The New Extreme Hunting: Bagging A Polar Bear
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 7th, 2009
Yes I am on a roll….here’s another little didley that I discovered while perusing the internet. With all that we know about global warming and its effects on Polar Bears…with all that we know about Polar Bears and their importance in this world, we have lowlife degenerate scum hunting for the thrill of the kill.
Polar Bears are not only starving and drowning because of the perils of climate change but now they have to deal with humans hunting them for sport. The latest challenge for fans of extreme hunting? They call it ‘bagging a Polar Bear’. And for $35 grand, you too can bag one for the coveted Polar Bear hide. How sickening is that?
Boyd Warner doesn’t think so. He treasures the memories of killing his first Polar Bear:
It was 2003. For days he had stalked his prey on the frozen wastelands north of Pond Inlet, one of Canada’s most isolated Inuit communities deep inside the Arctic Circle. His dog team picked up the scent of an eight-foot adult male and they hurtled over the ice: the hunt was on.
“It was one of those beautiful Arctic days,” recalled Mr Warner. “We’d had about 14 hours of sunlight and were completely surrounded by nature. The moment of death comes quickly for the bear. You might track one for days through the ice but a single shot to the heart kills it instantly.”
Mr Warner is the man who helps others create treasurable memories too.
Earlier this week, the 45-year-old Canadian, whose company Adventure Northwest is based in Yellowknife, sent this season’s first group of hunters north to Pond Inlet, where they will track and kill up to six bears. “This is probably the toughest hunt you can ever do,” he said. “The weather conditions are appalling and it takes a huge amount of patience. You’re living in the Arctic where it can drop to -50C at night and everything is done with sled dogs. It’s incredibly gruelling.” His clientele is Mexicans, Americans and Europeans who say that they ‘respect the animal enormously.’
Wha’at?! So if they are killing those that they ‘respect’, how do they treat those they don’t ‘respect’?
“I don’t enjoy killing animals but I enjoy the hunt,” said Mr Warner. “People find that difficult to understand but for me there is no paradox.”
Yeah, I have a hard time understanding your BS. If you don’t enjoy killing then why do it? This is his answer:
“Those 20 bears are going to get killed one way or another because the Inuits depend on them for food during the winter,” Mr Warner insisted. “So it shouldn’t really matter whether it is the indigenous population that is shooting them or outsiders.”
Oh, so easy for him to justify his actions…but sorry, it does matter.
I know that the Polar Bears have been a source of food for the Inuits but knowing that up to two-thirds of all polar bears could be lost by 2050, this brings the sustainability of hunting into question. We need to protect these bears.
As far as Warner, Oh, how I would love for Zmiv to take him on. You know…put him out on the ice and hunt him down. Only make it a long, slow and painful kill. I can’t help feeling that way…but hey, I ‘respect’ Mr. Warner.
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April 7th, 2009 at 8:56 am
PHYSICAL THERAPY HELPS OUTCOMES FOR ICU PATIENTS
Although critically ill people treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) may survive, many do not do well after hospital discharge. Even a year later, many such patients function poorly, with decreased pulmonary function tests and unsatisfactory daily self-care and mood questionnaires, remaining physically weak and showing signs of emotional strain. To improve long-term outcomes and reduce health care costs, the National Institutes of Health is encouraging research on what can be done for patients in the ICU to not only keep them alive, but help them heal better over the long term.
A fascinating preliminary finding has emerged from this study, which was funded almost entirely by the North Carolina Baptist Hospital: Even for patients who are unconscious, having some form of physical therapy (PT) makes a difference. In a 24-month study of patients on mechanical ventilation at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, ICU patients who started preliminary PT within 48 hours spent less time (one day less on average) in the ICU… and less time in the hospital (three days) after leaving the ICU.
HOW DOES PT IN ICU WORK?
Physical therapy in the ICU? How does this even work? With unconscious patients, nursing assistants began with “passive range of motion,” I learned from lead investigator Peter Morris, MD, associate professor in the Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases at Wake Forest. This included flexing patients’ arm and leg joints three times a day, seven days a week. Once patients were alert, though still on the ventilator, the study team — made up of a critical care nurse, a physical therapist and a nursing assistant — expanded their activity, based on individual progress. Exercises first focused on movements to improve limb weakness… then moved to exercises to strengthen torso muscles… and then, when patients were upright, different exercises to help them stabilize while standing and walking.
