http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/11/the-friday-line Comments On: The Friday line by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
It sounds like you have Hayden's "disease" when it comes to animals, especially baby ones. When she visited here the first time, she came rushing back from a hike up my hill clutching a box turtle. He/she was not amused. She said, "What should I do with him?" I said "Put him back where you found him."

Hayden loved her trip to the Galapagos because the animals there---boobies, seals, iguanas, etc., etc., etc.,---are not afraid of humans and you can approach them easily. I suspect they wouldn't tolerate being picked up though.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:13:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
This video won Best of Show at International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana! The majority was shot on location inYellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and The National Elk Refuge inJackson Hole, Wyoming.


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=BUOQ_…
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:04:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
Like Nanc, I would love to see, touch and hold that little one, but I understand we must respect the mother's instincts. Nothing touches my heart like a baby animal, but I know from experience the moms don't always feel the same way about us two-legged critters.

I saw a couple of tiny little newborn lambs on my drive to Russellville yesterday but the ones around here are all white.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:48:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
Vanessa, the fleece makes great yarn but like the honey and apple juice markets, the Chinese have also destroyed the market for fleece. I give some to the Faulkner County Museum for their spinning demonstrations and my son sold a bag (one 44-gallon garbage bag is the fleece from 1 mature sheep)to a woman to put around her son's deer blind. Costs more to have them shorn (not many sheep-shearers in the state and the one that lives up the highway toward Russelville missed one year on active duty and spends his winters in New Mexico working the large flocks (~5-10,000 sheep) which are easier to handle since the Jacobs have horns, up to 6, and can weigh 120-150# and have an attitude about being man-handled to be sheared). We had some fleece made into rovings a few years ago and decided that no one could really afford to buy it vs the cost in the stores but it did make great gifts for friends. We had the local butcher shop save some hides on some that went to the freezer for various reasons and salted the hides and then sent them out for tanning and they made beautiful throws. That business, in Maine, stopped operations about 5 years ago. One friend in CT who is very petite can curl up under hers.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:55:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
eLwood, of course, Jesus is with the Times. He is even with the least of these, my brethren, i.e. even with the Dem/Gaz, whether Greenberg likes it or not.

OK, Jesus has a pistol now. I suppose the Holy Ghost must be packin' a howitzer and God, HisOwnMightySelf is brandishing a 100 megaton thermonuclear bomb. Wayne must be jealous.
Posted by Olphart]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:24:02 -0600 Arkansas Times I rec'd that warning from others and disabled Java ver 10. However:

"UPDATE: A patch to fix the exploit has been released. Download it here.

http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/st…

I haven't tried the patch but please let me know if anyone does.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:01:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
The flaw affects all versions of Java 7, including Oracle Java 7 Update 10, which is the most recent version. With some estimates suggesting that 34% of all PCs currently run a version of Java 7, the zero-day vulnerability may now be present on over 400 million systems.

If you encounter a website with an embedded Java app, and you don't have Java installed (or enabled), you'll just see an empty space where the program should be displaying. Java is a free program that allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few.

for more info and possible solutions (see end of article):
http://tinyurl.com/afr784c
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:08:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
Nine of the 10 U.S. regions had "elevated" flu activity last week, confirming that seasonal flu has spread across the country and reached high levels several weeks before the usual late January or February, CDC reported.

Only one region - the Southwest and California - had "normal" flu activity last week.

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from flu, even in non-epidemic years. The threshold for an epidemic is that it causes more than 7.2 percent of deaths, but as yet there is no definitive count of the total caused by flu this year.

In its weekly flu update on Friday, the CDC reported that 24 of the 50 U.S. states as well as New York City had experienced "high activity" in flu-like illnesses last week. In 16 states, activity was moderate, while in 10 it was low or minimal.
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People have many excuses for not getting a flu shot, excuses that are usually revealed while they are in a hospital bed. Others just procrastinate.
http://tinyurl.com/d6w2ee2
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:48:33 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Vanessa]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:49:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Nanc]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:19:06 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:43:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:57:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:54:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:07:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:51:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by BlackWhiteGray]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:26:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:05:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Barclay Key]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:38:19 -0600 Arkansas Times In this case the tool is a firearm. This tool has but one clear purpose, to kill, so there needs to be some regulation to make this tool as safe as possible.

We approached the subject from this point of view so as to take out the "well, I could have used a 'fill in the blank' to kill him if I didn't have a gun" argument out of the discussion.

Yeah, you could have used that knife to kill him, but that is not the reason for a knife. A knife is designed to cut all kinds of things. It just happens people could be one of those things.

Could have got him with a car. But killing people with cars is not the purpose of having cars. Baseball bats, pipe, rope, .... You get the idea.
A lot of things can be "repurposed" to maim or kill. But that is not there designed purpose.

But guns are designed for one job and are rarely used to do any thing else.

Maybe this will give all sides in this debate a place to start, a place to make progress so all sides can allow this tool to be used safely.
Posted by Skee Hee]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:29:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
“This time, as it was last time for the first time in history, the book will be held by a First Lady who is a descendent of slaves. But the holy book she will be holding does not contain one word of God condemning slavery. Not one word. But that same book, which spends hundreds and hundreds of pages condemning all sorts of things and couldn’t find one sentence in here to condemn slavery, does indeed manage to find the space to repeatedly condemn gay people, as the now banished Louie Giglio says it does. And as the First Lady is holding that book for the President, sitting somewhere near them will be a pastor who the Inauguration Committee will make sure is much more adept at hiding what that book actually says than Louie Giglio was.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:21:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.4029tv.com/news/arkansas/river-…
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:42:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
Big TY to Brian in AT/blog's web department for fixing access to my account.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:29:16 -0600 Arkansas Times