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Generation, Next: Woody’s granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie (left) and John Steinbeck’s great-nephew Johnny Irion (right) comprise a husband-and-wife musical duo carrying the mantle of a great legacy. They perform this weekend at the Steinbeck Festival with Grammy-winning bass player Rob Wasserman.
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The Pirates have seen two really good results in recent years out of the Latin American signings from Rene Gayo.
Starling Marte, signed in 2007, has been one of the best players in baseball, and is very under-rated. He has averaged over a 4.0 WAR per year in the last four seasons, and ranks 20th among qualified position players in WAR from 2013-2016.
Gregory Polanco signed in 2009, and has had two solid seasons in the majors, averaging a 2.5 WAR. He teased a breakout in early 2016, but faded down the stretch, which could be injury related. I still think the best is yet to come, and the first half of 2016 is what we can expect going forward.
Add to these results some other successful prospects who were either good enough to land MLB pieces (Dilson Herrera for Marlon Byrd and Joely Rodriguez for Antonio Bastardo) or players who haven’t arrived yet (Elias Diaz, Alen Hanson, Willy Garcia, and Jose Osuna are all in Triple-A, and could all be MLB players off the bench or more), and the Pirates have some pretty good results from the international side of things.
That has changed a bit under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, which went into effect in 2012, and reduced the budget for the Pirates. MLB restricted teams on how much they could spend, adding in harsh penalties if they went over their bonus amounts. The penalties were a restriction on signing players for more than $300,000 the next two years, and a 100% tax on the amount you went over the pool.
This same process worked to curtail spending in the draft, and so far, there hasn’t been a team that exceeded their bonus pool enough to lose a draft pick (although plenty of teams, including the Pirates, exceed their bonus pool up to 5% and pay a 75% tax on the overage). But the process hasn’t worked on the international side. Teams have restrictions and face fines when they go over their limits, but that hasn’t stopped teams — big market and small market — from exceeding those lower bonus pools.
Part of the difference between the draft penalties and the international penalties is that you lose a lot more in the draft. If you have an international bonus pool of $2 M and you spend $5 M, then you get a $3 M fine, and can’t sign a player over $300,000 the next two years. But you still get your full bonus pool the next two years. In the draft, if you exceed your bonus pool by $3 M, you get that 100% fine, plus you lose your first and second round picks the next two years, and all of the bonus money that comes with those picks.
There have been a lot of teams who have taken advantage of this on the international side. The Angels, Diamondbacks, Rays, Yankees, and Red Sox all went over their pools in 2014-15. The Blue Jays, Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, and Royals added to that list in 2015-16, meaning a third of the teams for the 2016-17 signing period couldn’t spend more than $300,000 on a single player. But this year it looks like the Braves, Reds, Astros, Athletics, Cardinals, Padres, and Nationals will all exceed their bonus pools.
That’s 17 teams in the last three years who have exceeded the bonus pools, which has already raised the question about why the Pirates aren’t also doing this. Wilbur Miller has written about his feelings on this a few times, and we talk about this every single time he’s in Florida. We both agree that the Pirates are getting less talent than before under the new system. But we disagree on why, on how much less talent they’re getting, and on what they should do going forward.
First of all, the why for me is explained by looking back at what made the Pirates so good before these rules went into place. Their biggest success stories weren’t big bonus guys who cost seven figures. They actually have only had two of those — Luis Heredia for $3 M and Harold Ramirez for $1.05 M. Their next biggest bonuses came in 2012 with Michael De La Cruz and Julio De La Cruz, and that was under the new system. Three of their other top ten bonuses came under the new rules.
The Pirates had success with smaller bonus guys. Marte only received $85,000. Polanco got $150,000. Hanson got $90,000. Diaz got $20,000. Those make the $280,000 that Willy Garcia and Jose Osuna received look like huge bonuses, and the same goes for the $220,000 that Dilson Herrera received.
I went down to the Dominican last year and had a chance to see all of the academies and hear about how the Pirates compare to other teams down there — both from people inside and outside of the Pirates’ organization. I’ve also spent time over the years discussing how the Pirates operate versus other teams with people who are familiar with those dealings. The Pirates put a lot of effort into their academy and have an extensive scouting presence in Latin America. The difference is stark in comparison to the difference in US scouting and development.
There are some teams in the Dominican that share an academy with another team. Some teams have an academy, but don’t even have basic equipment, such as the cart that lays chalk on the baseline for the games. Their groundskeepers have to do this by hand before every game. And that’s an investment that would be only a few hundred dollars, at most. And then when it comes to scouting, there are some teams that opt to just spend on the players who are widely known, rather than spending a lot on scouts to find players who are just as good, but who don’t have the early attention.
The Pirates work the opposite way. They spend a lot of resources on scouting, which allows them to find players that others don’t find. They’re not alone on this, as other teams take the same approach. But that’s why they’re able to find talent for cheaper prices. They’re spending money on scouting and the academy, which leads to talented players who don’t cost as much, because they’re not as recognized nationally when they sign.
So the theory that the Pirates should load up on top players (and there really aren’t “top players”, just players who are projected to receive the biggest bonuses because of the spotlight they have) and spend big dollars one year kind of works against their approach. They go with a quantity approach, getting ten talented, high-upside guys, rather than just one talented, high-upside guy for the same price. And that’s where I believe the source of their shortage of international talent lies the last few years.
The Pirates have seen some results under the new system. One thing that’s lost is that it takes so much time for international players to make it through the levels. The guys from the 2012-13 period are just reaching A-ball. The guys from 2013-14 are mostly reaching the short-season leagues, with some older players in A-ball. The 2014-15 class just made the jump to the GCL this year. The 2015-16 class just made their pro debuts in the DSL. And the Pirates have had some early results from the early years.
The 2012 season is looking disappointing for the De La Cruz’s, but Tito Polo ($25,000 bonus) emerged as a trade chip for Ivan Nova, while Pablo Reyes and Dario Agrazal (bonuses unknown) have both been interesting players in A-ball.
The 2013 season looks like the best of the group so far. The highlight here is Yeudy Garcia ($30,000), who made it to Bradenton this year after breaking out in West Virginia last year. He had some shoulder issues at the end of the year, but didn’t have any issues after getting them checked out in Pittsburgh. This class also has Luis Escobar ($150,000), who is already hitting 97 MPH, and looks like one of the best arms in the lower levels. Adrian Valerio ($400,000) was the big signing, and has shown some potential with great defense at shortstop. Edgar Santana made an aggressive move through the system, going from the DSL to Indianapolis in two years. This group also has some interesting guys in Hector Garcia, Edison Lantigua, and Jeremias Portorreal, who is on my early list as a sleeper to watch in 2017.
We really can’t tell much from the 2014 group, but Victor Fernandez had some good numbers in Bristol, while Yondry Contreras had some of the hardest hit balls during instructs. Miguel Hernandez, Domingo Robles, and Brian Sousa are all interesting arms in the lower levels.