Given that long-term ICU outcomes are not very good, Wake Forest’s research results are encouraging. Dr. Morris says that PT helped patients move better, in that they were able to avoid some of the possible deconditioning and muscle atrophy that often results from being sedentary. Perhaps more importantly, exercise seems to have helped reduce the systemic inflammation that disease and/or trauma creates, thus improving healing.
Since assorted research studies have shown a decrease of serum inflammatory markers in heart patients who exercise and also in sedentary elderly who become active, Dr. Morris says that it stands to reason that physical activity even in the ICU environment might help speed healing. The Wake Forest Team is now preparing a study to directly evaluate (through measurements of blood levels of markers or systemic markers of inflammation) how PT affects inflammation in the critically ill. But the current study results have convinced Dr. Morris that movement for ICU patients makes sense.
Source(s): ??Peter Morris, MD, associate professor in the Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:47 am
I came across this. I hope it will pass because the right to work law is a scam upon the working person. It actually represents the right of the worker to work for less. Let’s hope that this correction under the Obama administration will pass.
Hearing today on repeal of ‘Right to Work’ law
Bill 20 repeals the 2000 law and divides the cost of union representation among every employee covered by union-negotiated contracts, whether they are members or not.
Employees who are not union members would be required to pay a “fair share” fee that would help cover the union’s costs for bargaining, contract administration and grievance adjustment, according to the bill, which was introduced by Democratic Sens. Rory Respicio, B.J. Cruz and Judi Guthertz. The fee would be determined in the collective-bargaining agreement.
Employees who benefit from collective bargaining but do not pay a “fair share” fee could be charged with a misdemeanor.
Ranks on Guam that are covered by collective-bargaining agreements include public school teachers, nurses, school bus drivers, Guam Customs and Quarantine and Department of Corrections officers, and employees of the Guam Waterworks Authority and the Port Authority of Guam, according to the Guam Federation of Teachers, a labor union.
Guam and many states currently have “Right to Work” laws that guarantee no employee is forced to pay for or support a union, even if a contract the union negotiated covers their position.
‘Free Lunch’
Labor union-negotiated contracts generally cover all employees in a certain class, whether they are members or not. It takes time and money to negotiate these contracts, and the “Right to Work” law means some employees get a “free lunch” when it comes to negotiated benefits, Respicio said.
However, unions have the option of representing only dues-paying members, but usually choose not to exercise it, said Greg Mourad, director of legislation for the National Right to Work Committee, who is against the bill.
“Federal law gives a union with 51 percent support among the workforce the power to force its representation on the 49 percent that don’t want it, and negotiate a contract that applies to every employee in the bargaining unit,” Mourad said.
The hearing for this and six other bills is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. today at the Legislature’s public hearing room.
Robert
April 7th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Those of you in LA or near here is some new about Gum’s first major movie.
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“Shiro’s Head” Finalist At L.A. Film Fest
Written by From News Release
Saturday, 04 April 2009 08:13
Guam
Guam – Guam’s first feature length movie, SHIRO’S HEAD, has been selected as a finalist for the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
The film was produced by Guam natives, and brothers, Don and Kel Muna.
The Grand Jury Award will be presented to the film artist whose feature-length work displays artistic excellence as well as strong promise for future creative activity.
Only 8 films from the Festival were honored with this prestigious nomination.
In an official letter from Anderson Le, Program Coordinator of the Festival, Le states: “In reviewing the entries that composed the final Festival program schedule, our program committee was excited to include your production into the final Festival schedule, and further felt that it deserved to be nominated for this special award. Your film will be judged by our grand jury that is comprised of film industry professionals. On behalf of Visual Communications and the Festival organizing committee, I congratulate you for this great honor. I look forward to meeting you (and viewing your nominated work with an enthusiastic audience) at the Festival.”
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 30 thru May 7, 2009 – 25th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
April 6, 2009 – Tickets for the Los Angeles showing of SHIRO’S HEAD will be on sale online at http://www.vconline.org/ff09/ and at the theater box office
Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 10:00pm.- Shiro’s Head will be shown at the Director’s Guild of America Theater 2
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Hafa adai
Anna
April 7th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Hi Mischa, missed your call, bummer…maybe Weds aft?
