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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A similar reshaping headed in the opposite direction—"goats me into" for "goads me into"—has already been posted on the forum.
"It really gets my goat" has got to be one of our stranger idioms. No one is really sure where it comes from, even though quite a number of theories have been floated – one says it's from horseracing, another says it's from prison slang; there's no definitive proof for any of these origin stories. (Mr. Word Detective has an entertaining but inconclusive article here: http://www.word-detective.com/111606B.html)
The phrase is therefore ripe for eggcornification, and in fact there are two variants. The more eggcornish of the two is "it gets my goad." That makes a certain degree of sense. No one wants to be poked with a goad, and the experience would no doubt be a source of irritation. Still, the form is a bit odd: why would the irritating thing "get" your goad, instead of "becoming" the goad?
"Gets my goad" by itself returns more than 200 raw hits, so all the permutations (get/got/getting your/his/hers/etc.) would probably bring in quite a few more. Examples:
Top five things that just gets my goad on the bus:
1. The greasy smear on the window from where someone had leaned their hair-product lathered head. I just look at it and think, bacteria cesspool.
Oh, that reminds me, that since I gave to the Humane Society's Katrina Fund they have done nothing but hound us for more money and it gets my goad that they keep addressing everything to my husband even though he had nothing to do with it,
http://joanneslife.blogspot.com/2006/01 … ation.html
The next writer uses a subvariant—"gets my goad up." That word-picture is a bit alarming, but I think phrases like "gets my dander up" or "gets my Irish up" are running a bit of interference:
It gets my goad up even further, when you see interviews that laud her for partying hard, making albums, shopping 24/7 AND writing a novel in her spare time; when really, it's not her success.
http://www.trashionista.com/2007/04/yay … edn_1.html
"Gets my goad" seems so convincing to some people that they gently ridicule anyone using the standard phrase, "gets my goat." The first two examples below are a pair taken from the same website – the first writer uses "goat" and gets "corrected." The opposite situation is enacted in the pair of quotations that follow. And then I end with a bunch of people wondering which form is right. Examples:
But what really gets my goat is once they've argued that we'll get no sleep (we do), that she'll be in bed with us forever (she's already mostly out), and that she'll never sleep through the night (she does)- then, they attack our sex life.
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/ar … 52534.html
You cracked me up when you wrote that comments "get your goat"... the expression is "get my goad," as in, being goaded into a response… :LOL … but what you said makes for a cooler visual :LOL
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/ar … 52534.html
Oh, and another things that really gets my goad is when people write that they "should of done such and such." You SHOULD HAVE done such and such!!!!
http://www.imamother.com/forum/viewtopi … 3a83290c51
[Another hapless victim of Skitt's Law]
Isn't it gets my goat or have I been hearing wrong all this time or did you simply type the word wrong?
http://www.imamother.com/forum/viewtopi … 3a83290c51
So, who's right? Is the phrase "get my goat" or "get my goad"?
Well, I decided to do a little research by submitting to the only bastion of authority and light and truth: I Googled both phrases, "Get your goat" and "Get your goad.
For example, the phrase get my goat started as "get my goad."
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/archive/inde … 56914.html
And I never even got to the weirder, less eggcornish variant. But this is long enough—maybe tomorrow.
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Very nice find. I do recall hearing it from time to time.
What I really like is the example which explains the imagery. You can't do much better than a firsthand account…
You cracked me up when you wrote that comments "get your goat"... the expression is "get my goad," as in, being goaded into a response… :LOL … but what you said makes for a cooler visual :LOL
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/ar … 52534.html
Yeah, that quotation you cited is one of those things that makes you murmur a quick prayer of thanks to the Eggcorn Gods when you're eggcorn-hunting.
What cracks ME up is that the person making the "correction" is admiring the eggcorn requirement of "a cooler visual"—just the way WE do when we spot a particularly clever eggcorn!!
(but why do we use "goat"? do we know, or is it just some phenomenally ancient idiot—er, idiom?)
Which came first: the goad or the goat?
Looks like Pat even has this question partly covered…
In one of his examples, someone suggests that the original might really have been "goad"...
For example, the phrase get my goat started as "get my goad."
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/archive/inde … 56914.html
The transition from "goad" to "goat" would follow a common eggcorn pattern of moving from a less familiar word to a more familiar word. And, perhaps a goat simply serves as a representative possession that is being taken away. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but at least it's concrete.
If "gets my goad" were truly the original, I'd sure like a more precise explanation of the word choice—"gets" and "goad" —and the related imagery. Loss of the original meaning can be the driving force behind the generation of an eggcorn. So, have we lost the meaning of "gets my goad" or "gets my goat"?
This whole topic just gets my ghost!
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When we're raised with a particular idiom, no matter how absurd it may be, it remains unremarkable. I remember people complaining of their goats being got as well as exhortations to 'stop playing the goat'.
For the goatless though, it may be necessary to press another word into service. I don't know quite how far we can take this thing, but 'gourd' can be used to mean 'head' which makes at least as much sense as the original:
What really gets my gourd is all the time and money that is wasted conducting these surveys, asking questions that have only one obvious answer. ...
www.catholicexchange.com/node/58945 – 32k – Cached
+ another 16 or so…
I would never in a million years have thought of looking for "gets my ghost" or "gets my gourd." What interesting and weird finds. This is starting to look just a bit like what the Language Log people call a "snowclone." I wonder how many other "gets my g——" variants are out there.
Jorkel's last comment is right on: the person he quotes is thinking in terms of eggcorns, even if they don't know the word; they DO know that more common words of a similar sound are substituted for rarer ones.
My gut feeling is that "gets my goat" probably is the original—I haven't been able to find any early uses of "goad" in this regard, but quite a number of uses of "gets my goat" have been documented.
All of which leads to a response to TootsNYC's comment. In my other "gets my goat" post, I gave a URL for an American Dialect Society post on this topic. (It's here: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bi … =1&P=22199) The writer, Douglas G. Wilson, used an electronic newspaper archive to analyze dozens of instances of "gets my goat" and related phrases from 1907-12. The older theory on this phrase – apparently first floated by H. L. Mencken – was that goats were kept in racing horses' stalls to calm them down before a race, but people who wanted to influence the race would "get the goat" in order to make the horse more nervous. Wilson's examples show no sign of this, but he does believe that in this expression goats were thought of as being tantamount to a person's self-possession or confidence. I've reproduced the analytical parts of his post below, but the examples are pretty long, so I've cut them out; they're worth looking at in the original post because it's clear Wilson's quick summary can tell only part of the story.
Review of the handy on-line newspapers shows that the "goat" in "get one's goat" was not strictly confined to this fixed expression, which is probably favored by alliteration.
