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Breeder E. coli vaccination boosts broiler health
Vaccination of broiler breeders against Escherichia coli helps improve the health of their progeny, reports a veterinarian in South Africa.
Although E.coli is ubiquitous in the environment and part of the normal gut flora in chickens, some serotypes of the bacterium can cause serious extra-intestinal infections, especially in chickens that become immunocompromised due to stress, Fambies van Biljon, DVM, of Sovereign Foods, South Africa, told Poultry Health Today.
E. coli infection can lead to a variety of problems such as peritonitis and salpingitis, increased mortality or cellulitis that leads to increased condemnations.
Van Biljon cited a study conducted at Sovereign Foods demonstrating that E. coli vaccination lowered mortality in broiler breeders in lay by about 2.7% at 60 weeks.1 "This was mainly due to reduction in mortality due to peritonitis from 28% to 15% of total mortality," he explained.
In chicks from the vaccinated breeders, mortality at 7 days was 1.18%, compared to 1.44% for chicks from unvaccinated breeders, he said. Vaccination was also associated with increased weight gain: chicks from vaccinated birds weighed 188g at 7 days compared to 183g among chicks from unvaccinated birds.
Dionné Rauff, of South Africa's Deltamune Laboratories, confirmed van Biljon's impression that transmission of E. coli to broiler chicks is a growing problem in the country. Antibiotics have limited value because mortality tends to occur in the first few days after hatching.
Serotyping of E.coli is uncommon in South Africa, so the prevalence of various strains has not been determined, Rauff noted.
Van Biljon said that for broiler breeders, 22 to 32 weeks of age is a particularly stressful time that increases the chances of E. coli infection. During this time, body weight gain is high and egg production goes from 0% to a peak of about 89%.
In addition, the birds have to adapt to a new environment as they are transferred from the rearing to laying farm. The stress of being stimulated into egg production through increased light exposure and dietary changes puts birds at further risk of E. coli peritonitis and salpingitis, he said.
Broilers, however, can be even more susceptible to E. coli infection because they experience more day-to-day environmental challenges, such as temperature changes, ventilation and dust, van Biljon said. They also face more health challenges, including Mycoplasma and infectious bronchitis.
Method of vaccination critical
Since January 2011, van Biljon has used Poulvac® E. coli to help protect broiler breeders and their progeny against E. coli infection. The vaccine replaced use of an inactivated E. coli vaccine.
The veterinarian stressed that application of the live vaccine and the frequency of the application are critical to success. Depending on challenge level, vaccination may be repeated during rearing and in lay.
Compared to inactivated vaccines, live vaccines are not only less expensive, but they tend to have no side effects, van Biljon said.
"The reduction in laying mortality has more than paid for the live E. coli vaccine and has resulted in cost savings, with extra day-old chicks in the system," he said.
Improve antibiotic efficacy
Vaccination is a preventive measure and does not preclude the use of antibiotics to treat birds that become sick, van Biljon said. However, he added that a live E. coli vaccination program can help reduce antibiotic use and thereby maintain efficacy, because resistance can develop when antibiotics are overused or not used correctly.2
He emphasized the importance of using the live vaccine as part of a holistic management strategy. Temperature, ventilation, dust, diet and health issues must be managed carefully to minimize risk of infection. Biosecurity measures must be in place to control other infectious diseases.
Hygiene is critical to reducing the pathogen load in a chicken house after depletion and before placing the next crop, he added. Egg and hatchery hygiene are equally important to reduce transmission of E. coli to chicks, as well as preventing E. coli contamination of water or feed, he said.
1 Abstract for Zoetis E.coli workshop. The use of Poulvac E.coli in an integrated broiler breeder company in South Africa. NJ van Biljon – Sovereign Foods. November 2013 – Madeira.
2 http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/3/e00428-16.full
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tags: e coli, Poulvac E. coli
Studies in 32 million birds show returns on vaccinating broilers for E. coli
DISCOVERIES, Issue 8: In studies conducted in more than 32 million broiler chickens in Italy and the US, vaccination with Poulvac® E. coli yielded a positive return on investment.
Vaccination with Poulvac® E. coli yields economic benefits in broilers
DISCOVERIES, Issue 7: Vaccinating broilers against Escherichia coli yielded a favorable return on investment in a recent trial
E. coli vaccination in broilers: Is it worth the cost?
According to recent studies, E. coli vaccination may actually help broiler producers boost their bottom lines.
Failure of maternal antibodies to protect against E. coli infection highlights need for early protection
New studies in broiler chicks show that maternal antibodies to Escherichia coli do not prevent infection.
AL2 variants now account for more than half of IBDV field isolates in broilers
Serotype, presentation of IBH differ in large and small birds
Good gut health can help minimize Salmonella in broilers
Marek's disease vaccination needed now more than ever
Now more than ever, vaccination is critical for managing Salmonella in layer flocks
Seasonal management in hatchery critical to improving chick viability
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BATON ROUGE- City-parish employees in Baton Rouge could face fines for driving recklessly and causing preventable accidents with city-parish owned vehicles.
The Office of Risk Management will propose new policies Wednesday to the Metropolitan Council to stop what some call an unacceptable level of traffic-violations.
"What we want to prevent is drivers that are out there driving recklessly, not paying attention to what's really going on when they're driving. And just like when they're driving there own personal vehicle, there's some consequences for driving in a manner that's not exactly safe," said District 10 councilwoman, Tara Wicker.
-Paying up to $500 to repair a damaged vehicle.
-Employees being suspended from their jobs.
-Workers losing the privilege to take home a city-parish vehicle.
But leaders with the police union say its unfair to ask employees to pay out of pocket for an accident. "If it's an accident, it's an accident. That's why we have insurance," said the president of the Baton Rouge Union of Police, Chris Stewart.
Stewart only wants employees to pay for damages in extreme cases, but doesn't think they should be required to pay for most accidents simply because employees don't make enough money. "I would hate to know i would be responsible for paying for an accident," said Stewart.
According to city-parish officials, the idea isn't to fine their employees, but to simply create policies that encourage safe driving.
"My husband is a former state trooper, so I understand the need and the necessity for police officers to drive and maintain their own vehicles in a manner that let's them do their job. But at the same time i do think that comes with some responsibility," Wicker said.


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Nassau County is named for William of Orange-Nassau, who was King William III of England.
Created: January 1, 1899
Mineola 1899 – present
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Location: 100 Supreme Court Drive / County Seat Drive
Architect: Chapman, Evans & Delehanty
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Location: 1550 Franklin Avenue / Old County Road
Style: Classical Revival
Architect: William B Tubby
Contractor: Edward Roche
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Former County Courthouse – Mineola
Location: 262 Old Country Road / County Seat Drive
Architect: Lawrence Lincoln
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Note: The architect, Lawrence Lincoln worked with Henry Bacon who designed the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The building contains many features that are similar to the Lincoln Memorial. The Sikes Company of Buffalo manufactured the courtroom furniture. Cutler Mail Chute of Rochester and Edward Caldwell & Company of Manhattan designed the light fixtures. Carver Albert Stewart created 20 historic panels, four giant eagles that flank the steps and two county seals on top of the entrances.
