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Laura Berzas, M.Ed, has been an Interpreter in private practice since 1994. Laura is RID certified CI and CT, NIC: Master, and Specialist Certificate: Legal. Laura has taught Interpreting and ASL classes in New Orleans, and is currently an adjunct instructor in the Sign Language Interpreter Program at Georgia Perimeter College. Laura enjoys teaching interpreting classes, mentoring, and encouraging pre-certified interpreters. Laura currently resides in Alpharetta, Georgia, and is working in the community providing interpreting services for the greater Atlanta area. Her areas of specialty include medical and legal interpreting. She also enjoys spending time with her husband Noel and their three children.

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Left breast hasn't dropped yet
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Jan 8 2010 I had 600cc silicone dual-plane breast augmentation done. I was told by my PS to wear the "BAND" for the nxt 4-6 WKS. My post opp neither breasts had dropd. Cupl days latr the right 1 dropdm But my Left 1 still hasn't budged I stopd massaging it bc i got a huge red & purple bruise on the bottm of my left breast. I was told i culd sleep on my side if i put a pillow between my legs which i did but i always slept on my rgt side. bruise is gone now but no change
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It was a move Kobe Bryant had made a million times in his 17-year career, a simple move to the basket.
Unlike all those previous times, though, Bryant crumpled to the ground. He grabbed his left leg, knowing the pain in his calf was troubling.
Bryant suffered a probable torn Achilles' late in Friday's game against Golden State, putting an end to his season.
"I was (mad) and sad," Bryant said, propped against the wall in the locker room, crutches under his arms. "I worked really hard to get tot his point. I was (mad)."
Bryant is scheduled to have an MRI on Saturday to determine the extent of the injury. Bryant said he no doubt will have surgery followed by a long recovery period.
"It's terrible, a terrible feeling," he said. "I felt like I got kicked."
Bryant said he tried to walk off the injury during a time out before shooting free throws, but "there was nothing there. .. No Achilles."
Bryant said of all the injuries he has suffered in his career, this one hurts the most. The Lakers are fighting for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, staying a full game ahead of Utah in the standings.
The Lakers have two games remaining – Sunday against San Antonio and Houston on Wednesday.
"They need to continue to play," Bryant said of his team's chances of extending its season without him. "We've had injuries all year. But I will do what I can, watch film, prepare and communicate to the guys the best plan of attach against these teams and go from there."


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Just shout, "All aboard!" and I'm there.
I'm a sucker for trains, passionate about light rail, gooey over subways, sentimental about trams and trolley buses, and very content on a bus. I'm a public transport enthusiast.
This doesn't mean, as critics of public conveyances so often assume, that one is against cars.
Let's get this straight: One of the great wonders that make life in our times free and rich is the private car. It could be argued that they deserve constitutional protection, like guns and the media.
When you climb into your car, you are truly free. More, you are surrounded by your own stuff — the half-eaten candy bar, crushed tissue box, scattered CDs and quite possibly the hair from your dog. Even if you are a neatnik, your car is your castle: safe, secure, mobile, cozy, cool.
Also, the car is a work of manufacturing genius — so much complexity for so little money. The first thing every poor person dreams of is a car.
I got my first old banger when I turned 16. It had many deficiencies, not the least of which were the mechanical brakes and the unsynchronized gear box.
But for me, it was the greatest vehicle ever built: Keep your Rollses, Bugattis and Cadillacs. I had a car. I was free. I was grown up. I was a person. The open road belonged to me, as did the toolbox, the lovers' lane and wondrous bragging rights.
So what's this about public transportation?
Sadly, in cities, cars have worn out their welcome. The miracle of the private car is now the urban curse. Too much of a good thing, you might say.
It's not so much that cars are bad, but that they're being used for the wrong things: getting to work or getting around a crowded city.
Europe has its car problems, but it does better with alternatives. You need guts and patience to get around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris by car or to circumvent London on the M25.
In 2003 London restricted cars through a stiff congestion charge, which is now a model for the world — although Singapore did it 25 years earlier.
For political and historical reasons, Europe has the jump on public transportation. Not just its great cities but also its smaller towns, and even villages, have workable (extensive, seven days a week) public systems. A few American cities — notably Boston, New York and Chicago — offer integrated public transport, but more as a last resort than a first choice.
In Prague, Czech Republic, I've just taken a tram from my Old Town hotel to the castle across the Vltava River and back. Easy and fun. User-friendly, too. I traveled here in about four hours from Bratislava, Slovakia, on a clean, comfortable train with a dining car and toilets.
President Barack Obama has talked a good line on infrastructure and green jobs. The two should be joined.
Infrastructure jobs mop up the construction-worker surplus and position our cities for a greener future. Particularly, electric buses need a new hearing. Overhead lines have worked well with two connections — like a big tuning fork — bringing in the power. But they have one weakness: They are not flexible and tend to disconnect on corners. Better engineering and batteries could solve that old bugaboo.
There is a liberal elite that worships Eurotransit and in so doing infuriates the Europhobes.
In the 1980s, we were constantly looking to Japan to see what worked — until it didn't work anymore. In all but air transportation, it's time to look to Europe to see what works and improve on it. I doubt the practicality of high-speed rail in this country, but electric vehicles in our cities, with fewer cars, would improve the quality of life as the air cleared.
What's more, transportation infrastructure is an investment in which the jobs stay here, and people experience the difference.
Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle" on PBS.
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Charlie Straight – Coco
I'm not going to lie; my listening this week has been consumed by The Lumineers. I cannot get enough of that album. And so I've been neglecting submissions a little bit but I was intrigued by a Czech band that made it's way into the inbox. I was pleasantly surprised by the music and the music video for Charlie Straight's latest single, Coco.
The four-piece from Prague is made up of Albert Cerny, Jan Cienciala, Pavel Pilch, and Michal Šupákhas. They have Britpop vibes surrounded by a wall of sound. The oh's and Coco's may seem repetitive to some but it strikes the right balance for me.
Coco was originally released in late 2011. Here's the Charlie Straight Facebook page. Hope you enjoy the music.


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Thomas Rhett's Annual Holiday Tradition [PICTURES]
Thomas Rhett and his wife might be the most fun couple to hang out with. They've been doing their annual Christmas Party for a few years now and it seems that they have tons of fun doing it. Rhett and his wife Lauren recently celebrated their 1st wedding anniversary in 2013.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — In his inaugural address, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said his vision is to make Jamaica the centre of the Caribbean.
Speaking after being appointed Thursday by Governor-general Sir Patrick Allen on the lawns of King's House in St Andrew, and taking the title 'The Most Honourable' after being conferred with the Order of the Nation, Holness said geographically Jamaica is the centre of the Caribbean.
However, the prime minister's vision is to "truly make Jamaica the centre of the Caribbean" — a centre for finance, trade and commerce, arts, culture and lifestyles, among several other areas.
The new prime minister said this can be achieved "in our lifetime".
My dream is to fulfil your dream. We must create a Jamaica where there is hope and opportunity, where we can encourage our children to dream big…" Holness said.
Prime Minister Holness insisted that Jamaicans must start now as it is a "time for partnership, time for action".


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PRADO, Shirley Donizete and SAYD, Jane Dutra. The research about human aging in Brazil: researchers, themes, and tendencies. Ciênc. saúde coletiva [online]. 2004, vol.9, n.3, pp.763-772. ISSN 1678-4561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-81232004000300027.
We discuss investigated themes and tendencies of the research about human aging in Brazil from indicators that relate the degrees of the researchers and students inserted in the research groups that constitute the Executive Committee of the Research Groups in Brazil (2002) of the Scientifical and Technological Development National Council (CNPq) in its 4.1 version. The criterion to identify the studied groups was the one of, at least, the development of a research line related to the human aging and the search in the data base was done from key-words related to the human aging process. There were 144 groups identified, 209 research lines, and 511 researchers. The results suggest a reduced power of reproduction of this labour force, even lesser among the groups that focus on, exclusively, the human aging study. They also show that the route in the direction to the research scientific consolidation to these particular groups will be much longer than the one to other areas, such as, epidemiology.
Keywords : Aging; Aged; Research; Tendencies; Researchers; Scientific production; Brazil.


text: Hey there! After 6 visits to Disney World and 3 to Disneyland, we are thinking more and more about becoming members of DVC. I tried to get some information on the disney website and I was a bit disappointed to read that since I live in the province of Quebec, they are not allowed to give me information about membership. Now, does this mean that I can't buy a membership? Thanks in advance!


