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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Prediction-Gathering Post

Happy Election Day, everyone! Now that things are up and running, I'm putting up a post to gather people's election predictions.

I'm intending this site to be more a ranking of the punditocracy than a fantasy football league for all of us, so what I'm asking for are links to professional pundits. (But if you'd like to have your election predictions recorded for posterity in this thread, feel free to put them there!) I see that Brad Plumer's prediction-compiling post has Nate Silver, Sam Wang, Drew Linzer, Michael Barone, Ezra Klein, Larry Sabato, Josh Putnam, Jay Cost, Philip Klein, Ross Douthat, Jamelle Bouie, George Will, Ben Domenech, Markos Moulitsas, Karl Rove, James Pethokoukis, Dick Morris, Jim Cramer, and Dean Chambers in it. There's also a National Review prediction thread. Where else should I look? I'll try to use the last predictions people made before the first ballots of November 6 were cast.

As I suggested in the methodology post, I need people who have come up with an electoral map and preferably a popular vote margin as well. They should also be reasonably famous political prognosticators who are cited in print or televised media. A Facebook friend suggested that I rank P'Lod the All-Seeing, an alien quoted in the Weekly World News. But unfortunately, P'Lod didn't specify an electoral map.

  1. I am admittedly biased here, but I'm not sure how involved Moulitsas is in Daily Kos Elections' race ratings - that's under the aegis of my spouse, of course, the political director, but also his solid team of analysts (many of whom volunteer their time) - particularly Arjun and Jeff, as best I know. Certainly, the site wouldn't exist without Kos, and it bears his name, but I think the hard-core race ratings there bear the names, in-post, of the people who made them. Just wanted to make sure credit was given where due. ;)

  2. Larry Sabato should be included...

  3. Marc Ambinder's projections:

  4. Neil, please add Darryl of HorsesAss.org to your list of "pundits". Because he hasn't yet posted his final report (it's due this afternoon, before any polls close), that link goes to his FAQ.

    His penultimate post is probably very, very close to the final result. In terms of your battleground states, that report shows all except FL going to Obama. Though his Monte Carlo mean in that post says 309-229, by far his most frequent outcome is 303-235.

    (I don't know why I'm being called "Unknown" ... the name associated with this Google account is my nom de blog "N in Seattle")

    1. PS. In real life, Darryl is an anthropology professor at the University of Washington. He keeps his blogger/pundit stuff completely separate from his professional work.

  5. Elias Isquith, an up-and-comer from the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, has a prediction at his personal blog.


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The tag line for the 2009 reboot of Star Trek was "The Future Begins". However, the future had almost began many, many times before...

1. Gene Roddenberry had first teased a Star Trek movie prequel to the television series as early as the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention. Clearly nothing ever came of that, but the prequel concept did resurface in the late 1980s, when Ralph Winter and Harve Bennett submitted a proposal for a prequel during development of the fourth Star Trek film. The idea hung around and began to gain some momentum as Paramount became increasingly concerned about the original casts' rising salaries, and so after the disappointing return for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Bennett was given the go-ahead to begin work on his prequel concept that would see new younger (cheaper) actors play the main cast at Starfleet Academy. Bennett worked on the prequel idea for over a year, assisted by writer David Loughery, who recalled:
"When I heard about the idea, I thought it was terrific. Not from the point of view of recasting, but from the point of view of storytelling, because I worked so closely with these characters on Star Trek V, that the idea of doing an origin story – where you show them as young cadets and kids – was tremendously exciting. What it was, was a real coming of age story."
Loughery completed a script entitled The Academy Years, but it was shelved in light of objections from Roddenberry and the fanbase, and the film that was commissioned instead ended up being Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

But the prequel concept refused to die, and, once again, after the financial failure of the tenth film, Star Trek: Nemesis, and the cancellation of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the franchise's executive producer Rick Berman and screenwriter Erik Jendresen began developing a new film entitled Star Trek: The Beginning. This time it was to revolve around a new set of characters, led by Kirk's ancestor Tiberius Chase, and be set during the Earth-Romulan War, after the events of Enterprise but before the events of the original series. Again, the idea was shelved.