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Orono native Sarah Newcomb is turning personal finance on its head.
It's not a subject many people get excited about at first, but Newcomb's new book, "Loaded: Money Psychology and How to Get Ahead Without Leaving Your Values Behind," is getting a ton of buzz. Among those to laud the paradigm-flipping work have been Money magazine, Reuters and MarketWatch.
So what's Newcomb writing that has everybody so intrigued?
Well, when it comes to personal finance — a subject a lot of people find stressful — it's not necessarily all about the money. It's about you.
"The numbers are an important part of our financial plan, but they're only a small part," Newcomb told MarketWatch.
Newcomb urges readers to look at money in terms of what it represents, rather than numbers on a spreadsheet or bank statement.
Once finances are broken down in terms of "money stories," they can be more manageable, Newcomb writes.
"Your labor is valuable, so if you lose your job you haven't lost your asset. You've lost a buyer, but you haven't lost an asset," she told MarketWatch, for instance, adding that on the spending side, "A lot of people, when they trace their money for a certain amount of time, realize they're spending hundreds of dollars a month on food and drink at restaurants.
The author, now a behavioral economist for the investment research firm Morningstar in Washington, D.C., also said many people struggle to save for retirement more because of these mental hangups over time and money.
Looking at retirement saving less as a number that needs to grow to a certain size over the coming decades and more as a value that reflects a future quality of life — specific needs and your particular life — can make a difference in how you approach it, she suggested.


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Q: Integration by Parts? Can I use this here? I'm trying to use integration by parts here for this integral:
$$ I = \frac{1}{2 e^{\sqrt{x}}- \lambda x }dx$$
So far, I get
$$u=\sqrt{x}$$, and $$dv = \frac{1}{2\sqrt{x}} dx$$
and I'm not sure what I do next...

A: As you have written it, your integrand is not of the form $u\ dv$ for the $u, dv$ you have specified, so the integration by parts will not work.  With that $u$ there is no sensible $dv$ that you can specify.  You could use $u=\frac{1}{2 e^{\sqrt{x}}- \lambda x }, dv=dx$ but I do not expect that to lead to progress as $du$ is no simpler.

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Ryan Kay has been involved with gundogs since a child. He was brought up working his father's Labradors and Cockers on a small shoot in North Yorkshire.
Ryan is part of family run business 'FarlaVale Gundogs' which is based in a small hamlet on the outskirts of York. FarlaVale involves a flexible and creative approach to producing a complete modern-day gundog appreciating all breeds and their characteristics.
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Q: jQuery multiple Dropdowns I am looking to find a good way to synchronise multiple drop downs. I have seen code that does it for two drop downs but I need it to work across 3 or more. Is there an elegant way to do this. The code below does not work for three drop downs (only two) but is the closest example I could find.
I am trying to make it so that if any of the drop downs changes that selected option in that drop down is no longer available in the other drop downs.
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        <option>3</option>
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        <option>1</option>
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   index = $(this).prop('selectedIndex');
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                                    .css('display','block');

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A heavy load is suspended on a light spring with upper half rigidity \(2k\). The spring is slowly pulled down at the midpoint (a certain work \(A\) is done thereby) and then released. Determine the maximum kinetic energy \(W_k\) of the load in subsequent motion.
If the middle of the spring is stretched out by a distance \(x\) while doing work \(A\), the entire spring is stretched out by \(x\).


Transformers: Forged to Fight from Kabam is a fighting game, pure and simple. If you have played other fighting games before, the gameplay is similar and should be easy to get into. While it is not the only Transformers game around, there is enough in Forged to Fight that make it stand out from the rest.
The right side of your display has the swipes and taps, while the dashes and blocks are on the left. Learn to master these and you will beating the other roots and claiming victory. However you also need to use some strategy as the game to advance and come away with the win.
Dashing away helps to avoid getting hit, but you have to be careful you don't get shot. Use this maneuver to draw out your gun and tap to fire away. Is the enemy shooting at you? Swipe up or down to avoid fire.
This being a Transformers game you can of course transform, and it can be useful in some battles. The bots may automatically change and hit the opponent, and you can also fire weapons while in vehicle mode.
The game has a story mode, arena mode and other missions so there is enough here to keep you occupied. There is also a build and battle element here, and you get to collect a lot of the Transoformers as well. And if you are a Trnasformers fan, you will notice that it uses the same sounds from the TV shows. If you love Transformers and fighting games in general, you will not be disappointed with forged to Fight.


The marketing messages may be wrapped in bright colors and surrounded by cartoon images and wacky sound effects, but the dollars involved in the youth market are very real. Whether it's an 18-month-old calling out for the latest "Baby Einstein" video or an 18-year-old eyeing the hot new cell phone from Nokia, companies that cater to youth are watching the numbers mount year after year.
For 2004, Chicago-based Teen Research Unlimited (TRU) estimates teens ages 12 to 19 spent an average of $91 per week, or a total of $169 billion annually. That's down slightly from 2003, but TRU projects teen spending will continue to rise, with all those crumpled bills and cashed checks from relatives, accounting for $205 billion in annual spending by 2008.
With that much money at stake, the business of youth marketing has grown exponentially, not only in the amount of dollars spent but also in the perception of how appropriate it is to target children specifically. According to a recent poll done by Harris Interactive, youth marketers now say that the age of 7 is an appropriate age to begin marketing to kids. By about age 12, kids think they're old enough to make intelligent choices as consumers. In the same poll, marketers overwhelmingly agreed (91 percent), that kids are being marketed to in ways they don't even notice.
And that's the key. Kids are savvier than ever, and traditional advertising is simply not as effective as it once was. For Smashing Ideas, a Seattle-based agency specializing in interactive media for kids, integration and branding are critical, as is letting kids feel like they're part of the scene, not outsiders being marketed to.
"It's all about autonomy," says Jill Brown, a senior producer at Smashing Ideas. "It's taking the traditional TV shows for kids or the new toy coming out in the market and making it an interactive experience with that item."
In practice, that means clients like Nickelodeon will approach Smashing Ideas and say they'd like an online SpongeBob game created for Nick.com. Or Lego, looking to create an emotionally resonant experience for kids, wants to develop a fun, interactive maze on Lego.com. The maze features animated Lego products that kids can get their parents to buy at retail.
Rahna Barthelmess, a brand manager at Lego, says the company has expanded its use of interactive games and experiences over the past several years, though traditional advertising remains part of the mix.
"We won't walk away from traditional media, but we're really focused on how to add other ways to reach kids," Barthelmess says. "Kids are multi-tasking now. The TV is on, they're IMing a friend with the computer while also flipping through a magazine. So we put a commercial on TV, but we also have something online to hit them in multiple ways. The goal is to ensure we make the brand as pervasive as possible."
Barthelmess says Lego tries to stay sharp and fresh. "We want to make sure the media we use is just as creative and imaginative as our product," she says. "So we're always looking for something that will make people think of Lego in a different way, or at a time when they might not have thought of us."
