covertdale farms horse racing news and comics: horses, ponies, cats and dogs- oh my!: Suffolk Downs Thoroughbreds May Need Homes-or will be slaughtere

Future uncertain for Suffolk, horses
By PAUL DALEY, Sun Racing Writer:
Suffolk Race track closes for the 2005 season, but with the simulcast racing bill stalled in the State Legislature for a bundle vote on alternative gaming. Unless a sunset bill is passed, as of January 1, 2006, all 4 MAss. race tracks will be unable to accept wagers. If politics are not resolved, the small race trainer will not be able to keep their horses.

It is estimated by TRF Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, that as many as 30 horses will be sold for slaughter.


"Canter Organization of New England is specifically earmarking Suffolk horses for adoption. For information go to the Canter website at www.canterusa.org.

"What can we do to help the local horses? For starters, contact the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation at www.trfinc.org. No donation is too small. Or, if you are able to board a horse, the foundation will work with you. If you love the sport and its participants, it's something to think about, especially around the holidays"

horses, rescue

"I Am Regina" (Penguin) children's book featuring regina

Additional info for "I Am Regina" (Penguin) doi:10.1221/0399217975

regina

USATODAY.com -Virgin Mary statue 'crying' red tears at Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs in SACRAMENTO California

USATODAY.com - Believers flock to Virgin Mary statue 'crying' red tears

Believers or not- the SACRAMENTO statue is stained

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MercoPress - Falklands-Third BSE or MAd Cow Case in Luxembourg;

MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News

A four year old Charolais cow in Belgium has been determined to carry Bovine Spongieform Encephalopathy, or MAd COW

The two previous cases occurred in 1997 and 2001.

The ministry was quick to point that the meat from this cow never readched the market.

mad cow, captionz

CNN.com - Brown to start emergency planning consulting business - Nov 24, 2005

CNN.com - Brown to start emergency planning consulting business - Nov 24, 2005:

Thursday, November 24, 2005; Posted: 9:01 p.m. EST (02:01 GMT)


DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job."

CNN.com - Pat Morita, 'Karate Kid's' Mr. Miyagi, dies - Nov 25, 2005

CNN.com - Pat Morita, 'Karate Kid's' Mr. Miyagi, dies - Nov 25, 2005: "Born in northern California on June 28, 1932, the son of migrant fruit pickers, Morita spent most of his early years in the hospital with spinal tuberculosis. He later recovered only to be sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II."

"Because prospects for a Japanese-American standup comic seemed poor, Morita found steady work in computers at Aerojet General. But at age 30 he entered show business full time.

"Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did," he commented. "If I tried it in Japan before the war, it would have been considered blasphemy, and I would have ended in leg irons. "

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Rhizome.org: FLACK ATTACK MAGAZINE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Rhizome.org: FLACPUBLICATION FlaK ATTACK MAGAZINE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

=3D=3DTheme
The theme of the first issue is "Flack Attack on Autonomy": Autonomy as a c=
omplex concept in any governed situation. What does it mean to be autonomou=
s within predefined social codes? Does the notion of autonomy contradict a =
common language and shared references?

In the specific case of online worlds the challenge is readily illustrated =
by the fact that all interaction takes place inside someone else's programm=
ed code. But the same basic dilemma can be applied to any institution we fi=
nd ourselves in, be it a nation, a family or an economy.

=3D=3DSubmissions
The wiki is open to all, and we encourage a wide range of contributions on =
the topic of autonomy: everything from the structural and analytical to the=
personal and anecdotal.

Contributions can take the form of=20
+articles
+comments
+images
+alterations / remixes of other contributions

Please submit your contributions between now and December19 at http://www.flackattack.org



By the end of December the first issue of Flack Attack will be published.
They are planning to distribute it as PDF and print-on-demand via artport.
(In addition, free printed copies might be distributed through the bookstore of the Whitney Museum in New York).

Bloomberg.com: U.S.- Black Friday- the day Christams Shopping Begins in the US

"Online Shopping

frpm bloomberg

About a third of consumers plan to shop today, with 70 percent of those looking for early-bird specials, according to a survey by market-research firm America's Research Group.

Some shoppers will wait until Monday to buy online after comparison shopping in stores over the weekend, said Patti Freeman Evans, an analyst with Jupiter Research in New York.

``You've done a lot of research, you've been in stores, you get to work on Monday, and on your lunch hour you get out the credit card,'' she said.

Shopping on U.S. online sites will rise 24 percent this month and next to $19 billion, according to ComScore Networks Inc., a Reston, Virginia-based Internet-research company. read more

American Chronicle: Mad Cow Testing for All Cattle?

American Chronicle: Mad Cow Testing for All Cattle?


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Japan's Sunday Silence daughter runs at Church Hill Downs

Tallahassee Democrat | 11/20/2005 | Lady Rattlers win fifth MEAC title: "Sundrop wins Cardinal Handicap: Sundrop swept five-wide in the turn and charged ahead in mid-stretch to win the $175,050 Grade III Cardinal Handicap for fillies and mares by a length Saturday at Churchill Downs.

The win was Sundrop's second in seven starts this year.

The Japanese-bred daughter of 1989 Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence, ridden by Mark Guidry, paid $17.20, $6.20 and
$5.00."

