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LANCASTER � The annual Bolton Fair will be held Aug. 10 to 12, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily (midway open until 10 p.m.). The midway is also open on Thursday, Aug. 9, from 5 to 10 p.m. This year�s features include a demolition derby, a monster truck show and live music from Draw the Line, an Aerosmith tribute band, and The Great Escape, a Journey tribute band, and more. Discount tickets are available online through July 31 at www.boltonfair.org/tickets.html Also available for the first time this year is a multi-day pass. For one price, a fairgoer can return to the fair for the entire weekend. The fairgrounds are on Route 117, in Lancaster.
HOLDEN �The 33rd annual Holden Days will be held Saturday, Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities take place at various spots in Holden and will include: Live music, a food court, business booths, a craft corner and art lot showcasing local talent, a yard sale (at the First Congregational Church), and the annual Friends of Gale Free Library book sale. The Kids� Court will feature the Roaming Railroad, a Civil War encampment, face painting, moonwalks, games and contests. For more information, log onto www.holdenareachamber.org.
CLINTON � the 13th annual Olde Home Day is Friday, Sept. 7, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Clinton�s Central Park and Town Hall, 242 Church St. Friday�s schedule includes antiques appraisal, antique cars, a model train exhibit, beer and wine tasting, food and vendors. Saturday includes live music, children�s rides, model train exhibit, artisans and crafters, martial arts and gymnastics demonstrations, food and more.
STERLING � The annual Sterling Fair will be held Friday through Sunday, Sept. 7 through 9, at the Sterling Airport, 121 Greenland Road. Fair opens Friday from 9 to 11 p.m. (fireworks at 9:45 p.m.), Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attractions include the midway, helicopter rides, antique engine and machinery show, cattle, sheep and poultry showings, live music, log sawing (Saturday at 5 p.m.) and food vendors. For a complete schedule, visit http://sterlingfair.org. Admission and parking are free.
WEST BOYLSTON � Fall Fest on the Common will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29. The all-day, outdoor festival will be held on the Town Common, at routes 12 and 140. It features activities for children and adults, music, food, and an opportunity for artists and crafters to display and sell their work. The festival is put together in conjunction with the West Boylston Arts Foundation, the Beaman Oak Garden Club, the West Boylston Historical Society and the West Boylston Parent Teacher Association.
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Like with most things, if you keep an eye on the most advanced processes and product, you can better plan for the future. You watch cooking shows to advance your knowledge even if, currently, some of those skills and tastes are a bit ahead of where you are. You watch NASCAR or Formula 1 even through the thought of reprogramming your car's computer sends you into a sweat. Why do we want to know about things we can't currently do? Because only by learning what's to come can we plan for our own future or enjoyment.
Most of space and aviation innovation pushes the boundaries of what's technologically possible. We went to the Moon with computers that today's school calculators surpass in speed, ability and programming. Silly, lazy, journalists said that the Apollo program gave us Velcro and the heat-capable nose cone of the Saturn 5 rocket (material used in Corning Ware). The truth is, Apollo changed every single job on the planet from computers, to CT scans, to synthetic materials, to programming, to fuel changes, to the windscreen on every car (to name but a very few).
So what's up for tomorrow? Here are only some of the leading developments currently pressing ahead, pushing the technology envelope that will, one day soon, upend your lives again:
There are now 12 spaceports in America alone. All of them have active flights and programs to get to space underway. Alaska, 2 in California, New Mexico, Colorado, three in Texas, Oklahoma, Maryland, and two in Florida. And that does not include the government's 6+ sites.
Lightsail 2 opened in orbit on July 24—a 350 sq. ft. Mylar sail meant to capture solar radiation and propel a craft across the solar system. Slow at first, it may reach 60% of the speed of light as it leaves our solar system.
Made In Space is an Archinaut robot set in orbit soon to build and service satellites. It is rumored that forty other space-based autonomous robots are in planning stages.
India launched its second Lunar exploration mission July 22. It'll be the 4th country to land something on the Moon.
Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747-400 air launch system will soon launch, from high altitude, rocket payloads with satellites. 25% the cost of a rocket from the ground.
Returning astronauts to the moon is slated for 2024 with the Cygnus Cargo Capsule from Northrup Grumman – rejigged as the Minimal Habitation Module. NASA has awarded the contract... it is expected that as many innovations will come from this program as came from Apollo.
GE has developed a turbo-prop Catalyst as the core of a hybrid-electric propulsion system for a vertical take-off-and-landing ship being built by XTI Aircraft called the TriFan 600. GE expects to see that market grow to 20,000 units by 2030 – air taxi anyone?
Meanwhile Karem Aircraft is building the Butterfly electric vertical take-off-and-landing air taxi, sponsored by Hanwa Systems of S. Korea.
The B-21 "Raider" bomber for the AF to replace an aging B-2 fleet is scheduled to fly in December 2021. That's when it will be shown for the first time. A reminder: the secret SR-71 flew 6 years before being shown to the public.
The Exoatmosphere Kill Vehicle is a satellite destroyer currently rumored to be in flight. How good is the rumor? Someone recently leaked it would soon be replaced by the Redesigned Kill Vehicle under development.
The global small sat market will be $25,000,000,000 by 2029. Some are under 2 lbs., some around 100 lbs. Use? Communications, product linking, aircraft positioning, the radio in your car... all the way to an affordable, "Where's my kid now? And Where's My Amazon package?" Small sats have a limited lift, are very cheap (using off the shelf components) and, in the near future will be overseen by AI.
