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Carrick has been an unsung hero, says Vidic
Nemanja Vidic has been impressed with Michael Carrick's midfield performances of late and believes he has been a key player for Manchester United this season.
By FOX Sports Staff
Vidic has been forced to watch from the sidelines due to injury but has paid close attention to United's matches.
He has seen Carrick boss the midfield with much gusto and the ex-Tottenham midfielder has also ensured that veteran midfielder Paul Scholes' presence has not been too sorely missed with his exquisite passing skills.
The midfielder has especially earned the praise from an adoring United fanbase who have even come up with a cheeky song entitled 'hard to believe it's not Scholes!'.
The United captain joined the list of the 31-year-old's admirers as he told Manchester Evening News: "Michael is an important player for us. It is not just this season. He has always been an important player for us."
"He is that kind of player who you maybe don't see much or people don't notice the same but he is always doing a really good job for the team.
"His passing rate this year is much better. He has been more highlighted this season but he's always been important. He is an unsung hero. The players probably appreciate him more than anybody.
"He is a key player. He plays for the team and sometimes he has to sacrifice his game for the team.
"He gives us the balance we need and he is a great player."
Moreover, the Serbian is happy at United's strengh in depth as it has allowed them to deal with a varying number of opponents both in the Premier League and in Europe.
"It's nice to see the points gap. We are in a good position," Vidic added.
"We have a big and good squad and we adapt to the teams we play. We can adapt to teams who are playing the football and teams who play the long ball.
"As we have seen over the last few weeks, the team is always changing but the players continue to do their job and that is a good position for the manager to be in."
United are next in action against Norwich in the Premier League for a home fixture on Saturday night.


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New 15-year plan for Goulburn Valley orchardists
Minister for Agriculture and Food Security Peter Walsh today launched a 15-year plan for the Goulburn Valley fruit industry, focused on opening up new export markets and helping fruit businesses to diversify and expand.
"The Goulburn Valley Fruit Industry Growing Roadmap will underpin the future success of the Goulburn Valley fruit industry, including a new horticulture Centre of Excellence, a $16 million concessional loans package and business planning program," Mr Walsh said.
The Roadmap was released alongside the Goulburn Valley Industry and Employment Plan which was launched by Deputy Premier Peter Ryan and the Member for Shepparton Jeanette Powell.
"The Victorian Coalition Government recognises the importance of the Goulburn Valley's fruit industry – which currently produces 90 per cent of Australia's processed fruit. Horticulture contributes to 30 per cent of the region's value of agricultural production, compared with 31 per cent for dairy," Mr Walsh said.
"We have already acted to help secure a long-term future for SPC Ardmona and the Roadmap will now ensure that Goulburn Valley fruit growing businesses have clear direction moving forward."
Mr Walsh said the new Horticulture Centre of Excellence in Tatura would host new roles of Principal Scientist, Business Development Manager and Industry Development Officer.
"Our scientists will undertake leading horticulture research and development focusing on consumers trends in Asia – a fast-growing export market for the industry," Mr Walsh said.
"A total of $170 million worth of Victorian horticulture was exported to North Asia in 2012/13, a 30 per cent increase on the previous year, which confirms we should all continue to have confidence in this industry.
"The Centre of Excellence will also act as a regional hub for horticulture industry development, and will help improve coordination between growers and governments as we tackle issues such as expanding market access.
"The Coalition Government is committed to assisting Goulburn Valley stone and pome fruit growers take advantage of emerging export and domestic opportunities," Mr Walsh said.
Concessional loans will be offered to support farm businesses who purchase the properties of fruit growers affected by the recent downturn. The loans will be offered from 1 July 2014 by Rural Finance Corporation at a concessional rate of 4.5 per cent over three years.
To read the Goulburn Valley Fruit Industry Growing Roadmap go to www.depi.vic.gov.au/gvroadmap
For enquiries about the Goulburn Valley Concessional Loans program contact the Rural Finance Corporation on 1800 260 425 or go to www.ruralfinance.com.au/


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Shortly after takeoff, the pilot radioed air traffic control to report that he was losing engine oil pressure and that his windscreen was covered with oil. He was advised that he was 4 miles from the nearest suitable airport. Air traffic control lost radar and communications with the pilot and the airplane crashed at the approach end of a runway at the airport. Visual examination of the engine revealed that the No. 2 connecting rod penetrated through the top of the aft section of the engine case. Examination of the accessory case revealed that a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) SE5743NM Aviation Development Corporation oil filter adapter was attached to the accessory oil filter adapter fitting. A visual inspection of the oil filter adapter revealed that the O-ring between the mating surfaces was extruding 3/4 inch. Visual inspection of the O-ring revealed that it was leaking oil for an undetermined amount of time and was dry rotted and brittle. Review of the STC revealed that the O-ring was the incorrect part that was installed on the engine. A review of the engine and airframe logbooks did not reveal when the installation of the improper O-ring was performed. The engine had accumulated about 351 hours of operation since manufacture.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
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text: Marines Board Helicopter In Exercise Iron Fist 2012 Posted by OUT PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 6, 2012) Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU) board a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter during flight quarters aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5). Peleliu is participating in Exercise Iron Fist 2012. Iron Fist is a training exercise between U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force designed to increase interoperability and amphibious capabilities throughout U.S. 3rd and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell. About these ads Related


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Fees Involved in Refinancing a Mortgage
Applying for mortgage refinancing is gruelling as the initial mortgage process. Homeowners release employment and financial information after shopping around for the best rates. Fees added to base loans create new monthly payment amounts but careful negotiation results in adjustments or omissions in some cases.
Permanent Home Standby Generators – Power Up
A standby generator provides a back-up power source for as long as you need it. They are connected to a propane or natural gas supply line and use an automatic transfer switch to monitor your utility power. From the time you lose power, the generator starts without you having to lift a finger.
Grading Prepared for Landscaping as Construction Nears Completion on BP12003
It's been over four weeks since my last post on the progression of plan BP12003 construction. Much has been done during that time and the design is shaping up to become a house in the eyes of prospective homeowners.
Drywall Installed as Home Construction Progresses on BP12003
Since the last update, there has been plenty of progress and the home is starting to look just as I had envisioned when I created the home design. I am speaking of the design concept itself and not the material selection. Since the project is being managed by the builder, these variables will be as much of a wait and see for me as it is for you.
New Stock House Plan – The Logan-DE006
Our latest plan release, the Logan-DE006, is an exciting addition to our collection of stock house plans. It is an average size modest home of three bedrooms with the master bedroom on the opposite side of the home.
Plan BP12003 – Home Construction Continues
It's been two weeks since the first post on Plan BP12003 home construction photos. Progress is still underway and things are moving forward.
Are Americans Downsizing to Small Homes?