The Pirates are still getting talent, and still getting that talent at low prices. But when you look at their approach, and the change in their budget, you can really see why they have seen fewer prospects emerge. They used to have a budget of $3 M per year, and that didn’t count guys like Heredia and Ramirez, who were special expenses, separate from the normal international budget. They have recently been around $2 M per year. If you look at the success stories above, they’re averaging about $100,000 bonuses or less for most of the low-key signings. If you reduce the budget by $1 M, which the CBA did for the Pirates, then that’s ten fewer players you can sign. That amount every year, over four years, means the Pirates may have had about 40 fewer players in their system from 2013-2016. And when your approach relies on getting a large quantity of high upside guys, you can see how losing 40 of those high upside guys would reduce the amount of players who emerge as prospects.
I don’t think the answer to this is to change course and sign a lot of high-priced players. In theory this sounds good — go big one year and sign a bunch of prospects, and then revert back to the low-budget approach the next two years, which fits into their normal strategy. But when you’ve got at least five other teams taking this same approach, you’re going to be getting into a bidding war, and the prices are going to be high. Those prospects with big price tags offer no greater guarantee of working out than the guys with the smaller price tags.
What this would result in is the Pirates spending more on the international side when they’re already limited in the majors. I believe they can spend more than they’re spending now in the majors, but I don’t think it’s an excessive amount. It’s still a situation where a few million dollars can make a big difference.
I don’t think anyone is arguing for them to do what San Diego is currently doing, by spending $20 M over their bonus pool, which will result in another $20 M in taxes. I do think the calls for them to exceed the bonus pool are similar to what the Athletics have done, signing five players for $6.7 M total, when their pool is only $3.8 M. That’s at least a $3 M fine, plus the extra $3 M in spending. And the difference comes down to a 17-year-old Cuban outfielder who they signed for $3 M. I don’t think a scenario where spending $6 M on a 17-year-old outfielder is a wise move for the Pirates. They still have success signing lower bonus guys, and they still have a tight budget at the MLB level, with expectations to contend.
An approach that would make sense is keeping their low bonus approach, but expanding it in a big way. Their bonus pool was $2 M this year. So maybe you sign a lot of players and spend $3 M. You get the $1 M in fines, but you get a lot of high upside players with this approach, which fits with their system. This could allow them to return to their success from before. Although, looking at the early results above, especially with that 2013 group, I’m not sure they’ve really departed from their trend of finding talent in Latin America.
All of this might be moot in about a month. The Collective Bargaining Agreement expires this off-season, and I can imagine one of the biggest things to be addressed will be the international signing rules. The rules in place now have done nothing to deter teams from spending, and I can’t imagine that the player’s union is happy that a team like San Diego is paying $20 M in fines, rather than using that money toward actual players. There’s also the changing situation in Cuba that could eventually impact the price tags of Cuban players on the market, and the way those players are signed.
I’d imagine there will be some changes to this market over the off-season. There should be a draft, allowing teams a shot at the best available player with exclusive negotiating rights, rather than the situation now where one team can sign multiple players out of the nationally known lists. This approach would work very well for the Pirates, as it would give them a shot at the top well-known guys at a reasonable price, while also still having the ability to go for the lesser known players that they do such a good job at finding.
**2016 DSL Pirates Season Recap and Top Ten Prospects. Speaking of the international players, John Dreker recaps the best players from the 2016 DSL Pirates.
**AFL Preview: Pirates’ Group Highlighted by a Pair of Third Basemen. The AFL starts tomorrow, and we’ll have reports each day. Here is the preview, with details on the players representing the Pirates.
**Who is Remaining For the Pirates to Protect From the 2016 Rule 5 Draft? My look at the upcoming Rule 5 draft, and who the Pirates still have left to protect.
**Winter Leagues: Action Begins in Venezuela with a Big Day From Jose Osuna. Some of the winter leagues have started up, and Jose Osuna is off to a good start.
**Pirates Have Off-Season Money to Spend in the Initial 2017 Payroll Projection. I took an early look at the 2017 payroll, and feel the Pirates have money to spend this off-season.
Tim started Pirates Prospects in 2009 from his home in Virginia, which was 40 minutes from where Pedro Alvarez made his pro debut in Lynchburg. That year, the Lynchburg Hillcats won the Carolina League championship, and Pirates Prospects was born from Tim's reporting along the way. The site has grown over the years to include many more writers, and Tim has gone on to become a credentialed MLB reporter, producing Pirates Prospects each year, and will publish his 11th Prospect Guide this offseason. He has also served as the Pittsburgh Pirates correspondent for Baseball America since 2019. Behind the scenes, Tim is an avid music lover, and most of the money he gets paid to run this site goes to vinyl records.


Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was surprised that Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo's plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins to Microsoft, he said Thursday.
When Yahoo Inc. agreed to team up with Microsoft Corp. to better take on search giant Google Inc., some analysts said they wondered whether the online pioneer mistakenly sold its soul in the process.
Microsoft acknowledged its Windows Mobile segment has not performed well and said it is working on turning that around, but it's uncertain whether its efforts will go far enough.
Pirates have cracked Windows 7's product activation just a week after the operating system made RTM and a week before it's slated to reach users, Microsoft confirmed today.
Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a single superfluous character in its own development code is responsible for the bug that has let hackers exploit Internet Explorer (IE) since early July.
The successful launch of Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing, was likely the event that tipped the scales in favor of Yahoo agreeing to a search deal, analysts said.
About a year after Microsoft's hostile, contentious and unsuccessful bid to buy Yahoo, the two companies appear set to join forces to take on a common rival - Google.
Yahoo's high-profile and widely used search APIs (application programming interfaces) and search programs for external developers are up in the air after the company's decision to outsource its search engine services to Microsoft.
The head of Google's search organization said the search deal announced Wednesday between Microsoft and Yahoo looked likely to be negative for competition and for consumers.
Adobe stepped forward yesterday to acknowledge that it's the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft's flawed development code in its products.
Microsoft and Yahoo struck a long-anticipated search deal Wednesday under which Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site, and Yahoo will sell premium search advertising services for both companies.
With Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. signing an Internet search and advertising agreement today, some might think that search giant Google Inc. would be nervously looking over its shoulder at the oncoming assault.
Microsoft officially opened its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store to software developers on Monday as the giant software maker moves to catch up to the success of Apple's iPhone App Store.
As promised, Microsoft today patched six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) and Visual Studio with the first "out-of-cycle" update since it plugged a hole last October that the Conficker worm later used to run rampant.
Mobile operators positioning themselves as 'smart enablers' in the industry must live up to the hype, global analyst firm Ovum warns telcos recently.
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In Ladakh, which valley is home to the Buddhist Dard tribe that lives in five villages?
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In Ladakh, Aryan Valley is fascinating for its tribal culture, custom, epics, and languages which are different from the rest of the union territory. Aryan Valley is home to Buddhist Dard Tribe that live in five villages.