Speaking of which, A.I. holodecks are under development for pilot training. A.I. can more quickly simulate real flying issues, sense pilot weakness response times and act as personal trainers. The partial goal is to prepare for planes to have only one human pilot...
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Defend Crypto Crowdfunding Campaign – Messaging Service Kik fights SEC's 'Innovation Tax'
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During the ICO hype in 2017, Canadian messaging app Kik raised about $100 million in an ICO with the issuance of their Kin token. Only a few days after the closing of the ICO, the U.S. SEC reached out to Kik. The U.S. watchdog notified Kik last fall that it intended to pursue an enforcement action against both Kik and the Kin Foundation. However, Kik announced in the Wall Street Journal their plan to fight this out in court on behalf of the industry and challenge the U.S. regulator. The SEC approach would stifle innovation.
Crowdfunding for crypto defense
To do so the Kin Foundation launched the Defend Crypto (DefendCrypto.org) crowdfunding campaign to fund a potential court battle with the SEC, the Kik founder and CEO Ted Livingston announced on Laura Shin's Unchained podcast. Allegedly, Kik already donated $5 million to the campaign. Kik is encouraging other supporters donating cryptos that will be held in a Coinbase account and only be used once Kik's $5 million has been spent. Unused funds will be allocated to "other initiatives."
Fighting the 'innovation tax'
According to the Defend Crypto campaign, the SEC has been shaping the future of crypto behind the scenes with settlements that set a dangerous precedent and stifle innovation.
Kin is unwilling to let that happen and is setting aside $5MM with Coinbase to take them on in court. But with the future of crypto on the line, $5MM might not be enough. That's why we're calling on others to contribute to the Defend Crypto fund.
Crypto Defend campaign (CryptoDefend.org)
The fight against the SEC and its "innovation tax" would thus not only be in the very best interest of Kik but for the greater good of the crypto industry, the Kik people argue. That the case would set a precedent for how cryptos are regulated in the U.S. Many other crypto firms face potential action from the U.S. regulator and hence Kik's Defend Crypto campaign should be financed by the industry and its participants.
The DefendCrypto campaign is supported by prominent investors such as Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures as well as major U.S. crypto companies such as Coinbase or Circle and ShapeShift.
It is my hope, and Kin's hope, that DefendCrypto.org will be an inspiration for the many other important crypto projects that are silently battling with the SEC to come public and raise capital from the crypto sector for their fights.
Fred Wilson, Kik investor in a blog post
We think the Kik approach is actually appropriate. After the many fraud stories and regulatory violations in the course of the ICO Hype, a judicial clarification of the Kik matter could at least bring legal certainty to the US. This, in turn, is essential to prepare the ground for future token placements. Legal certainty and a public discussion with the regulators are indispensable for the sustainable development of the crypto industry.


Bnei Hertzeliya (Winner League) tabbed 31-year old American ex-international shooting guard Jerome Dyson (191-82kg-87, college: Connecticut). He started the season at Jiangsu Nangang Dragons Nanjing in Chinese CBA league. In 6 games he averaged impressive 22.8ppg, 4.8rpg, 2.2apg and 2.2spg this season. The last season Dyson played at Hapoel Jerusalem where in 37 Winner League games he had very remarkable stats: 16.9ppg, 4.2rpg, 3.1apg and 1.6spg. He helped them to make it to the semifinals. He can count that season as a very successful as was selected to Eurobasket.com All-Israeli League 1st Team and to the All-Star Game. Dyson also played 10 games in Eurocup where he recorded high stats: 15.7ppg, 3.3rpg, 4.1apg and 1.7spg (in top 3).
Dyson has tried to make it to the NBA and played in the NBA Pro Summer League in 2014.
He won Israeli Premier League championship title in 2017.
Dyson also represented USA at the Panamerican Games in Guadalajara (Mexico) eight years ago. His team won Bronze and his stats at that event were 5 games: 11.4ppg, 3.0rpg, 2.0apg, 1.4spg, FGP: 38.5%, 3PT: 38.9%, FT: 55.2%.
Dyson has played previously professionally in Italy (Banco di Srd) and Israel (Hapoel Holon).
He attended University of Connecticut until 2010 and it is his ninth season in pro basketball.
Let's have closer look into Dyson's outlook: An athletic, talented guard, who can shoot the ball very well, but lacks some weight to bang with top NBA SGs. Can spend time even at the point, thanks to good court vision and leadership.


Illawarra Cutters duo Shaun Nona and Shannon Wakeman are looking forward to the opportunity to be part of the NSW Residents team who will face their Queensland counterparts at Langlands Park, Brisbane on Sunday.
Nona, who joined the Cutters during the off-season, was humbled by the selection and is looking forward to playing with the NSW Cup's best players as well as testing himself against some of his former Queensland team mates.
"There's a lot of great players in both teams, that I am looking to play with and against," said Nona.
"I've been lucky enough to play in the last two clashes for Queensland where we had success.
"I am very much looking forward to putting the shoe on the other foot, and try to bring the trophy south of the border".
Wakeman feels he has been close to making this side in recent years and was relieved to receive the call-up to represent his state.
"I feel that I have been close to making this side in previous years, so I am really happy to get this opportunity," said Wakeman.


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Spain and Italy Could Share Player Pools in 2013
Additional discussions between regulators from both countries on shared liquidity could take place as soon as this fall.