It was once the norm to see a family looking for a home between 3,000 to 3,500 square foot, with 3,500 plus sq ft running a close second. Now, homeowners are looking at the 3,000 square foot range as the maximum and around 2,400 feet as an average size home.
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Why Look at a House Floor Plan if I Hate the Elevation Design?
We have all heard the phrase, "don't judge a book by its cover", at some time or another. It can be used in reference to many things, but today we are going to apply it to house plans. You can look at two homes with the same floor plan, but each having distinctly different elevations can make you like one and not the other.
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Music review: Hayes and Hyman
Date: January 6, 2010
by: June LeBell | Music Critic
The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre has opened its new cabaret show, "The Musical Magic of Hayes and Hyman," and if you like nostalgia, schtick, great songs that bring back memories and some of the best pianism around, you've got to go!
Dick Hyman, at age 82, is one of the greatest pianists anywhere. He has technique to burn and a way of tearing up the keyboard that brings back memories of Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson and Erroll Garner, except he'd make them jealous.
Bill Hayes, at age 84, is suave, commanding and vocally fit. In fact, he sounds pretty much the same as he sounded when he sang on Sid Caesar's "Show of Shows" and made a world-wide hit of "No Other Love" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Me and Juliet," in which he also starred.
In fact, from his hit with "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," to his long-running part in the TV soap, "Days of Our Lives," Hayes' career has scored one hit after another.
The Hayes and Hyman show, however, is going to be much more of a hit with the World War II-through-baby-boomer set than their children or grandchildren. From start to finish, it's an evening of nostalgia and memories. Maybe that's why the second part of the show was so much more endearing than the first, which was snippets of songs and medleys from the '40s and '50s. From Arthur Godfrey — "Strip Polka" and "She's Too Fat for Me" — to the Everly Brothers and early Elvis, Part I was a trip down the pop-memory lane of the 60-plus set.
But Part II brought on the real recollections with a 21st-century, multi-media presentation of their baby pictures; high-school- and college-yearbook photos; war-time slides; and some terrific kinescopes of early, historic television shows featuring Hyman and Hayes with the likes of Olson and Johnson, and Dizzy Gillespie. If you lived through those years, you'll go nuts in this part.
Hyman's droll humor offsets Hayes' schtick. And, together, they have more bad "uncle" jokes than the Internet. The script, which was a bit stilted and self-conscious opening night, is bound to loosen up as the pair starts playing together. But, for sheer spectacular music-making and memories, this is the show to catch. From Hyman's settings of Shakespearian songs sung by Hayes and Woody Allen soundtracks on the screen, to his incredible accompanying of Hayes' tour-de-force presentation of the extremely difficult "Soliloquy" from "Carousel," the Hayes and Hyman show is the perfect way to look back on a golden era.
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The gift of music
Riverview High School received a donation of $5,000 during a break in the Kiltie Band Fall concert on Nov. 20.
Coming together for the community
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- City, State: New York, New York Country: United States Postal Code: 10012
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We are an integrative clinic for holistic medicine in Greenwich Village, NYC. We are pretty unique in that our acupuncturists, massage therapists and naturopathic physicians work collaboratively to create effective personalized, natural health solutions. We specialize in women's and children's health, fertility and pregnancy. Our naturopathic doctors also specialize in autoimmune conditions. Conditions we frequently see at the clinic include chronic fatigue, allergies, arthritis. lupus, hypothyroidism, insomnia, depression and anxiety, digestive complaints, hormone imbalances, osteoporosis, skin conditions and chronic viral infections like HPV and herpes. Call us for a complimentary 10 min consultation to find out how we can help! 646 485 5229. We offer homeopathy, homeopathic medicine herbal medicine nutrition swedish massage prenatal massage acupuncture detoxification naturopathy, naturopathic doctors natural medicine
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text: Aspen Institute India: The Next Phase The Growth Net: Save the Date : 23-25 March 2014, New Delhi You are here: Home » About Us » Overview About Ananta Aspen Centre Introduction Ananta Aspen Centre (webpage : www.anantaaspencentre.in) is an independent and not-for-profit organization that seeks to foster positive change in society through dissemination of knowledge. The Centre facilitates discussions on issues of international significance, values-based leadership and cross-sector outreach by engaging the civil society, government, private sector, and other key stakeholders. Some of our key initiatives have been Strategic Dialogues with US, Japan, Singapore, Israel, China and Turkey; the annual flagship Growth Net conclave; Ideas India Summit; and The India Leadership Initiative. The Centre is based in New Delhi and Kolkata and has an international network of partners. Ananta Aspen Centre's activities include: Public Programs to promote a deeper understanding of India's development & challenges. Policy Seminars that bring together stakeholders to improve public and private-sector governance; Leadership Seminars that explore values and thoughts through the Socratic method; and International Dialogues to help bring India closer to other parts of the world. LeadershipDevelopment India Leadership Initiative ILI - 5 Selection Criteria The Programme The Impact Fellows of ILI In the News : Awards, Recognition ILI Alumni The Shri Ram Ananta Aspen Leadership School CEO Series Valueabled Foreign Policy Track II Dialogue Roundtables Public Events Task Force / Study Groups Domestic Policy OutreachProgrammes Outreach Programme Public Awareness-Public Sessions Book/ Report Launches


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I am honest, budget conscious, super disciplined, a healthy eater, and weightlifter who listens to Hip-Hop & Country music. I like to learn about the psychology of the human mind, photography/video production, and music videos. God is the center of my life. I try to live my life by doing things that please Him.
I think internally, I've always wanted recognition for doing something great. I started shooting and editing fun videos with friends. They were always impressed by my editing talents. That feedback gave me the confidence to pursue this as a profession, because I knew others respected my abilities.
I love watching our competition, because that inspires me to improve and makes things better for our company. It's capitalism at it's best.
How did you get started in the business? Who helped/guided/mentored you?
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Don't Lyrics - Billy Currington
Don't ya hate hearin' that clock on the wall chiming,
Sayin' it's time
And don't you just wish we could just stay right here together
All day long
Ohhh it wouldn't be a crime
If we crawl back into bed
Got as close as we could get
Tryin' to figure out where this thing is goin'
Baby, Baby don't
Don't just say you're leavin
Why don't you just stay a little bit longer
Got it goin on
And just can't believe it
This feelin' just keeps gettin' stronger
If ya gotta go
You gotta know
I might go crazy
Here without you baby
We're livin' every kiss
You ain't leavin me like this
It just ain't right
Wait until tonight
To lite another flame
You know it wouldn't be the same as the fire we got burnin' this mornin
Love, no one else can love me like you do.
You know, I ain't even close through- lovin you.