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Thoroughbred Times: Today's News

Thoroughbred Times: Today's News: "The group, called the Committee on the Future of Racing, held its inaugural meeting on Friday in Saratoga Springs, New York."

Thoroughbred Times: Today's News

Thoroughbred Times: Today's News

Man arrested for helping online female friend commit suicide - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

Man arrested for helping online female friend commit suicide - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

Suspicious man seen near apartment of murdered Osaka sisters - MSN-Mainichi Daily Newst

Suspicious man seen near apartment of murdered Osaka sisters - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe ""I don't think we should discuss each person who is enshrined"

The Japan Times Online

Abe's comments came after Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing compared Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Yasukuni shrine visits ( to pay respects to those who died for Japan) to German leaders going to memorials for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo, Gen. Kenji Doihara, Gen. Seishiro Itagaki and Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who all died after the warwere convicted of war crimes by the 1946-48 International Military Tribunal for the Far East. They were hanged. Matsuoka died of tuberculosis in 1946 in prison during his trial.

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The Japan Times Online-Enola Gay navigation chart sells for $72,000 

The Japan Times Online-Enola Gay navigation chart sells for $72,000

The Japan Times Online

The first atomic bomb, code-name Little Boy, was released on my family's hometown Hiroshima early on Aug. 6, 1945.

my father was 3 years old.

A message written in large block letters on the far right-hand side of the map stsates : "Hiroshima Bombing/Aug. 6, 1945 8:15 a.m. This map was carried/on flight by Capt. Bob Lewis." Below that, a line in cursive writing reads: "Attested as true/Col. Robert A. Lewis."

Japan Today - News - Public worries voiced over U.S. beef at meeting - Japan's Leading International News Network

Japan Today - News - Public worries voiced over U.S. beef at meeting - Japan's Leading International News Network

I am dismayed with the trend in user comments posted here. There are ample reputable web site references, news sources, and USDA veterinary pathology and food safety witnesses stating their fears and lack of confidence in the USDA's testing methods for MAd Cow (BSE).

I understand that Japan as do many countries outside the Americas, have MUCH stricter Food Safety Standards than the US, therefore I implore the Japanese people to read and learn more about the politics and news events surrounding Mad Cow in the US.

For example please read:

1. Could the Nightmare happen again?- a definitive time line of Veterinary investigations of Mad Cow in the US
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mad_Cow_USA/Could_the_Nightmare_Happen_Here%3F

2. the CBC news story posted:
Concerns raised about 1997 U.S. mad cow tests
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/12/usbse050412.html

and from them understand that MAd Cow may be willfully undiscovered.

"One of the USDA's top officials told CBC News that
> the U.S. testing
> program was never designed to catch every single
> case of mad cow
> disease. It was simply meant to measure how much
> disease there is." http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/04/13/usbse050413.html

+++please note+++

Mad cow may be linked to the Human Alzheimer's disease, therefore, American death tolls are not good indicators of Mad Cow's prevalence, and many Americans today may be unknowingly suffering Mad Cow's affect.

--Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every Year?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0107-07.htm

---Prion Data ( "prions" are the high heat resistent protein agents in the brain that cause Mad Cow and dementia in humans known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
http://www.priondata.org/data/A_newsApDec04.html

more references:

---USDA Denies Allegations of More Mad Cow Cases (reuters)
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/print?id=666803

CBC interview of Dr. Masuo Doi
http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/04/13/usbse050413.html


mad cow, japan, doi

Japan Today - Features - Abnormal fruits reported everywhere - Japan's Leading International News Network

Japan Today - Features - Abnormal fruits reported everywhere - Japan's Leading International News Network

Elevated temperatures during growing season. possibly caused by global warming, is turning fruits brown and causing early drops, thus forcing Japan agriculture to consider northern territories for growing prospects

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Japan Today - Shukan Post Watcher - Last interview with Author Yukio Mishima surfaces - Japan's Leading International News Network

Japan Today - Shukan Post Watcher - Last interview with Mishima surfaces - Japan's Leading International News Network

Because of Buddhist thoughts where, the 33rd anniversary separates this world and the equinox, journalist Maeda, decided to disclose his interview with author Yukio Mishima, prior to Mishima's suicide (seppuku).

Maeda's book entitled Saigo no dokusen" (Last exclusive) go on sale Nov. 25 the 35th anniversary of Mishima's death.

neko taro:my cat boy water color illustration

japanese love for graphics- a public service post for dog and cat "litter"

Everywhere you look, in Japan, the eyes are always entertained by color, humor, and fonts
(and "o-benjos")

Another College Student Poster

College Clubs are popular and play an important role in many private japanese universities. Here is another billboard advertising a club function

 

Japanese College Student Billboard

A college student bill board outside of Kansai Gaksuei. Kansai university has an international staff, and is walking distance from my grandmother's ( obachan) house.

 

the fox is kitsune in japanese

I sculpted this little fox for my grandmother before I left her this Spring. I sat at the kitchen table with hyaku yen paper mache clay. ( hyaku yen or 100 yen store is like our american dollar store)

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my signature -doi regina , april 2005 Nishinomiya, Osaka

 

My pen and ink illustration of a japanese girl

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