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Barron's Buzz: Annuities, World Cup Bets, Solar Power
Barron's senior editor Jack Hough previews the new issue of Barron's, including a cover story on annuities, why solar is looking like a shaky investment and how to bet on the World Cup and win. Photo: Getty
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The more than 50,000 veterans and spouses hired by businesses over the past year is just a down payment on help envisioned by a White House campaign to help veterans' families, says Houston-area Congressman Al Green.
The Democratic lawmaker joined first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, the spouse of Vice President Joe Biden, at a White House event marking the first anniversary of the so-called "Joining Forces Initiative."
The program is designed to link veterans and their families with local employers to help them find work. Green said enterprises across the country have pledged to hire 160,000 additional veterans or their spouses over coming years.
"Our military families deserve stable jobs and a decent standard of living," said Green, an advocate for homeless veterans who has been pressing legislation to create a homeless veterans' liaison in the upper ranks of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Helping veterans track down jobs is "the least a grateful nation can do to honor its heroes," Green said. "One of the most successful aspects of this initiative is the fact it establishes solid connections between the business community and the armed forces."
Green said he plans to host an event in Houston to highlight the program.
Mrs. Obama's campaign also includes a drive to ensure that nursing organizations and nursing schools train nurses to recognize and care for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries. Green said.
"Sadly, a significant number of the troops returning from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have brain injuries or suffer from PTSD," Congressman Green said. "Making sure that our health professionals are well-trained to treat these conditions is paramount in our effort to care for our heroes."

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Project leaders hope end is near for Trinity church clock tower restoration
Torrington >> It has been a long time coming, but it seems like the end might finally be in sight for the clock tower attached to the Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Torrington.
The planning process for this major restoration began back in 2009, said Ann Bott, project manager. Now, four years later, there is still a lot that needs to be done.
According to Bott, there is paint and plaster damage that needs to be addressed in the vestibule. Many of the interior bricks need to be repaired or replaced in the turret and the clock itself needs to be fixed.
"There is still a lot of research to do," Bott said of the clock. "We left that to last because we wanted to make sure that the structure was sound."
Structure has been the focus of the project for the last several years. Project leaders divided the restoration into two phases.
Phase one, which took place from 2008 to 2010, included completing all of the exterior work that required scaffolding.
According to the church's website, the top portions of the tower and the turret were rebuilt. The turret received a new roof and the exterior wood pieces were cleaned, repaired and painted. The exterior stone work was cut and pointed. The metal clock frames and hands were cleaned and painted, and new wood and glass centers of the clock faces were installed.
All of that work cost approximately $330,000. That money was raised through grants, pledges and individual gifts.
Bott speculated that the project would need about $50,000 to $60,000 more dollars to be completed.
"We have about $14,000 already raised," said Bott. "We will be proceeding with these items as money becomes available."
Funding has been raised through direct appeals, grant writing, memorial gifts, church dinners and special events. Many local people and businesses have joined Trinity parishioners in funding the project including the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, O&G Industries, Torrington Savings Bank and Elks Lodge 372.
Phase two of the restoration began last summer.
"We repaired and replaced as necessary the rotted beams that support the weight of the 2,000 lbs. Meneely bell," said Bott. "The stairs were repaired. These two items secured the structural integrity of the tower's interior."
The roof at the top of the tower and at the louver level as well as the door leading out of the staircase onto the top of the tower were also repaired to prevent damage from rain and snow.
Bott recognized how long this project has taken, but said it was necessary to consult many people to do it right.
"We had a lot of things to do in order to do the job properly," said Bott. "We were very lucky to have G.L. Capasso, Inc. They have done an outstanding job."
G.L. Capasso, Inc. was the firm named general contractor of the project. The firm specializes in granite restoration. Crosskey Architects, LLC have also been instrumental in the restoration process.
The project is in the final stage of its long process, but Bott recognizes it may not all wrap up this summer.
"We hope to do more work this summer and have the final push," said Bott. "It would be wonderful but it may take two summers because raising money is really hard right now."
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Stephanie Peters grew up in Cambridge, Mass. idolizing local funnymen Lenny Clarke, Jay Leno, Denis Leary and Steven Wright. In 2003, after doing stand-up for only three years, Peters got to share the stage with Clarke and Wright at Denis Leary's annual "Comics Come Home".In the fall of 2002, Peters won the Marshall's "Women In Comedy Festival" where she opened for Caroline Rhea, Kathleen Madigan and Joy Behar (from ABC's "The View") at Symphony Hall in Boston. The comedy show was broadcast on PAX-TV and included hilarious behind-the-scenes interviews with Stephanie and other comics by Joy Behar.Peters outrageous stories and shoot-from-the-hip opinions have made her a favorite with audiences. Her stage presence and out-of-the ordinary looks have also landed her spots in TV commercials throughout New England.
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The Huawei Impulse 4G and the LG Phoenix are two budget, mid-ranged Android devices on AT&T that are currently in the same price range. There are a few differences though. The Impulse is a 4G device and has a larger display. Does that mean you should go for the Impulse over the Phoenix?
In this Dogfight, Sydney covers everything from hardware and UI to data speeds and camera performance. The Impulse may seem like the better phone, but is it really? Watch the Dogfight to find out.
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The sixth issue of Bible Study Magazine is just around the corner. We're putting the finishing touches on the last couple of articles before we hand it over to our design team to lay out and then send off to the printer.
The September–October issue looks like it's going to be one of the best yet. It features a cover story interview with pastor and theologian John Piper—and lots of other great content to help you dig deeper into the Word.
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With up to 6TB of storage and support for both RAID 0 and RAID 1, the My Book Studio Edition II is the largest dual-bay external hard drive to date, in terms of storage space. It comes with multiple types of peripheral connections and allows users to replace its internal hard drives easily, as long as they use PowerGreen hard drives made by Western Digital. Unfortunately, the drive doesn't support USB 3.0 and takes a long time to be recognized by a computer or to come out of sleep mode.
To make up for this, it offers fast performance and comes with a price tag that won't break the bank at just around $500 for 6TB (or $270 for 4TB and $180 for 2TB). If you're looking for a large and easy-to-use external hard drive for your desktop computer, especially a Mac, the My Book Studio Edition II is worth consideration.
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The My Book Studio Edition II has exactly the same design as the previous model; it looks like a closed book. The bottom of the device is one side of the "book" and the top is the door for the two drive bays. The door can be pressed to open and the hard drives can then be pulled out to be replaced easily, without any tools.
