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Following on from this week's Tombstone Tuesday showing the tombstone of my partner Paul's ancestor Herbert Howard Laity and his wife, and also following our discovery of "new" cousin Charlene, she has asked if I could post this photograph of one of Herbert Howard Laity's sisters.
Herbert Howard had six sisters and although this young lady is known to be definitely one of those sisters, no-one is quite sure which one she is. So we are hoping that just maybe someone out there reading this is connected to the Laity family and recognises the photo.
Herbert Howard's sisters are as follows: Aleatha Susan Laity born December 22, 1882; Gertrude Hester Agatha Laity born September 28, 1884; Lillian Winnifred Laity born December 17, 1886; Mabel Prefosia Laity and Elizabeth Jane Laity both born March 17, 1895 and Violet Merian Laity born August 23, 1904. I just love some of those names!!
Here is the young lady whose name we seek
I have been trying to work out roughly what age this young lady would be in this photograph and it would have been so good to have the name of the photographer on the front, so I could check out when he was taking photographs as that would help. I daresay there are clues in the style of this young lady's clothing and hopefully there might also be someone reading this that might just know how to date photos!!
We would love to hear from anyone who is either connected to the Laity's, or who can help with dating this photo or who could suggest other avenues we could try so that we can delve a little further.


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Long time no see! I've been busy working on the next 10 Lego movies. But hey, here is my first shadertoy contribution.
Updated 09-07-2015 at 11:58 PM by Artur
Another WebGL demo based on previous eye shader project. Might be a bit of an overkill for this 2D/3D hybrid. Also has some seriously lazy way of displacing the eyelids. Should be passing eyeball rotational vector for positioning the displacement instead of approx mouse location.
Credits to M.C. Escher and my brother for helping out with few textures.
Built using Three.js libraries.
My first attempt at WebGL using Three.js libraries. Check it: http://www.vill.ee/eye
Eye shader main features:
Texture raytracing to simulate cornea refractionsLoads of parameters to customize the eyeCornea vertex displacementNormal mapsReflectionsSimple image based 'lighting'
There is still some room for optimization in fragment shader. I feel like, I'm doing too many space transformations at the end. Also, I couldn't figure out how to access gl_ModelViewMatrixInverse in vertex shader so modelViewMatrix gets inverted in the vertex shader. Recalculating normals of displaced vertices is also questionable. I'm planning to add cat eye shape and caustics.
Environments from hdrlabs.com and zbyg.deviantart.com
Eye textures from milesresearch.com and Lukas Hajka
Images processed with Photoshop and Crazybump
Updated 02-24-2014 at 10:36 PM by Artur
Currently available for work. Preferably in Sydney area.
My online portfolio and resume http://artur.vill.ee
Or download directly: http://artur.vill.ee/ArturVillResume.pdf
email: artur.vill @ gmail.com
Updated 02-20-2014 at 10:49 PM by Artur
In 2013 I worked on The Great Gatsby, recreating New York of the mid 1920s. One of the tasks was to develop a shader that simulates the parallax of interior walls behind thousands of building windows. In short, its a simple texture raytracer. In fact it was quick and simple enough for a CgFx port so that artists can have an instant feedback when setting it up.
It was presented at an Autodesk event by our Lighting Lead and featured in Digital Media World interview:
A custom shader we developed was a hologram shader for buildings. Since we didn't have time to model interiors for every building in Manhattan, surfacing artist Artur Vill took an idea from video games, starting from our flat windows and shop fronts and letting us dial in parameters for room depth, wallpaper variation, interior lights, curtains - all from a shader that worked correctly in stereo. Viewers barely notice it in the final shots, but would definitely notice if it wasn't there, and just accept that all the windows have a proper room behind them.
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Gulf shrimp sauteed in olive oil and served with an orange beurre blanc sauce, a buttery sauce with orange zest, white wine and shallots.
Shrimp Ingredients
- Fresh Gulf of Mexico shrimp - 6 per person, or about 1/4 pound per person
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Sauce ingredients (Sauce also posted here. Makes 1 cup, enough for 4-6 servings. Divide or multiply to needs.)
- 2 oranges
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) white wine
- 2 teaspoons minced shallots
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks, 225 g) cold, unsalted butter
- Salt and white pepper
1 Peel and de-vein the shrimp. Work with the shrimp one at a time, leaving the rest in a bowl of ice water. Holding on to the body of the shrimp, use your fingers to pull off head if it is still attached, and then the legs.
Starting with the head end, gently peel back the shell. Use your fingernails or a knife to cut into the base shell segment.
Remove the shrimp from its shell entirely. Place shrimp down flat on a cutting board and use a small sharp knife to make a shallow cut down the back of the shrimp.
You may see a dark, vein-like intestinal tract running through the meat. Use your fingers, or the sharp tip of a knife to remove. As you complete each shrimp, put into a bowl of ice water to keep cool. Set aside while you prepare the sauce.
2 Make orange syrup: Zest half of one orange (about 2 teaspoons) and juice the two oranges (about 3/4 cup). Put the juice, zest, wine and shallots in a sauce pan on medium high heat. Cook until it is syrupy and almost gone.
3 Whisk in the butter: On low heat, whisk in the butter continuously and vigorously, 1 tablespoon at a time. Butter is the only emulsifier for this sauce, and if you slowly add it, continuously stirring, the sauce will achieve a silky smooth texture. Do not let the sauce boil. Salt and pepper to taste. Keep warm while you continue with the shrimp.
4 Sauté the shrimp: Heat a skillet on medium high heat. Drain the shrimp and coat with olive oil. When the pan is hot, add the shrimp and sprinkle on some salt and pepper.
Cook the shrimp about 45 seconds on each side. Add some more olive oil if necessary to keep the shrimp from sticking to the pan. Do not overcook or the shrimp will be tough and rubbery.
5 Drizzle with sauce: Drizzle Beurre Blanc sauce over shrimp, or serve in a separate small container for dipping.


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To stifle criticism of civilian killings, the American mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater approved payoffs of up to $1 million for Iraqi politicians, according to former company officials who spoke to The New York Times.
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Risk perception is the subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in reference to natural hazards and threats to the environment or health, such as nuclear power. Several theories have been proposed to explain why different people make different estimates of the dangerousness of risks. Three major families of theory have been developed: psychology approaches (heuristics and cognitive), anthropology/sociology approaches (Cultural Theory) and interdisciplinary approaches (Social Amplification of Risk Framework).
Early TheoriesEdit
The study of risk perception arose out of the observation that experts and lay people often disagreed about how risky various technologies and natural hazards were.
The mid 1960's saw the rapid rise of nuclear technologies and the promise for clean and safe energy. However, public perception shifted against this new technology. Fears of both longitudinal dangers to the environment as well as immediate disasters creating radioactive wastelands turned the public against this new technology. The scientific and governmental communities asked why public perception was against the use of nuclear energy when all of the scientific experts were declaring how safe it really was. The problem, from the perspectives of the experts, was a difference between scientific facts and an exaggerated public perception of the dangers [1].
A key early paper was written in 1969 by Chauncey Starr.[2] Starr used a revealed preference approach to find out what risks are considered acceptable by society. He assumed that society had reached equilibrium in its judgment of risks, so whatever risk levels actually existed in society were acceptable. His major finding was that people will accept risks 1,000 greater if they are voluntary (e.g. driving a car) than if they are involuntary (e.g. a nuclear disaster).
This early approach assumed that individuals behave in a rational manner, weighing information before making a decision. Individuals have exaggerated fears due to inadequate or incorrect information. Implied in this assumption is that additional information can help people understand true risk and hence lessen their opinion of danger [3]. While researchers in the engineering school did pioneer research in risk perception, by adapting theories from economics, it has little use in a practical setting. Numerous studies have rejected the belief that additional information, alone, will shift perceptions [4].