Baby, Baby don't
No baby don't
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text: ~Greetings Everyone! Alex, your local Kingdom Chronicler here with a quick reminder that the first is only a few days away. Please make sure to send your submissions now to avoid costly express mail and late fees. Also, I find myself in need of cover artwork for upcoming issues. If you have a drawing, illustration, or something along those lines you'd like to submit, please let me know. As always, if there's anything I can do to be of assistance, please don't hesitate to call on me. Thanks! ~Alex Kingdom Chronicler: Kingdom of Ansteorra


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Istanbul Celebrates, Tokyo Honoured To Make 2020 Olympic Shortlist
Turkey says it's celebrating a historic moment in its history after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) named Istanbul an official Candidate City for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It's Istanbul's fifth bid, and the second time the city has been shortlisted.
In thanking the Working Group, the IOC Executive Board, Gilbert Felli, and IOC President Jacques Rogge, Hasan Arat, a leading member of the bid team said, "we are grateful and honoured, and we will not let them down. the recommendation from the Working Group proves that this is a new bid for a new Turkey. Istanbul has learned the lessons of past bids; we have gathered a young, dynamic and very strong team around us, and we have created a fresh and compelling concept. This time, Istanbul is ready to deliver".
Professor Ugur Erdener, IOC member, President of World Archery and President of the Turkish NOC added, "it is an honour to be named an official Candidate City. This is a major step towards realizing Turkey's Olympic dream. But now the hard work really begins, to repay the belief the Olympic family has shown us. We have proven our potential to host a technically excellent Games - and now we can begin to share our vision for what the Games could mean for Istanbul, Turkey, and the entire Olympic Movement".
The Tokyo 2020 bid committee said it was honoured with the decision of the IOC to appoint Tokyo as a 2020 Candidate City. Tokyo 2020 said the bid has learned valuable lessons from its previous bid, and looks forward to the extraordinary journey ahead of securing the greatest honour of playing host to the 2020 Games.
Tsunekazu Takeda, President of Tokyo 2020 and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said, "we are delighted that Tokyo has been accepted as a Candidate City, and I would like to personally thank the IOC for this decision. I also would like to give my warmest thanks to all of those involved in the bid for your efforts in creating a spectacular Games plan.
"We have a strong desire to generate dreams, hopes, goals and positive change across the world through the power of sports. Tokyo 2020 will be Games of excellence and excitement staged in the world's most forward-thinking city, and will feature world-class infrastructure and technology, powered by the energy of our young people. We have kept the best and improved the rest from our previous bid, and are determined more than ever to produce the best Games Plan ahead of the Election of the Host City in September next year".
Japanese Prime Minister and Tokyo 2020 Supreme Advisor, Yoshihiko Noda called it "a true honour for Tokyo to be accepted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board as a Candidate City for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games has enormous significance in terms of promoting international goodwill and the advancement of sports. It also will serve as a symbol of Japan's recovery from last year's tragedy. With the Japanese government's full support for Tokyo's bid, our nation greatly desires to achieve the goal of hosting the Games".Write or read comments about this article
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*This information was obtained from the ELCA website.
This same document can be found by clicking here.
Today, most of the records of your life together as a congregation begin as digital files. Your financial records and parish register may be kept in a database. Minutes, reports, newsletters, sermons, and other documents are created using word processing software. Correspondence is usually by e-mail. Much of the information you use and distribute to parishioners is created in formats to be read by a Web browser. Even the photographs of your congregation's activities are now in digital formats.
These guidelines will address the ways in which you can assure future generations that these records will still be available for their use long after hardware, software, and file formats have changed.
Consistency is important in the care of records. Any records retention policy has validity, once accepted as the policy of the organization, only as it is uniformly practiced. It should be neither selectively implemented nor disregarded at the whim of the custodians of the records. Never purge records in the face of potential litigation. Information that is retained in hard copy or in electronic files is the property of the congregation. Such information is not the property of the pastor or of officers of the congregation to be removed, retained personally, or destroyed at will. All staff members are custodians of the records they maintain.
Most of the records retained by a congregation for its daily operation, legal protection, financial security, and responsibility to history fit into one of the following categories. For the well-being of the congregation, each type of record has a specific life cycle and needs appropriate care.
Seven years...
- Annual audit report
- Treasurer's report and the congregation's budget should be attached to the minutes of the annual congregational meeting
- Information on permanent bequests, gifts, and endowments
Three years...
- Canceled checks or copies of canceled checks
- Bank reconciliations
- Payroll administration records such as W-2, W-4 forms and payroll registers
- Cash receipt journals
- Record of member giving (All records related to congregational spending are open. All records related to member giving are confidential and should be secured)
No need to retain ...
- General invoices (For major purchases, you may wish to keep receipts or canceled checks as evidence of ownership for insurance purposes.)
Detailed guidelines for the congregation's treasurer and financial secretary are found in Resources for Congregational Treasurers and Bookkeepers.
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Manual on Government Deficit and Debt - Implementation of ESA95 - 2012 edition
Fourth edition
This is an update of a few chapters of the manual which has the aim to assist the interpretation of the ESA95 rules and help their application for appropriately calculating the government deficit and debt. The manual is the result of a collective work of reflection, conceptual and textual collaboration, under the responsibility of Eurostat, in cooperation with experts representing EU Member States, the Commission and the European Central Bank. It was approved by the Financial Accounts Working Group (FAWG) and the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of payment statistics (CMFB).
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Article for March - April 2010
For Wildlife Watchers: Crappie
by Rob Simbeck
photography by Phillip Jones
Among the naturalists who catalogued the plant and animal riches of North America two centuries ago, few could match C.S. Rafinesque for sheer brilliance. He had wide-ranging interests, a restless energy and was accomplished in anthropology, botany, zoology, geology and linguistics, among other fields. Raised in Marseilles and mostly self-educated, he began a lifetime of collecting plants at the age of twelve after learning botanical Latin.
In 1819, during Rafinesque's second extended trip to America, he became professor of botany at Kentucky's Transylvania University. A year earlier, he had begun observing, collecting and describing the fish native to the Ohio River system at a time when probably not more than a dozen had been named. One of them he placed in a new genus, Pomoxis, a name that referred to its pointed gill covering. He gave it the species name annularis, referring to a golden ring at the base of the tail. Amid a long, detailed description, he referred to it as "good to eat," demonstrating to posterity that his taste buds were as finely honed as his intellect.
Black Crappie - Pomoxis nigromaculatus
White Crappie - Pomoxis annularis
Description: Thin arched back, silvery with black markings.
Range and Habitat: Originally eastern and midwestern U.S. Now throughout Lower 48.
Reproduction: Male clears and guards nest. Spawns when water temperatures reach the 60s.
Viewing Tips: Most larger bodies of water in South Carolina contain some crappies.