One's "goat" is apparently more or less one's composure or self-confidence.
My current speculation is that the original reference was to a (metaphoric) mascot (in the old sense of good-luck charm, the opposite of jinx or hoodoo). Many sports teams apparently had goat mascots. The story about race-horses having goat companions is apparently true. However, I do not find any single instance of "getting/stealing/losing [a horse's] goat"; it's always a human being's goat. I speculate that the race-horse's goat was a mascot kept out of superstition (whether or not the horse became attached to it), and I doubt that the specifically horse-related goat was the etymological ancestor of this metaphor … merely a cousin.
After providing a ton of examples, Wilson concludes:
To lose one's goat was considered tantamount to failure (in athletics, etc.). "Goat" = "anger" is not apt; rather "goat" = "temper" (opposite of anger, approximately) is about right: "lose one's goat" approximates "lose one's temper" in some cases.—Doug Wilson
I never would have thought that there would be a gray boundary between an eggcorn and a snowclone, but the more I search for eggcorns by the fill-in-the-blank method, the more I'm convinced that virtually any reasonable word (in the blank) will produce a few Google hits. I'm not sure whether this casts new light or new shadow.
Except that I've never heard "gets my goat" used in a way that indicated a loss of self-confidence or an increase of nervousness.
It always involved making someone irritated or angry or incredulous—not necessarily making them furious, but making them exasperated and annoyed. At least, in the uses in which I heard it.
Perhaps it changed over the years, but I tend to think not.
Frankly, I don't buy the race-horse thing. That strikes me like the "whole nine yards = enough fabric to make an entire suit" thing—somebody's looking for an imagery.
I know that goats were kept w/ racehorses as companions (there's mention in "Seabiscuit" of that horse rejecting a proffered goat companion), but I don't buy the origin of the phrase.
I think you're completely right about the horse-racing thing. This is one of those lexical "urban legends" that gets passed around without any evidence. As far as I can tell, almost all the usual suspects – Michael Quinion, Word Detective, even Wikipedia – call this story into question. But weirdly, the entry for "get someone's goat" at the American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (3d ed.) repeats the tale without much in the way of skepticism:
To make someone annoyed or angry: "Gavin may seem unflappable, but I know a way to get his goat." This expression comes from a tradition in horse racing. Thought to have a calming effect on high-strung thoroughbreds, a goat was placed in the horse's stall on the night before the race. Unscrupulous opponents would then steal the goat in an effort to upset the horse and cause it to lose the race.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search? … e's%20goat
It's this kind of thing that makes me a much bigger fan of Merriam Webster products than AH stuff.
As for the origins of the phrase, Wilson wasn't claiming that the "confidence," etc. meaning was still around – just that it had a role in the phrase's beginning.
I'm not sure whether he's right or not. The problem with the evidence he gives is that he offers sentences using "goat" without any more context – so we folks at home can't decide whether his evaluation of what "got my goat" meant in a particular newspaper article from 1907 was right or not.
The one thing that his evidence did convince me of, however, was that there were a number of strange metaphorical uses of "goat" floating around in the period 1905-20 that just aren't in the language anymore. And some of the earliest uses of "got my goat," etc. that he cites seem plainly odd by today's standards. There does seem to have been a bit of "semantic flux" surrounding the phrase at the time, but I'd need to see bigger chunks of those newspaper articles before I could tell whether Wilson was on the right track or not.
Speaking of "the whole nine yards" and the American Dialect Society, I wonder whether people caught this Language Log post on that phrase from June – there's actually been a small breakthrough in trying to solve the mystery of "the whole nine yards." The origin is still obscure, but the lexicographers may be closing in: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language … 04623.html
Update: A recent breakthrough reported on the origin of "the whole nine yards:" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/books … .html?_r=0
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
This excerpt from a book by Robert Forsyth in 1805 indicates that building stone was sold in units of 6 cubic yards:
They are commonly about four feet high, three feet broad at the bottom, and eighteen inches at the top; and generally costs fourteen pence the six yards ; but all the stone are laid down by the employer, and the turf is cut by the undertaker.
Here's evidence that bolts of cloth were standard in six-yard lengths – at least in Madagascar.
I would, therefore, say to our manufacturers and exporters, should they ever conclude to try to secure a part of this trade, 1) send goods of good quality ; [...] 5) let the number of yards in a piece be six, or a multiple of six. Formerly all the prints brought here, or nearly so, were in six yard pieces, called "patnas", but now larger pieces are the most in demand and some of the merchants tell me that at the present time they are not even particular as to pieces containing odd numbers of yards, saying that they dispose of them in some way. But I think this concession is due to the practice of the exporter in not charging for the surplus yards. The samples in this lot called handkerchiefs are not used for the purposes that name would imply ; but for making fancy petticoats or skirts for the women, a garment for which they require just six yards in length of material, which they cut into two pieces of three yards each and sew together lengthwise, and the garment is finished by sewing the two ends of this double breadth together.
Together these support the idea that "the whole six yards" might originally not have required an explanation for those immersed in a duodecimal system of weights and measures.
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For example, with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's SPARK Initiative, the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (INPEACE) and GBA began a joint venture in 2002 to improve school readiness for vulnerable children in two communities with high poverty levels—Keaukaha/Panaewa/Hilo on the Big Island and the Waiʻanae Coast on Oʻahu. The collaboration resulted in an improvement in both Readiness of Children and Readiness of Schools, as measured by the Hawaiʻi State School Readiness Assessment, and provides a stepping stone for expansion into other communities.
"There is an ʻachievement gap' among socioeconomic groups in Hawaiʻi, with low income communities bearing the brunt of this discrepancy. Investments we make now must focus on leveling the playing field for all of Hawaiʻi's children in order to close the achievement gap," said UH Vice President for Academic Planning and Policy Linda Johnsrud, who is the principal investigator on the grant. "Private investments have provided the initial momentum towards improving early childhood education in Hawaiʻi, and with this significant support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we will build upon these successes and move them toward sustainability."
Recognizing that the best way to ensure that all Hawaiʻi's children are ready to succeed is to provide a solid grounding in their first years of school, "Capturing the Momentum" is targeted to the first transition in the pipeline—entry into formal schooling, kindergarten through the third grade. The grant facilitates coordination and dissemination/scaling up of community-based efforts with input from an advisory group including organizations such as the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, GBA, UH, SPARK, Head Start, Kamehameha Schools, and Act 259 Leadership.
"Research continues to show how critical the early years are to a child's development, including a child's learning, physical and mental health, and lifelong behavior," said GBA Executive Director Elisabeth Chun. "I am pleased that our partners and collaborators on the Hawaiʻi P-20 Initiative recognize the need for concerted action in the area of early childhood education through grade three and have made this the first priority in our strategic plan implementation."