Then in September 2005, Gail Berman, then president of Paramount, convinced CBS' chief executive, Leslie Moonves, to allow them eighteen months to develop a new Star Trek film, and if it wasn't in production by then CBS would re-earn the rights to develop a new television series. Berman approached Mission: Impossible III writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman for ideas on the new film, and after M:I III had completed shooting she asked the director, J.J. Abrams, to produce it.

Initially unaware of any previous prequel concepts, Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman, plus producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, felt that over the course of 10 movies and three 'sequel' television series' the Star Trek franchise had explored enough of what took place after the events of The Original Series, and so set about developing their own prequel treatment.

On February 23rd 2007 Abrams accepted Paramount's offer to direct the film, after having initially been attached to it solely as a producer, and Star Trek officially went into production days before the imminent CBS deadline.

2. The news that J.J. Abrams would be rebooting Star Trek did not exactly go down well among many Trek fans, and it wasn't helped by his comments. In an interview with Empire magazine, Abrams said that he had never seen Star Trek: Nemesis because he felt the franchise had "disconnected" from the original series. For him, he said, Star Trek was about Kirk and Spock, and the other series were like "separate space adventure[s] with the name Star Trek". He also acknowledged that he only became involved with the project as producer initially because he wanted to help Orci, Kurtzman and Lindelof, and that he actually preferred Star Wars!

But this was all sort of the reason why Paramount were so keen on Abrams, as they wanted to introduce newcomers to the series. However, Orci and Lindelof did consider themselves trekkies, and felt it vital to not alienate Trek's established fanbase, and it was their screenplay that convinced Abrams to jump on board as director. Orci said that it had been his and Kurtzman's aim to impress a casual fan like Abrams with their story, and it seemed to do just that, as Abrams said,
"I knew this would work, because the script Alex and Bob wrote was so emotional and so relatable. I didn't love Kirk and Spock when I began this journey – but I love them now."

3. Orci also felt that getting Leonard Nimoy in the film was a key factor. "Having him sitting around a camp fire sharing his memories was never gonna cut it" though, and time travel was going to be included in the film from the beginning. So Abrams and the writers met Nimoy at his house; Orci recalled the actor gave a "'Who are you guys and what are you up to?' vibe". Orci explained to Nimoy that he was so important to the movie that if he didn't like the story they presented him with production would be delayed for it to be rewritten. Nimoy later said,
"This is the first and only time I ever had a filmmaker say, 'We cannot make this film without you and we won't make it without you'"
Nimoy remained silent, and his wife, Susan Bay, told the creative team he had remained in his chair after their conversation, emotionally overwhelmed by his decision to return to the role of Spock after turning down many opportunities to revisit the character. He was "genuinely excited" by the script's scope and its detailing of the characters' backstories, saying,
"We have dealt with [Spock being half-human, half-Vulcan], but never with quite the overview that this script has of the entire history of the character, the growth of the character, the beginnings of the character and the arrival of the character into the Enterprise crew."
4. Orci and Kurtzman also wrote a scene for William Shatner, in which old Spock gives his younger self a recorded message by Kirk from the previous timeline.
"It was basically a Happy Birthday wish knowing that Spock was going to go off to Romulus, and Kirk would probably be dead by the time."
It would have shifted into Shatner reciting "Where no man has gone before". However, Shatner wanted to share Nimoy's major role, and did not want a cameo, despite his character's death in Star Trek Generations. He suggested the film canonise his novels where Kirk is resurrected, but Abrams decided if his character was accompanying Nimoy's, it would have become a film about the resurrection of Kirk, and not about introducing the new versions of the characters.

5. Several other actors came close to playing the younger roles of Kirk, Spock and co. Chris Pratt auditioned for the role of James T Kirk, as did Joshua Jackson and Mike Vogel, with Vogel being a front runner before Chris Pine was cast.