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Combined Italian and Spanish player pools are likely and could happen in 2013, according to Enrique Alejo, Director General of the Spanish Gaming Commission.
In an interview with Spanish site Poker Red, the Director General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) stated that talks were ongoing between Italy and Spain as to the possibility of shared player pools. As head of the Spanish state regulator, he will have a significant role in the development of Spain's approach to regulation after its chaotic introduction on June 1 this year.
The idea of sharing player pools to increase liquidity was discussed in the gaming regulators meeting on June 19 and 20. That meeting was attended by French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese regulators and the final press communiqué stated, "discussions took place on the conditions necessary for a possible shared liquidity in certain games among some of the countries participating to the meeting."
A follow up meeting is planned for December, but Alejo suggested that much earlier bilateral meetings to discuss combining player pools could take place with his Italian counterparts.
"Probably after the Summer, in September or October, we will meet with the Italians and by then it will be possible to get a more precise estimate of how much time that agreement will take," Alejo remarked.
When asked if players could see combined Italian/Spanish player pools in 2013, Alejo proposed that it is possible: "I do not know if early in 2013, but maybe at some point yes."
In the interview he explains that the primary motivation is to encourage Spanish players who have left the .es sites to return to the nationally regulated games: "There's no doubt it's a loss for the market. We wish they were here and played in Spain because they are Spanish and would add value for Spain as well as retaining Spanish talent."
The Italian regulator AAMS—which has recently been subsumed into the Customs Department and lost its head regulator—has similar motivations. Italy's tax revenues from poker have been reducing as players have left the official sites, many to play on sites regulated outside Italy.
The prospects of France joining the combined pool is less imminent. According to Alejo: "The French are positive but have shown less willingness to act in the timeframe." He does think that the French will be more motivated to join if they see that an Italian/Spanish system works.
To date the regulators in Spain, France and Italy have failed to recognize that poker has different characteristics to the other gambling games that they regulate. The consistent downward trend in Gross Gaming Revenues from poker in Italy and France are a powerful signal that the regulators have got it wrong.
As late as May, only weeks before the launch of Spanish State Regulation, Alejo explained that the top priority was agreeing on the advertising code governing gaming companies. This, at a time when there was a complete lack of transparency about the taxation status of players' poker income.
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WINDHOEK, 31 JAN (NAMPA) – The Windhoek Pedal Power (WPP) in conjunction with the Namibia Cycling Federation (NCF) has embarked on another project that teaches young Namibians on how to use road bicycles for racing.
The NFC, which runs a program called kids on the bike in different regions in the country, is currently training kids from the age of five to 14 years on how to ride with racing bikes.
This training takes place every Tuesday at the Tony Rust Race Track located on the outskirts of Windhoek on the road to Daan Viljoen.
Hella Rust, the training and development officer at NFC, is spearheading the training that imparts the technical aspects of using these bikes for racing.
In an interview with Nampa on Tuesday, Rust explained that the aim of hosting these training sessions is to create a platform where young Namibians can learn to fall in love with cycling while at the tender age.
"We want to produce more cycling champions in the country and that can only happen if the young people are given an opportunity to cycle and love what they are doing," she said.
Rust added that credit should be given to WWP who bought road bikes and also pay for the venue where the training is conducted.
"This is a free event. I therefore call on all parents who want their kids to do cycling to bring them every Tuesday at Tony Rust. We are going to train these kids as well as give them tips on cycling," she added, adding that the participating youth would also get opportunities of competing in cycling events in their age categories during competitions.
The WPP and NCF road bike training sessions are held every Tuesday from 16h00 to 17h30.


PHOENIX, Arizona––Losing six spring 2016 attempts to ban at the state level breed-specific local ordinances meant to protect the public and other pets from pit bull attacks, the Best Friends Animal Society on May 19, 2016 won a ban on breed-specific legislation in Arizona through a back door alliance with lobbyists for the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, the American Kennel Club, the United Kennel Club, and other fronts for dog breeders.
Before the stealth passage of the Arizona ban, attempts to prohibit breed-specific ordinances had been defeated in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Washington, and West Virginia.
Van Kavage did not mention that the Arizona bill "to outlaw breed discrimination" passed as part of a bill to repeal ordinances that prevent pet stores from selling dogs bred at puppy mills.
Neither did Van Kavage mention that the states whose legislatures enacted bans on breed-specific ordinances in years before there was organized opposition from pit bull attack victims include Texas, California, and Florida, one of which has led or tied for the lead in fatal dog attacks in each of the past 11 years.
Neither did Van Kavage acknowledge that the ability to regulate dangerous dogs by breed was barely if ever raised during months of publicity and media discussion pertaining to the Arizona bill, SB 1248, which was the last bill passed during the 2016 Arizona legislative session to be endorsed into law by Governor Doug Ducey.
Ironically, SB 1248 repealed two existing ordinances which were passed in part to help animal shelters and rescues more easily rehome pit bulls, who make up more than a third of shelter dog intake, but are adopted at less than half the rate of intake, and are the dogs of choice for under 5% of people acquiring a dog.
Also ironically, the Arizona ordinances that SB 1248 repealed much resembled an ordinance pushed into effect in October 2015 in Salt Lake County, Utah, Best Friends' home state, "at the behest of county council member Arlyn Bradshaw, now executive director of Best Friends Animal Society Utah," reported Mike Gorrell of the Salt Lake Tribune.
Longtime Humane Society of the U.S. regional representative Dave Pauli has participated in many puppy mill rescues.