But even with whiz-bang Flash animation becoming more prevalent, there are still some marketers who do just fine with more traditional vehicles, like catalogs. American Girl, for instance, has become hugely popular with girls, mostly through awareness built around its books and dolls catalog.
"Our success comes through a proprietary product that we promote through direct marketing," says Julie Parks, public relations director at American Girl. "We just focus on getting those catalogs in the hands of girls from 3 to 12. It's a very targeted marketing plan."
Parks says American Girl goes for a deeper message through its books and the stories surrounding its dolls. By controlling the story, she says, American Girl also controls the channel. Last fall though, the company did turn to traditional media, teaming with the WB on "Samantha: An American Girl Holiday," an original made-for-television movie. The program attracted 6 million viewers.
The Vendors<>br Kids don't necessarily differentiate between a PC and the TV; they are both screens filled with entertainment. This has compelled media outlets such as Disney and Nickelodeon to make their online presence every bit as engaging as what they put on TV. But even as vendors from Discovery Kids to Cartoon Central work to integrate what's on TV with what's online, there's always the added concern of who's watching what the kids are watching.
"It's a type of intrusion," says Smashing Ideas' Jill Brown. "It's the marketer placing themselves between the child and the parent, and it's getting more stringent - what you can do online."
Brown refers to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which limits the type of data vendors can gather online from kids under 13. Even so, those vendors who target kids continue to perform strongly. Nickelodeon, for example, which saw its "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie rake in more than $80 million, continues its reign as the top-rated basic cable channel over the entire program day. Barring a broad scale societal backlash, it appears the dollars aimed at marketing to kids will only increase.
For Lego's Barthelmess, electronic and technological advances will provide a lot of opportunities in the near future, provided they don't go overboard.
"The next five years will be huge for mobile [toys and games]," she says. "From GameBoys to cell phones... anything you can take with you so you're not just sitting in a chair looking at a monitor."
Brown says the focus on interactivity will accelerate in part, due to the migration from Java to Flash, enabling developers to create more sophisticated games.


math::bigfloat(n) 2.0.1 tcllib "Tcl Math Library"
WHAT ABOUT TCL 8.4 ?
BigFloat for floating-point numbers of arbitrary length.
integers for arbitrary length signed integers, just as basic integers since Tcl 8.5.
perform math operations on BigFloats and (optionnaly) with integers.
convert BigFloats from their internal representations to strings, and vice versa.
Converts number into a BigFloat. Its precision is at least the number of digits provided by number. If the number contains only digits and eventually a minus sign, it is considered as an integer. Subsequently, no conversion is done at all.
trailingZeros - the number of zeros to append at the end of the floating-point number to get more precision. It cannot be applied to an integer.
The number's last digit is considered by the procedure to be true at +/-1, For example, 1.00 is the interval [0.99, 1.01], and 0.43 the interval [0.42, 0.44]. The Pi constant may be approximated by the number "3.1415". This string could be considered as the interval [3.1414 , 3.1416] by fromstr. So, when you mean 1.0 as a double, you may have to write 1.000000 to get enough precision. To learn more about this subject, see PRECISION.
Returns a string form of a BigFloat, in which all digits are exacts. All exact digits means a rounding may occur, for example to zero, if the uncertainty interval does not clearly show the true digits. number may be an integer, causing the command to return exactly the input argument. With the -nosci option, the number returned is never shown in scientific notation, i.e. not like '3.4523e+5' but like '345230.'.
See PRECISION for that matter. See also iszero for how to detect zeros, which is useful when performing a division.
Converts a double (a simple floating-point value) to a BigFloat, with exactly decimals digits. Without the decimals argument, it behaves like fromstr. Here, the only important feature you might care of is the ability to create BigFloats with a fixed number of decimals.
Returns a double, that may be used in expr, from a BigFloat.
Returns 1 if number is an integer, 0 otherwise.
Returns 1 if number is a BigFloat, 0 otherwise.
puts [tostr $x]; # prints "10."
puts [tostr $x]; # prints "10.00"
Return the sum, difference and product of x by y. x - may be either a BigFloat or an integer y - may be either a BigFloat or an integer When both are integers, these commands behave like expr.
Return the quotient and the rest of x divided by y. Each argument (x and y) can be either a BigFloat or an integer, but you cannot divide an integer by a BigFloat Divide by zero throws an error.
Returns x taken to the nth power. It only works if n is an integer. x might be a BigFloat or an integer.
a BigFloat close enough to zero to raise "divide by zero".
tostr [fromstr 0.0] ; # -> 0.
Returns 1 if x and y are equal, 0 elsewhere.
Returns 0 if both BigFloat arguments are equal, 1 if x is greater than y, and -1 if x is lower than y. You would not be able to compare an integer to a BigFloat : the operands should be both BigFloats, or both integers.
The above functions return, respectively, the following : square root, logarithm, exponential, cosine, sine, tangent, cotangent, arc cosine, arc sine, arc tangent, hyperbolic cosine, hyperbolic sine, hyperbolic tangent, of a BigFloat named x.
Returns a BigFloat representing the Pi constant with n digits after the dot. n is a positive integer.
Convert an angle from radians to degrees, and vice versa.
The above functions return the x BigFloat, rounded like with the same mathematical function in expr, and returns it as an integer.
How do conversions work with precision ?
When a BigFloat is converted from string, the internal representation holds its uncertainty as 1 at the level of the last digit.
During computations, the uncertainty of each result is internally computed the closest to the reality, thus saving the memory used.
When converting back to string, the digits that are printed are not subject to uncertainty. However, some rounding is done, as not doing so causes severe problems.
Uncertainties are kept in the internal representation of the number ; it is recommended to use tostr only for outputting data (on the screen or in a file), and NEVER call fromstr with the result of tostr. It is better to always keep operands in their internal representation. Due to the internals of this library, the uncertainty interval may be slightly wider than expected, but this should not cause false digits.
The uncertainty of the sum, or the difference, of two numbers, is the sum of their respective uncertainties.
For multiplication and division, the relative uncertainties of the product or the quotient, is the sum of the relative uncertainties of the operands. Take care of division by zero : check each divider with iszero.
puts [compare $denom [opp $denom]]; # 0 !!!
BigFloats with different internal representations may be converted to the same string.
# has 14 digits of precision.
If your setup do not provide Tcl 8.5 but supports 8.4, the package can still be loaded, switching back to math::bigfloat 1.2. Indeed, an important function introduced in Tcl 8.5 is required - the ability to handle bignums, that we can do with expr. Before 8.5, this ability was provided by several packages, including the pure-Tcl math::bignum package provided by tcllib. In this case, all you need to know, is that arguments to the commands explained here, are expected to be in their internal representation. So even with integers, you will need to call fromstr and tostr in order to convert them between string and internal representations.
puts "angle3 : [tostr [rad2deg $angle3]]"
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Water Council, Veolia name new class of Brew companies
Three startups have been named as the winners of the first Brew Corporate contest held by The Water Council. [caption id="attachment_130638" align="alignright" width="350"] The Global Water Center in Milwaukee[/caption] Nano Gas Technologies, Inc., Nutrient Recovery and Upcycling LLC, and WAVVE Stream Inc. were chosen as part of the empowering Opportunities in Water, or Pow!, contest run by The Water Council, Veolia and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. The Water Council has held Brew contests before, but this was the first to be connected with a corporation. Philip Abraham, Veolia's senior vice president of global research and innovation, said the company was looking for companies that were a good strategic fit with Veolia's tagline of "resourcing the world" and had a breakthrough innovation. The idea is that the companies will help solve a problem Veolia is interested in, while also receiving a catalyst from the company's global footprint. "The open innovation program was basically set up because we know all of the innovation doesn't necessarily have to come from within Veolia. Each of the winning companies will receive $25,000 from Veolia, $15,000 from The Water Council and WEDC, a $10,000 tuition to The Brew, The Water Council's business accelerator, access to faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette, 12 months of free office space in Veolia's suite at the Global Water Center and more. Executives from each of the winning companies said the chance to partner with Veolia was among the things that drew them to the competition. They also said The Water Council and its network were a big draw too. Len Bland, chief executive officer at Deerfield, Illinois-based Nano Gas Technologies said there are plenty of business accelerators in the Chicago area, "but if you're not developing the latest and greatest mobile app, they're not all that interested." Nano Gas is working on a product that will recycle oil industry waste water, recovering the oil that otherwise would be lost and reducing demand for fresh water. He said the ability to partner with university researchers will help better understand the processes involved in the product. Bland said he plans to spend a little bit of each week at the Global Water Center, partially to form relationships. He said he is open to the company being in the Milwaukee area in the future. "One of the things I've noticed already in moving around the area ... (is) how much space is available at a reasonable price compared to the Chicago area," Bland said. Eric Beydoun, co-founder and CEO of Houston-based Wavve Stream, said Milwaukee is proving to be an option for water companies based on what is around the city. His company is working on a gel made of food-grade materials that removes nutrients and heavy metals from water. "This is a great opportunity both for Veolia and for us startups," Beydoun said, noting that companies need big associations and partnerships to get to market. Madison-based Nutrient Recovery and Upcycling is working on a product that removes phosphorus or nitrogen from wastewater and turns it into a high-purity, highly concentrated fertilizer. "This is a really big deal because we have been in business for five years now and we're very close to launching our first product," said Menachem Tabanpour, NRU president, adding that the water industry is competitive and it takes a long time to develop products. "We're all very excited and it helped bring us closer to being a sustainable company." Like the other executives, Tabanpour said the access provided by winning the contest is a great opportunity. He said he plans to be traveling to Milwaukee at least once a week. "I really expect to hire people in Milwaukee and be more involved in what's happening," he said.


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Government expands public employment offer: Largest in history with nearly 30,000 locations
Updates Monday, May 23, 2022 –
The distribution is as follows: 15,880 new jobs, 9,591 for internal promotion and 4,107 more for stabilization. The result is 5,000 net new jobs
Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Maria Jesus Monteiro.EFE
public event The government has promised to hold talks with the officers on wage hike from next week.
The government and civil servants unions have agreed on the largest offer of public employment in history. Total 29,578 places For the General Administration of State (AGE), not counting state security forces and bodies, the armed forces or the administration of justice, that represents an additional increase compared to the nearly 27,000 places introduced last week. Public.
As reported by both CSIF and UGT, the places are distributed as follows: 15,880 new entrants, representing an increase of 29% compared to 2021; 9,591 for internal promotion, about 2% more than last year; and 4.107 ms for stabilization.
The amount of the proposal, which is expected to be approved by the Council of Ministers tomorrow, comes at a complex economic time and to deal with "massive" retirements and will continue to be in AGE. In fact, the forecast is that the ability of History will repeat itself in the years to come Given the needs presented by the administration, and the government of Sanchez, the desire is not only to retain but to expand the public workforce. so that this offer Create about 5,000 net jobs,
"The government has finally realized that there is a serious personnel need that our state administration has to suffer and we have agreed to a historic job offer for this year with nearly 29,000 positions. We have never received such an offer., "It has cost us weeks of negotiations," says CSIF president Miguel Bora. "Employment services, social security, tax agency, ministries or research centers have done little over the years, attracting the attention of our clients. Citizens. Plus, there are thousands of people who will be retiring soon."
"The agreement includes measures to streamline selection processes through social dialogue, as demanded by UGT Servios Publicos," the association says. "At present, only the interval between the publication of the motion and the actual summons may take more than two yearsTherefore, the personnel are not adequately catered to serve the citizens. To achieve this, the call will be published in the same exercise that has been OEP approved and the maximum time between exercises forming the opposition phase of the free shift will be reduced, in order to significantly reduce the duration of the selection process," Explain the sources of UGT.
The next step in the field of public functions will be salary negotiations, which the ministry has already promised, once the job offers are approved, ie starting this week. Unions demand a multi-year plan that allows officersrecover lost purchasing power"That is, public wages tend to rise from inflation when private sector workers are asked to compromise income and, therefore, admit to losing purchasing power.
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Rapid genetic test traces spread of fungus that kills frogs, reveals new strain in Southeast Asia
by Jonathan Wosen 25 November 2019
Protecting frogs against the invisible killer called chytrid was never going to be easy. The fungus has already wiped out more species than any other known disease. But a recent…
Deadly fungal disease has devastated more than 500 amphibian species
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A fungal disease that has been wiping out amphibians across the world may be the world's most destructive disease ever recorded, according to a new study. Biologists first described the…
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Frogs are incredible creatures. Usually born in water, most live the first stages of their life essentially as a fish, before undergoing a radical metamorphosis that transforms them into an…
Frogs coping with fatal fungus in Panamanian forest, study finds
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Frogs in a tropical forest in Panama are doing better than scientists believed after a devastating fungus slashed population numbers and wiped out entire species about a decade ago. In…
Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian
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A team of scientists from Seychelles, the United States and the United Kingdom has found a new caecilian, perhaps the smallest species of the legless amphibian on Earth. "As soon…
Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report
by Claire Salisbury 6 October 2017
14 million Amazon animals and plants — caiman skins, turtles, parrots, orchids and more — are legally exported annually. Illegal trafficking levels are unknown.
Ongoing mass extinction causing 'biological annihilation,' new study says
by John C. Cannon 11 July 2017
Habitat loss, over-hunting and climate change are just a few of the human-induced changes to the Earth that biologists say are driving the planet's "sixth mass extinction." Research has shown…
Two new clown tree frogs discovered in the Amazon
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Two new species of clown tree frogs have been discovered in the Amazonian rainforests of Bolivia and Peru. Clown frogs are widespread throughout the Amazon region and get their name…
Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk
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A species has just three options in the face of environmental change: move, adapt or die. As global temperatures rise many species are shifting their ranges, particularly towards the cooler…
Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease
by Elizabeth Devitt 13 February 2017
The legal commercial exotic animal trade is a booming enterprise that ships ornamental fish, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians around the world. These pets, livestock and other animals can carry…
Bright lights, big city, tiny frog: Romer's tree frog survives Hong Kong
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Romer's tree frog is, in every respect, an animal that keeps out of the way. Start with its size: averaging just 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters (0.6 to 1 inches) in…
Replanting oil palm plantations reduces frog diversity, but researchers say there are ways to fix that
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It's well known that when forests are converted to palm oil plantations, biodiversity suffers. But oil palm trees only last for about 25 to 30 years, at which point they…
Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia's Almost Famous Animals
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This is the first of 20 Mongabay stories highlighting Almost Famous Asian Animals — all to be published by the end of 2016. You can find the complete Almost Famous…
Will mining company drive mass extinction of Madagascar's wildlife?