On the front, the drive has a large vertical white light that shows the status of the drive. On the back, the drive has an array of peripheral ports including USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800, and eSATA. It comes with all cables for the above connection types, except for the eSATA. It's a little disappointing that it doesn't support USB 3.0. This is understandable, however, as the drive is made primarily for Macs, which don't currently support USB 3.0.
Also on the back, you'll find a power button that turns the drive on or off. We noticed that the drive seemed to go into sleep, or low-power, mode after being idle for about 10 minutes or so, and it would take about 2 minutes to wake up. There's no way to prevent it from doing this, unfortunately. While in sleep mode, the drive would sometimes unmount itself, and this proved to be problematic for those who sporadically need quick access to it. The drive would also take about 2 minutes to be recognized by the operating system, which is a very long time compared with other external hard drives. All this makes the drive seem "buggy" at times. Hopefully this will be resolved via a firmware update.
Though the hard drives are easily replaceable, as mentioned above the My Book only works with GreenPower SATA hard drives made by Western Digital, and comes preloaded with two of them. The review unit we received came with two at 3TB each, configured in RAID 0, offering a total storage amount of 6TB.
Although preformatted with HFS+ file configuration for Macs, the My Book can be reformatted for PCs easily, using the included WD Drive Manager software. It comes with a software CD that includes a manual in PDF format, WD Anywhere Backup software, and the WD Drive Manager utility. The utility enables you to change the RAID configuration from RAID 0 to RAID 1 and vice versa. It also helps quickly format the drive. In our trial, the included version of WD Drive Manager didn't work as expected, and we had to download the updated version from Western Digital's Web site before we could manage the drive's RAID configuration. Note that because of the limitations of the legacy standard, the drive, especially in the 4TB and 6TB versions, works only with Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS 10.5 or later. In our test, it took about 20 minutes to change the drive's setup from one RAID to another.


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I'm in hospital to see my dad. He's sitting up and chatting away like he's propping up the bar at his local – but he's here because his heart has failed. Dad drinks, smokes and eats a poor diet. The kind of diet I wouldn't serve to a dog. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by some very sick people who are also in hospital because they have bad diets. My dad is skinny on his; most are large on theirs.
On the next ward, a patient is morbidly obese. He's served hospital food three times a day and tops it up with snacks from the tuck trolley. Brimming with brightly packaged sugar and fat bullets with a shelf-life beyond the apocalypse, the trolley offers an array of saturated fats, hidden sugars, salt and thousands of ingredients that are more at home in a laboratory than a kitchen. He buys himself a selection for the day that most of us couldn't eat in a week.
This is an extreme example, but it's a snapshot of modern Britain. On the one hand, the food revolution of the past 50 years has brought us choice and convenience; on the other, we're facing a global epidemic with obesity.
Now, I love food. It's fuel, it's medicine, and it's delicious. So when I was asked to go on a journey to find the world's best diet, I was excited. I eat pretty healthily, but I could definitely do better – and when my dad's not looking, I'm nicking his Jaffa Cakes. So which countries hold the secret to a longer and healthier life? Might it just be possible that I could find a diet that will ultimately prolong my life? And will I still be able to eat the odd Jaffa Cake?
What I found along the way was not only surprising, it also had the potential to change my life. And if a few of these lessons could be applied on a national – or even global – scale, then they could help towards making the world a healthier place…
Peering out of the aeroplane window, it looks as though we're touching down in paradise: azure waters lapping a sun‑soaked shore dotted with palm trees. But once the wheels sink into the greasy tarmac, it becomes quickly apparent that we have landed in one of the most obese places on the planet.
In 2013, the International Diabetes Federation found that more than 80 per cent of the adult population is overweight. And you can see it. Baggage handlers, airport security and the chaps at passport control are all demonstrably carrying extra pounds. And with all this weight come some very grave consequences. The Marshallese have the third highest prevalence of diabetes in the world – 50 per cent of people aged over 35 have the disease, and amputees can be seen island‑wide as a result.
So where did it all go wrong? Fifty years ago, the Marshallese suddenly changed their diet. After the Second World War, the islands became a trust territory of the United States. The US began trading with the islands, and as a result the Marshallese diet shifted from fresh fish and coconuts to an imported, processed "Western" diet of flour, white rice, sugar and fatty meats. And this is the diet they still eat today.
One evening I ate with a local family at home – mum, dad and five beautiful children. On the menu were two types of white rice – one with sugar and one without – and turkey tails. Turkey tails are essentially a turkey's derrière. And, I quickly discovered as turkey fat dripped down my chin, they don't pack much muscle in their trunk, since their tails can contain a staggering 73 per cent fat. So much fat that they have been banned in countries such as Samoa.
And with a watermelon costing $38 in the local supermarket, there wasn't a fruit or vegetable in sight. The island is a coral atoll, so growing fruit and vegetables is nigh-on impossible. And on the average wage of $2 an hour, imported fruit and vegetables are a luxury most people can't afford.
Rice, flour, sugar and fatty meats are a lethal combination if you don't add any fibre in the mix. Without it, diabetes is almost an inevitability.
It was way past my bedtime. Armed with a strategic power nap and a box of doughnuts, I shuffled up a back alley. Punctuated with neon, it was like something out of Blade Runner. I arrived at an apartment and a pretty, petite South Korean girl opened the door. Not the racy madam I was expecting. Hyo-Jin tucked the doughnuts under her arm and ushered me into her bedroom. She gave me a slick of red lipstick, smoked my eyes and tamed my mane. We were ready.
I was about to participate in something pretty radical. Eating alone in South Korea is a major social taboo. Mokbang is the antidote. It means "broadcast eating", something that is taking the country by storm and is earning Hyo-Jin a small fortune. Her live stream is free to watch, but if people are happy with the service they can give a donation. We tucked into an array of South Korean delights: kimchi pancake, fried pork in soy, and something a little more familiar, fried chicken. In just an hour of eating on a webcam, we'd made a few hundred dollars.
With such a passion for food, it is perhaps surprising that South Koreans are some of the slimmest people on the planet. In 2012, a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that they have the lowest level of obesity in the developed world. So why are they so healthy? Firstly, and very simply, they eat an inordinate amount of vegetables. They eat more than twice the amount of vegetables we do and grow enough to have 222kg of vegetables per person available every year over our 94kg. Instead of five a day, it's more like 10 a day. Fresh and often raw vegetables are a staple everywhere, even at service stations. This is a far cry from our roadside Ginsters and packets of crisps.