SB 1248 will "immediately overturn existing ordinances in Tempe and Phoenix that allow pet shops to sell only rescue and shelter animals. And it would stall efforts to adopt a similar ordinance in Tucson," explained Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services.
The mid-April 2016 HSUS flip-flop came in the same week that HSUS president Wayne Pacelle blogged his endorsement of ordinances similar to those now repealed in Tempe and Phoenix.
Wrote Pacelle in "Wayne's blog" of April 22, 2016, "In the latest blow against the scourge of puppy mills, Philadelphia, the nation's fifth largest city, this morning banned all sales of puppy mill dogs in pet stores and at outdoor venues like flea markets.
"With today's action," Pacelle proclaimed, "the City of Brotherly Love joins more than 140 other localities around the United States," including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Diego, as well as Toronto, Ontario, Canada, "with similar ordinances restricting puppy mill sales.
Reality, however, is that total shelter adoptions have plateaued since 1981, at circa 2.5 million dogs per year, while the breeder share of the dog acquisition market has doubled, from 26% to 54%, with little hint that "responsible breeders" have taken any market share from the rapidly expanding commercial breeding industry.
Preventing pet stores from selling dogs obtained from breeders appears to have only accelerated the trend, already building for about 25 years, of breeders selling dogs directly to the public through web sites and social media––and has accelerated a parallel trend of "rescuers" purchasing puppies from puppy mills for resale.
People who want dogs other than the pit bulls and Chihuahuas who together have made up nearly half of U.S. shelter intakes in recent years are driven, when pet stores have no puppies, to patronize either unlicensed backyard breeders, or breeders who sell through electronic media.
This does little to improve puppy mill conditions, since backyard breeders and breeders who do not sell through conventional retail stores are the most difficult to keep under surveillance through inspection, the most difficult to regulate, and also very often those most implicated in large-scale neglect cases.
The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council and other entities representing breeder interests promoted SB 1248 as a bill which would protect the ability of people acquiring dogs to acquire dogs of their preferred breeds.
SB 1248 was "driven largely by complaints by Frank Minoe," wrote Fischer, "who filed suit after Phoenix adopted its ordinance, which affected his Puppies 'N Love store. He charged in federal court that the local law interfered with interstate commerce, noting that most of the commercial breeders are located in Missouri.
The Humane Society of the U.S. celebrated Campbell's July 2015 ruling as "a landmark victory for the animal rights world and a blow to the pet industry," noted Phoenix New Times reporter Miriam Wasser, before HSUS flip-flopped and worked to overturn it.
Within the past two years judges in Florida, Illinois, and Rhode Island have also upheld community ordinances prohibiting the sale of commercially bred dogs.
But the verdicts do not appear to have caused more pet stores to follow the practices of Petco, which has offered only shelter animals for acquisition at company stores since 1969, and PetSmart, doing likewise since 1987.
Rather, independent pet stores are often closing, rather than stock shelter animals the owners deem potentially dangerous to customers and their families, or just unprofitable to keep in stores for weeks or months until someone shows interest in acquiring them.
After the January 2016 Florida verdict, for example, Palm Beach Puppies North closed within 24 hours, reported Palm Beach Post staff writer Alexandra Clough.
Carlsbad Pets, of Carlsbad, California, in May 2016 also closed within 24 hours, following passage of a ban on selling commercially bred dogs.
Both Palm Beach Puppies and Carlsbad Pets had been the only stores in their communities to sell purebred pups.
Legislation parallel to Arizona AB 1248 may be forthcoming in New York and Ohio.
In New York, early in 2016, the towns of Mamaroneck and Mount Pleasant made sales of commercially bred dogs and cats punishable by fines escalating from $250 for a first offense to $1,000 for repeated offenses.
In Grove City, Ohio, the Petland chain has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a March 2016 ordinance against selling dogs and cats other than those "from animal shelters, humane societies, and rescue groups. It takes effect on January 1, 2017," reported Jim Siegel of the Columbus Dispatch.
Meanwhile, Siegel added, "The [Ohio] Senate Ways and Means Committee [in early May] put an amendment into an unrelated state tax cleanup bill that would trump attempts by Grove City and others, like Toledo, to regulate pet stores.
The Ohio bill, HB 166, appears to be still pending.
The first community ban on selling commercially bred dogs and cats appears to have been adopted by West Hollywood, California, in February 2010. But it was strictly symbolic, since West Hollywood at the time had no stores selling dogs and cats at all.
Very disheartening. I would like to hear the rationale for this. Have pitbulls truly become so important to the members of these organizations pushing for this legislation that they would condone the overturning of such important legislation advancing the adoptions of shelter animals? If so, I'm sure I'm not alone in believing that some changes are needed immediately in those organizations.
Let's face it, the majority of the public doesn't want the dogs shelters have: mostly pit bulls. I'll bet ol' Ledy and Pa-shill-e decided it's better to side with PIJAC and get their way on anti-BSL, since they can't pawn off their damaged goods through pet stores anyway.
There are breeder lobbyists that now work on policy at Best Friends.
The AKC makes most of its money from puppy mill registrations, primarily through pet stores like Petland.
This was all about helping the AKC keep making money from puppy mills, and enabling puppy mills to keep having outlets to sell.
As for the relationship between pet stores, puppy mills, and the AKC, the AKC has long had relationships with puppy mill-selling chains like Petland, through both registrations and a microchip program. The AKC would go broke without its puppy mill or commercial breeder registration money, and they lobby with the puppy mill industry groups.