DOE Superintendent Patricia Hamamoto noted, "We are committed to ensuring that children are ready for schools and schools are ready for children. This support from the Kellogg Foundation allows us to focus resources on this vital transition in the lives of young learners."
The Kellogg Foundation's grant follows its 2003 planning grant to the Hawaiʻi P-20 Initiative and is the latest in a growing trend of national and Hawaiʻi-based private investments in early childhood programs.
Donna Vuchinich, president of the UH Foundation, said, "We thank the Kellogg Foundation for their investment in early childhood education in Hawaiʻi. The public-private partnerships in education are accelerating, which is great news for parents and keiki. The resources from the private sector are key in augmenting state funding for essential programs."
The purpose of the Hawaiʻi P-20 Initiative is to address the challenges of the educational "pipeline" in Hawaiʻi, beginning with early learning, continuing through formal schooling from pre-K to postsecondary, and persisting lifelong. The Initiative's mission is to assure that more of Hawaiʻi's people persist through this pipeline, and especially to close the "achievement gap" between those who historically have been well-served by educational institutions and those who have not, so that the people of Hawaiʻi can be globally competitive in the 21st century. The Initiative is co-led by University of Hawaiʻi System President David McClain, Department of Education Superintendent Patricia Hamamoto, and Good Beginnings Alliance Executive Director Elisabeth Chun. For more information on the Hawaiʻi P-20 Initiative, visit www.p20hawaii.org.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 "to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations." To achieve the greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas. These include: health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Within these areas, attention is given to exploring learning opportunities in leadership; information and communication technology; capitalizing on diversity; and social and economic community development. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org.
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Chicken meal, ground corn, ground wheat, ground grain sorghum, wheat bran, ground brown rice, chicken fat, (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols, a source of vitamin E, and citric acid), corn gluten meal, flax seed, dried beet pulp, diatomaceous earth (an inert carrier and anti-caking agent), ground barley, rice bran natural chicken flavor, fish oil, yeast culture, dried kelp meal, potassium sulfate, salt, dried eggs, yucca shidigera extract, sage, zinc amino acid complex, manganese amino acid complex, copper amino acid complex, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement (natural-source vitamin E), mixed tocopherols, citric acid, rosemary extract, ferrous sulfate, choline chloride, manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, niacin, d-calcium pantothenate, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B-12 supplement, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, ethylene diamine dihydriodide, and cobalt carbonate.
Crude Protein, Min 23.00%
Crude Fat, Min 12.00%
Crude Fiber, Max 4.00%
Moisture, Max 10.00%
Ash, Max 8.00%
Calcium, Min 1.00%
Phosphorus, Min 0.75%
Omega 3* Fatty Acids 1.00%
Omega 6* Fatty Acids 2.90%
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
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Muenster Natural Dog Food fortified with vitamins and minerals is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for Maintenance and Performance.
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Insufficient meat content, low quality grains, controversial filler
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form. It is the sole meat ingredient in the food.
The major ingredients are grains, and we note five grains ahead of the fat content. This would suggest that this food is substantially comprised of grains and that these combined may well outweigh the meat content by a large margin, irrespective that the first named ingredient is meat.
The grains are of mixed quality. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited nutritional value to dogs and, like wheat, if often implicated in food allergies or intolerances. Sorghum and rice are decent quality, but Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We note that this food is preserved with citric acid, so should not be premoistened prior to feeding (premoistening foods preserved with citric acid increases the risk of bloat for large breed dogs). We also note the use of synthetic vitamin k, which is alleged by some to cause liver problems and has been removed from better quality dog foods.
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Dragon Chaser v2.5
Requirements: Android 1.5 and up
Overview: Dragon Chaser takes you through multiple levels, you'll get into brutal melees with deadly creatures, then return home to upgrade your weapons and abilities.
Long long ago, at the edge of the world, there were some small islands scattered in the vast seas, there were a group of vikings who lived mainly on hunting and fishing. As the sun rose from the east and set in the west, strong and tall vikings and their families lived a happy and comfortable life. Just as modern humans are often disturbed by loathsome flies, mosquitoes, mice and bugs, the Vikings were also threatened by "pests" -- dragons. As the dragons became stronger and stronger, the invasion by the dragons that can fly and breathe fire became increasingly fierce, and the Dragonkin soldiers and pterosaurs gradually occupied one island and another. The vikings retreated successively. Many people were forced to leave their home.
Now the situation is very critical. There is only one village that was still resisting. If you don't want to leave your home, then you take up arms and fight with the dragons. Although now you are not a hero, let yourself become the hero by defending your homeland through the baptism of battle and blood. While exterminating the dragons which are entrenched around other islands, simultaneously protect your village not taken over by the enemy.
Vikings hate dragons, apparently, as they are dangerous, rile up local animals and attack villages. Your job is to hunt down dangerous and deadly dragons and exterminate them in this side-scrolling beat 'em up. Dragon Chaser takes you through multiple levels, in which you'll get into brutal melees with deadly creatures, then return home to upgrade your weapons and abilities.
Dragon Chaser is pretty simple, but also addicting in that it keeps its premise easy and rewards you by making your character stronger. Every so often, in addition to heading out into the world to fight things with your battle ax, you'll also have to defend your village by upgrading its defenses and trap-setting abilities. Unlike the side-scrolling portions where you'll use virtual buttons, the defense portions have you slashing away at vicious animals using your finger like a blade, adding variety to the gameplay.
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- There are three game modes built in the game: action game mode, defense mode and flight shoot mode.
- The character can upgrade their properties and skills.
- Upgraded weapons and equipment.
- Multiple dropped items.
- Much super scenes.
- Cool skill effects.
- Special BOSS combat mode.
- More than 50 kinds of enemies.
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Evaporator Pad# A04-1725-051 fits whole house humidifiers from Skuttle, White-Rodgers, Goodman and others.
2-Pack Original Factory Replacement Water Panel Evaporator
This high-quality product is made by a leading manufacturer to replace the humidifier filter (AKA water panel, water pad, evaporator pad) in many makes and models of whole house humidifiers. This product is found in the large bypass and fan powered humidifiers manufactured by Skuttle, Goodman, White-Rodgers and others.
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Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction. Players take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Throughout their fight for freedom, players carve their own path, wreaking havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos.
Utilizing improvised weapons, explosives and re-purposed mining equipment and vehicles, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to tear through fully destructible environments in an unforgiving Martian landscape swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire. Red Faction: Guerrilla also features a robust multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay.
Find supply crates, or deposits and propaganda and stop monkeying around.