Second, fermented foods are a major part of their diet. Kimchi – a spicy, fermented cabbage – is eaten at breakfast, lunch and dinner, with the average South Korean consuming a hefty 150g-200g per day in the winter, and 50g-100g in the summertime. Packed with good bacteria called lactobacilli, it helps boost metabolism and aids digestion.
Fit to burst, I rolled out of Hui Jin's flat. Feeling slightly objectified, I did genuinely believe, perhaps naively, that I had provided company at dinner for a few hundred solo eaters. I asked her what I should do about my bloated tummy. She had a one‑word answer: "Kimchi."
Tucked away in the Italian countryside, just a couple of hours from Rome, stands a magical hilltop. Known by scientists as the "village of eternal youth", the average life expectancy in Campodimele is 95 years. Compare that with the Italian average of 77.5 for men and 83.5 for women. In addition, their cholesterol levels are some of the healthiest in the world. In the Eighties, the World Health Organisation discovered that the cholesterol in 80‑year-olds was similar to that of newborn babies.
Why are they living so long? There's no doubt that they have longevity in their genes. Yet it's what they do with those genes. I spent a day with Geraldo and Liana. They are 85 and 83 respectively, yet look and move like they're at least 10 years younger.
I ask them to show me what they eat. Geraldo invites me on his Vespa, and I am half-expecting him to take me to the supermarket; instead, we roll down the hill to feed his chickens and check on his wheat fields. As for the supermarket, he laughs and tells me that the closest one is 50 kilometres away and he's never been.
On returning home, his wife Liana is preparing lunch. A delicious rustic feast of pasta, passata, chickpeas, lashings of olive oil, and a substantial goblet of deep, fruity red wine poured from an old Evian bottle. The difference is that every single element is home-grown and home‑made. Being almost completely self-sufficient, each week this couple spend a few euros on just two extras – milk and coffee.
Geraldo and Liana are not an exception to the rule. Professor Cugini has studied the town since the Eighties and refers to their diet as "hyper-Mediterranean". It's all the best bits of the Mediterranean diet, turned up full blast. The villagers enjoy top-quality, home-produced fresh ingredients that are packed full of vitamins and minerals. Their diet is low in meat and almost devoid of red meat and butter.
The people here consume an average of one litre of olive oil a week, the perfect recipe for heart health – washed down with two glasses of red wine a day to offer a daily injection of antioxidant polyphenols.
Despite running water and electricity, the people in Campodimele are living a life much as they would have done 1,000 years ago. This isn't feasible for most of us, but if we all ate a little more like them, we might just feel the benefits.
One can only hope that somewhere in a parallel universe, the tuck trolley being wheeled around my dad's hospital ward is loaded with a Campodimele harvest and, rather than crisps and chocolate, it is fresh vegetables and olive oil that are being administered.


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Welcome to Brazil where you will be met by a Monograms representative.
Today your "Meeting of the Waters" tour passes the British-built Customs House and floating port. CRUISE along the chocolate-colored Rio Negro to its confluence with the yellow-gray Rio Solimões, where the two rivers form the mighty Amazon. For four miles, the differently colored bodies of water flow side by side and never mix! Explore a JUNGLE ISLAND (water levels permitting) with fascinating native flora and fauna before arriving at the Ecopark Jungle Lodge in the Amazon rainforest.
Accompanied by a Naturalist, enjoy a WALK to see the flora and fauna that thrive in the Amazon. After lunch, sail up the river to an AMAZON VILLAGE to learn about local traditions, costumes, and culture. Try your hand at piranha fishing! Later, visit the MONKEY JUNGLE RESERVE, where researchers work to rehabilitate primates like spider, squirrel, woolly, and capuchin monkeys and reintroduce them to the jungle. This evening, venture back out on a canoe with your Naturalist to appreciate the sounds of the jungle at night, with the possibility to spot caimans (or other night creatures).
This morning, depart the Ecopark for a guided sightseeing of Manaus to view vestiges of its glory days during the rubber boom. Visit the OPERA HOUSE and a bustling LOCAL MARKET. Continue to the airport for your flight to Rio and an overnight.
Enjoy free time in Rio before meeting your Tour Director this afternoon and fellow traveling companions for a drive along famous Ipanema and Copacabana Beaches to the base of 1,300-foot-high SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN. Ascend by cable car to its summit, where you can savor spectacular vistas of the city. Next, toast the start of a memorable vacation from atop Sugar Loaf Mountain with caipirinhas, a favorite Brazilian cocktail, during a welcome COCKTAIL PARTY.
Today, visit the statue of Christ the Redeemer crowning CORCOVADO MOUNTAIN, a rounded peak rising 2,300 feet from the bay below. Take the scenic cog railway ride to its top, where a 360-degree panorama affords sweeping views. Proceed to bustling downtown Rio. View the Sambodromo and visit the CATHEDRAL. This afternoon, you may wish to join an optional trip into a local favela to see where 20% of Rio's population lives. Visits include a community center and a school. This evening, it's off to a CHURRASCARIA for a feast of barbecued meats marinated and roasted over charcoal in true Brazilian style.
Enjoy a day of leisure or consider an optional trip to historic Petropolis, once the former summer palace of Emperor Dom Pedro II and now a mountain resort.
A flight from Rio takes you to IGUASSU FALLS. Experience the clouds of spray, the incessant roar, and the surrounding luxuriant tropical growth that make this an unforgettable natural wonder. Head into Brazil's Iguassu National Park to enjoy the magnificent panorama of waterfalls from the Brazilian side. Your Local Guide introduces the spectacle of this 2-mile-wide torrent. With some cataracts as high as 250 feet, Iguassu Falls is nothing short of hypnotic!
Today, journey to the Argentine side of IGUASSU FALLS, where you will take the ECOLOGICAL JUNGLE TRAIN and enjoy a closer perspective on a walking tour of the falls. Meander along the walkways from atop the falls, and enjoy an exhilarating perspective looking over the precipice of the falls as the water plunges to the rocks below. You will also have the chance to walk through the rainforest on the lower falls trails that will bring you up close to some of the smaller falls. Return to the hotel, where the remainder of the day is at your leisure.
Today, fly to Buenos Aires. After arriving, an orientation walk acquaints you with the "Paris of South America" and its wide boulevards and outdoor cafés.