So thanks to Best Friends and HSUS, puppy mills can be helped to keep running strong and the AKC can keep making the money off the puppy mills that literally is their lifeblood.
Anyone who loves animals should be very very angry at Best Friends and HSUS. If you donate and don't approve, let them know, or they'll keep throwing puppy mill puppies under the bus.
West Hollywood did have a pet shop, Elite Animals, which had sold a puppy to Arnold Schwarzenegger. His puppy came from a Minnesota-based USDA licensed puppy mill CAPS had investigated. Council members came to one of our Elite Animal protests and decided to work with us on the ordinance.
Subsequent to West Hollywood, we generated ordinances in Glendale (this pet shop is still selling rabbits, so we recently contacted the city council; one member will be proposing an amendment), Los Angeles and San Diego. We are working on more ordinances in SoCal, having investigated every pet shop there. Los Angeles did not initially enforce its ordinance, so we had to investigate the pet shops still selling dogs, cats and rabbits and turn this evidence over to the city attorney.
However, West Hollywood was not the first municipality to have a retail ban ordinance. That honor goes to Albuquerque, NM, which received little to no publicity on this victory in 2006. West Hollywood, because it is well-known, received worldwide publicity and is thus the genesis for the ordinance movement. We got emails and calls from all over the U.S. and Canada. We assisted with the first Canadian ordinance in Richmond, B.C., which led to Toronto passing its law.
While Internet sales are increasing, the number of pet shops is decreasing. The number of USDA-licensed facilities has decreased since ordinances started passing. Tougher laws in Missouri have also led to puppy mill closures.
The number of USDA-licensed dog breeders is of much less significance in terms of preventing animal suffering than the cumulative numbers of puppies produced for sale. Fewer but larger breeding operations means easier inspections, but the transition from selling puppies in stores to selling them online has eliminated most of the opportunity to maintain surveillance of the puppy supply business after puppies leave the breeding facility. In effect, the puppy-breeding industry is moving toward what is called "just-in-time" delivery in retail, with puppies moving more rapidly from breeders to homes. Eliminating pet stores as intermediaries is reducing the numbers of possible points of neglect, infection, and abuse. This is not to be confused, however, with actually reducing the size of the puppy-breeding industry, which is now much larger than it ever was before.
Visit http://www.pupquest.org to learn how to be puppy source savvy. NONE of us working to shut down the retail pet industry want to promote breeders but not to admit that there is a vast difference in animal care between a reputable, educated breeder and a puppy farm is naive.
As a veterinarian in private practice for over 15 years I see folks daily who insisted on buying a pup and NOT adopting. Boggles my mind but that is what they did. Here's the kicker…."humane, animal welfare/rights/protection folks won't guide them to a reputable breeder they would rather accuse them of not adopting and being responsible for all the dead shelter dogs. That just alienates them and then they get their info about breeders from the "bad guys". That is why we created PupQuest.
If you like it, please share it, if you think we are "purebred puppy pushers" as one animal rights activist called us, don't!! All I know is that I have been working to shut down the retail pet industry since the early 80's and Internet sales have only made things worse……….
Unfortunately "reputable educated" breeders are also pumping out genetically flawed,, disturbed dogs that end up in shelters. Yes, breeders of tilted champions- a meaningless and empty thing.
The "reputable educated breeders" also lobby like banshees through their kennel clubs, AKC Legislative activity, and front groups like NAIA to oppose or weaken anti-puppy mill laws and prop up the industry. They don't display that to the public, an ugly secret.
The type of folks you are referring to are indeed a HUGE part of the problem! They are not reputable.
Did you look at PupQuest.org? Did you see what health screenings, etc. we tell people to look for? I am a veterinarian and the genetically flawed dogs (putting it nicely) that some breeders produce is one of the reasons we created PupQuest. Yes, the dog show industry is part of the problem. Yes, the judges pin genetic mutants. But the fact remains that most people buy pups from breeders. If we can steer them away from the worst it is at least doing something.
It is a disgrace that many breeders fight regs on breeders….we wouldn't consider them reputable. Slippery slope and all!
The USDA did finally acknowledge they have regulatory jurisdiction over online dealers, but haven't moved to actually do anything about it, thanks in part to pressure from the agriculture industry and its allies like AKC, the premier puppy mill registrar.


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Nonresponse in dynamic panel data models
Nicoletti, Cheti
Cheti Nicoletti
This paper stresses the links that exist between concepts that are used in the theory of model reduction and concepts that arise in the missing data literature. This connection motivates the extension of the missing at random (MAR) and the missing completely at random (MCAR) concepts from a static setting, as introduced by Rubin (1976), to the case of dynamic panel data models. Using this extension of the MAR and MCAR definitions, we emphasize the limits of some tests and procedures, proposed by Little (1988), Diggle (1989), Park and Davis (1993), Taris (1996) and others, to verify the ignorability of the missing data mechanism.
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Venezuela talks in oslo should continue
Guaidò and the us government are not enthusiastic about the talks, maduro demonstrates optimism. Of the "interim" does not want a common solution, but the jerkiness of maduro. Image: twitter account by maduro
Norwegian foreign affairs calls on involved parties for accessing, guaidò had ever talked to the end of the talk
After talking between the conflict parties from venezuela, the norwegian government has promptly prompted the opposition of the sud american country to access. "In order to maintain a result-oriented process, the parties are asked to have the most extreme caution in their comments and comments on the process", does it be in an opinion of the norwegian division ministry. Previously, the head of oppositionally dominated parliament, juan guaido, had explained the premier failure of the talk.
