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The discipline of “classical” literature has long been associated with social gatekeeping. The mastery of Latin and ancient Greek—or at least enough of an acquaintance to be able to trot out a well-worn tag from Horace and prompt knowing chuckles over the brandy—has often provided a useful qualification for passing as a gentleman and keeping out the plebs (Latin for “common people”) or hoi polloi (ancient Greek for “the many”). It is understandable that George Eliot’s Maggie Tulliver eagerly whizzes through the Latin textbooks neglected by her idle brother Tom, or that Thomas Hardy’s Jude, hoping in vain to escape the obscurity of provincial poverty, slogs through his Greek dictionary until late into the night. For these fictional characters, like many of their real-life equivalents, ancient languages and literature provided the most visible bar against entry into a “higher” social class.
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Even in the 20th and 21st centuries, the subject has maintained a close association with systems of exclusion based on income, education, race, and gender. In the United Kingdom, its cultural capital remains high enough that Boris Johnson—a bafflingly incompetent drunkard—managed to hold on to the highest political office in the land for an astonishingly long period of time and even maintained a reputation as something of an intellectual (sic—from the Latin phrase sic erat scriptum, “thus it had been written,” usually expressing astonished disbelief) on the basis of his ability to parrot a few garbled lines of Homeric Greek. No other party trick could have served him as well. Thanks to centuries of culturally ingrained snobbery, the acquisition of these languages is still often considered a sign of extraordinary intelligence—as if it were really any harder to learn ancient Greek than it is to learn plumbing, Arabic, or mechanical engineering.
Over the past century, there have been numerous attempts to provide wider access to the supposed treasures of Greek and Roman antiquity to those once excluded from its riches. In the early 20th century, translations of ancient texts became more widely available, ranging from Gilbert Murray’s wonderfully ornate and virtuosic renditions of Euripides to Hilda Doolittle’s much starker modernist free verse. The Loeb Classical Library was founded in 1911 and featured fairly inexpensive editions of these ancient texts in their original languages, with an English translation on the facing page. These translations heralded a new age in which once-inaccessible works of classical literature became more accessible to a far wider range of people. As Virginia Woolf noted in 1917, it was the Loeb Library editions that helped make it “respectable” for the “amateur” (including female ones) to muddle through Aeschylus.
After the First World War, an ever-larger number of colleges and universities in the United States began to offer classes on ancient texts studied in translation, with no expectation that students would be able to read even a little of the originals. By the early 20th century, the study of ancient literature and history was often considered a prerequisite for understanding contemporary issues in Europe and the United States—regions that were now often lumped together under the term “the West.” The Columbia Core, the first such course in the United States, was developed in 1919 with the explicit goal of showing students the “unique features of the western world,” a world that apparently had begun in ancient Greece and that had now reached its apex in the American present.
The goal of connecting US citizens to a long, largely fabricated notion of “Western civilization” seemed increasingly urgent in the aftermath of a war that had torn the nations of Europe apart. The fantasy of a common “Western” heritage shared by white Europeans and North Americans appeared as a prophylactic against future wars, at least between those who could qualify as “Westerners.” But it also did something else. By excluding the numerous surviving ancient texts and cultural artifacts from the rest of the world, these new courses on “Western civilization” suggested that premodern “civilization” was the exclusive property of the “West”—enabling a kind of mythical/historical justification for continued domination of those peoples deemed to have come from outside this exclusive group, whether it was Black and Asian Americans in the United States or the millions still living under imperial and colonial rule in Asia and Africa.
By the 1920s, a sizable market for popular classics books and translations had emerged in the United States. A new publishing firm, W.W. Norton, decided to seize on it and signed up a recently retired Latin teacher and private school headmistress named Edith Hamilton to translate a trio of Greek tragedies and write two surveys of ancient literature, The Greek Way and The Roman Way. Published in quick succession in the 1930s, these volumes proved to be an immediate success. Along with Mythology, her retelling of the Greco-Roman legends, the books made Hamilton a household name. Mythology has never been out of print since then and has remained an extraordinary commercial success, enriching her heirs and publishers to this day. Probably no other single person has had such an impact in shaping the perceptions of classical literature and mythology in the United States for almost a century.
How did a retired Latin schoolteacher (Hamilton was 62 when The Greek Way was published), with limited formal education and almost no scholarly credentials, come to be one of the most influential “classicists” of the 20th century? Victoria Houseman’s annalistic new biography, American Classicist, does not quite see this question as the puzzle it is, in part because Houseman has so much admiration for her subject that Hamilton’s successes are largely taken for granted. But the book still makes for gripping reading, as we trace the trajectory of Hamilton’s life from her activist youth (she was a member of the Baltimore Equal Suffrage League), through her various travels in Europe and Asia, her health troubles (she was a breast cancer survivor), her fascinating romantic partnerships with other women, to her second career as a popularizer of the ancient world and as a public intellectual who became closely associated with wealthy and powerful conservative groups in the US.
Edith Hamilton was born in 1867. She was the eldest in a family of four daughters and one son, the youngest, who was always known as Quintus—a mild joke (quintus is the Latin for “fifth”) that hints at the family’s educational aspirations. Hamilton was born in Germany, outside Dresden; her father, Montgomery Hamilton, had fought on the Union side in the Civil War and had traveled abroad to recuperate from an injury. There he met Hamilton’s mother, Gertrude Pond, whose wealthy, Southern-sympathizing, slavery-enriched family was managing its sugar business from Europe during the conflict.
The family moved back to the United States when Edith was 2 months old, and she grew up on her father’s homestead in Fort Wayne, Ind. Montgomery was a heavy drinker who proved unsuccessful in running his family’s business, but he was eager to educate his children, including the daughters: All were homeschooled, and Edith began learning Latin and ancient Greek from her father as a child. At 16, she was sent to a finishing school in Connecticut. She spent another few years at home in Indiana, waiting for her family to rustle up the money for college and filling in the gaps in her mathematical and linguistic preparation. She eventually passed the entrance exams at the recently founded Bryn Mawr College and performed well enough to acquire an AB and an MA, with a focus on the Latin of Seneca, in just over three years.
Three years of study is not generally considered adequate academic training for a scholar of the classics or, for that matter, of any other serious academic field. For a few years, Hamilton had dreams of acquiring a doctorate and becoming a professor. But it seems clear that she was not a natural philologist. She was terrified of the Greek professor at Bryn Mawr, Paul Shorey, and there is little evidence that her Greek was ever strong. Her graduate thesis focused on Seneca’s prose, but she was apparently not much interested in the topic. Throughout her life, she had an extraordinarily strong work ethic and fluency as a writer, but laboring over footnotes was not her forte.
After graduation, Hamilton was appointed as headmistress of the newly established Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore. She accepted the job reluctantly but nonetheless remained for almost 30 years, from 1896 to 1922. Her success as a headmistress speaks to her enormous talents as a visionary leader, administrator, and networker. Hamilton was able to fuse her passion for educating girls in Greek and Latin with ideas of “individual self-realization” borrowed from John Dewey, whom she met in 1898.
The wealthy families of Baltimore bought what Hamilton was selling, and the school became a major economic and social success. On one level, it opened the gates of classical learning to a social group—wealthy white girls—who had previously been shut out of the joys of Greek and Latin; but on another level, the social barriers of wealth and race were very much reinforced. The students were all white, and Jewish girls were not made welcome at the school, although Hamilton herself did not object to hiring Jewish teachers. As well as serving as the headmistress and guiding light for the school’s pedagogical mission, Hamilton taught in the classroom throughout her time there and marched the upper-level Latin class through sections of Virgil’s Aeneid every year.