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The early aughts. We’re on a family vacation in the outskirts of Ravenna. A rental and a spontaneous suggestion: day trip – San Marino, it’s a country of its own! We get in the car; papá, his girlfriend, my sister and I. The air is ochre, drawing stark contrasts with the baby blue sky. I breathe it in through the open window. We don’t waste gas on air-conditioning.
On the way, we stop by a rustic road-side restaurant, family-style. The parking lot nothing but a rocky front yard. We’re the only patrons but papá has his dad gear on and insists on moving the car to a quote-unquote better spot. He drives it swiftly onto an unfortunately placed metal bar. Hiss as the tire breaks. Puttana-di-sua-madre! More swearing ensues. We go for lunch anyways.
The neighbor helps us with the spare tire, a comically tiny thing that gets us just about as far as the Rimini airport to the closest Herz. More swearing. It’s expensive to exchange a rental. We’re still going to San Marino if it kills us.
Finally, at the bottom of the lilliput state, papá announces that we have exactly fifteen minutes to climb uphill and see San Marino before e poi sbigniamo a casa. We try to argue. We’re not in a hurry. We’re on vacation. But there is no changing his mind.
So we run. We run up the rocky roads, passing idle groups of tourists, dodging street vendors and children. Sweaty. Out of breath. At the top, we finally pause and exclaim: che bella vista! Then we have exactly 30 seconds to take a picture and hurry back down, jump in the car and drive back home.


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It’s been a worldwind year for the James Barker Band and the excitement continues into 2019. The JUNO and Canadian Country Music Award winners recently released their new single “Keep It Simple” through Universal Music Canada.
The band’s lead vocalist James Barker wanted to push the boundaries a bit with the new song, the first piece of music released in over a year. Calling it fun and upbeat, he feels it will be a blast to play live.
Formed in 2013, founding members include Taylor Abram (who is originally from Barrie), Bobby Martin, and Connor Stephen. Together, they have taken the country music scene by storm.
After winning the Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase in 2015, the band kicked off 2019 playing the prestigious Country To Country (C2C) Festival in the United Kingdom, where they were the only Canadian act on the bill.
Last year, they headlined a national tour; performing in 22 cities across the country and played major music festivals throughout North America, including direct support to Keith Urban on his arena tour. More Canadian summer festivals are slated to follow and the band expects to play a return engagement at the Kee To Bala July 19-20.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
I have an advantage during the summer months here on Chokoloskee Island. With fewer boats and people around, I own the bay and can indulge my desire to photograph it in a way that few have bothered to try. After all, the bay surrounds an inhabited island where large Florida-style houses, 40-ft trailer homes and marina docks clutter up the island's edge. Not only that, the bay is riddled with ugly oyster shells, all muddy and sharp. Nothing attractive about that. Or is there?
The beauty of the bay is that you can situate yourself south of the island and have a 300-degree view of the Ten Thousand Islands (all within the national park) while observing a sunrise or sunset. The sky dominates over the thin line of mangrove shorelines, so it is in summer when you really want to be here. I look for those mornings or evenings when the tide is low enough that I can paddle to a revealed oyster bar and set up the tripod. I bought boots to wear so I can walk over the sharp shells without mutilating my feet and ankles. My boat is at risk to, so I brace it between two stake-out poles. That way it cannot move in the shallow waters where sharp shells lay in waiting to scratch the gel coat.
Not only do you have the oyster bars to contend with, composing an image on Chokoloskee Bay comes with some creativity challenges. Forget interesting foreground, except for a moderate size mangrove sticking out of the muddy oyster shells. If you want any kind of focal point, you got to work with the oyster bars. What makes them interesting is that they form long curvy narrow paths that seem to lead the eye toward the sky. My mission was to capitalize on this and capture some summer storm clouds over Chokoloskee Bay during low tide.
The other challenge is the weather, a catch-22 of sorts. If you want beautiful clouds to photograph, you got to have storms. And if you are photographing from a canoe, you got to out-paddle those storms. The last morning I was on the bay, I got to an oyster bar to set up before sunrise as a southerly storm approached. The winds were already a steady 10-12 knots, which thwarted my idea of using a lone mangrove for foreground interest. With a long exposure, the leaves would be blurred to no end and I really did not want to deal with multiple exposures to try to overcome that with a fast shutter speed.
Because the water levels were too high to reveal the oyster bars, I had only the water and sky to work with. But the sky was amazing, and at one point, a moderate-sized rainbow appeared, although somewhat covered by low-lying dark clouds. By 7:30, the storm was nearing the bay, so I put away the gear and paddled back with a brisk 20+ knot wind pushing me along. Here's the scene as shown on the radar at about that time.
Because the clouds were the main interest, I used long enough exposures to smooth out the water and overexpose it somewhat. For some images, I set the white balance to a blue temperature. And, I experimented with black and white compositions during post-processing. All in all, I think I am beginning to reveal Chokoloskee Bay as I experience it. I love that bay.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Butterflies are self propelled flowers. R.H. Heinlein
Naturally, the butterfly is an appealing subject to photograph and here in Florida, there are many locations and opportunities to try out your butterfly-photo skills. Until recently, I rarely attempted to seek out butterflies to photograph. When visiting a garden, such as Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG), I overlooked the butterfly and focused on other subjects such as lizards, spiders or birds. This was primarily because I figured a successful butterfly photograph would only be the result of an earnest pursuit that would demand time and attention at the expense of another subject. I did not want to take "just another shot"of a butterfly.
Other than birds, one of my favorite animals to photograph is the goldensilk orbweaver spider. It is the only "macro" subject I have photographed consistently. From my encounters with the spider, I have learned many things that have helped me improve my images. Basically, there are three important things to consider when composing an image; background, lighting and depth of field (DOF). If you don't get those three things right, it is a deal breaker as far as I am concerned. In this regard, macro photography has always been intimidating to me.
But now, there's a new game to play. A couple years ago FTBG created a butterfly conservatory that they describe as a "World of Fluttering Color". From a photography perspective you have the advantage of thousands of subjects within a relatively small space. You can't spit without hitting a butterfly! On the other hand, it is extremely challenging to capture a successful image of a butterfly despite the fact they are everywhere you look. What a perfect location for practicing high speed photography!
With several visits, I have learned many things. But the most important thing I have learned is to find a suitable landing location first and then wait. Inside the conservatory, I am not allowed to use flash (because of the hummingbirds), so I must rely on natural light. This is extremely tricky in this small space that is full of plants of all shapes and sizes. So I look for a landing location where there are no contrasty leaves in the immediate background. I like to keep the background at a distance from the flower so that any dark or shadowy objects will be out of focus. Often, the background will appear completely dark or can be rendered in such a way with a little post-processing.
The other obvious challenge is the speed and unpredictability of the butterfly. They flit in and out and don't stay in one spot for too long. To get a fast shutter speed, I need to increase my ISO, typically 1250 to 1600. I like to have some depth of field, so I use an aperture of f8.0 typically. If I stop down too much (say to f11), I have to compromise my shutter speed, which I like to keep at least 1/1000.
