As amazing as protective styles are it can be difficult to keep the roots of your hair including your hair line and edges free of damage after the install when it is not done properly.
Your only option will be to remove the style and nurse your hair back to health. We have all heard all the scary stories of missing hairlines when wearing our gorgeous hair extensions. This post wants to focus on how your can avoid damage all together.
If you wear your weaves or braids repetitively with no rest, you are going to immediately notice severe damage to your hairline.
Wearing weaves or braids, no matter the length add unnatural weight to your hair, and the fact hat your hairline and edges are the weakest part of your head, they are the first to show signs of damage.
If your install lasts more than 1 month and you get one almost immediately after, your hair line will start growing shorter and then slowly but surely it will start to recede. The moral of the story is, you should not wear your protective styles for too long. 8 weeks maximum.
To ensure your braids don't cause any damage, your number one job is to make sure your scalp and edges are correctly moisturized. Doing that will keep your hair from becoming dry and brittle, so deep condition your hair prior to your install.
Next, if you have been getting braids off and on for a long time, after about 3 installs start asking your beautician to leave out the very tips of your edges.
She might stick her nose up at this, but even if you take large amounts of breaks, your edges still have stress from braids from every install.
Another thing you will want to do is after you take your braids out, make sure you wash and style your hair in cornrows or twists for 1-3 days.
Because your hair has been pulled, styled, and manipulated for a month or more even while in braids, your roots might need some really good rest. No touching or styling.
If you have some hair left out, protect it every night! You would be surprised how damaging leaving your hair out at night can be if your hair if it is not wrapped in silk/satin. these material help you to retain moisture.
If your hair is braided all they way around, the best thing you can do after taking out an install is make sure to take a break. Your hair was in a great protective style, but it was under a lot of weight, and your hair was not able to get oxygen flow to breath.
Taking care of your hairline can be easy and painless by doing all the normal hair maintenance, and is very crucial to the state of being to your edges and hairline. Comment below and tell us your best tips for protecting your edges while wearing a protective style.
How about restoring the hairline in men and women?
Bingo! Neglect!!! People put in a protective style and think that's the end of it!
I would shave it bald.
umm protective styles shouldn't damage hair … hence the "protective" in the name. they don't know what they are doing and take a thing too far and ruin their hair.
This is the craziest oxymoron I've ever seen. This is why I don't believe in "protective styling". Just take care of your hair and you'll be ok. All this crap and terms people keep coming up with is unnecessary. Next thing, they'll tell you to turn upside down and your hair will grow faster…that's so dumb.
Um……believe it or not, people are actually doing that.
Good article. Nice writing from some one so young and talented! Keep up the good work Tyne!


The new season "The Office" has transformed boss Michael Scott into more a caricature of a boss than his previous sweet, but bumbling self. In fact, he seems to have ditched real life altogether and entered the realm of Homer Simpson antics. We compare Michael's recent actions with his animated counterpart.


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Wisconsin GOP Congressmen Silent on Cheney Vote
Republican opinion makers and voters may have definite opinions about the fate of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), but so far Wisconsin's representatives in Congress have remained silent.
The Republican Minority Leader in the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is planning on a vote for Wednesday on whether to remove Cheney as the House Republican Conference Chairman, the third most powerful position in the Republican Caucus. However, RightWisconsin inquiries from last week to Representatives Bryan Steil (R-WI1), Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI5), Glenn Grothman (R-WI6), Tom Tiffany (R-WI7) and Mike Gallagher (R-WI8) about how they plan to vote have gone unanswered.
The leadership vote is a secret ballot. However, a number of Republican congressmen have already publicly stated that they plan on voting for Cheney's opponent, Elise Stefanik (R-NY).
Wednesday's anticipated vote is the second attempt to remove Cheney from her leadership position after she voted for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol by his supporters to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Cheney has remained an outspoken critic of the former president and has called for an investigation into the riot of January 6. The investigation, if it takes place, would be embarrassing to McCarthy who could be compelled to testify under oath about his phone call to Trump asking the former president to "call off" the rioters who were attempting to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and actually threatened the safety of lawmakers attempting to certify the 2020 presidential election, including Vice President Mike Pence.
Stefanik, on the other hand, has a far-less conservative voting record. However, she is in lockstep with Trump on questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election and she opposed impeachment. Loyalty to the ex-president is "trumping" ideology, especially if it means one less person in Republican leadership calling for an investigation into the riot of January 6.
The silence of Wisconsin Republicans prior to Wednesday's vote is especially notable given Gallagher's previous statements of support for Cheney.
"Liz is a principled conservative and our most passionate advocate for American primacy," Gallagher said in a statement prior to the failed attempt in February to remove Cheney. "She is also unafraid to clearly state and defend her views even if they are unpopular. As we figure out where Republicans go from here, we need Liz's leadership. We must be a big tent party or else condemn ourselves to irrelevance."
Gallagher's silence ahead of the Cheney vote could be a sign that he is flip-flopping. If Cheney is losing one of her more vocal supporters, her leadership position could be in jeopardy.
Ironically, Gallagher was especially vocal on January 6 calling on Trump to end the violence.
That's in stark contrast to the records of Tiffany and Fitzgerald. As the smoke and tear gas cleared from the January 6 riot at the Capitol, both Tiffany and Fitzgerald sided with the rioters and voted in the dark of night to object to certifying votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Mahalakshmi Krishnamoorthy is a hospitalist at Memorial Healthcare System. She earned her medical degree in 2015 from the Canton Medical Education Foundation in Ohio. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Canton Medical Education Foundation and Northeast Ohio University.
Dr. Krishnamoorthy also participated in sub-internships at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and was a research affiliate for the department of medicine at National Jewish Health, also in Denver.
Before joining Memorial, Dr. Krishnamoorthy was a hospitalist at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami and JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida.


Transplanted from the younger, more modern, and hipper Siam Square, It's Happened to be a Closet brings its kitschy style and cozy cafe environment to the luxury malls of Bangkok. Can something so artsy, design oriented, and in your face work in a mall littered with high-end shops like Prada, Hermes, Gucci, etc?
When rounding the corner on the second floor of Emporium Shopping Center, IHTBAC immediately stands out amongst the international clothing stores normally found on the floor. The black exterior cafe front juts out into the pathway of the mall… combined with the accent colors and mismatched chairs, the store / cafe stands as a complete 180 of the normal clean, glass fronted shops found in the mall.
The store portion features varied designs from simple and basic to truly out there with prices ranging similarly. IHTBAC manages to keep the same slightly claustrophobic / mad-collector feel of the larger Siam Square space (down to the TV's blasting musicals). Neither Joanna or myself have done too much rooting through the clothing… however cool it might be, the sizes are all Asian.
IHTBAC is a welcome addition to Emporium to me. The food is good and it gives a different vibe to the otherwise slightly stuffy shopping center. Best of all is the opportunities for people watching. If you can snag a tabble outside in the mall you can sip a coffee and watch as clueless tourists rub elbows with high society Thais.
I love that place and the original one at Siam Lido.
But the clothes are outrageously expensive … for Thailand….
A must see shop though!
Not really a fan actually.
It's a beautifully-designed restaurant, just like their other location in Khao San Rd area (not sure if that one is still there as I haven't been for a while?) but food portions are small and prices are quite high, compared to similar restaurants in BKK.
And don't get me started on the clothing prices, LOL. Just like Carole said, outrageous. I tend to look, then shop and eat elsewhere.