Adrien Brody had briefly entered preliminary negotiations to play the part of Spock before Zachary Quinto was cast. Paul McGillion auditioned for Scotty, and while he didn't get the part, he impressed the filmmakers enough to be given another role as a barracks leader. Sydney Tamiia Poitier auditioned for the part of Uhura, and James Kyson Lee was offered the role of Sulu, but both he and Quinto, who had already been cast as Spock, were at the time members of the cast of the television series Heroes, and its producers told Lee they did not want to lose another cast member for three months.

6. Simon Pegg didn't audition for the part, he simply received an email from J.J. Abrams asking if he'd like to play Scotty. Pegg said he would have done it for free, or even paid Abrams to be in the movie if he wasn't offered the role.

Years before, Pegg's character in Spaced joked that every odd-numbered Star Trek film being "shit" was a fact of life. With the 2009 reboot of Star Trek being the eleventh movie in the franchise, Pegg noted,
"Fate put me in the movie to show me I was talking out of my ass."

7. Leonard Nimoy wasn't the only established Star Trek cast member to feature in the movie. Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, recorded dialog for many of the Romulans on Nero's ship, and Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi and the wife of Gene Roddenberry) once again provided the voice of the Enterprise computer, just as she had in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. She completed her voice-over work from her home, two weeks before her death on December 18, 2008.

8. Star Trek marked the first time that Uhura was been given a first name on screen: Nyota. Gene Roddenberry never came up with a first name for her while The Original Series was in production, instead it was author William Rotsler who first used the name Nyota for his 1982 licensed tie-in book, Star Trek II Biographies. Seeking approval for the name he contacted Gene Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols. Gene Roddenberry approved of the name, and Nichols was very pleased as it was explained that Nyota is the Swahili word for star. From then on the name Nyota Uhura was often used in other printed Star Trek literature.

9. According to the audio commentary, J.J. Abrams had a meeting with George Lucas, during which they watched a rough-cut of the movie. Afterwards Abrams asked how he could make the film better, to which Lucas stated that he should add lightsabers.

10. Prior to this movie, the highest-grossing Star Trek film ever made was Star Trek: First Contact with a worldwide gross of $146,000,000. This film exceeded that gross by its second weekend of US release alone, and eventually pulled in a worldwide gross of almost $386,000,000.

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Doctor Who: THE POWER OF THE DALEKS, Animated - Episode 3 Review

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If Episode 1 of this newly-animated but long-beloved story was mostly about the system shock of Patrick Troughton being the Doctor (or was he?), and Episode 2 delivered the Daleks in all their crisp, alien glory and the perverse, growing certainty of their cunning, Episode 3 is the ‘balancing’ force – the humans are shown as factionalised, as they were long before the Daleks arrived, but the Daleks have become a wedge in the crack of their dissension, a fundamental issue over which the colony can be divided. Their surreptitious power-hunger and the way in which they play with the emotional weaknesses and hopes of the blind humans is the Sixties, science-fiction equivalent of House of Cards, in that you almost root for them, simply because they’re so brilliant and ruthlessly single-minded and the humans are so gullible and consumed with their own divisions. Meanwhile, despite the incredible ‘grab it and run’ performance Troughton delivers in the first episode of the story, it’s really here in Episode 3 that we really begin to understand that the world we’re in is not just one where this shorter, dark-haired man is playing the same character that William Hartnell played, but one in which the actual personality of the Doctor, just as much as his physiognomy, has fundamentally changed. Here’s a Doctor who throws things around the room just trying to get to the part he wants, who knocks up a bit of technical kit that can possibly render the Daleks powerless in half a scene, and involving quite a lot of hitting one thing with another, rather than, for instance, three episodes of Hartnellian mercury-gathering. The skills and personality of this new Doctor are a strong hook, but there’s a through-line of character too – Troughton’s exasperation at the greed and selfishness of the colonists in this episode could well have been written for Hartnell, giving us a consistency of Doctoring against which to balance the exciting new version that Troughton is giving us. In essence, it’s only in Episode 3 that we realise that that’s what is what’s happening here, that there are new and exciting ways in which the Troughton incarnation is going to differ completely from the Hartnell version. Nobody in the audience had really considered this was possible until The Power of the Daleks was broadcast, and it’s here in Episode 3 than the penny drops, making Troughton a very solid focus of our attention.

