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Natural gas is the primary feedstock material for nitrogen production. Therefore, as domestic natural gas prices rise, it makes more sense to produce more nitrogen fertilizer overseas where natural gas is cheaper. Fertilizer, especially in granular form, is much easier to import than gas.
Overseas fertilizer plants are mostly located in the Middle East, where natural gas is a by-product of pumping oil out of the ground. In Saudi Arabia, the price of natural gas remains nearly static at less than $1/Mcf. Fertilizer plants also are booming in the Caribbean, where natural gas price is determined more by the price of NH3 in the U.S. Natural gas in Trinidad fluctuates at a level somewhere around $2.50/Mcf.


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Randy Bass to appear in an Owners League TV commercial
by Gen on Sep.08, 2011 @ 5:14 pm, under Baseball Cards, Video Games
Randy Bass will be appearing in an Owners League TV commercial that will be shown in the Kanto and Kansai regions, beginning on 9/10 (two spots, one 15 seconds long and the other 30 seconds long). Bass, and 5 other foreign players that made their mark in the NPB, will be included in the 3rd set of Owners League cards, set to hit store shelves on 9/16.
Randy Bass' card: front and back
Shots from the commercial: 4Gamer.net and Oricon Style
Tags: Owners League, Randy Bass


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Saturday, November 7, 2009
The BEAST's Castle
This magnificent background art was incredibly difficult to re-assemble. The artists used digital layer multiplane effects. Panning from the bottom up, the gargoyles and statuary in front moved, as did layers of the castle, and clouds in the stormy sky!
Using Photoshop, I cut, pasted, layered and matched, re-creating the stunning artwork you see here.
To be perfectly honest, it's really unfinished. Although essentially complete, there are a couple of very small areas I'll come back and finish one day. In the meantime, I think the results are so incredible I decided to share it with you as a "work in progress."
BTW, the severely angled elements near the left top are positioned exactly as created by the artist and shown in the film. Being a pan shot, this creates some additional visual tension and drama.
I hope you'll enjoy it "as is!"
8 comments:
- Niki said...
This may seem rude, but why is it tilted? is a a mistake? are was there a specific purpose?
- November 7, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- waterboy100 said...
i think that it is because of the way he stitched the images together to make the composite
- November 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM
- ROB RICHARDS said...
It is not tilted by me! The composited image is exactly how the artist created it.
The pan in the film is straight up from bottom to top.
- November 8, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- Ashley said...
I'm going to have to pull the movie out and watch that pan. I'm fascinated that they deliberately tilted the top that much.
- November 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM
- Niki said...
either way it's pretty strange Ashley's got the right idea. but I don't have this on DVD.
- November 9, 2009 at 8:42 AM
- Peach said...
If you look at lots of Disney movies, tilting or warping pans is common. My favourite one is from pinocchio: http://one1more2time3.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/pino-opening-a.jpg
It's one of my favs
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What with the drought this past year, as well as the price of alternative feed ingredients, the hay market has remained pretty strong so far this winter. That's especially true when you consider we haven't been swamped with snow, which tends to create even more hay consumption and demand. One recent auction report from north-central Iowa had two farmers who both really, really wanted a load of round bales at the auction. They proceeded to run the price to $150 per bale. That's less than I sell hay for, but I'm selling a bale that weighs somewhere around 1,400 to 2,100 pounds. The rank amateur who made and consigned those bales had them tipping the scale at 600 pounds each. The math behind that story problem ends up at around $500 per ton for that hay. Getting past the $200 mark used to be quite an achievement. The $300 barrier didn't take long the past few months before a few loads hit it. Now we've blown through $500 on more than one occasion in the last year. It's getting to the point where I'm beginning to wonder where all the tortoises are to create this kind of spendy demand! (See "Scratching a niche.")
So what do you do if you're a hay consumer? Get more efficient with your use. As a seller, there's nothing I love more than driving through the countryside and seeing people feed their critters hay without using any kind of feeder. They just throw a bale out to the beasts and let them have at it. Don't get me wrong, I have no objections to the use of compost as fertilizer for growing plants. I just think there are cheaper sources of compost material than a bale of hay. When there's no feeder around the bale, you can pretty much plan on a third of it or more ending up as compost. Put that same hay in a feeder and you'll cut your losses in half, if not two-thirds or more.
Then there are the other options. You could grind the hay into near-confetti and mix it in with other ingredients. We used to do that when the value of hay was much lower, but the problem is that those giant hay Cuisinarts have not gotten smaller over the years.
