us, without any cause, and for no other crime on our part than that of being of Mexican origin, considering us, doubtless, destitute of those gifts which they themselves do not possess. (…) Mexicans! Peace be with you! Good inhabitants of the State of Texas, look on them as brothers, and keep in mind that which the Holy Spirit saith: "Thou shalt not be the friend of the passionate man; nor join thyself to the madman, lest thou learn his mode of work and scandalize thy soul."
After he was chased into Mexico by the U.S. Army, Cortina continued to play an important role in the nation's history.
His descendant Cavazos points to his presence fighting the French with Ignacio Zaragoza in Puebla (Cinco de Mayo), his rise to general in the Liberal Mexican Army of Benito Juarez, his presence at the execution of Maximilian in Queretaro, his service as military governor of Tamaulipas, and his support of Porfirio Diaz when he overthrew Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, Juarez' successor.
He was an adroit political player, surviving the Imperial government of Maximilian, the Byzantine political changes in Mexico, and even the spillover of the Civil War, taking sides first with the Confederates, and later, with the Union. It was the internal politics of Mexico that eventually led to his arrest and imprisonment. Mexican presidents, especially Diaz, eager to soothe the wounded feelings of Cortina's enemies in South Texas and anxious to placate the U.S. government, ordered his home imprisonment in Mexico City, where he died in 1892.
Even then, when his family tried to have his remains buried in the family cemetery in San Pedro, his political opponents objected and the project was shelved.
In life, as in death, the legend of Cheno Cortina continues to divide South Texans.


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Washington what is next now for Edwards asked the judge Fox News senior judicial analysts -- -- an apology on national -- this evening's reaction first from you.
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So it's a bad day for the government now nobody likes AA and a non decision you don't know where it's gonna go from here and I can tell you how they'll get there.
But it's a victory for a Senator Edwards and a resounding defeat for the government you're at nine days of deliberations now the verdict is in one report -- confirmed tonight that a Justice Department will not try him again.
That would that would make sense for some of the reasons that I just articulated this was -- -- shot and they lost it.
Taking a step deeper into the case bill.
-- the judge ruled in favor of the government in almost every contested issue in the case.
She gave the government great latitude she barred certain defense witnesses from testifying.
She even used an instruction to the jury that the government -- all of us within her discretion.
But basically saying to the government this is your best shot.
How could you possibly think you can do it again the wise.
Of people on the Justice Department in Washington are probably counseling against a -- think the government screwed this up yes.
I think the government should not have charged him with this crime I think this is an ambiguous statutes.
I think if I may Billiton intentionally ambiguous -- statute.
Because it's -- been written by politicians to govern politicians.
And the intentional use language which was vague about what you can do with money it's actually unclear.
Whether or not the events in which John Edwards engaged if they happen as the government says they did even constituted a crime under -- -- so then the jurors.
They get it right.
Jurors did the right thing a long.
Tortuous process for them.
With thousands of documents for them to review I think they did the right thing and they basically said -- the judge we can't make up our minds and the rest of it.
It's in your -- we heard from John Edwards today.
Talking perhaps for the longest time we've heard some time.
Is that a Smart idea for him to -- I'll give you both arguments he could antagonize the prosecutors.
By making statements to the public that he didn't make in the courtroom where they could cross examine him on the other hand he made statements which.
We're good for everybody to hear.
He basically said I didn't commit a crime but I did horrible things I take responsibility for now have to live with it for the rest of my life that makes people feel good who does -- -- field -- the potential jurors -- a second trial should -- -- -- all this talk about a juror flirting with John Edwards but doesn't matter now does -- know it doesn't matter if it happened -- It was addressed quite properly by the judge in in her chambers so we don't know about it.
I think it might have been sort of the myth about John Edwards but of course I was in the courtroom.
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The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is looking for a person interest in connection with a fatal shooting Friday night near Cahokia.
Sanchez M. Garner, 24, of Cahokia, was shot to death about 7:35 p.m. Friday in the 100 block of Amelia Drive in the Parkfield Terrace neighborhood.
Police are looking for John L. Harris Jr., 25, whose nickname is "Moo-Cow," in connection with the shooting, said O'Fallon Police Lt. James Cavins, deputy commander of the Major Case Squad.
Sixteen investigators with the Major Case Squad were investigating the homicide Saturday.
Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Harris or information about to the homicide should call the Major Case Squad at 618-825-5200.