Volition's "Get Your Ass Back to Mars" event for Red Faction: Guerrilla looks to get players back into the game's multiplayer modes by offering quintuple XP from today until Monday, December 21st. By gaining five times the experience online, Volition hopes gamers will go after the harder-to-reach achievements/trophies, like the 120,000 XP Ostrich Hammer. For the duration of the event Volition is also giving away free DLC codes via Twitter.
The press release suggests that only the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game will be part of this event, so PC players look to be left out. Read More »
Volition's cranking out the downloadable content for Red Faction: Guerrilla faster than something pretty fast, and we're not complaining. The third round of DLC has now officially hit both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the form of the new multiplayer Smasher Pack.
"The Smasher Pack introduces 8 additional maps for the Wrecking Crew multiplayer mode, as well as the new Behemoth mode. In this mode, players can trade out more conventional weapons for the powerful walkers." Read More »
THQ announced today that it has released the first download pack for Red Faction: Guerrilla. Both the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network will host the download at $9.99, (800 Microsoft Points). The pack, titled Demons of the Badlands, is a prequel that takes place in a new, self-contained environment in the Mariner Valley section of Mars. You'll take on the role of female character Samanya in new missions with new weapons, vehicles and guerrilla actions at your disposal. Ten additional achievements also come with the DLC. Read More »
As part of its recent Q1 earnings conference call, THQ has officially confirmed that Volition's well-received Red Faction: Guerrilla has sold over one million units since it was released at the beginning of June.
THQ's Brian Farrell delivered the news according to VG247, and told how the company's commitment to quality games was paying off. Read More »
Bored of using the same old improvised explosive devices? Tired of destroying the same old buildings and shooting up the EDF's rank-and-file? Did that last massive explosion feel just like the countless others you've engineered? Today THQ announced a series of three downloadable content packs for Red Faction: Guerrilla that should make your terrorist (or freedom fighter, depending on your perspective) activities feel fresh and exciting once again.
It starts with Demons of the Badlands, set for release on August 13. This update features a single-player mission arc that takes place in a new section of Mars outside of the core game's world. It'll cost you $9.99 to grant Alec Mason access to this new chapter.
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Also known as: Red Faction 3: Guerrilla, Red Faction: Guerilla
Release Region: United States
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Publisher: THQ
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Release Date: June 5, 2009
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Release Region: Australia
Release Date: June 4, 2009
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Release Date: June 2, 2009
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Crude Protien (Min.) 16.0%
Crude Fat (Min.) 8.0%
Crude Fiber (Max.) 5.0%
Moisture (Max.) 10.0% 8.80%
Ash (Max.)9.0%
Caloric Density (KCAL/lb.) 1739
Caloric Density (KCAL/Cup) 421
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Whole Wheat Flour, Ground Rice, Chicken Meal, Ground Whole Wheat, Oatmeal, Poultry Fat (Preserved with Tocopherols and Ascorbic Acid), Oat Bran, Lamb Meal, Dried Whole Egg, Fish Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Wheat Germ Meal, Lecithin, Dried Kelp, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Monosodium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, DL-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate (Source of Vitamin E), Zinc Oxide, Sodium Selenite, Manganous Oxide, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Copper Sulfate, Amino Acid Chelates of Zinc, Iron, Magnanese, Copper and Cobalt, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Vitamin B 1, Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, D-Biotin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Calcium Iodate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement.
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Vitamin A 11,600 IU
Vitamin D 1,020 IU
Vitamin E 175 IU
Vitamin C 50.0 mg
Thiamin (B1) 9.0 mg
Riboflavin (B2) 11.6 mg
Pantothenic Acid 42.0 mg
Niacin 65.0 mg
Pyridoxine 9.6 mg
Folic Acid 1.8 mg
Biotin 1.4 mg
Vitamin B12 0.3 mg
Calcium 1.20%
Phosphorus 1.00%
Potassium 0.50%
Sodium 0.40%
Chloride 0.50%
Magnesium 0.14%
Iron 180.0 mg
Copper 6.5 mg
Manganese 45.0 mg
Zinc 125.0 mg
Iodine 3.10 mg
Selenium 0.26 mg
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Inadequate meat content, use of low quality grains and fat of unidentifiable origin.
The food is almost entirely made up of low quality grain.
The primary ingredient in this food is a grain (where's the meat!). The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. This is an ingredient we prefer not to see used at all, and certainly not as the main ingredient in the food. Wheat fragments are also the second ingredient. Wheat flour is a grain fragment (filler) yet it is the main ingredient in this food. Rice and oatmeal are decent quality grains, but we consider oat bran to be filler.
There is only one meat ingredient in the top five of this food: chicken meal at third on the ingredient list. This is a good quality meat product, but there is insufficient meat in the food. Overweight dogs do not need to be fed a diet of carbohydrates. There ae two further meat products in the food at 8th and 10th on the ingredient list, but this is too far down to make up a significant portion of the food.
Poultry fat is a low quality fat, which is of unidentifiable origin and quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as "obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative"
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Congratulations to Jamieson Provan (@jdoggny) for winning our Kryptonite twitter giveaway. By answering a trivia question planted in one of my blog postings, Jamieson won this:
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Nuclear Outrun
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Truck vs Nuclear Missile – who will SURVIVE?!
Through some unforeseen (yet totally avoidable) world crisis, a nuclear missile is crashing down to ruin everyone's party. Drive & shoot your way out of a zombie-infested city as far as you can, before everything goes kaboom! Collect survivors such as Pirates, Mimes, and Hipsters, each with their own special abilities. Mow down zombies with wacky weapons such as the Shark Gun, Fart Bazooka, and the Twitgun that shoots out #hashtag spewing birds. When all else fails, launch Weapons of Mass Destruction like George the cyborg T-Rex!
Gamenauts proudly presents the enhanced remake of Nerdook's 2012 Flash hit NUCLEAR OUTRUN – certifiably the most insane apocalyptic shooting game ever made. LOL-worthy Weapons!
- Shark Gun
- Shoots out bloody sharks as missiles. Teddy Bearzooka
- Launches cuddly toys of terror. Book of Rapture
- Summons an angelic avenger. Squid Launcher
- Launches squids, nuff said. Doomsday Features
- Physics based driving & shooting gameplay.
- Randomized and totally depressing city to escape.
- 25 Weapons to satisfy your anti-social carnage.
- 18 tricked out Trucks, Cars & Bikes.
- 30 Survivor types to collect with different abilities.
- 3 Weapons of Mass Destruction (we found them!).
- Radioactive Retina graphics!
- Compete on Gamecenter leaderboard.
- Head-banging ska/punk soundtrack.
- Universal game for all your iOS devices.