In Baltimore, Hamilton became involved in the most elite (or, as Houseman terms it, “moderate”) form of women’s suffrage, advocating for voting rights only for educated women (i.e., not for those who were too poor or too Black to have had access to a school like Bryn Mawr). She also had a romantic interest in these years, a college friend and instructor at their alma mater named Lucy Martin Donnelly, who shared her devotion to classical literature and many of her cultural interests. Donnelly had affairs with various people during this period (including the philosopher Bertrand Russell), but she and Hamilton shared an intimate 15-year relationship, traveling together and supporting each other through periods of mental and physical illness.
In 1922, Hamilton retired from the Bryn Mawr School and also broke up with Donnelly. She had quarreled with M. Carey Thomas, the president of Bryn Mawr College and a prominent figure on the school board, in the wake of her resignation and felt that Donnelly had sided with Thomas. After their breakup, Hamilton barely spoke to Donnelly again, beyond a brief condolence card when her father died. But there were other reasons too. She had begun to develop a relationship with a woman named Doris Reid, who became Hamilton’s lifelong partner and cheerleader for her work, while also building her own career as a stockbroker, at a time when very few women participated in the field of finance.
Reid was the daughter of a Johns Hopkins geology professor and his wife, also named Edith. (Oddly, Houseman refers to her female subjects by their first names, which can lead to some confusion, though the men are mostly referred to by their last names.) Extraordinarily enough, the first time Hamilton and Reid met, Hamilton was 29 years old and Reid was less than 2 years old—a detail that seems straight out of Tina Fey’s classic Saturday Night Live sketch “Meet Your Second Wife.” Only months after her departure from Bryn Mawr and her breakup with Donnelly, Hamilton adopted a son with Reid: Dorian, one of Reid’s many nephews. Soon after that, the couple and little Dorian moved to New York City as a family.
The big city opened up new opportunities for Hamilton. She ascribed the start of her writing career to a friendship with yet another Edith, Edith J.R. Isaacs, a neighbor and friend who edited Theatre Arts Monthly and encouraged her to write the essays that became The Greek Way. But many others soon came knocking at Hamilton’s door as well, including Elling Aannestad, an editorial assistant at W.W. Norton, the publisher that would acquire The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and Hamilton’s translations of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, the perhaps-Aeschylean Prometheus Bound, and Euripides’s Trojan Women. The choice of plays reflects Hamilton’s rather conventional perception of Greek tragedy as a genre focused on noble suffering: Greek tragedies with happy endings and little wailing—such as Euripides’s Helen or Ion—were of less interest to her. The Norton books soon caught the attention of other publishers, and at the prompting of C. Raymond Everitt, an editor at Little, Brown, Hamilton began working on Mythology, which became her greatest commercial triumph.
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While we are told a considerable amount about Hamilton’s emergence as a writer during her years in New York, her romantic and sexual life receives frustratingly short shrift in Houseman’s book. Houseman insists that Hamilton’s relationship with Donnelly “was likely not physically intimate,” on the very meager grounds that Hamilton told her sister they slept in separate bedrooms. We also learn very little about lesbian culture in the era more generally. Hamilton’s relationships with both Donnelly and Reid were in the mold of what was sometimes called a “Boston marriage” or “Wellesley marriage”; there were plenty of other lesbian relationships publicly recognized among highly educated New England women of the early 20th century.
Numerous passages of Mythology also read quite differently if we remember that the author was a lesbian rather than simply a heterosexual woman inhabiting a heteronormative male gaze: Consider, for instance, this exciting account of Atalanta stripping off her clothes for a sprint and looking “a hundredfold more lovely disrobed than with her garments on.” There is another, quite different biography of Hamilton waiting to be written, which would dig into the presumably complex relationship between her homosexuality and her fixation on a romanticized, very male-dominated image of ancient Greece—a vision partly shared by other prominent lesbian classicists of her generation, such as Mary Renault.
Focused primarily on Hamilton’s life, Houseman’s biography offers its readers very little on the crucial question of how Hamilton’s popular, often wildly inaccurate accounts of the ancient world were received by actual classical scholars of the mid-20th century. It would have been useful, for example, to contextualize her work more precisely alongside that of other teachers, translators, and scholars of her era. Hamilton’s idealizing vision of liberated and enlightened ancient Greece is starkly at odds with the vision of E.R. Dodds’s The Greeks and the Irrational. Homeric scholarship in the early 20th century—thanks to the labors of Milman Parry and his students and son—had also made enormous progress in understanding how archaic Greek oral poetics developed over many generations of folk tradition; Hamilton’s account of the Homeric poems and Greek myth seems entirely innocent of these new scholarly frameworks.
Hamilton’s most important influences were not contemporary 20th-century classics scholars but rather grand old men of the Victorian age, such as the Scottish idealist philosopher Edward Caird and the American educational reformer John Dewey. From this hodgepodge of sources, Hamilton drew a largely imaginary portrait of ancient Greece as the birthplace of “individualism,” “democracy,” and “the West”—in other words, as the precursor to a privileged white person’s idealized notion of America. Hamilton hardly ever provides any caveats to the notions of ancient Greek “freedom” and “democracy” (such as the fact that the vast majority of the population of ancient Athens was disenfranchised, and a great many people were enslaved).
Perhaps relatedly, Hamilton appears to have expressed very little interest in the civil rights movements of her time. She and Reid moved to Washington, D.C., in 1943, and their social circle seemed to move increasingly to the right. Reid became active in conservative politics, adopting positions that might now be seen as libertarian: She favored American isolationism and was obsessively anti-communist. Of course, none of these views are explicitly stated in Hamilton’s books, but they can be glimpsed in her account of ancient Greece as a magical land of democratic freedom, free from the taint of tyranny that, according to Hamilton, afflicted other ancient and modern societies.
Hamilton was, despite her German birth, very American. I grew up in the UK and had barely heard of her until a few years ago. Within the history of the popularization and democratization of classical studies in the US, Hamilton’s work has played an enormous part. Her books, especially Mythology, retain their hold on the American reading public, for several reasons. One is their fluent, vivid, and vigorous style, reminiscent of the most effective and inspirational kind of old-fashioned high school Latin teacher. The prose is very lightly archaic and vaguely biblical, which helps to establish the author’s claim to an authoritative knowledge of the world of antiquity and ancient legends: “But Jason withstood the fearful creatures as a great rock in the sea withstands the waves.” It is truly gripping stuff, especially suitable to reading out loud. Purely as a stylist, Hamilton deserves her continuing status in the bestseller ranks.
In much of her writing, Hamilton maintains a constant aura of authority on the page, not least by interweaving her summaries and discussions with little snippets of ancient texts, translated in a very loose, evocative style and with no source ever provided: The reader is encouraged to take them as a matter of faith, not research. The most famous such snippet, from Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, was quoted by Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a great admirer of Hamilton, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: “In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” As the classicist Judith Hallett has noted in one of her numerous learned articles about Hamilton (only one of which Houseman cites), Kennedy was misquoting Hamilton from memory—and Hamilton’s translation was itself both slapdash and domesticizing, for instance in its rendition of the plural “gods” as the appropriately American “God.”
The second great reason for Hamilton’s grip on the American reading public is that she remakes ancient Greece in the image of an idealized United States—a world of glorious individualism and democratic freedom for all (or, if not exactly all, at least for everyone who matters). She relies heavily on vague, more or less unprovable grand claims about “spirit”: “To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in,” she writes in one of many such passages, “was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before.” Hamilton created an image of ancient Greece that was alien enough to sound romantic, but also familiar to a readership of white Americans eager to imagine themselves as the proud inhabitants of a land of freedom and superiority.
Hamilton’s work, with its muddles, its falsehoods, and its reliance on a popular, half-remembered, often wildly inaccurate account of antiquity that was already outdated when she was writing it, might seem to hold little appeal for readers in the 21st century. Yet her books, especially Mythology, continue to sell extraordinarily well; Mythology was reissued in a lavish illustrated edition in 2017 and continues to be used in high school English classes and to adorn the shelves of enthusiastic amateurs eager to catch up on the “Western canon.”