I focus in on the butterfly's head most of the time. Although an open wing is quite beautiful, I like the profile images where the entire underside of one wing is in full view and you can see the butterfly's probocis and legs. This is also an advantage as the entire butterfly will be in focus if the wing and body are on the same plane.
With time and patience, waiting pays off. After a few visits, I have been able to anticipate certain shots, including flight shots of the butterfly taking off from the flower. Colors are always a given, so I try to capture them in the light and enhance them with some post-processing.
While my time in the conservatory has paid off with some nice images of butterflies, it's what I have learned that is priceless. At the very least, I've gained some practice time with my tracking focus, a useful skill for any type of wildlife photography. Enjoy these images of the butterfly.


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Feline plague, also known as feline panleukopenia, is characterized by a sharp decrease in white blood cells. Cats with incomplete vaccination or without vaccination were more likely to get cat plague, especially in the 3-5 months old cats. If the female cat is infected during pregnancy, it will cause stillbirth, miscarriage and neurological symptoms of newborn kittens. The transmission route is contacting with virus carrying urine feces or blood sucking insects and fleas.
Clinical symptoms include high fever, poor spirit, not eating, vomiting is the most important symptom; diarrhea occurs less, but may also occur in the late course of disease, dehydration and secondary bacterial infection are often the causes of sudden death. Other complications include oral ulceration, dysentery, jaundice, and generalized intravascular coagulation syndrome. In addition, the number of white blood cells decreased significantly, even to 50-3000 cells / ml / 4-6 days after infection; aplastic anemia is another important blood cell disease. If the course of disease is more than 5-7 days and no fatal complications occur, it can be recovered; the number of white blood cells will return to normal within 24-48 hours.
The main treatment methods are non gastric infusion to supplement electrolyte and nutrition, correct dehydration, improve vomiting symptoms and give broad-spectrum antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial infection. In case of severe anemia, blood or plasma transfusion should be considered. Of course, prevention is always better than treatment, so giving a vaccine to protect your cat is the best way.
Cat plague is hard to treat~
For the problem of vomiting:
1. Indigestion. Feed it some yeast chips.
2. I have a bad stomach. Give it some yogurt or probiotics.
3. There are hairballs in my stomach. Give it hair cream or a small amount of vegetable oil.
4. In addition to cat plague, many other diseases will have vomiting symptoms, such as calicivirus, intestinal coronavirus and other infections, if you are not at ease, or take it to the hospital for review.
Feline plague, also known as feline panleukopenia, is characterized by a sharp decrease in white blood cells. If the cat has a high fever, poor spirit, poor appetite, vomiting, bloody stool, it is necessary to first measure the body temperature and test white blood cells to determine whether there is feline plague infection.
Vomiting is the main symptom of cat plague, diarrhea is very rare, but it may also occur in the late stage of the disease. Dehydration and secondary bacterial infection are often the causes of sudden death.
At present, there is no specific drug and specific means to treat cat plague.
It can be injected with feline fever monoclonal antibody and interferon, and non gastric infusion to correct dehydration, improve vomiting symptoms and give broad-spectrum antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial infection. In case of severe anemia, blood or plasma transfusion should be considered. The main treatment in hospital was injection of cat plague monoclonal antibody and cat interferon. Of course, prevention is always better than treatment itself, so giving vaccination in advance to protect and protect cats is the best way.
If you are at home, you can try to use traditional Chinese medicine, corresponding virus inhibition, and gastrointestinal symptoms conditioning.
Cat plague is still more afraid of cold, pay more attention to the work of keeping warm. If there are other cats at home, please isolate the sick cats and pay attention to environmental sanitation and disinfection. Pay more attention to rehydration and balance pH. Infusion is the best treatment. If you can’t give your cat an infusion, you can feed your cat 10% glucose every once in a while and inject a mixture of * and normal saline to help him replenish energy and water.
If you can buy physiological rehydration saline, or pet with liquid electrolysis multidimensional effect is better. Gentamicin can be used to control secondary gastrointestinal inflammation.
If cats vomit seriously, metoclopramide can be used. Metoclopramide is a good antiemetic drug, which is very important during the treatment. There are injections that can be injected or administered orally.
Regulating digestive function and using a large number of antibiotics during the treatment will lead to the disorder of beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract of cats. It is necessary to use drugs or health products to regulate the healthy flora of intestinal flora, such as Lactobacillus, mamillai, probiotics, etc. This kind of digestive drugs regulating the intestinal tract should be taken separately from antibiotics for more than half an hour.
Other drugs such as dexamethasone and vitamin C are drugs that help metabolism and can be added according to the situation.
During the convalescent period, we should pay attention to the intake of protein and fat (milk, eggs, chicken liver, etc.) and give them to cats with easy digestion and liquid principle. Add some nutrition cream or pet fragrance properly to help balance the nutrition intake. Or consider buying Hill’s prescription ad (debilitating / sickly) cat jar, which contains shredded minced meat soup, which can be fed through syringes to recovering cats.
Finally, it should be noted that there may be bloody stool in the later stage of cat plague. Therefore, the cat should be injected with hemostatic needle for prevention or take Yunnan Baiyao orally.
I wish the owner’s cat a speedy recovery.
Reference: fundamental Chinese medicine shop
Introduction and treatment of feline plague

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Growth and Capacity
The General Plan Framework Element establishes a vision for the long-term development and physical form and character of the City of Los Angeles. This vision is expressed through a land use diagram (refer to Chapter 3) that will be refined and implemented through amendments to the community plans. The evolution of the City will take time to achieve due to the City's size and rates of growth.
Realistically, the planning and funding of most infrastructure facilities and public services that support growth must be for levels of growth that can reasonably be expected to occur within a shorter time frame than could be accommodated by the long-term vision. Many of the City's short-term capital improvements are defined through a five-year plan that is updated annually (the Capital Improvements Plan). Major improvements that serve large areas of the City and/or are capital intensive, such as schools and fixed rail transit facilities, are planned and funded over an extended period (10 years or more). Some, such as wastewater treatment facilities, are planned to accommodate growth for periods in excess of 50 years.
Consequently, the General Plan Framework Element plans for a level of population and employment growth that may be reasonably anticipated in the near-term as the basis of its policies and programs and for environmental review in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The General Plan Framework Element is population growth neutral: it is not the intent of the Framework Element to cause any specific level of population growth to occur. It is a plan to accommodate whatever growth does occur in the future, which could include loss of population. The year 2010 is used as the planning "horizon" to facilitate comparability with the regional growth forecasts of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). The SCAG population and household forecasts for the City of Los Angeles for the year 2010 (as defined in June, 1993 - SCAG population forecasts for the City are currently being revised. ) are used in the Framework Element. Employment forecasts have been adjusted to maintain the City's existing jobs-housing ratio, which is considered important in maintaining the City's fiscal stability.