Your sightseeing starts in La Boca, a colorful district and site of the city's first port. Take a short walking tour of this unique neighborhood and then on to San Telmo, famous for its late-colonial buildings and a popular gathering spot for artists. At Plaza de Mayo, see La Casa Rosada (the President's Pink House) and the METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL, housing San Martin's Mausoleum. Drive past the ornate Teatro Colón opera house before reaching RECOLETA CEMETERY, burial site of Eva Perón. Next, learn how to make a traditional Argentinean dish during your EMPANADA COOKING CLASS. After an afternoon at leisure, top off the evening at a famous TANGO CLUB. Start with a DANCE LESSON, followed by farewell dinner featuring Argentine steaks and other local specialties, and end with a show featuring flawless performances of Latin America's most sensuous dance—the Tango!
Today, head into the heart of the pampas (grasslands) and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of rural, country life at a working ARGENTINE ESTANCIA (ranch). After a traditional welcome with empanadas and local beverages, get acquainted with the lifestyle of real gauchos (cowboys) on a horseback ride or carriage ride through the pampas. Later, at lunch, enjoy a colorful feast, complete with world-renowned Argentine beef, salad, desserts, local wine, and live music and dance by the gauchos themselves. Top off the day with a horsemanship show by the gauchos before saying adios to the countryside and heading back to the city.
Your tour ends with breakfast this morning.
Start your vacation earlier or stay longer with destination options before or after your Globus tour.
With GLOBUS, there's no better way to get to know your destination than through the eyes of a Tour Director. We'd like you to meet one of our Tour Directors, who average over a decade of experience and are representative of the type of expert that will be with you on your vacation.
Escorting tours for more than 15 years
"Born in Rio de Janeiro, being a Tour Director is not just a dream job, it is my passion. Whether I'm revealing a famous sight or a hidden treasure to my guests, or simply helping them plan their day, it is my passion to help people discover more about Brazil and South America. I like to share my stories, experience, and knowledge with guests so that they can get a real insider's point of view."
No matter what you're into: food, wine, history, art, music or anything else,
we give you the freedom to personalize your vacation with optional excursions that speak to your interests.
When you book your excursions with us, you can be assured that every optional excursion that we offer coordinates with the free time that you'll have in your destination,
so you'll never have conflicts between included and optional activities.
Our team of travel experts carefully selects each optional excursion that we offer to ensure that you receive the highest quality at a great value.
Our tried-and-true partners have a finger on the pulse of the city in which they operate so they deliver the very best experiences.
We offer experiences you cannot create on your own and because you're booking with us, we coordinate all your transportation and timing needs.
The following optional excursions are examples only for this vacation. These may or may not be offered, and availability is subject to days of operation and seasonality. Please select a departure date to view optional excursions and pricing for a specific date (due to currency fluctuation, pricing shown is subject to change until purchased). Optional excursions are available for purchase on our MyGlobus site 90 days prior to the tour start date.
Visit the 'Imperial City of Petropolis' outside of Rio in the Atlantic Rain Forest to visit the summer palace of former Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
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MLS Match Recap: Vancouver Whitecaps 2, Columbus Crew 1
VANCOUVER – In the Vancouver Whitecaps' first match without captain Jay DeMerit, it was the man wearing his armband who made the difference.
Kenny Miller, who was filling in for the injured DeMerit as Whitecaps' skipper, fired home the winner to help Vancouver defeat the Columbus Crew 2-1 in front of 18,078 fans at BC Place on Saturday. The Scotsman dispossessed Glauber 57 minutes in after the Brazilian lingered on the ball following a pass from Andy Gruenebaum, and Miller proceeded to racing in on goal and firing a shot past the helpless Crew goalkeeper.
It didn't take long for the Whitecaps (2-0) to get going in the game, as Daigo Kobayashi scored Vancouver's opener and his first goal in MLS just six minutes in. Kobayashi caught Gruenebaum off his line and hit a lofted shot into the top left corner.
OPTA Chalkboard: Miller provides the difference for Whitecaps
The Crew (1-1-0) equalized through Jairo Arrieta in the 46th minute. The Costa Rican forward sent Joe Cannon the wrong way by firing a shot into the bottom right corner after receiving a pass from Ben Speas, who made a suprise start in part because of Eddie Gaven being out for the match with an injury.
After Miller scored his first of the season, Columbus came close to levelling in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Speas hit a hard ball across goal that found Dominic Oduro, but his ensuing header was off the mark.
The 'Caps dominated possession in the opening half, holding 57.8 percent of the ball and threatening on several occasions. Apart from Kobayashi's goal, Vancouver had other chances that were generated in some part due to penetrating balls from Nigel Reo-Coker, who wasted an open look in front of goal.
In the 39th minute, Reo-Coker got on the end of a rebound from eight yards out after Gruenebaum stopped Miller from close range but the veteran fired high and wide of the target.
Vancouver also came close to doubling their lead at the end of the half, Brad Rusin got on the end of a Kobayashi corner, heading a ball against the post which rebounded off Gruenebaum's face before hitting the post a second time and ultimately being cleared by Oduro.
The Crew had chances too. Five minutes into the game, Agustin Viana narrowly headed over goal after connecting with a Federico Higuain free kick.
Higuain was involved once again 10 minutes from halftime, as he curled a set-piece beyond all of his teammates, forcing Cannon to awkwardly knock the ball out to his left for a corner.
Columbus play next Saturday at Crew Stadium against the San Jose Earthquakes. The Whitecaps return to action on March 23, as they travel to Houston to play the Dynamo at BBVA Compass Stadium.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Kenny Miller
|The Scotsman filled in as captain admirably, leading an impressive Whitecaps attack and scoring the winner to help his club improve to 2-0.
|Daigo Kobayashi
|The Japanese playmaker continued to impress, with his superb strike in the sixth minute helping to set the tone.
|Nigel Reo-Coker
Reo-Coker served as a great link between the defense and attack for Vancouver. Scoring on his open chance would've been the only way to make his performance better.


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Tom Hardy filmed a documentary called Poaching Wars With Tom Hardy. He's trying to protect the rhinos and elephants! Said Tom:
"All over Sub-Saharan Africa, the poaching crisis is spreading like a plague. Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have all seen large-scale elephant slaughter and throughout the rest of Africa, rhino and elephant are being killed in alarming numbers. The everyday effect of the poaching business on African wildlife is one of horror and cruelty that brutalises both the animals and the humans involved.