The casual, often quite explicit racism of Hamilton’s account of Greece and “the West” may also play a part in her continuing appeal. At the start of The Greek Way, Hamilton insisted on the superiority of the (Western, implicitly white) Greeks over the “ignorant,” “subjugated,” and “wretched” peoples of “the East.” Later, without any particular knowledge of ancient Egyptian or Asian civilizations (beyond a couple of fun vacations to these exotic locales), Hamilton blithely dismissed them as containing “human beings…who are only partially developed,” lacking the complete unity of “mind and spirit” that was present only in ancient Greece until its reappearance, at last, in America.
The reissued version of Mythology still includes Hamilton’s preamble claiming that Greek myth, being characterized by enlightenment, is “worlds apart” from the “primeval slime” represented by “New Guinea today” and “the Egyptians” (sickeningly, sic). Even reviewers at the time of her first book’s publication (such as Percy Hutchison in The New York Times) observed that Hamilton’s stark distinction between “East” and “West” was, historically, complete nonsense.
There is one last possible reason for Hamilton’s continuing commercial success: the lack of an obvious heir. There have been many more recent retellings of Greek and Roman myths for adult and young adult readers, including Stephen Fry’s trilogy Mythos, Heroes, and Troy and Sarah Iles Johnston’s fine Gods and Mortals. But neither writes with the resonant (albeit often unearned) authority of Hamilton, and it is hard to think of a contemporary classicist who fills anything like the cultural position she enjoyed in the mid-20th century. Perhaps the only candidate is Mary Beard, who is different from Hamilton in that she had a career as an academic classicist—but who, like Hamilton, is a public figure who has used her training in a small subfield of ancient studies to acquire a soapbox as an oracular authority on All Things Everywhere, from Brexit to the global history of culture and the Internet.
In our day, as in Hamilton’s, the most successful popularizations of the classics are created by those who are not classicists—people like Fry, Rick Riordan, and Robert Fagles, the best-selling translator who was trained in English literature. Gatekeeping around the classics, like gate-opening, is also most often performed by those who are not classicists—from the endless opinion pieces from non-classicists telling us how to do our jobs or pontificating about the end of the discipline, to the trolls who pounce on a Homerist who has made the basic error of being female in public.
What, then, can be done—by those of us within the palace of classics who hope, like Princess Anna in Frozen, to open up the gates? We could do worse than take some lessons from Hamilton, despite her woolly thinking, revolting prejudices, and outright errors. She engaged the reading public in something a little bit like the study of ancient Greece, not by actual knowledge or credentials, but by the unfeigned enthusiasm and devotion with which she told and retold the story of her love for her own imagined, idealized version of antiquity.
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Bow-legged Marcie, my Boston terrier mix, has always had a slipped kneecap.
It’s common in small dogs, but being a large-dog owner, I was ignorant of the condition.
When I noticed her limping years ago. I took her to the vet and learned her bowed back legs are not uncommon in smaller dogs and can cause kneecaps to slip out of place. Sometimes, the vet can slip it back into place. Sometimes it stays and sometimes not. In Marcie’s case, the kneecap was so far out of place, the vet could not move it.
So I started giving her glucosamine and hoped for the best. The knee didn’t seem to slow her down — she was out the doggie door every time her brother went barking at something, she wrestled with him and she bounced like a rubber ball every time I came home from work.
Now 7, she started holding up her bad leg when she walked.
I took her to the vet, dreading the possibility of mandatory surgery. Marcie got two weeks of medication and a return visit only to learn that, on top of her slipped kneecap, she has a torn ligament and requires rotator cuff surgery.
The poor little girl will have an eight-week recuperation period, which is almost the worst part of the ordeal. No more chasing after her brother out the back of the house to bark at the Saint Bernard next door or the two Jack Russells who prowl in our yard or any of those awful delivery workers who drive their noisy trucks through the neighborhood. Also, no walking on the leash. In fact, no unusual exertion of any kind, which means I can’t throw the rubber pig for her to chase and I can’t instigate any rough play between her and her brother. Not now and not for eight weeks following the surgery.
To keep her from hurting herself further, no jumping up on furniture. That means no getting in bed with me for a nap and no sleeping on the couch. Or the chaise lounge. Or any of the chairs. It’s doing to be giant pillow on the floor or nothing.
She’s also on a diet, which means nothing to her. All she knows is I feed her twice a day as always. She doesn’t have any idea she’s getting fed less than her brother. She doesn’t whine and beg for food like I do when I’m on a diet.
I’ve had others tell me their dog had the same surgery and did just fine. I’m sure Marcie will, too. I’m just not sure how I’m going to deal with it.
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Asian females are often perceived as delicate, timid and polite. They are also very wise, hardworking and technically experienced in the workplace. However , these positive stereotypes can be countered by bad racial portrayals in film and media channels. beautiful taiwanese women The result is a complex set of stereotypes that can impact the way other folks perceive and treat Oriental Americans, specifically Asian women.
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By sharing the same slide and frame profile as the rest of the polymer-framed PPQ family, the Q4 TAC was released with a myriad of holsters already available. If it fits the standard PPQ and has an open bottom it’ll fit the Q4 TAC. If a holster has a closed bottom but is made for the Q5 Match, it too will accept the Q4 TAC.
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BBC launches VR Hub
The BBC has announced the launch of a VR department, called VR Hub, that is going to invest in the creation of virtual content.
The BBC has been experimenting with the medium for a number of years. Among the experiences already released include putting users in the shoes of refuges in We Wait, and taking them back to the Easter Rising of 1916. These experiences have all been made available on Oculus Rift, Google Daydream and Samsung Gear VR.
The BBC’s first experience on HTC Vive, A VR Spacewalk, was released on 30 November.
VR Hub will look to bring these collective efforts under a collective banner, and act as an internal centre to unite programme makers and digital experts. The new department plans to begin creating content across a range of genres within the coming months.
In a blog post on the BBC site, VR Hub head of content Zillah Watson, wrote:
“Today we’re also announcing our next steps in VR, with a studio spearheading our VR production and exploring how VR can create real audience impact. We act as a hub internally, working closely with our programme makers and digital experts. And over the coming months we’ll be creating pieces across the range of genres the BBC is famous for.”
The BBC undertook research into audience reception of VR experiences in July 2017. What the data seemed to show that as long as the amount of high-quality content available remains low, consumers tend to view the experience as cumbersome and not worth investing their time in.
Participants in the research responded best to experiences that put them right in the middle of exciting or intense experiences, like the rollercoasters or horror scenarios.
VR Hub initially strategy is to try and target specific and distinct audiences with every new commission. And, being one of the most widely recognised media companies on the planet ensures that the amount of potential users that could be brought in is potentially huge.
“We believe the BBC can bring a unique perspective to VR,” wrote Watson.
“We have an unparalleled position in the lives of the UK population. Every week we reach 95% of the UK population and we have the most trusted broadcast news brand in the world, reaching almost 400m people through the BBC World Service alone.”
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Our very own Desi Hiphop artist, Swami Baracus, fan of both cricket and football, recently just scored his own hat-trick, scooping not one, not two but THREE bronze awards at the Bite My Music (BMM) Global Awards 2012!
The music world is difficult to conquer, especially being an independent artist, but the BMM Awards were created in an attempt to provide independent and unsigned artists with a voice, uniting them all together on one global platform and celebrating loudly the music they bring to the world.
With over one thousand acts from over fifty countries participating across the globe, just being nominated was a great achievement for Baracuda in itself. Now walking away with three bronze awards under his belt, for Best Hip-Hop Act, Best Hip-Hop Song and Best Cross Genre for Break This Game, Baracus should be damn proud of himself, as are we. Small steps make for giant leaps and it really is great to see our Desi Hiphop artists making moves not just here in the UK, but globally too.