Another option is a vertical TMR (total mixed ration) wagon. They're sort of a trapezoid-shaped funnel with a vertical auger or two inside. You can toss in a whole round bale and a few other ingredients and get the whole works mixed up into a homogenous product in a few minutes. They do have some downsides, though. They tend to be big and bulky compared to other feed wagons. Being able to hold and grind a bale means you need a container quite a bit bigger than the bale. Add in the funnel shape and now you've made that monster both taller and wider. The other problem I have with vertical mixers is that your ration has to use an entire round bale in it. That wouldn't be so bad if you made those cute little toy bales like the $500-per-ton guy did, but let's do the math there. Here's a photo of the lot where I park half of my bales. Take that inventory and multiply it by six. That's what it would take to park my bales if I made 600 pounders instead of 1,800 pounders. Then I'd end up with so many rows of bales that I'd be tempted to set them up in either an avenue and street format, or in a maze where I'd have to run around in my skid loader Pac-man-style to do chores!
Round bales are my preference, so we got ourselves a hay cannon. It's the Teagle 8080WB hay processor. It will take a round bale and grind it into relatively short pieces. Other companies make bale processors, but few of them add the other feature of the Teagle — the rotating directional spout. With that, you can aim the stream of processed material your Teagle spews as it hacks up the bale. Instead of blowing a haze of hay all over the place (primarily directed at the ground) like other models do, with no structure to it whatsoever, the Teagle takes the material from the rotor that chops it up and then feeds it into a rotating fan with a gooseneck hood on it much like a snowblower. You can then kind of control the direction the material goes as it gets chopped up.
I say "kind of," because it's not precise. For instance, if you take a huge glass of water and pour it into the sink, the stream is pretty straight. That's gravity. Now take the same quantity of water and blow it through a straw in the same direction to add some force to the gravity. It maintains its stream fairly well, because gravity is still working, but the stream still spreads out a little. But if you take that 64-oz. Big Gulp of water and heave it up and to the side, you will soon notice that it tends to fan out dramatically, because there's not much pressure behind the water. (My friend and former Medtronic CEO Bill George would say the water lacks leadership. He'll cover the deficiency and how to correct it in his next book, as well as a couple appearances on CNBC.) If you hold a garden hose out and turn it on, the stream of water will stay somewhat straight. Add some pressure to the end of the hose, though, and direction widens out a bit. The Teagle is more or less a garden hose for hay with no sprayer nozzle on the end of it. You can aim it better than heaving a pail of water, but you still can't get precise enough to fill a Mayor-Bloomerg-approved-size cup across the yard.
I was in the middle of Teagling another bale of 2009 hay one day when I heard something. Granted, the hay market has been somewhat of a ticking time bomb this winter, but the sound I heard was a loud "tick, tick, tick" that didn't sound like it was on any bomb. I reversed the apron chain that feeds the bale into the rotor and tried it again. The same ticking sound came back. It was so loud and so consistent that I fully expected to hop out of the cab and be greeted by the ghost of Mike Wallace with that "60 Minutes" clock as background music. "Hello, Mr. Ryan. Mike Wallace. Nice to meet you. Hard at it, I see. Mind if I ask you a couple questions? Did you really think someone would pay you $85 for a ton of this stuff? Really?"
Well, uh, yeah. That was below the market at the time, Mike.
"Really? C'mon!" Mike retorted.
He always gets you with the "C'mon!" response. That's when you know you're toast.
I snapped out of my "60 Minutes" nightmare and lowered the rear gate on the Teagle. Then I hit the Reverse button on the apron chain that carries the bale away from the rotor. Approximately two-thirds of the bale remained to be chewed up. I climbed inside and rolled the bale out of the processor. That's when my hand felt something really solid. Granted, Deere & Co. makes a baler that builds a solid bale, but this was too solid to be hay. It turned out to be the skid shoe off one side of my mower-conditioner! The skid shoes act as feet for the machine to stand on as it glides across the field. They keep the cutting mechanism from digging into the dirt. That means they have to be pretty solid. This one certainly was! Let's not even get into the fact that the skid shoe also had to be picked up and fed into (and successfully through) my round baler without incident to end up inside a bale. We'll save that one for a future believe-it-or-not story.
I looked over the skid shoe and immediately saw which side had, um, interfaced with the rotor of the Teagle. Just enough contact had been made to remove the green paint and add a few scratches to it, but not enough had been made to either A) feed it through the rotor and into the gooseneck blower, thereby launching the world's first hay mortar, or B) bring the rotor to a screaming halt as it exploded into a series of metal shards and became the world's first mobile hay shrapnel grenade.
Lucky me, I got by with no explosions and no paramilitary activity. I also got lucky and did not get those few scratches of steel against steel to generate any sparks, what with there being just a tad bit of tinder handy! That would have been an interesting 911 call, I bet.
Dispatcher: "Equipment with bale fire. Jeff Ryan. Okay, got it. [Brief pause.] Yep, that's our default setting." (See "Let me get my bearings.")
Yeeeeaaaah, thanks.
Two minutes later.
Dispatcher: "The Winneshiek County Sheriff just called. They heard your name on the scanner. If there's cattle out, they assumed you'll be able to get them in without any help, won't you?"
Yeah. That's my default setting.
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Johanvanmil needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 519 designs submitted by 92 freelance designers.