Like most of us I have a love for Africa's magnificent animals. As a result I find it hard to stomach the poaching crisis sweeping the continent and pushing these amazing animals to the edge of extinction. Without doubt the rhino and elephant are facing extinction well within our lifetime and the war on poaching is being lost. I'm making these documentaries because it's something practical I can do to ask some questions that need to be asked."
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Here. I feel like you need a reminder of Tom Hardy and the puppy:
This would be the opposite of sh-t vs diarrhoea.
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"Pine Trail is on schedule", said Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, in a presentation at the Intel Technology Summit in San Francisco yesterday.
"We are going to ship revenue shipments in the second half of the year", he said in reference to Pine Trail – Intel's netbook-centric Atom CPU and chipset combo series. "You come to IDF and see the maturity of the product".
His comments follow leaks from industry sources earlier this week, which claimed that the launch of several Pine Trail variants - including Pine Trail-M for mobile devices – had been pushed back until Q1 2010.
Intel has kept somewhat coy about exactly when Pine Trail will emerge. It was first expected to launch during Q4 of this year, but information later leaked by an Asia-based mole later narrowed the launch down to October 2009.
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To type the key in command line all the times is tiresome and I want to set this mode in $HOME/.clisprc.lisp.
How to do it?
I found this page: https://clisp.sourceforge.io/impnotes/r ... al-handler
But I guess I do not understand how to read it.
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Studies in African Linguistics provides a public forum within the community of African language scholars for discourse on issues of direct concern to the field of African Linguistics. Thus, the journal seeks to publish African language data and analysis that might not find a place easily or suitably in more general journals.
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Every American Officer and Soldier must now console himself for any unpleasant circumstances which may have occurred, by a recollection of the uncommon scenes in which he has been called to act, no inglorious part; and the astonishing Events of which he has been a witness–Events which have seldom, if ever before, taken place on the stage of human action, nor can they probably ever happen again. For who has before seen a disciplined Army formed at once from such raw Materials? Who that was not a witness could imagine, that the most violent local prejudices would cease so soon, and that Men who came from the different parts of the Continent, strongly disposed by the habits of education, to dispise and quarrel with each other, would instantly become but one patriotic band of Brothers? Or who that was not on the spot can trace the steps by which such a wonderful Revolution has been effected, and such a glorious period put to all our Warlike toils? …
[The Commander-in-Chief] presents his thanks in the most serious and affectionate manner to the General Officers, as well for their Counsel on many interesting occasions, as for their ardor in promoting the success of the plans he had adopted–To the Commandants of Regiments and Corps, and to the other Officers for their great Zeal and attention in carrying his orders promptly into execution–To the Staff for their alacrity and exactness in performing the duties of their several Departments–And to the Non-commissioned officers and private Soldiers, for their extraordinary patience in suffering, as well as their invincible fortitude in Action–To the various branches of the Army, the General takes this last and solemn oppertunity of professing his inviolable attachment & friendship–He wishes more than bare professions were in his power, that he was really able to be useful to them all in future life; He flatters himself however, they will do him the justice to believe, that whatever could with propriety be attempted by him, has been done. And being now to conclude these his last public Orders, to take his ultimate leave, in a short time, of the Military Character, and to bid a final adieu to the Armies he has so long had the honor to Command–he can only again offer in their behalf his recommendations to their grateful Country, and his prayers to the God of Armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors both here and hereafter attend those, who under the divine auspices have secured innumerable blessings for others: With these Wishes, and this benediction, the Commander in Chief is about to retire from service–The Curtain of seperation will soon be drawn–and the Military Scene to him will be closed for ever.
George Washington's farewell address to the Continental Army, 2 November 1783
Our citizen soldiers are unlike those drawn from the population of any other country. They are composed indiscriminately of all professions and pursuits–of farmers, lawyers, physicians, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, and laborers–and this not only among the officers, but the private soldiers in the ranks. Our citizen soldiers are unlike those of any other country in other respects. They are armed, and have been accustomed from their youth up to handle and use firearms, and a large proportion of them, especially in the Western and more newly settled States, are expert marksmen. They are men who have a reputation to maintain at home by their good conduct in the field. They are intelligent, and there is an individuality of character which is found in the ranks of no other army. …
When all these facts are considered, it may cease to be a matter of so much amazement abroad how it happened that our noble Army in Mexico, regulars and volunteers, were victorious upon every battlefield, however fearful the odds against them. …
But our military strength does not consist alone in our capacity for extended and successful operations on land. The Navy is an important arm of the national defense. For the able and gallant services of the officers and men of the Navy, acting independently as well as in cooperation with our troops, in the conquest of the Californias, the capture of Vera Cruz, and the seizure and occupation of other important positions on the Gulf and Pacific coasts, the highest praise is due.
James K. Polk, message to Congress after the Mexican-American War, 5 December 1848
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863
But it is not the physical scale and executive efficiency of preparation, supply, equipment and despatch that I would dwell upon, but the mettle and quality of the officers and men we sent over and of the sailors who kept the seas, and the spirit of the nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sailors ever proved themselves more quickly ready for the test of battle or acquitted themselves with more splendid courage and achievement when put to the test. Those of us who played some part in directing the great processes by which the war was pushed irresistibly forward to the final triumph may now forget all that and delight our thoughts with the story of what our men did. Their officers understood the grim and exacting task they had undertaken and performed it with an audacity, efficiency, and unhesitating courage that touch the story of convoy and battle with imperishable distinction at every turn, whether the enterprise were great or small, from their great chiefs, Pershing and Sims, down to the youngest lieutenant; and their men were worthy of them,-such men as hardly need to be commanded, and go to their terrible adventure blithely and with the quick intelligence of those who know just what it is they would accomplish. I am proud to be the fellow-countryman of men of such stuff and valor. Those of us who stayed at home did our duty; the war could not have been won or the gallant men who fought it given their opportunity to win it otherwise; but for many a long day we shall think ourselves "accurs'd we were not there, and hold our manhoods cheap while any speaks that fought" with these at St. Mihiel or Thierry. The memory of those days of triumphant battle will go with these fortunate men to their graves; and each will have his favorite memory. "Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but hell remember with advantages what feats he did that day!"
What we all thank God for with deepest gratitude is that our men went in force into the line of battle just at the critical moment when the whole fate of the world seemed to hang in the balance and threw their fresh strength into the ranks of freedom in time to turn the whole tide and sweep of the fateful struggle,-turn it once for all, so that thenceforth it was back, back, back for their enemies, always back, never again forward!