That means that the power struggle compellingly eats up the run-time of this episode: the struggle between the new Doctor and the gradually re-animating Daleks (it’s in Episode 3 that we stop having just a single active representative of the species, as it steals the power to revivify its comrades); the struggle between the forces of authority and rebellion on Vulcan – and of course the undercutting of both by the forces of naked self-interest; and the struggle between the humans who still think they’re in charge of their own destiny and the Doctor, Ben and Polly, who threaten the Daleks. As an episode, this one balances all the forces, and then ramps all of them up by at least 20% in terms of open hostility. It’s gorgeous that one of the most shocking sequences in this episode is the original Dalek, the one who’s been telling everyone it’s their servant, simply reaching out and operating the controls that will divert power to its dormant fellows in the capsule, because there’s a sequence of all the power meters spiking off the charts when it does so. That’s the perfect metaphor to describe the tone and heartbeat of this episode – the Daleks, taking independent action, ramp up the energy, making everyone more and more edgy as the episode goes on.

In terms of the animation, this is exactly what it claims to be – the middle of the story. Both of the first two episodes packed big punches, animationwise, and this is more a case of returning to the world to carry on watching – Vulcan, the Tardis crew, the Daleks, they’ve all been animated for us already, so there are fewer jaw-dropping moments in which the animation can shine, BUT fewer doesn’t mean none, and there are still moments here where the smoothness of the animation actively improves on the original. That scene of the Dalek stealing power is one – there’s a clarity and a crispness to it in this animated version that makes it chilling, like the action of a devil-child.

The moment when the Doctor waggles a screwdriver and the Dalek gets a shock is another such moment – again, the clean quality of the animation means it looks believable, whereas in live action, as the audio of the confused Dalek suggests, it took them a little too far back to their humanoid range of emotion and helplessness. And, as in Episode 2, scenes of Dalek chanting have an altogether more effective, eerie quality in the animated version, especially following the reveal of the three re-animated Daleks coming down a ramp with far more smoothness than the original operators (with the best will in the world) could manage.

What Episode 3 does is Nothing Wrong – it builds on the set-ups and the visual wow-factors of the first two episodes, and at no point throws you out of the story. If you think that’s meaningless, contrast it with the part-live action, part-animated stories, where the join always takes a little while to get over, to re-adjust your mindset to. In Power, because it’s fully (and lovingly) animated, Episode 3 can be and feel exactly like Episode 3 should – taking us further into a story which has already hooked us, acknowledging and identifying the reasons its done that, and turning up the heat. The Dalek chant of ‘We will get our power’ at the end, while arguably only put into the original to have a bit of Dalek chanting on which to end the episode, in the animated version seems to make rather more chilling sense – the power of the Daleks is increasing all the way through this episode, from a single defenceless servant, to three fully operating Daleks who’ve divided the colonists into active factions around themselves, and they end the episode chanting about the power that is yet to come to them.

We can’t wait!

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The 32nd Young Chelsea Skat tournament was held on Saturday March 30th, 2013. The organiser was Mike Tobias.

We welcomed eight people, including two newcomers, Michael Koellmann and Alban Forster. We played twenty boards at two tables of four in each session, with the hands dealt at the table. John was the clear winner by almost 400 pts, Chris took the highest session prize (889) and Jackie the prize for the highest hand (168).

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Jane Reilly  |  Published: Mar 28th 2017

Corporal Rob Bugden, a serving Physical Training Instructor, suffered life changing injuries earlier last year in a parachuting accident, and this week his colleagues from RAF Halton challenged themselves to complete a 210.116 km row with the aim of raising funds to purchase a vehicle with wheel chair access.

The Barbara Bus Foundation Fund has been paramount in supporting Rob’s recovery over the last year and the money raised will go towards funding the vehicle, giving greater freedom to all wheelchair bound personnel present and future.