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2.) Not in my experience, but it depends of course what "scale" means to you. 9Gig Data.fs works fine for me, no idea if 1TB would be useable. The 9Gig is also without blob support, once that goes into the app, it will be a lot smaller.
3.) Versioning (aka "built-in undo") has saved my sweet butt a couple of times. Packing is really painless, never ever failed for me in many years. My incremental backup scripts include a packing / full backup cycle every few months.
4.) Never ever cracked for me. In my experience ZODB is a tough sucker. Many years of work on ZODB probably make a lot of difference to the newcomers in the robustness department.
Don't forget that on ZODB, the case stated above ("Once we store a document in CouchDB, we modify it at least twice after the original write") would result only in one write if it was in the same transacation. Not quite clear from the description if they're talking about multiple transactions there.
Proper setup of objects also means that not all edits write a huge object to the DB, ideally only a small subobject.


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This cute (and very appropriate) graphic showed up on my Facebook feed today, so of course I had to download it and colour it in because I'm still a little girl when it comes to colouring.
A lot of these are things I really want to start doing, but I think I'm going to pick one at a time to start incorporating into my life. This weekend I'm going to work on #6. I seem to stay up much too late these days, which doesn't work as well when you're 34. I have such a hard time getting out of bed in the morning that I have to basically drag myself down the stairs while poor Lola has her paws crossed waiting to go out. It's hard when you work from home, and are a night owl. In a perfect world I would stay up all night long and sleep all day, but I know that those kinds of hours make my BPD worse. I have to start taking this seriously, and getting good sleep is one of the things that keeps popping up in all the literature I've read. (I suck at time management, that's another goal for another day!)


text: HOUSTON: If I had to pick one draft that I was not excited about, this would be the one. But I might be too hard on my evaluation of Brian Cushing and Connor Barwin. I just don't see how these two players can help a slow, non-pass-rushing defense get better. Time will tell, but this is the kind of draft that the Texans' front office better have right or it might not improve their team in '09 -- and it might cost some people some jobs. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11683747 ************************************** 1560 show - Lombardi show this morning Friday, May 1 http://thegame.podbean.com/category/john-and-lance-show/ ******************************************* I liked the Draft (I'd give it 'bout a B), but this guy didn't and asks if the decisions made could get Kubiak & Co canned by McNair. "Thegame" link provided herein has a podcast of Lombardi's statements on 1560 this morning which elaborates the theme - basically says that Cushing is off the field on 3rd downs and Barwin, while athletic, may not be "disruptive". He says the Texans have a tremendous offense, but still may lack that all-important pass-rusher to help Mario and their D.


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No, there isn't a fundamental problem with public domain code and AL2. Public domain code can always be included in anything. (That's the whole point of the public domain.)
I think you're referring to the problem with having Pugs be public domain and then become the production implementation of Perl 6? The problem there is not that we can't include public domain code in AL2 code, the problem is that if all of Perl 6 (or even 90% of it) is available as public domain, then there's nothing to stop an unscrupulous company from creating a proprietary version of Perl 6 and refusing to release the source code or send patches of their improvements back to the free version. (AL2 allows proprietary versions, but only under certain conditions.)
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Meet the ultra-thin member of the Survivor family of cases that combines minimalist good looks with protection from 2-meter drops.
Survivor Core delivers the same 2-meter drop protection that you've come to expect from Survivor military-tough cases, in an ultra-thin, one-piece, snap-on hybrid shell.
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Was it a stunt? Yep, and an eye-catching one. Was Gregory being aggressive with the NRA chief, or seeming to push gun control in a confrontational interview? All that is up for debate.
But a police probe over what I assume was an empty ammo clip is a total waste of time. What it demonstrates above all is that journalists are getting ensnared in the political war over gun control.
Even more absurd than a criminal inquiry into David Gregory is an effort by pro-gun enthusiasts to kick Piers Morgan out of the country. His crime? Carrying on a passionate crusade for gun control.


text: 2001 Maniacs: A drunken group of hard partying college-kids are in for a Spring Break theyll never forget when they take a tragic detour through the small southern town of Pleasant Valley. Greeted by the overzealous mayor (Robert Englund) and promised a wild time at the towns annual barbecue celebration, the initially-hesitant teens soon agree to spend the night when the citizens down-home hospitality simply becomes too much to resist. But things are not what they seem in the timeless town of Pleasant Valley, and as the thrill seeking students begin to disappear one-by-one in the most gruesome of fashions, it soon becomes obvious that they are to be the main ingredient in Pleasant Valleys most tasty tradition.2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams: When this years round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome & Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew of their Road Rascals reality show.Check stock and price