The estimates are not intended to represent maximum or minimum levels of development to be permitted. Rather, they will be monitored annually as a basis for the implementation of infrastructure and services to support growth (as subsequently described). Based on the monitoring, the "horizon" may be adjusted to reflect the actual levels of growth and their impacts and demands on infrastructure and public services. At a minimum, the "horizon" must be reviewed and updated as the population and employment forecasts and/or 2010 are approached. Adjustments of the population and employment "horizon" may necessitate additional environmental review.
The "horizon" will guide the revision of all components of the City's general plan (e.g., community plans and citywide elements) and guide planning policy by the City's departments and commissions.
EXISTING GENERAL PLAN
Los Angeles' existing general plan is an end-state plan with no shorter term population, housing and employment policy goals established prior to the ultimate buildout of the Plan. The theoretical capacities of the existing general plan at buildout, as shown in the Framework Element technical reports and Environmental Impact Report, are adequate to accommodate growth to the year 2010. While its housing capacity is more constrained than commercial and industrial uses, the Plan's capacity for growth considerably exceeds any realistic market requirements for the future. For example, there is sufficient capacity for retail and office commercial uses for over 100 years even at optimistic, pre-recession, market growth rates. At the same time, the impact assessments of the current general plan indicate that if all lands were to be developed with the uses at the maximum densities permitted, an unrealistic jobs/housing relationship would result and supporting infrastructure and public services would be unable to support this level of growth.
SCAG 2010 MARKET FORECAST
SCAG has forecasted population, household, and employment levels for the year 2010 and provided this information to all jurisdictions in the region for transportation planning applications. State and Federal regulations require that local plans be consistent with the Regional Air Quality Plan and the Regional Mobility Plan. The Framework Element is required to utilize the population forecasts provided by SCAG. The Element reflects the SCAG population and household forecasts as its planning horizon. It sets a higher goal for employment -- to improve employment opportunities for City residents and to help maintain a stable fiscal base which in turn supports public services. Table 2-1 summarizes these numbers (estimates are rounded):
SCAG 2010 Forecast
SCAG's population forecast assumes that about two thirds of the increase
will be accounted for by natural increases from the population that already
resides in the City and that there will be long-term continuing growth of
the Southern California economy.
SCAG employment forecasts for the City are based on the continuation of historic and recent growth trends. It is recognized, that in order to achieve the higher employment levels adopted by the Framework Element the City cannot adopt a business-as-usual approach but must devise an aggressive business retention and outreach program to assure adequate job growth within the City to maintain fiscal stability (refer to Chapter 7). Such a program must be correlated with actions to mitigate the impacts of growth on the natural environment, public infrastructure and services, and quality of life of the City's residents. Without the mitigation of these impacts, businesses will choose to locate in communities exhibiting a higher quality environment.
FRAMEWORK ELEMENT PLAN GROWTH DISTRIBUTION
The citywide population, employment, and household forecasts described in the previous section have been distributed to City subregions and to community plan areas within these subregions (see Table 2-2). These distributions are the result of a methodology for disaggregating the citywide forecasts provided by SCAG. The methodology reflects the Framework Element Long-Range Land Use Diagram and an adjustment of historic growth trends and land values in each plan area to account for the attraction of development to transit stations and corridors and the districts, centers, and boulevards defined by the Framework Element.
The population, employment, and housing distribution should be used to guide future community plan amendments. It should be recognized, however, that these figures are "best estimates" of citywide distributions. They attempt to forecast how market trends will be impacted by the implementation of the Framework Element. In terms of economic and market forces, these City subregions function as realistic submarkets of the City, taking into account forces that transcend community plan boundaries.
The Framework Element utilizes the following 2010 estimates:
|% of City Population
|1. Northeast L.A.
|2. South L.A.
|3. Metro Center
|4. Southwest L.A.
|5. Central L.A.
|6. Southeast L.A.
|7. Northeast L.A.
|8. Northwest L.A.
|9. Southwest L.A.
|10. West L.A.
As implementation proceeds, the community plan population forecasts may
be revised based upon specific land use actions adopted through the community
plan update process. If one area cannot accommodate the forecasted population,
then other community plans within the same subregion should have sufficient
capacity to accommodate the subregional forecasts above. Forecasts may change
as SCAG updates its information or as new information is obtained from the
Framework Element's monitoring system.
RATES OF GROWTH
While the Framework Element has adopted a year 2010 planning horizon and provided estimated population forecasts and anticipated citywide distributions, it is not dependent upon these population levels or distributions for its implementation. It does not mandate specific levels of growth for any specific area (neither minimums nor caps). The population could grow more slowly than currently anticipated as a result of economic trends, or again expand rapidly as a result of changing immigration levels and birth rates. Population loss could also occur. The Framework Element policies will not directly prevent nor cause population growth to occur.
Population levels are dependent on a wide variety of factors, many of which are totally unrelated to land use planning. Such variables as birth and death rates, income, migration and immigration levels, Federal immigration policies, natural disaster, economic trends and employment levels, etc. all interact to determine whether population grows or declines.
Population levels, while partially related to building permit (development) activity, are also not directly tied to the number of housing units available. Population increases (or decreases) can occur during periods of slow or even no growth in the number of available residential units. Similarly it is possible, at least for short periods, to have stable or declining population levels during periods of rapid housing unit construction. Over shorter time periods, construction cycles and populations trends may not be consistent.
The Framework Element is designed to accommodate population growth largely
within centers, districts, and mixed-use boulevards whenever it eventually
occurs. Forecasted population levels may be reached by 2010 as forecasted,
or within a totally different time horizon for reasons unrelated to the
After the Framework Element is adopted, the City will establish a growth monitoring program that will provide important information regarding the accuracy of future growth estimates and the distribution of that new development by community plan area. This monitoring program will annually document what has actually happened to the City's population levels, housing construction, employment levels, and the availability of public infrastructure and public services. Information on environmental conditions will also be monitored on a yearly basis to maintain and update an environmental database, which will be used to facilitate but not replace, environmental review for subsequent programs and projects in accordance with CEQA.
Information for the monitoring system will be taken from the best sources available to the City, such as building permit information and other readily available City data on business; Department of Water and Power and School District information; County Assessor's files; commercially available development data; State Employment Development Department statistics; Census Bureau; SCAG data; University of California Los Angeles Business Forecast; and other data as they may become available.
Infrastructure data will be developed from a cooperative effort among the City departments responsible for infrastructure and public services. State and regional agencies, such as the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Metropolitian Transportation Authority are important to complete the annual review of the City's growth and infrastructure.
Although one of the Framework Element's primary goals is to encourage new development to locate in centers, districts and boulevards throughout the City, market forces will ultimately determine the distribution of future growth. Yearly monitoring will help evaluate whether the incentives that are linked to targeted growth areas are working effectively with market forces to attract new development.
The information from such a monitoring system will be presented to the City Council in the form of an Annual Report on Growth and Infrastructure, which can be used as the basis for revision of policies as needed to meet the goals of the Framework Element. The status of environmental mitigation requirements can also be determined and policies can be changed if desired results are not being obtained. Information on amounts and location of growth can be provided and policies influencing this growth can be revised if needed. In this fashion, the Framework Element can be continually updated to meet changing conditions, and the implementation mechanisms revised or altered to achieve the desired goals. SCAG will require monitoring in all its subregions in a similar manner.