Massive congratulations going out to the one and only Baracuda from the Desi HipHop team and we hope you’ll all join us in congratulating him on this brilliant achievement. Long live the Baracuda and long live the movement!

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It’s taken me a few days to tell you about the Tuesday event at the Floyd Country Store with Bill McKibben. Even so, a shorter version than I’d like, so much left out.
Bill McKibben, still jet-lagged from his recent arrival from Australia and New Zealand, spoke twice in the area on Tuesday, May 23–first at the Country Store to a standing-room-only crowd and later in the afternoon, to the Community Foundation in Blacksburg.
I was pleased to attend the 8:00 breakfast and as fate would have it, put my plate next to somebody’s dayplanner and sat down. Turns out, the planner was Bill’s and we had a very nice conversation for the better part of the first half hour of the morning.
He seemed genuinely tired of being on the road. “Guess that’s the price of success” I said. He’d mentioned how proud he was of his daughter and how he was happy at least for Skype to bridge the miles of separation.
“No, the travel is mostly not related directly to my writing but to the global warming project, 350.org. I hope Floyd will take a big part in that event on October 24.”
I was aware of the 350 efforts, that number being the “steady state” level in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide to avoid run-away warming. The current level (which fluctuates but trends ominously upward) is 387 ppm. This is a crucial year for reversing that trend. Read why, join the action at the richly-educational 350.org web site where McKibben is effectively using the power of the Internet to create international focus and action NOW.
The man isÂ a realist, twenty years ago writing “The End of Nature” about the consequences of unmitigated changes to the atmosphere. After two decades of mankind’s having done little to change the outcome, does he think we can make enough difference soon enough to keep the planet livable for his daughter’s children? “We’re doing everything we can to make a difference” he said with as much enthusiasm as he could muster so far and so long away from home and as much optimism as one can have from the bigger-picture perspective his long look at the matter has gained him.
McKibben spent Monday night at Hotel Floyd and was briefly educated about current and planned endeavors towards a balanced and vibrant future. In that regard, he thought Floyd was well on its way towards a desirable steady state. He lives in a New England town the size of Floyd and saw many parallels; overall, he seemed impressed with where we are headed.
But he offered this warning: Figure out how you’re going to limit and control your ultimate success. Think now about how you will avoid galloping growth once the town and county become recognized as having the amenities, services, cultural offerings and aesthetics that so many will want to share with you.
More than a dozen hands in the Tuesday morning crowd were still going up when Woody Crenshaw drew the meeting to a close at 10:30.
You can listen via the web to Bill McKibben’s Tuesday afternoon talk taped and rebroadcast on the Virginia Tech station, WUVT, starting at 3:00 this Sunday, May 31. Andy Morikawa and a small panel of local citizens will discuss the complex issues to which McKibben brings our attention.
And Jeff Walker took notes Tuesday morning, posted in comment at Blue Ridge Muse.


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JAPAN: Coca-Cola Japan buys bottler stake
The Coca-Cola Japan Company has acquired just over one-third of a bottler in the country.
Coca-Cola Japan confirmed yesterday (25 June) that it has agreed with the Tokyo Coca-Cola Bottling Company to buy a 34% in the bottler through the purchase of newly-issued shares.
Under the terms of the agreement, Coca-Cola Japan said it will work with the bottler to "identify a new president and appoint one third of the board". Representative director and president of the bottler, Keiji Takanashi, will continue as chairman and CEO and representative director.
"As strategic partners, both companies will collaborate in tackling new initiatives in the Tokyo market as they head toward the future, and will strive towards realising synergies for the Coca-Cola system in order to achieve sustainable growth at a level higher than at present.," Coca-Cola Japan said.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated has confirmed details of its new CFO....
The Coca-Cola Co. is not planning to find a replacement chief operating officer following last week's reshuffle announcement....
The CEO of The Coca-Cola Co. is set to stand down next year....
Japanese soft drinks bottler Coca-Cola West Holdings has announced that it is merging its two wholly-owned production subsidiaries, Coca-Cola West Japan Products Co. and Kinki Coca-Cola Products Co....
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Chip Pitts, chairman of the board of the human rights group Amnesty International USA, will discuss current human rights issues, including the resurgence of the use of torture, in an address at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Texas Instruments Auditorium in the Engineering South Building, Room 2.102.
Among the topics Pitts will discuss are allegations of torture of prisoners by members of the U.S. military and the possible authorization of such practices by U.S. government officials.
The former chief legal officer of Nokia, Inc., Pitts is an international attorney, investor/entrepreneur and law educator who advises businesses on international, strategic, intellectual property, marketing, legal and ethics matters. He is a lecturer at Stanford University Law School, has taught at other law schools and universities and is a frequent speaker, writer and commentator on ethical globalization, human rights and foreign affairs. Pitts has worked in South Africa against apartheid, represented both the U.S. government and Amnesty International as well as other leading human rights and economic development organizations at the United Nations and international conferences and provided pro bono representation to hundreds of victims of human rights abuses from all over the world. Additional information about Pitts may be found on the following web site: http://www.amnestyusa.org/about/chippitts.html.
Pitts’ address is sponsored by the Amnesty International Student Group at UTD. For more information about the event, please contact the group’s advisor, Jerri Lipple, at 972-883-2981 or 214-435-9576.


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Agri-food comparative advantages in the European Union countries by value chains before and after enlargement towards the East
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To identify the European Union (EU) member states strong exports sectors and food chains, the revealed comparative advantage indices from trade data were calculated using the total global trade as the benchmark of comparison. The empirical results show that the level and patterns in the development of the revealed comparative advantage indices for agri-food products for each of the EU countries in the global markets were mixed. The most successful EU member states in agri-food export competitiveness in global markets were the Netherlands, France, and Spain. Differences between the EU member states were also identified for the main agri-food product groups. Latvia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, and Luxembourg were the five EU countries that competed most successfully in global grain markets. In terms of fruit and vegetable produce exports Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Lithuania, and Bulgaria were the most competitive EU countries in world markets. With respect to global dairy markets Denmark, Luxembourg, Latvia, Ireland, and the Nether-lands achieved the largest export advantages, although strong export competitiveness was evident for almost all of the EU member states in the global dairy markets. Cyprus, Bulgaria, Ireland, Hungary, and Denmark revealed significant export advantages in global meat markets. New EU-member states, particularly Bulgaria and Latvia, achieved high export advantages in the global markets for the select product groups.

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This Christmas must be special in terms of your meals. Don’t make it the usual rice and fried chicken routine. Spice it up because FMB will give you the ideas on what to make for Christmas.
Christmas Breakfast: Most families eat rice through out 25th of December. Either because they are too busy making lunch to share to neighbours and loved ones or they are rushing off to church or simply too lazy to make variety of dishes. Now here’s what to cook for christmas breakfast.
1. Bread and running eggs or omolette: Sounds basic and like an everyday meal, right? Ok. Here is the catch, have it along side sausage, jam or butter and some pancakes. Now it sounds yummy. Make sure there’s a glass of fresh orange juice by your side. I quite agree it is special indeed.
2. Boiled Yam and Eggy Stew: Yea! You know the drill and you have eaten it before. But have you had it with some grilled chicken. Yes! You heard me right. Add some peppered grilled chicken to it and make sure there’s a glass of milk or your favourite tea or coffee.
3. Chips and Chicken: This is also basic right? Have some ketchup and hot fried Irish potatoes with roasted chicken by the side.And if you are not a fan of fried foods let’s boil the potatoes and have it with fish stew. Yummy all the way.
Christmas Lunch: Here everyone thinks rice is the biggest deal. But you don’t need to cook half a bag of rice to know you have eaten some thing special on Christmas day. Why not try these other dishes out.