- Promotes world peace. Survivor Reviews
Eugene the Lawyer: "The sight of George the T-Rex chomping down on zombie gibblets brought a smile to my radiation-laced face." Jo-Anne the Cheerleader: "This end of the world stuff is totally better than cupcakes – I get to shoot squids out of a gun!" Francois the Mime: "……..!" (Somebody get this zombie off my beret!) Nuclear Outrun is published by Gamenauts, with original Flash development/design by Nerdook and mobile development by Nightspade.
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Tour/Open House | February 2 – May 11, 2018 every Friday | 2:30-4:30 p.m. | Clark Kerr Campus
The Clark Kerr Garden is managed by Gardener Susanne Weisman along with the Cal Dining Sustainability Team Garden Coordinators and committed volunteers. Clark Kerr contains a culinary garden, an orchard, and continually growing edible landscaping.
Our goal is to be a space where anyone can hang out, pass through, learn something, collaborate, and enjoy food together. We hold skills training workshops and celebrations in the garden and around Clark Kerrs edible landscapes. We work with dining hall staff and chefs to ensure that they have access and can bring in fresh, local herbs or produce into the dining hall. We have an active role in campus garden initiatives and coordinate with the Basic Needs Committee to provide food to the UC Berkeley Student Food Pantry.
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Extreme H2O 59 Xtra lens retains 99% of its water content on the eye, even under extreme conditions. All lens dimensions and oxygen permeability present in the first hour of wear, will be present in the last. Lens comfort, movement, and fit will be stable throughout the day.
Extreme H2O contact lenses are made with ultra hydrating non-ionic materials. These materials are unique in that they have outstanding hydration and water retention characteristics which contribute to unsurpassed all-day comfort, clarity and dry eye relief. They are a great solution for those who have specific fitting needs and have had adaptation issues with silicone hydrogels.


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Homeowners would face a nearly 8 percent hike in their monthly utility bills under a proposed decision that would allow San Diego Gas & Electric to raise its rates.
An administrative law judge who reviewed the utility's 2010 request for a general rate increase issued his nonbinding decision on Friday.
If approved by the state Public Utilities Commission, the rate increase would be retroactive to January 2012, according to a summary of the 1,314-page proposed decision.
The document outlined that the monthly bill for a typical customer with an all-electric home using 500 kilowatt hours of power would go up about $6.55, a 7.7 percent increase.
SDG&E filed a request in December 2010 for general rate increases that would bring in revenue of $1.8 billion to cover what the company predicted would be rising costs of delivering electricity and natural gas, improved technology to monitor the electric grid and trimming vegetation away from power lines.
The increases were opposed by the Utility Consumers' Action Network, the Utility Reform Network and the Division of Ratepayer Advocates.
Administrative Law Judge John S. Wong's proposed decision would award the utility a $140 million rate increase, for revenue totaling $1.7 billion — $100 million less than it requested.
The judge also considered rate increase requests by the Southern California Gas Co., and proposed a $78 million rate increase, for revenue totaling $1.9 billion.
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Original post made by _, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Mar 2, 2009
There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn't pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in this country.
However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help you decide what is in your best interests.
First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against employees, you have to understand that for every business owner there is a back story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by what you see and hear.
Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You've seen my big home at last years Christmas party. I'm sure all these flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.
However, what you don't see is the back story.
I started this company 28 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living apartment was converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.
My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I spent went back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a defective transmission. I didn't have time to date. Often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying. In fact, I was married to my business - hard work, discipline, and sacrifice.
Meanwhile, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a modest $50K a year and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes.
Instead of hitting the Nordstrom's for the latest hot fashion item, I was trolling through the discount store extracting any clothing item that didn't look like it was birthed in the 70's.
My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my friends supposedly had.
So, while you physically arrive at the office at 9 am, mentally check in at about noon, and then leave at 5 pm, I don't. There is no "off" button for me.
When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, and breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. Every day this business is attached to my hip like a 1 year old special-needs child. You, of course, only see the fruits of that garden - the nice house, the Mercedes, the vacations ... you never realize the back story and the sacrifices I've made.
Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed a decade of my life for.
Yes, business ownership has it's benefits but the price I've paid is steep and not without wounds..
Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell you why:
I am being taxed to death, and the government thinks I don't pay enough. I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes. Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes. Unemployment taxes. Taxes on taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess what? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of my time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000 for quarterly taxes. You know what my "stimulus" check was? Zero. Nada. Zilch.
The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000 people per year with a flourishing business? Or, the single mother sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check? Obviously, government feels the latter is the economic stimulus of this country.
The fact is, if I deducted (read: stole) 50% of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? That's nuts. Who wants to get rewarded for only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree which is why your job is in jeopardy.
Here is what many of you don't understand .... to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly government mandated to me that I didn't need to pay taxes, guess what? Instead of depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But you can forget it now.
When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don't defibrillate and shock his thumb thinking that will bring him back to life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the poor of America are the essential drivers of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth, and this is the type of change you can keep.
So where am I going with all this?
It's quite simple.
If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be swift and simple. I fire you. I fire your co-workers. You can then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and your child's future. Frankly, it isn't my problem any more.
Then, I will close this company down, move to another country, and retire. You see, I'm done. I'm done with a country that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, will be my citizenship.
So, if you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steam rolled the Constitution, and will have changed its landscape forever. Our newly elected president has not even been challenged in two years – your job loss is just the tip of the iceburg – you will see that you are going to lose much, much more in the next few years. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about ...
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Comments (46)
a resident of Downtown
on Mar 2, 2009 at 1:09 pm
what a joke
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 2, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I guess his employees aren't so valuable after all.
a resident of Downtown
on Mar 2, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I got this as a forwarded joke over a month ago.
Are we now going to start posting our jokes and spam instead of local discourse??
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on Mar 2, 2009 at 1:51 pm
To those who say "what a joke" and "...his employees aren't so valuable..." -- YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT!
To Name Withheld - please forward your letter to your congressman, senator, local newspapers, etc. Your letter puts into words how so many of us feel right now. What incentive do we have left to work so hard, to take the big risks and sacrifices that benefit the economy??