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Madagascar's unique wildlife may be in serious trouble. An invasive poisonous toad, called the Asian toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus), is rapidly spreading across the island country, threatening the survival of its…
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What issues to be watching during the Paris climate talks [Nature] There is a little more than week left of the climate talks in Paris and tension has been building…
The inadequate global zoo response to the amphibian extinction crisis
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Amphibians have experienced massive declines worldwide, and scientists estimate that as many as 200 frog species have been lost in just the last two decades. A recent study, published in…
Poisonous amphibians may be more likely to go extinct
by Erin E.A. Ross 23 November 2015
Amphibians occupy almost every ecological niche, from the highest tropical trees to the most fetid pools of desert water. Brightly colored and cryptically camouflaged, they have evolved an astounding array…
Scientists find a fix for a 'frog's worst nightmare'
by Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 September 2015
The authors of a study published this week say riverbank forests could hold a key to saving frogs on palm oil plantations.
Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus
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New chytrid fungus may threaten hundreds of salamander species As if amphibians weren't facing enough—a killer fungal disease, habitat destruction, pollution, and global warming—now scientists say that a second fungal…
The Search for Lost Frogs: one of conservation's most exciting expeditions comes to life in new book
An interview with Robin Moore, author of the new book, In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians The Cuchumatan golden toad (Incilius aurarius) from…


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    template<typename, typename, typename, typename> struct Get;
    template<typename, typename, typename, typename, typename> struct Put;
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Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California, to singers/actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was an actress and writer known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). Fisher is also known for her book, "Postcards from the Edge", and she wrote the screenplay for the movie based on her novel. Carrie Fisher and talent agent Bryan Lourd have a daughter, Billie Lourd (Billie Catherine Lourd), born on July 17, 1992. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jen Kilmer
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Who are those "Vanilla Midgets" on the Patriots Offense? Moneyball, White Athletes, and the New England Patriots Chase a Dynasty
Tonight's Super Bowl between the New York Giants and white America's team, the New England Patriots, is beautiful racial theater. Tom Brady and a team of - what the media would derisively call - 'vanilla midgets' (the very white Wes Welker, Julian Edelman, and Danny Woodhead - will face the Giants in a rematch of the Super Bowl where Eli Manning out-dueled the Patriots back in 2008. Not to mention the incredibly talented white tight end Rob Gronkowski, the 2011 Patriots were an offensive unit largely paced by white athletes.
Wes Welker (middle) and Rob Gronkowski, both had 1,000 yards receiving in 2012. Tom Brady is far left.
Here's the latest column at Vdare.com that I did, on the game:
The 2011 National Football League season ends Sunday February 5, when the New England Patriots play the New York Giants for the Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl XLVI. Last year, the Superbowl game broke television rating records, with more than 111 million people watching the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Fox. Football has unmistakably supplanted baseball as America's new "national pastime".
The popularity of the NFL is due to various factors. The regular season consists of only 16 games, meaning it's not impossibly time-consuming to follow your favorite team or player. And the NFL has instituted revenue-sharing from the awe-inspiring television contracts it has signed with networks like Fox, NBC, CBS, and ESPN, imposing a variant of socialism to ensure all teams have the same salary cap—the amount of money available to attract players. This creates a level financial field for every team—and means the NFL is more of a horse race (so to speak).
In contrast, professional baseball doesn't have a salary cap. That's why a team like the New York Yankees has a payroll of more than $202 million in 2012, compared to the Kansas City Royals' $36 million. And when you can buy the best players and sign quality depth, a baseball team can basically mortgage the future of the franchise for a World Series victory. Indeed, the Florida Marlins have done this twice, in 1997 and 2003.
Still, Moneyball (book by Michael Lewis book, movie with Brad Pitt) is the definitive account of how Billy Beane, the Oakland A's idiosyncratic but imaginative general manager, was able to turn a franchise with one of the smallest payrolls into one of the most competitive teams in baseball by finding what economists would call market inefficiencies in how talent was evaluated by scouts.
Beane's idea, according to Lewis:
What he believed was what Paul Volcker seemed to suspect, that the market for baseball players was so inefficient, and the general grasp of sound baseball strategy so weak, that superior management could still run circles around taller piles of cash.
Beane sought more effective metrics for evaluating talent, assembled a team of supposed nobodies, and turned them into a ruthlessly efficient machine for winning games.
It worked. The A's competed successfully with big-market teams flush with huge piles of cash, like the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, repeatedly making it to the playoffs and winning 20 games in a row in 2002, breaking an American League record.
Beane had proved that market inefficiencies existed and revolutionized how baseball players are evaluated.
Of course, the situation is more complex in the NFL. Managers don't have quite as free a hand, because the concept of a level-playing field is the unofficial mantra of the league—the team that finishes with worst record automatically gets the best positions in the NFL draft that year.
But the amazing success of the New England Patriots under head coach Bill Belichick, now competing in their fifth Super Bowl (they've won three), shows that market inefficiencies also exist in NFL scouting.
And significantly, under Belichick, the Patriots have consistently fielded one of the whitest rosters in the sport. When you consider that the NFL has been 67 -70 percent Black over the past 15 years, it becomes increasingly clear that something strange is happening in New England. Why?
My view, as I argued in a prior column on Tim Tebow here at VDARE.com is that the NFL has a systematic anti-white bias.
Only one MSM sportswriter, the remarkable Jason Whitlock of Fox, has had the audacity to broach this subject. As a black guy, he can get away with writing about race.
Back in 2007, Whitlock argued bluntly that the abhorrent culture predominant in black America would eventually turn off white American football fans from black athletes (it happened in professional basketball) and, worse, damage the Black role in the game:
You get one NFL Truth today. Watching Chad Johnson and Larry Johnson undermine their respective head coaches, Marvin Lewis and Herm Edwards, on Sunday gave me a singular focus, forced me to contemplate an uncomfortable truth.
African-American football players caught up in the rebellion and buffoonery of hip hop culture have given NFL owners and coaches a justifiable reason to whiten their rosters. That will be the legacy left by Chad, Larry and Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, Terrell Owens, Michael Vick and all the other football bojanglers.
In terms of opportunity for American-born black athletes, they're going to leave the game in far worse shape than they found it.
It's already starting to happen. A little-publicized fact is that the Colts and the Patriots are the league's model franchises and are two of the whitest teams in the NFL. If you count rookie receiver Anthony Gonzalez, the Colts opened the season with an NFL-high 24 white players on their 53-man roster. Toss in linebacker Naivote Taulawakeiaho "Freddie" Keiaho and 47 percent of Tony Dungy's defending Super Bowl-champion roster is non-African-American. Bill Belichick's Patriots are nearly as white, boasting a 23-man non-African-American roster, counting linebacker Tiaina "Junior" Seau and backup quarterback Matt Gutierrez.
