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A Primal Diet for Modern Times
In this excellent video series from Peakmoment TV, Nora Gedgaudas, author of the book Primal Body, Primal Mind, explains the diet humans should eat and why we have thrived on this diet for a very, very long time, in fact throughout all of human history.
This is a two part video that will take you about an hour to watch altogether, but by the time you’re finished, you will know a great deal about what you should eat, why your ancestors ate that way and what caused this diet to be the perfectly designed nutritional plan for us.
“Fat, to us means survival…. Dietary fat is the most nutrient-dense thing we can consume, rich in fat-soluble nutrients, and essential for the functioning of our brain and nervous systems.”
All Mammals Live on Fat
Nora talks about the fact that ALL Mammals live off a high fat diet, either by feeding their microbes or directly eating fat, this can be found at 22 minutes into the video.
The video below starts at the point she begins talking about this eye opening fact, Mammals Live on Fat:
All Mammals Live On High Fat Nutrition
Section starts at 22:26 and ends at 25:26
Here’s a transcript of what she said:
“It turns out that literally all mammals are designed to get their primary caloric intake from dietary fat. As a matter of fact, mostly primarily, saturated fat. And this includes things like cows and goats and even gorillas.
And the way this works is that, in cows what happens is, of course they eat a carbohydrate based diet, and if you’re going to eat a carbohydrate based diet, what do you see them doing all day, now they’re physiologically designed to eat carbohydrates all day long. They eat plants based foods all day long, and that’s what they do all day long, their faces are on the ground, they’re in the bushes, whatever else, they’re eating constantly to meet their nutrient requirements.
But, they take that food in, and it goes into the gut, and then it gets fermented by bacteria. And what the bacteria ultimately produce out of that, is butyric acid, it’s a short-chain saturated fat, called butyric acid.
Cows get 70% to 80% of their actual caloric intake from that fermentation byproduct. So they’re eating the carbohydrates, but they’re not operating on glucose either. They’re operating on a fat based metabolism.
As are gorillas, 66.9% of their caloric intake comes from the same type of short-chain saturated fats, from the bacterial fermentation.
But these animals either have four stomachs or they have a greatly expanded large intestine and a much smaller small intestine, that are just chocked full of these bacteria designed to do nothing else all day long, but help to manufacture the nutrients they need for their sustenance.
We have a greatly expanded short intestine, a much shorter large intestine, that renders us in need of getting these foods directly from, getting these nutrients directly from the foods we eat, as opposed to relying on bacteria to manufacture them for us.
That’s literally how we’re designed, and we are designed on that regard to the extreme. I mean, no other primate even comes close to the requirements we have, for fat, for protein. We’re really at an extreme, the evidence is absolutely clear that once we adopt ketones as the primary source of fuel, literally our cerebral blood flow and oxygenation increase by over 39%, in normal human brains.”
Guess what food has the most butyric acid, the type Nora Gedgaudes talks about above?
That’s right – Butter
Here’s a link to see the nutritional breakdown of Butter: Nutrition Data
Foods that are high in short chain fatty acids
Cultured Sour Cream
Goat and Cow Cheeses
Heavy Whipping Cream
If, that’s not enough, here’s an great article on the health benefits of butyric acid (the fatty acid, butter is named after)
Most diets cause you to use “will power” to eat less, but this doesn’t work for long for most people. The LCHF (low carb/high fat) diet turns off the “out of control hunger urges” that you’ve struggled with all your life and gives you control, gives you freedom without using “will power”. This will enable to do what is called “intermittent fasting”. Intermittent Fasting or Short-term fasting. You need to learn about this wonderful and easy process of not eating and all the many things it can do to help you lose weight and reverse many of the health issues a high insulin level causes. The most complete source of information on intermittent fasting can be gained all in one convenient book, which I highly recommend. I’ve written a critical review of some of the parts, but I still think “Eat Stop Eat” is the best fasting book you can find at this time. See my REVIEW at this link – http://www.buttermakesyourpantsfalloff.com/fasting-is-the-cure/
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or other medical professional. Individual Results may vary.

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Delaware State Police have identified the driver who died in the crash of a Jaguar F-PACE Friday, July 12 on Pole Bridge Road near Acorn Drive.
UPDATE, July 16:
The Delaware State Police have identified the woman who died in a single-vehicle crash Friday, July 12 on Pole Bridge Road near Port Penn as Denise C. Wall, 61, of Townsend.
ORIGINAL REPORT, July 13:
Delaware State Police are investigating a fatal crash that happened Friday night near Port Penn, northeast of Odessa.
The incident happened at about 8:46 p.m., when a 2018 Jaguar F-PACE was traveling east on Pole Bridge Road approaching Acorn Drive.
At that intersection, the roadway veers to the left, but the Jaguar continued straight and entered the front yard of a residence on Acorn Drive. The vehicle struck a road sign, ran over a small tree and then struck a larger tree. The vehicle continued traveling out of control across the yard, with the passenger side hitting another tree. Then the vehicle burst into flames.
The woman driver, the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identity remains unknown and is pending notification of next of kin.
Speed is being considered a factor in this crash, police said.
Police are asking anyone with information to call Sgt. Alexander at Troop 2 at (302) 365-8437.


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Following an agreement to alleviate a global food crisis, a UN-chartered vessel loaded with grain departed from Ukraine on Tuesday for Africa, according to the ministry in charge of supplies.
According to the infrastructure ministry’s Telegram post, the MV Brave Commander has departed the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi and is headed to Djibouti “for handover to Ethiopia.”
There are 23,000 tonnes of wheat on board. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February, this is the first ship chartered by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to leave Ukraine, and the administration has expressed the expectation that two or three other cargoes will follow soon.
Ukraine and Russia are two of the world’s biggest grain exporters.
Following Russia’s invasion, Kyiv and Moscow accepted a deal mediated by the UN and Turkey last month to resume grain shipments over the Black Sea.
The accord opened safe passageways through the naval mines that Kiev had planted and eased a Russian blockade on Ukraine’s ports.
According to the Ukrainian port authorities, five boats carrying a combined 110,000 tonnes of goods departed Ukraine on Tuesday.
On August 1, the first commercial ship carrying grain sailed away. According to the port authority’s statement, 21 ships have left Ukrainian ports since that time.
The WFP says a record 345 million people in 82 countries face acute food insecurity and up to 50 million people in 45 countries are on the brink of famine and risk being tipped over the edge without humanitarian support.
“We are definitely planning other ships to leave the ports of Ukraine, to help people around the world,” Marianne Ward, WFP deputy country director in Ukraine, told journalists earlier while the ship was being loaded at the weekend.
“This should just be the first of many humanitarian ships to leave the ports,” she said.
The United States stated on Tuesday night that it would give the WFP an additional $68 million.
According to Samantha Powers, head of the US Agency for International Development, the money will be used “to acquire, transfer, and store up to 150,000 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat to assist respond to the global food crisis.”