I love when people justify bad behavior by saying things like someone would do it anyway so why not me, adding of course, their ‘due respect’ to the animal/person. I’ll admit I get just as disturbed if not more by males in the news reporting about women being abused and calling it ‘nothing to go to war about…’ to make it clear we’re ‘ok’ with this cultural practice to the Muslims watching tv who continue this practice. I was very upset with Fareed, he’s usually a respectable man, he said this while footage of a woman receiving a beating was playing behind his head. So, if culturally it’s ok, we’re all supposed to think so? ‘fraid not. We don’t have to start wars but how about stopping the openly abusive treatment of women???
I’m not OK with Mr Warner’s idea of a good time either and I’m with you, let’s see how he’d like it, Zmiv, where art thou??
Caio, Zen Lill
April 7th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
“…someone will do it anyway, so why not me…” That is the same line Anonz uses for his actions on pilfering the common man’s hard earned dollars and orchestrating havoc on the global economy.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
A leader has vision and is able to transcend this kind of ridiculous political BS. If Obama is not such a leader then America is not going to recover. We are not going to restore our government and country to respectability by playing the same old childish games from last century. Obama already quoted Corinthians and I believe that he means it enough. What the republican party and their friends and affiliations are doing in the public right now should be shunned in every way as the anti-democratic obstructionism that it is. What I expect from my government is as much transparency, honesty and realism as the thousands of elected and appointed people can muster together. I don’t want Obama to orchestrate the same sort of propagandist messages that bush and his administration will be forever known for, I want him to tell all of us the TRUTH, ALL OF THE TIME.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Tom, i see you as the typical man looking to take Anonz down a peg. The concept that if anyone is to have all the money in the world it should be me does not equate to an action. Being mean because someone will do it anyway is not the same thing because someone should not be allowed to do it anyway.
You are just a jealous male. You can knock Anonz as much as you like but you will NEVER lower his stature in our eyes. There are hundreds of billionaires out there who could care less about their fellow man or woman. Anonz stands for a kind of honor that makes a woman’s eyes wet from appreciation and her loins wet from desire.
You are just sucking on rotten eggs.
Tina
April 7th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Bush and Cheney were the leaders of a bunch of thieves, liars -Dictators- war mongers. The GOP and their supporters show no comprehension or fairness concerning the gigantic mess Obama has been left with.
The facts are these: Reagan / Bush / Greenspan policies of deregulation of banks & Wall ST- put us on the road to this disaster. Greenspan refused to put ANY controls on banks & Wall St. That led to extreme GREED & lack of common sense safe guards.
Pres. Clinton caved to the GOP congress, and helped it along. If people do NOT GET IT- we are doomed to repeat it this !! Give the President 2 years to help ‘ stop the bleeding.’ .
Put aside your partisan ship for a moment and look at what Obama has accomplished in 71 days ! The MAIN GOP agenda is- HAMMER OBAMA DAILY AND Get POWER & CONTROL BACK. -as they’ve had for 20 of the last 28 years.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
You tell him Tina. He sounds like my husband. Always making snide remarks about Anonz. Jealousy, that’s what most men feel when they read Anonz. You wish, Tom.
Men like Zen Lill said can easily accept other men doing disgusting things to women while screaming for war if the same thing is done to a man. The difference in Anonz is he is consistent in his standards which are very high and non compromising.
I love you Anonz. You have my heart and support.
Whitney
April 7th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Tom, you need to get a life. I bet you waited desperately for an opportunity to dump on Anonz. I don’t see you putting your life on the line for a cause. You are probably one of those little prick gun freaks looking to impress a woman with you big wheels.
Brittany
April 7th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
So you thought you could make your snide remark and not have to hear real women take you to task for it. Tom you are a loser looking to degrade what you could never be, a real man.