For some reason, these facts are being ignored by the mainstream media. Could you imagine what would be written and discussed by the media if the Yankees and the Red Sox were chasing World Series titles with 11 African-Americans on their 25-man rosters (45 percent)?
We would be inundated with information and analysis on the social significance. Well, trust me, what is happening with the roster of the Patriots and the Colts and with Roger Goodell's disciplinary crackdown are all socially significant.
[NFL truth: Hip-hop culture hurting NFL by Jason Whitlock, October 25, 2007]
Whitlock wrote about the racial dynamics of the Indianapolis Colts again in 2010, pointing out that the Peyton Manning-led offensive unit played 10 whites (out of 11 available positions). The lone black player on the field was a running back. As he said:
"The unwritten rule in sports writing/journalism is we're only supposed to mention racial progress when it involves dark-skin minorities. Obviously, I don't care about rules."[NFL Truths: Colts offense has white stuff, Foxsports.com, Sept. 30, 2010]
And a recent Whitlock column on the Patriots' game with the Baltimore Ravens—the winner was to go on to the Super Bowl—was perhaps the most racially combustible of his career:
Ravens-Patriots — Tom Brady vs. Ray Lewis — is a cultural war of the highest order.
Look, we can tip-toe around it, ignore the big beautiful elephant in the room, or we can embrace the fact that Sunday's AFC Championship contest is soaked in the white-black racial component that has driven American sports passion at least since Jack Johnson whipped James J. Jeffries.
The stakes are high this Sunday.
Brady leads an offense built in his image. In a league that is predominantly black, Brady directs a high-flying offense that is predominantly white and relies on a deep cast of white playmakers.
Lewis leads a defense built in his brash image. Nine of the 11 Ravens defenders are African-American. To compensate for Baltimore's inconsistent offense, Lewis' defense not only takes risks to create turnovers, they take even more risks trying to convert those turnovers into instant points.
[Ravens-Patriots is ultimate cultural clash, by Jason Whitlock, Fox Sports, January 20, 2012]
Obviously, the Patriots won.
The Patriots' All-Pro quarterback Tom Brady has consistently had five white offensive lineman protecting him (take a look at this famous 2005 Visa commercial with Brady's lineman) during the team's unbelievable run in the 2000s, where they set the NFL record for wins in a decade.
But of course, we can't talk about this (outside of VDARE.com). Michael Holley recently published an excellent book, War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team,, on the machine that Belichick has built in New England. But, typically, he didn't mention the racial aspect of the team even once.
However, recently-retired former Patriots white fullback Heath Evans, whose career was rejuvenated by New England after he was waived by the Miami Dolphins, was devastatingly frank in an interview with the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Jeff Duncan
"You have some teams that are racially divided. You have some teams that are positionally divided. Some teams divided between offense and defense. Everyone has to buy in and be on the same page."
Nurturing such an environment in the "me generation" can be difficult. If not managed properly, the wealth and fame associated with the NFL can be hazardous to a locker room's cultural health.
"I believe the difference between winning and losing, between first and last place, is this much," Evans said, holding his thumb and index finger an inch apart. "Not every team has great leadership."[Saints make effort to limit culture shock, August 02, 2009]
Evans got his chance to start at running back for Belichick's Patriots —something he was denied at Auburn University, which he attributed it to his whiteness. And he ran for 84 yards on 17 carries, and caught three passes for 18 yards, in a game against the same team that had just cut him.
Similarly, the key contributors to the 2011 Patriots offense have primarily been white players overlooked and undervalued by the other 31 franchises—until they were all signed by the Patriots and allowed to mature as a team together.
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Michael Oriard, writing in Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Sport, included a chapter titled 'Football in Black and White' where he wrote this paragraph in regards to the conspicuous whiteness of the Patriots:
Here I cannot document my claims, because no one would have been foolish enough to write such things, but I am certain that in 2004 [Tom] Brady (and Peyton Manning) appeared whiter to football fans than any white quareterbacks before them, because of the many black quarterbacks jockeying with them for NFL supremacy. I am also sure that the Patrios were coded white, the Eagles black, in the racial theater of the 2005 Super Bowl, and not just because of Brady.
As the media constantly reminded us over the course of the season and through the playoffs, under Bill Belichick the Patriot players did not celebrate, they put the team ahead of themselves, and several of them signed for less money to remain with the club. Their most notable off-season acquisition, running back Corey Dillon, had arrived with the reputation of a selfish troublemaker only to be reborn as another Patriot team player. Dillon was black, as were key Patriots such as Willie McGinest, Richard Seymour, Rodney Harrison, and Deion Branch. The Patriots were black and white, like every other team in the NFL. But they seemed the whitest team in professional football because what they stood for had been coded "white" in a racial mythology that began in white bigotry, persisted less openly with the end of segregation, and had been fed in recent years by black showmanship.
Black showmanship. Let's be honest, most Black players in the NFL actively engage in strange celebrations that appear to be scripted from a Jim Crow-era Minstrel Show. One such player Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, made a career based on his extracurricular activities and showmanship. After signing this season with the Patriots this season (he has only 15 receptions all year), Ochocinco has embraced the Patriots overt-white style of play.
He called the Patriots offensive-style of play "a machine"-- it should be noted that that offense is the whitest in the NFL:
Reacting to quarterback Tom Brady throwing for 517 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-24 win over Miami, Ochocinco tweeted: "Just waking up after a late arrival, I've never seen a machine operate like that n person, to see video game numbers put up n person was WOW."
Despite the Patriots marching up and down the field, Ochocinco had only one catch for 14 yards. Five New England receivers had more yards and three of the five had touchdown receptions.
ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi, appearing on sports radio WEEI, said Ochocinco better "drop the awe factor" and "stop tweeting and get in your playbook."
Bruschi added that Ochocinco shouldn't be looking at the Patriots' performance from a fan's perspective, but instead should assume this is the team's expectation.
"You're not someone who's on another team or watching TV," Bruschi said. "You're not an analyst. You're a part of it. They want you to be a part of it. So get with the program because obviously you're not getting it and you're tweeting because you're saying, 'It's amazing to see'? It's amazing to see because you don't understand it. You still don't understand it and it's amazing to you because you can't get it.
Fifteen catches. That's all. Most of the NFL is just one Minstrel Show in between actual football. The Patriots?
They've turned the concept of Moneyball on its head; they find undervalued white players (as of late) and turn them - as a unit, a team - into winners. Don't be shocked if a bunch of white guys beat the Giants by a few touchdowns tonight. Don't be shocked if other teams realize the obvious racial aspects of the Patriots team unity.
YIH said...
Guess this the official SB thread.
Pats to cover.
"the Florida Marlins have done this twice, in 1997 and 2003."
For the record, the 2003 Marlins had a low payroll, I think it was around $55 million. Other than Pudge Rodriguez, they were a bunch of rookies and unknowns. The NY Yankees (who they defeated in the World Series) payroll was about $160 million.
Zenster said...