Rafinesque listed the common names of Pomoxis annularis in that part of Kentucky as gold-ring and silver-perch. Today, we call it the white crappie, a word thought to derive from the French crapet—pronounced in South Carolina as both CROP-ee and CRAP-ee. Travel elsewhere in the Southeast and you may hear them referred to as specks, white perch, sac-a-lait, paper mouths, speckled perch or slabs. But whatever you choose to call them, the white crappie and its cousin, the black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus—its species name means black-spotted), are both hugely important gamefish species.
They are part of the sunfish family, a group of twenty-seven species native only to North America that also includes rock and largemouth bass, bluegill and shellcrackers. Crappies are thin—"laterally compressed" is the two-dollar term—with arched backs and large dorsal and anal fins. Spines within those dorsal fins help in identification, since whites have five or six, and blacks have seven or eight. Both have silvery bodies, blacks with sides marked with irregular dark spots, whites with seven to nine vertical bands of spots on each side.
On average, crappies taken by anglers will be in the one-half to one pound range, but they can reach twenty inches in length and five pounds in weight. Crappies aren't known as fighters, but nonetheless, their popularity as game fish has helped them expand their range impressively. Blacks were originally found through much of the eastern U.S. (including South Carolina), and whites were traditionally found throughout much of the Mississippi drainage. Stocking has now introduced both varieties to all of the 48 contiguous states.
"Black crappies are much more abundant in South Carolina waters," says Dan Rankin, coordinator for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources' region I fisheries programs, "although some recent studies have found that white crappies comprise as much as twenty-five percent of the total crappie numbers in Lake Thurmond."
"Black crappies tend to predominate in clearer water," adds Scott Lamprecht, coordinator for the DNR's region IV fisheries programs, "while whites tend to do better in more turbid reservoirs. White crappies have a significant presence in the Savannah River lakes and a minor presence in the Catawba chain, but when you get down to the Santee Cooper [which offers prime conditions for both species], they can make up fifty percent or more of the harvest in Lake Marion in some years."
Both black and white crappies prefer weedy pockets and structure such as stumps, brush or logs. Feeding primarily by day and traveling in small, loose schools, they will eat minnows, zooplankton, aquatic insects and crustaceans and can be taken with artificial lures or live bait. They are in turn eaten by larger fish, by ospreys and other birds, and by otters, turtles and of course, by people.
According to Rankin, in South Carolina crappies spawn anywhere from late February until early May as water temperatures reach the 60s. "They tend to concentrate around structure during the spring, which can make for high catch/success rates for anglers," he says.
The male excavates a nest on sand, gravel or mud close to shoreline vegetation, before the females move in from deeper water.
White crappie females lay from 3,000 to more than 20,000 eggs; blacks between 11,000 and 190,000. Both may spawn several times in nests prepared by several males. They are sexually mature at two years, and fecundity, according to Lamprecht, "depends on age, size and weight, with nature providing feedback mechanisms indicating, through food abundance, when there is room for more youngsters."
The eggs measure about a millimeter in diameter, and during the two or three days it takes them to hatch and for several days afterward, the male will guard them, keeping the nest clear of debris and fighting off predators. After developing for a few days, the hatchlings will move into nearby vegetation to take shelter.
While this is a fish that reproduces very well and can overpopulate small bodies of water, normal pressure from predators means crappie mortality is generally high. Growth is slow the first year.
"Fish that make it through the first winter in Santee-Cooper grow like wildfire after that point," says Lamprecht. "Diet has everything to do with it. They can spend their whole life eating insects and get to be five or six inches long, but when they can transition to eating fish, they grow very rapidly."
Whatever their size, the popularity of crappies provides tangible economic benefits for the state. A 2001 Southwick and Associates survey of the economic impact of freshwater fishing cited by Rankin reported expenditures approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars.
"Thirty-three percent of all anglers reported that they fished for crappie," says Rankin. "These statistics illustrate the importance of that fishery."
The crappie's importance as a gamefish species, nearly two hundred years after Rafinesque first catalogued it, is truly impressive.
—Rob Simbeck
Rob Simbeck is an award-winning free-lance writer living in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Definition of blind in English:
1Unable to see because of injury, disease, or a congenital condition: a blind man with a stick he was blind in one eye (as plural noun the blind) guide dogs for the blind
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- Two years ago, MS patient Natasha Bagan lost her ability to walk and was almost blind after her condition rapidly deteriorated.
- Jurors heard that Mr Ward, who suffered from a rare eye condition and had been blind since he was 15, had been celebrating his birthday.
- I had a little Chihuahua named Carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind.
1.1(Of an action, especially a test or experiment) done without being able to see or without having relevant information: a blind tasting of eight wines
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- The test will be a blind exam so applicants cannot memorise the answers but the Government is publishing a handbook guide to the areas being tested.
- The skates did feel slightly lighter, but I'm convinced that was only placebo effect - I bet that I'd not be able to tell the difference in a blind test.
- In a blind test last week, nine out of 12 shoppers said they preferred the taste of a £1.45 loaf from Safeway to Poilâne's finest sourdough.
1.2 Aeronautics (Of flying) using instruments only: blind landings during foggy conditions
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- The Lorenz beam system for blind landing consisted of two transmitters located on opposite sides of the airstrip runway.
- From this point on, they'd be practically flying blind, with only the occasional glimpse of their surroundings.
- This could be nerve-racking for the pilot while the copilot made blind takeoffs.
2Lacking perception, awareness, or judgement: a blind acceptance of the status quo she was blind to the realities of her position
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- Yet despite his liberalism, which if not exactly old-fashioned is certainly out of keeping with the spirit of the time, Mortimer is not blind to the realities of political life.
- The classical economists are blind to this reality.
- Look on the bright side, but don't be blind to reality.
imperceptive, unperceptive, slow, obtuse, stupid, uncomprehending, unimaginative, insensitive, thick-skinned, bovine, stolid, unintelligent
informal dense, dim, dim-witted, thick, slow on the uptake, dumb, dopey, not with it
British informal dozy
Scottish & Northern English informal glaikit
North American informal dumb-ass, chowderheaded
South African informal dof
unmindful of, mindless of, careless of, heedless of, oblivious to, insensible to, unconcerned about/by, inattentive to, indifferent to
rare insensitive of, negligent of
uncritical, unreasoned, unthinking, unconsidered, mindless, injudicious, undiscerning, indiscriminate;
airy, insouciant;
credulous, naive
2.1Not controlled by reason: they left in blind panic
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- There's another reason why blind devotion to rules won't do.
- All I wanted to do was to survive and really was driven by blind hope than by reason.
- True, you could have fully murdered him, but the only reason you hurt him enough to get away was blind panic.
impetuous, impulsive, rash, hasty, reckless, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, uninhibited, unrestrained, immoderate, intemperate, wild, unruly, irrational, frantic, violent, furious, unbridled, uncurbed, unchecked, unrepressed
2.2Not governed by purpose: a world of blind chance
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- There is no way that every organism could have been created by blind chance, they say.