A new investigation confirms the age of paintings in the chauvet hollow and forces a description of the art history
In december 1994, jean-marie chauvet, who was at this time as a temporary supervisor for the hollow in the ardèche region at the french ministry of culture, made a sunday walk with two friends with two friends. Chauvet led her to a hollow and they went to explore. The hobby researcher had become curious about a rock in a stream by a breeze and what the three found, overtruft by far their expectations: a huge hollow system that has many different hollow paintings. There are 300 drawings of nashorners, auerochsen, lowen, mammuts, horses – big and expressive appears a whole bestiary in front of the eyes of the amazing viewer. Chauvet reported quite properly the discovery of the hollow and little later appeared the first specialist for hollow painting, which confirmed that it is palaolithic art, because he diagnosed the typical signs of erosion.
The professional world was critical, because an auxiliary overseer brought something so spectacular to light, the specialist seemed unlikely the specialist. The broken cowl bodied, more than one undertook, it had to be a false. Chauvet, so has been folded, have been done by the extremely impressive and dynamic drawings my own hand.
Haider also paid by the bnd?
Reports on the financing of his visit to iraq raise interesting questions
Even more than two years after his accidental death, the austrian right-wing populist jorg haider still keeps the media busy. While a few months ago reports about haider's secret coffers disavowed the right-wing politician even among his supporters, the austrian magazine profil now reports that haider received large subsidies for his iraq flight in may 2002 from the german federal intelligence service (grube an die achse des bosen). This was the second of a total of three iraq circles of the austrian right-wing pigeon.
According to the newspaper, the contacts were made through an austrian businessman. The latter is said to have organized overflight and landing permits on behalf of the bnd and paid for the private jet in which the then carinthian governor and chairman of the right-wing fpo took off for his second flight to baghdad in may 2002, where he is also said to have received a million-dollar donation from the saddam regime.
Satan in the touchphone
"Arabs in general and the saudis in particular life for their mobile phones, in a way that was not understood in other parts of the world"
But but also saudi hosts are intelled – as far as it is regime critic " and no longer stop a revolution if they are no longer to be stopped: a real arab, which stands on, the mobile phone is not to be taken away; even if he can make pictures that "haram", forbidden, are. The eternal tender, the scheitan (satan), hides itself in the handbox. The knowledge of the spiritual authorities has long and the pious also, which is why certain applications must be accurately regulated.
It is more as a pity that he is silent. No one else showed everyday life in saudi arabia so vividly, with sharp joke and surprising insights, like the saudi blogger "the religion policeman" (see. To do this, the mission of the religious policeman). About a year ago, he has set his blog, highly probably from personal safety, unfortunately completely unnoticed from the blogosphere and so without a loud break – a loss. "The religious policeman" was an ironic and bright observer of saudi conditions. Therefore knew (entry from 19.April) he was already in the spring of last year that the saudi authorities were no chance that "mobile revolution" to stop:
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Gruner state legislator gets caught in dragnet investigation
The dragnet search for alleged terrorists or their helpers usually takes place silently. Master unnoticed tampering with civil servants' computers, desks and inaccessible offices. Nothing is known about successes.
Consequently, there will not have been any so far, because otherwise they would certainly have been announced with a rough noise. So far, the only known breaches have been. Right at the beginning of this nonsensical and costly police operation, when an afghan but peaceful employee of berlin-tegel airport was temporarily caught in the clutches of state forces due to a mistake by the interception service. Or last week, when tariq ali, a british man of letters of pakistani origin, learned about the special nature of bavarian police. (see also you should not travel with such books)
Vacation in turkey
Do you really want to fly there now?
Vacation now? Flying? Turkey? Yes, but this time the german holidaymaker does not get any nice vacation wishes on the way. Since the terrorist attacks in the usa and the preparations for the retaliatory measures, no tourist can look forward to his well-deserved vacation any more. "There all muslims and if it goes off…", but this sentence is hardly finished by any interlocutor. In addition to concerned inquiries, the vacationer also receives sarcastically pragmatic remarks along the way: "we wish you a bomb atmosphere".
Mother-in-law calls, "do you really want to fly?" in all seriousness she proposes a transfer to sudtirol. At the same time a text message reaches me: "hello, can i stay with you for a few days?? Everybody is totally crazy and looking for me! Need a good friend now! Would be pleased. Osama bin laden." then a phone call and the joke: "oh yes, he wants to go to turkey now."
Currency crises: swiss franc also with negative interest
Spacex superspire the nanosatellite company swarm
Googlebombing now also in greece
Eu wants to review corona crisis trade policy


We've been undergoing a bit of a food revolution in our house over the past few months, trying to eat as cleanly as possible (when we're home and can control it, at least!) in the interest of being our best and healthiest selves. We eat lots of organic meat and eggs, lots of fruit and veggies (keeping the Dirty Dozen organic, at least), and a little organic dairy, and we've majorly reduced our beer and wine consumption. It's been tough, but worth it. Lest you think we're going crazy, I did bring a caramel apple pie to my friend Christopher's amazing Thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed every single bite. (Life without any indulgence hardly seems worth living, am I right?) Still, we're doing the best we can as often as we can.
