Sitting Around, Nothing To Do - That's How Raising Meat Goats Should Be!
Home As I write this on June 16, 2002 I find myself with an interesting problem. I really have nothing else to do. Which is really too bad because the weather outside is wonderful. It is 70 degrees and cloudy even though it is nearly 2:00 in the afternoon. Normally the temperature would be over 90 degrees by now.
We have had over 3 inches of rain in the last week, so I don't need to water the fruit and nut trees, which is how I typically spend a portion of every weekend this time of year.
The goats normally require little or no attention this time of year. They kidded back in February, and weaned their kids last month. We had a very dry spring, meaning worms aren't much of a problem. The goats' hooves look good since I have been blessed with a bumper crop of sharp, abrasive rocks again this year.
There is still plenty for the goats to eat in the pasture from the rye grass, oats, and wheat I planted last fall. I am even starting to see warm weather grasses and weeds sprout that I haven't seen in several years because of the recent rains. To make a long story short, I don't have to haul feed to the goats.
The little bucks are all over at Angelo State University participating in the performance test, so I don't have to spend any time on them.
There really isn't anything that needs to be done. That, more than anything else, summarizes why I raise meat goats. Meat goats don't require much attention from the producer to do well. For the most part you can ignore them and they will be perfectly fine. In fact, I reckon more goats have been killed by over attentive owners than have been killed by neglectful ones.
I deal with many new producers, and I never cease to be amazed at the amount of work they do that is unnecessary, and in many cases counter-productive. There is nothing that I can think of that a producer needs to do everyday for a healthy herd of goats provided they are kept in a pasture with plenty of food and water and a good perimeter fence.
If you find yourself having to invest time on a daily basis in your herd, you need to find the source of your problems and eliminate it.
One of the ways many producers spend time is dealing with predators. Predator problems can become very time consuming and expensive. The first step in dealing with predators is keeping them out in the first place. A good fence is a necessity. Many predator problems can be eliminated using a good net wire fence. Use the type with the 6 inch vertical stays. This will keep predators from going through the fence, but you will still have predators go under or over the fence. To prevent them from digging under, place a hot wire on a standoff that will hold it 8-12 inches away from the outside of the fence and 6-12 inches above the ground.
Place another hot wire on a standoff on the inside of the fence about 12-18 inches above the ground, and you will eliminate another time consuming and unnecessary task, freeing stuck goats from your fence. Your fence will also last much longer because the goats will not rub on it.
Preventing predators from jumping over is much more difficult and expensive. You either need to make the fence taller or erect a second fence a few feet inside or outside of the original fence. Unless you have really serious problems either option will probably cost you more than you would save.
A good fence will prevent most predator problems, but eventually some predators will figure out a way to get in. Good livestock guardian animals can prevent losses from predators that defeat your fence, and keep you from having to make a full-time commitment to guarding your herd.
Another time consuming activity is feeding your goats. Proper stocking rates are essential. If you are overstocked you will need to feed your goats, and doing so will take considerably more time and increase your expenses. Overstocking will also cause you to have to worm more frequently because the browse will be kept shorter exposing your goats to more worms.
Finally, health problems can eat up a lot of your time. If you recently bought your herd, health problems are probably unavoidable. The stress of shipping will usually cause a large percentage of your new goats to develop pinkeye shortly after receipt. Mild cases (weepy eyes and/or mild inflammation) of this disease do not require treatment and will clear up on their own. Serious cases (severely inflamed eyes) will require you to confine the animal and treat the problem.
Animals that were healthy and disease free when you purchased them may develop health problems after you receive them. The stress of shipping and getting acclimated to their new home causes the goats' immune system to weaken and provides an opportunity for latent infections to develop into serious problems. The goats also have little immunity to the particular strains of bugs that occur in your area, making them much more susceptible to becoming ill.
After the first year you should notice a dramatic reduction in the number of health problems in your herd and corresponding decrease in the amount of time you have to spend treating those problems. During the first year you will also become more experienced at diagnosing and effectively treating health problems.
Unfortunately, I find that many people sell their goats about the time that things should be getting easier for them. Like most big investments it is very difficult to avoid losing money if you invest in a herd of goats and the infrastructure required to keep them, and then turn around and sell the goats within a year. It is even more unfortunate for the goats involved, because now they have to start over getting acclimated to a new home.
Raising meat goats should require little of your time on a daily basis once you get the goats acclimated to your property and get your facilities set up properly, but new producers need to realize that to get to that point may require a year or more (depending on how aggressive the producer is about treating the causes of his problems instead of just the symptoms). If you are not willing to try raising goats for 2 years before making a decision about whether to continue or not, I can just about guarantee you that you will quit after the first year and lose a considerable amount of money in the process.


When a movie calls itself "The Vow," you know it takes its love and its relationships seriously. And that's certainly the case with the new romantically and medically challenged weepie starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.
Despite the sweet story -- lovely couple, car wreck, brain injury, she forgets him, he loves her anyway -- and the beautiful scenery -- cool converted warehouse spaces, snowy Chicago streets, Lake Michigan in the moonlight, and of course Tatum and McAdams -- this is a movie that leaves you wanting more. To care more, to cry more, to love more.
Inspired by a true story, it begins with a date night at the movies for young marrieds Paige (McAdams) and Leo (Tatum). Then an accident on the way home, capped by a trip to the emergency room that feels like a pale version of "Grey's Anatomy," changes everything. When Paige wakes up from a medically induced coma, her memory has been wiped clean, and thus starts Leo's bid to help her remember their life and their love, and when she doesn't, he tries to get her to fall for him again.
Because this is very much a before-and-after affair, the film expends a lot of effort shifting between the eras, filling in the blanks for us as well as Paige in ways that are sometimes artful and sometime so forced it's easy to relate to Paige's increasing impatience. Leo never wavers from long-suffering heroic hunk, with his voice-over memories used to stitch everything together and patch over the rough spots in the plot as well.
Director Michael Sucsy, who brought out all the crazy cobwebs of TV's "Grey Gardens" in such an elegant way, hasn't got it all wrong. He's made a good choice in bringing along one of its leads, Jessica Lange. She plays Paige's mother and gives the film one of the few moments that feels absolutely real.
To help keep things straight, there is a distinct visual line drawn between the two times in Paige's life. Far more appealing is the urban-artiste world that Leo and Paige created as a couple -- she's a sculptor, he owns a recording studio -- with all of their spaces retro-riffic. In contrast, the suburban affluence of mom (Lange) and dad (Sam Neill, much better in "Alcatraz" at the moment than this) looks pristine, well put together and exceedingly bland.
Cinematographer Rogier Stoffers and the production design team headed by Kalina Ivanov outdo themselves to make things visually enticing.
The problems start with a very lopsided script that keeps the synapse-crossed lovers too unbalanced too much of the time. With the screenplay credit split four ways to include the director, Jason Katims, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, you feel their separate sensibilities fighting for control.
It all might have been better left in Katims' hands. Having written some of the most believably human relationship dramas on TV, including "My So-Called Life," "Friday Night Lights" and the wonderful complications of the current "Parenthood," he might have been able to pull this off.
Kohn and Silverstein, on the other hand, have teamed for a string of unsatisfying lite romantic comedies, including "He's Just Not That Into You" and last year's "Valentine's Day" mush.
"The Vow" definitely favors Leo, with Tatum given much more to work with. It's nice to see the actor dig deeper than he did in 2010's "Dear John," which didn't ask much more of his soldier-on-leave than he look good in board shorts.
Not that the filmmakers here don't make the most of his bod (as did "Saturday Night Live" last week, playing the "I started out as a male stripper" card heavily). But the filmmakers also let him try out actual emotions, which he handles in ways that suggest he could do even more.
McAdams is left to do what she can with Paige's elusive memory, which calls for a lot of smiles and blank stares, though she echoes enough of the sweetness of "The Notebook" to probably satisfy those fans. But it feels like such wasted spaciness.
She is such an appealing actress that it's hard not to wish someone could make better use of the kind of smart, vulnerable edge she brought to "The Family Stone" or her wits-matching sass opposite Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes."
Sadly, Paige's memory isn't the only thing gone missing in "The Vow." There are close-up kisses to be sure, a nice shot of naked bodies in tangled sheets, a nearly naked dip in the lake, a wedding video filled with lots of hints at bliss, but no heart-racing, pulse-pounding passion to speak of.
There is a flicker in one of the after-the-wreck moments with Paige and Leo working their way through a box of chocolates, trying to recapture the emotions of their first date.
If only the filmmakers had found a way to fan that flame.
For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday, February 12, 2012 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 46 words Type of Material: Correction "The Vow": A review of "The Vow" in the Feb. 10 Calendar section said that the screenplay credit was split four ways to include Jason Katims, Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein and the film's director, Michael Sucsy. Sucsy does not have a writing credit on the movie.