Agnus
April 7th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Women look around you. Tom is one of your husbands. He is a jealous wanna-be Anonz trying to cast aspersions on his dream man.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
President Obama is right to tell the truth about our current difficulties
April 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Revisionist history should bother us If we let their lies stand and never know know what really happened to get us here- then they WILL repeat it. We must expose them for what they are. Liars-cheats -greedy people who care nothing for the common working man. There are other Madoff’s out there. Madoffs money and possessions and the money he hid in his wife’s name should be taken . He’s a creep like Enron CEO who caused all his employees to lose their life savings. and McCains advisor / buddy- Sen Phil Gramm who pushed thru the ” Enron loophole ‘ that made it all possible . Then his wife made 900 K off that deal-as a lobbyist. Isn’t that convenient. We have to understand that he’s not alone- many of our so called ‘ public servants ‘ are nothing of the sort. WE SERVE them..they vote their own raises -and many are corrupt. I do not mean all or most- but a fair
number are not to be trusted. Don’t let hem fool voters ever again.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
The U.S. is becoming a weaker nation so we will be on the same level as other countries. Since Affirmative Action began we have slowly lowered the standards for jobs and education. Instead of bringing up the job and education standards we have lowered them to fill quota’s. People just don’t want to admit this. Open your eyes people. It’s all about Diversity and being sensative to others feelings. Give us a break, Government Schools suck, and they put unqualified people in job positions they should not be in. I mean after all look how many unqualified we have in Government, let alone the Presidency.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Walk This Way for Happier Knees
Here’s a good way to keep moving but take some of the pressure off your knees.
Just put one foot behind the other. Yep, walking backward puts less strain on your patellofemoral joint — an important kneecap-to-thighbone connection.
Backward March
Okay, you won’t want to do this in an area that is highly trafficked, unlevel, or unfamiliar. But under the right (read safe) circumstances, walking in reverse gear will make your quadriceps muscles contract differently than they do when you’re walking forward. It will cause a concentric contraction — a movement that’s gentler on your anterior cruciate ligament, a knee ligament professional athletes routinely injure. Guess some NFL running backs could use this trick . . . (Need to sit it out today? This video shows you how you can work out from a chair.)
Backward Benefits
If you want to try backward walking, go slow until you get the hang of it. Maybe invite a spotter along. And don’t try it for the first time on a treadmill. If you’ve got knee problems of any sort, check with your doctor first. And consider these other ways to stay active while staving off knee trouble:
• Sweat it out. Cardio exercise can actually increase the amount of protective cartilage in your knees. Here’s what we recommend.
• Buffer your joints. Strength training bolsters more than your bones and muscles. Find out how it helps strengthen the connective tissue in your joints.
• Move your hips. Hip muscles are key to helping prevent knee pain. Here’s why.
RealAge Benefit: A physical activity program that builds stamina, strength, and flexibility can make your RealAge as much as 8.1 years younger.
References
Published on 04/08/2009.
EDITOR’S PICK?
April 7th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Anon15, you are like most bigots who think if they leave out a significant part of history they can make their point. OTWs need affirmative action because whites had it for the first 200 plus years of this country’s existence. You made sure that the state and federal governments gave you all the advantages this country had to offer.
With all those advantages you whites still couldn’t hold on to your leads in the auto industry, steel, financial or any other that an OTW got a chance to compete fairly with you. Your only hope is to convince yourself and others that it was some one else’s fault.
Good luck
Robert
April 7th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Mr. Warner is just the typical little wennie trying to impress himself and women with his manhood. Unfortunately, he defines manhood as a gun killing defenseless animals. So many men are like that.
Tom you get the picture don’t you.
Connie
April 7th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
This has been going on for a long time. Foreigners own a huge chunk of AMerica. Bush even wanted our airport port security to go to DUBAI- a Arab country. The GOP has been in power 20 of the last 28 years-many with a friendly congress. Bush has a GOP congress his first 6 years.