Rob is currently at Headley Court, and whilst he is making an incredible recovery, his life has changed massively as a result of the accident.

The event was organised by Cpl Andy Lynch, himself a PTI, attached to Recruit Training Squadron at RAF Halton, who said: “An early start on Thursday 23 March, saw the start of the ‘Row for Rob’ challenge to be completed by Recruit Training Squadron, Physical Training Instructors (PTIs), to support Corporal Robert Bugden and the Barbara Bus Foundation.”

On 21 January 2016 Rob suffered severe spinal injuries in a parachuting accident. Throughout the month of March teams of PTI’s from across the Royal Air Force have been completing the arduous challenge of a 210.116 km row (the distance signifies the date of Rob's accident) with the aim of raising £32,000 to purchase the wheelchair accessible vehicle that will be based full-time at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court.

The strategy of the day was simple but effective; to have two rowing machines permanently manned with PTI’s and Physical Education personnel completing 20 minute rotations, with additional machines to hand for Station personnel to support the challenge to add to the total distance. Cpl Lynch continued: “The day started well and we soon saw the kilometres getting completed. As we had two rowing machines I could see we would easily complete the 210.116 km within the 12 hour time limit we had set ourselves. As lunchtime approached the target of 210.116 km was in sight and was reached after seven hours and 15 minutes of rowing.  After the target was reached, the goal quickly changed to complete maximum distance within the time allotted.”

Throughout the day the challenge was supported by Station Executives, Physical Training Instructors from Airman’s Command School and the Regional Rehabilitation Unit, as well as several members of Recruit Training Squadron and Station personnel. Flying Officer Thomas Perry, who has worked alongside Corporal Bugden, said: “We had PTI’s from every avenue and ranks all supporting one cause, as well as personnel from across RAF Halton; it was fantastic to see the range of support throughout the day”.

On the stroke of 1800 hours rowing ceased and the final numbers were added up. In total an impressive 327.201 km, with Station personnel completing 258.107 km which meant the total distance rowed within 12 hours was a massive 585.308 km, which is the more than rowing the English Channel 17 times.

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    Megan what you doing!

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    Uh oh, I was in the room when my daughter started watching it and I found myself taking a vague interest during the "recoupling" thingamy. I left the room pronto but fear the damage may have already been done.
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    Both Cif and Lilly Longtongue have been watching this shiny shyte.

    I can't be in the same room when it's showing, firstly because it's like fingernails down a blackboard for me and secondly because I can't resist making caustic comments which are not appreciated by the viewers.

    For example I observed the other day that I reckon somewhere around 25% of the speech of the participants is made up of the word "like".

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    Clive, you're a snob :)
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    That is so annoying, isn’t it? Why can’t young people talk proper like what we did?
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    I think you'll find, to be technically correct, it's "like wot we dun"
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    I have a conspiracy theory for most things and of course I have for this Love Island nonsense.

    I think it's made for sneering at poor people for being thick. No need to worry about these dullards! Look at the working class - ignorant clowns who think Brexit is something to do with trees.

    However Cif pointed out that some of the people in it are hardly poor. Apparently some of them are 'celebrities'. Still, I definitely reckon there's an element of that about it. Why aren't clever poor people ever shown on these programmes? Why only thickies?
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    Poor?! What show are you watching? One of them spent over £1,000 on a first date, they pretty much all have photos on their instagram wearing designer clothes, or holding expensive bags. One is Danny Dyer's daughter. These aren't poor people.
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    Everything is about rich/poor people in Clive’s world. Harmless fun doesn’t exist...
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    to be fair, I'm sure Clive would agree rhat most stupid people are poor
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    No I wouldn't. It depends on your definition of stupid. Certainly most poorly educated people are poor, but then that's because the elites prefer to keep us poor and uneducated. That way we don't have the intellectual weapons to resist against them. However there's a difference between being poorly educated and being thick.