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Mar 2, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I employ 21 extraordinary people in my company. Half of them have been in my company for over 12 years. Like "Name Withheld" I will also be forced to let go some of my employees if any new taxes are imposed on me or my business. The alternative is for me to outsource 18 of those 21 positions to other countries to makeup for any increase in taxes and keep my business profitable. Any new taxes will be the straw that break all of our backs.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 2, 2009 at 2:46 pm
So where does it say that you, as a business owner, need to live in Ruby Hill or drive a Mercedes? Looks like you've got the same disease as all of those employees you obviously consider below you.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 2, 2009 at 4:16 pm
No one is going to deny that our economy is in sad shape. Our government is left with 2 approaches to trying to make it better: Taxing and Spending to stimulate buying vs Lowering Taxes for the wealthy/businesses (AKA "trickle-down") - or some combination of those two. Now we're in a situation where we are hemorrhaging jobs in the public sector as well as the private sector (i.e. 100 + in our own school district, but multiply that by every district in the state, contractors in publics works projects, police...). Every job lost is a consumer who doesn't have the money to buy the products your business sells (unless you sell what economists call "inferior goods" like Salvation Army or Wal-Mart). We've just ended an era of tax cuts for the wealthy (and judging by your Mercedes and expensive house you are one of them) and it hasn't made things more stable or better. Maybe by paying a few more taxes in the short run, you can help keep a middle class going. Without a middle class with disposable income, there will be a glut of unsold products and that will lead to MORE layoffs. Either way, you're getting hit in the pocketbook, and I sympathize with that. I think the misconception is that people who voted for Obama just looove to tax the entrepreneurs. We're not socialists. We don't like taxes any more than the Republicans liked the bailouts of banks (which I see as the socialization of losses). It's an ugly situation that has led to the choice between two imperfect remedies.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 2, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I like the phrase "trickle-down" because it is an acknowledgment that it is an inefficient system. If it were an efficient method, it wouldn't be prefixed by the word "trickle" but something like the word "gush".
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 2, 2009 at 4:34 pm
It would be fun to be a fly on the wall listening in the room while the group of ideologues composed this "letter". It used to be we only got these forwarded as emails, now the PW posts have become the new forum.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 2, 2009 at 6:23 pm
It's unfortunate that some of you find it a joke or even that it should have been 'exluded' by PW. The point is missed by each of you. Take a minute to consider the reality of the letter. Real or conspired to reflect one's business environment and decisions, it speaks too true of the makings (or lack thereof) of the stimilus package.
The stimulus is the joke. Don't you get that? It is also a joke that we are not helping businesses that succeed and manage to stay in the black.
I'm glad PW posted this letter and glad the maker took the time to try to open some eyes. Apparently, there are a good number still of the ilk who walk through life without looking past their blinders.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 2, 2009 at 6:29 pm
That's the point. We considered the "reality of the letter". It's NOT. It's message, you can debate ad infinitum. But the letter itself is propaganda disguised and if someone real wrote it. Therefore it is a lie.
a resident of another community
on Mar 2, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Aren't we a little sarcastic! ha! ha!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 2, 2009 at 8:35 pm
The sad thing in all this is that these things get passed around in chain email and tend to be attributed to actual people. Then these people have to waste their time debunking these myths.
Web Link
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 2, 2009 at 8:36 pm
P.S. This guy is actually hiring: Web Link
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 2, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Here's an Australian version of the letter: Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I read this Email about 2 months ago when a friend forwarded it to me. I can't believe that anyone thinks this is joke. Everything in it is true. Govt. creates no value. Govt employees work less and are paid more(including fringe benefits) than the private sector. We are on the fast track to disaster with no one creating value and everyone being on the public dole. Inflation will skyrocket and meaningful jobs will plummet. While the whole nation is in danger California is leading the charge to bankruptcy.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 3, 2009 at 2:28 pm
So indeed the letter is another chain email like so many before it. Many of you are admitting you saw it before. Like I said, it is a lie, most likely authored by the usual Republican attack machine committee. But people will believe what they want to believe. Then, they will continue to circulate a lie.
Let's all take notice of how this was presented in this thread as if it came from a real person. How misleading!!!!! And so many of you fell for it! Yes, it is joke, and the joke is on you.
a resident of Canyon Creek
on Mar 3, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Dear Frank:
Since Obama took office, US citizens have lost over 1 trillion dollars of wealth. If you call that a joke, I do not share your sense of humor.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2009 at 3:21 pm
You're really going to pin the job losses on Obama?!?! Frank is right, people really do believe what they want to believe...
Also, I love that Concerned implies that teachers, firefighters, police officers are higher paid than people in the private sector but create no value. So many rebuttals to that, but the conversation would create no value.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 3, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Oh, by the way, I just googled
"some rumblings around the office about the future of this company" and the number of hits is tremendous! At least ten pages of this word sequence! Wow!
Fictitious propaganda filling the PW blog!
Oh, by the way, the evaporation of wealth is the result of 14 years of a Republican dominated Congress and the 20 out of the last 24 years of Republican presidents. Throw Alan Greenspan in the mix. How disingenuous to attribute the evaporation of our wealth to anything else, let alone Obama's 40 or so days in office!
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 3, 2009 at 3:31 pm
20 out of the last 28 years.....
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hey "Really" above...
So you apparently are more intelligent than CNBC's Financial Anchor, Jim Cramer, who said that "...Obama is the most wealth-destroying President in US history."
Click on this link for more from Cramer...
Web Link
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm
So, how about some real numbers to look at. See
Web Link
$10.2 trillion lost in 2008! All under Georgey boy and his ideologues.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 3, 2009 at 7:02 pm
resident of another community: I hope you have not been listening to the buy/sell advice of Jim Cramer, the shouting fool on CNBC. How much wealth has he destroyed?
a resident of Amador Estates
on Mar 3, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Hey Frankie:
Keep on posting. We love to see more of your breathtaking ignorance.
Web Link
Here is an article from the Wall St. Journal which points the finger squarely at Obama. Are you now going to refute WSJ as well?
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As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.
Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.
[Review & Outlook]
The Democrats who now run Washington don't want to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on President Bush. And Mr. Obama has inherited an unusual recession deepened by credit problems, both of which will take time to climb out of. But it's also true that the economy has fallen far enough, and long enough, that much of the excess that led to recession is being worked off. Already 15 months old, the current recession will soon match the average length -- and average job loss -- of the last three postwar downturns. What goes down will come up -- unless destructive policies interfere with the sources of potential recovery.
And those sources have been forming for some time. The price of oil and other commodities have fallen by two-thirds since their 2008 summer peak, which has the effect of a major tax cut. The world is awash in liquidity, thanks to monetary ease by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Monetary policy operates with a lag, but last year's easing will eventually stir economic activity.
Housing prices have fallen 27% from their Case-Shiller peak, or some two-thirds of the way back to their historical trend. While still high, credit spreads are far from their peaks during the panic, and corporate borrowers are again able to tap the credit markets. As equities were signaling with their late 2008 rally and January top, growth should under normal circumstances begin to appear in the second half of this year.
So what has happened in the last two months? The economy has received no great new outside shock. Exchange rates and other prices have been stable, and there are no security crises of note. The reality of a sharp recession has been known and built into stock prices since last year's fourth quarter.