1. Pounded Yam : I prefer mine with ofe nsala(popularly called white soup) Be creative it could be cooked with fresh chicken or fresh cat fish. Whichever one works just fine. Even goat meat can be used but you must be an expert in the art of preparing this soup for you to use goat meat. You can also have the pounded Yam with egusi soup or vegetable soup. Ofe Owerri is another good choice or bitter leaf soup. It all depends on your choice. After that wash it down with a plate of goat meat pepper soup and a bottle of wine. It is not every day you get to eat this type of meal. Enjoy it.
2. Coconut Rice/White Rice :Die hard lovers of rice must have rice for lunch and there’s no better way to enjoy this rice than having it with peppered snails or fried goat meat. Let the chickens rest. Explore other meats. Have coconut rice and fried plantain and some salad or coleslaw or moi-moi. You can also have white rice and curry sauce or beef sauce or even duck or lamb sauce. A chilled bottle of a drink of your choice is also highly recommended.
I can tell you are already salivating. Me too, can’t wait to stock my kitchen with these special dishes for christmas.
Christmas Dinner: What’s there to cook if you have eaten all these sumptuous meals for breakfast and lunch. But don’t be deceived. There’s more.
1.Macroni and Cheese: Have some macaroni and cheese. It is light yet filling. Add some fried meat to make it look interesting . You won’t be disappointed.
2. Spaghetti: This is in the same family with Marconi. You can make it jollof with some diced carrots, meat and vegetables. It is also light but yet filling.
3. Noodles:Don’t cook the usual noodles. Make it interesting with lots of chopped chicken or lamb, tomatoes and pepper. You can also make it fried like the Chinese noodles. Slice some boiled eggs by the side.
And in all have a slice of your fruitcake or creamy cake or butter cake with tea or hot chocolate as night cap before you bid 25th farewell till another year.
That’s all from me. Am off to start up with buying the ingridents for this cool meals.
If you feel you will be overwhelmed with the meal preparations. Start two days before Christmas. And prepare in this manner:
1. Buy your fresh chicken and spice it with dried pepper, salt and Maggi and a bit of curry.Put it in a freezer bag and put in the freezer.
2. Buy your snails, wash them with lime (preferably to preserve the taste)and put it in the freezer.
3. Buy coconut and grate it on 24th extract the milk with hot water and keep it in the fridge.
4. Boil your meat on 24th.
5. Cook your stew on 24th in preparation for the coconut rice.
6. Cook your curry sauce and all other sauce on 24th
7. Catfish is sensitive. Par boil and keep it in the sauce to preserve it. Keep in the freezer.
8. Make the moi-moi on 24th and keep in the freezer.
Do have a lovely Christmas meal.
Merry Christmas in advance.


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Former Georgia Legislator Making National Impact
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 30, 2013 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Do you ever wonder what happens to politicians that “do good” in Georgia and then leave? It could be said we’re sharing personnel or it could be the Lord puts them where they can do even more “good.” That’s the way it seems for retired military chaplain Col. Ron Crews, former Georgia Representative, now executive director of the Chaplains Alliance for Religious Liberty.
As a Representative in the Georgia General Assembly, Crews sponsored H.B. 1580 that passed in 1996, defining marriage as “only the union of man and woman.” Several years later, his co-sponsor Representative James Mills was appointed to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. These men had such foresight that they, actually, pre-empted the passage of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, recently ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Eight years after H.B. 1580 passed to define marriage in state law, S.R. 595, which was introduced by Senator Mike Crotts, passed the General Assembly by a two-thirds vote and was ratified by voters in the 2004 General Election. That ratification amended the Georgia Constitution as follows:
“This state shall recognize as marriage only the union of man and woman. Marriages between persons of the same sex are prohibited in this state. No union between persons of the same sex shall be recognized by this state as entitled to the benefits of marriage This state shall not give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state or jurisdiction respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other state or jurisdiction. The court of this state shall have no jurisdiction to grant a divorce or separate maintenance with respect to any such relationship or otherwise to consider or rule on any of the parties’ respective rights arising as a result or in connections with such relationship.”

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A Flatiron seafood restaurant is re-emerging as one of New York City’s hidden gems despite reopening amid the pandemic.
Sagaponack has been a staple for seafood in New York City for around 12 years. However, like many restaurants in the Big Apple, Sagaponack found its future in jeopardy when the pandemic first started in 2020.
Kyung Lee came on board five years ago as the manager of Sagaponack. When the restaurant closed down in 2020, Lee took the opportunity to reopen Sagaponack.
“When [Sagaponack] permanently closed during COVID, one partner decided to reopen with me,” said Lee. “When I first used to manage Sagaponack, the restaurant doubled in revenue.”
Lee initially had no intention of getting back into the restaurant business during the pandemic, but when the opportunity to bring back Sagaponack came up in September 2020, he couldn’t turn it down.
“When it fell in my lap, I decided to just go and not really think about it. It was very stressful and exhilarating, a mix of 1,000 emotions at once,” said Lee. “I wasn’t new to restaurants, but I was new to operating during COVID. There was a lot to think about. What’s gonna happen to the business, do we just offer take-out? Since we were new in general and have 3 weeks to open, on top of things that weren’t grounded, thinking of new ways to survive was very hard.”
With three weeks to open, there was a lot of planning to go into such a short period of time. Sagaponack had previously been known as a popular happy hour spot in Flatiron, and Lee took this reopening opportunity to transform the restaurant’s image, and for that to succeed, Lee needed some help.
Lee tapped into his network of people to bring on employees and was able to bring in Joseph Yi as the head chef.
“Someway and somehow I met Chef Joseph Yi, he is a friend’s younger brother. We brought him on and built a team around that,” said Lee. “When bringing on a chef with the caliber of fine dining, it’s hard to override that perception. It wasn’t hard to override the perception of being a happy hour spot, it was a blank canvas. We stuck with the theme of seafood and built around that.”
With Yi in place as head chef, Lee worked with his team to create a seafood menu that incorporates quality ingredients at an affordable price. A look at their menu shows a variety of options that could please any palate, even those who may have their own hang-ups about seafood. The menu has options including many oysters to try, including raw, dressed and roasted, mussels, clams, and several other seafood dishes, many of which can be tried on Sagaponack’s tasting menu. For land-lovers, the menu also has some meat and pasta options to enjoy as well.
While planning the menu was handled, Lee also had to consider what it would take to reopen amid the pandemic.
“We spread out the tables beyond the CDC recommendation so people could feel safe. We wanted to make it a pleasant experience and have people feel good about it. We couldn’t handle that many people because we didn’t have a big team, so we would do four tables in one section, two in another,” said Lee.
Sagaponack reopened to the public officially in October 2020. With the safety regulations in place, the restaurant slowly started to pick up some steam. However outdoor dining proved to be a challenge for the Sagaponack team.
“We only had a tent, and during the really cold times, no one wanted to eat outdoors. We closed during that time because outdoor dining wasn’t warm enough and it was just too high in labor cost,” said Lee. “We rebuilt outdoor dining to be a better experience by having the tables separated and adding heaters, it kind of helped but was not good for business. It just became our goal to build our momentum and reputation at that time.”
Lee says that Sagaponack had several ebbs and flows in terms of bringing back diners, particularly when a new variant would emerge. However, the time when it was slower was sort of a good thing for Lee as it allowed Sagaponack to learn and grow as a new restaurant.
“It was a good time to practice and fix all the kinks,” said Lee. “It was a blessing in disguise in that sense. If we were fully open, we wouldn’t have been able to handle a larger crowd.”
Lee says that the reopening overall has been mainly positive, not just from regulars but new customers alike. The clientele has been very patient with the Sagaponack staff because of all of the pandemic-related changes, but the feedback has Lee very hopeful for the restaurant’s future.