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Get Your Goat
Gourmets call it "chevon." Farmers call it the "other red meat." A goat, by any other name, might be the trendiest food in Maine
The Chinese got it wrong. 2008 isn't the Year of the Rat. In Maine, it's the Year of the Goat. Lately it seems that goats - as well as their cheese, milk, and even meat (chevon) - are everywhere.
Margaret Hathaway, author of The Year of the Goat, is part of a growing contingent of goat people in the Pine Tree state. Transplants from Brooklyn, New York, she and her husband, Karl Schatz, settled in Gray after a year of traveling across the country to learn about goat farming, a journey she recounts in her book. "Ultimately, we chose goats because we love goat cheese," Hathaway admits. On top of their gastronomic inclination, they had a few other reasons swaying them toward bucks, does, and kids (the four-legged kind). "The more research we did, the more we learned about goats' versatility, their low impact on the environment, and the historical resonance of goats," Hathaway explains. "We liked that we felt a sense of historical weight behind the role of goat farmers."
On their cross-country journey Hathaway and Schatz met hundreds of fellow goat admirers. Inspired by what they saw, the couple knew they wanted to farm goats, they just had to figure out where. Maine, as Hathaway explains, has a lot to offer the budding goat farmer besides its plentiful browse and pastures (goats much prefer the former). "One thing that was nice was the cheese community was certainly growing and established," Hathaway adds, "but it wasn't like Vermont with a million people making cheese. There seemed to be room for more. The meat industry, in part because of the Somali community, has really taken off, too. The fact that there is a community here that wants goat meat made it feel like we could really make a business work."
And the business of goat meat is burgeoning throughout the state. Chevon remains relatively new to Maine, but outside the United States, goat is the number one consumed red meat. And it's good for you, too. Reminiscent of venison, goat boasts remarkably low fat and cholesterol contents.
Leading the charge for the goats is Thyme for Goat, a recently formed conglomeration of five Maine farms producing humanely raised meat. Their slogan, "The Other Red Meat from Maine Family Farms," though humorous, also indicates their challenge of popularizing a new product. "For more than twenty years people have really identified with goat cheese, yogurt, and milk," says Marge Kilkelly, owner of Dragonfly Cove Farm in Dresden and a former state senator for Lincoln County. "This is kind of an extension of that. . . . You can't have a dairy business without excess animals. What we've found is that we offer a very humane approach to those animals."
Thyme for Goat's emergence proves that to some Mainers goat meat is not so exotic. "Locavores," of course, appreciate the local aspect of Thyme for Goat's products, and there is already an established market for the meat among many ethnic groups in Maine. "Not only the Somali and Muslim population, but the Portuguese and Italian cultures, too," Kilkelly notes.
Both Kilkelly and Hathaway predict goat farming is the way of the future. "I think people fear the danger that it will be like ostrich - a fad for a year or two," Hathaway suggests. "But with goats, they are such a sustainable livestock and useful in so many other ways. People liken the artisanal cheese movement in the United States to where wine was twenty years ago . . . and goat people are a big part of that. I think people will continue to develop a taste for goat cheese and for goat meat."
Given goat's legendary appetite for tin cans, Kilkelly admits that many Mainers are hesitant to try goat meat. "When we have our booth [at a fair], so many people come up and say `oh, you make goat cheese.' We are the next iteration, and we say, `You know, if you like goat cheese, try this!' "
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Location: San Diego, CA
Wow, yes, according to that PDF admitting their guilt, it looks like they will also refrain from using the plagerized tracks. I know there's that one track that sounds like Terminator, though amusingly I didn't know it was from Terminator until I heard it in Kai.
It's a shame they can't work out a compromise, though. Dragonball seems to me an homage to Western culture almost as much as to the original Chinese legend it's based on. |
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Location: San Diego, CA
Oh, no Kai this week because of the earthquake coverage.
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Plus, telling them WAY sooner about the Time Chamber. WOW, he really is a swell guy. Quote:
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 27
With that in mind, i'm not pleased at all regarding the original score being used, though it's totally understandable why it had to be done. I'm kinda glad Kai is ending in a few weeks now, because if this carried on then it wouldn't be the Kai that i've enjoyed so much upto now.
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Pret-ty pret-ty good.
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Location: Massachusetts, US
Age: 24
I thought the music fit nicely. I like the original Kai soundtrack better than the Z track, but I actually thought the old tunes kinda fit this episode particularly well. And this was a great episode of course, I really like the final collaboration that gave Gohan an opening to vaporize Cell.
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Cruelty to Donkeys, Fleecing of Taxpayers
There is more fallout today from the Michigan wolf hunt scandal, in which lawmakers and state officials spread fabricated stories about wolf incidents, even as most of the depredation on livestock occurred at one farm that left cattle carcasses out to attract wolves. That farmer has now been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly allowing two "guard donkeys," paid for by taxpayers, to starve to death. Read More


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