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Sludge anyone? By Mark Weisseg
This is the last update on my Model A for a while so pay attention. We decided to pull the oil pan as the car has been sitting twenty five years. For all you non math wizards that is a quarter of a century. Or, a long time. What was discovered on Sunday was about a quarter inch of sludge in the bottom of the pan. Now, that is not too bad I guess for sitting that long, but it still is sludge that eventually would have been cycled into the engine when it got hot. I have a picture of the crankshaft and bearings from down below and amazingly they look pristine. So, with scraper in hand the manual labor of a restoration begins. The pan was soaked in the parts cleaner fluid to loosen up the nasty stuff first. Then, the scraping began. Once all of it is as clean as a fresh fucked Robin in spring time will it go back together. Of course all new quality gaskets will be used. Also, a new distributor will go in and several other top side parts. All new gaskets up there just in case there was a leak. But, the engine has been run so little since I got it we figured all new gaskets is the way to go. We do not want leaking oil anywhere for obvious reasons. So, while taking some parts off I decided on a new cap and spark plugs as well as coil. I mentioned the distributor earlier along with a new gear at the base. I want good strong fuel and a good strong spark to fire that 40 horsepower. So, when we return from the SEMA trip it all goes back together and we will restart it again. This time we will let the engine with its new oil get hot so we can see how she will run at true temperatures. A few more wiring issues and then the road tests begin. Road worthiness is not just that the engine runs. We installed all new brakes. And, all new steering parts just like the last project. The car must be as safe as it was new. Everything must be tight and worthy for me to get behind the wheel. No short cuts or cheap ways out of this mechanical restoration. With new tires, brakes, steering parts and a engine that has been gone through correctly I will be happy to drive it and show it. This one is all about originality but the next one will be the street hot rod. One job at a time to stay focused and near budget. Once we get the car on the road and safely driving I will report back to all of you. In the meantime look for me at SEMA. I am the tall one.


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Bloodborne Pathogens and YOU!
Recorded On: 05/18/2022
Bloodborne pathogens are infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include but are not limited to, hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Needlesticks and other sharps-related injuries may expose workers to bloodborne pathogens. This one-hour program was developed to assist you in identifying the ways disease can be transmitted through body fluids while identifying ways to provide protection to you, the caregiver. The program will discuss personal protection equipment and standard precautions as they related to your work environment. At the completion of this session, post-test and evaluation, one contact hour for licensed nurses will be awarded through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and licensed Administrators will receive 0.75 CEU through the National Administrator Board (NAB).
- Define what a bloodborne pathogen is
- Identify ways of transmitting disease through body fluids
- Identify personal protective equipment
- Define standard precautions
Attendees will be awarded 1.0 ANCC contact hours for completing the course/webinar.
Program Start Date: 04/05/2023 | Program Review Date 04/04/2026
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CHARLOTTE FLAIR made history as she returned to WWE for the first time in six months.
The 34-year-old has been out of action after undergoing surgery on her breast implants.
But Flair made an incredible comeback during Sunday’s TLC pay-per-view event.
The American star teamed up with Asuka to take on Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler.
She marked her return with a win as she claimed the Women’s Tag Team titles.
Flair is now the fourth Women’s Grand Slam champion in the history of WWE.
She has previously won the NXT plus the Raw and Smackdown Women’s Championships.
And she is the only wrestler in history to have held the WWE Divas Championship.
Flair needed time away from wrestling to mend a cosmetic issue from a previous boob job.
The former SmackDown women’s champ revealed in 2018 that she

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Extinct cave bears get their DNA sequenced
Thu Jun 2, 2005 7:13 PM BST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the DNA of two extinct cave bears and say their method is accurate enough to try doing it on extinct humans such as Neanderthals, according to a report published on Thursday.
The cave bears are the first extinct animals to have their genes sequenced, and the findings can be used to determine the precise relationship between the 40,000-year-old bears and living species.
But the main message is that the technique should be useful in examining Neanderthal DNA, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"We picked cave bear as an initial test case ancient DNA target because the samples we used in the study are roughly the same age as Neanderthals," said Eddy Rubin of the U.S. Department of Energy, where some of the work was done.
"Our real interest is in hominids which include humans and the extinct Neanderthal -- the only other hominid species that we have to compare with humans. Our nearest living relative is the chimp and that's five million years of divergence," Rubin added in a statement.
The researchers include Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who first extracted and analyzed DNA from Neanderthal bones in 1997.
Paabo's team worked with mitochondrial DNA, which is found in the body of the cell and passed down virtually intact from mothers to their children.
Genetics experts need nuclear DNA -- the kind that is mixed together and passed along from both parents -- to get a real idea of a creature's genetic heritage.
To do this, the international team of researchers turned to cave bear remains from Austria.
"We extracted DNA from a cave bear tooth recovered from Ochsenhalt Cave, Austria and a cave bear bone from Gamssulzen Cave, Austria, dated at 42,290 and 44,160 years before present respectively," they wrote in their report.
They compared the sequences with DNA from dogs, modern bears and other animals, and filtered out obvious contamination from microbes and fungi.
"When people hear about our success, they immediately think about how this strategy could work for dinosaurs," Rubin said.
Dinosaur DNA plays a fictional role in Michael
Crichton's "Jurassic Park," a novel made into a film in which dinosaurs are resurrected using DNA taken from
amber-preserved insects and cloning technology.
While experts have found some soft tissue in 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, it is not at all clear whether any measurable DNA remains.
Rubin said it may also be possible to extract DNA from the remains found in Indonesia of the Flores Man, a small Homo erectus nicknamed "the hobbit" because of its tiny stature. These remains have been dated to just 18,000 years ago.
Hunters Cleared in Aussie Megafauna Extinctions
By Anna Salleh, ABC Science Online
May 31, 2005— Humans and ancient giant marsupials coexisted for at least 15,000 years, according to new findings that re-ignite the debate over how and when Australia's megafauna became extinct.
Archaeologist Judith Field, of the University of Sydney, says the team's findings put to rest one high-profile theory, that humans arrived in Australia and wiped out the megafauna during a relatively brief 1000-year "blitzkrieg."
"In some places people may well have had a role, but in other places they had no role at all," she says.
Field draws her conclusions, reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, from an ancient lake bed at Cuddie Springs, in New South Wales, where she has been working for 14 years.
Field and team found evidence of human occupation including stone tools, charcoal, ochre and modified bone, dating from 36,000 years ago.
These were alongside remains of megafauna, including diprotodon (a giant wombat-like creature), protemnodon (a giant wallaby) and Genyornis newtoni (a giant flightless bird), surviving until 30,000 years ago.
Field said the 6,000-year overlap tells us people and megafauna coexisted there over an extended period. And given a conservative estimate of human arrival in Australia at 45,000 years ago, this means the two coexisted for at least 15,000 years.
She says this is incompatible with the blitzkrieg model, proposed by well known palaeontologist Tim Flannery, director of the South Australian Museum.
"Having a long overlap of humans and megafauna refutes the blitzkrieg argument of Tim Flannery," she says.
Field says her latest findings also challenge "simplistic" theories that climate change was to blame for the extinction, or that humans slowly killed off the megafauna over 10,000 years by hunting and burning their habitat.
She believes megafauna may have died out at different times across Australia, depending on a complex interaction of factors.
A Controversial Site
Cuddie Springs was excluded by scientists who in 2001 calculated the broadly accepted date of megafaunal extinction Australia-wide as being 46,500 years ago.