The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports: "On 7/8/11, WY Wildlife Services confirmed a three calves injured by wolves on private property west of Cody, WY. On 7/10/11, USFWS and Wildlife Services confirmed 2 calves killed on the same property. On 7/13/11, control was completed when 2 wolves were removed near the depredation site."
On July 17, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department confirmed an adult cow killed by wolves on a public grazing allotment northwest of Dubois.
So far this year, 10 head of cattle, one sheep, and one dog were confirmed as killed by wolves. In response to these depredations, seven wolves were killed.


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That's because it theoretically causes a mild ketosis (yep, the basis of the keto diet), which is a fat-burning state that should make you feel less hungry. The key in being successful with a low-carb diet (especially if you're used to a more high-carb lifestyle) is to compensate for those lost carbs with protein-rich foods, says Dr. Cheskin. That way, your volume of food stays the same, but you're doing it healthfully rather than in a way that exacerbates your weight gain.
Any movement counts. The numbers are daunting: The 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans suggest a minimum of 150 minutes (2.5 hour) of moderate-intensity aerobic activity a week (walking briskly, playing doubles tennis, raking leaves), or 75 minutes (one hour, 15 minutes) of vigorous-intensity activity (running, a strenuous fitness class, carrying groceries up stairs), as well as muscle-strengthening activities (resistance training and weightlifting) two days a week. But if you want to lose weight, work up to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week, or 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity. "But doing something just a few minutes a day to get started has benefits," said Piercy. "So parking farther away when you're running errands, getting up from our desks and going down the hall instead of sending an email -- those are things people can start incorporating into their daily lives now that may be a little easier than saying, 'Oh my gosh, I have to figure out how to fit 2.5 hours of activity into my week." If you are starting from zero physical activity, Dr. Jakicic suggests taking a 10-minute walk five times a week, shooting for 50 minutes a week, and building on from there once it becomes habit.
If you've been eating fast food for years, get real about your approach: You're probably not going to stick to an organic, gluten-free, paleo overhaul for very long. "You want to change as little as possible to create calorie deficit," says Dr. Seltzer, who insists the best way to support sustainable weight loss is to incorporate small changes into existing habits. So instead of giving up your daily BLT bagels in favor of an egg-white wrap, try ordering your sandwich on a lighter English muffin. Or say you eat a snack bar every afternoon: Swap your 300-calorie bar for a 150-calorie alternative. "Your brain will feel the same way about it, so you won't feel deprived," he says.
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'Lastly, if your nutrition is on point but you still have excess tummy fat, then you need to look at your training. There's a real craze for high-intensity workouts and really pushing yourself at the moment, but training is a stress on the body, and if you're not giving it the tools to manage that stress and recover from it, then it can lead things like excess belly fat.
Watching that extra junk around your trunk turn your body into a full-blown Buddha belly puts you at an increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, and early death. Luckily, losing the weight doesn't have to take forever; with these 22 belly fat-fighting tips, you can shave two inches off your waistline in as little as two weeks. Think your age will stand in the way of your weight loss? The 20 Ways to Lose Your Belly When You're Older will help folks of any age get on track to their best body ever.
When it comes to food, there is evidence that men and women's brains are wired differently. In a study published in the January 2009 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, even though women said they weren't hungry when asked to smell, taste, and observe treats such as pizza, cinnamon buns and chocolate cake, brain scans showed activity in the regions that control the drive to eat (not the case for men).
Salads are the go-to diet food, you're probably thinking. How could they possibly keep me from losing weight? The problem is with what you put on the salad. "Salad items like nuts, fruits, some dressings and extras like croutons and cran-raisins, can actually add an extra 300-400 calories to the meal," says Angela Godwin, FNP-BC MSN, clinical instructor at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. "Instead, greens and proteins can make a salad more filling with less fat." Also, steer clear of "lite" salad dressings that secretly have high sugar content. Look out for these other weight-loss mistakes nearly everyone makes.
Sorry keto -- the Mediterranean diet is king. Endurance athletes and celebrities like LeBron James and the Kardashians have raved about the high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet -- which was among Google's most-searched terms this year. But Dr. Louis Aronne, an endocrinologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine who runs the Comprehensive Weight Control Center, noted that the Mediterranean diet "is the only diet that has been proven in trials to promote weight loss and reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases." This meal plan includes using olive oil rich in healthy omega-3 fatty acids as your main cooking oil, and loading your plate with fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean protein like fish and chicken, with the occasional piece of red meat. The American Heart Association recommends a similar diet that emphasizes whole, unprocessed foods, particularly fruits, veggies and whole grains, as well as low-fat dairy products, nuts and legumes, and non-tropical vegetable oils, while reducing salt, sugar and trans fats.
Satisfying your sweet tooth doesn't require a refined sugar-packed snack. The key is retraining your taste buds to recognize naturally sweet foods, like fruit. "To curb my hankering for treats, I eat mangoes," says Tamyala Ezell, who lost 105 pounds by making over her eating habits and working out three times a week. "They have a natural sweetness that does the trick. Plus, they're low in calories and high in fiber." Another example? "I top berries, nectarines, and cherries with homemade whipped cream, nuts, and dark chocolate," says Goetke.
Weight loss once again came in first place for New Year's Resolutions, sharing its spot with "becoming a better person." For a lot of us, becoming a better person starts with feeling better about ourselves. The start of a new year may be primetime to renew dedication to health and happiness, but periodic sprints of weight loss do not equate to wellness. That's why the best diet is the one you can sustain for the rest of your life.
Making a smoothie and ordering a smoothie at a shop are two very different things. When you make a smoothie yourself, you can measure the exact amount of fruit, swap water or almond milk for juice, and avoid any additional sweeteners. But many pre-made smoothies contain between 600 to 1,000 calories, on average, and are loaded with sugar. "An average height woman who is trying to lose weight is probably on a 1,200 to 1,400 calorie diet," Amidor says. "So consuming one smoothie with 1,000 calories can easily sabotage any weight loss efforts."
Jen Tallman never thought she would have the courage to pursue a career in fashion due to her size...until she dropped 110 pounds by reducing her caloric intake and picking up running. Now she works at Chanel. How does she resist the temptation to deviate from her newfound healthy habits when eating out with friends? She checks out the menu beforehand so she always knows her healthy options. Just make sure you know how to spot what's actually healthy—restaurants can have a knack for trying to make you think things are healthier than they are.
Rather than ""diet " consider "change in eating habits " identify vegetables that u are willing to eat as well as fruits. At meals eat a protein of choice and fill up on fruits and vegetables until u have eaten enough. You may also have one carbohydrate at each meal and drink any drink that is sugar free( seltzer, unsweetened herbal tea with lemon, coffee with cream) eat well and watch the pounds fall off! Gud luck
You know that recording what you consume is a good way to keep your weight in check, but Brittany Hicks, who dropped 110 pounds in college, didn't only write down what she ate—she also wrote down why she was eating it. "I realized I'd been using food to cope with stress," she says. "Just noticing that helped me do it less." Make sure you're not making these food journal mistakes so you can reap the rewards of eating and jotting, too.
"It's easy to become impatient and frustrated when you're trying to lose weight and haven't seen the results yet. But be realistic – you won't see the affect overnight. Your brain's wiring plays a huge part in resisting changes in lifestyle, and it takes time to establish new habits – up to 12 weeks. Stick with it for at least eight weeks and you should notice a change."
"What I don't like about any commercial diet is that the focus is not on your actual food choices," Hogan said. "It's about calories or points or numbers, and that really takes away from your ability to be in tune with your hunger cues and your fullness cues and what you're really craving. If we become more in tune with those things, we naturally consume how much the body needs. Paying too much attention to numbers takes away from that."
Those trans fats on your menu are hiding out in plain sight and sabotaging your lean belly plans every time you eat them. If a food product says it contains partially hydrogenated oils, you're eating trans fat, which can increase your risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, and obesity with every bite. In fact, research conducted at Wake Forest University reveals that monkeys whose diets contained eight percent trans fat upped their body fat by 7.2 percent over a six-year study, while those who ate monounsaturated fat gained just a fraction of that amount. Instead of letting harmful trans fat take up space on your menu, fill up with the 20 Healthy Fats to Make You Thin.
Using a layered approach is another great way to build a good veggie habit. For example, start with a food you already enjoy — say, pasta — and layer some veggies into your bowl. This can help you explore a new food with one you already love eating, and from there, you can try new ways to savor it. Take spinach, for instance. After trying it with pasta, you may want fold it into an omelet or another favorite food, or explore it on its own with different cooking techniques (sautéed or steamed) or different flavor additions (garlic or golden raisins). The possibilities are limitless!
"I have one heck of a sweet tooth, and so I have to refuse to bring candy, cake, or sweets into the house, period," say Lin Williams, who's lost 105 pounds. Instead, if she wants a treat she has to want it bad enough to get up, get in the car, leave her home, and go to the store—a process that rarely feels worth it. And on the rare occasion she does indulge? "I get exactly what I want and enjoy every bite of it!" she says.
Did bikini season sneak up on you? Is your soon-to-be worn wedding dress still just a touch too tight? Did a last-minute invite for a beach getaway come your way? You're a lucky dog – and a panicked one too because you want to drop pounds, and fast. These 10 diets are likely to help you lose significant weight within a year, according to a panel of experts who reviewed 41 plans for the U.S. News Best Diets rankings. Just remember: Short-term weight loss is markedly different from long-term weight loss, which is more important for your health.
Having support is very important with weight loss. If everyone can get on board, it will be easier to achieve your goals. Talk to your family (or friends, roommates, etc) before starting your diet and let them know your plan. Explain why you are making this decision and ways they can help you succeed. Even if they do not change with you, that's okay! Go forward with your plan! They may decide to join you once they see you succeed with weight loss.
"My dad is like a food-pushing wizard, he's always pulling stuff out of his pockets or showing up with delicious food," says Mary Mock. While the family tradition of surprise sweets was fun, when it came time to lose weight, she knew she had to put a stop to all that temptation. "At first, he seemed hurt when I kept saying no but when I explained it was for my health, he got on board. Sometimes I still have to remind him though!" she says.
You already know that a perfect diet doesn't exist, but many of us still can't resist the urge to kick ourselves when we indulge, eat too much, or get thrown off course from restrictive diets. The problem: This only makes it more difficult, stressful, and downright impossible to lose weight. So rather than beating yourself up for eating foods you think you shouldn't, let it go. Treating yourself to about 200 calories worth of deliciousness each day — something that feels indulgent to you — can help you stay on track for the long-haul, so allow yourself to eat, breathe, and indulge. Food should be joyful, not agonizing!
Losing belly fat shouldn't mean strict dieting or deprivation. "People often think that you have to eat certain foods or avoid certain foods [to lose weight] and in reality, it comes down to eating more of a balanced diet that is portion- and calorie-controlled," says Zeratsky. "This allows your body to have enough energy to do what it wants to do while managing weight."
Make sure that the diet has been studied extensively for safety — and discuss any changes with your physician or registered dietitian before beginning a new diet. (If you don't have a dietitian, find one in your area at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics website.) And do a self-check to ensure the diet fits with your own values and preferences.
What can I eat on a no-carb diet? Many people reduce carbohydrate intake to help them lose weight. Carbohydrates are important macronutrients, but cutting them can help people to lose weight by making it possible to reduce calories and improve feelings of fullness. Alternatives to carbs can make it easier to stick to a low-carb diet. Learn more here. Read now
Many television ads are now pitching devices that supposedly stimulate muscles to contract repeatedly without exercise. I even saw an infomercial for an "ab belt" that claimed it does the work of 700 sit-ups in 10 minutes! The ad shows people doing various abdominal exercises the wrong way, hating every second of it, versus smiling men and women going about their days with "Ab-whatevers" strapped around them. How enticing!
If you can keep up motivation and accountability without the assistance of an app or a like-minded community, the book should give you all necessary tools. While we weren't floored by Mayo's online offerings, the app does have one cool feature (if you can get it to work): Enable your camera to eyeball the correct size of any food item in comparison to a virtual baseball, hockey puck, set of dice.
If figuring out what to put into your body is too overwhelming, start with how much you're serving yourself. The easiest way to do this? Swap out your plates for smaller ones, like mother of two Jeanenne Darden did. With the help of this trick, she managed to lose an amazing 22 percent of her body weight, going from 187 pounds to 146 pounds. "I ate normally," she says. "I just ate less of everything." Pro tip: This trick is even easier with some cute portion-control dishware.
If you're routinely skimping on the recommended seven to nine hours, or you have difficulty falling or staying asleep, it's time to get serious about your bedtime rituals. Your better-sleep strategy includes: limiting caffeine past the early afternoon; sticking to alcohol caps of one drink for women, two for men (since alcohol can interfere with the quality of your sleep); and staying off the phone and iPad within an hour of bedtime.
Food labels can help you lose weight, if you know how to read them. Everyday Health says it's important to pay attention to serving size, calories (and calories from fat), fats, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, protein, and vitamins and minerals. Then, you can make smarter food choices like picking up a water-packed tuna rather than oil-packed, which can cut significant calories.
Processed foods are one of the biggest sources of salt in Americans' diets—and the scary part is you probably don't even realize it. Because of the way these addictive foods are formulated, salt is hidden in everything from soups to pasta sauces to even sweet things like boxed cakes. Swap out processed foods in favor of fresh fare and your tummy will thank you. Not only will you lose the salt-bloat but you'll also lose the extra empty calories and lose weight. Learn about these 50 more ways you can lose weight without a lick of exercise.
This is what's known as insulin resistance. Basically, when your body doesn't respond well to insulin, it actually makes more of the stuff, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. And that can lead to fat storage, especially around the middle of your body. That's where protein comes into play: A diet high in protein may protect you against insulin resistance, says Aronne.
Markwald, R. R., Melanson, E. L., Smith, M. R., Higgins, J., Perreault, L., Eckel, R. H., & Wright, Jr., K. P. (2013, April 2). Impact of insufficient sleep on total daily energy expenditure, food intake, and weight gain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(14), 5695–5700. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619301/
Consider them "good carbs". Their bulk takes up space in your stomach, helping you feel full and eat less. The top fiber food: beans, which contain 8g per 1/2 cup. Research shows that guys who added 12g of fiber a day to their diet lost a quarter of an inch from their love handles, without otherwise modifying their diet. Here are some of the best sources.
If you're allergic or sensitive to a certain ingredient and continue eating it, you're likely to struggle with losing weight. The food is triggers inflammation, as your body fights against it. As you continue eating the same food that's making you ill, the inflammation continues, making you a lot more susceptible to extra pounds and other health issues.
The most important thing when it comes to weight-loss plans is to view them as a tool rather than a set of restrictions. If you don't like one of the exercises or want to substitute one ingredient for another, go for it. As soon as a weight-loss plan becomes a weight around your neck, your motivation and dedication will take some serious knocks, so making sure the plan suits you is your best chance of success.
When you eat foods that are low- or no-fat, other ingredients are added in so that the food tastes like its full-fat counterpart. Those extra ingredients don't add in the nutrients that have been stripped away, however, so you end up craving more because, despite the fact that you just ate, your body is still lacking in the vital nutrients it needs. You end up eating more calories than you would have if you'd just eaten the full-fat product.
Very low levels of thyroid hormone usually indicate an autoimmune reaction to the thyroid gland itself. This means you'll have to take thyroid hormone supplements orally, usually the stable form T4 (Levaxin), which your doctor can prescribe for you. Your body will transform this into the active T3 hormone when necessary. The supplement dose should be adjusted so that you reach normal hormone levels (TSH, T3, T4) and sufficiently alleviate symptoms – though a few people feel best when keeping TSH slightly below normal.


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Shadow Police Minister Guy Zangari and State Labor candidate for Tweed Craig Elliot.
Tweed a crime mecca as shadow minister demands more police
by Rick Koenig
2nd Oct 2018 12:44 PM
SHADOW Police Minister Guy Zangari has condemmed Tweed MP Geoff Provest for failing to protect the community amid an ongoing crime spree.
In the past week alone, the Tweed Shire has become a crime mecca as police struggle to keep up with an increased amount of pursuits, assaults, weapon offences and car thefts.
Last Monday, Tweed City Shopping Centre was sent into lockdown after a dangerous cross-border pursuit ended in the arrest of four teenagers.
On Thursday, a group of men were arrested in Kingscliff after a gun and machete was found in their car, while a driver died that same night after engaging in a police pursuit which was called off before the man crashed into a tree.
Then on Friday, a police officer was assaulted and grabbed by the testicles during a violent arrest with an alleged car thief.
Last week, The NSW Police Association said pedophiles were being left unmonitored in the Tweed and slipping off the radar completely while calling on the State Government to employ at least 30 additional officers in the Tweed.
Today, Mr Zangari said enough was enough and there was "no point in having a shiny new police station unless you have enough police".
The flash new police station at Tweed Heads. Contributed
"The government needs to have an appropriate strategy to keep its residents and the people who come to visit safe at all times, you can't have proactive policing when the current police are so hamstrung," he said.
"What we have here is a lack of investment in police in the Tweed Byron District as the thin blue line protecting our communities is expected to do more with less."
Mr Zangari said police would be provided with "better resources" under a Labor government.
"We're working on a policy right now to look at better resourcing for police and more support for their mental health," he said.
"A whole police package we will announce very soon and we look forward to announcing more resources in the not too distant future."
State Labor candidate for Tweed Craig Elliot said the first step to "address the crime spree engulfing the Tweed" was to restore frontline services.
"As a former frontline police officer, I know that extra officers make for a safer community and more police pro-actively patrolling our suburbs means residents will be safer in their homes and that's why I'm backing the blue," he said.
Mr Provest has been contacted for comment.
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USA soldiers vanish after discovering ancient machine
Abductions, Conspiracies
In Afghanistan, an incredible discovery has been found. Deep inside a cave, eight United States soldiers made their way inside never to be found again. These soldiers were apparently on a scouting mission. The discovery they made inside is known as a vimana.
This word has a number of meanings, which range from temple or palace to a mythological flying machine that was described in Sanskrit epics. These machines are believed to have been used in wars both by sea and air.
There is an estimation about this discovery, mentioning the vimana hidden inside this cave has been there for 5,000 years. The device is said to have some type of energy barrier preventing troops from removing it.
The entire incident is certainly questionable, however many world leaders of the western world have been making trips to Afghanistan in hopes to learn more. This is a red flag, because most likely the military forces will want to harness its power for warfare, which is the last thing we need right now in the world. With sudden interest in this story, it has been floating around the internet recently. Military scientists explained this machine as being entrapped inside what is known as a "time well".
No further report has been made yet, about the eight missing military soldiers. More than likely, this will be swept under the rug and covered up with some other type story. After reading the Sanskrit, the Mahabharata is now known to be measured as being twelve cubits in its circumference.
This vimana machine also has four wheels attached to it, which are quite strong by their appearance. A projectile type weapon seems to be one of its abilities. Another reading mentions, this deadly machine has a shaft of light which when focused upon any target—it will consume it with its power.
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Perhaps the most interesting thing about these said reports, are that they were just recently discovered. However, this may not be the case. From the ancient writings which were found inside the cave—the rightful owner is believed to be a prophet named Zoroaster.
They are known to be a leader, practicing an ancient religion known as Zoroastrianism. The religion is considered one of the oldest religions on Earth, by the Iranian people from exalting their deity of wisdom known as Ahura Mazda which means "Wise Lord". The belief is, that this was a supreme being of some sort and only the truly faithful dedicated themselves.
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and the summer coming closer, we wanted to make things a lot easier. What if you could just lay down, grab a beer or a glass of wine and still learn quite a lot?
That's why we decided to share the most inspiring marketing kings on Youtube according to us. This way you can just watch and learn, without any efforts. Great, isn't it?
"Gary Vaynerchuk is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling author, self-taught wine expert, and serial entrepreneur.
Within a year of YouTube popping up, I knew it would be an incredibly powerful platform. Armed with a Flipcam and a NY Jets bucket, I started Wine Library TV in 2006 to share my knowledge and passion for wine with a community that desperately needed a fresh voice. It wasn't long before 100,000 people were watching my videos every day (shout-out to my Vayniacs – love you guys).
We really love Vaynerchuck's down to earth way of teaching a lot of useful things. Gary is the man that helps you to build your business into a successful one.
With his knowledgeable keynotes, interviews and The #AskGaryVee show, he answers all your questions about marketing, social media and entrepreneurship!
program for marketing managers, business owners and entrepreneurs. All the video's are about useful subjects like SERPs, linkbuilding, the Google algorithm, headings and meta descriptions.
If you want to learn a lot about SEO, on an average level of difficulty, this is the place to be!
"Since the advent of the commercial internet, Stephen Woessner has collected tens of thousands of data points that have given him the ability to identify what he calls the 8 Money Draining Mistakes. These are the things that literally cause a website to leak serious money…every day. Stephen teaches companies and organizations how to fix them…and how to fix them immediately.
Woessner provides his youtube channel of a lot of useful interviews with marketing experts and entrepreneurs and some of his own short tips and tricks.
With his expertise in predictive ROI, he helps you to understand the world of doing business and making money!
"Create distinction for your organization — and yourself — to grow your business in today's cluttered marketplace!
Discover how to stand out, move up in any situation, improve retention, enhance profts, increase sales and create more compelling connections between you and your customers regardless of the economic climate in your industry.
With his "Daily Dose of Distinction" video's, McKain is a big inspiration for many business owners. He shares his own tips and tricks to make your business stand out!
If want to find a way to distinguish from your competitors, this channel is definitely a good inspiration!
Believe that you can achieve it. Have the confidence to know that if you think you can achieve it, you can.
Believe that it will happen. Have the conviction to follow through. Trust that if you see only darkness around you, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I believe in entrepreneurs. It's why I created this web-site. I believe in you. Make something remarkable happen.
Carmichael shares a lot of inspirational videos for entrepreneurs, you could see him as some sort of motivational speaker.
He is definitely one of our favorites because of his passion and diversity in every video he makes. Want to know more about must read books, interviews and lessons to success? Just watch for yourself!
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This week for Anime Sunday I'm going to cover my most anticipated series's first episode. It's my Tales of Zestiria Episode 00 Impressions!
Plot: I'm not going to do a synopsis as I included one in my review of the game and I've linked it above. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I have to say that I was really impressed by ufotable's decision to cover something that isn't covered in the game. This episode, and the episode after, cover the events leading up to the first fifteen minutes of the game. It's great to see what happened to Alisha to bring her to Izuchi and we got to see my favorite character in the game for a few seconds. As for plot pacing I'm not at all concerned about it skipping over important details, if anything I'm worried that the entire game might not get covered in this adaptation. We may end up getting later seasons to complete the story, after all we have two more letters after the "X" in the title, so I'm hoping I'm guessing right. Either way though the pacing is excellent.
Characters: We really only get introduced to Alisha and Lunarre in this first episode, although we get a few cameo's from other characters (including a very surprising one in the opening animation sequence at the end of the episode). I don't like Alisha as a character all that much, but it's good to see the reasons why she was where she was at the start of the game. We haven't gotten introduced to the rest of the cast yet, but trust me when I say that it will only get better.
Art: The art of this first episode reminded me of the game with every shot and it's very hilarious that it does because I specifically said back in my review of the game over half a year ago that it was like playing a game animated completely by ufotable. This single episode portrays all the reasons why I consistently say that ufotable is the best Anime studio out there, bar none. Not even Ghibli can come close to the action sequences that ufotable animates almost always flawlessly.
Music: In addition to the music reminding me of the game at every shot, every track in the score did as well. As for the new material, the opening and ending themes, they are both excellent as well.
Overall: An amazing adaptation of a Video Game, something that is so very rarely done properly. Definitely a must watch for any Anime fan.
For those who like: Action, Adventure, Drama, Tales of Games, ufotable, Excellent Plot, Amazing Cast of Characters, Fantastic Artwork, Stupendous Music.


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Will 'Mr. Mercedes' Season 3 Conclude the Series? [TCA 2019]
Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 by Fred Topel
Audience Networks' Mr. Mercedes returned for a third panel for the Television Critics Association. The show is based on Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy, with the third season adapting the second book in the series. Mr. Mercedes director Jack Bender and cast members were on the panel to discuss the new season.
Season 3 adapts Finders Keepers, the middle book in King's trilogy. It introduces Morris Bellamy (Gabriel Ebert), a thief who ends up killing author John Rothstein (Bruce Dern) in a robbery. Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) is on the case.
Bender and Ebert discussed the third season of Mr. Mercedes, including the mysteries of whether Mr. Mercedes (Harry Treadaway) himself is really gone and how much Dern will actually appear. Season three premieres September 10 on Audience Network.
8 Pockets of the Stephen King Multiverse to Explore After 'Castle Rock', from Netflix and Hulu to Books and More
Posted on Monday, September 24th, 2018 by Joshua Meyer
Stephen King recently celebrated his 71st birthday and if you tuned into Castle Rock — Hulu's streaming television series based on characters and settings from the world of King — you might have been going through withdrawals since the show's finale. For fans eager to get caught up in the mania of another mystery-driven show like Lost or Twin Peaks, Castle Rock scratched a very specific itch, getting its hooks into Redditors and inspiring articles likening King to the Charles Dickens of the 21st century.
The effect that Castle Rock had on me is that it made me want to go back and rediscover King's stories across all forms of media, including but not limited to movies. This ranking of the many movies adapted from King's books is a good guide for those who want to go down that particular rabbit hole; but in the same way that Castle Rock teased the existence of other realities beyond the one its characters inhabited, there's a wide world of King content out there and it doesn't look to be letting up its expansion anytime soon.
As it turns out, the Stephen King renaissance extends well beyond movies to a vast multiverse of multimedia, everything from books to audiobooks to comic books and other streaming TV shows and streaming movies. Most of these stories work as standalone narratives but taken as parts of a whole, they also further enrich and enhance each other. Let's venture off the beaten path of theatrical releases and dive deep into eight other corners of the Stephen King multiverse.
TV Bits: 'The Goldbergs', 'Lost in Space', 'Mr. Mercedes', 'Dear White People' and More
Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista
In this edition of TV bits:
ABC Orders The Goldbergs Spinoff
Netflix is already planning Lost In Space season 2
Ian Somerhalder will star in Netflix's vampire drama Series
Mr. Mercedes season 2 coming in August
A Little Help with Carol Burnett has a premiere date
HBO will make a documentary about John McCain
Showtime and Bad Robot are producing a James Corden pilot
The trailer for Dear White People season 2
'Mr. Mercedes': How The Stephen King Series Can Continue [TCA 2017]
David E. Kelly and Lost director Jack Bender have adapted Stephen King's book Mr. Mercedes as a series for Audience Network. King has written three books featuring Bill Hodges, the retired detective played by Brendan Gleeson on Mr. Mercedes. Chris Long, Head of Audience Network, told the Television Critics Association he hopes to produce multiple seasons to cover subsequent books.
"Obviously we have to see how it performs, but that is the plan," Long said. "I think the plan is to go into the other two books."
'Mr. Mercedes' Trailer: Stephen King Adaptation Will Be An AT&T Original Series…Seriously
Posted on Thursday, July 13th, 2017 by Hoai-Tran Bui
It seems like even cellular networks are getting into the TV streaming game. And surprisingly, AT&T looks like it has a pretty solid first offering.
Stephen King's hardboiled 2014 detective novel Mr. Mercedes will be adapted into an AT&T original series, with reputable names behind and in front of the camera, including Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley as showrunner and Brendan Gleeson as the star. And the recently released Mr. Mercedes trailer suggests that this unusual project is shaping up to be quite good.


As for the Olduvai thing, I think the timing is too precise to be true, but the general idea (overshoot) seems to stand. Since last saturday (08/21), humans are consuming resources the ecosystem doesn't have, which means we are using 150% of available resources this year.
Yes, the timing seems a little too specific. But peak oil and peak natural gas do seem to have been reached. The idea that we're only not noticing the effects of this because prices dropped in the economic downturn is worrying. As is the idea that 'they' have developed some amazing new power sources which will only be unveiled at the right moment. If we're relying on 'them' doing that, I think we might end up disappointed.
One amazing thing 'we' can develop without waiting for 'their' silver bullet is energy conservation. If 'we' don't develop it, it will be forced on us by power cuts.
I think this issue can shape your choice of flat as you seemed to be looking into that. We did, and cut our LNG consumption by 2 thirds.
True. Our energy company always gives us very interesting stats about consumption and also the source of the energy (if it's renewable, etc). We're pretty good with gas and water. Electricity, not as good but we're getting better.
If you went to bookshops you'd have met the local journalist Gabriel Pernau who cycled to China on a fixed wheel. I got as far as the Serbian border.
Luckily, I can buy as many far-fetched, breast-obsessed Swedish fantasy detective novels as I like online. Though not from Amazon (anti-union, you know).
The latest novel from Irvine Welsh is no bad, I reckon.


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Igor's Adventures With The Mad Scientist
Published by Core Games
There are all manner of jobs out there, and some of them are never advertised in the local newspaper. Here's an interesting one - assistant wanted. Apply at the castle. It seems there's a scientist of questionable sanity building some monsters, and he wants a helping hand.
Your task is to assemble these creatures by pushing the various parts together and then activating the power supply. This is hampered somewhat by the various obstacles, conveyor belts, teleporters, turntables, creatures and rapidly growing plantlife in the eighty laboratories you'll be working in. Three different robots can appear to aid in your task. The game runs not in real time but in turns or moves. Try to solve each level in as few moves as possible.
Controls are very simple. The easiest way to control "Igor" is with the arrow keys (though you can also click with the mouse to tell him where to go). Numbers 1-4 switch between him and any robots on the level. It can take a little while to adjust to which direction each arrow key corresponds to and there can be a slight delay between movements, due to other objects in the level also moving.
If there's any area that "Igor's Adventures" fails to live up to expectations, it could be the game graphics. Many objects, including Igor himself, seem rather basic and could use a little extra animation. The turn-based nature of the game limits what can be done, but animation is rather more rapid than expected and the occasional delays as other things move can make you think you haven't moved when you have. It is easy to slip a square too far and ruin a level. Ironically, adding some extra animation frames between moves may ease this.
Sound effects accompany most actions (including Igor as he shoves those tables around!) and there's a little title music as well, plus some ambient background noise in the main game which sounded remarkably like the Mad Scientist was trying to tune a radio. Here too there could be some more (optional) music or background noise. Dripping water? Random thunder?
Igor's Adventures is very playable - though there is no undo feature as such, one can save or restore one's game (restoring a saved game sees Igor zipping through the earlier moves in fast forward!). Your aim is to match or beat the high score set by Core Games, though you can advance by completing a level in any number of moves. There are plenty of game elements to vary things - mixing chemicals, for instance, produces a range of effects and there are plenty of ways that plants, rats and zombies can help or hinder. A good way to learn is to try things out in the level editor.
Eighty monsters sounds like a lot, and should last you a long time, but they may pass faster than you expect. Fortunately, as well as the level editor, there are expansion packs available. With no timers, no pressure and no need to solve all the levels in order (solve enough and you'll open up the next batch) you can play with Igor as long as you want to.
Games where you shove things around and solve puzzles by logic are far from original, but Igor's Adventures applies a certain style to the concept. Though the content may be slightly underdeveloped, the game beneath is solid and well balanced. I like it. Chess-minded people will enjoy it. Anyone needing to flex their brain should try it.
Published on 21 Jul 2006
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From the Magazine Magazine
January– February 2011
Feral horses are out of control in the American West, laying waste to vast tracts of wildlife habitat and imperiling native species. What's worse, the public seems determined to keep it that way.
By Ted Williams
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A "gather" at a Bureau of Land Management site in Wyoming. In some areas, there are at least three times as many horses as the habitat can support. Photo: Matt Slaby
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The blizzard I'd driven through 18 hours earlier had left southwestern Wyoming shrouded in fog, grounding the two helicopters that would herd "wild horses" into the mouth of a big funnel trap of rock outcroppings, cloth fences, and metal gates fashioned by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) contractor, Cattoor Livestock Roundup Inc. At noon I could see the sun's outline, and 15 minutes later the high desert was clear, revealing its adobe-colored rock strata and gray, brown, and purple canyons, buttes, and mesas that stretched 40 miles to a cloud bank still hanging over Colorado.
In the sunlight and freshening wind the habitat's fragility became more apparent. I hiked across badlands of shale and polished stones, over sparse shrubs, thin, widely spaced clumps of grasses and forbs, and dry dirt that crumbled and sailed aloft. Ancient, scraggly junipers dotted the hills. Pronghorns and mule deer browsed the valleys. Less than seven inches of precipitation a year isn't unusual here, and that precipitation may come in two rainstorms, so it doesn't do much good. A week earlier nearby Sandy Creek had been a raging torrent. On this day it was cracked mud.
A helicopter appeared on the southern horizon—a black speck, rising and falling like a hoverfly. An hour later I saw dust rising from the first band of horses. Finally, white and black ears and manes topped a sage-lined ridge. The BLM's controversial October 2010 roundup, or "gather," as it prefers, was under way on its 1,618,624-acre Adobe Town-Salt Wells horse management complex.
The Obama administration has dared to tell the truth about feral horses. In October 2009 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that horses were "out of control" and creating a "huge problem." In what came to be called the Salazar Initiative, he proposed aggressive action, including, but not limited to, transplanting horses to large preserves in the Midwest and East. But when Salazar floated the idea at a June 14, 2010, public meeting in Denver, he got eaten alive by literally hundreds of feral-horse groups, which called his proposed reserves "Salazoos." Save for a few non-controversial, ineffective, and ongoing strategies like skewing sex ratios by releasing more stallions, he abandoned his initiative.
Because horses are the only ungulates in North America with solid hooves and meshing teeth, they are particularly destructive of native vegetation. Audubon Wyoming director and Rocky Mountain regional vice president Brian Rutledge worries especially about sage grouse and the whole sagebrush ecosystem. "Sage grouse [endangered in fact if not by official decree] fed the eastward movement of the Native Americans and the westward movement of European Americans," he says. "Now we expect them to tolerate our fragmentation of their ecosystem and the decimation of its plant life by a feral domestic animal. Sadly, we have become a culture that longs to make its decisions without information."
A feral horse is a far greater threat to native ecosystems than a cow. When grass between shrubs is gone cows move on; horses stomp the shrubs into the dirt to get the last blade. What's more, when cattle deplete forage they're moved to new allotments, and they're taken off the range in winter. But horses pound vegetation all year. And because horses live on range incapable of consistently sustaining them they sometimes starve and, in the process, cause the starvation of such sensitive desert creatures as sage grouse, bighorn sheep, Gila monsters, pronghorns, and desert tortoises. Not only will horses beat springs and seeps into mud holes, they'll stand over them, running off wild ungulates, people, and even sage grouse.
The feral-horse lobby dismisses these facts as fiction concocted by the BLM on behalf of the cattle industry. For example, Ginger Kathrens, founder and director of the Cloud Foundation (which takes its name from a feral horse she calls Cloud), contends that the BLM is purposefully concealing the reality that feral horses are good for what ails the earth. "We call them 'the green horses' because they have so many benefits to the land," she told Friends of Animals, which, along with her foundation, sponsored a "March for Mustangs" in Washington, D.C., last March 25.
The BLM won't let horse numbers on the Adobe Town-Salt Wells complex get much lower than its bottom-line AML (appropriate management level) of 861. It does, however, let numbers get much higher—the population had ballooned to about 2,500. AMLs are created with a little data and a lot of guesswork. They're supposed to take into consideration the needs of wildlife, yet in lots of cases the BLM has no way of knowing what those needs are, as I discovered when BLM supervisory range management specialist Andy Warren led me on an inspection of Adobe Town habitat. Warren pointed out lots of less nutritious forage like saltgrass and wheatgrass. Horses, cattle, sheep, and wildlife will eat it, but they prefer grasses like basin wildrye, Indian ricegrass, needle and thread, and bottlebush squirreltail—species fading from the scene at least in part because of overgrazing by horses and livestock.
Eight years ago the BLM analyzed the area's copious horse droppings, finding high shrub content. That meant horses were competing more than imagined with deer and pronghorns. But that was during a drought. "We redid the study in 2007 and 2008, when conditions were better, thinking we'd see a change back to more grasses," said Warren. "We didn't. Horses still select for about 50 to 75 percent shrubs." The AML, hatched back in 1994, has never been amended to take this into account.
