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recent uprisings by concerned people joining hands and encircling it. University students placed a huge national flag on the steps of the Bibliotheca as a sign for rowdy rebels to please respect the property. The large structure has space to contain about five million books.

• While the Bibliotheca is huge, it is not the largest library in the world. The U.S. Library of Congress holds that honor by housing nearly 20 million books. The original building for the Library of Congress, established in 1800, was also destroyed by fire. It was burned by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812, and rebuilding started immediately. Former President Thomas Jefferson sold his vast personal library to Congress to help replace some of the books that were destroyed. The appraised value of his collection was $23,950 (in 1814 dollars), and the number of his books increased the size to more than double that of the original library.

• Fires were the chief cause of many books and entire libraries being lost in the early years. The efforts of many churches and early government officials were instrumental in establishing and protecting history through donations of works and building reconstruction after fires reduced libraries to ashes.

increase fortune but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes. Cast aside business forever except for others.” He gave away more than $333 million — 90 percent of his fortune.

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• In order for a community to receive library funds from Carnegie, they had to commit to providing land for the building with room for expansion as needs arose, and a budget for operation and maintenance. He insisted on community commitment. The first Carnegie Library was built in Dunfermline, Scotland, Carnegie’s hometown. The first in the United States was in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

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annually. Most sheep live 10 to 12 years, so they provide a lot of wool in their lifetimes.

Some sheep, of course, are used for meat, milk and cheese. The best meat is from young lambs.

known to take flocks back to the safety of their farm ahead of a blizzard.

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Follow along as we take a look at these gentle animals and see what we can learn about them.

• There are over 900 breeds of sheep in the world. Only about 40 breeds are raised in America, with Texas being the state that has the most. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the inventory of sheep and lamb in the United States in July 2010 was almost 7 million.

• Sheep are gentle, timid and quiet animals. They are social and have a strong instinct to stay with their flocks, becoming agitated if they are separated. Sheep graze on short, tender grasses and clover for an average of seven hours per day.

• Many stories have been told of sheep being so stupid that they will follow each other off a cliff. This is due to their flock mentality, and it truly can happen. However, there have been studies and observations that show that some sheep are actually pretty smart.

• Sheep belong to the ruminant classification of animals, characterized by their stomachs that have compartments to accommodate “cudchewing.” It is often said that sheep (and cows, goats, etc.) have four stomachs, but actually they have one stomach with four parts. When sheep eat a mouthful of grass, they chew it only enough to wet it. The cud, called a food bolus is a “soft mass of chewed food” and goes to the first two parts of the stomach. When the sheep is full and lies down, it will regurgitate a cud and chew it thoroughly. After this thorough chewing, the cud will go to the last two parts of the stomach to complete the digestion process.

• Most of us have heard of lanolin, an essential ingredient of many expensive cosmetics and skin care products, but did you know that it comes from sheep? In its native form, lanolin is a foul-smelling, waxy, tarlike substance extracted from the sheep’s fleece. Special Note - this is a pdf with processing sanitizes and deodorizes it before changes made delete use. Lanolin’s it is ready for to commercial waterproofing properties allow sheep to shed exp. date water from their thick wooly coats.

• Most lambs are born in the spring and are considered full grown at six months. So when you hear that, “Mary had a little lamb,” it was a baby less than a year old. ■

• In the Western United States, where sheep in some mountainous areas are still overseen by shepherds, and rodeos are big entertainment, “mutton busting” is amusing to watch. This family event is fun for small children, 4 to 7 years old, weighing less than 50 pounds. The kids try to ride sheep bareback across a small arena. The goal is to ride for six seconds hanging on to the sheep’s wool. Most of the kids don’t make it quite that long as the wooly sheep usually shudder and shake, and the little riders slide off quickly. The kids do wear helmets for protection, and adults are close by to assist.

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schedule? I didn’t hear anything about it being canceled! -- Janet F. in Florida

Don’t worry, Janet! “30 Rock” will be Q: Can you tell when/if “Californica- A: back for its sixth season at the beginning of 2012.

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TNT recently announced that Eric would be starring in its new original series “Perception,” about an eccentric neuroscientist (Dr. Daniel Pierce, played by Eric) who helps solve complex criminal cases. The show also stars Rachael Leigh Cook and Kelly Rowan (“The Eric McCormack O.C.”). The series will be 10 episodes long and will join the network’s lineup in summer 2012.