- The chances of a watch being constructed by blind chance are astronomically small.
- By blind chance, some of these emails reach customers of targeted organisations.
3.1(Of a corner or bend in a road) impossible to see round: two trucks collided on a blind curve in the road
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- About half-way back to Boston I slowed down even further to go round a blind bend in the road, to come upon a police car and a mobile speed camera.
- They certainly had no problem coping with a brisk run along a narrow, twisty country road where oncoming traffic and constant blind bends required repeated firm applications.
- A car in front of the Welshman had pulled out a series of rocks into the road on a blind corner, and Hughes ran straight over the rocks, unable to avoid them due to the narrowness of the road.
3.2(Of a door or window) walled up: fresco paintings on the blind windows
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- Glazed doors, provided that the panes are rectangular, can be reduced by removing one tier of panes; blind doors can be cut down at will.
- When you first walked in and entered the small rotunda, there was a blind window that had been revealed.
- The metal ladder was cooperative enough against rubber-soled boots, but moisture and time had warped the blind door, and there was no other way into the box.
3.3Closed at one end: a blind pipe
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- Bromley redefined Trypanites to include all blind, simple, unbranched borings in hard substrata with a single opening to the surface.
- Such blind pools loose water by evaporation, or if below the water table remain as permanent bodies.
- This blind-ended, complex structure is embryologically distinct from the body of the left atrium and is sometimes regarded as just a minor extension of the atrium.
4 [with negative] British informal Not the slightest (used in emphatic expressions): this declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers
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- A spokesman for the National Association of Headteachers said the downgrading should not make 'a blind bit of difference' to school drugs policies.
- It amazes me how people seem to forget that they were young once and that no amount of pep talks, pleading or punishment would have made a blind bit of difference to how they carried on when away from their parents' beady eyes.
- We consulted people on Goldiggers and the skatepark and then did not take a blind bit of notice of them.
5(Of a plant) without buds, eyes, or terminal flowers: planting too shallowly is the most common cause of bulbs coming up blind
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- It sounds cruel, but during one long hot summer I did once shock a blind camellia into flowering by withholding water for as long as I felt the plant could bear it.
- One of the original reasons to burn the straw was to combat blind seed disease.
- The non-germinating blind-seeds carry a mass of fungus tissue in the endosperm and are the carry-over phase of the disease.
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1Cause (someone) to be unable to see, permanently or temporarily: the injury temporarily blinded him her eyes were blinded with scalding tears
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- I said nothing, but merely nodded, tears temporarily blinding me, blurring my vision.
- Five players were permanently blinded and a dozen more had permanent eye defects leading to reduced vision.
- She was blinded by her tears and the smoke, so she couldn't see the burning timber above her that was about to fall.
make blind, deprive of sight, deprive of vision, render unsighted, render sightless, put someone's eyes out, gouge someone's eyes out
stop someone seeing, obscure someone's vision, block someone's vision, get in someone's line of vision
2Deprive (someone) of understanding, judgement, or perception: he was blinded by his faith somehow Clare and I were blinded to the truth
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- In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place.
- He was used to getting his own way and was so enraged that he was blinded to the consequences of his actions.
- I cried as I admitted that I was so selfish that I was blinded to the fact that Will had needed my help all along.
deprive of understanding, deprive of perception, deprive of judgement, deprive of reason, deprive of sense
2.1 (blind someone with) Confuse or overawe someone with (something they do not understand): they try to blind you with science
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- Of the communists, Richard Wright concluded: 'They're blind… Their enemies have blinded them with too much oppression.'
- Jon has too much value cos he can blind them with science and they are confused by him.
- Identifying with either side blinds you with ideology, makes up your mind for you and stops you thinking.
disquiet, make anxious, make uneasy, perturb, discomfit, disconcert;
confuse, nonplus, bewilder, confound, perplex, overwhelm;
unsettle, discompose, unnerve, discourage, subdue, dismay, frighten, alarm, scare, terrify, terrorize, browbeat, bully, trouble, bother, agitate, fluster, ruffle, jolt, shake (up), throw, put off, take aback, unbalance, destabilize, throw off balance, put off one's stroke, pull the rug (out) from under
3 [no object, with adverbial of direction] British informal , dated Move very fast and dangerously: I could see the bombs blinding along above the roof tops
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- The first thing they knew was Grant came blinding along at an absolutely unheard of speed for a Destroyer following up a Convoy, hitting them half way between the conning tower and tail.
- The way she answered made Diggs think back to his high school sweetheart, and the matted clump her hair would become when she'd wear his bike helmet, and he could feel her heart through her T-shirt, blinding down the road, skid marks on the road.
- With Live in Vain blinding along, she could be the one chasing and coming out of the pack to make it nervous in the last 100m.
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1A screen for a window, especially one on a roller or made of slats: she pulled down the blinds
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- Sunlight poked through the slats in the white blinds over my window.
- I shut my screen, window and blinds, and looked around my room.
- The moon shines through the slats of the window blinds, casting stripes of light and shadow over the two beds in the semi-private room.
1.1British An awning over a shop window.
Example sentences
- For the past 30 years the 58-year-old has worked for a company in Devon that produces blinds and awnings.
- That is why, for the past 10 years, McLeod has watched his firm, which specialises in manufacturing shop blinds and awnings, flourish.
- Having been here when Queen Victoria reigned, Deans is the only blinds company that is still in business who can provide an authentic Victorian or Edwardian awning to complete the finishing touch to a serious restoration project on a shop, restaurant or even a special private house.
2 [in singular] Something designed to conceal one's real intentions: he phoned again from his own home: that was just a blind for his wife
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- The aversion to addressing race concerns that is demonstrated through this research carries through to an aversion to discussing race as a driver in and a blind for bad social policy.
- 'Ruse' applies to that which is contrived as a blind for one's real intentions or for the truth.
- Our advantages and disadvantages then, can be summarized as follows:… 6. Serves as a blind for the real project.
deception, camouflage, screen, smokescreen, front, facade, cover, disguise, cloak, pretext, masquerade, mask, feint;
trick, stratagem, ploy, ruse, scheme, device, move, manoeuvre, contrivance, machination, expedient, artifice, wile, dodge
2.1North American A camouflaged shelter used for observing or hunting wildlife: a duck blind
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- You could jerry-rig a blind from a camouflage cloth, or use a small tent that you don't mind modifying.
- A rain shelter was provided on the end opposite to the observation blind and numerous perches were scattered throughout.
- As soon as foods were distributed among cages, we monitored and video recorded behavior from an observation blind.
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1Without being able to see clearly: he was the first pilot in history to fly blind wines were tasted blind
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- I heard it and felt it, but did the whole thing blind.
- Divson obliged, his single hand not shaking in the least as his free one searched blind for the objects, produced them and slid them to Prast.