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Well, this is how it went at the Turkey Shoot
Well I went to another Turkey Shoot. Even took my youngest son (17yrs.old) with me. There was about 40 contestants at this particular Turkey Shoot. Normal rules nothing fancy. The target is a gray area inside a turkey's head & neck. Most pellet holes in the gray area wins that match, 10 matches total. Winners of a match enters the trophy match. My son & I are sharing my Ol' Faithful 870 Remington. My son wins the first match. :) I win the third match. My son & I played in a 10 matches. My son also wins the 10th match. So we're both in the trophy match with 5 other shooters, 7 altogether. Well, the picture of my son below shows the final results.
The man to the left of my son is the range owner/ organizer of the turkey shoot. Ironic that this is my son's first Turkey Shoot. So, we're driving home and my son asks, "Dad can you bring me to the next Turkey Shoot?" I say, "NO WAY!! you make the competition too stiff." :p
Days like this makes life all seem worth while.
What's better than me winning a Turkey Shoot is when my son wins it.
This has been the best Turkey Shoot I've been to ever...and I have been to a lot of fun, good times turkey shoots.
Congrats to you and your son for winning First Place, Under. :D
Great shooting both of you, the family that shoots together, apparently wins turkey shoots, among other things! ;)
Thanks Jack.
It has been an excellent day indeed. :D
He makes me proud.
I just don't know how I'm goin' to win any other shoots now that he's tagging along. :p
I share your feelings!!
With so much junk for our kids to get involved with, shooting is such a pleasure for us parents!
Kudos UnderFire for a great DAD job!
Thanks Bro!!
Most excellent and congratulations to Underfire Jr. :D
Well pass along a hearty "CONGRATULATIONS!" to that young man for me. :)
Now you just need to tell him -- "From here on out, it's your responsibility to bring home the bacon!" ;)
No pressure...... :D
Sounds like you have a partner for life at the Turkey Shoots. Good stuff, brother, damn good stuff. :D
Nice work, Pops!
Wow! CONGRATULATIONS to you both!
That is so cool! Real quality time!
He looks like a fine young man. And so proud in the photo! You must be so proud of him!
I'll bet you couldn't get him off the phone, telling all of his buds. ;)
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I've read so many of your stories on here, & I guess I never realized how many of us were in the same boat. In my mind I'm always comparing myself to other moms & how they look, (which of course is always better than me, IMO.) It drives me nuts. I had always been very confident, & just want to be myself again.
I've never been overweight...quite the opposite. I was tiny, barely 5ft. tall, & was about 120 lbs of pure muscle. I ate like a horse, but couldn't sit still for more than a second, so I never had to worry about my weight. I was able to wear kids' sized clothes in high school. I liked how I looked.
Then I had kids.
I had my daughter when I was 19. That pregnancy packed on the pounds very quickly. I didn't eat any differently...probably even ate less. Regardless, I gained a LOT of weight, which resulted in a LOT of stretch marks. Everywhere. That pregnancy ended up with an emergency c-section that left me with that oh-so-awesome flap of skin that will never go away. Nobody warned me of such things! I worked so hard to get rid of it...even got down to lower than my pre-pregnancy weight...& still hated how I looked. It was a huge blow to my confidence. That was when I knew I wanted to fix it asap.
Since then I've had 2 boys. I didn't gain near as much during either of those pregnancies, & I've gotten back to pre-pregnancy weight both times. But, my boys definitely had a huge impact on my body as well. I didn't breastfeed my daughter, so I had no clue what kind of impact it can have on one's boobies! Mine had actually gotten bigger & stayed that way after my daughter was born. After breastfeeding both my sons for a couple years each, though, my nice sized, full boobies just deflated like old balloons. It was sad :( After my first son, they slooooowly got back to normal. The 2nd time, though, no such luck! It's been over a year & nothing has changed. One positive thing, though, is that my previously inverted nipples are now both very much outies & much more symetrical than before.
So, the time has finally come where we can financially get my mommy makeover. I'm done having babies, & am at the lowest weight I can get. My absolutely amazing husband has been on board forever, & wants me to feel comfortable in my own skin again. He doesn't like that I'm too uncomfortable to take my tanktop off at the beach, or that I yank my shirt down if he even touches it slightly. He knows how it makes me feel, & even though he says he loves how I look, thankfully he loves me enough to want me to feel better about me. I want a TT, BA, & lipo. Tomorrow is my first consultation. It's with Dr. N in Lewisburg, PA. I've heard some amazing things about him, & have researched his credentials like crazy. I'm beyond excited...
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So Excited!!! This Long Awaited Process Begins Tomorrow! - McAlister, PA
I've read so many of your stories on here,...
I've read so many of your stories on here, & I guess I never realized how many of us were in the same boat. In my mind I'm always comparing myself to other moms & how they look, (which of course is always better than me, IMO.) It drives me nuts. I had always been very confident, & just want to be myself again.
I've been wanting to update this since my first...
I had my 2nd consult, this time with Dr. Normington, on the 11th. He's a great doctor...very personable, & very in depth about everything. He took a LONG time with me. I even was able to meet a couple of his patients who were in the waiting room that day. One woman just had a tummy tuck & the other woman had previous work done by him & is thinking about getting a tummy tuck. They both are extremely satisfied with his work, & they both have friends & family that have gone to him. That just made me feel all the better. I've already heard how great he is, but that sort of sealed the deal. After my consult that day I went ahead & confirmed my pre-op & surgery dates, & paid for everything! There's no turning back now! I'm very confident in my decision, though.
One thing I wasn't sure about was if I would need a breast lift. I was hoping not...simply because I don't like the incisions being that noticeable, plus I was afraid I'd have to have 2 separate surgeries done. But, I want high, round, fake looking breasts, & I was worried that I wouldn't get the look I want without a lift. After examining me, he told me that he wouldn't be satisfied without doing the lift. It just wouldn't look as good as it possibly could without one. He reassured me, & I'm pretty psyched now that I'll definitely get the look I'm aiming for. He explained the tummy tuck procedure, & showed me in the mirror that everything I can pinch will be gone. That's awesome, because I can pinch absolutely everything! If all of that is gone, I'll be one hot mama again :)
So, altogether, I'll be getting the TT, lipo of the flanks, a breast lift, & BA. He'll be able to do it all at the same time, too. That made me extremely happy. Having 3 kids, I didn't know how I was gonna pull off 2 surgeries. Plus, it obviously costs more to have it done separately. I'm just happy he can get it all done in one shot!
I go July 21st for my pre-op appointment. There I'll be picking out my implant size, & just going over everything again. They said to expect a packet in the mail before then with a list of things I'll need. Then August 8th will be the big day! I can't wait.
I definitely will be posting pictures, but I really don't want to post before pictures until I have after pictures to go with them. Just my own self-consciousness!
So, with my surgery date less than a week away, I...
After I did all that I met with my dr. to just go over everything again. He gave me vitamins to take before & after my surgery, & explained all my prescriptions. He pretty much explained every step of the process...even discussing things we already talked about. He told me the risks & things like that, & showed my husband how to do the drains afterwards. He is so informative. We were there for at least 2 hours during that appointment. It was even over lunchtime, & we didn't feel like they were rushing us one bit.
My husband keeps asking if I'm nervous. He definitely is. My daughter is, too, which makes me feel so bad! My mom never had surgery, so it's something I never had to deal with. I'm sure if my mom would've done this when I was a kid, I would've been a nervous wreck, too!
Right now I'm not nervous at all. I'm sure I will be the day before & the day of, but I'm so excited to do this that the pain & recovery & everything does not deter me what-so-ever. The only thing I feel really is guilt. Well, guilt & stress! I feel guilty that I'm spending so much on such a selfish thing, guilty that my husband will have so much on his shoulders, & guilty that my family has to come help out. Nobody minds, & everybody is encouraging. I just feel really bad. I hate having to ask people for help. I'm trying to reassure myself that this is for the best...which I truly do believe...but it's hard not to think the money could be better spent on my kids, or bills, or whatever. I have a million things to get done in the next week, so the stress of all of that doesn't help. I'm just overwhelmed! It sucks!
Despite it all, I cannot wait to have my body back again. If it gives me the confidence to be myself & do things I love again, it'll be more than worth it!