    Nobody would doubt that the lady and gentlemen tenants of Love Island are crashingly stupid, but as comrade Bear has pointed out above, they're actually richies. And although a lot of these imperi-capi landlord types think they're tremendously clever to have extorted their fortune out of the rest of us, by doing something like buying up a ratty old house, slapping a load of emulsion over it, dividing it into 'bedsits' and letting it out at eye-wateringly high rents to us poor slobs, it's something that anyone could do. There's nothing 'clever' about it at all.

    My monster-truck driving, luxury mansion-living, lap of luxury boss just sent out an email about something he wants to take place with "immediate affect". I ask you. What a thick, semi-literate bum. Yet no doubt he thinks he's amazingly clever getting £50 per hour or whatever for my work, whilst paying me only £7.50 per hour.
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    Duh, it should be immediete affect.
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    i know clive. it was a lampoon about you seeing a stupid person on the telly and thinking they must be poor. a simple lampoon!
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    Liked for use of word "lampoon".
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    You will love this then

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    No longer have to listen to the whining whingy Liverpudlian lasses droning voice.
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    Oh dear I appear to be hooked. I hate myself...
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    Haven't watched the programme but have read this thread instead so am now well informed.

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If you have any vaccine, deworming or medical history for your kitten, please bring it with you.  We want to know what has been done so we can plan what is needed in the future.  Many kittens have worms, so even if your kitten has been dewormed, bring a fecal sample to the first visit so we can make sure there aren't any worms to worry about.

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  We routinely vaccinate every kitten for feline viral rhinotracheitis, calicivirus and pneumonitis (FVRCP).  This vaccine needs to be boostered every 3-4 weeks until your kitten is 16 weeks old.  The series is usually started at 8 weeks of age.    All kittens receive Rabies, usually with their last FVRCP booster.

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 Feline leukemia  vaccination is currently recommended by the American Association of Feline Practitioners for all kittens, regardless of their lifestyle.  Even though you want your kitten to be indoors only, some kittens decide they want to explore and sneak outside, putting them at risk of coming in contact with the disease, so the AAFP recommends being better safe than sorry.  If at the one year booster appointment your kitten has remained indoors only FELV vaccine is no longer given.  The initial series is two shots usually at 12 and 16 weeks.

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It's Puppy and Kitten Time!

It’s spring and we are inundated with puppies and kittens, and we love it. In fact, even the employees are participating. We have two new puppies and a new kitten in the Wilderness employee pet family. Welcome Cotton, our vet assistant Aris’ new Old English Sheep Dog; Beans, Our assistant Mikah”s new cat and Olive, my new Australian Shepherd. Even though we didn’t plan it, they all have black and white coloring.

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If you love seeing pictures of puppies and kittens, make sure to like our Facebook page. We try to post of all the new family members that visit us. Also, look for us in the Maple Valley Days parade and we will have a booth at the Farmers’ Market twice this year. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me at drmelanie@wildernessvet.com.

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Closed for staff meeting second Tuesday of the month from noon to 2 pm.

For after hours emergencies:

please call us, 425-432-9975 and follow the prompts to speak to a veterinary professional.  They will help triage your pet's condition and will help you decide if you need to be seen at an emergency facility or  if not, they will let us know to call you as soon as we are open.

For 24 hour emergency services we recommend:

 BluePearl Veterinary Partners (formerly ACCES) in Renton -

206-364-1660, then press 2
Seattle Veterinary Specialists, Kirkland

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In the News, Marijuana and Foreign Bodies

This month there are a few topics I wanted to cover, all related to the things I found on my meandering on the internet, social media, veterinary websites and even televised news.

One topic that always draws interest in veterinary medicine is what our pets will eat.  A veterinary magazine has a contest every year for the most interesting and amazing things our patients have eaten.  One case getting the most press recently is a Great Dane in Portland that had 43 and ½ socks removed from his stomach.  Currently, I am treating a patient that has had a quarter in her stomach since at least 2006.  It was present in an x-ray in 2006 and in recent x-rays, the technology is better and you can even see George Washington’s silhouette.  The quarter isn’t causing any problem, so it will stay there unless it does cause a problem.