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He declared that he would be "honored" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Trump made the remark in an interview today with Bloomberg News. It comes shortly after Trump invited Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, to the White House. Duterte openly endorses vigilante killings, but Trump is personally heavily invested in an ongoing building project in Manila, which may explain his hospitality towards a man who has openly bragged about murdering drug dealers.
Kim seems to have risen considerably in Trump's estimation lately: Trump called him a "smart cookie" yesterday and admired the fact that Kim, whose position is effectively hereditary, survived a coup led by his uncle. (The uncle was executed, one of about 340 people assassinated for political reasons by the Kim regime.) Sudden friendliness aside, in the past few weeks, Trump has also ordered an aircraft carrier to the Korean peninsula and apparently forgotten Kim's name during an interview.
By way of comparison, other than Bill Clinton's 2009 trip as a former president as part of a hostage release deal, the most prominent American to meet with a North Korean leader in recent memory is former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman.
It's bad if a president seems to genuinely admire dictators regardless of who they are.
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Tim & Terri Palmquist's blog Posted on November 13, 2008 by Tim Palmquist November 14, 2008
Our nation has chosen a leader who is the most extreme abortion advocate imaginable. But our nation has not rejected the pro-life position. Sadly, the campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin gave voters little opportunity to even consider the benefits of pro-life voting for the nation.
We all know that people need to change their hearts before our nation can hope to have a chance to change the laws and rulings which allow abortion. Changing hearts is not primarily the task of politicians, but it is something that each of us should focus on in our own communities, churches and families whether or not an election is on the horizon.
However, politicians who claim to be pro-life do have a responsibility to not only state their positions, but to help move our nation in the right direction by becoming an agent of change. Both Sarah Palin and John McCain were in a great position to use their personal circumstances to help our nation see why we should outlaw abortion. As I have explained previously, the background of both the Palins and the McCains seems to indicate that they have hearts of justice regarding issues impacting innocent children.
Sadly, from my point of view, they both missed their opportunities in this campaign.
Now I did appreciate the fact that both McCain and Palin were (occasionally) willing to openly, unashamedly mention their positions on protecting children from abortion. It was refreshing to hear them say it for themselves, because far too many "pro-life" politicians seem to be afraid to talk about it. Certainly a politician who is only pro-life in his closet has little potential to be used by God to change people's hearts.
But McCain and Palin seemed content to treat their pro-life views as just opinions, rather than helping our nation to understand how abortion harms not only children, and not only their mothers, but all of us.
Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect a politician running in a general election to advocate such a position. In a general election, a politician who intends to win has to do more than just attract pro-life voters. But pro-abortion politicians like Obama never stop trying to convince people of the perceived "benefits" of abortion, so why is it so wrong to expect the truly pro-life politicians to talk about why we would all be better off without abortion?
John McCain has officially declared that he will never run for president again, so I'll focus on what Sarah Palin could have done differently — and what I hope she will do differently in 2012 and beyond.
Regarding Sarah Palin, it is hard to imagine a candidate who was in a better position to be used by God to change people's hearts about abortion (unless Gianna Jessen decides someday to run for office). The Palins chose not to abort their baby son Trig even in the face of a Down Syndrome diagnosis, and also unashamedly embraced their daughter Bristol when her unwed pregnancy became publicly known. This gave Sarah Palin a great platform with the potential to help change people's hearts.
Terri and I wrote a strategy paper about a year ago on how to end abortion. The key to the strategy we present is to maintain a dual focus on both the baby in the womb and the pregnant mother (a strategy first suggested by the Willkes). This is a strategy which is desperately needed at every level of the pro-life movement, including politics. Everyone tends to choose to focus primarily on the babies or on the women, but to win people's hearts, we must focus on both at the same time.
Both Trig and Bristol share the same parents. Sarah and Todd love them both equally (at least I assume that they would say this). As a mother of a child whom many people think should have been aborted, and as also a mother of a pregnant teenager whom many people think should have committed an abortion, Sarah was in the perfect position to be used by God to change people's hearts about abortion by "loving them both."
But not only did Sarah Palin miss many opportunities to talk about how abortion harms our nation, she also failed to respond well when directly asked about abortion.
When Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin why she believes that Roe v. Wade was a bad decision, here is how Palin responded:
I think it should be a states' issue not a federal government … mandated … mandating yes or no on such an important issue. I'm in that sense a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas. Now foundationally, also, though, it's no secret that I'm pro-life, that I believe that a culture of life is very important for this country. Personally that's what I would like to see further embraced by America.
Not a word about babies. Not a word about mothers. Nothing about how her own choice against abortion benefits her own family. Nothing about how abortion has harmed so many women. Nothing about how history has proven that the case brought to the Court in Roe v. Wade was built on lies. Nothing about the way the Court's decision cited "emanations from the penumbras" of the Constitution because the actual wording of the Constitution wouldn't support their decision. Not even anything about the importance of strict constructionism.
Could it be that none of these things came into her mind, and that all she thought of was making a vague reference to a "culture of life"? I doubt it. Rather, I suspect that she was coached by her campaign handlers to avoid talking about how abortion impacts babies and mothers and just talk about the "culture of life."
Incidentally, Palin missed a great opportunity when Couric asked her for another Supreme Court decision she disagreed with. If she had mentioned the Dred Scott decision, not even Couric could have disagreed with her. (But perhaps Palin realized that the Dred Scott decision reveals some of the problems inherent in a "states rights" focus when dealing with life-and-death issues like slavery and abortion.)
Perhaps Sarah Palin's reluctance to speak her heart can be blamed on Katie Couric's unmaskable hostility. But in the vice presidential debate (coincidentally located in Dred Scott's home town of St. Louis), Palin also failed several times to take advantage of opportunities to speak up for the babies and pregnant women. True, none of the questions directly referred to abortion, but somehow Joe Biden found the opportunity to talk about his support of Roe v. Wade, his opposition to Robert Bork, and even the death of his wife and daughter and his experiences as a single parent.
Palin found opportunities in the debate to mention her special needs child, but didn't add a few extra words to relate her point to abortion. She never once mentioned Barack Obama's radical abortion advocacy which has extended (beyond what even most abortion supporters can conscience) to infanticide (live-birth abortions). She did use her debate platform to call Obama out on other issues, but not on abortion!
Here we had one of the best pro-life candidates imaginable, facing one of the worst pro-abortion advocates imaginable, and yet it's the pro-lifer who refuses to engage the public on these life-and-death issues! It seems like some really do not believe that the message of the pro-life movement is a winning message, that the only way we can win is by distracting the public from considering what we really believe.
Palin had the nation's ear, and was faced with these opportunities to speak up for those whose lives are at risk because of abortion, yet she chose not to do so. Why? I assume that her advisors assured her that she would lose support if she directly referenced abortion.
But I believe that her advisors were wrong. When we are serious about respecting not only the personhood of children in the womb but also respect the personhood of their mothers, opening our hearts to help them through the difficulties they face, most people (even self-avowed "pro-choice" advocates) will respond positively.
Even hardened abortion advocates will support pro-life initiatives, if such efforts seek to provide tangible help to women facing crisis pregnancies. We have seen this first hand. For example, a bitter abortion supporter who read about our efforts to start Elizabeth League groups told me "if all of the churches did this, we wouldn't need abortion anymore!"
(If the concept of an abortion advocate supporting a pro-life candidate seems too far-fetched, consider the recent words of pro-abort columnist Camille Paglia in Salon magazine who chides Palin's opponents for their petty attacks, and promotes Palin as a representative of "the next big shift in feminism.")
But even if speaking up for children and their mothers was a losing battle, don't those who claim to be "pro-life" politicians have a responsibility to speak up for them anyway? If a politician claims to truly understand that abortion takes the life of an innocent child, and that abortion scars women for life, and that the shedding of innocent blood brings doom upon our nation, how can such a politician treat abortion like it is just another "issue"?
As Terri and I wrote in our strategy paper, our nation's abortion supporters are not the only ones who need a change of heart. Those of us in the pro-life movement need to allow God to change our own hearts before He can use us to change anyone else's hearts.
I still believe that Sarah Palin has, in her heart, the courage to stand up boldly for both the children and women who are hurt by abortion. Sarah Palin was (and is) a bright beam of hope for the future of the pro-life movement in our nation. She has faced the worst attacks of the "politics of personal destruction" and remained standing. I believe that Dutch Sheets is correct when he says that Sarah Palin has a huge mantle from God. But sometimes those with a huge mantle from God choose, like Jonah, to run from it. Apparently even Sarah Palin needs a change of heart.