What is new is the unveiling of Mr. Obama's agenda and his approach to governance. Every new President has a finite stock of capital -- financial and political -- to deploy, and amid recession Mr. Obama has more than most. But one negative revelation has been the way he has chosen to spend his scarce resources on income transfers rather than growth promotion. Most of his "stimulus" spending was devoted to social programs, rather than public works, and nearly all of the tax cuts were devoted to income maintenance rather than to improving incentives to work or invest.
His Treasury has been making a similar mistake with its financial bailout plans. The banking system needs to work through its losses, and one necessary use of public capital is to assist in burning down those bad assets as fast as possible. Yet most of Team Obama's ministrations so far have gone toward triage and life support, rather than repair and recovery.
AIG yesterday received its fourth "rescue," including $70 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program cash, without any clear business direction. (See here.) Citigroup's restructuring last week added not a dollar of new capital, and also no clear direction. Perhaps the imminent Treasury "stress tests" will clear the decks, but until they do the banks are all living in fear of becoming the next AIG. All of this squanders public money that could better go toward burning down bank debt.
The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy. Health-care stocks have dived on fears of new government mandates and price controls. Private lenders to students have been told they're no longer wanted. Anyone who uses carbon energy has been warned to expect a huge tax increase from cap and trade. And every risk-taker and investor now knows that another tax increase will slam the economy in 2011, unless Mr. Obama lets Speaker Nancy Pelosi impose one even earlier.
Meanwhile, Congress demands more bank lending even as it assails lenders and threatens to let judges rewrite mortgage contracts. The powers in Congress -- unrebuked by Mr. Obama -- are ridiculing and punishing the very capitalists who are essential to a sustainable recovery. The result has been a capital strike, and the return of the fear from last year that we could face a far deeper downturn. This is no way to nurture a wounded economy back to health.
Listening to Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, on the weekend, we couldn't help but wonder if they appreciate any of this. They seem preoccupied with going to the barricades against Republicans who wield little power, or picking a fight with Rush Limbaugh, as if this is the kind of economic leadership Americans want.
Perhaps they're reading the polls and figure they have two or three years before voters stop blaming Republicans and Mr. Bush for the economy. Even if that's right in the long run, in the meantime their assault on business and investors is delaying a recovery and ensuring that the expansion will be weaker than it should be when it finally does arrive.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 3, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Your tax dollars at work lining the pockets of Bush's buddies: Web Link
Some might also enjoy this gem: Web Link
"In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.
But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2009 at 8:15 pm
When Rupert Murdoch (the guy who owns Fox News) took over the Wall Street Journal, it ceased to be a credible source for me. I also don't get my news from Rolling Stone Magazine or SF Gate on the liberal side.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Mar 3, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Hi residentie, your condescending attitude is exceeded only by your stupidity. You have a remarkable ability to cut and paste articles but not actually write anything yourself.
Only my close "friends" call me "Frankie"..... Don't count yourself among them.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 11:59 am
Ha HA This is so funny. Reading the comments about whether we should give B Hussein Obama a chance and to see if his plan will work.
His plan is already working. His plan isn't a remedy for the economy, his plan is to destroy the economy as it has existed. He's a socialist, he doesn't believe in capitalism. He wants everyone to be dependent on the government.
When he gets the majority of the voting population to be dependent on the government, he will assure his "sustainability". that is until the producers stop producing and there is nothing aavailable to tax.
"Who is John Gault?"
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Have you read "Atlas Shrugged"?
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Sure, and it's playing out before our eyes
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 12:41 pm
At least the destruction part. Producer withddrawal has been slow at grassroots levels so far
Life imitates Art imitates life (because it's already happened in the Soviet Union)
a resident of Amador Estates
on Mar 4, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Dear Frank:
No worries. I am not going to lose sleep that you don't want me as one of your close friends.
My main requirement for friends are that they must like the US and want it and its capitalistic foundation to succeed.
That appears to be too steep a requirement for you to meet however.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Are you kidding me? Bush's bank bailout is definitely NOT Rand.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Mar 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm
PS Frank:
With your apparent hatred for the pre-Obama way of life in the US, that you could qualify as one of Obama's "brown shirted" ACORN thugs. Could be a promising future for you.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Bad assumption and conjecture. When did I ever say I agreed with Bush's bailout???? Never, I don't, it was a bad move.
It was a bad concession to left wing radical thinking who would never give him any kind of praise no matter what he did.
Why is it always the tactic to redirect the actions that are being taken now back to Bush??
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Huh wrote: "Sure, and it's playing out before our eyes"
What's playing out before our eyes is the result of both those on the right and the left. It is disingenuous to leave out Bush and his actions when discussing Obama.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 1:31 pm
But Bush, in taking those actions did not represent the philosophy of the right. He was giving in to the clamoring of left wing government control.
I think I'm able to distiguish between the man and a principle. I think libs always like to call that "nuance"
And it's disingenuous not to concede what Obambi is doing
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Real left-wingers!
Alan "It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks" Greenspan
Sen. Lindsey "I would not take off the idea of nationalizing the banks" Graham (R-SC)
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Oops, forgot to list:
Henry "government investments in private banks were "objectionable" but necessary" Paulson
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Again, you fail to discern the difference between principle and the flightly flailings to retain power by politicos.
You can say they are not left wingers, but when their actions follow left wing principle how can they possibly be considered conservative.
I don't really get your examples. I wouldn't consider any of them principled right wing representatives or spokespersons
Greenspan is just trying to preserve his legacy and not have a bank collapse pinned on him, even though it was govt fault (Frank and Dodd)
Graham's not a leader or right wing, he's a weak loser who's gone wrong on several issues including immigration
Paulson is just trying bail out banker buddies but he's never been any kind of right wing ideologue.
And there's that left wing tactic again Deflect, Minimize, Demonize, Ridiculle right out of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" of which Obambi is a disciple
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Huh wrote: "Again, you fail to discern the difference between principle and the flightly flailings to retain power by politicos."
You see, one _has_ to laugh at it. You're attempting to excuse the actions of certain politicos who have been at the forefront of preaching their principles to us all. No one gets off so easily. We don't excuse Obama in such a way.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 4, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Let me clarify my thinking. These politicos go around preaching to everyone about the merits of their particular ideology and they try to operate upon those principles instead of working on practical solutions. When those principles start to fail them because reality doesn't work like that, they backtrack. They're like salesmen trying to sell everyone the latest fad. They deserve a rubbing. Sure, that'll go for Obama too, once time shows his principles failing. But that's how politics works. I think no one who works by "practicalism" could ever get the kind of political power the idea salesmen obtain.
