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• On Saturday, the Meyers Park rising senior said he proudly registered 16 people to vote. Ledbetter himself is not even old enough to vote but said he wanted to push for others to get involved in local politics.

• Before they can be eligible for parole, Pinski ordered both men to hand write the names of all 6,756 Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan; write out the obituaries of the 40 Montanans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and send hand-written letters of apology to several veterans groups identifying themselves as having lied about military service to receive help and possibly a lesser sentence through a Veterans Court.

Amazing new footage: How the dinosaurs died

• I don’t think I’ve read any book more than once, maybe a short story, but not a book.

• Articles like this frustrate me. The headline mentions the stadium has the state’s largest video board, but I couldn’t find anything in the article which mentions the dimensions or specs or even a comparison to other video boards at other venues.

• Only one Texas place is on the list, and it’s in Houston. The closest place on the list to Dallas is in Tulsa. And, two places on the list are in Vietnam.

• Piglets: Any suckling pig
• Gilt: A virgin female pig
• Shoat: A juvenile male pig
• Hog: A domestic pig that weighs more than 120 lbs.
• Boar: Any male pig that’s not a piglet (an uncastrated male domestic pig)
• Barrow: Male pig castrated at an early age
• Sow: Mature female pig
• Stag: Male pig castrated at a later age
• Drift: A herd of domestic pigs
• Sounder: Not used here, but it’s a group of wild pigs
• Farrow: A group of piglets
• And for good measure: – Feral pigs and wild hogs are similar and may even be indistinguishable in some cases, but they not one in the same. The key difference in defining a specific one is the use of the terms “feral” and “wild,” which have two distinct meanings.
  • The term “feral” applies to any animal that was once domesticated or whose ancestors were domesticated but has since been loosed into the wild and lost its sense of domestication. Feral pigs, often referred to ambiguously as “razorbacks” in many countries around the world regardless of the actual species of the pig, either were domestic pigs themselves or they are the descendants of domestic pigs.
  • Wild hogs collectively have never been subject to domestication by humans and have always remained as they were originally, wild.

• Cow shot dead by police in Newfield Drive in Carlisle
  • A large female cow was seen roaming through gardens and roads in the area of Newfield Drive in Carlisle. Police were called to contain the cow at about 12pm today, before armed officers shot the animal dead two hours later.
  • In case you are lacking in bovine literacy:
    • Cow: A cow is a female animal that has had at least one calf.
    • Heifer: A heifer is a female animal that has never had a calf. Once a heifer has a calf, she automatically becomes a cow.
    • Bull: A mature male animal that is used for breeding. (And for the record, I did know what a bull was when I initially asked my city kid question!)
    • Steer: A steer is a male animal that has been neutered.
    • And for good measure:
      • So, what do you usually eat when you eat meat? Generally speaking if it’s good quality meat it’s usually a heifer or steer. If it’s lower quality meat, it’s usually a cow.
    • I’m sure a lot of you thought this series of bullet points was a bunch of bullshit. Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all weak. Sorry if you were offended this blog tipped slightly un-family friendly, but you can’t live sheltered all the time.

• Pre-2016, if you were in the market for human remains, eBay was your go-to website. But after the site banned the sale of human body parts (with the exception of scalp hair) in 2016, Instagram has taken over. Selling remains on the photo-sharing network works much like other informal commerce on the platform. A user will post an image of, say, a skull and offer a price in the comment section below. Interested users will then reach out via direct message, and if a price is agreed upon, payment is made directly, and the goods packaged and shipped.
• Unlike other illicit markets on Instagram—exotic animals, looted antiquities, weapons—there is nothing explicitly illegal about trading human remains on the platform.