Those scientists, including Flannery and dating expert Bert Roberts of the University of Wollongong, argued that sediments at the site had been disturbed, making it difficult to use the dates of surrounding sediments to date the bones.
Field and team say they have now confirmed that the bones were not moved after death by measuring rare earth elements (REE) contained in them.
REEs are not found in bones during life, but are relatively common in soils. After an animal dies, they get taken up into the bone and leave a permanent fingerprint or memory of the original burial location, said Field.
But Roberts remains unconvinced.
He says the REE technique is generally used for much older deposits and may not be reliable for deposits as relatively young as Cuddie Springs.
Was Climate Change Responsible?
More evidence that points away from human intervention in the extinction of the megafauna comes from Queensland University of Technology research, published Monday, supporting the idea that climate change was responsible.
Research in the journal Memoirs of the Queensland Museum led by researcher Gilbert Price studied a 30-feet deep section of creek bed in the Darling Downs region in the state's southeast.
The researchers found 44 species ranging from land snails, frogs, lizards and small mammals to giant wombats and kangaroos.
The researchers say this suggests the extinction of Darling Downs megafauna was caused by a massive shift in climate rather than by the arrival of humans who over-hunted animals or destroyed habitats by burning the landscape.
Finely decorated slabs found in a Scottish cairn
5 June 2005
Excavations by Headland Archaeology have provided an opportunity to fully excavate the remains of a Bronze Age funerary cairn near Inverness. This has produced some unusual and unexpected evidence of megalithic rock art.
The sub-circular cairn located in Balblair Quarry, near Beauly (Highlands, Scotland), was approximately 20 metres in diameter and survived to a maximum height of 1 metre. Although the body of the cairn had been substantially robbed in the past, a central cist was still present. Unfortunately the cist had also been robbed, although a few rim sherds of food vessel were recovered. The lack of grave goods was compensated for by the discovery of decoration on three of the internal faces of the sandstone slabs that formed the cist.
In two instances the decoration consisted of simple shallow, pecked cup marks but one slab was far more intricately decorated. On this slab there is a perforation – worked from both faces – a cup mark and a probable third cup surviving at one edge of what was once a presumably larger stone, all seemingly pecked. Most intriguing is a deeply scored but asymmetrical linear decoration for which there are no regional parallels. A similar, albeit inverted incised design can be seen running either away from the perforation, and there is clear evidence of smaller cup marks and lighter pecking around it. This practice of the preliminary tracing of designs can be seen in examples of Irish and Orcadian passage tombs although in this instance further enhancement was not carried out.
The deeper and more prominent incised linear design appears to have been executed with a sharp instrument and this decoration may be later than the deep cup marks. Indeed, in two instances pecking is superimposed over some of the curvilinear design suggesting re-use if not more extensive reworking of an existing stone. Both the perforations and the weathering on both sides of the two decorated side slabs of the cist suggest that both stones were once freestanding or open to the elements; their subsequent incorporation into the cist has almost certainly preserved the apparent freshness of the decoration in any case.
Close by are the remains of a chambered cairn that incorporates similar sandstone slabs that have been imported onto the site from outcropping sources in the near vicinity and it is possible that the slabs within the cist could have come from that locality and been re-used. The perforations and large cups are perhaps of later Neolithic date; smaller motifs, shallow cupmarks for example, are not uncommon in Bronze Age cists.
Headland Archaeology has yet to identify any direct parallels for the incised curvilinear design from Scotland or indeed with any other recorded megalithic art in the British Isles albeit there is a passing similarity to designs on the exterior of the main tomb at Knowth in Ireland. Fragments of food vessel type pottery recovered from the cist.
Source: Headland Archaeology (5 May 2005)
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Grime in Egyptian jar is the remains of long-dead priest
by Mark Foster
IT has kept its secret for thousands of years but, in the end, ancient rituals proved no match for modern science.
For the past 36 years, an Egyptian jar has stood in the collection of a Harrogate museum and, for countless years before that, lay in the deserts of the Middle East. But tests have proved that the residue inside is not just the grime of centuries, but is all that is left of a long-dead priest.
Experts at York University, led by Dr Stephen Buckley, have established the residue is cholesterol from human remains. The 26cm-high canopic jar was donated to the Royal Pump Room Museum, in Harrogate, in 1969 by local farmer Benjamin Kent. It is not known where it was excavated from. Canopic jars were used during the mummification process by the ancient Egyptians between 2,000 and 4,000 years ago to store the internal organs of those being preserved.
The organs were placed in four separate jars, which were supposed to protect them.
There were containers for the lungs, the stomach, the liver and the intestines.
And although Egyptologists will never know for sure whose remains they have rediscovered, the jar itself may give a clue -as the hieroglyphs mention a priest called Djediufankh.
The testing also confirmed the Egyptians had sterilised the body and entrails using alcohol as an antiseptic.
And for the first time, science has been able to show that the alcohol used was date palm wine, confirming descriptions given by classical authors such as the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.
It was also revealed that the organs stored inside the jar had been treated with an aromatic spice, probably scented cinnamon or cassia imported from South-East Asia.
Diane Taylor, from the museum, said: "This is hugely exciting. This is thousands of years old and we are still discovering things about it."
The jar is on display in the Discover Ancient Egypt exhibition, which continues until September 4.
ANCIENT GREEK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE UNEARTHED IN MARSEILLE
Marseille, 3 June 2005 (18:02 UTC+2)
A large archaeological site, dating back to the ancient Greek Marseille founded 2,600 years ago, was brought to light by archaeological excavations. The site was discovered in the Old Port at the center of Marseille, France, reports the AFP.
According to archaeologists, the site is exceptional due to the ancient ruins found there, its size (400 square meters) and its layers that go as deep as 3 meters. The oldest of the buildings that were discovered (575-550 BC) were probably residences with stone foundations and brick walls.
Around 550 BC, a large construction of 120 square meters was erected in the region, most likely a building of worship, and the objects found in the area are pieces of ancient Greek origin pottery.
Updated: Thursday, June 02, 2005
Archaeologists clash with Câmara
An aerial view of a section of Faro’s historic centre, taken following an excavation carried out at Horta da Misericórdia, situated just metres away from the site for the proposed luxury hotel. This particular dig uncovered numerous Roman and Islamic structures and objects as well as some from the 14th, 16th and 19th centuries. Photo: T.Júdice Gamito
A RECENT archaeological dig, carried out in a protected area within Faro’s historic centre, has uncovered more remains dating back to the Iron Age and items from Islamic and Roman civilisations. Good news for archaeologists and history enthusiasts, but perhaps not for Faro Câmara, which has been hoping to have a luxury hotel built on the site. The recent exploration took place in earth beneath the Magistério Primário, an old school establishment that lies between the Sé, an Arab mosque and a Roman court – an area protected by the Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico (IPPAR), the Portuguese institute for patrimonial architecture. Mónica Saraiva, a student from Algarve University in Faro who took part in the excavation in February, has told Lusa news agency that Islamic and Roman remains were found: “We saw coins, ceramic plates, tiles, small fragments from pots, needles and nails.” Tânia Mota, an Algarve University student who took part in another recent excavation, told the news agency that a Roman cup and a button made of bone were also found at the site.
• José Vitorino, Faro Câmara President
What is Faro Câmara’s reasoning for the project?