FRAMEWORK ELEMENT THEORETICAL BUILDOUT
While the General Plan Framework Element is based on the forecasts defined in Tables 2-1 and 2-2, development in accordance with the uses and densities prescribed in the Long-Range Land Use Diagram could exceed them. This is based on the assumption that all lands in the City would convert to the maximum density allowed, referred to as the "Theoretical Buildout." "Theoretical Buildout" will not happen. Experience indicates that many properties would not be developed to their maximum permitted densities. For example, fewer than five percent of the commercial properties currently allowed to develop at a floor area ratio of 1.5:1 have been developed at this intensity.
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Forecast Growth by Subregions and Community Plan Areas
Should population and employment growth be greater than the levels anticipated
by the Framework Element, policy stipulates that studies be undertaken to
correlate with the necessary supporting capital, facility, or service improvements
and/or demand reduction programs. At the same time, the impacts of the additional
level of growth must be found to be consistent with the findings of the
Environmental Impact Report regarding their level of significance. Should
additional potential impacts be identified, these would be subject to further
environmental review in accordance with the CEQA. This would be facilitated
by the implementation of a program to monitor the characteristics and impacts
of growth and availability of infrastructure and public services (the "Monitoring
Program") and annual reporting of this information to the City Council
(the "Annual Report on Growth and Infrastructure") as a basis
for the planning and funding of necessary improvements.
The Housing Element is a portion of the general plan and as such, must be consistent with the Framework Element. Further, the most recently adopted Housing Element has identified the Framework Element as an implementation mechanism for several of the programs that it contains. While the Housing Element and the Framework Element are closely related, there are data references within each that appear to be inconsistent. Most of the apparent inconsistency is created by differing time horizons and methodological requirements within the two documents.
Calculation of the number of housing units that could be developed in the City as determined, separately, by the Housing Element and General Plan Land Use Element (community plans) seems to create the most confusion. Housing unit calculations from either the community plans or the Framework Element, using general plan designations per CEQA requirements, assume that all residential units are located on properties planned for residential or mixed-use developments that integrate housing with commercial uses and that these properties are built to their maximum capacity.
This is a theoretical "capacity" figure which overestimates the realistic number of dwelling units that would likely be constructed. All properties are assumed to be redeveloped to their maximum capacity despite their current use or the economic feasibility of this occurring. As calculated in the Framework Element, this estimate also does not consider limitations imposed by the existing number of parcels and their irregular configurations. Further, it assumes all residential uses on commercially zoned lands are redeveloped to their planned, non-residential use. The Framework Element housing capacity estimate is considered a "worst-case" impact assessment for the purposes of CEQA, which means that it assumes land is completely builtout to the fullest extent allowed by the zoning.
Within the Housing Element more precise calculations are required. The Housing Element is concerned with the availability of sufficient parcels of land (housing capacity) within the City with the appropriate current zoning to meet the City's housing needs, including its share of regional housing needs, over the next five years. Residential units currently on land not planned for residential use are not excluded. Because of Los Angeles' size and the lack of detailed land use and zoning information for every parcel, complex estimating methodologies must be devised and utilized to produce the required capacity estimates incorporating information on parcelization, zoning, and realistic (economically feasible) buildout.
The Housing Element estimates are produced for a specific purpose with detailed requirements and will not be comparable to Framework housing unit theoretical buildout calculations. However, they are not incompatible with these Framework calculations. Because of the additional restrictions on Housing Element housing capacity data (except for residential units on non-residential parcels), the "housing capacity" estimate in the Housing Element is lower than that found in the Framework Element. The housing capacity numbers will change as the Housing Element is updated.
The 1993 Housing Element distributed the Regional Housing Needs Assessment allocation, produced by SCAG for the City of Los Angeles, into income categories and divided these allocations further by subregions of the City based solely on the relative size of each subregion. The Framework Element produced employment and income forecasts for each community plan area for the year 2010 as well as housing unit forecasts by rent and price level, and from this derived housing affordability levels by community plan area. Comparison between market trend data for 2010 and Framework Element impacts for 2010 were also calculated. Impacts of other policy actions on housing affordability can be examined through varying inputs to the Framework Element economic impact and forecast model. In combination with the policies in the Housing Chapter of the Framework Element, these distributions implement the Fair Share Allocation program documented in the Housing Element.


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FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2005 (HealthDayNews) -- Poor nutrition in moms-to-be could set their child up for diabetes later in life, new research in mice suggests.
"Low birth weight is linked with abnormal function of the cells in the pancreas that make insulin," explained lead researcher Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Patti, an assistant investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center Research and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
While experts have long noted an association between low birth weight and type 2 diabetes, this new research sheds light on why that may occur.
However, another expert cautioned that it's difficult to draw parallels between the diets of mice used in this study and the nutrition of modern-day humans.
The findings appear in the March issue of Diabetes.
In their study, Patti's team divided pregnant mice into two groups: One group ate as much as they wanted throughout their three-week pregnancy, while the other group was allowed to eat all they wanted only during the first two weeks of pregnancy, then had their food intake restricted during the third week of pregnancy.
Pups born to the second, calorie-restricted group weighed 23 percent less than the pups in the well-fed group, the researchers report. However, by three weeks of age, the mice pups all looked and acted the same, regardless of which group their mothers had been in.
Digging deeper, Patti's group tested the pups' blood sugar levels as they aged. They found that by two months of age both groups had similar blood sugar levels, but by four months mice that were in the low birth weight group displayed significantly higher blood glucose compared to their normal birth weight peers.
That gap continued to widen, the researchers add, so that by six months of age blood sugar levels in mice born undersized was abnormally high, reaching levels equivalent to those seen in diabetic humans.
In diabetics, poor blood sugar control comes from deficiencies in insulin secretion by the pancreas, or through cellular resistance to the effects of insulin circulating throughout the body.
The Boston team examined the mice's pancreatic cells to determine which mechanism was at fault. They found that low birth weight mice born to mothers on poor diets had damaged cells in their pancreas that severely reduced the amount of insulin the mice could produce as they aged.
"One reason why people who have had a history of low birth weight are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes is that they're not able to produce as much insulin as they should," Patti speculated.
"If the nutritional environment that the baby is in during development is altered, that can affect the function of organs even during adult life -- even though nutrition and everything has been normalized after birth," she added.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of low birth weight babies in the United States increased 12 percent between 1980 and 2000. In 2002, 314,077 low birth weight babies were born -- the highest level in over three decades. The CDC noted that part of this increase is due an increase in the number of multiple births, which are on the rise.
Anyone born undersized may be at an increased risk for type 2 diabetes as they age, Patti noted. "This study suggests that one important component of that risk for diabetes is the poor functioning of the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas," she said.