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Legalising the horn trade
Save the Rhino supports sustainable use. This means that we are not ethically opposed to the use or sale of animals in a sustainable way – as long as this does not negatively impact on the population as a whole or cause pain or suffering to the animal.
This means, in theory, that we are not ethically opposed to the horn trade, as horns can be removed without harming rhinos – though this is not to say that dehorning is simple. Our concerns, however, are based on whether the horn trade could be put into practice without threatening rhino populations. As such, Save the Rhino has not yet reached a conclusion on whether an international trade is workable or not long-term. We are currently considering the cases for and against.
However, we currently do not believe, based on the evidence available, that the required checks and balances are in place now, or are likely to be in the near future, for a legal horn trade to be regulated successfully and without leakage into a black market – potentially fuelling further demand.
The debate over whether or not to legalise the trade in rhino horn tends to polarise opinion. Let's start with the two central tenets that people in all camps can agree on. Firstly, we all want to see more rhinos in more viable populations in the wild. Secondly, we all accept that there is no silver bullet that will solve the rhino poaching crisis: legal trade on its own will not work; anti-poaching patrols on their own will not work. So the question should really be: what combination of approaches should we adopt to ensure that rhino numbers and rhino population numbers continue to grow?
Legalising the trade may be one of these approaches and is being actively discussed or supported by South Africa and Swaziland. There are several different options for a legalised trade in rhino horn. Click on the headers below to read more about these scenarios.
1. One off sale of rhino horn stockpiles
2. Domestic trade in rhino horn
3. (Semi) permanent international CITES regulated sale
Photo credit Renaud Fulconis
(45) Comments
Anonymous commenter
05 May 2013, 05:55
It should not be legalized, however legally dehorned horns could be dispensed into the market at the full illegal market price to generate income for rhino protection. In such case internationally certified agents could be exempted from the prohibition in order to collect the value without legalizing the trade.
12 May 2013, 10:25
Any approach towards the legalising of the trade has got to be cautious in the extreme. My main concern is that this would be a classic genie out of the bottle case and if legalisation proceeded then it would be near on impossible to reverse or monitor afterwards. If the decision turned out to be wrong then the consequences could be catastrophic. We will have gambled it all on a single roll of the die... and lost.
12 May 2013, 11:46
One of the main proponent arguments for legalising the trade is to flood the market with stockpiles using the laws of supply and demand to drop the value of the horn and thus make it less attractive to poachers. This is too simplistic a rationale however with several potential flaws. There are indeed large stockpiles that if released in one or two batches to the market would be sufficient to depress market value. However, longer term, once the stockpiles are gone will there be sufficient supply to maintain low market pricing? If the prices rise again then the potential for poaching returns. Secondly, just because stockpiles are released, doesn't necessarily mean that they will reach the end market in bulk. Will mechanisms be in place to ensure that the stockpiles are not simply transferred in to the hands of the illegal cartels currently running the trade? If not, they will simply buy up the supply at low prices and then hoard them to artificially maintain high prices to the end users. We see how this occurs in the diamond industry where prices are kept artificially high because of the control of supply by a cartel. Thirdly, how much of the current research is based on existing demand levels for horn and how much has been allowed in the equation to cope with the inevitable explosion of demand following legalisation? Middle incomes continue to rise in the Far East and any demand models need to take in to account a quickly rising demand curve. Will there really be sufficient supply in the future to meet demand while keeping prices low enough to deter poaching? Debateable and, to me, not worth the risk of finding out.
12 May 2013, 12:07
Is this a solution proposed to save all Rhinos and their habitats as we would want them or a desperate measure to ensure that at least a few rhino survive to be seen? Take a hypothetical post-legalisation of trade world: I am a landowner in South Africa and Rhino are living on my land. Yesterday they were wildlife that happened to be there. Today they have suddenly become my property. They have value to me and I don't want to lose them. I start by building more fencing. I can't have them wandering in to my neighbours property or they will be able to harvest the horn. In fact, I want to try and get their rhinos to wander on to my property. I want as many rhino as possible to increase my income. That means I want White Rhino. They are more sociable than Black Rhinos. More can live in an area and they are more amenable to be approached and de-horned. I don't care so much about black rhino as they won't be as profitable. My white Rhino only need grass to eat and I need to be able to track them and get to them easily. Best to cut down all the acacia scrub and create wide open grassland with little else in the way of bushes or trees. The landscape is now becoming open grazing farmland with less variety and less able to sustain a full ecosystem. Other species are suffering but at least there are lots of white rhinos. I am now developing cost effective ways to de-horn. The rhino are more sociable now and used to humans. They allow us to herd them in to bomas so that they can patiently allow us to de-horn them without sedation. I am keeping my eyes open for those with larger horn sizes as I am now going to start selective breeding for "my stock". The white rhinos are starting to become something else, no longer wild, more like specially bred cattle. Elsewhere, black rhino are being pushed out as white rhino become more commercial. The remaining black rhino are being poached because gangs market their horns as being more potent than white rhino horns and so are commanding higher prices. Some farmers appreciate this and try to cash in but the black rhino are difficult to keep and socialise so most stick to the commercial white. Poaching is not so prevalent, white rhinos are on the rise but is this really the rhino world we wanted?
David Maguire
17 October 2013, 20:23
I disagree with the very first comment "we all want to see more rhinos in more viable populations in the wild" Why?? There are plenty of Southern White Rhino in our game reserves. In fact there are probably too many in the Kruger National Park with numbers now in excess of 7000, probably closer to 10,000 and about 1700 to 1900 in the Umfolozi parks. How many can these reserves hold without grazing and other species being affected, and how many do we want to see? Its crazy. Rhino numbers have been increasing over the past 20 years to the extent that we now dont need any more. What we do need is more habitat or game reserves if we want more Rhino. Back in the late 70's early 80's there were probably just under or just over a thousand White rhino in the KNP and only a few hundred black rhino. It has now increased to close on 10,000 and that is too many considering it was said then that the K Park could sustain only 7000 elephant. There are many more now and the park actually has too much game. If Rhino sanctuaries were established in areas adjoining the KNP and in other areas where poaching is rife, these would act as decoys and attract poachers if the sanctuaries were small enough and highly populated with white rhino. It may well keep poachers out of the park and would be easier to catch them since these sanctuaries would act as bait to the poachers and traps could be set to intercept them there. It should also be remembered that the white rhino, because of the high numbers, assist in protecting the more endangered black rhino since they are easier to find and hunt and may have larger horns. Likewise, these sanctuaries would do the same to protect the rhino in the parks adjoining these sanctuaries. So we should be thinking of getting some of the "TOO MANY"rhino in the park into such sanctuaries that would in effect buffer poaching in the park. This is already happening in private game reserves and game farms where rhino are poached and is assisting the protection of the rhino in the parks.
25 October 2013, 23:17
David, with respect, with 7 BILLION humans and counting, maybe there's just too many people squeezing out every other species.
peta taylor
21 February 2014, 14:34
I simply don't understand the argument for legalising a trade (i.e.developing rhino farming) in what is essentially a placebo substance. If it goes ahead, isn't it akin to admitting that rhino horns have medicinal properties: they don't and it's been scientifically proven that they don't. So it's a no-win: dealers/farmers/traders would be lying and open to litigation while the poor old rhinos pay up, albeit under controlled situations. Most money generated really should be spent educating and appealing to people (Vietnamese...whoever's involved) to reject and refuse because it's all a lie and they're wasting their MONEY. Money is after all at the root of this and I suspect will trump any sense of animal welfare in the cultures who pursue rhino horn for some crazed status symbol or mythical power it is believed to have. Emphasise the lies and waste of money over the cruelty with these people...talk in their terms.
Clare Davies
26 February 2014, 03:49
I am glad someone wrote an article on the pros and cons of trading legally in rhino horn. I dont believe this is because I have a bias, but I found the arguements for trading in rhino horn legally (permitting trade in horn) a lot stronger than the arguments for not trading. I really found the arguments for not legalising trade in rhino horn pretty weak. I know this article was written to give both sides so its not a criticism, but an observation that the arguments for and against and weak on the one hand and a lot stronger on the other. I believe trade in horn has some definite benefits and a trial should be permitted. Thank you - Clare Davies
12 March 2014, 05:01
This is not right the rhino horn trade needs to be stopped but people rush into it and will make a silly decision that will end up with all of the rhinos extinct. I think there needs to be some thinking for the pros and cons. This is a serious matter and it means a lot to me I just hope they get it right.
29 April 2014, 17:00
We may have been able to at one point but now the numbers are to little, considering the demand would go up before it went down and we would wipe out a lot of species before the demand went down. So now we can not legalize the horn trade. It would not benefit any animal.
Anonymous commenter
16 May 2014, 16:38
I think legalising it is a crazy idea it will just make the problem worse!
16 July 2014, 12:33
this is really sad,no matter how hard we try the poachers wont stop doing this so just forget. consider all of them killed
Anonymous commenter
06 August 2014, 17:26
I'm surprised not to hear a rumor that rhino horns have been doctored with dormant ebola virus or something equally nasty. It would serve the ultimate consumers right to get sick from their "medicine".
Anonymous commenter
13 September 2014, 12:35
The problem is that conservation is emotion and cause driven. If like most successful en devours it was results driven we might have a chance. 20 years ago east and central Africa where facing the same problems as South Africa is now. A lot of money and effort by very committed people was wasted trying to save the Rhino. In the end all the money and effort failed. If you are an CEO of a company your are judged on results. Why should it be different for conservation. We are trying the same old formula that has already failed because it feels good and is not controversial. In the end when it fails they have the excuse that they were fighting for a good cause.
Instead of beating on the same old drum that has failed in the past is clearly faltering now, have the guts to try something different. The current system is not working stand aside and let people try other ideas and then judge it on results.
I wonder if the anti utilization lobby are terrified of trying sustainable utilization because if it works they have to admit that it may have saved the rhino in central and east Africa.
I am amazed at the extreme caution of people who are anti utilization. It is complex and risky etc etc. The Rhino are vanishing fast while we argue. Either come up with an effective solution that makes you feel good or let others try something different. Soon the argument may be irrelevant.
Anonymous commenter
23 September 2014, 09:22
In South Africa so many Rhinos have been poached that it seems normal and our government is in so many deals with China that He doesn't care and has not payed a cent to help save these precious animals but tons of millions of rands on his house. Soon South Africa will have no Rhinos
Anonymous commenter
12 October 2014, 18:49
Whilst the governments and NGOs argue, the White Rhino are disappearing fast. It is time to give legalisation a chance. It is backed by sound minded South African reserve owners who are being frightened out of their lives by poachers who seem to always be one step ahead. Stock piles of rhino horn are a ticking time bomb and take much needed finances to protect. Legalisation makes sense.
Anonymous commenter
03 February 2015, 13:34
That which is necessary for the protection of this species, both now and in the future, should be done. And as quickly as possible too. But what should be done? That, obviously, remains undone. Sun Tzu, I think, would know exactly what to do about it.
05 February 2015, 07:59
CITES has had over 30 years! Education and militarised protection of rhino's has proven futile, look at the statics… poaching is on the rise because the criminals control the market. In 2016, at the next vote, I really hope CITES members vote to legalise the rhino trade for South Africa. If not, that could be the decision that sends them on a path to extinction. Put emotions aside and look at the situation objectively. Give Wildlife value and it will be protected for generations to come. Have you ever seen a domestic species become extinct… NO. It's simple, because they have value! Leave the majority of Rhino's in reserves, take the surplus, give them back to the indigenous people and let them farm the horns. It brings money back into the community and will ensure that community has a true respect and value for wildlife. Let the poachers try kill their stock, have you seen community justice?!? The get the legalised product into the market slowly, increasing gradually to a sustainable level that "horn farms" can keep up with. Over time it becomes affordable to all, less valuable, less demand. Everything else we have tried has FAILED! At the rate we are going, by 2026 there will be no more rhino's left in the wild. If you think this is fuzzy logic, let the past dictate the future and look at example that shed light on the above. In the 70's, Kenya and South Africa had the same number of wildlife, 1.5 million heads. Kenya went the full protection route, no trading of wildlife, no breeding farms, no hunting (biltong or sport) only tourism (reserves and photographic). 30 plus years down the line, Kenya has lost 80% of its wildlife to illegal hunting trade and poaching. In South Africa we have allowed trading, farming, hunting (sport and biltong) and tourism. We now have over 20 million heads. Let's use this knowledge and put idealistic emotions aside. Let wildlife be valuable to the people and the people will protect and conserve their resource, as it becomes their livelihood. Conservation, like all things in life must adapt or it becomes irrelevant.
Do your research, watch Rhino's in Crisis by David Cook. Research the facts afterwards and then, for the love of rhino… SHARE! Knowledge is power!
Paul, Durban, South Africa
Anonymous commenter
09 February 2015, 11:07
South Africa has an estimate of 18 tons of rhino horn in stockpiles nevermind the rest of Africa. I say sell the stockpiles at low prices and flood the market, this will decrease the risk/reward for poaching. Send the whole lot to the East mixed with a lethal dose of Arsenic, let the rubbish all suffer...
Anonymous commenter
02 March 2015, 12:34
When I was in Zimbabwe in Hwange last year our guide was convinced that a legal trade was the way to go. All the countries - apart from Kenya I think - has a stockpile of rhino horn apparently. I was amazed as it had seemed so wrong but after listening to him, who really knew his stuff and had no other interest than looking after his environment, I began to think he had a point.
Moshimanyana Wa-Lekgowa
08 March 2015, 15:03
It is time the ANC idiots realize that using their majority to influence proposals and changes in the constitution is what is taking the country backward. it is time those idiots votes as individuals understanding of the consequences of the proposed agendas, most specially in regard to opposition. The DA last proposed the use of our defense force to help guard our country and boarders, as most attacks in the Kruger are carried out from Mozambique and Zimbabwe. the question is, if this is the case, why not use them? furthermore more why ain't they (defense forces) guarding our boarders anyway? legalizing such trade is not gonna help the rhinos in any way. the rhinos and us as south African need security, our armed forced are used to guard zuma's illegal businesses in Congo, and Central African Republic while our people and rhinos are left to vulnerable. it a no for the trade!
Haydn Marques
15 March 2015, 15:15
The sad thing about this whole argument, the trade in rhino horn, is that it is based on human greed. Here we are debating the future of these magnificent animals, while they have no choice in their future. No animal appears to have any worth unless it has commercial value. We have destroyed ourselves as a species. Everyone seems to look at this critical situation as an opportunity. And CITES is an oxymoron!
Dave, East London
31 March 2015, 14:48
I agree strongly with Andrew's comments above (12 May 2013) and Peta's.
Flooding the market is potentially a great short-term solution, but a poor long-term solution: by legalising the trade, you are vindicating the use of rhino horn as medicine, thereby negating all the work of NGO's in Vietnam that have been trying to change the Vietnamese culture regarding the use of rhino horn. Secondly, you are exposing a far greater population to rhino horn and therefore increasing the market size, so that in years to come the demand will increase. And thirdly, like the diamond trade, how will we know that the horns end up flooding the market?
The solution is not in anti-poaching. The solution is changing the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese (and other) peoples. They need to be made aware that it is shameful. See TRAFFIC report here: http://www.traffic.org/home/2013/9/17/pioneering-research-reveals-new-insights-into-the-consumers.html
And lastly, no, you cannot poison the horns!
03 April 2015, 07:52
could someone explain to me how legalising this trade would stop poaching?
Anonymous commenter
24 May 2015, 03:29
I live in Australia and I got to know about the critical situation of Rhino extinction in recent TV news. My view is that the only way to stop is to control at both the source and supplies.
Education in Africa is needed to inform the people they are slowly writing off their national precious that can't be replace by money. Future African and world children could only imagine what a Rhino is from a picture unless we do something to protect these harmless animals now.
Information play a vital role in the consumer market. Many of the horn consumers blindly assumed and belive the price they pay is great for they health. Often these only happen in less educated communities and the government play a vital role in providing information to the business, it is not necessary to kill the hen for its eggs. There are already available or even better substitute for eggs as protein supplement. I am pretty sure there are already substitute for Rhino horns as well.
Johnny Goodboy
09 July 2015, 07:49
Farmers don't kill their Rhino's when they harvest the horns. The poachers do. Farmers buy their Rhino's and look after them. They can harvest these horns every 20 months. If they can sell these horns, then they will make good money from these animals. Good businesses don't go under, bad ones do. The higher the demand, the more Rhino's will be bred. Diamonds has a high value so they get mined everywhere. Let the farmers make money from their Rhino's and they will breed them more than cattle. Remember, you do not have to kill a Rhino to keep on making money from it. Legalization is the answer and sanity. The rest is idealistic emotion. Johnny Goodboy.
13 November 2015, 03:20
I think it should stay this way it's about time they are run off the earth
15 December 2015, 22:46
Rhino horn trade needs to be legalized ASAP, otherwise all Rhino will die. The Rhino trade ban triggered all the problems of poaching, which is a classic example that another left-wing policy did exactly opposite what it expected to achieve. Rhino can only survive when it is part of hour life chain, maybe it is for food, or it is for medicine or it is for bags. As long as it is useful,, market will give a way to keep them alive. If the ban is still there, no one other than some government workers will care about Rhino and the only fate for them is extinction .
Mike Eikey
27 December 2015, 04:40
If investors could buy large tracts of habitat to farm rhino for their horns the species will not go extinct. (thats our goal) The habitat and the species will be saved. There obviously must be regulations and oversight.
02 January 2016, 02:14
I agree 100%, it worked in North America, bison were quickly becoming extinct long after it became illegal to hunt.. The. They allowed farmers to farm it and they're no were near extinction.
I don't think cows or chickens are going extinct any time soon. Legally Monetize it and it will grow, instead of buying horns, they'll buy a rhino and just harvest it once a year...
08 February 2016, 17:02
just legalize it, (and weed), and lets all move on... More money is spent fighting rhino poachers (and weed) when we could be making that much or more on the horns (and weed).
Anonymous commenter
15 February 2016, 13:36
This is not about earning dollars, it's about our future generations together with the beauty of our indigenous animals. So i hardly say: To hell with legalising of rhino horns trade. Instead, we must remove rhinos from game reserve and put them in an isolated reserve. Those who want rhino horns must try to farm their own artificial rhinos. The nature will survive freely when we our species has extinct...
Anonymous commenter
24 April 2016, 16:27
Stupid is as stupid does....worst idea I've heard in a very long time. Doing this would definitely seal the rhino's fate. Please stop this nonsense and come to your senses before they are all gone.
Fikae Chu
02 May 2016, 04:49
how can be legalised? human sometimes need to take some ice water to make their brain cold..
this nonsense to be consent? oh mine...
heres my article about rhino horn..
feel free to read http://iceteainfo.blogspot.com/2016/05/asia-is-big-market-for-illegal-rhino.html
05 May 2016, 05:54
The bid to have Rhino horn legally traded across the world is deeply flawed. A one off sell of stock piles equally so.
Stocks, however they are eventually traded in the market, stockpiled or flooded with no regulation are simply not enough, its doubtful if the price will drop, even if it does it will very quickly return to the highs they are now, and in fact higher as demand will have increased substantially.
Once you have legally supplied the demand how are you going to keep legally supplying the demand with a limited product made ever finite every day by illegal poaching. A demand that will have also substantially increased, and especially if the price falters as proponents suggest it will?
We are very very far off having enough Rhino world wide to supply an ever growing market. When we have Rhino in the numbers we have cattle world wide then yes by all means. Unfortunately we will never reach that point with poaching levels as they are, we are more than likely going to end up with no rhino instead. Even beef is still smuggled and traded in Hong Kong and China!
People pushing for this are a tiny minority stake holder in world scheme of Rhino conservation and South African Rhino conservation. Their greed must not be allowed to endanger the world population in this manner. We urgently need ambassadors and education campaigns across Asia. Ones that work like the very successful ongoing campaigns to halt the consumption of shark fin. This brainless scheme has the potential to seriously jeopardise all our attempts. South Africa is already endangering the species single handily with it's unilateral decision making on this issue. They are also jeopardising the entire global Rhino population which is completely unacceptable.
Ivory trade and poaching is in a dire position. No one knows in Hong Kong which stock piles are poached or not, which are recent which are not, trade is going ahead as usual. Ivory is still pouring in. The government refuses to even make public the list of so called "legal dealers" or stock pilers. The truth is they simply have no way of knowing. Regulation is impossible while you still have legal trade confusing the issue. Each "legal" or otherwise ivory trinket, piece of jewellery, product that goes from HK to China in a tourists luggage creates yet further demand in China. Believe me 1.4 billion people can make even the largest stock pile in the world look like a drop in the ocean. If the market is momentarily flooded with Rhino horn the price will not fluctuate for one second in my opinion, dealers are no fool to supply and demand. In fact quite the opposite. In this part of the world where I am living at the moment it's something of a speciality, a national pride. All the sudden glut will do is make for a one off chance, probably the only ever again in history to purchase stocks at that level. There will not be a shortage of takers.
The damage done to Rhino conservation and the species will most certainly be catastrophic and irreversible!
The single event that brings the species to extinction. I have no doubt at all that people like Mr John Hume will not be immune to the inevitable hail of cartel bullets that an ever decreasing supply of rhino horn will produce. None at all.
05 May 2016, 10:45
P.S it's also high time all stock piles of rhino horn were burnt! What the f'ing hell are we doing stockpiling Rhino horn in the first place? The value we are putting on horn by stockpiling is no less than paying credance to the idiotic Chinese. Why are we afraid to burn it?
Briefly flooding the market is the stupidest short term thinking imaginable, the consequences of this thinking will be far reaching and final for the species as a whole, globally.
Please don't believe Rhino horn is mostly going to Vietnam and there consummed. Vietnam is often used as a scape goat by China for its own consumption of endangered wildlife, so is Thailand and other SEA Countries. Often China will also use places like Vietnam, instead of directly importing or smuggling to deflect international pressure. China has the largest concentration of wealth, disposable income and this is where most of these things end up even if they go via Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, where ever, even if they use Vietnamese to do the smuggling. In all these countries there are also sizable Chinese communities. The Vietnamese themselves for example are quite poor and mostly cannot afford even basic Western medicines never mind Rhino horn! I know I've have just been there as a volunteer medic.
And please dont believe the small vested interest white minority in South Africa that thinks legalising the trade is a good idea. It would be a global disaster.
Nwabisa Jansen (16)
07 May 2016, 18:34
To not legalize the sale of rhino horns actually drives people to actually poach the rhinos even more (just like banning something. eg, if a video game is banned, people are triggered to get ahold of the game because of social status. you look "untouchable" because you managed to get ahold of it.)
I feel that legalizing the sale of rhino horns will actually save the rhinos because people won't be killing the rhinos anymore but only the horns will be cutted off in a safer, hygienic manner. The people who poach the rhinos are in such a hurry to not get caught that they just shoot the rhino, take the horns and leave it to death. Legalizing the sale of rhino horns will mean that rhinos don't have to die in such tremendous way. Besides rhino horns can grow back! Which means that one rhino could supply us with multiple horns.
The sale of rhino horns will contribute to our poor economy too (S.A).
The sale of rhino horn is probably the only antidote to the poaching of rhinos.
Anonymous commenter
24 May 2016, 05:51
So sad that we are so unconscious and greedy that we don't even care for defenceless animals. Teach your new generation of the need to love and to seek a better education, effort rather than easy money.
Anonymous commenter
29 May 2016, 14:31
The most astounding contribution to this " legalise " debate was Grant Maguire's of 17th October 2013.His contribution was: There are "TOO MANY WHITE RHINOS "
18 October 2016, 20:01
I am glad to see that your organisation is not blindly following the international trend by organisations and media and influenced individuals to say no to the legalisation.
To me it's just a joke how all the organisations overseas from their comfortable offices and with their secure salary, earning a salary for "saving rhinos", raise their strong opinion against the legalisation of horn. In stead, people should pay more attention to the opinion of the owners of rhino in South Africa who sometimes pay over half of their income to protect and maintain their rhinos. These guys are not uneducated boeren, they know business and they know the poachers they are dealing with.
And most if not all of them agree: 1) We are not going to change China in the next few years, nor the African middleman 2) we need much more income to pay for our anti-poaching strategies otherwise we will need to sell all our rhinos 3) we want to get rid of our stockpiles (because the maffia is after our stockpiles and we have children) 4) Legalising is not about whether it will increase or decrease the amount of guys sneaking into my property to poach my rhinos. Illegal poaching will stay for as long as china pays a lot of money for horn. It's about stability and hope for the last few rhino owners in South Africa. It's about a big change. Because the alternative (i.e. going on the way we are) will have a sad ending, not too far from now. And in that case I will point my finger at all these organisations who fought against the legalisation and at CITES for listening to them.
ForThe Rhino
09 February 2017, 14:03
At the risk of being crucified...I work in rhino conservation, we are not winning the war against poaching, at best we are keeping them(poachers) out of one area and they simply target another. The poachers are mobile and seek easy targets whereas we are dug into an area protecting feverishly the populations there. We must seriously consider another tactic as international funding is drying up because the sentiment out there is that we have lost the war against poaching, statistics speak for themselves...it is time to remove the emotion and consider a long-term workable alternative with manageable controls.
01 March 2017, 20:33
This we cannot be sure about one way or another the rhino's will still be killed cruelly. If you do legalize the rhino horn trade there will still be those lazy people/companies who just kill the rhinos to save time and then just hide the rhino's body, and one of the sad parts is the big time corporations could get away with doing this!
02 March 2017, 16:07
I just think that it is wrong that people should cut a rhino's horn off. If they really want a horn, then all they have to do is look at their fingers or get a haircut. A rhino's horn is made of keratin, (the same thing that is used in your hair and fingernails). A rhino's horn is its protection against predators not just for itself but for its young. Without its horn, the rhino population may decrease even more. And not just from humans!!
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12 March 2017, 04:50
I agree with Nick, my understanding is that Rhino horn is the same stuff as hair and fingernails, so why don't we all donate our fingernail clippings and replace rhino horn on the market with ground up fingernail... That's the easy solution. Give these syndicates ground up fingernails and tell them it's rhino horn.
23 March 2017, 21:35
Poaching should be illegal because poachers are killing animals , which is the same as taking a life; poachers also kill animals in a harmful way, for example poachers cut off rhino horns then leave rhinos on the ground, bleeding waiting for death. My point is that poaching is illegal. we can stop this by sending out messages to children and woman, telling them that it is not good to kill animals, we can donate money to charity so people can they can buy the latest technology such as drones to catch poachers when they are hunting and there are many more ways to stop poaching.
Rhino horn trade is illegal and it should stay that way.
Killing is taking a life even if it is an animal.


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A mother and daughter from California were arrested on March 14 after deputies found $50,000 in drug-related money during a traffic stop.
Deputies said a 2013 Toyota with California plates was stopped after following other vehicles too closely on west I-80. A canine unit detected drugs on the vehicle. After searching the vehicle, deputies found the bundled U.S. currency and a suitcase with traces of marijuana.
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I'm a beginner baker and I recently heard that if you put a "crumb coat" on your cake, then the buttercream won't shred the crumbs between the layers. Question is... what is a crumb coat? How is it used? I did a search and didn't find the answer. Sorry if its a dumb question.
No dumb questions - that is how we learn! A crumb coat or dirty ice as some call it - is just a thin coat of icing to seal all the crumbs in, before you put your final coat of icing. So you would fill your cake, then crumb coat it, chill or let it sit for a few hours to settle, then put on another coat of icing or your fondant on.
A crumb coat is a thin layer of buttercream that has been applied to your layers. It helps to seal in the crumbs.
It can be applied to your layers and your layers can then be left to set up or crust about 10 minutes before the final coat of buttercream can be applied.
*another way to do this is to crumb coat and place layers in the freezer or fridge until the icing is set.
Crumb coating maybe used to seal in chocolate cake crumbs and keeps the chocolate cake crumbs from showing through the buttercream leaving little dark spots on an otherwise all white buttercream cake.
There is an on going argument as to whether or not to crumb coat.
I find it most useful for chocolate cakes or dark cakes like a red velvet cake.
I can almost get away with out this step when icing vanilla or white or lighter cakes.
I hope this helps!
Added as an after thought: While crumb coating a cake, make sure you do not, I REPEAT DO NOT, place a spatula full of crumbs into your entire batch of buttercream! (I use a large plastic drinking cub and scrap off any buttercream and crumbs into the plastic cup so I have a clean, crumbless icing spatula.) Crumby icing can be used for filling your cakes. Nobody cares if there are cake crumbs inside the cake!
P.S. I agree with the above poster, there is no such thing as a dumb question, only the questions not asked!
First of all, there is no such thing as a dumb question! We were all new at one time or another. Each day as we better ourselves, we will still have questions. That is the beauty of this site. There is always someone here to answer those questions
A crumb coat is a thin layer of icing on your cake. You do this first then let rest in the fridge for about 15 minutes. After it has rested you can frost your cake. The crumb coat is supposed to help by holding things together. It allows you not to have crumbs on your final layer. HTH!
You may also want to play around with the consistency of your icing when you crumb coat. I find it easier to crumb coat with icing that I have thinned down and then add a final layer of regular icing afterwards. I'm less likely to tear a cake or smear crumbs everywhere that way. It is also easier to crumb coat if the cake is at least partially frozen around the edges. I sometimes throw the cake in the freezer for about 30 minutes before icing, just to firm it up. Some people frost all of their cakes while the layers are completely frozen.
That makes all kinds of sense, thank you so much! I appreciate the help.


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Four members of the Raider gymnastics team were among the top gymnasts in the state who concluded their seasons at the WIAA Division 1 State Individual Gymnastics Championships last Saturday in Wisconsin Rapids.
Senior McKenna Daulton, sophomores Gabby Hughes and Maddie Nelson, and freshman Olivia Koehler represented Hudson at the state's premier gymnastics event held at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School.
Daulton was competing for the final time in her Raider career, and second time at state, while it was the first state tournament appearance for Hughes, Nelson and Koehler.
Daulton and Hughes both qualified for state on the balance beam and Koehler and Nelson competed on the uneven bars while Koehler also qualified on the floor exercise and in the all-around.
Hughes had the Raiders' highest finish, placing tenth on the beam with a score of 9.25 while Daulton, the sectional champion on the beam, placed 18th with an 8.933. Molly Benavides of Burlington won the individual state title with a score of 9.617.
Koehler, the sectional all-around champion, finished 23rd at the state meet with an all-around score of 34.584. Jorin Fredman of Arrowhead won the state title with 38.217.
Koehler finished 14th on the uneven bars with a score of 8.917 and 22nd on the floor with an 8.9 while posting scores of 8.4 in the vault and 8.367 on the balance beam. Nelson finished 24th on the uneven bars with a score of 7.95.
Jenna Fitzpatrick of Burlington won the state title on the uneven bars with 9.633 and Sam Balcarek of Franklin took the floor title with 9.567 while Benavides was the individual champion in the vault with 9.617.
Franklin won Friday night's Division 1 state team championship for the fourth straight year with a team score of 147.285 and Burlington was second with 147.233 while Arrowhead finished third with 146.484.
In Friday night's Division 2 team competition, Whitefish Bay won its third state title in the last four years with a score of 144.5. Mount Horeb took second with 141.582 while defending state champion River Falls placed third with 138.667.


