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Every year we solicit nominations from the local community for students, artists, and art benefactors whose support of the visual arts merits distinction, and we select several to honor at our Annual Dinner. The winners get feted and appreciated for an evening, and each receives a certificate. Articles in the paper, all that sort of thing. We let the world know that this crop of arts heroes has done something special, and we hope that each feels appropriately celebrated for his or her talent. Then we go about another year of wash, rinse, and retweet until the specter of the next Arts Awards season makes us wonder where all the time has gone and what happened to last year's winners and whether we made a difference in their lives to the extent that it would be worth trying to do it again this year. Continue reading


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The EU this week approved a law to standardise mobile phone chargers, in an attempt to eliminate e-waste through incompatible chargers and cut costs to the consumer.
In theory it sounds like a good idea. In practise? All the major manufacturers have converged on micro USB except Apple, who have already said they'll supply an adaptor rather than ditch their lightning connector. You'll struggle to find a non iPhone made since 2009 (when the legislation was put forward) that doesn't use micro USB. In short, it worked, without the law demanding it, merely suggesting it.
I am a bit of a tech geek, it's a subject I know about, and the flaws in this plan are glaring. If everyone is doing it anyway, why make it law? If it's law, what happens when the next tech standard comes along and we want to upgrade? Apple's lightning connector might be different to the USB ones, but it has major advantages, the plug is reversible, and the data transfer is much faster.
Honestly, when was the last time you saw any of those chargers on a new phone?
I've started to see a pattern. Governments legislating things like this always seem like a good idea unless I know anything about the subject, at which point the legislation is suddenly short sighted and inappropriate.
Legislating 101: start with a good headline and work backwards.
Extrapolating out from the data I have and my experience, I can only logically conclude that all legislation that aims to force this sort of control on us is stupid and inappropriate, be it standardised phone chargers, emission laws, or the shape of bananas.
Legislators who make these laws rarely seem to have a background interest in the subject matter; that seems reasonable. Most people aren't interested in most things. Politicians are interested in politics, getting re-elected, covering up their latest scandal. They're never going to properly understand even 10% of the issues they vote on, so why are they there?
I'm going to thing about if there's even a point to voting while I sleep in my house that isn't on fire from dodgy electrics and hasn't been blown up due to dodgy gas fittings. Damm legislation.


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Thoroughbred escapes, sprints down highway in Maryland
- Bullet Catcher escaped the Laurel Racetrack and ran a mile and a half down a highway Friday morning
- The 4-year-old gelding was galloping around 30 MPH down the road
- A trainer finally caught him and brought him back to the track
Those traveling on U.S. Route 1 in Laurel, Md., Friday morning might have thought their eyes were deceiving them.
It was no joke. There was a Thoroughbred heading south on the road, galloping about 30 miles per hour -- without a rider.
Bullet Catcher, a 4-year-old gelding, had tossed jockey Jeremy Rose while heading back to the barn at Laurel Park Race Track after a morning workout and got loose.
The horse made his way out of the stable gate, then got to Route 1 where he made a left turn. He was finally caught a mile and a half later -- uninjured. Bullet Catcher's unplanned journey took him through parts of three counties -- Anne Arundel, Howard and Prince George's.
"You think you've seen it all," said former rider Mark Rosenthal, who co-owns the gelding with Jerry Robb.
Jockey Abel Castellano captured part of the adventure on his mobile phone.
"I had finished working a horse and was coming to the jocks room when I saw a horse run by heading out of the stable gate," Castellano said. "I decided to follow the horse and maybe when he stopped I could catch him. All of a sudden we got to Route 1 and there was a red light. I saw the cars driving by and I said, 'Oh my God, we're going to have an accident'. But at that moment it changed to a green light to make a left and the horse just made a left.
"I went, 'Oh, we're so lucky so far'. Then we got the point where the road splits, you go right so that horse he keeps to the right, so we follow him. The horse is still running 30 miles an hour. Finally he slowed down in front of the Chrysler dealership almost to Main Street and we were able to catch him. The story had a happy ending but it was scary."
Trainer Charles "Snake" Frock was also part of the group that caught the Maryland-bred, who has one win and three on-the-board finishes in six lifetime starts.
"I have never seen anything like it, and I have been at the racetrack for more than 50 years," Frock said. "I was coming from the farm in Westminster and saw him on Whiskey Bottom Road and did a U-turn to try to help. My trailer was full with hay, and I had another horse in the van. When we finally caught him, we were able to bring him back to the track in my van. I told Robb later, 'It's unreal the horse galloped out the gate and all the way to Main Street on the blacktop and never shredded a shoe.' God was on his side."
Robb said Bullet Catcher had some abrasions on his feet but wouldn't know the full extent of any injuries for a few days.


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Fish oil
Fish oil is oil derived from the tissues of oily fish. It is recommended for a healthy diet because it contains the omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), precursors to eicosanoids that reduce inflammation throughout the body. Fish do not actually produce omega-3 fatty acids, but instead accumulate them from either consuming microalgae that produce these fatty acids, as is the case with fish like herring and sardines, or, as is the case with fatty predatory fish, by eating prey fish that have accumulated omega-3 fatty acids from microalgae. Such fatty predatory fish like mackerel, lake trout, flounder, albacore tuna and salmon may be high in omega-3 fatty acids, but due to their position at the top of the food chain, these species can accumulate toxic substances (see biomagnification). For this reason, the FDA recommends limiting consumption of certain (predatory) fish species (e.g. albacore tuna, shark, and swordfish) due to high levels of toxic contaminants such as mercury, dioxin, PCBs and chlordane. More than 50 percent of the world fish oil production is fed to farmed salmon. There are vegetarian products, DHA Omega-3, made from algae available if toxic contaminants are of concern.
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