She advised people who know they were low birth weight infants to take special care to keep their weight down and get plenty of exercise, since obesity is a prime risk factor for the type 2 diabetes. "Although the damage to the pancreas is permanent, it may not be a problem unless you gain weight or become physically inactive," Patti said.
Dr. Rebecca Anne Simmons, an assistant professor of pediatrics from the University of Pennsylvania, said the findings may have limited applications for humans because, in her opinion, the calorie-restricted pregnant mice received nutrition far below what is seen in most humans.
"This is not similar to what we would observe in humans now. We don't see that severe malnutrition," she said.
Simmons also believes that any damage caused to the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas may occur because of decreased blood supply to the fetus, which restricts the flow of oxygen and other nutrients. "It is not due to malnutrition," she contended.
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Dr Jyoti Raina DO, FRCS, FRCOphth
Founder, Director, and Trustee
Dr Jyoti Raina is the founding Trustee of Serve2See. She is a consultant ophthalmologist, based in North London for the last 16 years. She trained in the North Thames region, which includes Moorfields Eye Hospital. She did her fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Cleveland clinic in Ohio, USA. Jyoti is a keen educator and has held posts of College Tutor with the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Associate Professor with St George’s University Grenada, and at University College London.
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Her personal interests include, yoga, music, gardening, and travelling.
Dr Naveen Raina MD
Eye Camp Coordinator
Naveen is a psychiatrist and owner of Satyanand Hospital in Pune, India. He is the key coordinator who puts the team together for each eye camp, and provides logistical support at the location.
He supports Yoga education and Life Skills Coaching of children and adolescents, through the Research Institute affiliated to his hospital. Naveen is also a Certified Adolescent Life Coach.
Dr Rajul Chanchani MS
Eye Camp Volunteer, Ophthalmologist
Rajul is a specialist Ophthalmologist, working in the independent sector in New Delhi. He is an accomplished cataract surgeon.
Rajul has been involved in all eye camps since 2012, and provided all the local clinical knowledge about practices, procedures, suitable equipment and establishing an inventory of items needed for running the service. He holds the annual records for seeing the most patients at each eye camp.
Dr Ashish Chauhan BAMS
Volunteer, Head of Dispensing
Ashish is an Ayurvedic Practitioner based in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, India. He specializes in the techniques of Nadi Pareeksha, Marma Chikitsa, Panchkarma Chikitsa and Pranic Healing.
Ashish runs the pharmacy at the eye camps. In addition to setting up procedures for safe dispensation of medicines, he procures and funds all medications and eye drops.
He believes in selfless service, and brings in more volunteers every year who share his enthusiasm and spirit of care and devotion to the needy.
Dr. Vaishali Lodhia MBBS, IBSc, MSc
Eye Camp Volunteer, trainee Ophthalmologist
Vaishali is a trainee ophthalmologist in the Kent Surrey and Sussex region in UK currently working in East Surrey Hospital.
She was born in Kenya, and throughout her career has had the opportunity to work in various community programmes including eye camps. Since then she has been passionate about helping to improve eye health in developing countries which is why she joined the Serve2See team as a trustee.
Vaishali has an intercalated medical degree with International Health from University College of London and a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine during which she worked on http://www.peekvision.org/ with other like-minded colleagues looking to resolve the challenges of access to eye care through digital innovation.
Arsha Raina MA(Cantab) MSc
Trustee and Treasurer; Eye Camp Volunteer
Arsha has volunteered at the annual eye camps since the first in 2012, helping with administrative considerations such as organising patient notes, managing inventory, and documenting treatment outcomes. She worked with medical staff and volunteers to share best practice and effective processes. She has refined these based on practical feedback, to maintain high care standards as the camps have grown.
Arsha has an MSC in Management from the London School of Economics. She works in the Civil Service.
Ravi Daswani, Entrepreneur
Eye Camp and Serve2See Volunteer
Ravi is a Serve2See trustee and non-medical volunteer who helps fill in the gaps where needed at the eye camps.
Ravi worked in sales for Google and Facebook and then quit his job to start his own company. Now he is a co-founder of Crystalusion Limited, a nanotechnology company manufacturing innovative and advanced consumer protection solutions. Ravi also sits on the board of HIT Labs Inc. a Finnish company focusing on personal and professional development combining elements from the science of psychology and social interactions to help people discover their potential.
He is a true believer in giving back and feels fortunate to be part of the Serve2See team.
Dr Rajesh Rajan MS
Eye Camp Volunteer, Ophthalmologist
Rajesh is a specialist Ophthalmologist based in Mungher in Bihar, India. He runs the Baba Baidyanath Eye Hospital at Tarapur , where he offers outpatient and surgical care to the local population.
He volunteered at the 2015 eye camp, and also operated on a batch of patients in Feb 2016, all free of cost to the patients.
With deep thanks to all volunteers, helpers, staff, and partners, past and present
BIT Sindri Rotaract Club student volunteers
Qualified and trainee medics
All who have generously given their time, expertise, supplies, or funds in support of our goals.

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I just watched the live Sheriff Joe Arpaio press conference on the Obama birth certificate live on the internet. So let me get this straight, Obama served his full 8 years of his presidency and they let him get away with a fake birth certificate? The press conference today about it is good enough to prove it’s fake.
Here’s the Obama long form birth certificate from the White House website:
The press conference proved that a lot of the info on the Obama birth certificate was copied and pasted from another birth certificate which could be easily done by photoshop. The other birth certificate that Obama copied from was another Hawaiian woman named, Johanna Ah’nee.
The date stamp is key to proving it’s fraudulent. If you notice the date stamps, the angles and the heights are kind of different. Watch the video above to see how. The video above from today’s press conference.
On this blog, I’ve been trying to teach you guys how the birth certificate is fake for a long while but all you guys did was laugh at me and called me names. The media will probably ignore this but if they were to start reporting it, the mainstream media would call it “fake news”.
I think Mr. Trump is making a huge mistake backing off the birth certificate which he never should have. That’s pretty much the only thing that Mr. Trump disappointed me on. Obama’s birth certificate should be taken very seriously ’cause he’s an illegal president and it should concern the American people. Obama could also be an illegal alien himself which wouldn’t surprise me if he is. Whether he is an American citizen or an illegal alien himself, either way… he wasn’t born here at all. Was Obama born in Kenya… maybe Indonesia? If this Congress under Obama won’t have hearings about the birth certificate, hopefully Trump will do something about it when he gets in office. Lock Obama up, that fraud.
A lot of people let Obama get away with it… not just the media… Congress let him get away with it too, even Republicans. Why? Because they’re cowards that’s why. Too scared to take down Obama ’cause they’re afraid the race card might get played.
Not only Hillary needs to be locked up. Obama needs to be locked up too. Yep this is good enough to prove that Obama’s b.c. is fake. I knew it all along and I still stand by it. There’s still time to have Congress investigate Obama’s birth certificate so hopefully Congress does something this time. We got ’til Jan. 20th. Even if Obama will be out of office soon, he should still be investigated. Hopefully Trump will do something when he gets sworn in.