Changing our lunch habits has been a major challenge throughout this process. I used to alternate between Lean Cuisine and turkey sandwiches; Dr. O was eating the previous night's leftovers, or (horror of horrors!) Lean Pockets, in the event of an emergency. Since I really wanted to get away from processed food, I bought a bunch of glass Snapware at Costco and committed to stocking my freezer with homemade frozen lunches. I've made lots of delicious recipes (I'll share them, promise!), but today's recipe – Moroccan Vegetable Stew from Peace Meals – is one of my favorites. There's a lot of prep work with the veggies, but the stew is really simple and tasty. Plus, the ingredients fill my five-quart slow cooker to the brim, which means I have plenty of lunches to freeze.
Heat the olive oil in a medium sauté pan over medium-low. Add the garlic and spices and cook until fragrant, about 1 to 2 minutes; be careful not to burn the garlic. Scrape the garlic and spices into a slow cooker. Add the broth and the remaining ingredients (except the yogurt) and stir. Cook on high for 6 to 7 hours. Allow to cool slightly. Purée 3 cups of the stew in a blender or food processor and return to the slow cooker, stirring to combine. Serve warm with a dollop of yogurt, if desired.
This is such warm, delicious, comforting food. You probably have to like eggplant in order to enjoy this one, but I just adore the way all the vegetables in this dish come together. I also love, love, love the hint of sweetness from the currants and the slight heat from the cayenne pepper.
The first time I made this stew, I was in a huge hurry, rushing to get out the door for some reason. I nearly skipped the almonds since I didn't want to take the time to toast and chop them. It would have been a huge mistake! I thought it was so strange to put nuts in a slow-cooker stew (surely they would get spongy, right?), but they add such a wonderful texture and flavor to the dish.
TIPS: When I first made this stew, I cut my vegetables into fairly large pieces since I assumed they would cook down quite a bit (especially the eggplant and the zucchini). It didn't really happen. Now, I use a small dice for the onion, a small-medium dice for the eggplant, and half-moons for the zucchini (and larger carrots). Also, I just put my hand blender right into the slow cooker for a few seconds at the end, rather than dirty my regular blender or food processor.
Active time: 15 min. | Total time: 35 min.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Line 12 standard muffin cups with paper liners. In a large bowl, whisk together 1 cup flour, cornmeal, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl, whisk together yogurt, butter, vanilla, and orange zest. Add the flour mixture, stirring until combined (do not overmix).
In a medium bowl, toss blueberries with 1 tablespoon flour to coat, then fold into batter. Divide batter among muffin cups. Bake until puffed and set, about 20 minutes, rotating pan halfway through. Let muffins cool in pan on wire rack.
I did cut the baking powder to 2 1/2 teaspoons (from 1 tablespoon) out of high-altitude modification habit. I'm not sure if the change was 100% necessary, but it worked for me.
I used Mountain High low-fat plain yogurt.
This batter is THICK. Don't be nervous. I used an ice-cream scoop to portion it out.
I like a thinner glaze than what the recipe creates. Just add more orange juice if you want to thin it out as well.
Yum! These muffins have a nice, moist crumb and a perfect blueberry-to-batter proportion. They aren't too sweet on their own, so the glaze complements the muffins nicely. They come out of the muffin liners pretty cleanly too, which I always appreciate. Bonus: Only 4 Weight Watchers PointsPlus points per muffin. I usually have two, and Dr. O (with his unbelievable metabolism) usually has four, so we're able to get two breakfasts out of the recipe. They are best the day they're made, but the "here's breakfast, and I didn't have to make a new mess" factor makes them almost as good on the second day.
It occurred to me today that I might be able to save time for some of you by posting the menus I've put together for dinner parties at my house. I try to plan things that go together nicely and that will allow me to do as much work as possible before my guests arrive. (We usually have cocktails and apps around my kitchen island, so the last thing I want my guests to see is me frantically trying to put a meal on the table.) Saving time and lessening stress is always a good thing, right?
Last night, Dr. O and I hosted a typical fall dinner party with one exception: we had a vegetarian guest. Now, vegetarians certainly aren't unusual and I've worked with more challenging diets, but I came to realize that I didn't have many recipes in my entertaining arsenal that didn't include meat. I first experimented with Hearty Root Vegetable and Mushroom Stew from my copy of The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2010. While it certainly wasn't bad, it wasn't dinner party food; my friend Christopher suggested that I was expecting a miracle out of a vegetable stew. After some discussion, we came up with the menu below for six guests.
It seems like a lot of steps, but since I did things like put the bean water and shallot butter on the stove ahead of time, I'd say the actual amount of hands-on work that needs to be done while guests are standing around takes fewer than 10 minutes. Consequently, I can actually interact with and enjoy my guests (the point) instead of working myself into a frenzy (so not the point!).
The food turned out really well. I've made Perfect Macaroni and Cheese (here's a link to my post) and Pear and Berry Crisp (my post) before; both are absolutely to die for. The tomatoes and the green beans were perfect complements to the macaroni. I would normally serve a buttery chardonnay (like La Crema Sonoma Coast Chardonnay) with this dinner, but my friend brought a red (2005 La Baronne Alaric) with the dish in mind; it paired beautifully.
So that's my dinner party… What do you think? Do you consider this type of post helpful, or not so much? I'd love to hear from you!
Heat grill to medium. In a small bowl, whisk together oil and vinegar; season with salt and pepper. (I used 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.) Brush both sides of mushrooms with oil mixture; starting with stem side up, grill mushrooms until tender when pierced with the tip of a sharp paring knife, 8 – 12 minutes, turning once. Remove from grill; slice 1/2-inch thick.