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I was never attempting to excuse their actions. I was blaming them, calling them losers and giving the reason why.
But none of them ever were the forefront of conservative or right wing principles.
I've seen examples of both side using portions of the tactic. But no one has seen it raised to the level of our present Obfuscator-in-Chief. He follows the playbook to a T. You would need a book of translation, from LeftSpeak to English, just to interpret his intentions.
There are no excuses made for Obama because he's never examined and criticized, at least in mainstream media
a resident of Livermore
on Mar 4, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Part of the problem in dealing with the left is there are no real principles other than govt knows best. It's all relative.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 18, 2010 at 9:35 am
There are some good points here. My brother in law works at a Toyota dealership as a mechanic in Winter Park, Florida. The dealership he works for is part of SET or Southeastern Toyota. He said that they owner of SET and his family come in from the Cayman Islands once a week for meetings and then immediately go back out. They do this in order to avoid paying taxes in the US.
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Yesterday I started my new biologic medication. It is called Stelara (Ustekinimab) and we are hoping it will sort out my Arthritis flare and also keep my Crohns Disease under control.
I have had to wait for a few weeks from my rheumatologist deciding this was the next step to take. First she had to apply for the treatment to be funded. It is a very expensive treatment and they have to ensure I meet the criteria for it to be worth prescribing it, Then I had to wait for a spot on the Day Case Unit as you have to take your first dose after being trained to do the injection and then be observed for signs of reaction.
I have decided to do this post in a 'Day Of The Life' style so you can see how the day went and what happened with the appointment, as well as seeing how I spend the day around it.
9.30am – Ste comes and wakes me up. I don't normally stay in bed till this time but with the fatigue I am experiencing at the moment I am often sleeping in. It often doesn't help, I still feel just as tired when I wake up. I take my medication and then go and grab a cup of tea. I have also been struggling with one of my headaches since yesterday afternoon and am in quite a bit of pain, hoping these painkillers will help.
9.50am – I get dressed, choosing something comfy to wear at the hospital and that isn't too warm as they are always so hot! I put on a bit of make-up but due to waking up late there isn't much time for a lot and I just shove my hair up so it is out the way. Brush my teeth and I am ready.
10.20am – I toast a couple of hot cross buns and put some jam on but can't eat them all. My headaches are caused by my high blood pressure and stress and I think I am definitely nervous now about this new drug. What if I am allergic to it? What if it makes me feel really poorly like Humira did? What if it doesn't work? These headaches are extremely painful (coming from someone with an exceptionally high pain threshold) and they make me sick.
10.30am Time to set off. Parking can be a nightmare so have to leave in pletny of time. Ste is coming with me even though he isn't feeling great. It is so good to have him there for support, I know it is helping me feel calmer.
11.30pm Parking was a total nightmare but I have managed to make it just in time. Grab a chocomilk in the waiting room
11.45pm The nurse takes me into a cubicle and I have a bed, yes! Time to fill in endless paperwork, have to list all my diagnosis's and medication (of which I realise I forgot at least three later on). BP and pulse is done which are a little high but that's normal for me.
12pm A lovely nurse comes round and I get a sandwich, yoghurt and some biscuits. Ste is already snoozing but gets a sandwich too!
12.15pm My rheumatologist comes in to check the blood results I had done a couple of days ago. My white cells are slightly high but they generally are. You aren't allowed to take biologics when poorly or suffering an infection so all that has to be checked out. She asks how I'm doing with reducing my steroids and we have a general chat, she really is so lovely!
1pm The doctor is happy and has asked pharmacy to get the injection ready. The nurses call and ask that they take it straight out the fridge as it needs to be out for half an hour before injecting so it can come up to room temperature.
1.40pm It's here. The nurse gets me to wash my hands and then I sterilise the area I will inject. At home I do my injection after a bath so I don't need to do this step as the alcohol in the wipe can cause it to sting. She shows me the pen and I inject into my stomach. It doesn't hurt at all and once I have fully pushed the plunger in it snaps back into itself so the needle can't poke anyone! Needle goes into the sharps bin and I have to wipe a small amount of blood away and it's done.
2.20pm I'm issued blood forms (2 weeks time, another 2 weeks after then every month) and an appointment to come back in a month to collect my next injection. The nurse is happy that I'm competent with self injectjng so I will take it home with me and do it there. The site has come up a little red which is totally normal. I also get issued some piriton tablets to take incase if a delayed reaction and I'm free to go.
3.30pm We get home and I put in some washing and plan tea. I have some chicken that needs using so cook myself Chicken Coconut Curry Rice for tonight and also a Chicken & Smoked Sausage Cajun Pasta dish for tomorrow night to take to Ste's mom's house. Check out the recipe for the rice dish here
7pm Me and Ste just chill after tea and watch some TV.
7.40pm I sign in ready for The IBD & Ostomy Support Show and have a chat with my co hosts, Rachel, Louise and Steve. Stephie is taking a break at the moment due to her health, I miss her face! Tonight we are talking about how our IBD & ostomies affect our friends and family.
Check out tonight's show here
9.15pm The show ran over a bit as we were busy chatting but it was really good. There were lots of people on the live chat tonight asking questions and giving their opinions which is fantastic. I love the interactive element of the show. I got a little emotional tonight. Louise was talking about her ex relationship and some of the experiences she had bought some bad memories back for me. I'm so grateful to have met these wonderful people though and to call them friends. Both Steve and Rachel message me after the show to check I am ok.
9.30pm After emptying my bag I get into bed and do my night time meds. Then it's snuggles with Ste and I read for a bit before switching off and getting to sleep. Night night!
Hope this has helped some of you understand what happens when you start a new drug. I have been on a few biologics now and am happy to answer questions and discuss with anyone the different options and what happens should you want to message me. I am not a medical professional but can offer advice from patient perspective and hopefully give support to others going through the same things.


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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) originated in China well over 2000 years ago, but has since spread to almost every corner of the world. Today, nearly a quarter of the world's population use TCM as a first resort. Based on treatments that attempt to restore balance and harmony to the body, TCM has become increasingly popular in the West in recent years.
Central to TCM is a belief in the energy force known as qi (chi). In a healthy body, this life force flows smoothly and strongly through the body. Should this force become weakened or even blocked, illness is likely to result. Qi is composed of opposing elements - yin and yang - which also need to be kept in balance for good health.
Preventing health problems before they arise is as important as treating them in TCM. Knowledge of a person's lifestyle is an important consideration for a doctor of TCM. Diet, exercise, sleep and the surrounding environment are all important factors when assessing a patient. If treatment is prescribed, TCM offers a range of therapies including acupuncture, moxibustion - the burning of a herb on or near the skin - and numerous combinations of herbal medicines.
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