This isn’t Eric’s first foray into drama, by far, as he also starred in “The Andromeda Strain,” “Who Is Clark Rockefeller?” and “Lonesome Dove,” to name just a few. Also, if you happen to subscribe to Netflix or HuluPlus, you must check out his 2004

The David Duchovny-starring dark comedy will be back for its fifth season on Showtime beginning Jan. 8, 2012. This season will see author Hank Moody (David) even more popular (and richer) than ever after his biopic is released. Rob Lowe reprises his role as Eddie Nero, as does Madeleine Martin as Becca and Natascha McElhone as Karen.

Also, Marcy and Stu continue their relationship, even though she is pregnant with ex-husband Charlie’s baby. And don’t think Ben (and his daughter Pearl) are out of the picture: The season opens with Karen, Ben, Becca and Pearl on a cross-country RV road trip. ***

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What used to be a little table in the produce department with a couple of apples and a few other items marked “organic” has now morphed into nearly half of that side of the store. ®

They have this area situated in such a way that the two different stacks of bananas are just byThe Maryone Huntstack marked organic (at a two feet apart. price of about $2 a pound) is within easy reach of the non-organic bananas, on sale this weekend for 67 cents a pound.

I stood there for a few minutes just to watch shopper after shopper pass the cheapies, opting for the two-buck bananas. Are these people trusting, or what? The bananas look identical. How do we know where they came from? Bananas are imported, so who sets the “organic” standards in, say, South America? To say that I am simply suspicious is a gross understatement.

Organic meats, poultry and fish have also invaded the meat department. OK, so maybe I can warm up to this concept a bit if indeed it’s true that many chickens and cows are fed antibiotics and enhancement drugs to encourage production of finer products. It does creep me out a bit to think that some of these supplements may be effecting

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the food I’m buying. But $6 a pound for hamburger? bet you anything the contents of my products are virtually the same as the outrageously high-priced Really? “organic” versions. With the outlandish difference in

And what’s with the “organic” shampoo, price, especially when I can get these products on soaps and cleaning products? Whoa, hold on now! sale, I am smiling all the way to the bank.

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Dogfighting, Real or Virtual, Isn’t a Game

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: That’s the essence of inhumanity.

-- George Bernard Shaw

When Android came out with its Dog Wars app from Kage Games in April, it challenged players to “raise your dog to beat the best” and included a “gun for police raids” and the option to “inject your dog with steroids.” This according to the company’s own website.

Dog Wars charged gamers with the challenge of training a virtual pit bull (Thanks, Kage, we needed that.) to participate in virtual dogfights, with the winners building the kind of street cred that “puts money in your pocket and lets you earn more in fights.”

The release of Dog Wars rallied the animal welfare community, as well as law enforcement and child advocacy groups. Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul Weber called the game “absolutely sickening.” And a man whose name is to dogfighting what Bernie Madoff’s is to zero balances had this to say: “Dogfighting is a dead-end street. ... I think it’s important to send the smart message to kids, and not glorify this form of animal cruelty.”

That man, of course, is Michael Vick, who spent 23 months in prison on dogfighting and animal cruelty charges.

In the wake of a righteous uproar, Android (operated by Google) pulled the app.

For a while.

After a few weeks and a name change, Android released the “new and improved” KG Dogfighting app from Kage Games. Same song, second verse -- this time with a “high maturity” label making it for kids 13 and older, although with no obvious means of enforcing it, and a vague promise that a portion of proceeds will go to animal rescue organizations. production

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Forgiving Is Essential to Healing After Loss

As every affected individual remembers the horrors of World War II, a common refrain is we can “forgive but we will never forget.” Now 10 years have passed since the wound of the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist attacks that still festers in the hearts of all Americans.

While forgiveness is an essential element of recovery, it remains hard to do. We must continue to bring every criminal who has wounded our nation to justice. Holding grudges and blaming nations and faiths for the misdeeds of a few not only affects our nation’s well being, but our individual health.

This is a good time to gain insight on how we approach tragedy and how best to eventually heal and achieve inner peace. Whether an attack on our nation, a death in the family, a life-threatening illness, a divorce or the loss of a job, each of us goes through a grieving process that eventually leads to acceptance and comfort.

Much of the initial research done on dealing with tragedy comes from the pioneering work of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. She has carefully studied the way patients and their families deal with death. Kubler-Ross identified the following five phases.

The first step is denial. After 9/11, we all felt the same thing. How could this be happening to us? The disaster is overwhelming and it must be a dream. Denial creates a physiologic process that allows our body to deal with the overwhelming stress of tragedy and a wound we believe will never heal.