The mantra from feral-horse activists is that horses are being removed to make room for more cattle. But here the reverse is happening. Cattle and sheep are being taken off public land for a number of reasons, not the least of which is its degraded condition. "If we were taking normal full use of horses and livestock, we'd have about one-third sheep, one-third cattle, and one-third horses," Warren said. "Now it's something like 60 percent horses, 20 percent sheep, and 20 percent cattle."
By the time you read this the gather will have evened that ratio. But not for long. It was only eight years ago that the BLM removed 2,400 horses, and its failure to maintain proper AML populations here and on 14 other horse management areas in Wyoming got it sued by the state's attorney general. The result was a 2003 consent decree for prompt, effective action, but with the BLM's finite resources there's no such thing. There's no quantifiable data on impacts to wildlife in the gather area. Some people say they see less. Numbers of elk and mule deer are thought to be at management objectives. Pronghorns, which mix more with horses, are under. The only thing above objective is horses.
That worries Steve DeCecco, regional wildlife supervisor for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. "In southwest Wyoming there's an overabundance of horses," he told me. "What's alarming to us is that we've also had many years of drought, and habitat has taken a hit. Our pronghorn populations south of Interstate 80 are below objective. Some of those areas have traditionally provided trophy hunting, attracting people from all over the country. They're just not productive anymore, and they overlap with important sage grouse core areas that we've identified as needing extra attention so we can avoid listing [under the Endangered Species Act]."
Feral horses—a.k.a., "mustangs," from the Spanish mestengo for "stray animals"—are, as their many advocates note, "wild and free" and "icons of the West." When their ribs aren't protruding because of disease or malnourishment they are, by popular standards, "beautiful," as celebrated horse photographer Carol Walker establishes in her book Wild Hoofbeats: America's Vanishing Wild Horses. They are not, however, "vanishing." Because Americans prevailed on Congress to outlaw effective management 40 years ago, feral-horse numbers are increasing 20 percent to 30 percent annually. With alien species and feral livestock (mustangs are both), "wild and free" is catastrophic for people, wildlife, and the feral aliens themselves.
But some horse lovers—especially those in the East—can't grasp this. Consider the response to my first piece on feral horses ("Horse Sense," Incite, September-October 2006), in which I let wildlife professionals do the talking. Nothing I have written in 31 years of reporting for Audubon has elicited more hate mail. Although I presented scientific data from states blighted by feral horses (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming), feral-horse activists divined that I was "grossly misinformed," "vitriolic," "an apologist" for the cattle industry, "a raging lunatic," and consumed by "hatred of horses." But biologists, botanists, and other wildlife advocates were unanimous in thanking Audubon for daring to publish facts most of the public doesn't want to know.
What has changed since 2006? I put that question to Tice Supplee, director of bird conservation for Audubon Arizona. "The horse people are winning," she said. She reminded me that I'd reported how the Animal Welfare Institute, In Defense of Animals, and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Wild Burros had convinced a federal judge to temporarily enjoin the Forest Service from rounding up 400 domestic horses that had recently escaped from an Indian reservation and were nuking elk habitat in Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. The plaintiffs contended that the horses might have Spanish blood and were therefore potential historical artifacts that should remain on the landscape. Shortly after my article appeared, the Conquistador Equine Rescue and Advocacy Program sued the Forest Service, and, to borrow Supplee's word, it "caved." The agency agreed to set up a "management plan" for the escaped horses and not to reduce their numbers until that plan was completed—possibly in 2012. The horse management area the animals currently crowd and degrade was established almost four decades ago because seven other horses were seen on it. The Forest Service even knew what rancher had abandoned them.
When I asked the Conquistador Equine Rescue and Advocacy Program's president, Pat Haight, how she knows the escaped horses have Spanish blood, she said: "Because [U.S. Cavalry] General Crook's trail follows [conquistador] Coronado's trail, and some of the old timers up there have talked to their grandfathers about it. I'm not going to get into a debate over it with you. I have Spanish horses, and I know their colors." Not only are the genetics of these and other feral horses unknown, they are irrelevant. Alien is alien. Asian bittersweet, for example, is wild and free and beautiful, but we don't preserve it on the landscape as an "icon of colonial America" simply because it has infested our continent since 1736.
It's not as if the feral-horse activists weren't winning before 2006. With the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971 Congress banned lethal control. In addition, it placed all unrestrained, unclaimed horses and burros under the care of the federal government, primarily the BLM, and gave it the task of managing an alien species so as "to achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance." That task is, of course, impossible. No alien species can thrive or even exist in "natural ecological balance." And, in our predator-impoverished land, even native ungulates can't be managed without lethal control.
In 2004, with feral horses proliferating in the wild and in BLM holding facilities, Congress amended the act, stipulating that excess horses "shall be made available for sale without limitation" and directing the agency to euthanize animals more than 10 years old or that had been unsuccessfully offered for adoption at least three times. But intimidated by the feral-horse lobby, the BLM declined to euthanize and all but blocked purchases by making customers sign a "statement of intent" that they wouldn't sell the animals for slaughter. Therefore the "BLM is not in compliance with the act," charges a scathing, 88-page report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008.
Even if the BLM dared to obey the law, it lacks the money and manpower to control feral horses. In 2007 the agency spent $38.8 million rounding up and holding horses; in 2010 it spent $63.9 million; and for 2011 it has budgeted $75.7 million with an additional $42.5 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to buy more holding facilities. This doesn't include most costs of removing or excluding feral horses from lands managed by states, private entities, the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest Service. Currently the BLM is maintaining 34,500 feral horses and burros on welfare and supposedly managing 37,800 others in the wild. (Feral horses vastly outnumber feral burros.) No one knows how many animals exist on other lands, public and private.
Increasing the cost is the need for more BLM staffers at gathers to cater to and control observers, most of whom are in their faces about imagined horse abuse. The agency has even taken to providing port-o-potties. The estimated cost for the Adobe Town-Salt Wells gather alone had been $700,000, but the final figure will be well above that. By contrast our federal government, via its endangered species program, spends an average of $86,673 a year on each of 2,071 wild species believed to face imminent or possible extinction.
"It is interesting that we have a law requiring us to manage a non-indigenous species across the American landscape," remarks Dwight Fielder, the BLM's chief of fish, wildlife, and plant conservation. "Not only is this having a huge impact on the landscape, it's having a huge impact on our budget. It's just not a sustainable proposition. And of course some of the horse activists are extremely vocal and highly emotional." Indeed they are.
Although the BLM has repeatedly vowed never to euthanize excess horses, the mere possibility that it could do so was enough to send the feral-horse lobby screaming to Congress. In July 2009 the House obligingly passed the Restore Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act. The bill, now before the Senate, would set up 19 million additional acres on which feral horses can explode and would revoke the BLM's unused authority to destroy old, sick, or unadoptable horses.
Even if the BLM wanted to sell horses for slaughter, it couldn't. In 2007 the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia ordered the last horse-slaughter plant closed. "Keep America's horses in the stable and off the table" was the battle cry of the political action committee called HOOFPAC. So now, instead of getting something back on their investments, people who own ailing domestic horses or adopted mustangs often must pay to have them put down, then hauled to a landfill because they've been shot full of poison by the euthanizing veterinarian. The result is that more and more horses are being turned loose on public land.