Another subject that regularly comes up is feeding raw food.  I have always directed people that are going to feed raw food to the FDA website to learn the risks and proper food handling required for raw food, but recently a coworker let me know the FDA’s stance had changed due to the results of a recent study.  In this 2012 study 190 samples of dry dog food, 190 samples of jerky type treat, 120 samples each of semi-moist cat and dog food was tested and none of these samples had Salmonella or Listeria contamination.  Of 196 samples of raw food, 15 were positive for Salmonella and 32 were positive for Listeria.  Both bacteria can cause serious disease, but Listeria is especially a concern for pregnant mothers, newborn babies and people with compromised immune systems.  Anyone feeding raw food or considering feeding raw food to their pets should FDA’s informational page, “Get the facts!  Raw Pet food diets can be dangerous to you and your pet.”  I have put a link to it on our webpage under Internet Resources.

Finally, marijuana and pets are something veterinarians deal with much more frequently since legalization in Washington State.  We are seeing at least a case a week where a pet has consumed their owner’s marijuana, most of the time in the form of the THC containing edibles.  There is a very good article on the Seattle Kennel Club website, written by Ranny Green synopsizing the current information on pets and marijuana intoxication and use as a medicinal.  It is important to remember if you have marijuana in your house, especially in an edible form, a dog (and sometimes cat) will eat it if within reach.  When ingested the THC stays in the pet, sometimes taking days for the animal to completely metabolize it out of their body.  The good news is that marijuana toxicity is rarely serious, and with supportive care and time, most animals recover completely.  Sometimes the hardest part is for people to admit the pet could have had exposure.  Remember, we aren’t going to judge you, we just want to give your pet the appropriate treatment, and other diseases and poisonings can look much like marijuana toxicity.  So if you know your pet was exposed to marijuana, let the vet know.  If you are not sure, the urine test for humans can be used, but it can have a false negative result 7% of the time (meaning that the pet did eat marijuana but the urine test showed negative.)  As far as using cannabis-derived products medicinally for pets, there have been no studies on the proper dosing and effects of cannabis-derived products on our pet patients, therefore, further studies are needed before veterinarians can safely prescribe it.

Summer is ending and I want to remind you a few quick things:  1. Salmon is going to be running up the river, don’t let your dogs eat the dead/dying salmon.  2. If you are changing your antifreeze, don’t leave it out for a pet or child to consume it and consider pet/children safe antifreeze 3. As the days get colder, bang on the hood of your car before you get in to make sure a kitty cat hasn’t snuggled up under the hood to stay warm.

As always if you have any questions, concerns or would like to contact me: mcaviness@wildernessvet.com, or visit our Facebook page or website wildernessvet.com.

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Doctor always on premises during hours of operation

Closed for staff meeting second Tuesday of the month from noon to 2 pm.

For after hours emergencies:

please call us, 425-432-9975 and follow the prompts to speak to a veterinary professional.  They will help triage your pet's condition and will help you decide if you need to be seen at an emergency facility or  if not, they will let us know to call you as soon as we are open.

For 24 hour emergency services we recommend:

 BluePearl Veterinary Partners (formerly ACCES) in Renton -

206-364-1660, then press 2
Seattle Veterinary Specialists, Kirkland

I really like the staff and our vet Melanie at Wilderness Animal Hospital,!they are very courteous and informative. I will be recommending this to all of my friends.

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Yesterday, Dianna and I made the trek over to Belmopan to visit the Immigration Department to complete on of the final bits in our quest for residency.
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An uneventful trip under gray skies for the most part saw us wheeling into Belmopan after a good couple of hours on the road. Luckily, we found a parking space right away just across the street from the Immigration building.

We grabbed the folder holding our stuff and headed in. After a somewhat short wait, we talked with the girl who had been helping us before and she asked for our Security Bond papers. Both Dianna and I were sure we had turned those in on the last trip and told her they must be in the package. She said "No. If you had attempted to turn them in then, I would have refused to take them as that would have been out of sequence and I would have signed here that you turned them in," showing us the blank signature space on her form.