So we can thank them ( and Greenspan ) for their ‘ legacy ‘ of greed & deregulation of banks &
Wall St . B of A – Citigroup and others were allowed to become’ too big to fail ‘ which makes
the taxpayer the ‘ lender ‘ of last resort. Yes- Reagan / Bush policies of Deregulation made it all possible-with a bit of help from Clinton- who caved to GOP pressure. That’s not my opinion..
its a fact. How many know this ? Lies and misinformation are spread all the time and believed.. Ari Fleisher – on Hardball- said ‘ They were worried that Sadaam would hit AGAIN after 9 /11 !! AGAIN ! Sadaam never hit us at all. Matthews let it slide by. That’s a huge problem – the news media does not call them on all their lies.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Thank God Obama tells the truth- so refreshing. But many will take that and twist it to suit their agenda. GOP promises to : ‘ Hammer Obama daily so the Republicans get power and control back
in the 2010 election’ Their words-not mine. Let’s not be fooled again- we must think critically- always ask yourselves- what is the speakers motive for saying what he says ? Is it truthful or lie.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
We’ve gotten to this mess because of 8 years of economic mismanagement, albeit the initial problems began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1981. The press has misunderstood Obama’s initial legislation. It was NOT an economic stimulus. It was an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Obama rightfully understands that we need to retool our entire economy to meet the realities of the 21st century – particularly global warming. This is a challenge we must either face or we will hand our children a doomed and toxic planet. I cannot emphasize too much the importance of intelligent and fast action.
Obama has proven without doubt that he can TCB (take care of business.) In less that 2 months, he has already made a long list of accomplshments both domestically and internationally. (Credit is also due to Hillary Clinton – This is definitely her finest hour.)
Obama’s proposals for the most part are what this country needs. The problem is Congress, which is filled with corrupt politicians and puppets of various lobbyists. It would be nice to say that this is totally GOP (for the most part it is), but some Democrats also deserve censure. I will give Nancy Pelosi kudos for getting the Democrats in the House to act intelligently. The jury is out on Harry Reid.
I,however, must insist that we must support Obama’s efforts. The election of 2008 was NOT about Obama; it was about US. We should not for a moment for get that.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Obama is clearly the answer to our troubled times.
Backing him all the way.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I think that the very best thing that “this Administration” can do is to keep the ball of economic recovery firmly in the court in which it properly belongs … the Congress. They are the ones who wrote the laws into the books, and wrote the laws back out of the books, and turned a blind eye to what was going on even as they slipped things into bills to make the whole thing easier. Congress is the center .. some would say the entire definition .. of our system of Government. While the President is the Executive Officer, he cannot lay his hand upon the ship’s wheel directly.
We obviously do have a serious international issue here… the United States basically defrauded(!) everyone in the world of finance. And it is beholden upon more than six hundred people … not just one … to fix that problem. Yes, the President is the Executive and it’s a damn-lonely post. He stops the buck. He takes the heat. But he’s neither a god nor a savior. And he ought not try to be.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
it is disheartening, but I’m holding out that Obama will do the right thing. I’ve noticed everything is timing with him. He lets things play out before he makes his move, like with Bush war crimes. He’s waiting for people to do their jobs before he jumps in and says this way or that. Having Elizabeth Warren heading the TARP committee now, makes me breathe a sigh of relief. This woman is right on and she’s going after that TARP money and she’s gonna get to the bottom of all of that!
April 7th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I just got an earful from a co worker about the American Tea Party. He said Obama is recklessly spending and that during the Bush years we had more Tax revenue due to tax cuts. Realizing never to wrestle with a pig cuz the pig likes it, I walked away after trying to talk some sense into him. He wouldn’t hear it. To him, Obama is the worst president ever cuz of ALL THE SPENDING! He is obviously uninformed, and it’s not my job to inform him, it’s the media.
If the odds weren’t stacked against us with all the right wing conservative news stations, the media would have a better chance to get clear, concise information out there backed up with facts that can’t be disputed. It’s so frustrating that my co worker thinks that way, but what can I do?
April 7th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I have a friend who believes the same way. You cannot change them. They are always right and you are always wrong.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
You’re right hon, don’t wrestle with the pigs, you get dirty and the pigs like it,
April 8th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Hi. Well of seems Tina, Whitney and Brittany already gave Tom the talking to that I would have so I’ll refrain from repeating, I’ll just add grow up Tom. I can’t say anything about Anonz either, he may or may not come back due to memory loss or choice and I’ve got to concentrate on the art of living this ZL life of mine. I will always wish the best for him.
Anon, tell your uninformed friends to listen to BBV, News Asia and English version of Aljazeer if he/she wants some scoop worth listening to, American media is filtered I blogged about that several months ago.
Luv, Zen Lill