Woodrow Wilson, address to Congress after the end of World War I, 2 December 1918
On this Army Day, freedom-loving men all over the world rise with us to salute our fighting men and devoted women of the Army. Our American soldier is respected everywhere for his courage, admired for his fighting skill, and loved for his charm and simplicity. Like his gallant brother in arms in the United States Navy, he is the symbol of our traditions and our hopes.
Our Army has written many glorious chapters in the Nation's history, but none so brilliant as the last. Its story in this war has been written in every corner of the globe–on the continent of Europe; in the wastes of the Arctic; over the vast expanse of the Pacific; in jungle and desert; on mountains and over the beaches. It is a glorious history of men against the forces of nature as well as against the forces of evil.
Harry Truman, national address on Army Day, 6 April 1946
I can't say enough in praise of our military – Army rangers and paratroopers, Navy, Marine, and Air Force personnel – those who planned a brilliant campaign and those who carried it out. Almost instantly, our military seized the two airports, secured the campus where most of our students were, and are now in the mopping-up phase. …
May I share something with you I think you'd like to know? It's something that happened to the Commandant of our Marine Corps, General Paul Kelley, while he was visiting our critically injured Marines in an Air Force hospital. It says more than any of us could ever hope to say about the gallantry and heroism of these young men, young men who serve so willingly so that others might have a chance at peace and freedom in their own lives and in the life of their country.
I'll let General Kelley's words describe the incident. He spoke of a "young Marine with more tubes going in and out of his body than I have ever seen in one body."
"He couldn't see very well. He reached up and grabbed my four stars, just to make sure I was who I said I was. He held my hand with a firm grip. He was making signals, and we realized he wanted to tell me something. We put a pad of paper in his hand – and he wrote 'Semper Fi.' "
Well, if you've been a Marine or if, like myself, you're an admirer of the Marines, you know those words are a battle cry, a greeting, and a legend in the Marine Corps. They're Marine shorthand for the motto of the Corps – "Semper Fidelis" – "always faithful."
General Kelley has a reputation for being a very sophisticated general and a very tough Marine. But he cried when he saw those words, and who can blame him? That Marine and all those others like him living and dead, have been faithful to their ideals. They've given willingly of themselves so that a nearly defenseless people in a region of great strategic importance to the free world will have a chance someday to live lives free of murder and mayhem and terrorism. I think that young Marine and all of his comrades have given every one of us something to live up to.
They were not afraid to stand up for their country or, no matter how difficult and slow the journey might be, to give to others that last, best hope of a better future. We cannot and will not dishonor them now and the sacrifices they've made by failing to remain as faithful to the cause of freedom and the pursuit of peace as they have been.
Ronald Reagan, after the Grenada invasion, 27 October 1983
Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your "lives fought for life . . . and left the vivid air signed with your honor."
I think I know what you may be thinking right now — thinking "we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day." Well, everyone was. …
All of these men were part of a rollcall of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland's 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England's armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard's "Matchbox Fleet" and you, the American Rangers.
Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.
You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.
The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought — or felt in their hearts, though they couldn't know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell
Ronald Reagan, address commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1984
We hear so often about our young people in turmoil—how our children fall short, how our schools fail us, how American products and American workers are second-class. Well, don't you believe it. The America we saw in Desert Storm was first-class talent. And they did it using America's state-of-the-art technology. We saw the excellence embodied in the Patriot missile and the patriots who made it work. And we saw soldiers who know about honor and bravery and duty and country and the world-shaking power of these simple words. There is something noble and majestic about the pride, about the patriotism that we feel tonight.
So, to everyone here and everyone watching at home, think about the men and women of Desert Storm. Let us honor them with our gratitude. Let us comfort the families of the fallen and remember each precious life lost.
Soon, very soon, our troops will begin the march we've all been waiting for—their march home. … Let their return remind us that all those who have gone before are linked with us in the long line of freedom's march.
Americans have always tried to serve, to sacrifice nobly for what we believe to be right. Tonight, I ask every community in this country to make this coming Fourth of July a day of special celebration for our returning troops. They may have missed Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I can tell you this: For them and for their families, we can make this a holiday they'll never forget.
In a very real sense, this victory belongs to them—to the privates and the pilots, to the sergeants and the supply officers, to the men and women in the machines and the men and women who made them work. It belongs to the regulars, to the reserves, to the National Guard. This victory belongs to the finest fighting force this nation has ever known in its history.
We're coming home now—proud, confident, heads high. There is much that we must do, at home and abroad. And we will do it. We are Americans.
George H.W. Bush, address to Congress after Desert Storm, 6 March 1991
The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq. The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em. …
We've come to this moment through patience and resolve and focused action. And that is our strategy moving forward. The war on terror is a different kind of war, waged capture by capture, cell by cell, and victory by victory. Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty. And the United States of America will not relent until this war is won.
George W. Bush, address to the nation after the capture of Saddam Hussein, 14 December 2003
I said that I would go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they'd do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it.
Barack Obama, on politicizing the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden by the US Navy SEALs, 30 April 2012
J.E. Dyer's articles have appeared at Hot Air's Green Room, Commentary's "contentions," Patheos, and The Weekly Standard online.


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The year is 1997. The President is the divine Ms. Sarah Bernhardt. And everywhere people are doing a dance called the funky grandpa. Oh, and Porsche introduced the Boxster.
It's amazing to think that the Boxster was the first water cooled, flat six Porsche ever built. Water cooled Porsches have now been around forever, it feels like. That's crazy.
Of course, the original Boxster had barely any power. Oh, and it didn't cost $102,000. It was about $40,000.
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There are a lot of dog training "tools" that I prefer not to use, but the one piece of equipment I wish every dog owner would throw away is…
Most dog owners feed their dogs every day (hopefully). Hopefully, people measure out their dog's food into appropriate portions and provide one or two scheduled feedings per day. Some people choose to "free feed," which means food is constantly available in the dog's bowl, and the dog may help himself whenever he so chooses.
Q: What is the evolutionary purpose of a dog? Why did dogs evolve from wolves, and what makes them "domesticated"?
A: If you haven't read it yet, pick up a copy of Ray Coppinger's book
- Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution
. Coppinger has a PhD in Biology and has devoted his life to the study of dog behavior, evolution, and origins. Coppinger asserts that dogs evolved from wolves as humans evolved from hunter-gatherer societies to permanent settlements. Human settlements created a unique ecological niche; what we would refer to as "garbage dumps."