Back and forth for a minute or so like that, until I called Doug and Twyla, who are at the same stage in the process as we are and in fact, had been with us on the previous trip. Twyla said, "Oh no, you were supposed to turn those in on this trip." Then, my memory started working again. Talk about feeling like a total drooling dolt. I'm chalking it up to getting older. What else could it be?

So, profuse apologies to the girl behind the counter. Dianna had the foresight to ask her if we could turn in the money as we really didn't like walking around with beaucoup of cash in our pockets. This we could do.

Then, after depositing the money and getting a receipt we headed back to the young lady, who took our receipts, making copies of them for our file, and returned the originals to us.

Doug and Twyla had not accompanied us on this trip as their application package apparently got placed in a different pile than ours. Ours got the go-ahead by the Director, and their had to wait for two weeks as the Director was going to be out of the office during that time.

Anyway, with our forgetfulness regarding the Security Bond papers, we're now back at exactly the same stage as the four of us were before. I've already made arrangements to ride back over with Doug and Twyla to Belmopan (with the correct papers this time).

What will happen is this: I turn in our Security Bond papers; Doug and Twyla, turn in theirs as well and pay their money (slightly different amount as they're Canadian); we all turn in our passports, obtaining a receipt for each. Then we go back home for a week or two (not sure exactly how long), head back to Belmopan and collect our passports all with a nice pretty stamp in them saying we are legal residents of Belize.

So, unless there's another brain cramp, or worse, between now and then, it should be about another three weeks and the four of us will be residents. Woohoo!

We plan to go to Chetumal for a movie and dinner to celebrate our new status. I can't wait!!!!

Julian in SC said...

Ah, I see the dreaded new disease "CRS" has managed to skip the quarrantine and spread to Central America. There is no vaccine and no cure... Oh, the accronym CRS stands for "Can't Remember Stuff" (or something like that). It strikes everyone over 50 with varing degrees of advancement in severity. I am sorry to say that you have both come down with a bad case. I wish you well....

lakeland said...

Hi Dave,

Just a clarification....... You surrender your US passport and they give you a Belize passport when you become a resident? Is that how it works? Just wondering....

Hope all is well.

New York Bob

Dave + Dianna Rider said...

Hi NY Bob,

Sorry, I should have clarified that. You temporarily leave your passport with Immigration in order for them to stamp it with the residency stamp. I think the Director has to sign the stamp in your passport, which necessitates your leaving it there. They give you a receipt for it (of course that won't do a whole lot for you if it's lost). Then you come back in a week or so pick up your passport with its new stamp, and abracadabra - you're a resident.

You only get a Belize passport if after 5 years living in Belize, you become a citizen and then apply for a passport. Even then, you don't surrender your foreign passport (as long as your original country allows dual citizenship - which the US does).

I hope this clarifies things for you.

On another note, I don't know about tonight's game, but last night 11-1. Man, the Yankees really cleaned the Mariners clock. Of course we'll continue to boo A-Rod. Of course it never was about the money... right.

Oh, I contracted CRS quite some time ago (of course 50 was quite some time ago, now that I think about it).

I've been a carrier for a long time. Kind of a Typhoid Mary sort of thing, y'know.

lakeland said...

Thanks Dave. That did clarify the whole picture. Did you get your neighbor set with the Internet yet?

BTW: Keep an eye on the tropics. Eastern caribbean is starting to heat up with 2 storms.

Take care.

Dave + Dianna Rider said...

Hi Bob,

Not yet. He's an engineer so these things take time. They have to analyze everything and then some.

I gave him the info, so it's up to him now. I've done my part.

Believe me, we're keeping an eye on things. I use a Yahoo widget (hurricane monitor) that sits on my desktop. I love it. And, I check the NOAA pages as well. I do both bits first thing when I wake up, several times during the day, and last thing before I hit the sack in the evening.

Knock on wood, we're doing ok,