There are still too many people who believe that Obama was born here (even if they don’t like him at all) so hopefully this will be good enough to wake people up more.


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For readers of this blog and students of Islam, this is more confirmation, not anything new. See these posts:
- Saudia Arabia declares destruction of all churches in region, 4/9/2013
- Saudi Grand Mufti calls for 'Destruction of all churches in region', 3/21/2012
- Challenging Mosque Expansions — The Time is Now (discusses Saudi funding of extremist Wahhabi mosques in U.S.), 6/6/2013
- Speaking of Iconoclasm and the Breaking of Crosses, 3/6/2012
- Islam's Purpose-Driven Jihad, Pt 4 (regarding the breaking of crosses), 5/24/2013
Saudi Arabia: religious police confiscate crosses from Christians
Pravoslavie.ru — 9/25/2013
(ABHA, SAUDI ARABIA) Officers of the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (the religious police) made a raid in the town of Abha in the south of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The result of these events was the confiscation of crosses from representatives of one Asian diaspora—to prevent the performing of Christian prayers, called "contradictory to Islam" by the government employees, reports Linga.
According to the Tavasul electronic newspaper's materials, the committee got the information on the "violation of the law" from the municipality, which had informed it of the preparations made by one of the numerous Asian diasporas for to the perform rites and sacraments that they hold approximately every half year, in the presence of a relatively great number of men, women and children. The hostel at a town filling station was chosen as the venue for holding the prayer service.
The newspaper also reports that after an investigation that lasted till dawn on Friday, and long observation of the hostel (this discovering that a substantial number of visitors flocked to it), the committee officers with support of local security services burst into the building where they ascertained the presence of diaspora members "performing pagan rites". There were also cans with water brought to perform Baptisms in the room.
The sources add that the organizers of the event were arrested, while the crosses, icons, images of statues of the Mother of God, and musical instruments were confiscated.
The newspaper informs the readers that those arrested were handed over to the secular police of Abha.


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The Galaxy Note8 will be a formidable piece of hardware when it launches. And at the latest, it will be at IFA. But now that seems unlikely since Samsung mobile division head himself narrated it will be at the end of August. And usually these days, by the time a flagship launches, tipsters leak the hell out of it. Until no one is left intrigued.
Same is the case of the Galaxy Note8. This time we have dbrand, a popular custom skin maker, demystifying the upcoming phablet. The skin maker has outed multiple skins that are on pre-order. Now, the brand must be very confident of the design to put them on pre-order. The chief takeaway is that we are not getting an on-screen biometric sensor most likely. Clumsily, it will be placed at the back next to the dual cameras.
Also, the design is nothing radically departed from the Galaxy S8. You could probably argue that it is the same thing but in a rectangular mold. The phone will have a glass back that will make it slippery smudgy as hell. That’s why dbrand is selling you those rough skins.
dbrand announcing skins is less of a surprise as case makers like Olixar have been a step ahead of them putting out Galaxy Note8 cases up for pre-order earlier.


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Horror of Carpathia
“Synevir” (Ukraine, 2013, Directors — Alexander and Vyacheslav Aleshechkin, cast — Sergey Romanyuk, Alyona Lavrenyuk, Ilya Rudakov, Bogdan Osipchuk, Zoryana Marchenko, Konstantin Voitenko, Philip Kozlov, Mila Sivickaja, Igor Savinsky, Yuri Regan)
The USSR, the end of the 70s the Carpathians. Two local children — brother and sister — go early in the morning on a fishing trip and disappear into the woods. Then we see five young people — good girl, good boy, loser, arrogant macho and naughty girl — come relax on beautiful lake Synevyr. As expected in an archetypal slasher, the characters are pre-planned schemes — frighten each other underwater, listening to the song “Chervona Ruta”, are stupid conversations by the fire, consume alcohol. The loser tells a scary story about that here dwells a terrible mythical monster-a monster who does not Bode well for humans any good. In the bushes nearby lightning flashed some shadows. You hear a growl. But hot alcohol students are going to sleep. At this time in their camp uses the one missing in the prologue, the girl, and begs the guys to help her to find at night in a forest lost brother. Three show the generosity and breadth of soul and armed with flashlights, go into the thicket. Following fifty minutes of screen time the viewer will be forced to watch endless wandering youth in the dark, annoying voiced “Ay”. After forty seconds, the frame will be a welcome beast was. And the last fifteen minutes of the film authors will decide almost in Balabanovo.
The first Ukrainian horror, shot in 3D, some brothers Aleshechkin, is a very strange product. It would seem, having such an impressive Arsenal, as the Carpathians — a place full of mysticism and ancient legends could have been deployed in this field and give some great horror movies. At least according to the example of the Norwegian colleagues, whose Scandinavian horror pleases the past years all fans of the genre. And that brings us to “Synevyr”, which is nothing more or less than about cynocephala — the creatures described by Herodotus and Marco Polo. Don’t forget about Saint Christopher, who was often depicted on icons with a dog’s head. In Rus, this image of the Martyr were banned by the Synod in 1722, the year, however, the old believers to this day is revered Christopher in the image of the beast was. As stated in the Apocrypha, it was the tall man from the tribe of cynocephali who believed in Christ and became a Saint. According to Cypriot legend, the young Christopher was so beautiful that, in order not to introduce women into temptation, entreated the Lord to disfigure my face, animal face. Icons Christopher-cynocephala, despite the official ban of the Church, preserved to this day in some Russian churches
As for Ukraine, the legends about these creatures live in the people today. In the NINETEENTH inhabitants of these lands and did not doubt the reality of bacigalova. And the Russian writer Alexey Ivanov in 2011 year released the novel “Pahlavi”, where fully enough the myth — the result can be found by anyone.
Such a lovely informative historical background, apparently, absolutely not interested with aleshechkin brothers who chose to go through the experience of their Western comrades. Picture leaving even a hint of the Ukrainian national character. To this sacred moment of this story — the appearance of the beast was — “Synevyr” school is a variation on the famous “Friday the 13th”. The same archetypal approach to the characters, instead of the Crystal lake — Synevir, and is actively wielding Jason Voorhees — fragmented monster, visually resolved in the pretty style of horror films of the 80s. With a budget of 1 200 000 $ is simply a crime to film such a poor story — one beast was not going to enter into eternity, and do not eat dogs. Especially when closer to the final picture brilliantly cope with domestic topic in which the more infernal than all the mysterious star hotel is situated in the woods together. The authors do not take upon myself even to explain to the audience “where he got out”, this strange beast. With regard to the political situation — if historical legends was not impressed with the authors — would not tolerate the action in the distant USSR, and to introduce in the narrative the actual Russian mark. Or, conversely, to fill the gap to one version of the origin of the ancient ukrov. But instead, Aleshechkin prefer vague playing in the sandbox that is an obvious insult to the ancient tribe of cynocephalus deserves far more detailed translate to the screen.