In terms of opportunity for American-born black athletes, they're going to leave the game in far worse shape than they found it. [emphasis added]
Yet another indication that wherever Blacks go, they have an unavoidable urge to foul the nest.
Charles Martel said...
Do your job, stop dancing, act like you've been there before. A simple focus on hard work seems alien to a mind like Chad Johnson. This is of course no real surprise to those of us who have been subjected to the ever increasing Soul Train like celebrations of even the most mundane completed plays.
I still remember the embarrassing Ickie shuffle and crying on the inside as McMahon embarrassed all of us real human beings with his Super-bowl Shuffle rap.
The joke will finally be on BRA if their wildest dreams are made real and all large cities become copies of Detroit. Having an entire country devoted to lying about its' accomplishments, being unaccountable for its' crimes and being unappreciative of any real opportunities it has been given has a very very very low chance of survival.
Okay let's be honest NO CHANCE. Liberia, Haiti, Detroit and Niger are some great examples of what will happen to the whole world if BRA isn't stopped and indeed driven back into the Sub-Saharan from whence it came.
A good article might be to chart the rise of petroleum based products, free medical care and the surging populations of blacks.
Anonymous (February 5, 2012 2:42 PM): For the record, the 2003 Marlins had a low payroll, I think it was around $55 million. Other than Pudge Rodriguez, they were a bunch of rookies and unknowns. The NY Yankees (who they defeated in the World Series) payroll was about $160 million.
I would compare this sort of capitalization upon "market inefficiencies" with the strategy used last year by the San Fransisco Giants which led to their long-awaited World Series win.
By hoovering up a bunch of players that were cut in mid-season, not only did the SF Giants get some real basement bargains, they also got a bunch of guys who, quite literally, had everything to win and everything to lose.
Had these newcomers not accepted the Giants' offer, they might have seen their careers stall or fail entirely. Instead, they had a chance to play Major League ball and managed to help secure their team a victory that would forever boost their own overall career earning power.
Rarely does one see this sort of win-win in today's professional sports. Most certainly not in the NFL's moneyball minstrel show (hat tip: Jason Whitlock).
Is it smart to back a particular team based on race? The Giants don't look particularly blacker or whiter than the Pats.
My issue with it all is the constant stoppage of play. If play were more or less continous, like Rugby, your black players wouldn't be able to cope. They need coaching continuously and plenty of breathers.
Van said...
"racial mythology that began in white bigotry, persisted less openly with the end of segregation, and had been fed in recent years by black showmanship."
Let's see if I follow: "stereotype" exists about how blacks behave. Said "stereotype" is deemed "racist." When given the opportunity to behave as they please, without external pressure from an outside culture, blacks behave in a way that confirms previous "stereotype." Conclusion: whites are racist.
I would've gone the other way, and concluded that the behavior of blacks, when they are allowed to create their own culture, if congruent with previous expectations, would in fact validate those expectations, and remove the "racist" accusations. But what do I know? My MS, including coursework in research and methodology, and decade of related work experience, have nothing to do with such things.
Old-line SEC fan here. Despite not clicking until the last drive of the half, the Patriots lead 10-9 at halftime.
So Hank Williams,Jr gets fired for making an analogy between Obama/Boehner and Hitler/Netanyaho, comparing the relationships (but never actually calling Obama Hitler) and gets fired.
But Madonna, who in fact DID call GWB Hitler, is OK to perform at the Super Bowl. With a guy who attempted to assault Mitt Romney on a plane a few years ago.
What the fuck is wrong with this country?
White America's team? What is this, a joke? The team is 60% black. They're white America's team because they are only 60% black rather than 88%? Look at this:
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0902/history.feb6/images/corey-dillon.jpg
Lew said...
I haven't followed the Patriots this year. This White RB Woodhead looks pretty good.
Has anyone ever openly criticized the Patriots for being too White? If so, I've never seen it.
"ever increasing Soul Train like celebrations of even the most mundane completed plays."
I noticed a (black) Giants player celebrating after a tackle. After the play went for a first down. I believe it was an end-around to Welker.
I seriously can't stand Betty White. Enough.
Old-line SEC fan here. Oriard played for Notre Dame and then a few years with the Kanss City Chiefs. He is sort of a Tim Wise of football.
Anonymous (February 5, 2012 5:12 PM): White America's team? What is this, a joke?
Do you even bother to read the article?
The Patriots were black and white, like every other team in the NFL. But they seemed the whitest team in professional football because what they stood for had been coded "white" in a racial mythology that began in white bigotry, persisted less openly with the end of segregation, and had been fed in recent years by black showmanship. [emphasis added]
Capiche?
Sure, it would be nice if there was an all-White team in the NFL. With today's blind adherence to the myth of Black athletic superiority, that just isn't going to happen. Not anytime soon, if ever. That is, unless Liberia finally realizes its original charter.
Baldowl said...
My head is about to explode. I've just heard "She Sells Sanctuary" sampled in some god-awful (c)rap song used in a commercial.
To waste your life on what black folks are doing.
I just got kicked out of the STOP Racist Unfair Campaign at Facebook, presumably for being a racist. Don't take any facts over there; all they want is fairy tales about peace and racial harmony.
According to the almost-there DWLs at the "STOP Racist Unfair Campaign" facebook page, some of the billboards put up by the "Un-Fair Campaign" have either come down or been painted over with black:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Stopunfaircampaign/
Tim Phipps: Has anyone seen the unfaircampaign.org billboard on I35 today? I think it's gone.
Megan Cobb: Really?!?
Tim Phipps: I know that the billboard at central ave & I35 was black on both sides about an hour ago
BadOwl....maybe have several accounts, and remember the govt thru google and facebook is watching you.
As a white guy, I am upset that Welker dropped that wide open pass with 4 minutes left in the game. If he catches that, the Patriots probably win, or at least eat more clock and are in field goal range. They would have had a first down deep in NY territory.
Welker is never going to forget that one.
Good thing I didn't put any money on it.
The Patriots pissed that game away, just like '08.
MIA gives the finger at the Super Bowl. Way to go, you just made Janet Jackson look classy. Just another in a long line of talentless performers who are more content to be infamous for their actions than recognized for their ability.
There was a hope in the 1960's that the blacks would become more like middle-class whites. That hope is dead, the sad truth is that they are debasing us.
Love the blog and I love the Patriots and what they have been able to do, but damn
18-1 forever.
Whiskey said...
The Giants won because their cover guys were/are excellent, allowing the pass rush to make Brady hurry, and miss throws, or throw it away. Well that and BB is tactically unsound, making poor gambles. The better bet was to try and strip the ball from the Giants runners, who have a habit of fumbling around the goal line late in games when they are tired. Just letting the guy fall in was a bad move, it required Brady to score a touchdown with less than a minute a proven Giants Secondary that could shut down receivers deep in man coverage.
The reason the Pats lost both Superbowls I think is that while they are very, very good, and methodical, they can't cope very well with peaking teams built upon defense and with a streaky QB/Offense. That's the Giants, and the Colts who booted them once in the playoffs to win the Superbowl against Chicago IIRC.