“We are making improvements as often as possible, and our regulars are giving positive feedback. Our neighbors have dined at the old restaurant and they come back and say ‘Wow,'” said Lee. “We’re really under the radar. A few times in reviews and in person, people say we are a hidden gem. That makes me feel proud, not many people know about us but it makes me feel good that guests feel good dining in our restaurant.”
Lee hopes that not only customers love the new Sagaponack, but that the team can learn and grow as well.
“As a new restaurant owner, I want to empower staff to get creative and give them more autonomy, which is something that this industry doesn’t do much,” said Lee. “At the end of the day, if the restaurant fails, if the staff can grow with the team that is more important to me. But we also want to be a neighborhood restaurant where locals can dine in, but be better than the average neighborhood restaurant. I want us to be known for what we’re trying to do, which is offer approachable, quality seafood.”
Sagaponack is located at 4 W 22nd Street. For more information about Sagaponack, visit saganewyork.com.


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The PGA Tour has gone through what anyone would describe as two of the most challenging years in its 55 years of existence as a separate entity. Commissioner Jay Monahan has presided over a period of intense upheaval, with the loss of marquee players to LIV Golf and the controversial, combative and, ultimately, capitulating response to a wealthy new competitor. The tour secured an enormous new television deal but hemorrhaged cash, dipped into reserves and said goodbye to longtime sponsors in the fight. Dozens of players have been critical of how Monahan has handled the crisis and how he has communicated with members.
“Management has not done a good job,” said reigning FedEx champ Viktor Hovland in a recent podcast. “You see what happens behind closed doors, how management actually makes decisions that are not in the players’ best interest but best for themselves and what they think is best.”
Hovland’s assessment is the latest in a series of unflattering critiques of Monahan’s performance, but that is one perspective. If everyone agreed, one would assume Monahan’s seat in the commissioner’s office would already be vacated. Is there an avenue for him to continue after most of the chaos has been resolved? If not, why hasn’t a change been made?
One fact reinforced during the past two years is that money talks – and even in the throes of crisis, Monahan received $US18.6 million in compensation in 2022, according to Sportico, which cited the tour’s latest tax filing. That’s nearly $5 million more than he earned in 2021, and he’s presumably still leading the ongoing negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV’s financial backer, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, (as well as talks with other potential investors) about a new for-profit professional-golf entity comprising the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV.
What does that mean for Monahan and his future at the tour? One of the least heralded but potentially most valuable aspects of a sports commissioner’s job is to serve as what Lukas Matsson of the HBO series “Succession” called a “pain sponge.” Monahan and counterparts like the NFL’s Roger Goodell (more than $60 million in salary) and the NHL’s Gary Bettman ($10 million annually) are getting paid for much more than their negotiating skills and television presence. Being the corporate face of the league means absorbing the brunt of intense internal and external blowback that comes with a crisis.
“When you have an organisation that is in the entertainment business, being the leader is a super public-facing role with a lot of constituencies,” says Dan Guglielmo, an executive coach and transition consultant who has worked with dozens of chief executives in turmoil. “Managing that means dealing with adversity, and one of the most significant skills of that leader is taking the heat – from everyone. That’s what they get paid to do.”
Goodell has navigated multiple controversies over two decades, including battles with Tom Brady over inflated footballs, dealing with former Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder’s toxic workplace culture and the league’s response to players expressing themselves during the Black Lives Matter protests. Goodell’s job? To be the personification of the league in those controversies and shield the “board” – in this case, the 32 team owners – from getting rolled up in the pile. “The NFL lets Goodell stay in the fire because he has shown the ability to navigate the league through it,” Guglielmo says, “and both he and the league come through stronger.”
Few sports executives were as unpopular as Bettman in 2004 when the commissioner was the face on all the highlight shows announcing that the league and players couldn’t agree on a new labour contract, and the 2004-’05 season was cancelled. Bettman took a beating in the media – everyone from players to Newsweek, which anointed Bettman one of the 10 worst executives in America for the year. But while Bettman was behind the woodshed getting licked, the NHL’s next labour deal reduced salaries across the board by 25 percent. Now, three teams are worth more than $2 billion, compared to $160 million in 2004.
Of course, the PGA Tour is different from the NFL and NHL in important ways beyond orders of magnitude less revenue. Goodell and Bettman answer to team owners. Monahan answers to players and a board of directors who don’t have nearly the same commonality of purpose. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank might not agree on everything, but they are both billionaires with decades of experience running giant companies. Tiger Woods and Tommy Gainey might both play golf, but that’s about as far as the similarities go. The NFL is in as complete control over its market as a sports league can be. The PGA Tour’s future might be out of its hands given the resources available to the PIF (and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan), and the US government’s interest in potential antitrust regulation even if a LIV deal goes through.
Whether Jay Monahan continues to lead the PGA Tour even if a deal is reached with PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan remains unclear.
“It’s called being a leader on the bubble, and there’s a real skill to it,” Guglielmo says. “The ones who are good at it are good at dealing with volatile situations. They have thick skin and they know when to say they’re wrong. They’re OK with risk and the fragility of the situation. They’re actually excited by the prospect of going on a potentially rough ride. That’s the skill set the best boards pay for. At the same time, CEOs or commissioners are the perfect scapegoats. Throw them under the bus, bring somebody new in and tell a fresh story.”
It’s a ride common in the business world. General Motors lost nearly $100 billion leading up to a potential bailout by the federal government in 2008 and 2009. Before the feds would consider offering the automaker a life raft, it stipulated that CEO Rick Wagoner had to resign. He quit, and 60 days later, the company had a short-term funding package in place. Fritz Henderson and Edward Whitacre were caretaker CEOs as the company sorted through the financial wreckage, and they undertook unpopular programs like slashing retiree medical benefits, reducing headcount by thousands and discontinuing legacy brands like Pontiac and Saab.
Is Monahan going to survive and thrive under fire like Goodell, or will he end up like Wagoner – the C-suite equivalent of one of those paper coverings mechanics use to protect a car’s floor mats during service? That depends on how well he is able to absorb all the blows, continue to evolve in his job and do it while keeping his constituents’ trust.
Tim Marken helped revitalize the Boston Globe’s media business and was part of the team that increased tech consultancy Gartner’s revenue from $150 million to $850 million. Now, he works with CEOs to help companies avoid stalling in the face of new competitors. “Think about how much the landscape has changed for the PGA Tour in the past two years,” says Marken, who also teaches management and leadership courses at Babson College. “It went from having no competitors and a predictable playbook to being in a fight with a competitor with unlimited resources. It would be almost impossible for anyone to communicate with all the constituencies – from players to board members to the media to sponsors to fans all the way to the retired legends of the sport – in a way that responded to every person’s individual outcome. The skills a leader in this situation needs are radically different. You almost have to communicate like an entrepreneur in terms of disruption and lean into that disruption because there’s a competitor who’s obviously willing to disrupt, and that’s a danger even if their ideas aren’t good ones.”
Monahan’s mission? Painting a picture of what an attractive future could look like that resonates with those disparate groups. That means sending signals inside and outside the organisation about what the long-term value of the changes will be – even if there’s near-term pain. “The CEOs that are able to take bullets and be confident about significant changes are the ones who are confident they understand what’s happening tactically in the field and strategically in the boardroom,” Marken says. “They operate with the conviction that in some shape or form, their decisions are going to pan out. Behind every one of those individuals taking those bullets is someone else who is going around and making sure that the fires don’t burn out of control.”
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com


An analysis of one nation after all by alan wolfe
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Yes. Dogs can eat chicken feet. We know that Chicken Feet contains glucosamine and chondroitin, which help reduce dog arthritis pain and joint pain. There is also enough calcium inside the chicken legs, which is essential for your dog. So you can definitely give your dog a chicken feet. But of course it is necessary to know about the amount and how to make chicken legs for dogs. So read the article thoroughly.
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Q. Can Dogs Eat Chicken Feet?