Until we all stop treating our pro-life convictions like an "issue" of our "personal preference" we have doomed ourselves to fail.
It doesn't matter who is on the other side when we choose to ignore our own message.
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Tim Palmquist on November 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm said:
I just found a video of Sarah Palin talking at a rally in Johnstown, PA, on October 11, 2008, which shows that during the campaign she did (at least sometimes) speak clearly and directly about abortion, not only as a personal issue, but as a campaign issue. She covers many of the points I addressed above. Perhaps she spoke like this more often but she was censored by the media. In any case, I think this video shows some of the potential she has to reach the nation's heart to help us all to think more clearly about how abortion impacts women and children (and all of us).
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Boris and his Bureaucrats are Bungling Brexit
Tim Ambler 18 days ago Adam Smith Institute
The referendum promised that the UK would regain sovereignty but continue to trade with the EU much as before – no duties and frictionless trade across borders. The consequential Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was received with much rejoicing. Unfortunately, "cooperation" has not extended to minimising regulation and controls at the EU/UK borders nor to maintaining the EU practice of each country retaining the VAT it collects rather than leaving collection to the country of the ultimate buyer. The former system is much simpler and the swings pretty much offset the roundabouts. These two oversights first showed up with the Northern Ireland Protocol. Mr Johnson was persuaded that the UK/EU border along the traditional Northern/Southern Ireland border (border posts) would infringe
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The referendum promised that the UK would regain sovereignty but continue to trade with the EU much as before – no duties and frictionless trade across borders. The consequential Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was received with much rejoicing. Unfortunately, "cooperation" has not extended to minimising regulation and controls at the EU/UK borders nor to maintaining the EU practice of each country retaining the VAT it collects rather than leaving collection to the country of the ultimate buyer. The former system is much simpler and the swings pretty much offset the roundabouts.
These two oversights first showed up with the Northern Ireland Protocol. Mr Johnson was persuaded that the UK/EU border along the traditional Northern/Southern Ireland border (border posts) would infringe the Belfast Agreement. This is, and always was, total nonsense as that Agreement goes nowhere near the topic and moving the border to the Irish Sea neither prevents smuggling across the land border nor sectarian issues. It has probably made the latter worse. Some, e.g. Sir Bernard Jenkin and other MPs, claim the Protocol is diverting business from Great Britain to Ireland which would be itself enough to justify triggering Article 16 but it is too soon to be sure. 2020 Northern Ireland exports were flat to both.
UK negotiators were so preoccupied with trade with Ireland, north and south, being duty free, that they failed to recognise that imposing the EU's regulatory regime on the north would, in effect, colonise it. It seems likely that this was a deliberate plan by the EU, some of whose senior officials made no secret of their view that Northern Ireland was the price the UK would have to pay for Brexit. Given that Mrs May had brought UK regulation into conformity with that of the EU in 2021, the excessive zeal applied to customs controls for regulatory, not duty, reasons smacks of ill-will and certainly not the cooperation outlined in the TCA. Brussels has not denied that goods from Great Britain bound for Northern Ireland suffer 2.5 times the number of customs checks borne by Rotterdam's imports from all the world.
Boris Johnson was foolish to sign it but he was under pressure to Get Brexit Done and in negotiations of this type, the larger player, the EU in this case, always has the advantage. The fisheries deal was another example of claimed UK victory which was far from it. In looking at how the UK government snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, we need to focus on the impositions it freely, i.e. without any negotiating pressure to do so, imposed on its own citizens and businesses, as distinct from negotiations it lost.
High on this list is the new set of customs regulations coming into effect in 2022, starting on 1st January and phased in with two further tranches at three monthly intervals. It has been reported that one third of UK importers are unprepared and HMRC IT systems are so "medieval" (scholars may be surprised that there were any IT systems then), they will not be able to cope. For example, the main new Commons Library briefing page helpfully says: "The Brexit checker personalises information on HMRC processes for importing, exporting or customs relief" but if you press on the link you get a page saying it is insecure and you must return to the previous page. "Medieval" is about right.
More modern is the set of "step by step webinars [which] provide an overview of the new rules and border requirements that will be required from January and then July for moving goods from the [following] EU [countries] to Great Britain": Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. If you want to import from other countries than those and Ireland, you are on your own. Ireland is not affected by these new rules and regulations which raises the question: if they are not needed for Ireland why are they needed for any other EU country?
These webinars are all very similar. I sat through most of the Polish one and doubted whether many business people would last as long as I did. The civil servants presenting were remarkably pleased with themselves but their slides were low-grade and uninformative.
I will not detail these new regulatory customs requirements in this blog, suffice it to say that they are complex and burdensome. The government's "overview" runs to 159 pages of small type. The question is not what they are but why the UK government is imposing them at all, along with the costs and delays, on its own citizens and businesses. Of course, customs arrangements are necessary for imports from third countries but why those from the EU where we have just concluded a TCA eliminating duties? As a sovereign state, the UK is under no obligation to introduce any of these rules, so why are we?
So far as VAT is concerned, the UK and EU could simply return to the far simpler EU system with each country collecting from its own citizens and businesses. The new system is unfair: my grandchildren's German grandmother had to pay German VAT and then UK VAT on top of that when her Christmas presents clear UK customs (if they ever do).
The main justification given for this UK customs bureaucracy is the need for verification that the goods originated in the EU; otherwise, duty is payable. This makes sense until you think about how it got into the EU if it did not originate there. Duty should have been paid then and it should not have to be paid twice. Importers should declare non-EU originated goods arriving via the EU and spot checks would be needed for suspect items but not a whole, huge paper mountain. And, by the way, all paperwork (or the electronic equivalent) is required twice: once with the goods and a copy one day in advance, one day, not two, please note. Then we will be paying for the army of clerks comparing the two. That could be computerised but if HMRC specifies the system, it will take too long and cost too much.
A watered down version of all this was operating in 2021. HMRC requires importers to use agents to assemble the paperwork and ensure it complies with HMRC requirements, so, in theory, all HMRC has to do is to rubber-stamp them. The trouble with that, as the children's German grandmother discovered is that the agent's (who had better be nameless) employees were too stupid to understand the requirement or admit their ignorance. The Christmas presents posted in November have yet to get to HMRC for clearance. Maybe they never will but she cannot claim on insurance because, technically, they are not lost. One swallow does not make a summer but I have heard of many similar cases.
The bottom line is that Brexit is being bungled by the UK's own bureaucrats. Maybe it is because they never liked Brexit in the first place but more likely it is because they are petty minded and get satisfaction from creating hoops for citizens and businesses to jump through and penalising them when they fail. If eliminating customs duty and VAT on imports from the EU might be expensive, then HM Treasury should publish their arithmetic for expert review.
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As we walked over to the cow pens, a cute goat stuck his nose through the fence and gave us a smile!
A goat welcomes us to the ranch sorting competition.
There were about twenty competitors, both cowboys and cowgirls, sitting astride their horses and waiting for the games to begin. In the competition they paired up in teams of two in round robin fashion so every rider had a chance to team up with the others.
Riders line up before the competition begins.
There were several pens of ten calves each, and as the competition progressed, each group of calves had a few chances to get sorted. Every calf had a big number on his back, from one to ten.
The calves all turned to look at me when I stuck my camera lens between the bars of the pen to get their portrait!
Calves wait to be sorted.
Each calf has a big number on its back so they're easy to spot and isolate from the herd.
Ranch sorting mimics the process that cowboys use to separate a single calf or cow from the herd so they can inspect it or administer medication or isolate it for some other reason.
In the cattle sorting competition, a pair of cowboys / cowgirls enters the pen with the calves and waits to hear the number of the first calf they're assigned to isolate. For the next sixty seconds they chase after the calves in numerical order, starting with the first number they were given and then isolating each successive calf and sending it into an adjoining pen.
Our young friend Autumn rides into the herd in search of her target calf.
Ranch sorting is a fun way for riders to hone their horsemanship skills.
Working together, one cowboy (or cowgirl) chases the target calf towards the gate to force it into the adjoining pen while the other cowboy or girl blocks the rest of the calves from running into the pen along with it.
We really enjoyed watching the action. The riders skillfully maneuvered their horses among the calves to find the one they were after and then chased it into the pen next door.
Getting the horse and calves to do what you want looks easy from the sidelines but takes a lot of focus and knowledge. The rider's body position in the saddle and the way they hold the reins and touch the horse with their feet is the language they use to tell the horse what to do. A wrong hand position or posture in the saddle can give the wrong command to the horse!
Autumn concentrates and the horse sticks his tongue out too!
The cowboys and cowgirls were scored based on how many calves they managed to get into the adjoining pen in the 60 second time period. If a calf sneaked into the pen out of numerical order, then the score for that round was 0!
The distance between the pens is short. Once the calf is isolated, it's a quick sprint from one to the other.
The biggest challenge in each round was the first calf because cows are herd animals and they don't like to be alone. When the first calf found itself isolated from the herd and being chased towards the empty pen next door, it would try to return to the herd rather than go into the empty pen by itself.
However, once a calf or two was in the adjoining pen, the next calves were a lot less reluctant to go in there because they saw there was company waiting for them. On rare occasions two sequentially numbered calves would be running alongside each other and would go into the pen one right after the other. A two-for-one!
Sometimes the rider got lucky and a pair of cows with sequential numbers went through the gate together.
The cowboy life, horses, barns and hay aren't in my blood the same way sea breezes and hiking trails in nature are, but we had a wonderful time watching this classic western event.
Cowboy culture is rich and widely celebrated across the western states. We have loved learning about it in our travels.
Of course, not everyone at the ranch sorting competition was quite as enthralled as we were. One little cowgirl was so tuckered out by the action that she suddenly dropped into the dirt next to the referee (her mom) to relax with her feet up on the fence.
When we researched the sport of ranch sorting after the event was over, we learned that these cattle sorting competitions are fairly new to the ranching scene and the first Nationals was held in 2007. But they are becoming extremely popular.
A friend of ours suggested that knowing tackle angles from football would be helpful with anticipating which direction a calf will run.
The folks that were at this particular ranch sorting competition were extremely enthusiastic, and they attend events all over Arizona.
Calf #3 says, "I'm outta here!" while #2 heads through the gate.
The riders told us #8 was particularly feisty!
For us there were lots of neat photo ops and we got a kick out of roaming among the spectators, spouses, parents and loyal dogs.
Spectators were treated to a fun event.
What do the animals think of all this? The horses seemed to love it and the calves got some good exercise and worked up an appetite for grazing later.
Unlike the big rodeo events like roping, ranch sorting is something newer riders can enjoy. For us watching, it was easy to understand what was going on and to root for the cowboys and cowgirls as they whooped and hollered and worked to make both their horses and the calves do what they wanted.
If you are spending the winter in Arizona and want to experience a brief immersion in some of the western traditions of horses and cowboys, look for a ranch sorting competition! We'd never heard of this kind of event until last week, but we got a huge kick out of it!
What a fun few hours spent in the midst of cowboy culture!
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Cool! Maybe "Team Penning" is a more correct term, or perhaps there is a subtle difference in the rules between the two since the Nationals refer to it as "Ranch Sorting." Either way, it's definitely a very fun event!
looks like a lot of fun, even if you don't win….IF you have good riding skills!
Those riding skills are definitely key to having a good time… When I'm in the saddle I'm lucky to get a horse to walk forward slowly and not try to brush me off by walking under low hanging branches!!
…from Boston, "Ranch Sorting" looks exotic and exciting, requiring riding skills and practice – just to keep in the saddle !
It's a whole different world, and lots of fun too!!
Maybe I can shed some light or share more information. Fun pictures BTW, as it is a sport that is very difficult to capture great pictures because the action is so fast. But …. There are both Team Penning AND Ranch Sorting events. Team Penning is a result of a team of 3 being given a certain drawn number. The team then has to find all 3 cattle with that number and gather them into a pen. Ranch Sorting is a little different. A team of 3 is also given a certain number and then the team has to find that number first and then in sequential pattern, gather the rest into a given pen. If any other number happens to go into the pen out of sequence, the team is disqualified. Its a bit more complicated, but exciting just the same. There are rules for the Team Penner's as well, which make both of the quite challenging. I couldn't say for positive, but I believe the Team Penning competition was started first and then the Ranch Sorting spun from that. I've followed Roads Less Traveled since 2016 and its nice to see they enjoy a wide variety of "American Dreams". Their Photos are always like eye candy! Safe Travels and God Speed! Maybe our paths will cross someday…. We hope to also break free at some point in the next year.
Thank you so much for clarifying this, Jo. We loved the action and it sure seems like a fun and challenging sport. One of the greatest thrills in this traveling lifestyle is being able to discover the many "American Dreams" that are out there. The drive and devotion these riders demonstrated that morning was impressive, and when we showed our photos to a few of them later, we were amazed to see them instantly start critiquing their form and riding style! All we had been paying attention to was the composition and photographic technical merit of each of our images! Thank you for following our blog and for appreciating our photos. Perhaps our paths will cross some time.


Since my family's Baptism and Chrismation into Holy Orthodoxy in 2006, we have been involved in a number of parishes; OCA, Greek and Antiochian. Since we are converts ourselves, we feel most comfortable where there are a lot of other converts, especially those coming from an Evangelical Christian background.
However, this can sometimes lead to a niggling suspicious feeling that I as a convert am just "playing Orthodox" I have a bad self-congratulatory attitude about being in the "true Church" which feeds my ego at both ends; first, for having been an Evangelical Protestant and so understanding the concept of regeneration and enjoying a facility with the Bible, and second, for being Orthodox and knowing about the Saints and the disciplines and all the panoply of historic Christianity.
And so, when converts came, they were unable to transmit the heritage of the Church of Antioch to them, but rather allowed a trial-and-error approach to figuring out what a lived Orthodoxy is. The anti-monasticism and the America-firstism that have been signature traits of much of the Archdiocese's leadership… have served to hinder spiritual bonds and bonds of affection and communication with the mother church. In the aftermath of this current crisis, those are the things that need to be cultivated, regardless of the Archdiocese's ultimate autonomy, both for the sake of having a healthy and fruitful relationship with Damascus and for the authentic transmission of Antioch's ancient heritage of lived Orthodoxy to all those who come to her thirsting for it.
And, just in case you are thirsting to know more about Antioch's ancient heritage of lived Orthodoxy, Samn! offers his own Arab Orthodoxy blog, and it is first-rate.
I'm sorry that this post has languished for as long as it has. At one point I wanted to make the ever-so-obvious point that the problem of the One and the Many has its reflection in the political sphere, and that an over-emphasis on the One leads to Tyranny, such as that which would obtain were the Islamic Universal Caliphate ever to be instantiated, and that an over-emphasis on the Many leads inevitably to Anarchy.
Over against this I wanted to deposit the idea of the Chalcedonian Commonwealth, of which the most consistent example were the Christian Empires of New Rome and Moscow, with their deeply ingrained idea of synergy, the working together of the Church and the State according to the Chalcedonian formula, although that synergy was honored far more in the breach than in the ideal in Byzantine and Russian societies. Nevertheless, I believe that something akin to a Christendom, a commonwealth of Orthodox Christian nations, would most closely incarnate the life of the Trinity in the political sphere.
It appears from a reading of history that this state of affairs was beginning to coalesce in the West at the beginning of the fated eleventh century. The Western Empire, as it was thought of at that time, had moved from Carolingian hands into the Saxon Ottonian dynasty, who with the help of a series of sympathetic popes culimnating in Sylvester II, was moving towards just this sort of Byzantine model of symphony. The untimely death of the half-Greek Otto III lead to the severing of the two powers, and the development of the monarchial Papacy and the reaction of the development of the secular power as autonomous, and operating in an autonomous sphere.
Orthodoxy requires a fall-of-the-West story. At one time I considered this a defect in the Orthodox narrative. Papal Catholicism, after all, does not appear to require a fall-of-the-East story to complete its narrative, but its narrative does not have, to me, the compelling nature of the Orthodox narrative. The post-schism history of the Christian West makes better sense in the context of a gradual Dying-Of The-Light, a thousand-year summer twilight in which the memory of the Kingdom of God is replaced by the Kingdom of Man, first in its ecclesiastical, then it its secular, and finally in its radical form.
Empire is the exterior of Church. Church is the interior of Empire.


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Quiet Noise – Story Machine
Posted: 28 April 2021 in Albums
Tags: Adam Wilkinson, Album Review, Ambient, Audiobulb Records, Dance, electronica, Experimental, Lockdown, Quiet Noise, Story Machine
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The wonderful thing about stories is that there are no rules – no rules about what they should contain, how they should be told, or whose perspective they should be told from. Even the standard expectations of 'beginning-middle-end' are an artifice, and for any convention, there are infinite ways to deviate from it. Linearity is a construct which assists in rendering events more easily navigable, but sometimes, disrupting that linearity is an integral part of the unravelling of events. Stories – be they true or fictional – are often a way of making sense of the world through the construct of narrative. Sometimes, we forge our own narratives from fragments of confusion in order to orientate ourselves, and as such, stories are instinctive and integral to our understanding the world and our place in it.
The fourth album from Quiet Noise, the vehicle of West Wales based producer Adam Wilkinson, is, like so many albums from the last year, the product of lockdown. 'In a studio that overlooks a valley where the air breathes a lone craftsman sets to work mapping his experience through experiment,' his biography tells us. Does this mean that Wilkinson was perhaps better equipped than many to deal with the last fourteen months, given his solitary nature? Not necessarily, but while many lockdown musical projects, which have been steeped in an air of claustrophobia, anxiety, and tension, Story Machine is a breath of fresh air that conveys aa sense of – if joy is too strong, then appreciation – of life. Perhaps it's the fact that after four years being busy producing music for singers and film makers, Wilkinson finally has time out to return to the world of Quiet Noise to explore his own avenues of creativity. Adam explains the limitations that determined the album's formation, recounting, "stuck at home, sitting with my wife and children while they worked from home, I set myself the challenge of creating pieces using only equipment that could fit in my space on the living room table. Motivated by my game and pleasantly surprised by what I could achieve."
For the most part, Story Machine is an overtly electronic set that comfortably incorporates a diverse range of styles from across the spectrum – and a large portion is fresh and accessible, danceable even. The range is such that the individual pieces feel as though they each tell their own stories – but then again, taken as a while, perhaps they're chapters of a longer story that is the album as a whole.
With bold, surging orchestral strikes and tension-building strings, 'Grand Entrance' is appropriately titled. 'Climbing Trees' is altogether more light-spirited, with a buoyant electro beat and birds twittering – although it suddenly explodes in a surge of light that's a veritable epiphany. 'Murmurations' brings a very different vibe, with a straight-up dance groove. The beats are bold and uptempo, and while the top synths are quite soft and subtle, bringing an expansive but chilled later to the sound, the bass is bouncy and urgent.
In among it all, there are some moments where vast expanses of sound burst seemingly from nowhere, radiating an almost prog-rock grandiosity. These bursts of extravagance are a shade audacious, but somehow, they work. Above all, Story Machine is an uplifting experience, and in the face of so much bleakness, it's one that's most welcome.
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Everyone has those times when blogging just seems to get so much harder. The posts are not coming as easily as they used too, in fact they are not really coming at all. You just seem to have no inspiration at all.
I know exactly what this feels like. You will be going along fine, getting blog post ideas from the most random situations – they just seem to come out of nowher, and you don't even have to worry about where the next post will come from, cause you have so many ideas. Then suddenly it all comes to a grinding halt. The well of inspiration dries up and you are left with a blog that is slowly dying away.
Ok, maybe a bit too much over dramatization but here are 5 ways to break your blogging drought.
Have you still been reading up on the latest happenings in your niche? Because this alone should get the ideas rolling. I find that when I am stuggling to get new post ideas, it is usually because I have stopped visiting blogs.
Are you a member of forums related to your blogs niche? If you are not, I strongly recommend you find some to join. Forums are a great place for you to find out what the hot topics of your niche are at the moment. Find out what people are talking about and then blog about it.
We use Google for everything else. Why not to find new blog post topics? This is as simple as just typing your blog niche into Google and seeing what the results are. Visit a couple of the websites and see what they are talking about. This is sure to get your brain ticking.
What I have found is that when I sit at my computer and try and write a blog post – it never happens. I just never seem inspired whenever I sit down to write. My post ideas usually come when I am going for a walk or even when I am at work. So stop trying to force your posts out and just take a break and let them come naturally.
If you cannot think of anything to write for your readers then start focusing of search engine traffic. Find a program like Micro Niche Finder or a similar website that tells you how many searches a phrase gets and start writing articles based on highly searched phrases in your niche – and who knows, this might get your creative juices flowing for new post ideas.
This post provided by Thomas Sinfield, author of StandOutBlogger, the bloggers blog full of inspiration and tips on taking your blog to the next level.
I also like article directories, Squidoo, Hub pages and a few other content rich sites.
Seldom run out of blog ideas though because I jot my ideas down every time I have them.
Great post, I find that taking some time away from the computer, maybe take a shower or just get some fresh air, opens me up to new ideas.
Or sometimes I go through other blogs as you mentioned with good quality content and provide the same information to my subscribers and sometimes I add them to my blogroll.
I like number 4. Even though I focus on it a lot, I do it as an afterthought. Great suggestion on trying to rank for the search engines before you even are sure what you are going to write about.
Another one I am going to try to enact is writing more articles related to any product reviews I have written. Most products have multiple functions. Demonstrate with an article how a feature of the product can be done manually and then show how the software saves time.
It will be a worthwhile article on its own, plus a boost to the product review.
And this one is like number 3. Just write the crappiest post you can think of to break the spell of taking yourself too seriously.
good ideas.it just the thing i needed . thaks !
Great tips, I'm starting my blog soon and I'm sure this will help when I run out of ideas.
I use the first 3 methods a lot. But I guess another important "trick" is what Carl uses – invite Guest Posters to blog for him! It's a symbiotic relationship and it really adds value to the blog readership/audience too.
Good One mate. Just started by blog few days back. So still thinking of some great ideas for my post, if I dont get any ideas I generally follow your idea #5.


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14th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr)
14th Panzergrenadier Division
14th Panzergrenadier Division insignia
3 Oct 1990 - 31 Dec 2008
Federal Republic of Germany
Mechanized infantry
Multinational Corps Northeast
The 14th Panzergrenadier Division (14. Panzergrenadierdivision) was a German mechanized infantry formation. It was part of the Multinational Corps Northeast, a NATO corps that includes German, Polish, and Danish troops. In the wake of military restructuring aimed at reducing the size of the German land forces, the 14th Panzergrenadier Division was disbanded in 2008. The division's formation was notable in that it was a Bundeswehr formation created after the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, and which was formed in part from soldiers who had served in the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR.
In 1990-1991, troops from the former 1st and 8th Motor Rifle Divisions and the 9th Armored Division of the NVA were used to form the three brigades of the 14th Panzergrenadier Division. These brigades were numbered as the 40th and 41st Panzergrenadier Brigades and the 42nd Panzer Brigade. In 1997, the 42nd Panzer Brigade was subordinated to the 13th Panzergrenadier Division and the 18th Panzer Brigade was subordinated to the 14th Panzergrenadier Division. Division headquarters was located at Neubrandenburg.
The division was given the mission of supporting international operations as well as the standard national defense mission. International operations the division took part in include:
1997/1998, 4th SFOR contingent in Bosnia.
1999, 2nd German contingent for KFOR in Kosovo.
2001, 3rd German contingent for SFOR and KFOR.
2003/2004, parts of the division deployed to the Balkans and Afghanistan.
2006, 13th German contingent for KFOR in Kosovo.
The division also provided support to civilians during the 2002 Elbe River flood.
Commanders[]
Start of command
End of command
8 Brigadegeneral Peter Goebel 2006 2008
7 Generalmajor Bruno Kasdorf 2006 2006
6 Generalmajor Günter Weiler 2005 2006
5 Generalmajor Christian Trull 2002 2005
4 Generalmajor Wolfgang Korte 2001 2002
3 Generalmajor Friedrich Riechmann 1998 2001
2 Generalmajor Hans-Peter von Kirchbach 1993 1998
1 Generalmajor Ruprecht Haasler 1990 1994
References[]
Coordinates: 53°32′33″N 13°16′42″E / 53.542373°N 13.278265°E / 53.542373; 13.278265
Active and former divisions in the German Army of the Bundeswehr
1st Panzer Division/Intervention Division
10th Panzer Division
Rapid Forces Division
Divisional equivalents
Airmobile Forces Command /4th Division
Heerestruppenkommando
Wehrbereichskommandos
1st Mountain Division
2nd Panzergrenadier Division
3rd Panzer Division
4th Panzergrenadier Division
5th Panzer Division
Airmobile Operations Division
Multinational Division Central
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The 2nd. announcement is about the club I am apart of APPSI (Advocates Promoting Positive Self-Image) our big fundraiser is Cutting Ties With The Tags (CTWT) each year where we offer a size free shopping experience. If you would like to donate any clothing for students at Appalachian State you can drop off clothing in the Patches Sunday School room next to the kitchen!
The Lenten offering this year will be split between Rise Up Against Hunger and the Global Baptist Peace Conference.
We love visitors and would love for you to join us in worship.


I stopped by Walmart the other day to pick up some things for my mom. As I was crossing the parking lot, headed back to my car, I saw a lone orange that had come to rest just a few feet away. Or course, I picked it up. I have no idea how or why oranges (and sometimes apples) end up at the south end of the Walmart parking lot, mostly unaffected by their rather long journey across bumpy and grimy asphalt, but I find at least 1 or 2 a month. In the way that hobos mark the homes of people who are kind, Angie teases that fresh fruit escapes the waste bin and make its way to the area where I'm known to park so that I will give it a good home.
Imagining us as dumpster heroes was all well and good until I started thinking about why the world needs dumpster heroes in the first place – because we waste so much food! And by we, I mean everyone from the farmer who leaves crops in the field to the stores who throw out good food items to make room for newer ones every week, from the consumer who buys more than what he/she can eat to the restauranteurs that feed the garbage bin rather than their hungry neighbors. Picking up a single orange off the pavement is just a tiny droplet on the surface of a big, big pond of problems.
But…it only takes a droplet to cause a ripple, then ripples create waves, and waves create change.
We dig through the dumpster for many reasons, not the least of which is to raise awareness of the amount of food wasted by retailers like ALDI. Don't get me wrong, I like ALDI. My sister even works for them (at a different location) and we shop there sometimes, but I hate their policy of tossing food that's within 3 days of expiration. It's stupid. It's even stupider not to mark these items down and try to sell them, like Kroger and Walmart do. I can't imagine preferring to take a total loss on a product rather than selling it for half-price. From a business standpoint, that makes no sense to me.
In 2017, we rescued 330 pounds of food from the dumpster. In 2018, it was 348 pounds. And this year, we're up to 50 pounds already. We eat this food. We share this food. We donate this food to places that can use it. And in the rare case that none of these things happen, we compost this food.
Goal: Live simply. Prove that we can live a happy, healthy, and prosperous life with less.
Set a budget and stick to it. Strive for no unplanned spending.
So…this did not happen. The budget part, yes. We came up with a great budget at the beginning of the year and aside from a few minor tweaks, it's been working well for us. The problem has been that the budget only accounts for my regular income, not our side hustles or proceeds from decluttering. We had $270 in sales on OfferUp and $1,833 in side hustle income this quarter. A large chunk of our extra income went to our travel fund. The rest to "unplanned spending". We purchased a few items of clothing (mostly undergarments), a cork bulletin board, and two life vests for kayaking that were not on our list, along with a whole lot of food. We went kind of crazy at Sprouts. We also had to take our cat to the vet twice. Though we have a pet fund, the little guy has exhausted that this year, and then some.
When the thrift store wants to charge $5 more for a used life vest than what a new one costs at Walmart, I'm sorry to say, Walmart wins. I know it's not the best choice environmentally, but it was the best choice for our budget. We did opt to buy a couple of golf clubs at Goodwill (99 cents each) rather then renting them at the driving range.
Eat a mostly plant-based diet, with no more than 10% of meals containing meat.
Woo-hoo! YES! Finally, we did something right! We had 76 completely meatless days (out of 91) or 258 meatless meals. We prepared ZERO meals at home that contained meat. I'm really surprised that we made it through 2 weeks of separate visits with our parents (and Angie in Texas, no less) without eating more meats. My mom cooked several all veggie meals for me while Angie was gone and though her parents weren't thrilled with the "no meat" plan, they only insisted on Angie eating the same dinner as them just once. In total, only 9% of our meals contained meat.
Do something active 3 times a week.
See, I told you we'd do better this quarter! We walked/hiked 74.7 miles. We hit golf balls at the driving range. Our summer chores – mowing, weeding, gardening – have ramped up and we're spending at least 5-6 hours a week in the yard/garden. Angie did some woodworking with her mom and helped with the farm chores (feeding the chickens and horse) while she was away. My visit with my mom was a little less active though. We did some sewing projects and puttered around in the yard in the evenings.
Goal: Zero-food-waste. Prove that one couple can have an impact in reducing global food waste.
As always, this is a work in progress. We've done fairly well with planning meals since CSA season started though.
The grocery store next door is back open and we're up to 279 pounds of rescued food so far this year. We're also volunteering with Society of St. Andrew to glean the Nashville Farmer's Market once a month and have gathered 90.25 pounds of produce for the Nashville Rescue Mission.
Shop reduced-to-clear/quick-sale items first when grocery shopping.
Angie almost got tackled by an old man when she reached for a bag of cherries in the reduced-to-clear bin last week. Aside from that, we've had much success in finding most of our potatoes, onions, fruits, and breads there.
Along with our CSA basket, we've been visiting our Saturday Farmer's Market and a few farm stands throughout the week to source our fresh produce. Today, we're off to the U-pick to get a few gallons of blackberries for the freezer.
Yep, we got that covered. We have tomatoes, peppers, black-eyed peas, green beans, squash, zucchini, sunflowers, blackberries, and a mystery plant (from compost) that may or may not be a cantaloupe.
So far so good! Angie even started a worm bin a few months ago with some pitiful looking fishing worms from Walmart. I had zero expectation of their survival but somehow, she has managed to turn them into thriving (and fat) worms.
When we set our goal to have zero food waste, we anticipated that it would be easy, since we are in control of our food choices, right? Turns out, that's not always the case. In 6 months, we've wasted 7.15 pounds of food, a good bit of which was prepared for us by someone else. Since starting to eat more of a plant-based diet a few years ago, we've cut out a lot of sweets and God love them, both sets of our parents are sweet junkies! My mom bakes a mean cake and her cobblers are out of this world but after one piece, she usually gives the rest to us. There's just no way we can eat all of them. I've tried freezing pieces for later but later never comes before the next cake appears. I've given some to the wildlife, but chocolate is not good for them so where do those cakes go? Sadly, to waste! It horrifies me every time I have to write down yet another ounce of wasted food but we're at a loss on what else to do with them.
What were your goals for this quarter? Did you achieve them? We're there any surprises or setbacks?


Stephen Brookes profiles the company Urban Arias, which is presenting its second season of short contemporary opera at Arlington's Artisphere, starting with the world premiere of a new opera by Conrad Cummings and Michael Korie on Friday night. The festival runs through April 22.
Above: an excerpt of "Positions 1956" from back when it was a song cycle. The composer Conrad Cummings and librettist Michael Korie have now added two further acts and fleshed it out into a 90-minute opera, which will have its world premiere on Friday night in Arlington.


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Welcome to another edition of Mastication Monologues! Today's post is in the same vein as some previous posts where instead of offering reviews on local restaurants, I comment on some random, small snack foods that I have tried while living in Korea (See: Got The Munchies?). I'll begin with probably the healthiest snack my coteachers have given me. One day I was in my cubicle after lunch, and I noticed that my coteachers and other teachers were crowding around the table in our office. I could tell they were eating something with their hands, but I couldn't see what. I approached, and they offered me a plate covered in small, bright red fruit. They looked kind of like cranberries but tinier.
I popped one in my mouth, and I was greeted with a complex rush of sweet, bitter, and sour flavors. Plus, I quickly found out that they have a pit. One of my coteachers told me that these were Korean cherries which made sense with the pit. When the teachers saw my approval, they insisted that I eat the rest of the plate. I naturally obliged as they were saying I wasn't eating them fast enough, so I went from teacher to chipmunk in 1 minute flat. I didn't feel that bad because fruit is insanely expensive in Korea, and I can't say that stuffing my cheeks with fruit is bad for my health. Now that I've described the healthy food, let's get to the good stuff. First there are the spicy Pringles.
Now, I've had my fair share of Pringles since I love their flavors, texture, and I'm from Amurika, so I wanted to see what kind of flavors they would have in Korea. I needed something to go with my kimbap lunch for my hiking trip, and I settled on the Wild Spice Pringles.
I read the can, and I saw that they were Thai in origin. This made me really excited since some Thai food is spicy enough to leave you using a colostomy bag. However, they were a very big let down. They looked like normal Pringles chips seasoned with a light brown powder, but this supposed firework show of spicy hellfire was more like a damp sparkler, unimpressive at best. It just tasted like a potato chip with some soy sauce. However, it hasn't all been doom and gloom. I found some Korean bakery that was quite nice.
While I was waiting for my friend, who is currently visiting me, at Bupyeong station on the platform going towards International Business District, I managed to be lured to a small food stall by an enchantingly sweet aroma. The board on the top of the mini establishment said, "Manjoo Hana", and I could see that they were selling different types of waffles. However, I was intrigued by the conveyor belt that consisted of small metal moulds being filled with batter and custard and then being baked in an oven. I went for a 3,000 W bag which got me about 15 of these small pastries. They were fresh out of the oven, so I had to take care not to bite in too soon and have my fingers/mouth coated in the napalm-esque custard inside each pastry. When they finally cooled down, I found them to be great finger food since I was starving after a long day of work.
The dough was soft and buttery like a cake donut while the custard on the inside was creamy and had understated vanilla notes. It would go nicely with this 19 grain cereal milk my coteacher gave me this week in honor of finally finishing recording our final exams.
It tasted like a less decadent vanilla milk shake which was surprising since it allegedly contained wheat, kefir, buckwheat, and sorghum to name a few grains. Oh, Korea. You do surprise me sometimes. Especially with the last treat that tasted a lot better than it looked.
Since Korean summer is starting to get into full swing with sunlight that can make you feel like a roasting pot roast and humidity that can make you feel like you're walking in a steam bath, all of the teachers in my office got ice cream. I picked one that looked like chocolate, but when I opened it up it looked like something a bit more unsavory.
What I was staring at was a chocolate popsicle that looked suspiciously like a log of stool.
I bring up this association due to the fact that Korean culture seems to celebrate poop and don't see it as something that is an object of revulsion in the West. So I eventually managed to open this tube after what seemed like an eternal struggle to find what was the equivalent of a fudgesicle inside. It was a treat that managed to cut through this crappy summer heat.
So here is another small glimpse at the vast variety of snack foods that Korea has to offer. Some may seem more appetizing than others, but the main thing is that I ventured out and tried something new.


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Caitlin posted on February 25, 2021 10:48
In this News Brief:
Colorado and Maryland Authorize PTs and PTAs to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations
Participate in the ELDD!
2021 Leadership Issues Forum and Annual Meeting & Delegate Assembly
Submit 2021 Excellence in Regulation Award Nomination: Forms—Due June 4
Topics at the Leadership Issues Forum
Dry Needling Competencies Review: Report Memo 2020
Testing Windows for April and July NPTE Administrations
FSBPT Alternate Approval Process
Immunity for Occupational Licensing Boards
What do Schools Need to do to Comply with the Federal Regulations per 34 CFR 668.43(a)(5)(v) and (c)?
FSBPT Forum: Navigating Troubled Waters: Charting a Clear Course for Licensure Exams during the Pandemic
Spotlight on Member Resources: Regulatory Currents
Our Gratitude for Volunteers
Board Report
FSBPT Board of Directors
In an effort to expedite COVID-19 vaccine administration, some jurisdictions, including Maryland and Colorado, are authorizing physical therapists to give the vaccine. Both jurisdictions ultimately approved PTs giving vaccines via executive orders:
Colorado: Amended Executive Order D 2021 008
"I direct the Executive Director of DORA, through the Director of the Division of
Professions and Occupations (DPO), to promulgate and issue temporary emergency rules to permit the licensed professionals listed below to cross train, supervise, and delegate responsibilities concerning the temporary care and treatment of patients to the professionals listed in Section II.B., below, in hospitals, inpatient medical facilities, including emergency departments, and outpatient settings, including but not limited to providing the COVID-19 vaccine, as long as such delegated responsibilities are appropriate based on each delegated professional's education, training, and experience."
Maryland: Executive Order No. MDH 2020-12-08-01
"Personnel Who May Administer Vaccines
The following individuals may administer COVID-19 vaccines at vaccination sites:
A. Health care practitioners licensed, certified, or registered under the provisions of the Health Occupations Article whose scope of practice includes the administration of vaccines;
B. Health care practitioners licensed, certified, or registered under the provisions of the Health Occupations Article whose scope of practice does not include the administration of vaccines provided that:
i. The health care practitioner has successfully completed training on the administration of COVID-19 vaccines;
ii. Qualified supervisory personnel at the vaccination site reasonably determine that said health care practitioner is able to administer COVID-19 vaccines under appropriate supervision; and
iii. The health care practitioner administers the COVID-19 vaccine at the vaccination site under reasonable supervision of qualified supervisory personnel."
The thinking behind both of these orders was similar:
"Under this executive order, healthcare professionals are required by law to work within a defined scope of practice, and these emergency rules allow facilities to use readily available personnel to expand the workforce and fill healthcare service gaps - such as administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. The latest changes were triggered by Amended Executive Order D 2021 008, which was signed by Governor Jared Polis. The promulgation of these emergency rules afford inpatient, outpatient and hospital settings the ability to use healthcare personnel under certain delegated authority to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, provided there is adequate cross-training."
- Nathan Batchelder, Director of External Affairs, Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations
"The Board agreed that physical therapists and physical therapist assistants can, with training, administer vaccinations and it is not in violation of their license….In our case we had the Governor's executive order to guide our decision making and we provided training resources for licensees. This enabled licensees to know that they are working within their scope of practice."
- Laurie Kendall-Ellis, Executive Director, Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
Maryland provided these resources to licensees:
"COVID-19 Vaccination Training Programs and Reference Materials for Healthcare Professionals," Center for Disease Control
Maryland Responds Medical Reserve Corps virtual COVID-19 vaccination training
If your jurisdiction is considering allowing PTs to administer vaccines or if you have relevant information to share about what your state is doing, please let us know.
In order to ensure public protection, boards need to know what their licensees are doing outside of their jurisdiction. Therefore, the Exam Licensure and Disciplinary Database (ELDD) is a vital resource. The FSBPT ID is essential to this process. Learn more about the ELDD and how your jurisdiction can participate by watching this brief video.
With your help, the ELDD has the potential to be one of the most valuable and useful resources available to jurisdictions, the public, and the physical therapy profession. Contact us to get started.
Watch recent webinars and register for upcoming sessions on the FSBPT website. Additionally, we are accepting presentation ideas and proposals for webinars we will be hosting throughout 2021. Please submit your proposal by March 1, 2021.
If you have a topic of interest but you do not have suggested speakers or an official proposal, please share the topic with us. We welcome ideas!
This year, FSBPT has not budgeted for an in-person Leadership Issues Forum or Annual Meeting & Delegate Assembly. Instead, these events will be held virtually:
Leadership Issues Forum (LIF)
July 17-18 | Virtual
Delegate Assembly
October 22-23 | Virtual
Jurisdictions will still need to select the following roles so we can properly register them:
Voting Delegate
Alternate Delegate
Selected Administrator
We emailed administrators instructions on selecting delegates and identifying the selected administrator. Please contact us if you have questions: communications@fsbpt.org
FSBPT strives to be a deliberative organization and seeks to present new approaches and changes in a purposeful manner before our Leadership Issues Forum (LIF). Providing topics in advance allows the board an opportunity to carefully prepare topics for consideration. Bringing topics to LIF where our members have plenty of time to engage in thoughtful dialogue allows us to truly get member input into important topics. A number of topics have been presented at consecutive LIF meetings to make sure they are vetted properly, like the most recent bylaw changes or the disciplinary action guidelines. We welcome your input into future topics for LIF and look forward to hearing from you all!
The Excellence in Regulation Award recognizes jurisdictions that have made significant accomplishments towards increasing public protection for consumers of physical therapy services in a number of areas. To nominate a jurisdiction, including your own, submit a Nomination Form to communications@fsbpt.org by Friday, June 4, 2021. Late submissions will not be accepted.
The work described in Dry Needling Competencies Review: Report Memo 2020represents a continuation of FSBPT's efforts to support state boards' decisions regarding the physical therapist scope of practice related to dry needling.
This memo summarizes the processes and results of the review of dry needling competencies conducted by FSBPT and the Healthcare Regulatory Research Institute (HRRI), in partnership with the HumRRO. The task force established by FSBPT/HRRI consisted of eleven physical therapists who have experience performing dry needling and/or teaching dry needling principles and techniques. The report builds on the 2015 analysis of dry needling competencies conducted by FSBPT and HumRRO to define the minimum competency requirements for dry needling, as well as the recurring analysis of practice studies FSBPT conducts to define the entry-level knowledge and skill requirements for physical therapists. Since 2015, FSBPT completed several practice analyses and published a new NPTE content outline resulting in changes that are not reflected in the dry needling competencies.
Notable from the 2015 study was the finding that a substantial part of dry needling competence is part of the standard clinical practice of physical therapy; more than four-fifths (86%) of the knowledge and skills physical therapists need to demonstrate competence in dry needling is acquired during entry-level physical therapist education. The 2020 updated set of dry needling competencies includes 134 work activities, 119 knowledge requirements, and 16 skills/abilities. Of the 119 knowledge requirements identified as critical for competence in dry needling, 87% (n = 103) represent knowledge that physical therapists acquire/develop during entry-level physical therapist education. As noted in the 2015 dry needling report, the dry-needling–specific knowledge is predominantly related to the needling technique (e.g., needle selection and placement, identification of contraindications, emergency preparedness and response).
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, FSBPT will continue to add testing windows to the scheduled NPTE fixed-date administrations in April and July. Some Prometric sites will continue to operate at reduced capacity and some test centers may not be open depending on the status of the outbreak in different locations. In order to help candidates who are unable to find a seat on the fixed dates, FSBPT will add two-week windows to all administrations through July.
April PT and PTA candidates received an updated Authorization to Test (ATT) letter, including the testing window, the week of January 18.
Registration for the July PT and PTA windows will open by the beginning of March
FSBPT will make a determination on the October exam administrations in the coming months.