As a protected area, proposing a hotel to be built there could, for many people, seem just a little surprising, although it has to be said that Faro does lack decent hotels. In comments made to the press last year, José Vitorino, President of Faro Câmara, said: “It is unbelievable that the city of Faro does not have even one five-star hotel. We want to transform Faro into an important borough for tourism in the Algarve and in Portugal.”
For Vitorino, “Faro is the gateway to millions of tourists and, if the city has a poor image, this can affect the whole of the region,” he said, trying to justify the proposed hotel for the historic centre.
Prominent experts in the archaeological field, however, do not share Vitorino’s preferred choice of location for the new luxury hotel. “The entire walled area contains remains dating back to the Iron Age through to present day,” says Teresa Júdice Gamito, a professor at the Algarve University, who spent a three-year period studying the area, a major project that was concluded five years ago.
“From the dig I oversaw at Horta da Misericódia, the structures were mainly from Roman times, the Islamic period and from the 14th to the 16th centuries. The remains reveal the everyday life of the population. Lots of materials were collected, mainly ceramics, bone objects, coins, and bronzes and iron objects. Everything has been treated at the Archaeological Laboratory of the University of Algarve,” she said.
For Gamito, the idea of building a hotel on the site is “incomprehensible”. This proposal is “just horrible,” she says. “Faro has suffered many earthquakes, which have meant that the city has been built and re-built over and over again, and, therefore, there are remains from many different civilisations in this area.”
Not enough space for a five-star hotel
The professor was clearly angered by the câmara’s proposal and commented: “There is not even enough space there to build a decent five-star hotel with good facilities on the site. I don’t understand why they won’t leave this area alone and find a location outside, where they can build freely with a lot more space. This way, they could have a really good hotel with pools, bars and conference space.” The professor also warned: “I think the current project is very negative for Faro and its inhabitants.”
Finally, when asked if she thought the hotel was likely to go ahead, she told The Resident: “I cannot guarantee, but I am almost sure that IPPAR will dismiss this proposal.”
Results from archaeological study awaited
Meanwhile, Faro Câmara is reported as commenting: “With regard to the luxury hotel, everything is in place and a favourable report has already been received from the Direcção-Geral do Turismo.”
According to Vasco Santa Clara, a senior figure at Faro Câmara, only the official results of the recent excavation are now being awaited. “If there are no obstacles, we will immediately launch the public tender for the project.”
In January of this year, the President of Faro Câmara told a regional newspaper that the câmara would put together a project for a luxury hotel in the old city, after requesting the opinion of IPPAR, which may or may not authorise the construction to take place.
To date, no judgement has been given, guarantees Pedro Barros, the head of the Instituto Português de Arqueologia (IPA) in the Algarve, emphasising that the council was only authorised “to carry out archaeological work to assess the area”.
By Caroline Cunha
Archaeologists Find Hoard of Celtic Coins
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Archaeologists have uncovered 17 ancient Celtic coins in a field in the south of the Netherlands, the first hoard of such coins found in the country.
Amsterdam's Free University excavated the site in April and will display the coins, which are made of silver and mixed with copper and gold, in the Limburgs Museum in the city of Venlo on Saturday.
They are estimated to date from 20-50 B.C., shortly after Julius Caesar began the Roman conquest of the region.
Leaders of local Germanic tribes "probably used these coins to reward their followers for loyalty," researchers said.
Similar finds have been made in neighboring Belgium and Germany.
Cathedral yields up secrets of the past Jun 3 2005
By Carl Butler, Daily Post
MEDIEVAL graves and fragments of tiles were unearthed by archaeologists at a North Wales cathedral.
Outlines of 30 graves, left undisturbed, were discovered during the two-week excavation at St Asaph.
The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust dig, led by Ian Grant, was part of work to level the south transept floor.
Fiona Gale, Denbighshire County Council's archaeologist, had an advisory role during the project.
She said: "The flooring in the south transept is being lowered to a level needed for bedding for the new floor.
"A very worn silver coin has also been discovered.
"The pieces have gone to Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust for cleaning and recording, but they remain within the ownership of the cathedral."
After the mid-16th Century eminent lay people were buried within the cathedral walls as well as monks and people involved in cathedral life.
The work to level the floor gave the trust its first opportunity to excavate at the cathedral.
Although they expected to unearth graves, they did not expect to find so many dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries.
The dig also uncovered fragments of bone, brass dress pins, a silver penny and examples of medieval tiles bearing a simple Celtic design.
Similar tiles were recovered in Denbigh and Rhuddlan suggesting they were manufactured locally.
Glasgow's diet was healthier in 1405
GLASWEGIANS in 1405 had a better diet than the citizens of 2005, eating their "five-a-day" 600 years ahead of its time.
Even their light beer was healthier than sugar-laden fizzy concoctions that are today's favourite, according to new archaeological evidence.
It reveals a diet of porridge and small amounts of pork and fish made medieval mealtime more nutritious than a visit to the chippy, the pizza parlour or the ubiquitous American fast food joints.
And an absence of sugar in the diet meant medieval Glaswegians had better teeth. In addition, they could not smoke, a major cause of diseases that killed 119 out of every 100,000 men in the city last year.
Experts agreed yesterday we could learn from our predecessors' eating habits as revealed by the council's new history and archaeology strategy.
Glasgow is developing a mapped medieval trail from Glasgow Cathedral to the Clyde, the medieval hub of the city.
By analysing cesspit material, archaeologists discovered medieval citizens ate a healthy diet of fruit, vegetables, cereals and fish. It is a long way in time and culture from modern Glasgow, where obesity is so commonplace because of a junk food diet of pizza, burgers and fish suppers that the Scottish Executive is considering opening an NHS-funded stomach-stapling clinic in the city.
Professor Stephen Driscoll of Glasgow University's archaeology department, said: "Around 100 bodies examined showed good health and the teeth were worn rather than decayed.
"The diet was healthier than today, with porridge, a little meat, fish, milk, cottage cheese and vegetables and fruits."
At one excavation, in Bell Street, cesspit material revealed large quantities of seeds and fish remains.
Councillor Catherine McMaster, on the working group for the medieval project, said: "It seems they were into 'five-a-day', 600 years before the rest of us. We modern Glaswegians could learn from it.
"We hope to reveal more of the city's rich tapestry of history by the medieval trail, and it is ironic that it is already revealing that they probably ate better then."
The "Glesca diet" is notoriously unhealthy, provoking the joke that whole generations were brought up on "chips and lemonade".
In some areas, 80 per cent of children develop tooth decay by the age of five because of a high consumption of fizzy drinks.
Recent research also showed that 63 per cent of schoolchildren in some areas were "less healthy eaters".
Dr Frankie Phillips, of the British Dietetics Association, said: "There wouldn't have been too many obese people in medieval times.
"We could certainly learn from some aspects of the diet that was uncovered."
University of York archaeologists join forces with metal detector enthusiasts
01 June 2005
Metal detection on historic sites has become so popular that enthusiasts are unearthing more items of archaeological interest than the professionals.
Now archaeologists at the University of York want to harness the enthusiasm of metal detectorists in the cause of academic research.
They are being recruited to help in a three-year project which will culminate in the preparation of an economic and landscape history of England from the 7th to the 10th century.