Garbage dumps create free food sources for wild animals. If you don't believe this, you obviously have not spent much time in the Adirondack forests near any dumpsters and seen the black bears that congregate to feed around these "free" food sources.
In any case, garbage dumps were not a factor when human populations were mobile/unsettled. When humans congregate in a designated area for an extended period of time, waste accumulates.
Coppinger asserts that it was in fact human refuse which originally drew wolves to our settlements (charming, no?). Within the wolf population, as in all populations, there were behavioral variances. Those wolves which tended to stick around the garbage dumps despite the presence of humans were more likely to cash in on the ecological bonanza of free eats provided by permanent human settlements. Those that were spooked more easily and would retreat in the presence of humans missed the spoils of our refuse. The phenomena at work here is called "flight distance."
The wolves that had a lower flight distance threshold evolved differently than their less companionable, considerably more suspicious, kin. In relatively short time, these wolves adapted to the human (aka "free food") niche. Along with this evolution came proportionately smaller skulls, brains, and teeth. It requires less brain power to get free food than hunt for your own.
OK, so what does all this have to do with anything (besides the fact that if you're a dog nerd like me, Coppinger's book reads like a page-turning thriller)?
It has everything to do with building a relationship with your dog. Dogs became dogs through seeking food from people. It's what makes them dogs. It is at the heart of their very "doggyness."
This is what makes positive reinforcement especially valuable in dog training – it speaks to the very nature of what is dog. Dogs became dogs through seeking food from humans, not through imagining us as "concept wolves" on two legs. Providing food, not being the alpha, is at the very nature of how dogs evolved to be our "best friends."
Dogs love food. Period. Any creature of any species that is not "food motivated" would be dead.
So why let that valuable reinforce go to waste? Put it to work for you!
I grew up in an area where dogs lived off leash from puppyhood. It was a rural environment, where resident dogs spent hours running through woods, field, and stream with neighborhood kids and other neighborhood dogs. They chased squirrels and deer. They dug holes wherever the hell they wanted. They came home at night exhausted, dreaming sweetly of the hundreds of prey chases and scent trails they followed. They were mentally and physically satisfied, happy dogs. Nobody really took their dogs to classes, and most of us were proud if our dogs could "sit," "down," "shake," and "rollover."
Our dogs didn't run away. Sadly, some fell victim to the road, but none of them ran away.
Now I live in a suburban environment. Despite loving my neighborhood, I still feel caged in. I am, after all, a country girl at heart and yearn for a life outside of the city (if you choose to call Binghamton a city).
Here, if a dog gets out of their fenced in yard or escapes their leash or tie out, they take off. Run as far as they can, as fast as they can. Why?
Most dogs today don't live this type of life. For safety reasons, we often need to employ management tools like fences and tethers to keep dogs safe. Dogs no longer get to roam, freely interacting with others from their kind when and if they choose, chasing each prey animal they come across, digging wherever they wanted for as long as they wanted, sniffing a hundred scent trails.
Most dogs are forced to fit into the confines of modern society – long work hours, tired owners with more obligations than they can realistically handle. Few of us can provide a lifestyle for our dogs similar to the life my childhood dogs had.
The trouble is, just because we cannot provide this type of lifestyle doesn't mean our dogs crave it any less. This is the infamous "culture clash." Modern human lifestyles often don't provide anywhere near the mental and physical stimulation needs of our canine companions.
Dogs are an interesting amalgamation. They have the same hunting instincts as their wolf ancestors, but a new and different perspective on food seeking which incorporates dependence on humans. A truly happy dog will have both aspects of his personality satisfied through his interactions with his owner and his daily life.
You may not be able to provide your dog with five to eight hours a day of off leash romps through the forests, meadows and streams. You may not be able to provide unlimited squirrel chases and opportunities to interact with other dogs, horses, humans, cats, etc., at your dog's every whim. Due to the constraints of my current living environment, I often can't give that to my dogs either. I feel your pain.
Let's talk about that first instinct, the one that links our dogs with wolves: the desire to hunt. Dogs want to stalk, chase, grab, and shake prey. It is my personal belief that opportunity to participate in the prey sequence qualifies as a primary reinforcer for most dogs. It taps into their very "wolfiness." We can do this from applying the Premack Principle.
The Premack Principle asserts that more probable behaviors can reinforce less probable behaviors. Have a "squirrelly" dog? The opportunity to chase squirrels (more probable behavior) can be used to reinforce a recall or focus (a less probable behavior). In laymen's terms, "if you eat your spinach, you can have your ice cream."
Most of these aspects of the prey sequence can be manipulated through training in the form of stalking, tug, and retrieving games. Using these types of games speaks to each dog's inherent "wolfiness," the wild predator living within each of our beloved doggy companions, from Chihuahua to Malamute.
So how do we connect with their "dogginess," that which distinguishes our dogs from their wolfy predecessors?
Through behavioral contingencies which include food provision (in short, positive reinforcement training!).
Another way we can meld the dual doggy needs of engaging in "wolfiness" (hunting practices) and "dogginess" (seeking food from humans) is through incorporating food rewards into games which include components of the predatory sequence.
This means introducing food dispensing toys – Kongs, Tug a Jugs, Buster Cubes, Canine Genius toys, Nina Ottosson toys, etc. Dogs want to hunt for food, to work at it, to dissect items to obtain nutrition. Food dispensing toys fulfill both of these needs.
This also means introducing food-seeking games – hide and seek, "find it", and introducing tracking exercises. The cheapest and easiest food-seeking game is what I call a "kibble hunt." Instead of throwing your dog's food in a bowl, make a "kibble hunt" hiding dinner throughout the yard or the house and letting your dog find his food with his nose. Now, instead of inhaling his food in .8 seconds, it takes your dog half an hour, forty five minutes of brainwork/mental stimulation to tire him out.
You can also tap into your dog's innate desire to seek food from humans through positive reinforcement training techniques.
If you're going to feed your dog anyway (and I hope you are!), make him work for it. Providing plenty of predatory outlets will satisfy your dog's "wolfiness" – chase games, tug, opportunity to "dissect" toys to retrieve food, or (if you're like me) feeding a carefully constructed prey model raw diet.
Just as no dog will be entirely happy without having his "wolfy quota" filled, no dog will be happy without having his "doggy quota" fulfilled.