Layer one half of each tortilla with cheese, scallions, mushroom slices, and then more cheese, dividing toppings evenly. Fold tortilla over filling; using your hands, carefully transfer filled tortilla to grill. Cook until tortilla is slightly charred and cheese is melted, 2 – 3 minutes per side. Serve with salsa and garnish with sour cream, if desired.
They aren't exactly pretty, but they sure are delicious.
These quesadillas are tasty! The portobellos are so meaty and smoky from the grill, and the ooey-gooey factor from the cheese is fantastic. If you need to please a vegetarian and a meat eater in one meal, this is your ticket; Dr. O said he didn't miss the meat at all. Plus, the quesadillas are so filling that I couldn't even eat the whole thing (and I was really looking forward to doing just that, believe me.) I would absolutely, 100% make this recipe again.
I telecommute, so I usually get a few more minutes of sleep than Dr. O. (He may think this is an understatement.) I try to get up early at least once a week to make him breakfast, though. One of my favorite quick, no-mess recipes is Yogurt Parfait from the January/February 2005 issue of Everyday Food.
There are only three ingredients: plain low-fat yogurt, apple butter, and a banana. I spooned 1/2 cup of yogurt into a glass, topped it with 3 tablespoons of apple butter, and then topped that off with half of a banana, thinly sliced.
That's it! This takes about 3 minutes to assemble, and it's a great way to start the day.
TIPS: The recipe calls for plain low-fat yogurt, but Dr. O and I like to use vanilla low-fat yogurt for extra flavor.
If you've never purchased apple butter before, you can find it by the peanut butter and jam in the grocery store. It has a really nice "fall" flavor with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, usually.


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By Demir Barlas,
RightNow Delivers on Voice Commitment
RightNow Technologies has fundamentally changed its approach to the service automation space as of today. The company, which has had voice technology since acquiring Convergent Voice in 2005, has expanded its focus to move beyond the initial goal of deflecting calls, with three applications designed to integrate inbound and outbound call processes.
"Our voice program used to have an exclusive self-service focus," says Tim Johnson, vice president of voice for RightNow. "We voice-enabled the knowledge base. It was all the call not going to the agent." The new voice applications, available on an on demand subscription model, target a different set of business processes:
Web Click-To-Call Back: End users visiting a RightNow customer's Web site can now request to be contacted by an agent over the phone.
Caller Information Delivery: End users employing the self-service features of a RightNow customer's voice system can ask to be transferred directly to an agent. RightNow will show the agent all the information that the end user has given to the voice system, cutting down on the need for repetition.
Voice Outbound Survey Solution: RightNow customers can generate customer calling lists and initiate automated survey calls.
Web Click-to-Call Back integrates with RightNow's routing technology so that when an end user decides to initiate an agent call, RightNow automatically makes outbound calls to agents until an agent accepts, then feeds the agent information about the transaction for which the end user is requesting voice contact. Thus the agent does not enter the call blind.
David Vap, VP of products for RightNow, says that voice has been the strongest part of RightNow's business. "The voice growth rate has been double the company's growth rate."
Johnson emphasizes that the voice products are tightly integrated with the overall online strategy of RightNow customers. "Once companies get a hold of their customers, they need to keep them there," Johnson says. "If they leave the Web site, it'll cost companies money." The Web Click-to-Call Back feature is calibrated to prevent Web site abandonment, giving end users the ability to initiate or schedule calls with agents in order to get human help with technical problems such as shopping cart freeze-ups and registration delays, or even to answer questions about products and services.
Each of RightNow's three voice applications refines existing business processes to make the service side of an organization more effective; taken as a whole, they are a powerful tool for enhancing e-service. "The caller information delivery module patches something that most companies are still doing horribly," says Tim Hickernell, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. "A huge gap often exists today in the handoff from the voice system to the agent. The number-one customer complaint [with voice] is, 'Why do I have to repeat myself?'"
While the technologies used to make RightNow's new applications are not new, they indicate how the market has changed, Hickernell says. "The underlying theme is how much the pervasiveness of IP telephony and the descending costs have driven the ability to do more with Web service and assisted service than six or seven years ago."
Additional reporting by Marshall Lager
RightNow Puts the Pieces Together
The on-demand customer experience solution provider's latest quarterly release makes it ready to release a one-stop enterprise contact center package.


A 19th century residential building in Spain is the last place one would expect to encounter an interior dedicated to minimalism. But at the House in El Carmen, almost all unnecessary design elements have been eliminated, leaving an environment that relies on the beauty of its materials to sustain it.
The walls are a luxurious white lacquer. The flooring a slight marble grey, which exudes calm and simplicity. The spare interior allows for greater drama to be attached to the objects placed within it. The sleek circular table by Tulip brings elegance to the space, its form reminding one of a flower.
The analog world of architecture normally eschews the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink ethos of digital pop culture. Simplicity and purity are a big part of the aesthetic values celebrated by contemporary architects.
Distinctive architecture and design is a necessity for bars, restaurants, and cafes. Customers visit establishments not only to satisfy their appetites, but also to socialize in unique environments. The interior spaces need to capture the imagination of patrons, creating a one-of-a-kind experience that inspires return visits.
Mocha-Mojo, located in Chennai, India, embodies that necessary balance between the funky and the functional needed to turn a café into a design destination.


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