A. Yes, of course. You can feed your dog chicken feet. But of course to a certain extent.
Chicken contains a sufficient amount of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate which will be especially helpful in building the bones of your dog.
However, you must keep in mind that when feeding chicken legs, the pieces should be small in size and make it a habit to gently feed your dog chicken feet.
You should keep an eye on whether your dog is able to swallow the chicken feet properly and notice their reaction. If their health is deteriorating, you should stop feeding chicken feet. this is best for your dog chicken feet dog treats.
Q. Are Chicken Feet Healthy For Dog?
A. After know the answer about Can Dogs Eat Chicken Feet, you should know that the health benefits of chicken feet dog. We know chicken legs are good and healthy food for dogs. Chicken legs have skin, cartilage, tendons and bones.
It doesn’t contain too much meat, but the ingredients are good for dog health. Chicken legs contain high levels of collagen, which is rich in protein.
Chicken legs play a special role in keeping your dog’s joint pain and skin glowing and preventing bone loss. so chicken feet for dogs are the best way to get healthy your lovely baby.
Chicken legs will also help increase your dog’s calcium. So you can definitely feed your dog a certain amount of chicken legs.
Q. Do Chicken Feet Taste Good?
A. Chicken legs are widely known in every country. It is eaten in different ways. It is more commonly used for carnivores.
Although it does not taste good to humans, it is a very popular and healthy food for dogs. Chicken legs do not have meat. Contains only skin and bones, which help the dog’s body absorb calcium and strengthen bones.
So while it is not tasty to humans, it is a very tasty food for dogs.so the best feet treat like chickens feet for dogs that help to grow first.
Q.Are Chicken Bones Dangerous for Dogs?
A. Many people say that dogs should not be given chicken bones but this is not entirely correct. Give a detailed description of what you need if you own a dog. Dogs are usually fed chicken bones in a variety of ways.
But all the time raw chicken bones are definitely good for your dog. It is true that cooked or boiled or fried chicken bones should not be given to the dog as cooking at high temperatures makes the chicken bones extra hard.
Which will cause various sores in your dog’s mouth? So both raw or dried chicken bones are considered safe. Raw chicken bones are brittle and soft in contrast to cooked chicken bones. Cooked chicken bones will usually cause a variety of problems in your dog’s stomach.
There will be diarrhea which will not be easily digested. So your dog must refrain from cooking or giving fried chicken bones and let him eat raw chicken bones which will improve his health and will especially help in strengthening the bones.so I hope you got the best answer to your two questions 1st one is Can Dogs Eat Chicken Feet ? and 2nd one is Are Chicken Bones Dangerous for Dogs?
Q. Benefits of Chicken Feet for Dogs.
A. Chicken legs are rich in protein glucosamine and chondroitin. Which will especially help to build the health of your dog or cat and to joint pain to do well and to strengthen the bones.
Protein is an important source of energy, according to the National Research Council, so 10 percent of chicken legs can be included in an adult dog’s food list, which will help provide your dog with protein and other ingredients. Also, chicken legs are usually affordable for everyone.
Q. How Many Chicken Feet Should I Give to my Dog?
A. The size of your dog will depend on how many chicken feet you feed your dog a day. However, it is usually better for a large dog to eat three chicken legs a day.
If your dog is small in size then refrain from letting your dog eat chicken feet. Generally, chicken feet are better for medium size and large size dogs.
Even then you need to keep an eye on whether your dog is willing to eat chicken feet. Of course, when you feed him chicken feet, you have to pay attention to his food.
Feed your dog plenty of water with chicken feed so he can easily digest the food. If your dog has never eaten chicken feet before, let him eat small amounts with his regular food.
Also, if you notice that your dog’s health is deteriorating as a result of eating chicken legs, be sure to consult a veterinarian and always try to provide a balanced diet.
We’d love to hear from you! Have you ever given chicken feet to your dog? What are your experiences?
Q. Can Dogs Eat Raw Chicken Feet?
A. First the question is that Can Dogs Eat Chicken Feet and now the 2nd one is Can Dogs Eat Raw Chicken Feet. Of course yes. There is no problem in feeding your favorite dog raw chicken legs.
Raw chicken legs contain a lot of protein-calcium which will help to strengthen your dog’s bones and relieve body pain. However, be sure to keep your dog from cooking or feeding fried chicken legs. Because it can damage your dog’s health.
Q. Are Chicken Feet Good For Dogs?
A. Chicken feet are good for dog body. Your dog does a lot of running around all day which causes pain in his body.
Chicken bones or feet are especially helpful in relieving pain in the dog’s body and providing adequate calcium and protein. So of course we can say without hesitation that chicken feet will be beneficial for the health of the dog. Give your dog raw chicken feet.
Q. Are Cooked Chicken Feet Safe For Dogs?
A. In a word, never feed your dog cooked chicken feet. This will cause huge damage to his health. The legs of the cooked chicken become much stiffer.
As a result, it takes on a sharp shape that will damage your dog’s mouth. It also no longer contains protein and glucosamine and chondroitin as a result of cooking. Feeding cooked chicken legs will also cause various problems in your dog’s stomach.
So of course you should refrain your dog from feeding cooked chicken feet.
Q. Can Dogs Eat Dried Chicken Feet?
A. Dogs eat dried chicken feet very easily and with fun. As the chicken legs become dry, it becomes brittle. As a result, the dog can easily break and chew. As a result, your dog will not have any stomach problems and the food will be easily digested.
However, you must cut the toenails of the chicken and then feed your dog. So it’s really good treats dried chicken feet dog treats that your dog can enjoy.
Q. Is Chicken Feet Good For High Blood Pressure Dogs?
A. Scientists from different countries have conducted various experiments to determine the ability of chicken legs to control high blood pressure.
As a result of that experiment, we can say that scientists have identified four proteins in chicken legs. Which helps to control high blood pressure.
So we can say that if you feed your dog chicken legs, his high blood pressure will be under control and your dog will be healthy.so I hope you got the answer about Can Dogs Eat Chicken Feet.
Q. When Can Chicken Feet Not Be Good for Dogs?
A. Since chicken legs are a meaty food, it contains a lot of protein. If your veterinarian forbids you to feed your dog chicken legs, you should keep him away from chicken legs.
It is usually best not to feed chicken legs for overweight dogs. If your dog suffers from pancreatic disease, keep him away from chicken legs.
Also if you notice that your dog is having any allergies or problems as a result of eating chicken legs then you should keep your dog away from chicken legs.
Also, dogs should not be fed chicken legs regularly. So be sure to consult your veterinarian before feeding your dog chicken legs.
Q. Can Puppies Eat Chicken Feet?
A. There are specific foods for puppies. As a veterinarian, I always tell your puppy to always eat his or her specific food. Chicken legs are never a healthy or good food for puppies.
Because puppies’ teeth are much softer and smaller, they can’t chew chicken legs.
Chicken legs interfere with the puppy’s digestive process. So you should always refrain from giving your puppy other foods including chicken legs until he is six months old. This will keep her in good health and increase her speed.
Q. Frozen Chicken Feet For Dogs
A. Your first question was, Can Dogs Eat Chicken Feet? In response I said yes. Now you need to know that,
Every fresh food is much tastier and healthier. Similarly, if the chicken legs are fresh, it is healthy and good for the dog.
Refrigerated chicken legs are not good food for dogs. Because as a result of keeping it in the fridge, the chicken legs become much stiffer. As a result, these dogs cannot chew very easily. As a result, there is a possibility of various problems in the teeth and gums of dogs.
Chicken is usually eaten in large quantities in Asian countries so you will always get fresh chicken legs. But fresh chicken legs are not usually available in foreign countries. As a result, you have to take the legs of the chicken kept in the fridge.