Since we cannot often provide the full doggy quota of unlimited time bounding through field and stream with conspecifics as well as favored humans, we must fulfill those needs in other ways. This should be through increased physical exercise, play opportunities, and working for his food. Remember, this taps into the core of his very dogginess.
Food dispensing toys, kibble hunts, tracking and other scent games, shaping and capturing exercises, fulfill your pet's true doggy desires and so, make dogs want to connect with us. It is the very source of their domestication.
If you follow dog training discussions at all, you know there is a pretty distinct divide between those that feel positive reinforcement training is the way and those that feel techniques grounded in dominance speculation are more appropriate. This blog entry is long enough as is, so we'll save that debate for another day.
In order for a dog to be fulfilled, you must tap into both his "wolfiness" and his "dogginess".
His "wolfiness" is not related to "alpha hierarchies" which have been disproven to science but to his evolutionary history as a predator – one who wants to chase prey, dig after it, chase it, catch it, grab it, bite it, shake it, dissect it, and consume it. Fulfilling these basic needs is provided not through intimidation, corrections, or "domination" but through play which taps into these reservoirs of carnivorous drive – tug, fetch, dissection, shaking toys, etc.
His dogginess is not related to willfulness, stubbornness, or a "desire to please" but to an innate desire to seek food, shelter, and security from humans and to engage with his environment in meaningful ways. Again, this is what makes a dog a dog. The reservoir of dogginess can only be filled through providing appropriate interaction with conspecifics and in the ways in which we provide our dogs with the primary resource, food.
Hopefully, this entry illustrates the importance of food in dog training and the influence of food on the evolutionary history of dogs as they relate to humans.
Many critics of positive training techniques will argue that it is "unnatural" for dogs to learn from humans through food rewards but that it is "natural" for dogs to view humans as their pack leader and through physical corrections.
I argue that a domesticated canine receiving food from humans is far more natural than the "man in wolf's clothing" that alpha theory relies upon. I also contend that we should leave the physical corrections to the dogs, and let them use those methods to instruct each other regarding the behaviors which are/are not acceptable to their species.
We have bigger brains, opposable thumbs, and ability to manipulate food delivery to our advantage while providing satisfactory outlets for out dogs' desires to hunt as descendants of the wolf through play.
Is it just me, or does this make way more sense than discussing "energy," "auras," and "rank" in manipulating dog behavior?
My raw feeding friends call our dogs "kitchen wolves." This inherently makes sense to me. In spirit, each dog is a wolf. When it comes to an empty stomach, they're all dogs, looking for a meal from a human who can't resist a cute face or good behavior.
You're going to feed your dog anyway. At least make it interesting for him! Put your dog to work for his food through training, kibble hunts, food dispensing toys, and seeking games. Food should be interesting to a dog, not a flash in the pan!


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A federal grand jury Thursday charged two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with obstructing justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev -- 19-year-old roommates and Kazakh nationals who began attending the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth the same semester as Tsarnaev -- were charged in May with conspiracy.
It is not clear whether Thursday's indictment represents a second conspiracy charge.
Thursday's indictment accuses Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev of helping Tsarnaev after the April 15 bombing by taking items from his dorm room to keep them from investigators.
If convicted, Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev could be sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison on the obstruction count and up to five years on the conspiracy count, the U.S. attorney's office said. They also could be fined $250,000.
Arkady Bukh, Tazhayakov's attorney, said his client is not discouraged. He also said that Tazhayakov did not touch any of Tsarnaev's items.
"He feels very strongly he'll be able to be able to convince a jury that's he's innocent," Bukh said. "There's no evidence of intent, no incentive to help (Dzhokhar), no motive to destroy anything."
The three students socialized and texted each other, the indictment says.
On April 18, three days before the FBI searched Tsarnaev's dorm room, Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev allegedly went into the dorm, took Tsarnaev's laptop and a backpack containing Vaseline, a thumb drive, fireworks and a "homework assignment sheet" and took them back to their New Bedford apartment, the indictment states.
"The fireworks container has been opened and manipulated," the indictment says. "As a result, some of the explosive powder was visible."
Kadyrbayev told his roommate that he believed Tsarnaev "used the Vaseline 'to make bombs,' or words to that effect," the indictment states.
That day, Kadyrbayev showed Tazhayakov a text message from Tsarnaev that read, "If yu want yu can go to my room and take what's there (smiley face emoticon) but ight bro Salam aleikum."
Either that night or early the next day, Kadyrbayev tossed the backpack in a Dumpster, according to the charges.
"Over the course of two days," the indictment continues, "more than 30 federal agents searched (a New Bedford) landfill for the evidence Kadyrbayev had placed in the trash."
The indictment further says the roommates watched April 18 news reports about the bombing that featured photos of Tsarnaev.
A federal grand jury earlier this year returned a 30-count indictment against Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the bombings, that alleges he used a weapon of mass destruction.
Tsarnaev is charged with killing four people -- three spectators who died in the bombings and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer ambushed in his cruiser a few days later -- and "maiming, burning and wounding scores of others," U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said.


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Yikes. Sucker for punishment, eh....MyDearFriend wrote:Just read through this whole thing again, from the beginning...
But have you clicked the link to The Millicent Chronicles on the Skoolie forum? That runs something like 44 pages.
Be sure to buy a diesel engine. Twice the fuel mileage, and the price of the fuel only slightly higher. And no AT545 transmission, which "soaks up" extra fuel because the torque converter does not lock at cruising speed.SquirrelHead wrote: I did make me cringe to figure out it would be about $2400 in gas to get from NC to BRC and back.
I don't think all of the fun things will fit so I will have to trim down the list.
As for the fun stuff inside the bus.... If you are considering a Ferris wheel and a bowling alley, you will indeed have to adjust your expectations. But I do know a burner who has built several buses with a hot tub (and sold them at a profit).
My top priority is a bathroom -- a LARGE bath room. Seems to me, we don't appreciate the fabulous convenience of indoor plumbing until we find ourselves without it in the middle of the night.
A shower is not really necessary, since we can wash the body reasonably well with a couple of quarts of hot water in a basin and a wash cloth. (And water for this can be heated on a propane cook-top or such.) But it is very much worth the effort to install a good RV toilet and associated plumbing. And make the bathroom spacious, because people will want to wash each other, and change elaborate outfits, and thus require more elbow room than one might expect.