FSBPT will continue to post up-to-date information to the COVID-19 page on our website.
Make 2021 the year your board considers FSBPT's Alternate Approval Process (AAP). Twenty-one jurisdictions currently use this free service streamlining their eligibility approval process. Under AAP, when an applicant who is a graduate of a CAPTE accredited program registers for the NPTE, FSBPT will make the candidate eligible to sit for the NPTE on the jurisdiction's behalf provided that the candidate meets all NPTE eligibility requirements. Under AAP, FSBPT also handles the review of all requests for testing accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact FSBPT for more information on opting into AAP.
FSBPT joined eleven other organizations in signing a letter of support for a bill that would provide immunity for damages in cases against occupational licensing boards in some circumstances and establish the standards for immunity. We encourage you to also contact your respective member of the United States House of Representatives and your senators in support of such a bill. Find out how to contact your representative and feel free to use the draft message below:
I am writing to share my support of legislation that seeks to protect state boards, board members, and staff from damage awards by private plaintiffs, while still allowing for enforcement of antitrust laws by federal and private actors seeking to enjoin anticompetitive behavior of licensing boards. The bill should also condition immunity from damages liability on licensing boards meeting certain standards. I believe that such legislation is a balanced approach to competition policy that retains enforcement mechanisms against anticompetitive activities while ensuring that current and prospective state licensing board members will continue to be willing to serve and are not dissuaded because of uncertainty over any potential personal liability arising from their public service. I hope you will support such a bill.
The U.S. Department of Education implemented new regulations effective July 1, 2020, that entry-level PT and PTA programs that lead to professional licensure or certification must adhere to if they participate in Title IV HEA funding and if they are "designed to meet educational requirements for a specific professional license or certification that is required for employment in an occupation, or is advertised as meeting such requirements, information regarding whether completion of that program would be sufficient to meet licensure requirements in a State for that occupation."
This new regulation requires programs to provide the following:
A list of all States for which the institution has determined that its curriculum meets the State educational requirements for licensure or certification;
A list of all States for which the institution has determined that its curriculum does not meet the State educational requirements for licensure or certification; and
A list of all States for which the institution has not made a determination that its curriculum meets the State educational requirements for licensure or certification.
FSBPT has licensure requirements for each jurisdiction in the FSBPT Licensure Reference Guide, including initial licensure requirements for graduates of CAPTE accredited programs.
FSBPT also maintains a list of licensing boards' contact information. However, this list does not include American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, or Guam. This information can be found on our website.
The COVID-19 pandemic presented unique challenges for licensure exams. This article is based on a 2020 Annual Meeting presentation by Lorin Mueller and Kimberly Swygert. Read more.
In this recorded webinar, Dale Atkinson reviewed recent case law and legislation related to regulation.
This month, we thank the generous volunteer members of these groups for their support of our mission:
Item Writing Task Force
"Some Shifts of Focus on State COVID-19 Legislation," State Net, February 12, 2021
Some issues continue to be just as pressing for state lawmakers as they were last year. For instance, 37 states have introduced bills this year concerning health care workforce issues, such as occupational licensing requirements for out-of-state workers, about the same number of states as introduced such measures last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures' COVID-19 legislation database, which allows a subset of State Net's data, identified as being associated with COVID-19, to be parsed by year, subject and keyword.
"Occupational Licensing Reform Gains Steam in Statehouses," State Net, February 5, 2021
"According to a recent four-year joint study conducted by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Governors Association and the State Government Affairs Council, 'Occupational licensing has grown exponentially over the last 60 years, comprising nearly 25 percent of the U.S. workforce, up from 5 percent nearly 60 years ago.'"
"Work to Relaunch USMLE Step 2 CS Discontinued," United States Medical Licensing Examination Press Release, January 26, 2021
"The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and NBME, co-sponsors of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), are today announcing the discontinuation of work to relaunch a modified Step 2 Clinical Skills examination (Step 2 CS)."
"Occupational Licensing Final Report: Assessing State Policies and Practices," National Conference of State Legislatures, December 4, 2020
"Since early 2017, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), in partnership with The Council of State Governments (CSG) and the National Governors Association (NGA Center) for Best Practices, has produced numerous resources. These resources are designed to help state policymakers better understand the variances in licensing laws and the challenges they present for many workers....This report summarizes the four-year project's key deliverables; the legislative, executive and regulatory trends the partners observed across the country and in consortium states; and lessons learned throughout the project."
Charge: The charge of the ELDD Quality & State Participation Task Force is to explore ways to improve the quality and increase jurisdiction participation in the Examinations, Licensure, and Disciplinary Database (ELDD). The Task Force will identify real and perceived barriers for participation and identify best practices for full participation. In addition, the task force will also develop a strategy to promote better jurisdictional participation in the ELDD and recommend further action to the FSBPT Board of Directors based on the findings.
Megan Certo (IN)
Kayla Karpp (FL)
Debbie Ragan (NC)
Corrie Tillman Wolf (VA)
Cynthia Potter (PA)
Jason Kaiser (CA)
Board Liaisons to Jurisdictions
Members of the Board of Directors serve as liaisons to multiple jurisdictions. Current liaison relationships are listed here for your reference.
Tom Caldwell
Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas
Ruggie Canizares
Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah
Ellen Donald
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina
Joni Kalis
Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
Nancy Kirsch
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont
Adrienne Price
Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
David Relling
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Charles E. Reiter
The public member of the board does not serve as a liaison to jurisdictions.
If you have questions, challenges or ideas, we want to hear from you!
Point of Contact/Email Address
Christine Sousa
Assessment or examination development questions
Lorin Muelle
Susan Newman
npte@fsbpt.org
Jeffrey M. Rosa
competencestaff@fsbpt.org
Credentials review
Jaime Nolan, FCCPT
ELDD- Exam, Licensure and Disciplinary Database participation
eldd@fsbpt.org
Exam registration processing
Foreign educated issues
Leslie Adrian
Jamie Nolan
JAM- Jurisprudence Assessment Module
Legislation or Model Practice Act
Meeting arrangements
Paul Delaney
NPDB reports/questions
Angela Burnham
PTC- Physical Therapy Compact
compact@fsbpt.org
PEAT®- Practice Exam & Assessment Tool
peat@fsbpt.org
Reimbursement of expenses
Other financial matters
Linda Michelsen
schoolreports@fsbpt.org
Score transfer & reporting
SCP PET- Supervised Clinical Practice Performance Evaluation Tool
scppet@fsbpt.org
security@fsbpt.org
Anything else, including news to share with members
William A. Hatherill
Caitlin Jennings
Communications@fsbpt.org
Sign off: Acknowledging the passing of over 500,000+ family members, friends, & fellow Americans, we look forward to the days ahead…be well!
William A. Hatherill, CEO
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Motorsport • Sports
Bashir Abdi demolishes a 24 year old Belgian record marathon in London
Bashir Abdi during the London marathon, a new Belgian record run. The Gentenaar ran the 42 km in 2 hours, 7 minutes and 3 seconds, and improved as the time of Vincent Rousseau, 1995, with seventeen seconds. With its best place Abdi also for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Bashir Abdi finished seventh in the London Marathon and he did that in a new Belgian record of 2u07:03. The record stood since 1995, in the name of Vincent Rousseau with 2u07:20. The profits went for the fourth time to the Kenyan world record holder That Kipchoge in 2u02:38, the second time ever run. His world record stands at 2u01:40. Kenroy and co-favourite Mo Farah came as the fifth crossed the finish in 2:05:38.
Halfway through Abdi, who in London was only his second marathon ever ran, in 1u03:20, and in the traditional grueling second half of the race, he fell hard. In the women won with Brigid Kosgei, also a Kenyan in 2u18:20. She got it for her compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot (2h20:14) and the Ethiopian (2h20:51).
Abdi left, in contrast to what he is in advance of interviews had been announced, fast. He passed after ten miles in 29:49, well below the schedule for the Belgian record. Also to the half-marathon was the Gentenaar with a passage in 1u03:20 is still on schedule for the BR. Then it went to Abdi as to accelerate and it started becoming easier to see. Between 30 and 35 kilometres there was for the first time of substantial decline with a passage in 1h45:10, but starvation did Abdi absolutely not. He had to be in the slot or the sub 2u07 chrono let go, but dived over under the BR.
With his personal best in London place Abdi also for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. This was 2u11:30 necessary. For the world CHAMPIONSHIPS in athletics later this year in Doha was Abdi already been placed.
Koen Naert was earlier this month, in april, also already near come of the BR of Rousseau. The European champion klokte in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam after 2u07:39. Naert was there as the chickens at Abdi on his wereldprestatie. "Congratulations to Bashir Abi, you have my ambition to be ever the Belgian record breaking again a little harder."