After denial comes anger. We heard it in the address to the nation by President George W. Bush soon after the attack. We will bring these villains to justice “dead or alive.” Anger can have no limits. I see it in the furious man who has lost his job and takes out his frustration on those he loves, or the patient with cancer lashing out at the doc-

tor. Underneath the anger are pain, loneliness and abandonment. Anger, though, is strength; it provides us with the courage to respond, to marshal our physiologic, or in the case of 9/11, our national forces to prepare us to deal most effectively with the tragedy.

The third phase is bargaining. Here we turn to God and make promises seeking his help in recovery. “Please God, let my wife recover and I will tithe 15 percent of my income to the church, become your servant for life and attend church much more regularly.” We try as best we can to avoid the pain we feel by spending time in the past and avoid dealing with the trauma we face ourselves or see in those we love.

Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of dealing with grief is depression. We feel profoundly sad, may become suicidal, lose weight, cannot sleep and feel worthless. In the case of 9/11, our nation went into a funk for a short period of time.

But thanks to leadership, strength and our coping skills, we were able to dig ourselves out and become proud of our resilience and ability to deal with the tragedy. During an illness, medications may be needed to deal with depression as well as therapy and counseling to improve coping skills.

Last, and most importantly, is acceptance.

This is not a feeling that everything will be OK, but a true sense of peace that whatever happens, we have an inner sense of comfort and understanding and are more able to deal with the trauma or death in a better way. This acceptance means that the ability to recover or heal is improved and, if death is imminent, to deal with it with grace, dignity and a deep understanding that soon we will be in a better place.

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) instructs players on how to condition a dog using methods that are standard in organized dogfighting, this game may be a virtual training ground for would-be dogfighters. Its timing and message are all wrong.”

As for the brains at Kage Games, they say “critics are missing the point” and in an email to the LA Times defended themselves as “animal lovers” exploring a “groundbreaking way to raise money/ awareness to REAL dogs in need (and) exercise freedom of expression.”

Really? Just a gaggle of libertarian dog lovers taking their free speech rights out for a spin?

Regardless of whether you believe the Founders designed the First Amendment with an eye on protecting a bloody game that teaches people how to do something that is a felony in all 50 states, that’s a crock.

Any way you cut it, the creation and distribution of a dogfighting app is embarrassingly hypocritical, wildly irresponsible and bottom-line unconscionable behavior from a group that purports to be “dog lovers and dog owners themselves.” Any true dogloving gamer would instead buckle down and create an app that challenges players to see how many dogs they can free from a shelter before the next round of euthanasia. Better yet, go volunteer at one.

Dogfighting is violence. Brutal and forced violence. Violence that infiltrates the dreams of children who bear witness to it. Violence that holds hostage the neighborhoods and communities in which it lurks. Violence that stamps out the spirit of innocent dogs and shackles them to a life of unspeakable pain and suffering. Does that sound like a game to you?

When crimes begin to pile up, they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

-- Bertolt Brecht

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In addition to providing workers with a ba- gains from a national social insurance system. I alsic and stable income in retirement, Social Security luded to one of the program’s social benefits above. was established to achieve larger goals for our coun- In a future column, I will spell out more. try as a whole. One of those goals was to raise the Second, these “payback” numbers can be standard of living of lower-income workers in retire- presented in all sorts of ways. For example, some ment. This is accomplished with a weighted benefit insist the employer’s share of Social Security taxes formula that gives those retirees a higher “replace- should be factored into the equation. This is the ment rate” -- when comparing their average income amount your employer kicked into Social Security to with their Social Security retirement benefit -- than match your tax payments. their more well-to-do fellow taxpayers can expect.

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But if you disagree with my take on this, then simply double the number I give you when I present the amount of Social Security taxes you’ve paid.

I also must point out that I fully understand that I’m presenting the “payback times” for someone who works for wages. A self-employed person pays twice as much in Social Security taxes -- although, over the years, that rate’s been reduced by various tax write-offs.

And finally, I must make it clear that in adding up the “taxes paid” column, I used the Social Security tax, which varied from 4.6 percent when you first started working in 1971 to 6.2 percent in 2010. (And in 2011, you paid onlyjust 4.2 percent, due Some things are to a provision in last year’s economic stimulus packtoo good to change... age.) When some people attempt to do these payback times, they mistakenly add in Medicare taxes • Same Beautiful Music you know and love paid. Medicare is a completely separate program and • Same pleasing funded. format It makes absolutely no is entirely separately sense• to factor in Medicare taxes when trying to figFamiliar on-air personalities ure out Social Security payback times.

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That means you will recoup all the taxes you paid in about 55 months, or a little more than four and a half years.

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