- It was like fighting blind, and against a ferocious wild cat at that.
1.1Without having all the relevant information; unprepared: he was going into the interview blind
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- Legislatures who pass RFRAs, then, are legislating blind.
- In short, Hatfill would no longer be proceeding blind.
- I won't have the minor characters, I won't have the solution to the problem; I'm writing blind.
1.2(Of a stake in poker or brag) put up by a player before the cards dealt are seen.
Example sentences
- When there is that extra dead money out there, it is simply terrible to give two people free rides, and the small blind a cheap look, when you have a playable hand in best position.
- Simply calling the big blind would make no sense if hands indeed ran close together in value.
- Others allow the dealer to identify one trick before play begins, the winner of which gets the blind along with the trick.
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bake something blind
- Bake a pastry or flan case without a filling.Example sentences
- Roll out your pastry, line your greased flan case, and bake it blind for about 20 minutes.
- Line a 20-23 cm tart tin, with a removable base, with sweet shortcrust and bake it blind until lightly coloured.
- Line a deep pie dish with half the pie crust, prick the pastry and bake it blind for 15 minutes.
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(as) blind as a bat
- informal Having very bad eyesight: she's blind as a bat without glassesMore example sentences
- The ringleader said I couldn't identify them because I was blind as a bat.
- However encyclopaedic your knowledge of antiques, if you're blind as a bat, forget it.
- It knocked my glasses off and I am as blind as a bat without them.
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blind drunk
- informal Extremely drunk.Example sentences
- Unsurprisingly, Mr Manners took to blundering into my flat at 3.30 am in a most unchivalrous manner: blind drunk, ranting that his mother didn't love him, and mistaking my saxophone case for a lavatory.
- The blog entry I wanted to write claimed that I was able to install Movable Type Blacklist without a hitch despite being blind drunk and, temporarily, a willful hater of computers.
- I thought of him while writing this piece because in 1916 he challenged Jack Johnson, the Heavyweight Champion of the World, to a fight, turned up blind drunk and lost within one round.
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there's none so blind as those who will not see
- proverb There's no point trying to reason with someone who does not want to listen to reason.Example sentences
- I even sent him lots of photographs of Staffies and children to underline my point that they are not dangerous dogs, but I suppose there's none so blind as those who will not see.
- In front of me is a copy of your book with the name spelt out clearly, but there's none so blind as those who will not see.
- All this is passing before our very eyes, but there are none so blind as those who will not see.
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turn a blind eye
- Pretend not to notice: please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening[said to be in allusion to Nelson, who lifted a telescope to his blind eye at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801), thus not seeing the signal to 'discontinue the action']More example sentences
overlook, disregard, neglect, ignore, pay no attention/heed to, pass over, omit, skip (over), gloss over, leave out, leave undone, forget
- We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help.
- In many ways, I think he's given the Saudis a pass and he's turned a blind eye to them.
- It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over.
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when the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch
- proverb Those people without knowledge or experience should not try to guide or advise others in a similar position: I didn't know anything about fighting and neither did my students—it was the blind leading the blindMore example sentences
- They are a highly useful source of information, although sometimes the validity of their answers may be low: the blind leading the blind.
- Viewing the use of insensitive in vitro assays used to understand the equivalent insensitive rodent bioassays can be likened to the blind leading the blind.
- An ancient rule of wisdom advises that when the blind lead the blind they all stumble into the ditch.
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blindness noun
- Example sentences
- It seems as if elites are more prone to certain kinds of moral blindness and excusing of evil.
- But there was one area of his ministerial responsibilities where his blindness posed a problem.
- Waiting lists for cataracts are down and blindness is no big deal.
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-- In both Korea and Vietnam, our military efforts were nullified by UN support for the Communist side. All key military decisions during the Korean War were made known to the UN's Military General Staff Committee, which was headed by a Soviet official who promptly made them available to Communist forces in Korea. During the Vietnam War, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) provided millions of dollars in aid to Communist Vietnam, much of which was given directly to the Viet Cong guerrilla forces.
-- In 1987, it was discovered that a group of people associated with the Belgian committee of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) had an interesting perspective on the UNICEF motto. In that year, UNICEF official Jos Verbeek and 17 others were arrested by Belgian police on charges of "inciting minors to debauchery." The organization's Brussels office building had been used to develop pornographic photographs of children, many of them of North African descent. More than 19,000 such photos were eventually collected by Belgian police, along with a mailing list of 400 names in 15 countries which had been prepared on the UNICEF office computer. If every child belongs to UNICEF,why shouldn't UNICEF officials use them as they see fit?
-- The Convention On The Rights of the Child (a UNICEF brainstorm) fundamentally assumes that the state, not the parents, is the primary custodian of children. "The state is the custodian of the rights of children," declared acting UNICEF director Dr. Richard Jolley at the 1995 UN Social Summit in Copenhagen. "The state is the guardian of the law. Who but the state can enforce the law and protect the rights of individuals, including children?" If the state is the primary protector of children, it follows that parents are the greatest and most constant threat to the well-being of the state's children. This point was made forcefully in a presentation at the 2001 Special Session on Children at UN headquarters. During a video presentation at that session, a Salvadoran youngster declared: "Parents are the principal violators of our rights!"
-- More on the "convention": But what of parents wishing, for instance, to regulate a child's consumption of movies, videos, Internet sites, and other media? The text makes no provision for this parental role. Strictly applied, Article 13 of the Convention would permit a national government to censor a child's access to "anti-government" websites, yet authorize action against a parent refusing to let a youngster download cyberporn.
-- More: Article 14 asserts that the child's "freedom of thought, conscience and religion" must be recognized, which — as applied in the home — has troubling implications for parents desiring to pass their religious convictions on to their young (or, for that matter, for parents seeking to discourage involvement in the occult). Article 15 refers to a child's right to "freedom of association and to freedom of peaceful assembly" — freedoms that diligent parents concerned about the quality of a child's friends and associates must occasionally infringe upon.
-- More: Parents who practice spanking and other forms of physical discipline run afoul of Article 19, which supposedly protects children from "all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse...." UNICEF's Dr. Jolley, asked about whether the Convention forbids spanking, replied: "There are some people, I think, that want to maintain the right of being able to beat their children, which the Convention discourages." Following Britain's ratification of the Convention, reported the January 28, 1995 issue of The Guardian of London, the UN's "children's rights" committee demanded that the British government "ban corporal punishment in private schools and … outlaw 'chastisement' of children at home."
-- According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Article 28 of the Convention, which cites a "right to education," mandates government action to suppress expression of "homophobic" sentiments in public school classrooms. Claiming that children have the right to enjoy "the highest attainable standard of health," Article 24 can be employed to purge "homophobes" from the medical profession. The "privacy" right asserted under Article 16, the NCLR insists, requires that school counselors withhold from parents anything they might learn about their child's sexual orientation or practices. Another NCLR report, Legal Challenges Facing Lesbian and Gay Youth, recounts how the organization used the "rights" outlined in the UN Convention to arrange the "divorce" of a lesbian teenager from her mother, and her 1992 adoption by a lesbian couple in San Francisco. Further, homosexual organizations in Canada are pushing that the age of sexual consent be lowered to 14, based on the "the convention" Canada ratified.
--Remember, "the Convention" is the brainstorm of UNICEF.....
-- The Convention is a lengthy, complex document comprised of 54 articles dealing with adoption, education, child labor, child pornography, child abuse, prenatal and postnatal health care for women, family reunification, and many other issues. Although it is replete with rhetoric about "rights" and "freedom" and noble-sounding appeals for the protection of children, from the standpoint of American constitutional law it is fundamentally flawed. Like the UN Charter and many UN conventions addressing "rights," this Convention on the Rights of the Child is based on the philosophy that rights are granted by governments (not God), and it is, therefore, completely at odds with the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. Like the UN Charter and the Soviet Constitution, it views rights not as God-given and unalienable, but as government-given and conditional. This view of the origin of rights is completely incompatible with liberty. For, if one accepts the premise that rights come from government, then one must accept the corollary that government is entitled to circumscribe, withhold, or even cancel those rights. This concept of rights was stated by Andrei Vishinsky, Stalin's chief prosecutor and chairman of the Soviet Supreme Court, during debate on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 at the United Nations. Said Vishinsky: "The rights of human beings cannot be considered outside the prerogatives of governments, and the very understanding of human rights is a governmental concept.
-- A sister organization of UNICEF is UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). China scholar Steven Mosher, who personally witnessed the harshness of Chinese population policies in the rural Chinese village where he lived and worked on his doctoral studies during 1979-80, noted that U.S. "tax dollars were providing about 25 percent of the annual budget for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. Monies from UNFPA's budget (which ran $136 million in 1985) have aided China's population control program.
-- For those of you not familiar with China's forced population control, here's a brief education: Christopher Wren reported in the New York Times that thousands of Chinese women were being "rounded up and forced to have abortions." He described women "locked in detention cells or hauled before mass rallies and harangued into consenting to abortions." He told of "vigilantes [who] abducted pregnant women on the streets and hauled them off, sometimes handcuffed or trussed, to abortion clinics," and of "aborted babies which were ... crying when they were born." Michele Vink wrote in the Wall Street Journal of women who were "handcuffed, tied with ropes or placed in pig's baskets" for their forced trips to the abortion clinics. According to Steven Mosher, the People's Republic Press was openly speaking of the "butchering, drowning, and leaving to die of female infants and the maltreating of women who have given birth to girls." [YUK! And we give these guys "Most Favored Nation" status??!! Are we crazy?!]
-- Perhaps the most damning indictment of the UN's so-called aid programs has come from author Graham Hancock, who would probably describe himself politically as a liberal. After examining repeated cases of the most destructive and unconscionable policies, he wrote in Lords of Poverty: "UNICEF, UNHCR, and the World Food Programme et al. do indeed deliver relief supplies during emergencies; the quality, timeliness and relevance of these items, however, as we have seen ... often leave a great deal to be desired."30 The totality of the record of these multilateral agencies led him to the following very negative and bitter conclusion: "Of course, the ugly reality is that most poor people in most poor countries most of the time never receive or even make contact with aid in any tangible shape or form: whether it is present or absent, increased or decreased, are thus issues that are simply irrelevant to the ways in which they conduct their daily lives. After the multi-billion-dollar "financial flows" involved have been shaken through the sieve of over-priced and irrelevant goods that must be bought in the donor countries, filtered again in the deep pockets of hundreds of thousands of foreign experts and aid agency staff, skimmed off by dishonest commission agents, and stolen by corrupt Ministers and Presidents, there is really very little left to go around. This little, furthermore, is then used thoughtlessly, or maliciously, or irresponsibly by those in power — who have no mandate from the poor, who do not consult with them and who are utterly indifferent to their fate. Small wonder, then, that the effects of aid are so often vicious and destructive for the most vulnerable members of human society."
-- regarding the "TRICK-OR-TREAT" scam for UNICEF: http://all.org/article.php?id=
The truth about UNICEF http://www.all.org/article.php?id=
Child sex book given out at U.N. summit - Washington Times
UNICEF Halloween fund backs abortion - Zenit News Service
UNICEF: Friend or foe? - The abortion connection
UNICEF: Guilty as charged - The documentation
Vatican cuts off UNICEF - 1996 news release
UNICEF has strayed from its original mandate
UNICEF memo reveals intentions for child summit
UNICEF opposes parental notification law in New Zealand
-- more info:
UNICEF Devolves http://www.nationalrev
UNICEF Another United Nations Boondoggle
Hype, Nonsense, and Feminazism: Your UNICEF Dollars at Work
UNICEF and HALLOWEEN (from the Knights of Columbus)
UNICEF's 'Rights' Focus Is All Wrong
For more info on the UN read:
"The United Nations Exposed" http://aobs-store.com/store/product3.html
Here are a few more links:
"every child is our child" from the UN office website:
another "every child is our child" from the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
from EWTN on Unicef and porno:
from The New York Times on Unicef and the porno scandal:
from "Wake Up and Smell the Truth" book on "the state is the custodian of the rights of children":
from "Get Us Out of the United Nations" on "the state is the custodian of the rights of children":
From the coalition on the Physical Punishment of Children and Youth reviewing Canada's ratification of the Convention, in regards to spanking:
From the National Child Protection Clearinghouse in Australia reviewing Australia's ratification of the Convention, in regards to spanking:
Vishinsky's comment "The rights of human beings cannot be considered outside the prerogatives of governments, and the very understanding of human rights is a governmental concept.":
On the UNFPA from the Catholic Herald:
On the UNFPA from the BBC:
On China's forced abortion policy from the New York Times:
On China's forced abortion policy written by Steven Mosher of the Population research Institute:
On China's forced abortion policy by Michele Vink of the Wall Street Journal:
On Graham Hancock's quote:
p.s. links should all work now.
Last edited by mystufftosell; 09-14-2007 at 05:17 PM..
Do you have any references for any of this? I am ignoring for the moment the sections that are just intentional twisting of policies.
I wouldn't give UNICEF a dime before reading this.........
No twisting of UNICEF policies here.... That's how sick they really are....
Last edited by mystufftosell; 09-13-2007 at 08:00 AM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
I guess we're going to have to go through this step by step.
You need to provide a specific citation for each of the following claims:
1. "In both Korea and Vietnam, our military efforts were nullified by UN support for the Communist side."That is just for one paragraph. I'm willing to believe that some of these things are true (although the bit about the Korean War has virtually nothing to do with UNICEF), but bluntly you have no credibility to convince me. You need to provide reliable sources that back up your claims.
I want to emphasize again: reliable sources. Some blog about "feminazism"? Most likely not a reliable source.
It is convenient that so many of your sources "have been deleted", though. Perhaps you should see if they are available on Archive.org.
"If every child belongs to UNICEF" completely misses the point of the motto. And by the way, that has never been the motto of UNICEF; only of the US committee for UNICEF (according to that committee's president [ed.gov]). The actual motto of UNICEF is (right now) "For every child/ Health, Education, Equality, Protection/ Advance Humanity" (/ to mark line breaks). A lot of anti-UNICEF sites seem to confuse the two; is that where you get your information?
"assumes that the state, not the parents, is the primary custodian of children" and then quote someone explaining what is actually meant; that the state is the custodian of the rights of children, just as it is the custodian of the rights of adults.
"If the state is the primary protector of children, it follows that parents are the greatest and most constant threat to the well-being of the state's children." (bluntly no, this is an obvious non sequitur) which is "supported" by a quote allegedly from a child from El Salvador. It may well be the case that parents present a major threat to the rights of their children in a country where "[r]andom and organized violent crime is endemic", that has "one of the highest homicide rates in the world", and where "[b]oth violent and petty crimes are prevalent" (US State Dept [state.gov]). I don't know, I'm not an expert on El Salvador and don't have any real reaosn to believe that video actually exists as you claim it does.
"Strictly applied, Article 13 of the Convention would permit a national government to censor a child's access to "anti-government" websites, yet authorize action against a parent refusing to let a youngster download cyberporn." when in fact Article 13 (full text of the CRC is available from UNICEF [unicef.org]) explicitly bars such action by the government (unless you severely misrepresent its meaning). Parents in your scenario would be immune from any action on moral grounds (13(b)) and by the fact that the CRC is binding on governments, not individuals.
"More: Article 14 asserts ... Article 15 refers to ..." seem to ignore that both of those articles explicitly state (in the first two words of each) that they apply only to states that are party to the CRC (which is to say, again, governments) and have no effect whatsoever on what parents may do. If you need a list of definitions of key terms, such as "state party", one is available from the UNICEF link above.
I could go on and on, but the pattern is clear. Your descriptions of the UNICEF mission and policies are so fundamentally wrong that they must reflect either disingenuous malice or complete and utter non-understanding. My suspicion is that you have in fact never even read the Convention on the Rights of the Child and that your claims on how evil it is are based entirely on second-hand (or third-hand, or fourth-hand...) descriptions you have read.
Quite frankly, examining these misrepresentations has only convinced me further that you have no credibility to speak on this topic.
Jesus had his detractors, too. So did Ghandi, and Mother Teresa, and MLK, and anybody else who's ever done good things in this world.
You dedicate your life to helping children who have no food, education or medicine, and somebody's going to drag you through the mud for doing it.
Here's a picture of some blonde good-for-nothing UNICEF hippie/worker in Paraguay. She's probably teaching the man how to overthrow his government. Doesn't that girl remind you of Chelsea Clinton?
IIIIIIIIIIiiiiii am NOT speaking on this topic.
I did not write any of the investigative material.
I am not an investigative reporter. I am only posting what I've read, from reliable sources. If YOU want to investigate every point of every paragraph I've posted, be my guest.
Most fund raisers keep 80% of the cash...
Remember, you're the one that told us not to act like sheep.
Last edited by Aluvus; 09-13-2007 at 08:49 PM..
Last edited by Rebound; 09-13-2007 at 11:49 PM..
Maybe StuffToSell can respond in a meaningful way? Now that we know his post was packed full of inaccuracies?
Here are a few more:
"every child is our child" from the UN office website:
another "every child is our child" from the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
from EWTN on Unicef and porno:
from The New York Times on Unicef and the porno scandal:
from "Wake Up and Smell the Truth" book on "the state is the custodian of the rights of children":
from "Get Us Out of the United Nations" on "the state is the custodian of the rights of children":
From the coalition on the Physical Punishment of Children and Youth reviewing Canada's ratification of the Convention, in regards to spanking:
From the National Child Protection Clearinghouse in Australia reviewing Australia's ratification of the Convention, in regards to spanking:
Vishinsky's comment "The rights of human beings cannot be considered outside the prerogatives of governments, and the very understanding of human rights is a governmental concept.":
On the UNFPA from the Catholic Herald:
On the UNFPA from the BBC:
On China's forced abortion policy from the New York Times:
On China's forced abortion policy written by Steven Mosher of the Population research Institute:
On China's forced abortion policy by Michele Vink of the Wall Street Journal:
On Graham Hancock's quote:
I think that's more than enough for me. I am not an investigative reporter. I am sure you could do a better research job than me.
Firstly, this does literally nothing to support your claims or refute anything I have said disproving them. At issue is an obvious misinterpretation of what it means to be "the custodian" of someone's rights, and an attempt to construct all kinds of crazy theories on top of that.
Secondly, this is apparently the source from which you plagiarized (and have yet to credit) several paragraphs of text. That makes it not a great source to cite as a reference.
Thirdly, it is essentially the worst source you could cite on this topic. It is an obviously biased book, and the fact that it is the source of several severe misstatements of fact that I have already pointed out to you only dig the hole deeper. It also suggests that, as I had feared, those misstatements originate with malice rather than mere ignorance.
Additionally, Get Us Out is not a reliable source on virtually any topic, but most of all any part of the UN.
In any case, the fact that this text's coverage of this topic is identical to the previously addressed book, including the glaring inaccuracies, makes it a poor source.
The problem comes from this wild misinterpretation: "this Convention on the Rights of the Child is based on the philosophy that rights are granted by governments (not God), and it is, therefore, completely at odds with the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution and its Bill of Rights."
That completely misses the point. The CRC is based on the philosophy that rights are to be protected by the government. That is the meaning of "custodian". This is exactly the philosophy on which our own government is built. In fact, it is the basis of the "social contract" theory of government that can be traced to John Locke: the idea that people agree to give up some of their rights in order to get along with one another, with the promise that the government will act in their interests and protect their rights.
Anyone that would claim such an idea is "at odds" with the three American "core" government documents either knows nothing about those documents, knows nothing about political science, or is a bold-faced liar.
The closest you came was the Jos Verbeek claim, and even that you provided only weak evidence to support. And that was an apparently isolated incident, not an act of the UNICEF organization itself. That happened 20 years ago.
It is your job to prove your accusations. The burden of proof is on you. "I am not an investigative reporter" is a piss-weak excuse. Until you can provide some substance here, one can only conclude that you are completely wrong.
Last edited by Aluvus; 09-14-2007 at 03:07 AM..
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