This and the sagging economy, which has discouraged people from committing to the major expense of feral-horse adoptions, have obliged the agency to pay for more gathers and build more long-term holding facilities (up from one in 1988 to 11 in 2008 to 17 in 2011). Gathers are almost always done with helicopters, which—according to the horse activists—terrify the animals so that they stampede, killing themselves. Less than one percent die, many from hideous preexisting maladies. But these days there isn't a gather anywhere that isn't protested. "Join a protest or start your own!" instructs the Cloud Foundation's website, which offered a list of nine protests planned for October 2010 alone. At this writing, litigation by feral-horse activists has delayed gathers planned for 2010 in Nevada's Calico horse management complex, Nevada's Tuscarora area, and California's Twin Peaks area.
The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign may not be exaggerating when it reports that the BLM received more than 10,000 letters opposing the Adobe Town-Salt Wells gather. Carol Walker, who lobbies against management of feral horses when she isn't photographing them, hand-delivered 3,516 of those letters to the agency's office in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
I met Ms. Walker at the gather. She repeatedly expressed concern that "there'd be no horses left in Adobe Town." This was hardly the case, as BLM staffers kept assuring her. While most captured horses would be trucked to holding facilities in Canon City, Colorado, and Rock Springs, dozens would be released. None would be surgically sterilized, but the mares would be injected with the anti-fertility drug porcine zona pellucida (PZP), which doesn't always work and, even when it does, wears off after about three years. Unlike Kathrens, who wrote the foreword to her book, Walker doesn't oppose PZP. But she does oppose gathers.
What struck me most about the horses I saw rounded up was their nonchalance. Horse activist propaganda notwithstanding, they didn't "stampede." Mostly they trotted. The helicopters, piloted by experienced cowboys who work on the ground as well, hovered a mile or so behind. Occasionally a horse would snort or whinny, but they clearly weren't "terrified." Their domestic genes became even clearer in the holding pen, where they calmly drank and ate. Of the 97 captured that day, not one sustained even minor injury.
Such facts are rarely reported because the media gets most of its information from the feral-horse lobby. Consider these rantings presented as news by Nevada's KLAS-TV's "chief investigative reporter," George Knapp: "The way it looks, BLM has decided to turn the mustangs into . . . a classified, off-limits, shadowy mystery, something no one in the government can talk about and no one in the civilian world can access." That's because: "Every time a band of horses nearly collapses after being driven in terror by roaring helicopter blades over miles of rough terrain, BLM gets pummeled." Knapp has even tried to tie Nevada gathers to the Gulf oil disaster by suggesting that the BLM's real motive for controlling feral horses is to free up land for a pipeline that will supply British Petroleum with natural gas. His source: Ginger Kathrens.
Consider also this fiction, tirelessly spun by Kathrens and then reported as news by the Billings Gazette: "The Pryor [Mountain] horses are direct descendants of the mounts used by Spanish Conquistadors." As with all feral horses, these are mongrels, descended from livestock owned by everyone who ever dumped or lost horses in the West from 1540 to 2010.
I did see a fair and balanced media response to my 2006 Audubon piece—from Felicity Barringer of The New York Times. More typical was NBC's Today Show, which dispatched a film crew to my house. I spent an afternoon quoting scientific literature and explaining what feral horses do to wildlife. With that NBC sent another crew to Montana to interview Dick Walton and Clayton McCracken—two wilderness advocates who had expressed alarm about gross damage by feral horses to the Pryor Mountains. According to Walton, the interviewer "had no apparent interest in the Pryors or what [Walton] had to say about them" and continually tried to bait him into advocating lethal control so as to present a convenient foil for Kathrens, who wants more, not fewer, feral horses on public land. When the Today Show piece aired it included not a word Walton, McCracken, or I had uttered and, as Walton accurately puts it, "was very much a romantic Cloud/Ginger spot including inaccurate and misleading info and certainly not indicating the real problem of damage to the land."
What will our federal government and Congress do about feral horses, which Salazar correctly observes are "out of control" and creating a "huge problem"? When BLM director Bob Abbey was pushing the Salazar Initiative, he issued this statement: "Everything is on the table for discussion except two things: (1) the euthanasia of excess healthy horses for which there is no adoption demand and (2) the unrestricted sale of unadopted animals." In other words, he intends to continue defying the directive Congress gave his agency with its amended Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.
Michael Hutchins, who as the director and CEO of the Wildlife Society represents 10,000 wildlife professionals, told me this when I asked for his predictions: "I don't think taking horses off public land and sticking them in corrals is sustainable. The cost just keeps going up and up and up. And when money is limited, how you spend it becomes an ethical issue. I think we need to give [surgical] sterilization a try, but that's going to take many, many years. And what if it doesn't work? Do we need to go back to considering lethal control? We have to be realistic. Are we going to continue to let horses degrade the American West? Just as with the feral-cat problem you wrote about, these are the decisions our government is going to have to make if it wants to protect native habitats and wildlife. If it's not going to make these decisions, I don't have a lot of hope for the future."
If there are rays of hope, they lie in the tough stands being taken by groups like the Wildlife Society, the alarm sounded by the GAO in its 2008 report, and the fact that the ROAM bill appears stalled in the Senate. The word in Washington is that the Salazar Initiative was merely a strategy for derailing that legislation. If so, maybe our Interior Secretary struck the only blow for horse-blighted wildlife that America's current mindset allows. And maybe he'll do more in the future.
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Meet Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, The First African To Survive Coronavirus.
"When I was going to the hospital for the first time I was thinking about my death and how I thought it was going to happen," he said.
Kem Senou Pavel Daryl (21)
Kem Senou Pavel Daryl is a 21 year old cameroonian student studying at Yangtze University and living in the Chinese city of jingzhou.
When he first contracted the coronavirus, he feared for his life.
He was suffering from a fever,a dry cough and flu like symptoms.
Despite the amid aid given by countries to it's citizens living in China, Kem Senou Pavel Daryl wasn't ready to go back to Cameroon.
According to him, he didn't want his people to contract the deadly virus.
The name Coronavirus comes from the Latin word Corona which means crown or halo.
The virus became publicly called Coronavirus because when under an electron microscope, the image of the virus looks like a solar Corona.
Coronaviruses according to World health organization is a family of viruses that causes illness which ranges from the common cold to severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV)
After been under a 14 day quarantine in his University dormitory, he was sent to the Chinese hospital where he was under a 13 days isolation.
He was treated with Antibiotics and drugs typically used to treat Hiv patients.
Kem, started showing signs of recovery after two weeks.
A CT Scan was conducted which showed no trace of the illness,making Kem Senou Pavel Daryl the first African to be infected with the deadly virus and the first to recover.
The Chinese state covered Kem's medical bills due to the friendship between China and African countries.
Upon his release from the hospital, Kem has no interest in going back to Cameroon and wants to focus on studying.
"I don't want to go home before finishing studying. I think there is no need to return home because all hospital fees were taken care of by the Chinese government," says Kem Senou
Anyway the epidemic outbreak continues after Kem's release from the hospital as many countries have started evacuating citizens from the country.
Ghana has reportedly sent financial assistance to it's citizens and is also considering evacuation just like Kenya.
Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, still has no plans to return to Cameroon."
It would be a bad and dangerous idea. The biggest fear I had from the virus was psychological and emotional. Going back home is not an option now." - he said.
China is currently Africa's largest trading partner and the ties between the two have blossomed in recent years.
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