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Transcribed By Pamela Vick
August 9, 1951 - Reprinted December 8, 1977
We closed our last article with the record of our visit to the "hollow" composing the greater part of the farm owned by our grandfather, Stephen Calvin Gregory and our uncles, Luther or Lute Gregory and Monroe Gregory. The latter was often called "money" Gregory.
We resume at the point left off, the visit to the old barn site. Near the old barn was a spring under a bank of a stream that flowed down in winter and wet weather from another farm higher up, the John Bell Winkler place. This spring ran most of the time and Cal has drunk water from it perhaps a thousand times. We visited the spring on Friday, July 20th, but we found it different from 40 to 50 years ago. The same bank is there, a shallow pool of water lies in the bed of the stream, but we did not find any flow of water. When we last visited the spring, it was 38 years ago. Then there stood just above the spring and two or three feet from the water, a small sugar tree or maple that did not shed its leaves in the fall, but retained them until they were, in a measure, pushed off by the new leaves the next spring. This tree 40 years ago was only four or five inches in diameter. It is now 20 inches in diameter and appears to be very thrifty. An oak has grown up by the side of the maple and it is several inches in diameter.
Near this spring a number of events took place that we recall quite vividly. One of these took place only a few yards from the spring. Here someone had burned a pile of brush, made up largely of bushes dug from the ground. Here our father found a snake 45 years ago, known as the "garter" snake, and said to be very poisonous. Our "pappie" picked up one of the bushes that had partially burned, leaving a stem and the old spot intact. He struck the snake a hard blow with the stem and root of the small bush or tree. Our brother, Thomas M. Gregory, then a lad of about 13, was standing not far from where the snake had been found. When our father struck the snake a single drop blood flew from the snake's head and struck our brother on his lower lip, about half an inch from his mouth. He was then powerfully afraid of any germ or contamination of any sort. In fact we think he had gone to extremes on the subject. The old spring was dry and so there was no water to be obtained nearer then the valley in which our house was, something like a mile away. Our brother rubbed that place on his lip until he had removed the last of the blood, and then started for home with his lip dropped down just as far as it was possible for him to lower the lip, in an effort to be sure that none of that snake blood got into his mouth. However, the ludicrous picture of a boy of about 13 walking for a mile with his under lip dropped down as far as he could get it, remains with us over a period of nearly half a century.
Just north of that old spring was an old field known as the "Hog Pen Field." Just why it was so called we do not know, but presume it was once used as a feeding place for hogs in some distant day and time. In the upper part of that old field stood an old apple tree that bore its fruit very late in the season. In fact the apples were not good until after frost. We could not see even one sign of that old tree in the field as we looked over it ten days ago. Just north of the field a series of caves began. One of these was the first into which we ever entered, a feat that took place one summer day about 50 years ago. Later, we frequently took parties through the cave. Once we heard a peculiar sound coming from far back from the entrance. How the bird got there we never knew. We brought it to the surface, but do not recall any further details about the feathered youngster whose cries came from deep within the earth. On another occasion, when he had crawled through a narrow opening a distance of perhaps 20 feet, with the sharp rocks gouging our backs, we came to a large, dry room with some boulders large enough to make a very good resting place. Here we could hear what appeared to be a very large stream not much farther on. Some of the party did not want to go any further, one of them being our former neighbor, Will Towns. He declined to go further and so Cal stayed with him. Some time after the voices of the other explorers had become very dim and they were virtually out of hearing, and Towns and Gregory had not one bit of light, Towns said, "I believe I am going to faint." We were badly alarmed over this announcement and wondered how on earth we could drag his body through that narrow opening and to the outside without any help. But he managed to "get hold of himself" and did not faint. Soon the remainder of the party returned and we all left the cave.
Our cave explorations had a bad setback when Floyd Collins died in an underground cavern. We would not today run the unnecessary risks of those cave-exploring days of 40 to 50 years ago for scarcely any sum of money. But we saw no danger then and rather enjoyed the experiences. We have been in perhaps a dozen caves in all and never had any serious trouble returning to the outside world.
But we resume our account of the "Hollow." Going south from the old tobacco barn site, we came to a long hillside which we have helped to cultivate a number of times. On this hillside our father grew the last crop of wheat we ever helped to sow and harvest. We cut this wheat in June, 1910, and Cal began teaching in August following. One episode remains in the matter of cutting wheat on that hillside to the southeast of the old barn. We had a "working" or a "reaping" to which we invited quite a number of neighbors. One of these was our cousin, Sam Wilburn, about two years our senior. He was rather new hand with an old-fashioned wheat cradle, but he had a lot of zeal and energy. He apparently got hotter and hotter in the harvest as he swung that cradle and the grain came down. Our father looked him over and said, "Sam you are about to get too hot. You had better take it a little more moderately." Sam's reply was that he was not suffering from the heat and that he felt all right. But his face got redder and redder and we all kept trying to induce him to reduce his labors or cease from them. Finally, we learned that he had a large red bandana handkerchief with which he was wiping the sweat from his face. The dye in this unwashed handkerchief had stained his face to the reddest tint we ever saw on any human face.
Not far from the bandana incident, there was once a scope of woods. Our uncles cleared this and then broke it up for dark tobacco, the only kind then grown in all that section. One Saturday afternoon our parents told my brother and me to go and help our two uncles to "worm and sucker" some tobacco, which was growing on that particular ground. We were told that we could stay two hours. Never can we recall as hot an afternoon as that was. We had to go down under the plants to pull out the suckers and there was not a breath of air scarcely anywhere. Long before the two hours were up, we wished that we could leave and return home. But we had been taught a certain measure of loyalty to any task given us. We stayed our two hours, but we did not tarry three minutes beyond that time. We were glad to get out of the hot, stuffy, humid air that almost stifled two boys of about ten and eleven years.
In our visit last week we went along the lower side of this field and lived again in memory many, many events of other years. W e came to the upper or south end of that field and there we had many reminiscences. Here our father rented the field for corn about 48 years ago. He put his two sons to cutting down the stalks of the preceding year's corn crop, with hoes. Finally we had the stalks all piled up and then we had a wonderful time of burning those stalks. Our Uncle Monroe commended us very highly for our work, and we felt a kind of inside glow that will live with us always. We recall another incident some weeks later in that same cornfield. Our father was plowing his corn with an old black mule named Dick. Near the lower side of the valley. As the sun sank farther west, the shadows crept slowly up the hillside. Our father said, "Boys, if I can keep ahead of the shad, I can get the field done today." Never have I seen a man plow any harder than our father did. He was not at all particular how much of that corn he covered up with his double shovel. It was the lot of my brother and me to "uncover" that corn. And we worked with a will and with a zeal that excel anything we are able to do today. We "outran" the sun and got done just before sunset. Little did Cal realize that life is largely a contest to make ends meet, to have a given task, to get that done on time, and in a creditable manner. But we have learned some in the years that have come and gone since that early summer day when our father plowed and plowed, always managing to stay just above the shade cast by the tops of the trees to the west of that field.
Here in this field we worked at another time, and the weather was terribly hot. It seemed impossible for Cal to get enough water. There was a little spring at the south end of that field and we went there every two or three "rounds" we made through that field, to get water. Finally we decided to see if we could drink enough water at one time to last the remainder of our work day. We drank an even half gallon of cold water. We did not want anymore water during the remainder of our work day. We were foolish to drink so much water but we did not suffer any damage to our health. Then we could eat green apples, peaches, mulberries, plums half ripe, all the watermelons we could "hold" and with "nary a pain scarcely," nor did we suffer any after effects. How we long for such an appetite now as well as such a digestive system as we then had. But these longings are in vain and belong to childhood and not to middle and old age.
In this same field and perhaps the same year that we "out-ran" the sun, we saw another unusual, although small, incident. While passing through the field when corn was in tassel and the ground was covered with the yellow pollen or dust, our father and his boys came across or came upon a "tragedy" in nature. An old terrapin had started through that field, dragging "his house with him." But a shower had come and the terrapin kept moving on and on. But the going had gotten worse and worse as the mud piled up on the bottom of that shell. Finally there was so much mud on the shell that the creature could not reach the ground to get any traction or pull. Neither could he get hold of the ground enough to turn over and perhaps shed off part or all of that mud. It had caked on that shell and gotten thicker and thicker. Here we found him dead "in his tracks," and with an odor that reached for many feet. Our father, who was very wise in matters of nature, said, "Boys, that is the first time I ever knew a thing like that to happen." We were in a few feet of the very spot where this happened, in our visit last week. And speaking of odors, we saw a buzzard rise from the bushes near the edge of that field and then we got a strong odor of something dead. We did not find the carcass; but, when we got back to Brother Smith's we asked him, "What is dead over there near the upper end of that hillside field?" Brother Smith then stated, "I went to the spring to get a drink the other day, to find a bunch of terrapins in the water. I did not like this and proceeded to kill some of them and throw them away."
Near the upper end of the field, the spicewood bushes still grow there as they did 50 years ago. We broke off a limb and found the odor the same pungent smell that it was a half century ago. Near this spot an uncle of ours, Wiseman Gregory, our father's oldest brother; and Cull Ballou, our mother's uncle, once did quite a lot of sawing with a crosscut saw. Both men were notoriously bad "to ride" a saw; that is, to make it hard on the other sawyer. They got along fairly well until both grew tired and finally each suggested to the other that he "get you a saddle," to ride the saw with. About 50 years ago or perhaps a little more we saw some of the logs they had sawed, each trying to make the other fellow suffer from the poor sawing and the "riding." Those were among the largest honey locust trees we ever saw. Our father used to refer to such sawyers as his brother and our mother's uncle, "They'll kill a man," meaning by this that they were such poor sawyers that they would wear out a good sawyer.
Near this spot one incident stands out with clearness beyond almost all others in that valley. On the west side of the valley and including the top of the hill, our uncle by marriage, Robert Wright, had a big "clearing" about 52 years ago. He lived then a mile and a half away from the scene of his "working>" On account of the distance to travel for the midday meal, Uncle Robert decided to have Jim Miller bring over the dinner on a farm wagon. About 11:30 he arrived with plenty of dinner to feed the crowd, if it had been justly divided. But men at such "workings" resented the idea of having dinner brought to them instead of going to a man's home. In this case, Uncle Robert was afraid that too much time might be lost in walking a mile and a half for dinner and making the return trip. So he was "taking time by the forelock," by having dinner brought to them. Then there was no softening influence of women to hold back the "greedy" men.
The men washed their hands in the water that flowed that spring day in the bottom of the valley. Then they gathered around that food on the wagon. Never in all our 60 years have we seen men eat so much like hogs as that day. The truth of the matter was that they had "made it up" to gobble down all the food and, if possible, leave Robert Wright without a bite to eat. In this way they succeeded. Our own father remonstrated with the men now as to act "hogs," but all to no avail. In a matter of perhaps ten minutes that food was either gobbled up or wasted. Cal got a small amount of stewed cabbage, a small piece of cornbread and one pitifully small piece of blackberry pie, and this was all he got. Our father perhaps did not get any more, as he was trying to see that his boys had at least a small amount of food. Robert Wright and Jim Miller got not a bite so far as we were able to learn. That afternoon that bunch of men "razzed" Robert Wright in an almost unbearable manner. We still recall their "howling" about starving, about being so "lank," about how hard it was to work for the other fellow for nothing and not even be fed. It was a sort of mass psychology or maybe not far removed from some sort of "mob rule," but we knew nothing of the psychology of it then. Robert Wright was called "Riley" by many of his friends, and that old field, now largely grown up in bushes, is still known by some as the Riley Field.
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CRANSTON, Rhode Island (Reuters) - A Rhode Island public high school voted on Thursday to comply with a federal court order to remove a prayer banner that has hung in its auditorium for a half century, saying the cash-strapped district cannot face a costly appeal.
"The ACLU is going to win solely because of the fiscal condition of Cranston," said Andrea Iannazzi, chairwoman of the school board that voted to comply with the court order to take down the banner at Cranston High School West based on a mandate for separation of church and state.
(Editing By Barbara Goldberg and Peter Bohan)