Psychology Approach Edit
The psychology approach began with research in trying to understand how people process information. These early works maintain that people use cognitive heuristics in sorting and simplifying information which lead to biases in comprehension. Later work built on this foundation and became the psychometric paradigm. This approach identifies numerous factors responsible for influencing individual perceptions of risk, including dread, newness, stigma, and other factors [5].
Heuristics and BiasesEdit
The earliest psychometric research was done by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who performed a series of gambling experiments to see how people evaluated probabilities. Their major finding was that people use a number of heuristics to evaluate information. These heuristics are usually useful shortcuts for thinking, but they may lead to inaccurate judgments in some situations -- in which case they become cognitive biases.
- The Availability heuristic: events that can be more easily brought to mind or imagined are judged to be more likely than events that could not easily be imagined.
- The Anchoring heuristic: people will often start with one piece of known information and then adjust it to create an estimate of an unknown risk -- but the adjustment will usually not be big enough.
- Asymmetry between gains and losses: People are risk averse with respect to gains, preferring a sure thing over a gamble with a higher expected utility but which presents the possibility of getting nothing. On the other hand, people will be risk-seeking about losses, preferring to hope for the chance of losing nothing rather than taking a sure, but smaller, loss (e.g. insurance).
- Threshold effects: People prefer to move from uncertainty to certainty over making a similar gain in certainty that does not lead to full certainty. For example, most people would choose a vaccine that reduces the incidence of disease A from 10% to 0% over one that reduces the incidence of disease B from 20% to 10%.
Another key finding was that the experts are not necessarily any better at estimating probabilities than lay people. Experts were often overconfident in the exactness of their estimates, and put too much stock in small samples of data[6].
Psychmetric ParadigmEdit
Research within the psychometric paradigm turned to focus on the roles of affect, emotion, and stigma in influencing risk perception. Melissa Finucane and Paul Slovic have been among the key researchers here. These researchers first challenged Starr's article by examining expressed preference -- how much risk people say they are willing to accept. They found that, contrary to Starr's basic assumption, people generally saw most risks in society as being unacceptably high. They also found that the gap between voluntary and involuntary risks was not nearly as great as Starr claimed.
Slovic and team found that perceived risk is quantifiable and predictable. People tend to view current risk levels as unacceptably high for most activities[7]. All things being equal, the greater people perceived a benefit, the greater the tolerance for a risk[8]. If a person derived pleasure from using a product, people tended to judge its benefits as high and its risks as low. If the activity was disliked, the judgments were opposite[9]. Research in psychometrics has proven that risk perception is highly dependent on intuition, experiential thinking, and emotions.
Psychometric research identified a broad domain of characteristics that may be condensed into three high order factors: 1) the degree to which a risk is understood, 2) the degree to which it evokes a feeling of dread, and 3) the number of people exposed to the risk. A dread risk elicits visceral feelings of terror, uncontrollable, catastrophe, inequality, and uncontrolled. An unknown risk is new and unknown to science. The more a person dreads an activity, the higher its perceived risk and the more that person wants the risk reduced [10].
Anthropology/Sociology Approach Edit
The anthropology/sociology approach posits risk perceptions as produced by and supporting social institutions [11]. In this view, perceptions are socially constructed by institutions, cultural values, and ways of life.
Cultural Theory Edit
"The Cultural Theory of risk" (with capital C and T). Cultural Theory is based on the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky first published in 1982[12].
In Cultural Theory, Douglas and Wildavsky outline four "ways of life" in a grid/group arrangement. Each way of life corresponds to a specific social structure and a particular outlook on risk. Grid categorizes the degree to which people are constrained and circumscribed in their social role. The tighter binding of social constraints limits individual negotiation. Group refers to the extent to which individuals are bounded by feelings of belonging or solidarity. The greater the bonds, the less individual choice are subject to personal control[13]. Four ways of life include: Hierarchical, Individualist, Egalitarian, and Fatalist.
Risk perception researchers have not widely accepted Cultural theory. Even Douglas says that the theory is controversial; it poses a danger of moving out of the favored paradigm of individual rational choice of which many researchers are comfortable[14].
Interdisciplinary ApproachEdit
Social Amplification of Risk FrameworkEdit
The Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF), combines research in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and communications theory. SARF outlines how communications of risk events pass from the sender through intermediate stations to a receiver and in the process serve to amplify or attenuate perceptions of risk. All links in the communication chain, individuals, groups, media, etc., contain filters through which information is sorted and understood.
The theory attempts to explain the process by which risks are amplified, receiving public attention, or attuned, receiving less public attention. The theory may be used to compare responses from different groups in a single event, or analyze the same risk issue in multiple events. In a single risk event, some groups may amplify their perception of risks while other groups may attune, decrease, and their perceptions of risk.
The main thesis of SARF states that risk events interact with individual psychological, social and other cultural factors in ways that either increase or decrease public perceptions of risk. Behaviors of individuals and groups then generate secondary social or economic impacts while also increasing or decreasing the physical risk itself [15].
These ripple effects caused by the amplification of risk include enduring mental perceptions, impacts on business sales, and change in residential property values, changes in training and education, or social disorder. These secondary changes are perceived and reacted to by individuals and groups resulting in third-order impacts. As each higher-order impacts are reacted to, they may ripple to other parties and locations. Traditional risk analyses neglect these ripple effect impacts and thus greatly underestimate the adverse effects from certain risk events. Public distortion of risk signals provides a corrective mechanism by which society assesses a fuller determination of the risk and its impacts to such things not traditionally factored into a risk analysis[16].
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Douglas, Mary. Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences. Russell Sage Foundation, 1985.
- ↑ "Social Benefits versus Technological Risks" in Science Vol. 165, No. 3899. (Sep. 19, 1969), pp. 1232-1238
- ↑ Douglas, Mary. Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences. Russell Sage Foundation, 1985.
- ↑ [Freudenburg, William R., "Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions." Social Forces 71(4), (June 1993): 909-932.]
- ↑ Tversky, Amos and Daniel Kahneman. "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases." Science 185(4157) (September 1974): 1124-1131.
- ↑ Slovic, Paul, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein. "Why Study Risk Perception?" Risk Analysis 2(2) (1982): 83-93.
- ↑ Slovic, Paul, ed. The Perception of Risk. Earthscan, Virginia. 2000.
- ↑ Slovic, Paul, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein. "Why Study Risk Perception?" Risk Analysis 2(2) (1982): 83-93.
- ↑ Gregory, Robin & Robert Mendelsohn. "Perceived Risk, Dread, and Benefits." Risk Analysis 13(3) (1993): 259-264
- ↑ Slovic, Paul, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein. "Why Study Risk Perception?" Risk Analysis 2(2) (1982): 83-93
- ↑ Wildavsky, Aaron and Karl Dake. "Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?" American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Daedalus) 119(4) (1990): 41-60.
- ↑ Douglas, Mary and Aaron Wildavsky. Risk and Culture. University of California Press, 1982.
- ↑ Thompson, Michael, Richard Ellis, Aaron Wildavsky. Cultural theory. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1990.
- ↑ Douglas, Mary. Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural theory. New York: Routledge, 1992.
- ↑ Kasperson, Roger E., Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne Kasperson, Samuel Ratick. "The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework." Risk Analysis 8(2) (1988): 177-187.
- ↑ Kasperson, Jeanne X., Roger E. Kasperson. The Social Contours of Risk. Volumne I: Publics, Risk Communication & the Social Amplification of Risk. Earthscan, Virginia. 2005
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NEW ORLEANS, LA—Today, the Mayor's Office of Cultural Economy issued a filming notice to New Orleans residents and businesses in the downtown area.