So I would say refrain from feeding your dog chickens kept in the fridge. However, if you need to feed, take it out of the fridge and soak it in normal water for 30 minutes, then let your dog eat.
Also when buying chicken legs you need to keep in mind what type and how many days ago you were buying chicken legs.
Always try to buy fresh chicken legs. In this case, your dog’s raw chicken feet will meet the demand.
Q. Is Raw Chicken Skin Good For Dogs?
A. It is said very strongly that chicken skin is never a healthy food for dogs. Because it contains a lot of fat and calories. Which has no nutritional value.
So we can say that chicken skin is a bad food for dogs.However, if your dog is much thinner, you can occasionally feed him chicken skin.
However, eating chicken skin can cause stomach problems in your dog and kidney problems in your dog.
So as a veterinarian I would always say, stop your dog from eating chicken skin.
Q. How To Turn Chicken Feet Into Dog Treats Recipe?
Q. Can Dogs Eat Boiled Chicken Bones?
A. Usually, it is better not to give cooked chicken bones to the dog. Because as a result of boiling, the calcium in the bones is completely removed.
There is nothing to lose. So in my opinion refrain from giving your dog boiled chicken bones.
If you do decide to go the extra mile and pressure cook bones, not that you can’t feed them a lot at once or they will just puke it up. You could mix a half cup with dry dog food for instance with no problem.
Q. Are chicken feet safe for dogs?
A. In a word, chicken legs are a safe food for dogs. We know that chicken legs contain glucosamine and chondroitin, which help reduce your dog’s rheumatic pain or joint pain.
There is also enough calcium inside the chicken legs, which is essential for your dog. So you can undoubtedly give your dog chicken legs. However, a certain amount must be paid.
Many dogs are allergic to chickenpox. So when you feed your dog for the first time, you have to pay attention to him. If you notice any health problems, stop giving it.
Q. Is chicken leg meat OK for dogs?
A. Chicken leg meat is not a daily food for dogs. But if you think you can give it to your dog occasionally. However, chicken meat contains a lot of nutrients and calcium which is suitable for dogs.
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Although dogs can eat chicken legs, you must be aware of this. Never add it to your dog’s daily food list. Of course, you can sometimes give it as a snack.
Excess calcium can cause harm to dogs. You also need to be aware of any health problems that may result from eating your dog’s chicken legs.
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by Philip Moss and Phil Scarisbrick
The Horizon Just Laughed was undoubtedly one of the best records of 2018: a luscious collection of self-produced, sparse soundscapes that backed Damien Jurado’s incredible voice and poetic vignettes. Indeed, it was was a departure from the psychedelic trilogy he had created with the late Richard Swift on his previous three records. But now, on his 14th studio album, he has stripped away the gloss completely.
Comprising of only voice and acoustic guitar, In the Shape of a Storm captures the beauty of Jurado’s voice while shimmying between the dark and the light in its subject matter. After the loss of Swift, it would be easy to hear lyrics such as the album’s opening verse – ‘Lincoln, here’s a song for you/I’ve been twisting in the vapours and the fumes/There is nothing that I can say to you now/That you have not already heard’ – and see that this is a man channelling his grief into the thing that bound the two friends together. But Lincoln was written over two decades ago during the Ghost of David sessions, and has been saved for the ‘right’ collection to surround it; but either way, it really opens you up to what to expect on the rest of the record.
Although there is a weariness to the vocal, it only accentuates the emotions that the lyrics convey. Newspaper Gown evokes Times Are A-Changing era Dylan in its melody and strumming, only with softer edges. South‘s jarred melancholy is a definite highlight, channelling another heavyweight in Leonard Cohen, while Throw Your Arms Around Me Now features the album’s first chorus. The achingly beautiful melody delivers the dark message of ‘Let me be the first to tell you I would give up my life/Every day as the tides grow closer, it is all that’s on my mind’. And despite being stripped back to the bones, Where You Want Me To Be still allows for a little pop – in both melody and arrangement – to be thrown into the mix.
At ten tracks and twenty seven minutes in length, In the Shape of a Storm is a perfectly weighted collection of songs that builds on, and even surpasses, the majesty of its predecessor. Recorded in just one two hour session, there is no fancy production, no strings or orchestral manoeuvring, and no knowing winks. Just a completely open account of its writer’s thoughts and emotions, presented in a form where there is nowhere to hide. And boy, does it deliver. It is an absolute triumph.


That piece of rectal discharge Tobias Sidegard, the frontman for Swedish death metal band Necrophobic, has somehow had his sentence reduced.
He’ll now serve six months as opposed to 18 for his conviction on child and spousal abuse charges.
This week, a Swedish appeals court found Sidegard guilty of only simple assault, a less serious infraction.
Hence, his fucking sentence was cut by a year.
Sidegard was also ordered to pay his wife roughly $2,500 in damages. You know, for kicking the crap out of her.
Sidegard was also alleged to have beaten his daughters with a homemade bullwhip, according to reports.
His band has a new album coming out.
Google it if you wanna support someone like that.


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HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS! This also marked my first picture of the year!
I watched Rise of the Guardians recently and I completely fell in love with it, especially with the gorgeous animation. If you're one of those conservatives who bash the film based on the premise that the characters do not conform to their traditional interpretations, then I don't like you, and I hope you step on a lego, barefoot.
That aside, I've already felt so bad for Pitch even during the film. When I was informed that it was based on a children's novel series, what I expected of Pitch's background involved anything but tears. TURNS OUT I WAS WRONG and I am now groaning in agony against my keyboard as a river streams down my face because I totally have a weakness for father-daughter angst jfc
Poor guy can never catch a break, seriously.
Now I can't wait to actually order the books and read them!


Georgia High School Basketball - Peach County trounces Pike CountyFebruary 2, 2018: Fort Valley, GA 31030
The Peach County Trojans (Fort Valley, GA) basketball crushed the visiting Pike County Pirates (Zebulon, GA), 79-58 in Friday's league test.
The Pirates now own a 0-24 record. They play next when they travel to Rutland for a AAA Region 4 test on Saturday, February 3. Pike County will encounter a Hurricanes squad coming off a 70-62 league loss to Westside (Macon, GA). The Hurricanes record now stands at 10-13.


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(JTA) — George Soros has donated $5.1 million to a new super PAC ahead of the 2020 presidential election — over twice as much as he had spent at this point in the campaign leading up to the 2016 election, Politico reported Wednesday.
The Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire’s Democracy PAC is his first involvement in the 2020 election cycle.
Soros, a longtime donor to the Democratic Party, has not and does not plan to weigh in on any of the Democratic candidates during the primary stage, according to Politico. He told The Washington Post last year that doing so could “divide the Democratic party.”
Soros eventually spent $20 million on the 2016 race, one of the largest amounts for a donor in either party.


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Cobain Jones single was originally written and recorded in 1986, a close contender for NME’s original C86 cassette but eventually rejected for showing the rest of the tracks up. Ok, we’re lying here, but if you’re trying to find a reference point for the 20 year old Manchester singer-songwriter’s latest, ‘Realistic Dreams’, you would be right to look toward the 1980s indie scene comprised of early Primal Scream, The Pastels and McCarthy.
The record takes aim at the filtered social media reality TV world of omnistream mass culture. Produced by James Dean Bradfield, the track bears traits that could sound at home on a late 90s Manics record, too – prodigious guitar riffs, expressive vocals, daring lyrics (“Takes anarchy to set us free/ Paint over the cracks inbetween/ Pretty as a picture, idyllic scenery”) but, taking a listen to Cobain’s earlier singles, it’s blatantly apparent these are intrinsic features of Jones’s own songwriting that drew the Preachers’ frontman in as opposed to Bradfield’s own input.
‘Realistic Dreams’ is the first taster from Cobain Jones’ forthcoming EP of the same name and is available to hear on all streaming platforms now. You can see the Youtube lyric video below: