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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday congratulated Indian athlete Nishad Kumar after he clinched a silver medal for the country in Men’s High Jump T47 at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020. Taking to his official Twitter handle, the CM said that Nishad Kumar worked hard and got the country a silver medal in the event. Jai Ram Thakur said, "Our government will present an amount of Rs 1 crore to Himachal Gaurav Nishad, a resident of Amb".
टोक्यो पैरालिंपिक-2020 की ऊंची कूद स्पर्धा में कड़ी मेहनत कर देश को रजत पदक दिलाने वाले हमारे हिमाचल प्रदेश के बेटे निषाद कुमार को हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।— Jairam Thakur (@jairamthakurbjp) August 29, 2021
हमारी सरकार अम्ब के रहने वाले हिमाचल गौरव निषाद को एक करोड़ की राशि भेंट करेगी।#Praise4Para #Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/cZQUsNb3j9
The Himachal Pradesh CM said, "In the year 2019, our government also honoured Nishad with Himachal Gaurav Award. It is our aim to promote sports and increase the morale of the players so that Nishad and his talents continue to elevate the name of the state and the country."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday, August 29, congratulated Nishad Kumar. Calling it joyful news, PM Modi dubbed Kumar a remarkable athlete with outstanding skills and tenacity.
More joyful news comes from Tokyo! Absolutely delighted that Nishad Kumar wins the Silver medal in Men’s High Jump T47. He is a remarkable athlete with outstanding skills and tenacity. Congratulations to him. #Paralympics— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 29, 2021
President Kovind tweeted saying Nishad has proved his excellence on the global stage. He also described Nishad's outing as a 'superlative performance'.
Congratulations to Nishad Kumar for winning the silver medal in men’s high jump at Tokyo #Paralympics. You have proved your excellence on the global stage, thereby bringing glory to India. My heartiest congratulations to you on your superlative performance and success.— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) August 29, 2021
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal called it a memorable day, while Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur congratulated him and informed that Kumar's 2.06m jump in the event equalled the Asian record set by him earlier in 2021.
Nishad jumps to glory 🥈 !— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) August 29, 2021
Congratulations Champ @nishad_hj !
We’ve just won 🇮🇳 2nd medal
at #Tokyo2020 #Paralympics !
• High Jump T47 Final
• 2.06m jump which equals Asian Record set by him in 2021#Praise4Para #Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/mkXvu3kFEg
Union Home Minister in a tweet in Hindi said that high jumper's hard work and dedication has paid off. "Due to this extraordinary achievement of yours, the head of every Indian citizen has risen with pride," he said. Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi also congratulated the Indian star for bringing the country's second medal.
Nishad Kumar added another medal to India's bucket by clinching a silver medal in the final event of the Men's High Jump T47 category. Earlier in the day, Bhavina Patel won silver medal in the women's Table Tennis Class 4 event.
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The five clinical commission groups in mid and south Essex have today launched a formal public consultation on outline plans for the future of health and care services.
The proposals are a result of detailed work undertaken by clinical teams across health and care organisations to improve the services provided to the 1.2 million people living in mid and south Essex.
The Joint Committee of the CCGs yesterday gave approval to begin consultation on proposals which include:
• Making improvements in A&E at all three hospitals with the development of new assessment and treatment centres alongside each A&E. All three A&Es will be led by a consultant, open 24 hours a day and will receive “blue light” ambulances.
• Develop a new specialist stroke centre which would provide the highest dependency and intensive care for people in the first 72 hours following a stroke alongside rapid access to diagnostics and specialist interventions. This would be in addition to the existing stroke care units at all three hospitals which would remain in place.
• Bring together in one place some specialist inpatient care where there is existing expertise and to allow for extended hours, seven day a week consultant and specialist cover for these services. Clinical evidence from elsewhere shows that this would improve care and the chances of a making a good recovery.
• Separate some planned operations from emergency cases. Some complex orthopaedic operations that need a few days hospital stay could be performed in Southend Hospital for people in south Essex and Braintree Community Hospital for people in mid Essex. This would reduce cancelled operations and rates of infection by separating this type of care from emergency care.
• Moving community services closer to where people live. For example in Thurrock the proposals outline how services currently provided at Orsett Hospital could be provided in four new “integrated medical centres” and existing and new facilities across Basildon and Brentwood.
These changes are alongside the collective intention of health and care services to build up GP and community services and extend the range of professionals and services available via GP practices as part of a bold plan to provide increased care for local communities closer to where they live.
Dr Caroline Dollery, GP and chair of Mid Essex CCG said: “The public consultation is an important next stage in the work we have been doing together to develop and build a health and care system fit for the future for the people of mid and south Essex and provide them with a further opportunity to give us their views to help shape the proposals. “This is not a final decision to implement any of the changes described, which would only happen after the consultation with our local communities has finished and the feedback independently analysed.”
Dr Celia Skinner, chief medical officer for the three hospitals said: “These proposals set out our ambition to reorganise services across our hospital sites in Basildon, Chelmsford, Southend and Orsett so that we are working together to deliver the best services we can, using our people and resources as effectively as possible for the greatest benefit.
“This happens already for a number of conditions and local doctors and health professionals have been working over many months on the possibilities of bringing together other highly specialist services and how best to separate emergency surgery from planned operations, to reduce cancellations.
“We welcome the public consultation as it represents the next opportunity to discuss these proposals more formally with local people and stakeholders to further seek their views on the potential changes.”
Full details of the proposals and the ways in which people can get involved and have their say are available at www.nhsmidandsouthessex.co.uk Feedback from the consultation will then undergo independent review before it is considered by the Joint Committee in the early summer of 2018 along with clinical evidence, financial plans and other details in a final business case.
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2. The Mid and South Essex STP brings together all health and care organisations to work on a single plan to respond to the rising number of people who need health and care services.
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• Basildon and Brentwood CCG
• Castle Point and Rochford CCG
• Mid Essex CCG
• Southend CCG
• Thurrock CCG
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• Essex County Council
• Southend-on sea Borough Council
• Thurrock CouncilOrganisations, which provide services commissioned by CCGs
• Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which provides services from Basildon and Orsett Hospitals
• Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, which provides services from Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford and Braintree Community Hospital
• Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which provides services from Southend Hospital
• East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust Organisations, which provide services commissioned by CCGs and local authorities
• Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, which provides community services, adult mental health services and inpatient children’s mental health services
• North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), which provides community services and children’s community mental health services
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C.J. McCollum, Blake Griffin, Jacob Tamme and others bash Trump's lewd comments.
MJ would have liked to see Blake Griffin in the main role.
MJ is not exactly choosing the best current NBA role model.
He will not return next season.
What does 2017 look like for the Thunder?
Which of your favorite players looks like Jar Jar Binks?
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References to Steph, LeBron, KD, Kobe, more.
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Stonewall, Man., October 18, 2011 – Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) commends the Government of Canada’s recent commitment of contributions under the fifth round of the Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship fund. In particular, the federal government should be applauded for supporting the East Interlake Conservation District’s initiative to encourage the establishment of long-term agreements to protect wetlands, said Jamie Fortune, acting chief executive officer of DUC.
“DUC’s science is clear. When we destroy wetlands we increase flooding and the associated damages,” said Fortune.
Wetland drainage is a significant contributor to widespread water quality problems in Manitoba, as it increases annual phosphorus loading to downstream flows by 32 per cent and annual nitrogen loading by 57 per cent.
Fortune added: “When wetlands are protected, not only do we protect that land’s ability to store much of the nutrients that contribute to Lake Winnipeg’s algae problems, we also eliminate the need for drainage ditches.”
Drainage ditches compound the problem by facilitating the movement of water, which carries most of these nutrients in soluble form to our rivers and lakes. Also, wetland protection provides many other benefits for Manitobans and all Canadians such as:
- reduced greenhouse gas emissions contributing to our climate change goals;
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If you've been paying attention to the policy food-fight on Capitol Hill that is the debate over tax reform, then you've probably heard an interesting - and troubling - claim made by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and his Democratic colleagues.
Namely, that the tax plan proffered by House Speaker Paul J. Ryan, R-Wisc., and his fellow Republicans would saddle families nationwide, who earn up to $86,100, with an average tax increase of $794.
Casey, of Scranton, tweeted (since deleted) as much on Oct. 24, ditto for Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, who posited that "On average, middle class families earning less than $86,000 would see a tax increase under the Republican 'tax reform' plan," in an Oct. 27 tweet.
Intrigued by the claim, The Washington Post checked the facts, and found they came up woefully short.
Scratch that ... they were a serious whopper.
Here's The Post:
The Joint Economic Committee told The Post that its staff came up with its estimate by running numbers from "the Tax Policy Center, based on the GOP's 'Unified Framework' released in September. The staff then focused on the households making under $86,100 -- the bottom three quintiles of taxpayers -- that would face a tax increase. Weighting the tax increase by the number of people in each quintile, the staff came up with an average tax hike of $794 for the people receiving a tax increase."
As The Post notes, "Only a small percentage (6.5 percent) of the nearly 122 million households in the bottom three quintiles will actually face a tax increase."
And, meanwhile, "more than 97 million (80 percent) will receive a tax cut. Doing the math the same way the JEC staff did, we come up with an average tax cut of about $450 for those 97 million households."
The Post awarded the Democrats' claim its highest (or depending on how you look at, lowest) honor: Four Pinocchios.
As you might expect, Republicans pounced.
Jon Anzur, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lou Barleta, one of several Republians vying for the GOP nomination to challenge Casey in 2018, said in a statement that, "Casey is not only working against Pennsylvania's taxpayers -- he's lying to them too. Pennsylvanians deserve a senator who works for, not against, them. Lou Barletta will always fight to put Pennsylvania workers and families first."
This whole argument reminds us of a verse from the Gospel of St. David Byrne:
"Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them."
The rest of the day's news starts now.
We'll begin this morning with sending our condolences to our friends at the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, whose longtime leader, Frederick W. Anton, 83, was found dead in the Delaware River on Thursday. Anton was a fixture in Republican politics and a power-broker in conservative circles. Though we agreed on almost nothing, in terms of policy, Anton was a gentleman, and a good egg.
Four female members of Congress are alleging sexual harassment by their male colleagues, The Post-Gazette reports.
A rise in absentee ballots is raising eyebrows, The Tribune-Review reports.
The GOP tax plan would 'whack' nonprofit executive pay at Penn, Jefferson and elsewhere, The Inquirer reports.
PhillyMag explains how to sign up for a medical marijuana card in Pennsylvania.
Philly's famed LOVE statue will be purple when it makes its public return, BillyPenn reports.
The Incline has your procrastinator's guide to the 2017 elections on Tuesday.
Here's your #Harrisburg Instagram of the Day (There was something of a moon last night, you might have noticed):
In the wake of Budget Debacle 2017, some lawmakers are pressing for changes in the way Pennsylvania approves its budgets, WITF-FM reports.
Philly Mayor Jim Kenney is getting 'resounding cheers' for his takeover of city schools, WHYY-FM reports.
The Morning Call has everything you need to know about Pennsylania's new adoption law.
State Rep. Madeleine Dean, a Montgomery County Democrat, is reportedly weighing a 2018 bid for lieutenant governor (via PoliticsPA).
In most states, the estate tax is an endangered species, if not extinct already, Stateline.org reports.
The Senate is 'littered with tax reform landmines,' Politico reports.
Here's one good thing about the GOP tax bill: It would end tax deductions for extortionate stadium financing schemes (via Roll Call).
Gov. Tom Wolf makes it easy for us: No public schedule today.
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Best wishes go out this morning to longtime Friend O'the Blog, Carrie Fischer Lepore, deputy secretary of tourism at the Dept. of Community and Economic Development. Congrats and enjoy the day.
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Friday's Gratuitous Hockey Link.
"Consistently inconsistent" -- That's how Carolina Hurricanes coach Bill Peters is describing his squad's recent form. The 'Canes dropped a 5-3 decision to Colorado on Thursday, proving Peters right.
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I recently saw this video transmitting it's way across the web (via). Each landscape and season has it's own wild, raw beauty. And it's all out there beckoning to be taken in. I am so grateful that camping season and the national parks have been calling us out of our wintery hibernation.
I know I feel the most alive among the trees, mountains and fresh air. This summer we'll be spending the better part of two weeks sleeping in a tent and visiting as many national parks as we can fit. More details to come but my heart is so looking forward to it!
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Steve Moser said that Apple’s new iPod Touch will be launched this fall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the iPod family.
At the same time, Moser also shared a rendering of Apple’s new iPod Touch.
According to the rendering of the new iPod Touch, the appearance of the new iPod Touch has changed dramatically compared to the previous generation.
The new iPod Touch adopts a design language similar to that of the new iPad Pro and iPhone 12.
In addition, the device uses a one-piece metal structure with flat sides and a slightly protruding single camera on the back, while the front camera is located in the middle of the top of the screen.
It is worth mentioning that there is no Touch ID button or Face ID hardware found in the rendering. Apple may adopt the same solution as the iPad Air, with a built-in side fingerprint sensor.
Apple iPod Touch is a mobile Internet device without SIM card function released by Apple in 2007, which is part of the iPod series.
Simply put, the positioning of Apple iPod touch is an entry-level device pre-installed with the App Store, which can download various iOS applications, play various mobile games, and enjoy Apple services.
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The Portuguese Navy has taken delivery of its first upgraded Lynx Mk95A naval helicopter at Montijo, Portugal, recently, with the type provided a range of enhancements compared to earlier variants.
Modernisation work included the installation of LHTEC CTS800-4N engines, a new glass cockpit with integrated display units, a tactical processor, upgrades to the avionics suite and a new electrically powered rescue hoist. A total of five upgraded platforms will be delivered to the Portuguese Navy by rotary prime Leonardo.
In a July 28 release announcing the delivery Leonardo stated the upgrade programme would be a “step-change” for the Portuguese Navy.
The Lynx family of helicopters have been a mainstay over the past 40 years, with customers operating the type able to benefit from mid-life upgrade programmes to extend the service of the aircraft.
Leonardo stated that the MLU programme upgrades enhance in-service Lynx aircraft through the introduction of structural enhancements and systems driving increased reliability and capability, centred on a new avionics core, based on the AW159, including new integrated display units and tactical processor.


The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has urged the Nigerian government to ensure accountability and transparency for all the funds spent in fighting the Coronavirus.
In a statement on Monday, the CISLAC’s Executive Director, Auwal Rafsajani, called for the inclusion of the media and other accountability entities in the utilization of the funds to ensure transparency and accountability.
Mr Rafsanjani noted that the recent composition of the Presidential task force on Covid19 was a welcomed decision.
He, however, lamented that the committee failed to have a balanced representation, especially in the area of inclusion of media and other accountability entities.
“In times of global public emergency, proactive measures to ensure judicious utilisation and distribution of these funds are needed more than ever.
“Inclusion of media and other accountability entities in the Committee would compel transparency and accountability in the utilisation and dissemination of managed funds”.
“At this critical junction, Nigeria cannot afford mismanagement and misappropriation of public and donated funds,” Mr Rafsanjani further noted.
The non-governmental organization warned that diversion of funds will be a betrayal of the trust of Nigerians.
“We on this note have no hesitation to state that diversion or misappropriation of the funds would be tantamount to total betrayal, unpatriotic, unsympathetic and selfishness in the management of the nation’s treasury which are punishable under relevant laws,” the statement noted.
Mr Rafsanjani, therefore, disclosed that the CISLAC would monitor the funds and how it is spent.
“While we monitor with keen interest response of various authorities to commitment of the Federal Government towards alleviating impacts of the newly pronounced lockdown in some states, we demand sincere effort to ensure relief materials and other financial and material assistance are deployed accordingly to citizens irrespective of their socio-economic status with holistic and transparent strategy to adequately appropriate relief package to citizens at the grassroots level.”


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Is your dog showing common allergy symptoms? There is nothing to be worried about because the allergy season has already begun and skin reactions are completely normal for sensitive dogs. Unfortunately, some dog allergies last the entire year. These kinds of reactions are usually caused by different foods that your dog is sensitive to.
A healthy diet is very important for a dog’s well-being because poor food choices can cause different health-related issues. If you’ve been looking for a solution that can help relieve your dog’s allergy symptoms, you’ve come to the right place! Changing your dog’s diet can significantly reduce skin allergies, if not get rid of them completely. Keep on reading to learn what is the best dog food for labs with skin allergies!
What Causes Allergies in Dogs?
If you’ve ever experienced an allergy on your skin, then you already know how your dog feels right now. Dogs experience the same kind of discomfort as humans do when it comes to allergic reactions on the skin. Skin allergies can get quite nasty if they are not treated properly and in time. Your dog’s skin will be very itchy and even painful if the allergy is not treated right away.
So, you might be wondering what causes allergies in dogs? Allergies, in general, are a response of the immune system to certain substances. Much like humans, dogs can be sensitive to a wide range of substances, including the ones they eat and the ones they breathe in. However, the most common cause of allergies in dogs is food. That is why it is important to change the dog’s diet as soon as you notice a change in their behavior or any visible allergy symptoms. If you’re not sure what kind of symbols to look for, read the following section!
Common Symptoms to Look For
If your dog starts experiencing allergic reactions you will definitely notice a change in their behavior. Unfortunately, dogs cannot tell us when something is wrong so we have to look for small clues to figure out if they are in pain. As a dog owner, you should be familiar with common allergy symptoms in order to be able to react in time. As soon as you spot one of the following symptoms of a possible allergic reaction, make sure to take the dog to a veterinarian.
The most common allergic reactions include inflamed skin and redness. This feels very uncomfortable, which is why you will often see your dog itching or rubbing their skin on furniture or nearby objects. If your dog is scratching more than usual, it might be a sign that something is not okay. Increased itching will cause the skin to break and eventually create scabs. If you notice that your dog has scabbed skin, it is likely that the allergic reaction was present for a longer period of time.
Another sign that your dog might be allergic to certain substances could be ear infections. One or two ear infections in a year are nothing to be worried about. However, if the ear infections keep coming back after treatment, it might be a red flag indicating that your dog is allergic to something in its environment. Besides skin inflammation, itching, and ear infections, other symptoms to look out for include excessive licking of the skin (more specifically the paws), diarrhea, hair loss, sneezing, and vomiting.
How to Find the Best Dog Food for Labs with Skin Allergies
Once you determine that your dog has some type of an allergic reaction, you have to pay attention to the dog’s diet. Unlike humans, dogs cannot take a test to find out what they’re allergic to. In fact, determining a specific substance your dog is sensitive to is a bit more difficult. One of the ways to properly diagnose an allergy includes testing foods and different diets. The process includes feeding your dog a specific ingredient while eliminating other ingredients that might be the cause of the reaction.
Of course, before you start experimenting with different diets, take your dog to the vet to determine that its condition is, in fact, an allergic reaction, not something more serious. Once you’ve got the serious problems out of the way, begin with the limited ingredient diet. This diet is known as LID for short and it includes feeding your dog foods that are made of simple ingredients. These foods don’t contain too many ingredients, which makes it easy to determine what your dog could be allergic to.
You should also keep in mind that dogs can become allergic to a certain type of food if they eat it for too long. For example, if you’ve been feeding your dog the same dry food for over two years, it is likely that the dog will develop some sort of allergy to its ingredients. Therefore, make sure to switch things up regularly and keep your dog’s diet diverse. The only way to improve the dog’s condition when it comes to skin allergies caused by food is to remove specific ingredients from the diet.
So, how do you find the right food for your dog’s diet? You have to start by experimenting with products that contain one novel source of protein and carbs. A novel ingredient is essentially an ingredient that your dog hasn’t been eating before. If you’re wondering what meat is good for dogs, these are some of the best options: duck, rabbit, and lamb for protein. Ingredients such as sweet potato or oatmeal are some of the best sources of carbs. Once you find a suitable LID food with a novel ingredient, feed it to your dog for 12 weeks and pay whether the allergic reactions will disappear.
Luckily, many dog food manufacturers offer limited ingredient diet foods, which makes it easier to mix things up and test what foods your dog will react to. We will also discuss making homemade dog food and what kind of benefits come with it. But first, take a look at our top three choices of manufactured limited ingredient dog foods. Each of these products was tested for quality so you don’t have to worry about any negative reactions.
Top Three Foods to Buy
1. Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Dry Dog Food with Lamb
Our first choice is the LID grain-free dry dog food by Nature’s Variety, one of the most popular pet supply manufacturers. Their line of limited ingredient foods contains products made of premium sources of protein such as lamb, rabbit, turkey. Each of their LID products contains a combination of omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids.
On top of that, they offer unique sources of carbs such as peas and tapioca. Many of their LID products feature a green tea extract coating, which gives the food a special aroma that will make your dog love it! Overall, Nature’s Variety offers three different types of limited ingredient diet kibbles for adults and one type for smaller breeds.
2. Wellness Simple Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Salmon and Potato
The Wellness Simple LID grain-free dog food features original and genuine recipes and ingredients. Their LID food line includes different options for dogs in all growth stages, from puppies to adult labs and different breeds. Most importantly, they created a special line of food products called Core, which was designed specifically for dogs with skin issues. The line includes both kibbles and canned food so you can add some variety to your dog’s food bowl. Different textures and flavors will certainly make lunchtime more appealing.
This specific LID grain-free dog food includes ingredients such as salmon and potatoes. They also offer different options with high-quality proteins such as chicken, turkey, and whitefish. Another one of their limited ingredient diet product lines is called Simple since it contains products featuring only simple ingredients. The line consists of a total of six different dry food recipes. With so many options, you can easily make sure your dog gets the right nutritious values in every meal.
3. Blue Buffalo Basics Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Food
Last but not least, our third choice when it comes to high-quality LID foods is the grain-free food from Blue Buffalo. Blue Buffalo offers a wide range of high-quality dog food products. Their food contains beneficial protein sources combined with healthy fats and supplements to keep your dog healthy and energized. Most importantly, they offer multiple allergy-friendly products with simple recipes that suit limited ingredient diets.
They offer an entire line of limited ingredient diet products called the Blue Buffalo Basics. The line includes products with protein sources such as turkey, salmon, lamb, and duck. If you want to add extra variety to your dog’s diet, you should also consider their high-protein Wilderness line, which contains multiple novel protein options and grain-free sources of healthy carbs.
How to Make Dry Dog Food in Bulk
Even though many manufacturers offer LID foods, homemade meals are often the best choice for improving your dog’s health and well-being. Meals such as homemade dog food with chicken and sweet potatoes will truly make your dog wag its tail during lunch time. Unfortunately, we don’t always have enough time to prepare every single meal at home so we have to look for alternative solutions.
If you still want to put some effort into making homemade dog food, you should consider making dry dog food in bulk. It would be easier to make a larger amount of food at once and have enough to last the entire week. That way you won’t have to go through the cooking process every day. Without further ado, here is a guide on how to make dry dog food in bulk!
What You Will Need for This Tutorial
Ingredients and items you will need for this tutorial include the following:
- Four eggs
- Cup of oil
- Cookie sheet
- 6 cups of flour(any kind)
- One cup of powdered milk
- 2 and a half cups of liquid (milk, water, or broth)
1. Mix Dry Ingredients
To begin with, find two bowls of similar size. Mix the dry ingredients, that is, the powdered milk and the flour in one bowl.
2. Mix Liquid Ingredients
Then mix the liquid ingredients in the second bowl. The liquid ingredients include four eggs, oil, and two and a half cups of a liquid of your choice. You can choose between milk, water, or broth. Chicken broth is a great option if you want to improve the flavor of the food. However, since we are making food for dogs with skin allergies, it is best to stick to water as the simplest ingredient.
3. Add Dry Ingredients to Liquid Ones
Once you mix the two kinds of ingredients in separate bowls, put them all together in one larger bowl. Stir the mixture until it turns into firm, moist dough. You can add more liquid to make the mixture more consistent if necessary.
4. Prepare Dough for Cooking
Use a ½ inch thick cookie sheet to spread the dough evenly. You can either shape the dough according to your preferences or crack it into smaller pieces after it has cooked.
5. Start Cooking
Once the dough is spread on the cookie sheet, place it inside the oven. You can either cook it at 200 degrees for one hour or turn the oven up to 350 degrees for 45 minutes. It depends on how much time you have.
6. Let it Cool
After the dough is cooked, let it cool down completely and crack it into smaller pieces. Store it in a dry bowl for your dog to eat later on.
Dog allergies are not a serious issue as long as you take care of them in time. If you notice your dog scratching too aggressively or avoiding his food, make sure to take him to a vet for an examination. In case of an allergic reaction, make sure to test different diets and ingredients to determine which foods suit your dog best.
Don’t forget that there are plenty of LID foods available on the market but you can also make homemade dog food quite easily. Follow our guide to learn how to make dry dog food in bulk and save some time throughout your week! Let us know if you’ve enjoyed this article and if you’d like to see more similar content!
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ADO EKITI — The State governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and his predecessor, Engr. Segun Oni have commiserated with the Fajuyi family over the death of the wife of late Military Governor of the defunct Western State, Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, Eunice Ayodele.
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“It has been trending slightly up from projections,” said Elizabeth Lindsey, who heads the marketing division at Wasserman. “An asset of this magnitude is one that you don’t package alone. It is just below naming rights as far as team inventory, so you don’t sell it on its own. You can see that every team treated it differently as far as what was packaged.”
But selling the high-priced inventory has proved no easy task given it had never been done in any of the four top U.S. stick and ball leagues. That unfamiliarity, along with the deeply integrated and high valuations of the deals, is why the league gave teams an 18-month runway to sell the patches. Big-market teams without jersey patch deals last week included the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets, as those teams continued to look for the right partner — and right price.
“It’s a different kind of sale; the narrative is different, the approach has to be different,” said Brett Yormark, chief executive officer of Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Nets. The Nets were the fourth team to sell a jersey patch sponsorship, landing software company Infor in a deal worth $8 million a year.
“This isn’t just a signage, branding or exposure story,” Yormark said. “It has to be a bigger play, and obviously the expense is much bigger. You can’t sell the patch like everything else. It requires more thoughtfulness; there’s fewer potential companies. It’s a bigger story and a deeper connection between the team and the brand.”
The Nets’ deal with Infor, for example, calls for the company to develop analytics to measure player performance, business operations, and fan experience.
With at least 17 teams now having jersey patch deals, and a handful more expected soon, the league expects to have about two-thirds of NBA teams with deals in place this season.
While the brands doing jersey deals range from tech companies such as Fitbit with the Minnesota Timberwolves to old-line companies such as Goodyear, which bought the Cleveland Cavaliers’ patch, most of the jersey patch deals are with companies that had never been NBA sponsors. The Utah Jazz is the only team with a cause-related patch deal; analytics company Qualtrics will put its 5 For The Fight cancer charity logo on the team’s jersey. But the company will also activate around the deal by developing fan experience data for the team after also signing on as the team’s exclusive fan experience insights and analytics partner.
“The mix of the companies is unique and shows the breadth of the appeal,” said Amy Brooks, executive vice president of the NBA’s team marketing and business operations division. “The majority are locally based brands with global reaches.”
Brooks said teams without jersey patch deals will be allowed to sign deals during the season.
“When we created this at the league, we’d envisioned a number of new brands coming into the league, rather than just an additional spend by existing sponsors, and largely that is what we have seen,” said Emilio Collins, chief business officer at Excel Sports Management and a former senior NBA sponsorship executive who helped create the jersey patch program. “It has slightly exceeded the pace I expected. I thought it was going to be about half the teams going into the season and obviously it is a bit more than that.”
Adding to the difficulty in selling the patch is the packaging of other team assets into the jersey sponsorship. The Warriors’ jersey deal with Rakuten, for example, also includes naming rights to the team’s practice facility for the next two seasons before the Warriors move from Oakland to San Francisco. The Los Angeles Lakers signed a deal with e-commerce company Wish and included a patch on its G League team jersey as part of its overall deal worth between $12 million and $14 million annually.
The league computes the actual value of the jersey patch deals, separate from any other team assets that might be included.
“We have a rigorous process to standardize the valuation of the patch,” Brooks said, declining to disclose specifics.
Half of the revenue from jersey patch deals will go to the players. Of the remaining 50 percent, 25 percent will go to the team selling the patch, with the remaining 25 percent to be shared among the remaining 29 teams.
One of the most complicated deals is in Charlotte, where the Hornets are searching for the right jersey patch partner that will align with the Jordan Brand logo that will also be on the team’s jersey as part of the league’s new apparel deal with Nike.
“We are in a unique position in being the only Jordan Brand in the NBA, so we are looking for synergy,” said Pete Guelli, executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for the Hornets. He would not put a time frame on any jersey patch deal with the team.
“We have had multiple offers, but none we could pull the trigger on,” he said. “But the market is being established and reset every day. It is only increasing.”
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A total of 919 brands combined to create 3,160 unique commercials during NBA programming last season, for a total outlay of $1.1 billion across 54,635 commercials, according to SportsBusiness Journal’s analysis of iSpot.tv data.


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2. Md. Z. Uddin, D.-H. Kim, J. T. Kim, T.-S. Kim*, An Indoor Human Activity Recognition System for Smart Home Using Local Binary Pattern Features with Hidden Markov Models, Indoor Built Envir., Feb., 2013 (SCIE)
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4. A. Jalal, Md. Z. Uddin, and T.-S. Kim*, Depth Video-based Human Activity Recognition System Using Translation and Scaling Invariant Features for Life Logging at Smart Home, IEEE CE, vol, 58(3), 863-871, 2012 (SCI)
5. A. Jalal, S.Y. Lee, J. T. Kim, and T.-S. Kim*, Human Activity Recognition via the Features of Labeled Depth Body Parts, LNCS, 7251, 246-249, 2012
6. H. S. Suh, W. H. Lee, and T.-S. Kim, Influence of anisotropic conductivity in the skull and white matter on transcranial direct current stimulation via an anatomically realistic finite element head model, Phy. Med. Biol., 57, 6961-6980, 2012 (SCI)
7. A. Jalal, Md. Z. Uddin, J.-T. Kim, T.-S. Kim*, Recognition of Human Home Activities via Depth Silhouettes and R Transformation for Smart Homes, Indoor and Built Environment, 21(1), 194-190, 2012 (SCIE)
8. Md. Z. Uddin and T.-S. Kim*, Human activity recognition based on independent depth silhouette components and optical flow features, Imaging Science Journal, vol. 50(3), 138-150, 2012 (SCI)
9. W.-H. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Methods for high-resolution anisotropic finite element modeling of the human head: Automatic MR white matter anisotropy-adaptive mesh generation, Med. Engi., & Phys. 34, 85-98, 2012 (SCI)
10. O. I. Khan, F. Farooq, F. Akram, M. T. Choi, S. M. Han, T.-S. Kim*, Robust extraction of P300 using constrained ICA for BCI applications, Med Biol Eng Comput, 50, 231-241, 2012 (SCI)
11. W.-H. Lee, Z.-D. Deng, T.-S. Kim, A. F. Laine, S.H. Lisanby, A. V. Peterchev, Regional electric field induced by electroconvulsive therapy in a realistic finite element head model: Influence of white mater anisotropic conductivity, Neuroimaging, 59, 2110-2123, 2012 (SCI)
12. M.-W. Lee, A. M. Khan, T.-S. Kim*, A Single tri-axial accelerometer-based real-time personal life log system capable of human activity recognition and exercise information generation, Pers. Ubiquit. Computing, 15(8), 887-898, 2011 (SCIE)
13. N.D. Thang, T. Rasheed, Y.-K. Lee, S.Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Content Based Facial Image Retrieval Using Constrained Independent Component Analysis, Information Sciences, 181, 3162-3174, 2011 (SCI)
14. Md. Zia Uddin, Tae-Seong Kim*, Jeong Tai Kim, Video-based Indoor Human Gait Recognition Using Depth Imaging and Hidden Markov Model: A Smart System for Smart Home, Indoor and Built Environment, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 120-128, Feb., 2011 (SCIE)
15. Md. Z. Uddin, N. D. Thang, J. T Kim, and T.-S. Kim*, Human Activity Recognition Using Body Joint Angle Features and Hidden Markov Model, ETRI Journal, 33(4), 569-579, 2011 (SCI)
16. P. T. H. Truc, T.-S. Kim, S.-Y. Lee, Y.-K. Lee, Homogeneity- and density distance-driven active contours for medical image segmentation, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 41, 292-301, 2011 (SCI)
17. N. D. Thang, T.-S. Kim*, Y.-K. Lee, S.-Y. Lee, Estimation of 3-D Human Body Posture via Co-registration of 3-D Human Body Model and Sequential Stereo Information, Applied Intelligence, 35, 163-177, 2011 (SCI)
18. A.M. Khan, Y.K. Lee, S.Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Accelerometer’s Position Independent Physical Activity Recognition System for Long-term Activity Monitoring in the Elderly, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 48(12), 1271-1279, 2010 (SCI)
19. A.M. Khan, Y.K. Lee, S.Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, A tri-axial accelerometer sensor-based human activity recognition via augmented signal features and a hierarchical recognizer, IEEE Trans. Information Tech. in Biomedicine, 14, 5, pp. 1166-1172, 2010 (SCI)
20. P.T.H. Truc, T.-S. Kim*, S.Y. Lee, Y.-K. Lee, A study on the feasibility of active contours on automatic CT bone segmentation, J. of Dig. Imaging, 23, 6, pp. 793-805, 2010 (SCI)
21. M. Zia Uddin, J.J. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Independent shape component-based human activity recognition via Hidden Markov Model, Applied Intelligence, 33, pp. 193-206, 2009 (SCI)
22. T. Rasheed, Y.K. Lee, S.Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Constrained Spatiotemporal Independent Component Analysis and Its Application for fMRI Data Analysis, J. Biomed. Eng. Res., vol., 30, pp. 373-380, 2009 (domestic)
23. M. Zia Uddin, J.J. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, An Enhanced Independent Component-based Human Facial Expression Recognition from Videos, IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics, vol. 55(4), 2216-2224, 2009 (SCI)
24. T. Rasheed, Y.-K. Lee, S. Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Attenuation of artifacts in EEG signals measured inside an MRI scanner using constrained independent component analysis, Phy. Meas. 20, 387-404, 2009 (SCI)
25. Y. H. Kim, L. D. Phong, K.S. Kim, T.-S. Kim, Automated 2D-3D Image Matching Technique with dual X-ray Images for Estimation of 3D in vivo knee kinematics, J. Biomed, Eng. Res., vol. 29, pp. 431-435, 2008 (domestic)
26. S.H. Ahn, T. Rasheed, W.H. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, M.H. Cho, and S.Y. Lee, Constrained ICA based extraction and mapping of the brain alpha activity in EEG, J. Biomed. Eng. Research, vol. 29, 405-413-2008 (domestic)
27. Phan T. H. Truc, M.A.U. Khan, Y.-K. Lee, S. Y. Lee, and T.-S. Kim*, Vessel Enhancement Filter using Directional Filter Bank, Computer Vision Image Understanding, vol. 113, pp. 101-112, 2008 (SCI)
28. M. Singh, A. Rajagopalan, T.-S. Kim, D. Hwang, H. Chui, X.-L. Zhang, A.-Y. Lee, C. Zarow, Co-registration of In-Vivo Human MRI Brain Images to Postmortem Histological Microscopic Images, Int. J. of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 18, pp. 325-335, 2008 (SCIE)
29. M.D. Zia Uddin, J.J. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Shape-based Human Activity Recognition Using Independent Component Analysis and Hidden Markov Model, IEA/AIE 2008, LNAI 5027, pp. 245-254, 2008 (SCIE)
30. P.T.H. Truc, T.-S. Kim, Y.H. Kim, Y.K. Lee, and S.Y. Lee, Automatic Bone Segmentation from CT Images Using Chan-Vese Multiphase Active Contour, J. Biomed. Engi. Res. Vol. 26, Number 6, pp. 713-720, 2007 domestic
31. W.H. Lee, H.S. Seo, T.-S. Kim, and S.Y. Lee, Numerical Quality of the Scalp Electrical Potentials from 3-D MRI Content-adaptive Finite Element Models of the Whole Head, Int. J. of Bioelectromagnetism, 9(1), 78-79, 2007
32. W.H. Lee, T.-S. Kim, M. H. Cho, and S. Y. Lee, Numerical Evaluations of the Effect of Feature Maps on Content-adaptive Finite Element Mesh Generation, J. Biomed. Engi. Res., Vol. 28, No. 1, 8-16, 2007 domestic
33. T.-S. Kim, J. J. Lee, S.-J. Hwang, Y.-K. Lee, J.-H. Park, Spatiotemporal Analysis of Hippocampal Long Term Potentiation Using Independent Component Analysis, J. Biomed. Engi. Res., Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 17-23, 2007 domestic
34. B. Ahmed, T. Rasheed, M.A.U. Khan, S.J. Cho, S.Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim, Rib Suppression for Enhancing Frontal Chest Radiograph Using ICA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2007
35. J. W. Yoon, S. J. Godsill, C.H. Kang, T.-S. Kim*, Bayesian Inference for 2D Gel Electrophoresis Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), 4414, 343-356, 2007
36. J.H. Ye, T.-S. Kim, Y. S. Goo, Spatiotemporal Analysis of Retinal Waveform Using Independent Component Analysis in Normal and rd/rd Mouse, Medical Physics, 18, 1, 20-26, 2007 domestic
37. W. H. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, M. H. Cho, Y. B. Ahn, S. Y. Lee, Methods and evaluations of content-adaptive finite element mesh generation for bioelectromagnetic problems, Phys. Biol. Med., 51, 6173-6186, 2006 (SCI)
38. T. Rasheed, M. H. In, Y. K. Lee, S. Lee, S. Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, Constrained ICA based Ballistocardiogram and Electro-oculogram Artifacts Removal from Visual Evoked Potential EEG Signals Measured Inside MRI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4232, pp. 1088-1097, 2006 (SCIE)
39. M. H. In, S. Y. Lee, T. S. Park, T.-S. Kim, M. H. Cho, Y. B. Ahn, Ballistocardiogram artifact removal from EEG signals with adaptive filtering of EOG signals, Physiological Measurement, 27, 1227-1240, 2006 (SCI)
40. W. H. Lee, T.-S. Kim*, M. H. Cho, and S. Y. Lee, MRI Content-adaptive Finite Element Mesh Generation Toolbox, J. Biomed. Eng. Res., vol. 27, no. 3, 110-116, 2006 (domestic)
41. B. I. Lee, S. H. Oh, T.-S. Kim*, E. J. Woo, S. Y. Lee, O. Kwon, and J. K. Seo, Breast MREIT: basic imaging setup and feasibility, Phys. Med. Biol., 51, 443-455, 2006 (SCI)
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44. S. Oh, B. Lee, E. Woo, S. Lee, T.-S. Kim, O. Kwon, J. Seo, Electrical Conductivity Images of Biological Tissue Phantoms in MREIT, Physiological Measurement, 26, S279-S288, 2005
45. J. Y. Han,
Y. H. Choi, C. H. Im, T.-S. Kim, and S. Y. Lee, EEG Current Source Imaging
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46. T.-S. Kim, 3-D High Resolution Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography and Soft Tissue Differentiation, J. of Biomed. Res., vol. 26, no. 1, 49-57, 2005, domestic
47. J. Jeong, T.-S. Kim, D. Shin, M. Singh, V.Z. Marmarelis, Soft Tissue Differentiation Using Multi-band Signatures of High Resolution Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography, IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 24, no. 3, 399-408, 2005
48. E. J. Woo, S. Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim, S. H. Oh, B. I. Lee, C. J. Park, J. K Seo, S. H. Lee, and O. Kwon, Conductivity and Current Density Imaging of Animal Subject using MREIT Technique, Int. J. Bioelectromag., vol. 7. no. 1, 9-12, 2005
49. R. J. Sadleir, S. C. Grant, T. B. Demarse, E. J. Woo, S. Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim, S. H. Oh, B. I. Lee, and J. K. Seo, Study of MRI/MEA comparability at 17.6 Tesla, Int. J. Bioelectromag., vol. 7, no. 1, 278-281, 2005
50. R. J. Sadleir, S. G. Grant, X. Silver, S. U. Zhang, E. J. Woo, S. Y. Lee, T.-S. Kim, S. H. Oh, B. I. Lee, and J. K. Soe, Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography at 11 Tesla Field Strength: Preliminary Experimental Study, Int. J. Bioelectromag., vol. 7, no. 1, 340-343, 2005
51. T. S. Kim, B. I. Lee, C. J. Park, S. H. Lee, S. H. Tak, J. K. Seo, O. Kwon, and E. J. Woo, A Matlab Toolbox for MREIT: MREIT Toolbox, Int. J. Bioelectromag., vol. 7, no. 1, 352-355, 2005
52. J. Jeong, T.-S. Kim, M. Singh, Independent Component Analysis with Mixture Density Model and its Application to Localize the Brain Alpha Activity in fMRI and EEG, Int. J. Imaging Technology and Systems, 14, 170-180, 2004
53. C. Zarow, T.-S. Kim, M. Singh, H. Chui, Standarized Method for Brain Cutting Suitable for Both Stereology and MRI-Brain Co-registration, J. of Neurosicence Methods, vol. 139, 2, 209-215, 2004.
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58. S. Kim, T.-S. Kim, Y. Zhou, M. Singh, Influence of Conductivity Tensors in the Finite Element Model of the Head on the Forward Solution of EEG, IEEE TNS Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences., vol. 50, no. 1, 133-139, 2003.
59. M. Singh, S. Kim, and T.-S. Kim, Correlation Between BOLD-fMRI and EEG Signal Changes in Response to Visual Stimulus Frequency in Humans, Mag. Res. Med., 49, 108-114, 2003.
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By Mark Hawthorne
IN SAMUEL Beckett’s celebrated play Waiting For Godot, the two lead characters, Didi and Gogo, chat as they wait expectantly and unsuccessfully for the title character to turn up.
At one point, frustrated by his friend’s lack of conversational skills, Didi exclaims ‘‘Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can’t you, once in a [while]?’’
Television executives and sports administrators around the country can empathise with Didi’s frustration. All are waiting for their own Godot to arrive — in this instance, the belated decision on which sporting events will be protected from pay-television operators by federal anti-siphoning laws. At the same time, they are frustrated by a perceived lack of conversation emanating from the man in charge, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Anti-siphoning laws protect the broadcast of sporting events that are deemed to be of cultural significance, by listing events that pay-television operators are banned from owning the rights to.
The concept of an anti-siphoning list was first enshrined in law in the US in 1975, until that legislation was overturned as unconstitutional.
In Australia, the Broadcasting Services Act was passed in 1992, and the federal government was obliged, under that legislation, to conduct a review of the list before the end of 2009. That it did — indeed, almost a year has passed since the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy released a discussion paper on the subject of anti-siphoning laws.
A further nine months have passed since the last of 320 submissions were submitted, on time, in response to the government’s Sport on Television Review.
As the current list of protected events expires on December 31 this year, the key players are now waiting, rather impatiently, for Conroy to return the ball.
On June 30, Conroy told reporters that he was ‘‘not far’’ from making an announcement on the new rules. ‘‘In terms of the anti-siphoning list, we’ve been in ongoing negotiations for a number of months now, we’re not far from a resolution,’’ he said.
Just a week later, the senator had changed his tune. Speaking at the opening of Macquarie Telecom’s new call centre on Wednesday, Conroy said the review was yet to finish because key players wanted the delay. ‘‘A number of organisations critically involved in this actually asked us not to make some final decisions,’’ Senator Conroy claimed.
‘‘They actually wrote to us and said: ‘look, please don’t make any final decisions yet, we’d like to talk further with you’. The goal posts shift a lot in this particular discussion.’’
The delay has certainly had an impact on the nation’s two biggest sporting codes, which are both eager to start rights deals.
The NRL’s position is the less urgent, but more invidious, than that of the AFL. Its rights deal with Nine and Foxtel expires at the end of 2012.
As a result of the Super League war of the 1990s, the NRL is part-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd, which has a 25 per cent stake in pay-TV operator Foxtel. Murdoch’s News Corp also half-owns Premier Media Group, the producer of virtually all local sports content on subscription TV in Australia.
The people who part-own the league have made their stance quite clear.
According to Foxtel’s submission to Conroy’s department, the anti-siphoning list is ‘‘well past its use-by date’’ and is a form of ‘‘protectionism’’ that has ‘‘created a media industry that is generally stunted by regulatory impediments in Australia’’.
Premier Media Group also wants a relaxation of the limits placed on AFL and NRL coverage on pay-TV.
According to its submission, the next anti-siphoning list should be limited to just the Melbourne Cup, four games of each AFL round, AFL finals, three games from each NRL round, cricket Tests involving Australia in Australia, one-day cricket World Cup matches involving Australia, plus the semi-finals and final, and the Australian Grand Prix.
For the rest, according to Premier Media Group, it should be open slather.
When negotiations eventually start, it will be interesting to note the position of NRL chief executive David Gallop — formerly a lawyer with News, he previously worked on the TV rights negotiations from the other end.
The AFL’s current rights deal with the Seven Network, Network Ten and Foxtel expires much sooner, at the end of the 2011 season, and the league started negotiations with Seven and Ten late last year.
Those talks soon broke down, as the direct result of lack of clarity regarding the anti-siphoning regulations.
‘‘We can’t negotiate a deal until we know what the landscape is going to be,’’ said a senior Seven executive.
‘‘Our preference is for the status quo to remain, in terms of the anti-siphoning laws. If there are no changes, then I can see the AFL getting at least the $1 billion it wants for the next four-year rights deal, not even counting the addition of extra teams and matches. If you think the last deal was worth $780 million, then inflation would get them over the $1 billion line, but the risk at the moment is the chance that the government could shift the goal posts, which means no one is going to put pen to paper.’’
It’s a similar story at Nine, which in February opened informal talks with AFL boss Andrew Demetriou and chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan over the rights to Monday night football.
At the EJ Whitten Legends match this week — one of the highest rating games of Australian rules in Melbourne each year — Channel 9 Melbourne managing director Jeff Browne reiterated his desire to broadcast Monday night AFL football.
‘‘We can do it, and we can make it work, but we’re not going to pay over the odds,’’ Browne said. ‘‘What we can’t do is negotiate a deal until we knows what the rules are going to be.’’
Shifting goal posts. Returning the ball. Level playing fields. The sporting analogies abound in this debate.
In the end, all the TV networks and sports want the same thing — a result.


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Cast iron cookware was a big innovation when it first came into being in the third century (via Web Restaurant Store). Prized for its heft, ability to heat to extremely high temperatures, and indestructibility, cast iron eventually became so integral to daily life that the economist Adam Smith, in his seminal 1776 book, "The Wealth of Nations" likened its value to society to that of gold (via The News Journal). Nevertheless, cast iron declined in popularity throughout the 20th century as more "advanced" cooking materials became available. That being said, other "advanced" innovations included plastic, diet soda, TV dinners, GMOs, and nuclear weapons.
At the turn of the millennium, as people began questioning whether innovation necessarily equals improvement, cast iron cookware came back into vogue — but not universally. Some complain it’s hard to clean or too complicated to take care of. Others claim you "shouldn’t" cook this or that food on cast iron. But that’s not true either. Sure, challenges present themselves, but cast iron can handle practically anything you throw at it – with results superior to other surfaces. Read on for these best uses for your cast iron skillet that you probably never thought possible.
Use your cast iron skillet to make marinara
You have, no doubt, heard warnings never to use your cast iron skillet to cook tomatoes because their acid can leach iron from the pan and into your food, leaving a nasty taste. America’s Test Kitchen sought to test that by simmering tomato sauce over medium heat in a well-seasoned cast iron skillet for at least 30 minutes. Testers found was that there was no discernable metallic taste to the tomato sauce — until the sauce had simmered for a full 30 minutes. Once the sauce had cooked for longer, however, metallic flavors did appear in the sauce.
What America’s Test Kitchen concluded was that the seasoning on a cast iron skillet helps keep the acid from the tomatoes from interacting with the iron content of the skillet — up to a point. The upshot is that you can definitely use your well-seasoned cast iron skillet to make many tomato-based dishes. Just keep your simmering to no more than 30 minutes, don’t store the leftovers in the skillet, and use baking soda to scrub out the skillet. Baking soda is a base, which will help neutralize any lingering acid.
Yes, you can make eggs in your cast iron
Forget what you’ve heard about not using your cast iron skillet for eggs. Cast iron is a perfect vessel for cooking eggs because it is so good at retaining temperature. That means that every time you cook your eggs, they’re going to turn out pretty much the same. You just have to be willing to make a few modifications.
One is that you can’t skimp on preheating your cast iron pan, which could take several minutes (via Lodge Cast Iron). Also, take your eggs out of the fridge a few minutes early. Letting them approach room temperature helps keep the eggs from sticking to the cast iron surface. Finally, you should only use a sturdy metal spatula when cooking eggs on cast iron. Only metal will properly dislodge eggs from the cast iron’s surface. With those minor adjustments, you’ll even be able to make scrambled eggs using your cast iron.
Go ahead and cook seafood in your cast iron
The taste and texture of seafood is greatly enhanced by cast iron cooking. So, it’s unfortunate that some cast iron critics claim you should "never" cook fish and other seafood in a cast iron skillet, as it is supposedly too delicate to subject to cast iron’s less-than-smooth surface. But if your fish is sticking to your cast iron, it is more likely the result of your not having cooked the fish long enough before you tried to flip it, or that you didn’t use a metal spatula.
Some also claim that fish and seafood allegedly leave behind a stink that never quite goes away. But there are several ways to eradicate fish odors from cast iron, including scrubbing your skillet with baking soda (via World of Pans). If that strikes you as too labor-intensive, then you can take a page out of Cook’s Illustrated and simply bake your clean, empty pan in a 400° Fahrenheit oven for 10 minutes.
You can also cook pancakes on cast iron
Pancakes cooked on cast iron just feel so much homier than pancakes cooked on non-stick surfaces. And that makes sense considering that pancakes have been around since the stone age, well before cookware was invented (via Coppersmith). If a hot rock could handle a pancake, then trust us, so can your cast iron skillet. You just have to keep a few fundamentals in mind.
Pancakes can’t be cooked at just any old temperature. If you try to cook them at too high a temperature, they’ll burn without cooking on the inside. If you overcompensate by lowering the heat too much, they don’t really cook at all. Plus, pancakes cook best when the batter rests at room temperature before cooking. To make pancakes in your cast iron skillet, swipe the cold skillet with a bit of shortening and heat for at least five minutes on medium. Before you pour your batter, make sure a drop of water dances on its surface (rather than sizzling and disappearing). And, as with eggs and seafood, use a metal spatula.
The only authentic way to make hoecakes is using cast iron
Hoecakes are classic Southern fare that may look like pancakes but are most definitely not, according to Slate. Hoecakes are meant to be sturdy enough to act as a "shovel" for whatever else you’re eating with them. According to their origin story, the "hoe" in their name refers to the flat, metal gardening implement — because they were supposedly first cooked on gardening hoes heated in the fireplace. Assuming you don’t plan on using a garden hoe as a cooking implement, the next most authentic thing is a flat-bottomed cast iron griddle.
To whip up a batch, simply whisk a cup of cornmeal and a cup plus two tablespoons of boiling water. Allow the mixture to cool for 10 minutes while you heat up your cast iron skillet over medium heat and add a spoonful of oil. Pour the batter into six-inch circles and cook for 10 minutes. Flip with a metal spatula, cook for another eight to 10 minutes, and enjoy a plateful of authentic Americana.
Your cast iron skillet holds the secret to the best Southern fried chicken
Perhaps the best way to make Southern fried chicken is in your cast iron skillet — provided that your skillet has sides that are at least two inches tall. The reason is that cast iron is so good at retaining heat that your frying oil should not significantly drop in temperature when you add the chicken. In fact, cast iron skillets are sometimes referred to as "chicken fryers," according to Dummies, which suggests heating your frying oil to 375° Fahrenheit and using an instant-read thermometer to make sure it’s reached that level before you start frying (and retains that same temperature as you continue frying).
And when you’re done cooking, here’s something else to be happy about: cooking with oil at that temperature will add a layer of seasoning to your cast iron skillet (via Field Company).
Use your cast iron skillet for perfect steak every time
While steak lovers will endlessly debate the "best" and "only" way to make a proper steak, the fact is that you can’t go wrong using a cast iron skillet, according to LifeSavvy. Once it’s heated it will reliably retain its heat. And when you’re cooking steak, that matters a lot. Back in February 2021, Giada De Laurentiis blew the minds of fans of the "reverse sear" with an Instagram post explaining how she corrals the intense heat of a cast iron skillet to do everything a reverse sear does without opening the oven.
Simply massage olive oil and kosher salt onto both sides of a thick steak, heat your cast iron skillet to high, then add your steak and do absolutely nothing for three to five minutes. That’s how long it will take for the salt, oil, and meat proteins to develop the perfect crust, which is not only your express elevator to Maillard heaven, but also works to suspend the steak ever-so-slightly off the skillet’s surface.
Your cast iron is perfect for making smash-burgers
Lucky for burger lovers everywhere, Smashburger materialized in 2007, founded on the singular notion that burgers should be "smashed" into a patty shape with a spatula while cooking (via Smashburger). As it turned out, it’s not the squishing, per se, that is problematic, but doing so over a slatted grill. That has the effect of releasing precious juices into the flames, diminishing the taste while also risking flare-ups and burned meat. And for anyone who isn’t wedded to very-thick burger patties, there’s a lot to be said for smashing a burger — which simply cries out for the reliably super-hot surface of a well-heated cast iron skillet.
First, the less you handle your ground beef, the more tender the burger. Skipping the by-hand patty-forming process eliminates a lot of handling. Second, smashing the burger on the hot grill directly exposes more meat to the heat, resulting in a larger surface area undergoing the Maillard reaction, which bestows an inimitable nutty, savory caramelized flavor.
Use your cast iron skillet like a panini press
Since we’re on this topic of "pressing matters," we thought we’d share with you this genius use for your cast iron skillet — one which leverages the heft of cast iron, which came to us via America’s Test Kitchen. Just as you can use your cast iron skillet for smashing burgers, you can also use it for pressing paninis. However, for optimal results, you will actually need two cast iron skillets.
Start by coating a large, seasoned cast iron skillet with oil and heating it over medium-high heat. While it’s heating, make your sandwich. Assuming you’ve let your skillet get hot enough to toast bread, you’re now ready to place your assembled sandwich on the skillet. Now, take your second cast iron, coat the clean bottom with oil, and place it on top of your sandwich. After a few minutes, the bottom of your sandwich should be a toasty golden-brown. That’s when you should flip the sandwich over and repeat the process.
Cast iron makes indoor s’mores any time of year
It used to be that s’mores were a treat reserved for campfire season. Eventually, of course, people realized you could cheat your way to a s’more in the microwave, but since the process involved placing a cold sandwich into the microwave to melt, the process feels remote.
With a cast iron, however, you can have a s’mores-making experience that is as close to the campfire version as you can get without making an actual campfire. Simply lay your s’mores sandwiches onto a cold cast iron skillet, set the heat to medium, and watch as your s’mores come to life. If you want to use your cast iron to make s’mores for a crowd, preheat your oven to 450° Fahrenheit, break your chocolate into pieces, place them in your skillet, and top with marshmallows. Place in the oven for seven to nine minutes or until the marshmallows are golden brown. Serve with graham crackers for dipping.
A Dutch baby was meant to be cooked in a cast iron skillet
A Dutch baby is a "bready, buttery skillet full of deliciousness that when topped with fresh fruit and powdered sugar becomes a treat you and your (lucky) guests will long remember," according to Nathaniel Lee, the recipe developer who brought us this impeccable, surprisingly simple Dutch baby recipe. Technically, a Dutch baby is really just a crepe-like pancake (as opposed to a fluffy buttermilk pancake) that you cook in the oven without flipping. When done, it comes out lighter-than-air as a result of its high ratio of eggs to other ingredients.
While you could certainly make a Dutch baby in another oven-safe dish, the fact is that nothing compares to a Dutch baby cooked in a cast iron skillet. As Lee explained to Mashed, cast iron’s ability to retain heat evenly enables your Dutch baby to rise properly without burning its edges.
Your cast iron skillet is a perfect stand-in for a pie tin
If you want to bake a pie and you don’t have a pie pan on hand, you can certainly make do with one of those disposable pie tins you can find in your supermarket’s baking aisle. But disposable tins tend to be flimsy and are often too shallow to contain a bubbling filling. So, to avoid a massive oven cleanup, you’ll have to place your disposable tins on baking sheets, which also become part of your cleanup detail. So, does that mean you need to take up precious cupboard space with a designated pie pan?
Not if you have a cast iron skillet. Just make sure its diameter is consistent with your pie recipe (usually nine or 10 inches in diameter) so that you won’t have to make any adjustments for recipe volume or baking time, as America’s Test Kitchen advises.
Your cast iron skillet is the only thing you’ll have to clean after making a chocolate chip cookie "pie"
Baking chocolate chip cookies ordinarily requires, in addition to the mixing of the dough, a laborious process of dishing out dough onto multiple cookie sheets. You can skip most of that work by using your cast iron skillet to make a single, giant chocolate chip cookie. "Plus, the hot bottom and tall sides of a well-seasoned cast iron create a great crust on the cookie. And this treat can go straight from the oven to the table for a fun, hands-on dessert.
To make a cast iron skillet chocolate chip cookie, you can use any recipe for chocolate chip cookies, including this incredible one. According to Very Best Baking, you don’t need to make any recipe adjustments from your regular "cookie" recipe, but you do have to double your baking time.
Cast iron can quickly and safely thaw frozen meat
If it’s almost dinner time, and you just realized that you forgot to defrost your meat, your first thought might be to make use of the defrost setting on your microwave. While that’s a reasonable workaround, we have a much better one via America’s Test Kitchen. Simply place "thin, frozen cuts of meat in the skillet at room temperature and let them sit for an hour." Et voila, you’re ready to get cooking.
Cast iron is a brilliant conductor of heat, even at low temperatures. As your meat begins to defrost, the cast iron absorbs the rising temperature and holds onto it, rather than cooling off the way many other surfaces would, which then is absorbed back into the meat. As America’s Test Kitchen explains, "the rapid transfer of ambient heat from the metal to the food will quickly, safely thaw the meat."
You can use your cast iron as a double boiler
A double boiler refers to a system of two pots, one fitting onto the top of the other, allowing food placed into the upper pot to steam or melt gently as water boils below (via Web Restaurant Store). Double boilers are the preferred method for melting chocolate and are also ideal for creating delicate sauces such as Hollandaise.
However, if you have a cast iron skillet and a mason jar — or any other heat-proof bowl-like container, you don’t need an actual double boiler. Simply use your cast iron skillet — with its wonderful ability to retain and distribute heat — as the bottom pot. In many cases, you won’t need to put any water in it at all. Using a low to medium flame, heat the skillet and then place a smaller pot or saucepan right on the surface (via America’s Test Kitchen).
Your cast iron can double as a fondue pot
Cheese fondue, which was all the rage at dinner parties during the 1970s, is finally making a comeback in the U.S. But you don’t need a fondue pot to make your own cheese fondue — not if you have a cast iron skillet, says Culture.
Simply rub a garlic clove inside your cast iron skillet, then chop it and add it to the skillet along with one-third cup of dry white wine and one tablespoon of whiskey. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then slowly add eight ounces of grated cheese and two teaspoons of cornstarch. Stir constantly, lowering the heat if the mixture begins to boil. As soon as the cheese is melted, remove the skillet from the heat and place it on a heat-proof surface. The fondue will stay hot and melty thanks to your cast iron skillet’s ability to hold heat.
Turn your cast iron over and use it like a pizza stone
If you have a cast iron skillet, then you can make an authentic-tasting pizza even if you don’t own a pizza stone, according to The Atlantic. Preheat your oven, lining it first with a cookie sheet or aluminum foil for easy clean-up. Place your clean ungreased cast iron on your stovetop on high. While it’s preheating, assemble your pizza and slide it into your hot cast iron skillet. Cook in the oven according to your recipe’s directions.
You can also use your cast iron skillet to cook frozen pizza or to make your own French bread pizza, according to Lifehacker. For this, you’ll be turning your skillet over and using its underside. Preheat your oven while heating your cast iron skillet on your stovetop. When it’s good and hot, turn it over, place it on a cookie sheet in the oven (to limit cleanup), place your pizza on top, and bake.

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