On Thursday, May 30th and Friday, May 31st, a production company will be filming scenes from 7pm to 6 am that will include intermittent simulated gunfire. Uniformed officers will be on site to ensure safety. Filming will be limited to a closed set of Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, within the 100 and 200 blocks of South Rampart Street, the 1000 block of Common Street, and the 1100 block of Tulane Avenue. These blocks are closed to traffic through June 24 as part of a traffic plan that can be found at www.nola.gov/film, the home page for Film New Orleans in the Mayor's Office of Cultural Economy.
Film New Orleans, the City's Traffic Engineering Division, the New Orleans Police Department, New Orleans Fire Department and other City agencies have worked closely with the production company to minimize the impact to area business, residents and commuters. The production company has done extensive outreach to businesses and property owners in the surrounding area.
The production will employ about 600 local residents and involve approximately 200 visiting cast and crew. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will have an estimated local economic impact of $80 million, which takes into account what the production will spend on such costs as labor, lodging and good and services.
Film New Orleans assists productions with the City's permitting process, connects productions with local crew and resources, and facilitates communication between productions and the local community.
In 2012, New Orleans hosted 61 tax credit film projects (TV, films and commercials with budgets over $300,000), with direct spending of $669.8 million. In 2011, the City hosted 46 tax credit projects with an estimated $544 million in direct spending.
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SAN DIEGO, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM), a leading industrial biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes, and Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), the leading owner, operator, and developer of high-quality, sustainable real estate and technical infrastructure for the broad and diverse life science industry, today celebrate the grand opening for Verenium's new office and laboratory building in the Torrey Pines area of San Diego, CA. The Grand Opening event guest speakers include San Diego elected officials Mayor Jerry Sanders and San Diego City Councilmember, Sherri Lightner, as well as BIOCOM President and CEO, Joe Panetta. The Council of the City of San Diego will also present Verenium with a proclamation recognizing the Company for its service and commitment to the city and the biotechnology field.
"The completion of our new facility is an important milestone for the future growth of our business, and we thank everyone involved in helping us with this achievement," said James Levine, President and Chief Executive Officer of Verenium. "Through enhanced design and functionality, our new facility promotes innovation and collaboration throughout the organization, and positions us for continued advancement in the industrial biotechnology industry."
Verenium's new 60,000 square foot building includes state-of-the-art laboratories, office space designed to support employee creativity and a high-tech fermentation pilot plant for use in bioprocess development and optimization, enzyme product development and manufacturing scale-up. As part of the Nautilus campus, owned and operated by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., Verenium's new building is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification through the use of a number of sustainable initiatives including energy efficiency and reduced water consumption.
"This is an exciting moment for the burgeoning industrial biotechnology industry in San Diego's diverse life science cluster," said Dan Ryan, Executive Vice President and Regional Market Director of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. "Verenium's new state-of-the-art facility will foster the collaboration and innovation needed to develop novel products that revolutionize industrial processes in an efficient, environmentally sustainable way. We congratulate Verenium on their grand opening and look forward to our continued partnership."
"This facility captures the innovative spirit of San Diego," said Mayor Jerry Sanders. "Two industry leaders collaborating to create better, cheaper, cleaner processes and products, forging new paths for others to follow, and contributing to the economic vitality of the region."
Verenium currently employs 101 people with approximately 95% of employees based in San Diego. In 2011, Verenium added 32 new employees and another ten additional positions since the beginning of 2012. The Company expects to add several additional positions over the next six months.
About VereniumVerenium, an industrial biotechnology company, is a global leader in developing high-performance enzymes. Verenium's tailored enzymes are environmentally friendly, making products and processes greener and more cost-effective for industries, including the global food and fuel markets. Read more at www.verenium.com.
About Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) is the largest and leading investment-grade real estate investment trust focused principally on owning, operating, and developing high-quality, sustainable real estate for the broad and diverse life science industry. Founded in 1994, Alexandria has the first-mover advantage in every core life science cluster location, including Greater Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and New York City. Alexandria's high-credit client tenants span the life science industry, including renowned academic and medical institutions, multinational pharmaceutical companies, public and private biotechnology entities, U.S. government research agencies, medical device companies, clean technology companies, venture capitalists, and life science product and service companies. As the recognized real estate partner of the life science industry, Alexandria has a superior track record in driving client tenant productivity and innovation through its best-in-class laboratory and office space, collaborative locations proximate to leading research institutions, unparalleled life science real estate expertise and services, and longstanding and expansive network in the life science community. For additional information on Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., please visit www.are.com.
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When you find yourself in a financial pinch, it may appear that your options are rather limited. However, even those who can't access a savings account or go to a relative for extra cash can find relief from the financial strain. Personal cash loans are easy to apply for and quick to access, although they are not right for everyone. Read on for the pros and cons to determine whether a Cash Loan is the best solution for you.
What is a Cash Loan?
Personal Cash Loans differ from standard loan products in several ways. First, emergency loans are often provided by companies that specialize in this service, rather than banks and traditional lenders. Approval is often granted the same day, and the funds are distributed directly to the individual's checking account within a day or two. These loans specifically cater to individuals who find themselves in need of emergency funds in a hurry and have few other options for obtaining the money they need.
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During difficult financial times, there are a number of reasons to consider personal Cash Loans. These benefits include:
• An easy application that can be filled out online from the comfort of home
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• Flexible payment options that make these loans affordable for nearly everyone who needs cash in a flash
• Finance charges are often less than fees for late payments or bounced checks, saving you money when the budget gets too tight to manage all of your financial obligations
These benefits are precisely the factors that lead many in search of personal cash loans every day. The money is easy to apply for and gets into your account quickly, so you have the funds you need, when you need them most.
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Despite the convenience and speed of personal cash loans, these products are not right for everyone in every situation. Some people find that the cost of the loan is simply not worth the benefits they provide. Some of the drawbacks of cash loans include:
• The finance charges are usually higher on emergency loans, so customers who pay the loan back over a long period of time may end up spending much more to borrow the money
• Interest rates may be even higher for those with less than stellar credit
• You must have a regular source of income to qualify for most of these loans
Because of the cost of these loans, applicants are usually encouraged to pay the funds back as quickly as possible to save on finance charges. When this occurs, the loan typically costs much less than other fees like NSF charges that might incur without the additional funds.
Personal cash loans aren't right for everyone, but they can come in handy for those who need a little extra cash in a hurry. If you find yourself a little tight before the end of the month, perhaps an emergency loan to tide you over is worth considering.


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Another great piece from Karen Roebuck at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. (Thanks Karen for covering this story from the beginning - and not letting go - you're saving lives and we appreciate it!) Emphasis in red is mine.
At least five dog and cat food samples submitted by worried pet owners and pet food manufacturers contained varying levels of the pain reliever...Unbelievable.
The highest level of acetaminophen was found in a dog food sample submitted by a manufacturer, she said. Coneley declined to identify the company but said its officials were given the results "well over a month ago."
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Also see my previous post on acetominophen being found. And there are 3 posts on other (mostly dry) foods that haven't been recalled but that folks have reported has made their pets sick.
Others (Hills / Science Diet, Purina and Beneful so far)
By Karen Roebuck
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating a Texas laboratory's finding of acetaminophen in dog and cat food, an agency spokesman said Monday.
"We're very interested in being able to test these samples ourselves to determine the levels of those contaminants," said FDA spokesman Doug Arbesfeld. "What's significant is these things are there. They don't belong there."
The pain medication is the fifth contaminant found in pet foods during the past 2 1/2 months and can be toxic or lethal to pets, especially cats. It is not known if any animals became sick with acetaminophen poisoning, or died from it.
"We were looking for cyanuric acid and melamine, and the acetaminophen just popped up," Donna Coneley, lab operations manager for ExperTox Inc. in Deer Park, Texas, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review yesterday. "It definitely was a surprise to find that in several samples."At least five dog and cat food samples submitted by worried pet owners and pet food manufacturers contained varying levels of the pain reliever, she said. Only the food, not individual ingredients, were tested.
The medication was found most often with cyanuric acid, a chemical used in pool chlorination, Coneley said. Varying levels of melamine, a chemical used to make plastics, also were found among the hundreds of samples ExperTox tested, she said.
The contaminants were found in foods that are not among the more than 150 brands recalled since March 16, Coneley said. The highest level of acetaminophen was found in a dog food sample submitted by a manufacturer, she said. Coneley declined to identify the company but said its officials were given the results "well over a month ago."
That company should have -- but did not -- notify the FDA, which first learned of the acetaminophen findings after pet owners posted lab reports on the Internet, Arbesfeld said.
"With any poison, it's the amount that matters." said Dr. Wilson Rumbeiha, a Michigan State University pathologist who is working with the FDA on the pet food contamination investigation. His lab has screened for acetaminophen but found none, he said.
The highest level of acetaminophen found by the Texas lab -- 2 milligrams per gram of dog food -- is a large amount, Rumbeiha said. That is eight times what a 10-pound cat could safely consume, he said.
However, a 20-pound dog would have to eat more than 6.5 pounds of food in 24 hours to be poisoned, unless it ate the same contaminated food daily, Rumbeiha said.
A still-unmeasured amount of acetaminophen and cyanuric acid were found in cat food submitted by Don Earl, 52, of Port Townsend, Wash., whose 6-year-old cat, Chuckles, died in January.
He said he was suspicious of two flavors of Chuckles' Pet Pride food because his other two cats refused to eat it and because Chuckles, strictly an indoor girl, had been healthy.


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In a recent post in the Mama's Comfort Camp FB group, there was a thread where one mum commented that she didn't want to be labelled 'that mum'. We all know 'that mum' & whatever it is that's had her labelled as such. The mum that has certain idiosyncrasies, mannerisms, oddness, bluntness, pushiness or completely neurotic – whatever it is that makes her 'that mum'. This particular post on MCC was about a mum who's sending her child to kindergarten & her child has a nut allergy. Despite the school having rules & regulations when it came to students with any allergies or intolerance's or medical conditions, her concern was more about the other kids & the parents respecting the rules especially as she can no longer be there all the time to ensure her child safety. And she didn't want to be 'that mum' that most of us don't want to be.
So I'm putting this out there. I WANT to be 'that mum'. I want to be 'that mum' that's not afraid what others will think about me – for standing up for my kids, for disciplining them whenever & wherever it's required no matter who's around, for ensuring their safety & security, for insisting that other parents respect the way in which we've decided to bring up out kids – everything from faith to what clothes brands fill up their wardrobes. Note, I didn't say that other people should accept our decisions & choices that we're making for our kids, but I'm asking for them to respect them.
After thinking about this for a few days, these are the ways I'm already & will forever be 'that mum':
* I'm 'that mum' in that insist that my kids use their manners. I will stand there until they utter those damn annoying words 'thank you for having me' when leaving a friends house, I'll tell them to thank the waiter/waitress that delivers their drink/meal to our table, to thank the checkout person at the supermarket, to thank their bus driver, doctors, dentists – ANYONE they come into contact with. Manners are just decent & a display of kindness & I want my kids to not take anything or anyone for granted.
* I am 'that mum' that won't accept a dinner invitation when I know the kids will have a late night. I know the ramifications for the late night & I'm the one that has to deal with it that night, the next day (& sometimes a few days after) & often a few nights also. My sanity relies on sleep, so I'm looking out for myself too. So thank you for your kind invitation, I'll accept it in a few years or next week without the kids.
* I am 'that mum' that watches my son around food in case he puts something in his mouth that he might choke on. Luckily for me (??) he has a food aversion (for which we've just started a feeding clinic) so I'm pretty sure he'll not put anything he deems unsafe into his mouth, but it doesn't stop me watching him because I don't enjoy seeing him gag & vomit.
* I am 'that mum' that is strict about time for dinner, bath & bed time. My kids do better with routine & structure & frankly, so do I.
* I am 'that mum' that gets my sons ears checked after he's had a snotty nose for a few days, because it's been our experience that he gets an ear infection which is not only painful but also affects his hearing & speech. And given his history with reflux (until he was 18mths) & the correlation between ear infections & reflux I'm always extra vigilant. I didn't want to be 'that mum' with my second child, but the universe told me I didn't have a choice.
* I'm 'that mum' that will be the first to tell you that's it's ok to not be instantly in love with your newborn baby. Just because you have carried this baby, it doesn't mean you know them & are besotted by them. It can take time, especially after a premature birth or difficult delivery. It's just like any relationship – you didn't instantly fall in love with your partner, it took time. So please be kind to yourself if that instant Mack truck of love doesn't hit you. And in addition to this, I'm also 'that mum' that will tell you that there will be times that having a baby, sometimes, is nothing like a Huggies ad. Seriously, those mums wear crisp white shirts & have pristine houses!
* I'm 'that mum' that gets really really annoyed when you tell me how to parent & or when you minimise any of my hardships because you're a one-upper or just one of those insensitive types. Why can't you just say, 'I don't know how you feel, but I'm here whenever you need to talk about it'. Surely kindness beats competition.
* I'm 'that mum' that will not judge how you give birth or judge whether you breastfeed or bottle feed your baby. The type of birth you have is about the health & safety of you & your baby & how you nourish your baby are merely methods of feeding your baby & is in no way, a gauge or reflection for how much you love & have bonded with your baby. I'm 'that mum' will defend your decision, because YOU are the mother & need to do what's best for you, your baby & your nuclear family.
* I'm 'that mum' that will escort my kids away from yours or increase the gap between us in the queue if I see that your kids are snotty & coughing. I don't want Orli getting sick, well because I don't want her to be sick, but more so because I don't want her getting Flynn sick. Even though I feel as though we are out of the woods when it comes to his Laryngomalacia & his breathing has been good for over a year now, nothing scares me more than him getting croup, whopping cough or any type of respiratory infection. Yes, I know it's me & still suffering with an element of PTSD with him hospitalised as a baby for nine weeks & having numerous tests & procedures done. But more than that, I don't want to see him suffering again or struggling to breathe. And you want to see me turn into 'that mum' quicker than anything – drop your off at kindy or creche with snot running down their face or a barky cough. Seriously!?
Thank you to all the mums on MCC that contributed to the thread & put another mothers mind at ease. And thank you to that mum who got me thinking about being 'that mum'.
I'm proud to be 'that mum'. You know why? Because my kids deserve me to be!


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Serial addiction
We spend untold hours sharing our TV heroes' hopes and fears, and miss them sorely when the series ends. The following tours put you back in the middle of the action, thankfully.
London, Great Britain
Met London's least likely housemates yet? Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) keeps eyeballs in his microwave and shoots holes in the wall when he's bored – quite to the amazement of ex-military physician Dr. Watson (Martin Freeman), who moves in with the hyperintelligent detective at number 221B Baker Street. That London address is one stop on a three-hour tour of locations (link below) that picks up the trail of exciting criminal cases and a special friendship. Make sure to take the tour on a gray and rainy day.
Medellín, Colombia
"Plata o plomo?" (silver or lead?) When Pablo Escobar (played by Wagner Moura), asks this question, the bribe is definitely the better bet. "Narcos" tells the story of the brutal Columbian drug lord who dominated the international cocaine trade in the late 1970s and '80s. The Pablo Escobar Tour in and around Medellín includes Hacienda Nápoles, once the symbol of his megalomania, today an amusement park. The sports plane he used to make his first deliveries stands atop the entrance. Another stop is the Escobars' family tomb.
Breaking Bad
Albuquerque, USA
Die Geschichte vom Chemielehrer, der eine Krebsdiagnose bekommt und dann beginnt, die Droge Crystal Meth zu kochen, ist längst Kult. Die Wandlung des Walter White (Bryan Cranston) ist nicht nur tragikomisch, sondern auch ein Stück über Demütigung, Befreiung und Skrupellosigkeit in fünf Staffeln. Die Tour zur Serie führt durch Albuquerque, New Mexico, die Heimat von Walter "Heisenberg" White und seinem Kompagnon Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Es werden 20 Locations besichtigt, darunter die legendäre Autowaschanlage. Zu den verschiedenen Drehorten fährt man natürlich mit einem Wohnmobil.
Sex and the City
New York, USA
Possibly New York's most famous set of steps: When cool, elegant columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) leaves her apartment, her outfits regularly set trends. The Sex and the City Hotspots tour is an entertaining homage to Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha, who celebrated their friendship in 94 episodes against the backdrop of Manhattan. Highlights of the tour are a cute cupcake stop in the Magnolia Bakery and a visit to the Scout bar. What should you order here? A Cosmopolitan, of course.
Duisburg, Germany
Rough and ready, but romantic. That's Schimanski and his city, Duisburg. Germany's "Tatort," which has been on the air since 1970, has seen more than 100 detectives since that time. Antihero Horst Schimanski, immortalized by the late Götz George, debuted in 1981. Usually slightly hungover and sporting his eternal beige jacket, he careered through the streets of Duisburg in his Citroën – almost like a German James Bond. Whether you take the yacht, bicycle or pedestrian Schimmi Tour, it will of course finish with a typical curry sausage.
Game of Thrones
Reykjavík, Iceland / Aït-Ben-Haddou, Morocco
George R. R. Martin's books tell the story of brave warriors and a dragon queen, of love and hate, bloody battles fought in the snow and shadow wolves as true companions. "Game of Thrones," the series they gave rise to, is the most successful fantasy TV series of all time. The battle for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros was filmed at various locations in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Croatia, Morocco, Spain and on Malta. There are many tours around. For the most contrasting, try the ones of chilly Iceland's Thingvellir National Park and the Moroccan desert town of Aït Benhaddou, which really bring the Song of Ice and Fire to life.


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DAVOS, Switzerland | A top international finance official is warning banks to be cautious about the prices of investments that have gone up sharply because of current low interest rates.
DAVOS, Switzerland | A top international finance official is warning banks to be cautious about the prices of investments that have gone up sharply because of current low interest rates.
Jaime Caruana, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, says the low interest rates in effect now may have made it difficult to assess the true value of those investments.
In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Caruana told The Associated Press that banks and their regulators "should be vigilant on the prices of some of these assets."
That's so that bank finances are solid in case those assets fall in price when central banks in developed countries start raising interest rates as the economy recovers.
Investments such as U.S. junk bonds — bonds issued by corporations with less than perfect credit ratings — have gone up as investors abandon lower-yielding, safer investments in search of higher interest yields. That rise, however, could go into reverse when rates rise. And that could mean losses for investors and banks if they are not careful ahead of time.
"We should be monitoring the levels of the asset prices that have moved rapidly, particularly in risky assets," Caruana said. "Financial institutions need to understand that the level of rates is very low."
At some point, there will be "a return to normality. and I think they should be at some point in time resilient to this type of movements," said Caruana.
The Bank for International Settlements, based in Basel, Switzerland, is a global organization of central banks. Its members include the U.S. Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, and the European Central Bank, which conducts monetary policy for the 17 countries that use the euro.
Caruana's caution follows a similar warning from the Institute of International Finance, a global association of banks, investment funds and other financial institutions. The IIF this week warned that low rates could mean a "boom-bust cycle" once the central banks withdraw their stimulus.
Central banks in the richer countries — such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan — have lowered interest rates to record lows and pushed newly created money into the financial system by purchasing financial assets.
Caruana avoided mentioning any individual country's policies but said central banks had done the right thing by making a strong effort to support the economy at a time of crisis.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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Highway 3 Revisited!
A little play on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, lol. NWT Highway 3 connects Yellowknife to The south (connecting to NWT Highway 1 near Fort Providence). Yesterday, Dale, Jenna and I went for a drive on Highway 3. We just wanted to get out for a quick drive to see want things we could see. We followed along the highway until reaching the Stagg River. From there we headed back to Yellowknife, making a few stops to snap some photos along our way home. There were two main places of interest, a pond created by a gravel pit that had beautiful glacier coloured water and the second was a small pond with red and yellow moss and foliage all around with a beautiful sky above. I took several versions of the second and will post each here and you can choose which you like. Jenna wanted to shoot as well and she decided my Maxxum 7 35mm film camera would work nicely for her. I captured a shot of her using it. It was a great way to kill and afternoon but, once we arrived home Jenna made it clear that she want to go out and spend some more time driving and shooting. So, Jenna and I decided we would load a few items in the truck, head out again and stay the night. We headed out again and continued to Mosquito Creek just past Becho'ko. We pulled off the Highway and went all the way down to the creek. There we watched a movie, ate and just hung out. This morning we were up early to see if we could find any wildlife. It was a great night and some great time spent with Jenna. We saw lots of ducks, a sandhill crane and three snowshoe hare before making our way back to town. Here is what we saw yesterday and this morning. Enjoy, thanks for hunting out and as always Happy Shooting.
Go Falcons!
Ok, all you Sir John Franklin High School students don't get excited, lol. This is the last post of my recent Paulatuk trip (at least I think it is, it may be the Eagles last tour, lol). On previous visits I have photographed, Sic-Sics, a Bluenose-West Caribou, 5 different grizzly bears and a few other critters. Well this time I was able to capture something I don't believe I have seen before. This time I captured a Dark Morph coloured Gyrfalcon! He/She is amazing, a killing machine as far as birds of prey go (as I was told by someone smarter than I). I am trying to convince some friends of mine that I am not a true bird watcher/photographer. For the most part I believe that, I don't go out looking for some strange bird that was spotted around town. I have gone out with others while they look and if I am out and see birds I generally stop and try to get some images of them. I don't often go for the sole purpose of seeing a bird that I have never seen. What I am finding though, is that when I see different birds I think of my friends who would want to be there or I wonder what bird it is and if they could tell me about it. That seems to get me out on occasion to capture these flyers. Sunday was one of those days. I was out taking some landscape images with my 35mm film camera and while driving back to the community of Paulatuk a bird flew past the truck just a few feet away. I didn't get a good look but, it appear to be a hawk of some kind. I guessed it was a medium sized bird of prey and it was a medium grey colour. When I got back to the house I sent a message to my friend John McKay and asked if he could tell me what birds of prey there are in the Paulatuk area. He asked a few questions and gave me a small list of possibilities. I, and I guess John, was unsure as to what it could be. Not being able to give John more info so I could know what it was made me a little crazy. Later on Sunday I decided I would go back to the same area with hopes of seeing it again (like that normally works, lol). I didn't have my 120-400mm lens with me but had my 70-200 and a 2x converter. I mounted those on my DSLR and off I went. I wasn't expecting to see anything and was ready to switch back to my trusty landscape set up (I even brought my filters out with me). About 1/4 of the way to where I first saw this bird, I noticed something sitting on a large rock at the top of a hill. It was the bird, medium size, medium grey in colour – wow this birding stuff is easy, lol. Before I got close enough to get what I wanted it flew away. I watched its flight path and continued. This went on for about 20 minutes. The bird would land and fly before I would get a shot. After the 20 minutes I lost sight of this beautiful creature. I continued to drive around for another 30 minutes and saw nothing. I decided to head back. Coming from the opposite direction I could see the rock on the hill in the distance about 1.5 kilometres away. There was something on it, but it wasn't my new friend. This thing was bigger and darker in colour. Not wanting it to just fly off, I slowed and just crept along. I noticed to my right, in the valley, a person driving along the Hornaday water shed on an ATV (the water is still in Paulatuk FYI). It looked so small in the vastness of the landscape. I am amazed that I get to visit these extraordinary locations. All of a sudden I noticed something else. Directly between me and the far off ATV was my medium grey bird friend, almost hidden from view in the texture and colour of the ground. I grabbed the camera and snapped away. Gotcha! With in a couple of seconds of me getting out to get a closer view it was gone. I looked back to the rock on the hill and that new bird friend was still there. I continued to move closer and this one isn't as easily stirred. I drove about 100 ft and was now on the opposite side (in the truck) from where the dark coloured bird was. I quietly opened the door and exited. As I did this, the bird began to move and started to fly. I was sure I had lost my chance, but surprisingly it flew past me and perched about 80 ft away on the new rock. It was now directly in front of me. I got a couple of shots as quickly as I could and then moved forward slowly. I guess 80 ft was the limit as my new friend left very quickly and I couldn't see it anywhere. I walked up to the rock to get a better look at the surrounding area, still nothing. My bird identifying shoot was over. I headed back and sent John McKay some of the images. I thought the second darker bird may have been a juvenile of whatever kind of bird it was. The colour reminded me of a young bald eagle, but the size seemed wrong. I had no clue what it was. John, on the other hand, is like the all-knowing Bird Whisperer. Within minutes I had the info I wanted. The medium grey bird is a Peregrine Falcon, the second, larger, darker bird is a Dark Morph coloured Gyrfalcon. The Gyrfalcon, by my estimate, was 15 – 17 inches tall (sorry I am Canadian so 38 – 43 cm) and the Peregrine about 12 inches or 30 cm. So there you have it, my most resent bird capture and as you can tell I am no birder, I was not a character in "The Big Year". Here is a shot of the Gyrfalcon. Enjoy, thanks for visiting and as always, Happy Shooting.
The scale of the Paulatuk Landscape
This is the last night of this trip to Paulatuk and while I sit here writing, I am assuming that most, if not all, of you readers have never been here. I have blogged about Paulatuk several times (three time in the last three nights) so, it may give some of you a little familiarity with the community but nothing I say or show can give a view of the area as well as being here. Tonight, I thought I would display several images of the same subject (one item in the landscape) to try to give you an idea of the scale of the area around Paulatuk. To show just how big the Canadian Arctic can be. About a kilometre from the community is the frame-work of someone's old camp building. It has been there in the same place since I have been traveling here and it has always interested me. Yesterday, while I traveled around, I took several photos of the old camp frame. I used a variety of focal lengths to portray a number of different views of the landscape around this small old building. In a couple of them you may need to search for the wooden structure as it will be very small. When I am out snapping photographs of this part of the north I love how it makes me feel so small and at times I like how alone I feel while standing with nothing but Canadian wilderness around me. No buildings, no cars, no crowds of people, the business of normal everyday life is gone. It is quiet and very relaxing to me. I think I need to just hike here for a week or so, no phones, no internet, just fresh clean air and wide open spaces. My wife and girls are laughing right now at the thought of me going crazy without the internet, lol. I could do it ladies! Anyway enough talking, here is how wide open the Canadian Arctic can be. If you want to come experience it for yourself everyone here will welcome you and heck I will come with you. Here is a sample of what you can see and feel, enjoy, thanks for popping in and as always Happy Shooting.
Another May Day in Paulatuk.
This morning I was up and had planned a photo shoot for myself just as I did yesterday. I guess I should explain why I seem to have this free time on a work trip to Paulatuk. Well, I am here often as I stated previously and usually go shooting after work is complete. For this trip I planned a few extra days for two reasons; the first is to have some time available to help a couple of people in Paulatuk with some finance issues/needs. I didn't want to pressure any of them into having me do their work but, I made sure they knew I was available if they chose to want some assistance. The second is that I wanted some time to just be in Paulatuk, to hang out, to take in the area to be part of the Hamlet for a few days and of course to photograph. So far my weekend in Paulatuk has been great. I had two mornings of shooting the area and lots of time to do some photo editing and to create these blog posts. A few months ago I took some engagement photos for a couple I know here and before I leave they will have all those images and will no longer have to wait for my crazy schedule to slow for them to get their photos. It has been quite overcast for the past few days but, as I write this the sun appears to be poking through the cloudy skies (which means I made need to go out and shoot again later). Today I wanted to capture some of the things I saw but didn't capture yesterday, some of the birds that have returned, the Sic-Sic I saw in the afternoon and a few things around town. I was able to do that but, still missed some new things. I spotted three Sandhill Cranes but, didn't get any images of them, I watched a bird of prey (some type of hawk I believe) fly past and didn't get a shot of it but, there were some things I did capture (see below). All in all I am enjoying my time here and I am already looking forward to my next visit. Here is what I saw this morning as I traveled in and around the Hamlet of Paulatuk. Enjoy, thanks for following along and as always, Happy Shooting.
Paulatuk in May
Today I am in Paulatuk, NT. I am actually in Paulatuk quite often and I can tell as several locals welcomed me home as I stepped off Aklak Air's Beechcraft 1900D. I like Paulatuk a lot and enjoy visiting here, it has a landscape that is uniquely northern and unlike anywhere else I have been. Also, Paulatuk is a Inuit Community and the fact that my Grandmother was an Inuit woman from Nain, Labrador gives me another connection to Paulatuk and the other communities in this area. My work brings me here and I am quite happy with that however, Paulatuk should be on the must visit list of every traveller, if it is for work or otherwise. Being one of the friendliest communities I visit is only one thing that should make you consider visiting, there are others. Paulatuk is the closest community to Tuktut Nogait National Park and the people here have a great connection to the park and the history of the land here. I haven't been to the park yet but, when I do get there (and I will get there) I feel having connected with the community will add to my future park experience. The Brock and Hornaday Rivers run in the park, the Brock River Canyon have been described to me as the Grand Canyon of the Canadian North, and the Hornaday River has unique features and La Roncière Falls. Tuktut Nogait means "Young Caribou" and the area is home to the Bluenose-West Caribou herd. I photographed a beautiful Caribou buck during a pervious trip to Paulatuk. Paulatuk is also near the Smoking Hills (about 65 miles from the community). The Smoking Hills contain a hydrocarbon which have been burning for centuries and the smoke produced is what gives the hills their name. Also 59 miles to the northeast is the DEW line site of Cape Perry and some locals still visit the site there. Of course, The Paulatuk Moonlight Drummers and Dancer are from the community, if you don't know who they are I suggest you go to youtube and check them out. There is a Hotel here in Paulatuk and a Northern Store for your needs and there is an abundance of local people to story tell or just say hello. Aklak Air has three scheduled flights a week here, if you want to visit make sure you check their schedule.
I decided to write this today due to an event in Yellowknife. Samantha Stuart, a friend and fellow photographer, has organized a photo walk in Yellowknife. I can't be there today so, I decided I would take to the area in and around Paulatuk to do a photo drive/walk of my own. With a little fresh snow from last nights flurries Paulatuk spring won't look like May in many southern communities but, I am glad I am here today to see this beautiful place and share some of what I see with the two or three people who might listen and read what I say, lol. Enjoy the images below and if you want to come see this area for yourself, let me know as I know I will be back maybe can join you and I know I can help with planning your visit. For now, thanks for stopping by and as always Happy Shooting.
Caribou found Part 2!
A couple of weekends after our first Caribou sighting and we stubble on the mother load. Traveling north on the Ice Road we get to Brown Lake, at first we see nothing and continue north. It didn't take much more than 10 or 15 minutes and we turn back and start heading home, we reach Brown Lake again and as we cross John notices something on the far side of the lake. More Caribou, a lot more. We stop grab our cameras and get ready to capture some images. We haven't figure out how we missed these Caribou when heading north, we estimate about 200 animals. How do you miss 200 Caribou? After we exit the truck, I would guess we walked a kilometre from the Ice Road, following a snowmobile trail across the lake close to where our new hoofed friends are.
It always surprises me how seeing something you want to photograph get your juices following. John and I are on the lake unprotected from the wind and it had to be 20 to 25 minutes before we notice the temperature. I am also in awe of todays camera equipment. I never do anything special to protect my camera gear from the cold and I never really notice the difference in my battery life. I am sure the batteries rundown much quicker but, I don't every remember it being an issue. This day on the Ice Road is no different, our gear is working just fine. Probably better than we are holding up.
After what I would guess is 40 minutes we start walking back to the truck. The temperature is really noticeable now and it is cold. The truck is warm and I am again thinking of the lack of care I take when using my equipment in the cold. Neither John or I do anything to protect our cameras, we just open the doors and climb in laying our cameras on the seat and start to get ready to continue our drive back to YK.
Heading south there is a lot of great conversation and some jokes at each others expense. This will remind John of that as I am sure at his age he has forgotten a time so far in the past, lol. Sorry John I couldn't stop myself. Another great day on the winter road, maybe someone should do a reality show about the Ice Photographers or maybe next year I will mount an action camera to the truck and we will make our own show, lol. For now I guess my blog posts will have to do! Thanks for reading along and waiting for this second part of my Caribou posts. I hope you enjoyed it and as always Happy Shooting!
Driving the Dempster!
Between trips up the Winter Ice Road, I had to make a trip to Paulatuk for work. My flight connection required me to overnight in Inuvik and the next day the weather decided I should stay in Inuvik for a while, two days actually. On day two of our layover, my business partner and I decided to rent a truck and drive the Dempster Highway to the Yukon. I had never driven the Dempster before and just one day earlier it was closed due to weather conditions, this could get interesting. By lunch time we had our rental and some munchies and we were off. Our plan was to make it to the Yukon border and cross it before heading back. We knew we would stop in Fort McPherson for dinner on our return (my business partner has family there). We would make several stops to just take in our surroundings and I was snapping photos everywhere. It was a great day and I know now that I have to drive the entire Dempster Highway in summer or early fall, it was amazing. Here are some images I created during that day of driving. Thanks for stopping in, enjoy the images and for those of you looking for part two of the Caribou, don't worry it is coming as is part two of Driving the Dempster. Thanks again and as always Happy Shooting.


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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson joined 790 the Ticket in Miami on the Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz to talk about what he thinks of Jon "Bones" Jones, whether or not they know each other, on being underestimated by Jones, what weaknesses he sees in Jones as a fighter, and whether or not he considers Jones a top three pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
What he thinks of Jon "Bones" Jones:
"Well you know? At first I didn't know what to take from him. Then I learned he was talking and kinda disrespecting me saying things that I don't think he should've been saying. He had only been in the sport a couple of minutes and he was already talking bad about me. I've been in for years and I paved the way for fighters like him. I think he needs to learn a little bit of respect and little humanity this weekend."
Whether or not he knows Jones at all:
"He's gonna get to know me on Saturday. Me and my friends. My right hand and my left hand."
On being underestimated by Jones:
"I think that the kid is so arrogant and everything that he'd have no idea what's coming his way. I'm glad that he's underestimating me and my skills and stuff like that. People forget that I'm a wrestler, went to K-1, know how kick box, and people just forget stuff about me. I don't care. I'm glad they do."
What weaknesses he sees with Jones as a fighter:
"The weakness I see with him is inexperience. The kid has never went through the championship rounds and I have. I've been through championship rounds. What people don't know the fourth and fifth rounds, it's hard. Once you get past the third, the fourth round is no joke and the fifth round, that's where champions are made and broken right there. The kid has never stepped into that deep water. I have several times. I've done that and I got a t-shirt. I ain't giving that t-shirt to Jon Jones this weekend. I'm keeping my t-shirt and taking his belt. (Host: You and your friends have a t-shirt?) Jon Jones has skills and everything but he doesn't have experience. He came on too fast. You can't buy experience at Wal-Mart. You can't. You have to earn it. You can't buy it at Wal-Mart, but you can get MMA Elite there."
You have accused him of having spies at your camp?
"You're guilty so it should bother you. You know what I'm saying the kid is guilty. He knows he has spies in my camp. I think we have narrowed it down to who it is. We're just focusing on this upcoming fight and stuff like that. If he didn't put the spies there himself then his manager did and he knew about it. He feels guilty. That's why it bothers him."
Whether or not Jones is a top three pound-for-pound fighter:
"Pound-for-pound top three fighter? I don't know. I wouldn't rate him top three fighter in the world. Pound for pound? Like in all the weight? No. Top three, no. Hell no."
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She calls herself a "professional social entrepreneur."
That's the nutshell title. There's also "serendipity concierge," a matchmaker of sorts for business wannabes.
Officially, she answers to "sustainable community and economic development specialist."
A mind-boggling resume several pages long chronicles extensive contributions in community development, including her hands-on involvement with WV Create, WV GreenWorks, Katalyst Development Strategies and similar organizations devoted to green business growth.
The titles continue. Extension specialist. Executive leader. Facilitator. Communicator. Project manager. Add teacher, designer and advocate. Whew!
Closest to her heart these days is West Virginia State University's Economic Development Center, on Kanawha Boulevard, a business incubator and home of DigiSo, her baby, a digital arts studio and social media program catering to mobile professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs in the creative arts.
But that's just one side of Sarah Halstead. The convoluted journey that brought her back to her home state makes another whole story.
She taught middle school in Boone County, taught African-American grade schoolers in the Deep South and taught fourth-graders in Okinawa, Japan.
How's that for diversity?
At 48, she looks back on those years, those experiences, as building blocks for the commitments that drive her today.
Her West Virginia accent opened the door.
"I grew up in South Charleston, the fifth of six kids. My parents soon will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary. Mom was from Hinton and Dad from the Beckley area. They owned a small business and he left that to work for Sears Roebuck, in Charleston. He was everyone's favorite salesman, mostly in appliances.
"I was in love with architecture. I was so excited about design. I got accepted into the University of Tennessee's program, but I was too chicken to go.
"I went to West Virginia Tech for three years and forced myself into mechanical engineering. That was my fix for not going out of state to study architecture. After three years, I transferred to West Virginia State and I admitted that I love teaching and I haven't stopped.
"I got an education degree with a lot of science and math behind it. It is at work here. I work in community and economic development, but I'm bringing in kids' programming, too.
"My first teaching job was in Boone County in Van. I was known as the girl from Charleston. I couldn't believe that 40 minutes away, I would be considered an outsider. But that was a good lesson to learn. It was a wonderful experience. The kids were warm. The characters I met are still characters to this day. Even when I was working in Japan, I caught a glimpse of my Boone County experience on television. Jesco White. I couldn't believe it.
"I got a pink slip, a reduction-in-force notice, in Boone County. I never ever dreamed of leaving. That was the kick in the pants I needed. I had gone to a WVSU job fair. I was recruited in northern Virginia to teach at Apple Pie Ridge Elementary School. I went to Winchester, Virginia, and had the sweetest second year of teaching. Magnificent kids.
"I married a man in the military, went to Okinawa, Japan, and got picked up by the U.S. Department of Defense as a fourth-grade teacher. I was able to team teach with some of the best teachers of the world, so I learned a lot.
"The intercultural experiences were amazing and eye-opening. I learned there that I truly am an ambassador for West Virginia. Everywhere I go, people are curious. I was there five years.
"The first leg was three years. We came back to the States. I ended up getting divorced. I was working in Beaufort, South Carolina, and that was the second major re-education of Sarah Halstead. I taught middle school in the Deep South. That's where I learned that we are not Southern at all. This accent gets confused with being Southern, but we are actually mid-Atlantic. I taught mostly African-American kids American history where the Civil War started. It made me a better teacher. I had never been a minority in my own country. That was good for me.
"I returned to the Department of Defense overseas. I was back in mainland Japan just outside of Tokyo. I married a Marine fighter pilot, 'Top Gun,' the whole thing. After a couple of years, we went to San Diego. In between, I went all over Asia.
"In Tokyo, I would say, 'How did this little girl from South Charleston get here?' That was never so apparent as it was in San Diego, on the way to Los Angeles with 16 lanes of traffic. I would look up, and a sign would say Pasadena. I would think, 'Wow, what am I doing here?'
"I got my master's, but I couldn't get hired. After about 14 interviews, I figured I'd better reinvent myself. This was a highly educated unemployed workforce. That's where I learned about the 'sunshine tax.' You have to be willing to pay the sunshine tax, to do whatever it takes, to be there. You may take jobs you are not necessarily suited to and get less pay.
"I was desperate and farmed my resume out and was just ready to break up with my husband and go back to the Department of Defense where everybody knew me and loved me and paid me well.
"I fell into a fabulous situation. A nonprofit that worked with community colleges in San Diego took a chance on me. I called where I had submitted my last resume. The accounting clerk said the job I applied for was closed. 'I said, 'That's a shame. Thank you very much.' She said, 'Oh, that's a cute accent. I'm going to pass your resume forward. Maybe they aren't going to decide just yet.' My whole future hinged on my accent and that phone call. She had some pull and it was a total game-changer.
"I ended up working in economic development and workforce development for the colleges. Turns out, what a good first grade or eighth grade teacher does is what the boardroom and corporate America needs. We teach communication, teamwork, how to make clear objectives and goals. A great fit.
"I worked with every kind of industry you can think of and designed training programs. I found myself in a meeting run by what I call teenage girls and all these old engineers crowded around talking about how buildings can produce their own energy. It was the U. S. Green Building Council. That started me down a path that is still a big part of my life in West Virginia.
"In 2005, I came home to care for my mother, father and grandmother. My father had a stroke. I ended up buying a house and they moved in with me. At one time, we had four generations under one roof. Grandma died just before celebrating 102 years.
"I went into business with my sister, Rebecca Kimmons. It's Katalyst Development Strategies. Those were some of the best days of my professional life. I was sure that you can telecommute and can have incredible efficiencies. My brothers used to asked why we didn't sell training. We weren't that far along and didn't have that much industry diversity, so it focused me on what has to happen with community and economic development.
"I was invited to join a conversation on the industry of culture. That led to Create West Virginia, one of the most influential grass roots organizations in West Virginia. We have quietly supported initiatives that have become legislative. That spawned a nonprofit. I am the founder of the state chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.
"I also founded West Virginia Green Works with Randall Johnson and the Southern Council of the Mountains. They had a directive to create a nonprofit. I asked Randall why he didn't just tag on to what we are doing here. He said no, he had to do this. So I became executive director of West Virginia Green Works. That organization had a lot to do with the building codes in West Virginia getting changed.
"All this Create West Virgina conversation led to these conferences we throw. WVSU extension professionals came to the second one and got so excited that they asked something like, 'If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?' I was the lucky consultant from Create West Virginia that got to design all this.
"In 2012, we opened the doors to this place. I'm their specialist for community and economic development. I've stepped away from Greenworks, but I'm still part of it.
"This is the state's first coworking facility that was designed from mobile creatives. People who are on the go, who can live and work anywhere, not in a traditional office setting, can come here and cowork and produce.
"This building is one of the only ones like in the nation. It is built for regular people to come in and engage with $100,000 worth of technology. Most people don't open the doors to studios to regular people or kids. We do. They pay $20 a day.
"We are lowering the barrier to technology. We are trying to improve access to resources to all kinds if startups. I have designed 17 different programs run out of this building that wiill help new economy business development happen here. We think there is a new way to live and work in West Virginia.
"West Virginia State University owns the building and wrote the grants. HUD and USDA gave about $500,000 to retrofit this building.
"One of the big programs is the idea of a maker space, a very sexy retake of the geek in the garage movement. We have 3-D printers here. Kids are learning design thinking, problem solving and entrepreneurship all wrapped up.
"This building is open 24 hours, seven days a week. If you are a creative (we call them creatives — patent developers, scientists, techies, hackers, artists) or a filmmaker, camera person or writer and you are traveling, you could rent space or a studio here. There are commercials shot here regularly. A lot happens here you don't know about because you are not meant to know. This is a place where creative work can get done. Movie companies come in and rent the space. But the important thing is that regular people can come in, startups in the theater and high-tech.
"The 15-year-old kid you just saw is launching a business. I'm letting him play with a 3-D printer and he's interfacing with a hacker. This is a place where you can connect with your imagination and other people and move it forward.
"There are challenges in a state like West Virginia where all of this is new. You are constantly proving yourself. But I love it. Every day is amazing. It all had to happen the way it did to get me right here. I had to be forced out of my comfort zone in West Virginia. You will never hear me say let's keep our youth here. I want them to go and explore and come back when they've got something to give back."
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Roland Martin is a sad case, so hooked on racializing everything as if skin color is the most important thing about everyone, even Santa Claus
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"News One Now" host Roland Martin said Friday on the "Tom Joyner Morning Show" that Fox News' Megyn Kelly's remark that Santa Claus and Jesus are white reinforced to black and Hispanic kids that they live in a "white world," and they don't matter.
"Doesn't it just reinforce though to your point growing up as a child, you seeing these images, it reinforces where for black kids and Hispanic kids, it's, 'Look, accept that this is a white, white world and you don't matter,'" Martin asked Slate writer Aisha Harris, author of the article, "Santa Should Not Be a White Man Anymore."
Kelly did a segment about Harris' Slate article, which challenged the notion of Santa being white. Harris wrote about growing up with images of a black Santa on Christmas decorations at home while the public celebrated a white Santa.
Roland you silly bastard, if you were not suffering from Racial Obsession Syndrome (ROS) it might dawn on you that if racist victim mongers like you would leave kids alone, and stop filling their heads with your divisive venom, they would look at Santa, and just enjoy being a kid at Christmas. Certainly I pity you Roland that you were obviously victimized by race baiters as a child. Sad that you have grown up continuing to see your race as the most important thing about you. Get the fuck over yourself and your pigmentation Roland. For the love of God, stop making skin color something it is not, important. Character Roland, THAT matters. Integrity, THAT matters! Skin color? that DOES NOT matter! And guess what Roland, you know what the saddest thing is? If you read this you would call me racist for saying that skin color is unimportant. You would do so because you have been conditioned by Leftism to do so. Again, it is tragic that you are just not bright enough to see through the lies the left has told you.
By the way Roland, I should point out that Santa Claus is based on Saint Nicholas who was WHITE! Not that that matters. Because in my world, I can admire people regardless of skin color, it is sad that you cannot. It must be a very dark, ugly world where you live, I pray that you get over your obsession with skin color one day. You would likely be a nice man were you to see people as something other than skin color.