BB's team is pretty much just offense. His defense is fairly suspect, just average without shut-down backfields or super-duty linemen or star linebackers. They don't stink up the place, but they rely on Brady putting up lots of points. There was that one throw that Eli made to Manningham, down the sideline, that should have been batted away. But it was man coverage and the guy was out of position.
The Pats have a problem with a team that suddenly gets healthy (not much recent film on their tendencies) defensively and has a streaky offense/QB that can get hot late in the season. That pretty much typifies their losses to the Giants and the Colts in recent years. NE's coaching staff is first-rate, but against a team that suddenly has new people on defense, and performs far above past norms on offense, they have problems. They can't shut down their opponents offense, and give up big plays; while having trouble acting like a "machine" with a rejuvenated defense with guys they can't say, time and come up with a blocking scheme to handle.
The signing of Haynesworth and Chad were troubling -- they didn't work out, predictably, and signal a shift from BB to perhaps the owner running the player personnel. Neither were his kind of players, disciplined and hungry.
Meanwhile the Giants are adopting the same BB-driven Moneyball approach, a couple of guys were picked up after being cut or from other rosters.
So CAL Snowman said...
Whiskey- The pats lost because Gronkowski was NO WHERE NEAR 100%. Plain and simple. They didnt have to focus on him at all and were able to DOUBLE WELKER and Zone up wherever Hernandez went. The Pats D played pretty damn well holding the Giants to 21 points. Yeah their cover guys were SHIT but they held Victor Cruz in check most of the night. Like someone above mentioned, if Welker catches that 3rd down pass the game is OVER. As for BB taking gambles, well what the hell else is he supposed to do with that defense? He had to try to force turnovers.
Whiskey, did you watch the game? If Welker makes that catch late in the 4th quarter the game is over. He dropped it, the clock stopped and the Pats could not convert a 3rd and 11. This gave the ball back to the Giants with too much time. Had Welker caught that pass, the Pats would have eaten the clock and scored either a FG or TD leaving the Giants too little time to do anything.
Well, at least you did not bring white women into your analysis.
eh said...
Has to be seen as the goat of the game for sure.
Which is not to say the outcome would necessarily have been different had he caught the ball.
That Welker "drop" is a badly overthrow of Brady. Welker was wide open, no one within 5yards of him, and Brady just threw it too high and to Welker's left. If Brady hits Welker between the numbers, as he should have done, they win the game.
Bad throw from Brady at a crucial moment.
AM said...
That Welker drop cost them the game big time. Don't forget the two horrible drops on Brady's final drive either.
"That Welker "drop" is a badly overthrow of Brady. Welker was wide open, no one within 5yards of him, and Brady just threw it too high and to Welker's left. If Brady hits Welker between the numbers, as he should have done, they win the game.
Bad throw from Brady at a crucial moment."
Lol, if Welker was black he would have caught it!
Old-line SEC fan here.
Regarding the comment by Anon 8:19,
I couldn't begin to count the times I have seen black receivers drop a pass in crucial situations far, far easier to catch than the one Welker dropped last night. Furthermore, why was the decision made to allow players to wear gloves? Do you think having so many blacks playing had something to do with it?
"Lol, if Welker was black he would have caught it! "
You mean like black Branch did just after Welker's "drop"? Oh wait, Branch's catch was far more easier to make, and he still didnt catch it, not to mention the other huge drop by the black Branch on Patriots final drive.
And why oh why Welker's drop is repeated endlessly, why Branch's drops are never mentioned?
And Branch first drop was entirely his fault, if he stops running in the middle of the field, where Brady threw it, it would hit Branch right between his numbers. Easy catch.
Branch kept running, and his momentum would have carried him behind a safety, who could have battered down the pass, thats why Brady threw it where he threw it. If Branch stops running, he makes easy catch, and the game is won by the Patriots.
@"if Welker was black he would have caught it."
LOL! Like Manningham? Who managed to catch a virtually uncatchable ball and keep his feet in bounds?
Look Paul, we appreciate all you do, but this football thing is bit much. The Patriots are NOT America's team. OK?
Also, Welker is a fine football player. He dropped a pass he should have caught. Happens.
Now go dry your tears.
The Fighting Whitey said...
You can't put that drop on Welker. The pass was well off the mark, and it would have been an incredible catch.
You can't count on incredible.
Pats lost because they couldn't run the ball and didn't deal well enough with the Giants pass rush.
Marc B said...
A few blacks were talking Super Bowl while I was picking up my rental car. They mentioned that since Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and especially Baltimore were out, they would be pulling for the Giants. It was predictable for blacks to mention teams with high black representation or identity as their favorites. I told them I'd like to see Brady get his brass-knuckle's worth of Super Bowl rings and be remembered as one of the best who ever played the game and they were stunned. The brotherman has no problem pulling for their own in either the NFL or the eternal fight.
I Bleed Blue said...
@It was predictable for blacks to mention teams with high black representation or identity as their favorites."
Asshole, the Giants to me are Eli Manning and his field hands.
Discard said...
I Bleed Blue: "Field hands", I love it. But I think that Manning's Nigras are a bit too uppity. They need to learn to end the huddle with a shout of "Yassuh, Boss!"
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School of St Jude founder visits home
Gemma Sisia, a former Australian teacher and founder of the renowned School of St Jude in Tanzania, was back on home soil this month to thank the donors who help her educate poor families in her adopted country. Gemma's achievements are well known through the Archdiocese, documented in regular reports in The Catholic Leader.
Her Catholic school continues to grow after it started 15 years ago with just three students. There are now 1900 students thanks to the support of donors, including strong support from Queensland.
On her recent visit, the mother of four took part in a quick question-and-answer session.
Is intelligence born or made?
It is born. I think students have it, however they have to have the matched work ethic. We had over 7,000 students sit the aptitude tests for less than 70 scholarships in 2016. It's very competitive. There are kids in government schools who are clearly very bright but lack the necessary drive. We have a student heading off to study aeronautical engineering in the U.S. Her mother was a tailor and sadly died, but before that happened she took her daughter to work. She worked in the homes of private school students and her daughter asked for notes and papers from the students and taught herself.
I used to have a picture of Mother Teresa in my bedroom. I also admire my parents because I grew up in a home where helping people are normal. We lived on farm in Glen Innes in NSW. There were 10 to 20 mattresses on the veranda at times for people who were having business or family issues. It didn't matter where you were; you never missed Mass on Sunday. I'm a bit lazier now, but I try to get to Mass most Sundays. I learnt that whatever you do, you do it to the best of your ability. While our kids are poor, I want them to learning in the best facilities.
What is your proudest moment?
Being a mother of four. We have two boys, 15 and 13 and two girls, eight and four. Being able to build the School of St Jude while having a growing family and having my sanity still in tact.
What would you like your legacy to be?
I would look to be known by my kids as being a good mum and the kids that go through the school to have good moral values. I still think the Ten Commandments are very relevant. Our core values are respect, responsibility, honesty and kindness.
What would you be if you weren't running the School of St Jude?
I would be a full time mum, which I would love.
Favourite band/singer?
Garth Brooks, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Barnes.
Favourite colour?
Favourite quote?
To donate contact www.schoolofstjude.org