The 'Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy' (VASLE) project was inspired by the Portable Antiquities Scheme set up by the Government in 1997 for the voluntary recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public. Since then, tens of thousands of finds have been reported.
Professor Julian Richards, of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, obtained financial backing from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to establish the project.
Professor Richards said: "Archaeologists have had great difficulty locating Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements. Now, much of the material found by metal detectorists comes from the 7th to the early 10th century and it is crucial that we bring these items into the realms of research.
"But only in the last five years have archaeologists been able to start to use the data with any real confidence. What the project is really hoping to address is how we interpret metal detecting sites in order that we can gain a greater understanding of Viking and Anglo-Saxon landscape and economy. It will also give us a fuller picture of the impact of the Vikings on the England in the 9th-11th century.
"We hope it will tell us more about the cultural identity of the people who lived in the Danelaw. There were probably very small numbers of true Vikings though their influence far outweighed their actual numbers."
Professor Richards has a strong record of field research into metal-detected sites such as Cottam in East Yorkshire and he, with colleague Dr John Naylor, will undertake field surveys in collaboration with metal detectorists.
As well as data from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, they will be using materials from the Corpus of Early Medieval Coins at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. This will help them to establish which of the richer metal detected sites in the UK will warrant further study, and field survey.
Professor Richards added: "Once we have identified the richest sites, we will be able to build up a picture of what's been found. Effectively, these sites are a fingerprint of economic activity and they will help us to complete the final part of the project which will be to write an economic and landscape history of England from the 7th to the 10th century."
One of the metal detectorists taking part in the project is Dave Haldenby, of Elloughton, near Beverley, East Yorkshire, who said: "In the past there has been some animosity between metal detectorists and archaeologists but, increasingly, they are working together, as this project illustrates. There's a terrific sense of pride in seeing an excavation which would never have happened without hours of painstaking work in plotting finds."
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme for the recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public. It was established by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in 1997, to promote the recording of chance finds and broaden public awareness of the importance of such objects for understanding our past. The government initially provided funding to institute pilot schemes for the voluntary recording of archaeological objects in six regions and another five pilot schemes were established in 2002, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim is to expand the Scheme to all parts of England and Wales in due course.
The VASLE project has an advisory committee of academics, members of the portable antiquities scheme and metal detectorists.
Finds by metal detectorists in the last two years have included:
The burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords and spears, jewellery, firemaking materials and riding equipment, was discovered near Cumwhitton, Cumbria. Believed to date from the early 10th century, it was unearthed following the discovery of two Viking Age copper brooches by a local metal detectorist. The sandy soil meant that while the bodies had decomposed, their equipment had remained intact providing a unique opportunity to excavate a Viking Age cemetery under 21st-century conditions.
A unique group of late ninth-century weapons and personal items including silver coins and the fragments of two swords was found in Yorkshire in December 2003. The so-called Ainsbrook Hoard is one of the most important Viking discoveries ever made in the British Isles.
Yellowstone asks for help in graves mystery
GARDINER, Mont. (AP) -- The National Park Service is asking for help in identifying what appear to be a pair of unmarked graves in Yellowstone National Park.
The graves were pointed out several years ago by a retired park staff member concerned by their proximity to construction on the park's new Heritage and Research Center near the park's northern entrance. He told park officials that two people were buried there under a sheet of metal, but provided no further details.
Researchers combed historical and land transfer records but found nothing, and regional American Indian tribes say it's unlikely natives were buried there.
Park archaeologist Elaine Hale said she believes that, if people are interred there, they likely were buried prior to the establishment of a nearby cemetery in 1880, possibly as early as the 1860s, when white people first settled the area.
"We can't say that there is, but we can't say that there isn't" a pair of graves at the site, Hale said.
The piece of earth in question doesn't look like much: dirt, sagebrush, a few prickly pears and some sparse grass. There is an L-shaped line of stones, and a piece of rusty pipe sticking out of the ground.
Steve DeVore, from the Park Service's archaeological headquarters in Nebraska, investigated the site Tuesday with a portable ground-penetrating radar device.
Tests showed the soil density differs from surrounding areas, indicating it has been disturbed at some point. But the site is in a busy area, near an old railroad depot and within eyeshot of fuel tanks, sand piles and other construction material.
"That this site has not been disturbed is pretty amazing," DeVore said.
DeVore said he needs to get back to his laboratory before he can analyze his results and, until then, Hale said she's looking for help from someone who might remember who, if anyone, is in the graves.
Some light could be shed quickly with a pick and a shovel, but the Montana Historic Preservation Office said state burial laws could apply and recommended against such actions until more information is gathered.
Action at last on Bazalgette’s tomb
By Jo Bowring
The crumbling tomb of one of Victorian London's finest engineers looks set to be saved from decay.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who designed the main London sewer system in the 1860s, is credited with saving millions of Londoner's lives by protecting them from cholera outbreaks.
Now his mausoleum, tucked away in a corner of St Mary's churchyard in Wimbledon Village, could also be saved.
At the Wimbledon Society's annual general meeting last Thursday night, chairman Martyn Harman said: "We have formed a small group to take matters forward and to raise funds for the project.
"The first activity we will be carrying out will be a structural survey of the tomb at the beginning of June, which has been paid for by existing Bazalgette family members.
"We hope and expect that a substantial amount of the costs, once we know them, will be met by a Heritage Lottery grant.
"We have been assured by English Heritage that the Bazalgette mausoleum is a top candidate for funding."
Last July, the state of the tomb was downgraded on English Heritage's buildings at risk register, which said it was in a worse state than the previous year.
The Portland stone monument had suffered from "invasive vegetative growth" and its railings and gates were badly corroded in places.
Although the plants had by then been removed, English Heritage boosted its priority rating from E to C, meaning it is slowly decaying and no solution has been agreed.
The upkeep of the stone is technically the responsibility of the Bazalgettes.
Sir Joseph, who died in 1891, was chief engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works from 1856 until 1889.
During that time, he was also instrumental in building or redeveloping some of London's best known landmarks, including the Victoria and Albert embank- ments, Charing Cross Road, Shaftesbury Avenue, Putney, Battersea, Hammersmith and Tower bridges, the Woolwich Ferry, the Blackwall Tunnel and Leicester Square.
The new buildings at risk register is due to be published at the end of this month.
Archaeologists' intoxicating find
By David Fuller
The bottles were in good condition, but the liquid inside was not
Archaeologists searching for remains of a city's medieval past have made an intoxicating discovery - a cache of World War II beer.
The hundred-or-so bottles of lager buried beneath Southampton's Guildhall Square were still capable of developing a head when they were opened.
It is thought they had been stored in the cellar of an off-licence which was destroyed in the Blitz.
The routine dig was to study the site before a new arts centre was built.
Pete Cottrell, the dig leader, was hoping to find evidence of a medieval leper hospital known to have been in the area.
He said the bottles were in very good condition, but the liquid inside was not.
"I think you'd be very ill if you drank that, it's absolutely rank."
Some of the bottles have now been handed to the city's museum, while the rest has been reburied.


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CHARLESTON — State Senate president Mitch Carmichael says West Virginia is seeing an economic resurgence like never before.
Carmichael, R-Jackson, said after voters changed course in 2014 and went from a single-party Democratic control, things began to change for the state.
"After 83 years of single-party control, they had the courage to change directions," Carmichael said in an interview with The West Virginia Record. "As a result, after President Trump’s election, the things the Republican legislature’s put in place, the leadership of Republican Gov. Jim Justice, West Virginia is now among the fastest growing states in the nation."
Carmichael said this is good news for West Virginia.
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"We’ve added jobs and the wage rates are up," Carmichael said. "The unemployment rate is down. We’ve added more construction jobs, more manufacturing jobs, more mining jobs — it’s all in a positive direction."
Carmichael said for years, people lost hope in West Virginia because of the lack of jobs.
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On Aug. 7, Justice reported the Fiscal Year 2018 surplus of $36 million is the first time the state has finished a fiscal year in the black, without a budget cut, since 2012 and that the state set an all-time high for General Revenue Fund Collections with $4.245 billion. The previous record was $4.196 billion in FY 2015.
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Directions: After students have had a chance to review the article “Mosses tell story of retreating ice,” lead a classroom discussion based on the questions that follow.
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES
1. What are isotopes, and what are the isotopes of carbon? What carbon isotopes are radioactive?
Isotopes are atoms of the same element with different masses — they have the same numbers of protons and same numbers of electrons, but different numbers of neutrons. Most of the naturally occurring carbon on Earth is carbon-12 or 12C (its nucleus contains 6 protons and 6 neutrons). Approximately 1 percent is carbon-13 or 13C (its nucleus contains 6 protons and 7 neutrons). Both of those carbon isotopes are stable — they do not radioactively decay to become another element. If certain other elements are exposed to radiation, they can temporarily form other carbon isotopes that are radioactive. Carbon-11 or 11C (its nucleus contains 6 protons and 5 neutrons) decays with a half-life of approximately 20 minutes to become stable boron-11 or 11B (its nucleus contains 5 protons and 6 neutrons). Carbon-14 or 14C (its nucleus contains 6 protons and 8 neutrons) decays with a half-life of approximately 5,730 years to become nitrogen-14 or 14N (its nucleus contains 7 protons and 7 neutrons).
2. What is beta decay? Write the decay equation for carbon-14.
Beta particles are electrons (which have negative electric charge) and positrons (the positively charged antimatter version of an electron). In beta-minus decay, a neutron turns into a positively charged proton plus an electron (along with a neutral particle called an anti-neutrino). In beta-plus decay, a proton turns into a neutron plus a positron (and a neutrino). Beta decay occurs when an atom trades a neutron for a proton or vice versa, in order to reach a more stable, lower-energy state.
The beta-minus decay equation for carbon-14 is: 14C →14N + e– (and an anti-neutrino)
3. How is carbon-14 formed in the atmosphere?
High-energy cosmic rays from the sun or other sources in space hit atoms in the upper atmosphere, knocking loose neutrons. Most of the atmosphere is made of 14N (its nucleus contains 7 protons and 7 neutrons). If a neutron generated by a cosmic ray knocks a proton out of 14N and takes its place, carbon-14 (its nucleus contains 6 protons and 8 neutrons) is formed:
14N + n0→ 14C + p+
Carbon in the atmosphere combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide or CO2. Roughly 1×10-12 of the carbon in atmospheric CO2 is carbon-14.
4. How does carbon dating work?
Living organisms acquire carbon from atmospheric CO2 either directly for plants or indirectly for other organisms (herbivorous animals eat plants that have acquired atmospheric carbon, and carnivorous animals eat herbivorous animals that have eaten plants that acquired atmospheric carbon). Approximately 1 atom out of every 1012 newly acquired carbon atoms is carbon-14. As long as an organism is living and exchanging carbon with the environment, the percentage of carbon-14 in an organism should remain approximately equal to that of the environment. Carbon-14, which has a half-life of approximately 5,730 years, decays at a rate of about 13.5 atoms/minute per gram of total carbon. After the organism has been dead for about 5,730 years, it should contain 1/21 = 1/2 of that original amount of carbon-14. After the organism has been dead for 11,460 years (5,730 x 2), it should contain 1/22 = 1/4 of the original amount of carbon-14. After the organism has been dead for 17,190 years (5,730 x 3), it should contain 1/23 = 1/8 of the original amount of carbon-14. And so forth.
5. How is carbon-14 measured?
For younger and/or larger samples that contain more carbon-14, the carbon-14 content can generally be measured by a radiation counter to directly detect beta decay of carbon-14 into nitrogen-14. For older and/or smaller samples with very little carbon-14, a mass spectrometer can be used, distinguishing the charge and mass of different ions vaporized from the sample.
6. What are the limitations of carbon-14 dating?
After 45,840 years (5,730 x 8), only 1/28 = 1/256 of the original amount of carbon-14 is left. Because the original amount of carbon-14 was very small to begin with, it is very difficult to carbon-date an object that is older than 40,000–50,000 years. Also, carbon dating is only useful for determining the age of something that was once alive and absorbing carbon. That is great for remains of humans, animals and plants, as well as human tools that were made from plants or animals. However, it is not useful for stone or metal tools, rocks and minerals, and other objects that were never alive.
7. What other radioactive decays are useful for dating objects?
Longer-lived isotopes can be used to date rocks and estimate the age of Earth, the moon, meteorites and other objects that are older than 50,000 years. One useful isotope is potassium-40, which has a half-life of approximately 1.25 billion years. Potassium-40 beta-decays to calcium-40. It can also decay through a process called electron capture into argon-40. Argon-40 is a gas that easily escapes from hot molten rock, but not cooled solid rock. So newly formed igneous rocks should have virtually no argon-40, and older igneous rocks can be dated by how much of their potassium-40 has decayed to trapped argon-40.
Another useful isotope is uranium-238, which undergoes a series of several decays to ultimately become lead-206. Uranium-238 has a half-life of approximately 4.47 billion years. And radioactive isotope uranium-235, also undergoes a series of several decays to ultimately become lead-207. Uranium-235 has a half-life of approximately 710 million years.
BIOLOGICAL AND EARTH SCIENCES
1. How do plants use photosynthesis to incorporate atmospheric carbon?
The chloroplasts in plant cells absorb energy from sunlight (using chlorophyll molecules), use that energy to break up water (H2O) and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and combine their components one step at a time to produce sugars (containing C, H and O) and oxygen (O2). In further steps, plant cells use those sugars to form a wide variety of other biological molecules. Those sugars and the biological molecules made from them are thus built from atmospheric carbon.
2. What are the major greenhouse gases and why are they called greenhouse gases? How has the level of carbon dioxide changed in recent history?
Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and ozone are all greenhouse gases. They are called greenhouses gasses because they trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere, similar to how a greenhouse traps heat. Short wavelengths of sunlight enter through the atmosphere and are absorbed by Earth’s surface. Some of the sunlight is re-emitted by Earth as thermal radiation, or heat. Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere then absorb some of that heat and reflect some back to Earth’s surface, so Earth gets warmer. Atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased from approximately 300 to over 400 parts per million (ppm) over the last century.
3. How has the global average temperature and sea level changed in recent history?
Global average temperature has risen by about 1° Celsius, or about 1.8° Fahrenheit, over the last century. As a result, global ice melts and ocean temperatures warm (water expands as it becomes warmer), contributing to sea level rise. Sea levels have risen by about 20 centimeters over the last century.
4. How have human activities affected the climate? How does the speed of the environmental changes today contrast the speed of changes in the past?
Most changes in Earth’s climate have occurred slowly over millions of years, allowing species to adapt. But greenhouse gas emissions from human activities have increased the rate of climate change over the last century. Millions of years ago, relatively quick, drastic changes in the environment resulted in mass extinctions. There have been five mass extinctions in Earth’s history. During the last mass extinction event, 66 million years ago, about 75 percent of all species disappeared, including non-avian dinosaurs.
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1. What types of sensors could detect radiation from carbon-14, and how do they work?
A Geiger-Mueller tube is filled with a gas between high-voltage electrodes. If a beta particle from carbon-14 (or some other type of radiation) passes through the gas, it will ionize some of the atoms in the gas, conducting current between the electrodes and giving an electrical signal.
A scintillation material, such as zinc sulfide, emits light when a beta particle (or other type of radiation) passes through it. The radiation boosts electrons in the material to higher energy levels, and they give off photons when they drop back down to lower energy levels.
A junction diode, or semiconductor detector, senses electrical signals produced when beta particles (or other type of radiation) deposit enough energy to raise electrons in the semiconductor to higher energies.
2. What types of sensors could detect carbon-14 directly (without measuring its radiation), and how do they work?
A mass spectrometer can be used to directly detect carbon-14. Carbon-14, carbon-12 and other atoms from a sample can be vaporized, fully ionized (their charge will depend on the number of protons they contain) and accelerated to a known high energy state in a small particle accelerator that creates brief pulses. The pulsed beam of ionized atoms can be passed through a magnetic field of known strength. By the Lorentz force, the trajectories of ions with different charges and different masses will be bent by different amounts. If all the ions have the same amount of energy, but different masses, they will also have different speeds — smaller ions with less mass will have higher velocities and reach their destination more quickly, whereas larger ions with more mass will have lower velocities and reach their destination more slowly. If an array of sensors detects where and when the ions from the beam arrive on the other side of the magnetic field, the charge (number of protons) and mass (number of protons + neutrons) of each ion can be determined.
3. How might you design a portable carbon-14 dating device that could rapidly determine the age of a fragile, valuable object such as an ancient manuscript?
Student answers will vary, but students should consider nondestructive measurement of beta particles from carbon-14 (and estimating how much total carbon is in the object) versus destructive measurement of carbon-14 in a mass spectrometer (or how to minimize how much of a sample is needed for a mass spectrometer).

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The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced on Monday the registration of 59 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), in addition to three more cases of recovering patients.
Some of the new cases of infection are related to people who have recently returned to Qatar from overseas, particularly from the UK, and to others who had had contact with those infected with the virus, either from family members who live in the same house or from relatives in other homes.
All new cases have been put into quarantine where they are receiving the necessary medical care.
The MoPH said that the three new cases of recovery brings to 51 the total number of people recovered from Covid-19 in Qatar.
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The MoPH is continuing to undertake all necessary checks for all citizens arriving from abroad, as well as all individuals who have been in contact with the affected cases.
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CBS, Fox reports on town hall disruptions ignore conservative strategy
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On August 4, Katie Couric joined repeat offender Bret Baier in reporting on unusually large -- and sometimes disruptive -- crowds turning out to protest health care reform at town halls hosted by members of Congress without noting that conservative organizations opposed to Democrats' proposals -- boosted by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity -- are conducting a campaign to pack those events with their supporters. For the second night in a row, Baier reported on the protests but ignored the conservative strategy to pack town hall events with health care reform opponents.
Couric, Baier: Town halls packed with health reform opponents, explanations "deafened" by "roaring chants"
Couric: Members "getting an earful" from those opposed to health reform; "at least 200 showed up" at recent town meeting. Couric reported: "[M]embers of Congress are getting an earful from constituents opposed to the president's plan. Many of them worried about the price tag and who will pay for it." She then aired clips of people at a Mississippi town meeting saying, "I don't see how they can put another government-funded health care plan out there and efficiently run it," and, "We can't spend any more money. We've got to stop altogether." Couric noted, "That town meeting in Mississippi normally draws a couple of dozen people. Last night, though, at least 200 showed up." [CBS Evening News with Katie Couric; 8/4/09]
Baier: Dem rep "got an ... earful" from "overflow crowd"; "roaring chants deafened" attempts to explain health reform. Baier reported: "Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Steve Kagen got an ear fill -- earful, rather -- during a town hall meeting in Green Bay Monday night. An overflow crowd jammed a public library, most to voice strong opposition to current plans for health care reform." After airing a brief clip from the meeting, Baier noted, "The Green Bay Post Press-Gazette [sic] reports, quote, 'If the event were a shouting match, the mob won. Kagen tried talking about the health care bill but the roaring chants deafened his attempts. Several elderly people covered their ears and grimaced at the level of noise.' " He added, "While you can see there and throughout the country, many people do oppose health care reform because of a belief it gives the government too much power. There are those who think current proposals do not go far enough, however. Liberals and others want the government to run almost everything." [Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier; 8/4/09]
Baier reported on "public venting" at health care town halls for the second night in a row. The previous night -- August 3 -- Baier reported on the "public venting" occurring at town hall meetings, while correspondent Shannon Bream stated that "skeptical Americans across the country are pushing back" against the legislation. As Media Matters for America documented, Baier ignored the conservative strategy to pack town hall events with health care opponents with the support of conservative media figures and outlets like Limbaugh and the Fox Nation. [Special Report; 8/3/09]
Couric, Baier ignored conservative strategy to pack town halls with health reform opponents
NY Times: Town hall protests organized by groups including FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity. The New York Times reported: "The [health care reform] protests, organized by loose-knit coalition of conservative voters and advocacy groups, were a raucous start to what is expected to be weeks of political and ideological clashes over the health care overhaul President Obama is trying to push through Congress. The conservative groups, including FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, are harnessing social networking Web sites to organize their supporters in much the same way Mr. Obama did during his election campaign." [The New York Times; 8/3/09]
- FreedomWorks VP encouraged town hall protests. In an August 3 blog post on the website of FreedomWorks, a group chaired by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), Max Pappas, a vice president of the group, linked to video of protesters disrupting a June 22 town hall meeting for Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and said: "Members of the US House of Representatives are back home for August recess and are getting an earful from their constituents about current plans for a massive government intervention into health care and attempts to raise taxes on energy use through cap-and-trade." He added: "[B]e sure to show up, bring some friends, and them know what you think."
- FreedomWorks campaign coordinatior: Disruption of Specter town hall "a must emulate." In an August 3 blog post, FreedomWorks campaign coordinator Nan Swift linked to video of protesters interrupting Sen. Arlen Specter's (D-PA) town hall in Philadelphia, stating it was "a must emulate at town halls across the country over the next month."
- Americans for Prosperity reportedly conducting 13-state anti-health reform tour. "A 13-state tour aiming to rally patients to speak out against President Barack Obama's desired health-care overhaul is scheduled to kick off in Richmond this weekend. Americans for Prosperity's 'Patients First' bus tour will start Saturday at a Richmond-area Tea Party, before traveling around the country and through the states of key U.S. senators in the health-care debate, said Ben Marchi, state director of Americans for Prosperity. Organizers will urge constituents to call or visit their senators and sign a petition that asks members of Congress to 'oppose any legislation that imposes greater government control over my health care that would mean fewer choices for me and my family and even deny treatments to those in need.' " [Richmond Times-Dispatch; 7/23/09]
Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR) reportedly "confirmed that it has undertaken a concerted effort to get people out to the town hall meetings to protest reform." Greg Sargent reported: "In response to my questions, a spokesman for the group confirmed that it has undertaken a concerted effort to get people out to the town hall meetings to protest reform. The spokesperson, Brian Burgess, confirmed that CPR is emailing out 'town hall alert' flyers, and schedules of town hall meetings, to its mailing list. These efforts -- combined with CPR's effort to enlist Tea Party-ers, as reported yesterday by TPM -- provide a glimpse into the ways anti-reform groups are trying to create a sense of public momentum in their favor. CPR spokesman Burgess confirmed that the group had set up a list serv designed to reach out to 'third party groups' involved in the health care fight, including the Tea Party activists. And in a statement emailed to me, Scott, who was ousted as a health-care exec amid a 1990s fraud probe, took credit for the town hall showings." [Sargent, The Plum Line; 8/4/09]
Tea party protester, conservative PAC founder authored memo calling for people to disrupt town halls. A memorandum authored by Robert MacGuffie, a conservative activist, "Tea Party Patriot," and co-founder of the conservative PAC RightPrinciples.com, described a "potential playbook" to put members of Congress "on the defensive" at town hall meetings. The memo urged people to "yell out" repeatedly and reportedly circulated among anti-reform groups. From the memo:
You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation. Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early. If he blames Bush for something or offers other excuses -- call him on it, yell back and have someone else follow-up with a shout-out. Don't carry on and make a scene -- just short intermittent shout outs. The purpose is to make him uneasy early on and set the tone for the hall as clearly informal, and free-wheeling. It will also embolden others who agree with us to call out and challenge with tough questions. The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right down. Look for those opportunities before he even takes questions. [MacGuffie memorandum]
Anti-health care reform protesters using same disruption tactics as birthers:
- Birthers disrupted a congressional town hall. "At a town hall meeting in Georgetown [Delaware], a woman demanded to know why [Rep. Mike] Castle and his colleagues were 'ignoring' questions about Obama's birth certificate -- questions that have been put to rest repeatedly by state officials in Hawaii, where the birth certificate and all other credible evidence show that Obama was born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. When Castle countered that Obama is, in fact, 'a citizen of the United States,' the crowd erupted in boos, the woman seized control of the gathering and led a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance." [Politico; 7/27/09]
- Birther "ringleader" Orly Taitz called on people to "demand action" on birth certificate at town halls. "Moments after speaking with POLITICO Saturday, Taitz posted a call to arms on her blog: 'I believe it is a serious concern and I hope that each and every decent American comes to town hall meetings with a video camera and demands action,' she wrote." [Politico; 7/27/09]
Conservative media have expressed support for town hall disruptions
Rush Limbaugh: Town hall protesters doing "exactly what Obama taught people to do ... disrupt 'em." Limbaugh defended the town hall protesters as being "orderly people," not the "unruly mobs" he claims Democrats are describing them as. He continued: "These are genuine voting American citizens. It is -- what these Democrats are accusing you of doing, who go to these town hall meetings, is exactly what Obama taught people to do. He's the community agitator. He's the community organizer. Obama is the guy who taught people how to show up at events like this over and over again and rip 'em apart and tear 'em down, disrupt 'em, and make sure they don't happen. And now the tables have been turned. It's happening to him, only this time, it's not ginned up; it's genuine. It's real." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show; 8/4/09]
Limbaugh: If town hall disruptions are "an orchestrated event," it's "about damn time." On August 3, Limbaugh offered his "reaction" to a caller who noted that media outlets have reported the town hall protests are coordinated: "About damn time. We have had groups like ACORN and Democrat rent-a-mobs making up excuses and lying about things they oppose to affect public policy for years, while people like me haven't had time because we work. We do not protest for a living. We do not rent ourselves out to be part of mobs. So, if this is actually an orchestrated event, then I'm glad somebody on our side's getting in gear." Limbaugh later added: "It doesn't matter to me one way or the other [if the protests are coordinated]. The people who are showing up are genuinely angry. And if their transportation is being facilitated -- about damn time. You've got to take these people on the way they play the game. The aggressor sets the rules in a conflict." [The Rush Limbaugh Show; 8/3/09]
Hannity: Recess "creates the best opportunity for people to go like they did to Claire McCaskill's town hall meeting." On July 29, Hannity said: "There's going to be no floor vote immediately" on health care reform "so members have time to go home and read the bill, which, by the way, creates the best opportunity for people to go like they did to Claire McCaskill's town hall meeting or go to [Rep. Russ] Carnahan's town hall meeting or go show up wherever there's any representative. That -- this is your moment, your opportunity to stop this thing." [ABC Radio Networks and Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show; 7/29/09]
Hannity: "Now, so far at these town hall meetings, you're doing terrific." Following reports of several town hall disruptions occurring nationwide, Hannity declared on August 3: "This is what's going to stop this. You are. You're gonna make it happen." He went on to say: "Now, so far at these town hall meetings, you're doing terrific. You're standing up to these bureaucrats. You're standing up to their phony platitudes, talking points, and bumper stickers. The polls are now turning against Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, and [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid, so now they're bringing out their own pollster to lie to you and find out a way how they can win the PR battle, and they're telling them that they've got to attack the insurance companies." [The Sean Hannity Show; 8/3/09]
Fox & Friends host Johnson to protesters: "[W]e thank you for representing Americans, and we hope that other Americans get out there." From Fox & Friends' guest co-host Peter Johnson's interview of two people who said they questioned Specter and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the Philadelphia town hall event:
CAROL O'BRIEN: I think they were -- well, personally, I think they were very unprepared for that meeting. I think they were asked questions, and they did not have valid responses. They stayed on message. Even though part of my question -- I asked them please not to insult my intelligence by staying on message, but to give us an honest answer. They did not do that. And I think if you look at their facial expressions during the town hall meeting, you could tell that they were not happy with the response of the crowd.
JOHNSON: Well, O'Briens, we're all looking for honest answers, and we thank you for representing Americans, and we hope that other Americans get out there and voice their opinions. Let's check in with you as time goes on and see what kind of progress we are making. John and Carol O'Brien, thank you so much. [Fox & Friends; 8/4/09]
Fox News' Doocy: "If you want to contact your congressmembers and sound off, go to FoxNation.com." During a segment on the Philadelphia town hall, Steve Doocy suggested people go to FoxNation.com to contact members of Congress: "That's right. So, anyway, if you want to contact your congressmembers and sound off, go to FoxNation.com. It is a great interactive website where you can sound off, and you'll also find your lawmakers' phone numbers and email there. Hmm, very handy. [Fox & Friends; 8/3/09]
Fox onscreen text: "Hold Congress accountable! Now is the time to speak your mind."
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