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Paula Deen Fires Legal Team
Celebrity chef Paula Deen, under fire for recent revelations that she has used a racial epithet and made controversial statements about slavery, has fired her legal team. Lee Hawkins reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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LANDMARK VICTORY: 10th Circuit Appeals Court rules in favor of the freedom to marry
June 25, 2014
Today the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in favor of same-sex couples' freedom to marry, upholding a marriage ruling out of Utah in December. It is the first ruling by a federal appellate court since last year's victory in the Supreme Court and, unless reversed, will pave the way for the freedom to marry throughout the 10th Circuit, including in Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Kansas.
The ruling is stayed pending further action, which could include an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
The ruling, written by Judge Lucero, reads:
Having heard and carefully considered the argument of the litigants, we conclude that, consistent with the United States Constitution, the State of Utah may not [deny a citizen the benefit or protection of the laws of the State based solely upon the sex of the person that citizen chooses to marry]. We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right to marry, establish a family, raise children, and enjoy the full protection of a state's marital laws. A state may not deny the issuance of a marriage license to two persons, or refuse to recognize their marriage, based solely upon the sex of the persons in the marriage union.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, released the following statement:
Today, from the heart of the Mountain West, in a case arising out of Utah, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has brought us one giant step closer to the day when all Americans will have the freedom to marry. This first federal appellate ruling affirms what more than 20 other courts all across the country have found: There is no good reason to perpetuate unfair marriage discrimination any longer. America is ready for the freedom to marry, and it is time for the Supreme Court to bring our country to national resolution and it should do so now.
The decision is in Kitchen v. Herbert, brought by by the firm of Magleby & Greenwood, P.C., on behalf of same-sex couples, and co-counseled on appeal with the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Meet two of the plaintiffs, Derek Kitchen & Moudi Sbeity, and Laurie Wood & Kody Partridge, HERE.
Currently, 44% of Americans live in states where gay couples share in the freedom to marry: 19 states and the District of Columbia. Recent polling by the Washington Post/ABC News shows 59% of Americans support marriage, including a majority of young evangelicals and Republicans under 45 in other polls.
Oregon and Pennsylvania became the most recent states to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after courts found the ban on the freedom to marry unconstitutional. In total, 22 rulings in recent months have found that state bans on marriage for same-sex couples are unconstitutional.
Learn all about pending marriage litigation - the 70+ cases in every single state in the country - HERE.


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Supermodel David Gandy believes Irish models, Georgia Salpa and Rosanna Davison should move to the US to boost their careers.
The 32-year-old reckons it would be a great move for two of Ireland's top models as the American people would love their Irish accents. He told the Herald that this would make them a hit on the American fashion scene.
The handsome model said, "The Irish are a very friendly people and the Americans love the Irish, so of course they'd do even better in New York and places like that- probably more than English models."
David, who currently features in a Dolce & Gabbana campaign has never met either of the beautiful Irish ladies but has heard of them, as Georgia was once a star of Celebrity Big Brother and Rosanna was crowned Miss World in 2003.
The Essex born model stressed that he doesn't regularly socialize with others in the industry.
"I know of Rosanna and Georgia, I've heard the names, but the thing is- people think I'm hanging out with models all the time. I only have a couple of model friends," he said, speaking at the launch of Marks & Spencers Collezione summer collection in Dublin yesterday.
David, who is a wanted man in the model industry says it was pretty hard to speak out about being a male model when he started in the business over a decade ago.
He claims it wasn't exactly embarrassing but he would still try to tell people he was involved in a different kind of career.
"There are stereotypical views of male models, the only access people have to it are things... like Zoolander. No one wants to be associated with that," he said.
David who has previously dated ladies outside the model industry, like The Saturdays singer, Mollie King and Irish MTV presenter, Laura Whitmore, says that it is getting easier for male models.
"We're now progressing all the time, we'll never get anywhere near the like os Gisele, but we're getting closer.
"I very much respect female supermodels. I've taken so much from them... Irish model James Dornan has been very successful, it's great to see him doing so well."
David is not only happy to see Irish models making progress but he would also like to see more Irish fashion designers come onto the scene more often.
"I can't say I know a huge amount about Irish designers, which is sad because I'm in the fashion industry... I think it's only coming out about how much talent there is. Someone needs to shout about them a bit more."
After speaking so highly of the Irish on a short-lived visit, the hunk enjoyed a pint of Guinness in the capital before jetting back to the UK.


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|2010-12-04, 09:41
|Link #19381
Miss Kimi
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Residing as the 18th guest of Rokkenjima
Age: 23
I have to say, this theory is extremely impressive. I give you thumbs up~!
I'm still a little lost, though. Are you suggesting that Yasu just brilliantly thought up Umineko in her head (in a nutshell)? And that most of the characters (Such a Virgilia and Ronove) represent people in the REAL REAL world?
Okay, this is another question about Yasu:
EP7 is a complete alternate reality where Natsuhi DID NOT reject the baby Kinzo had given her. Thus, 19 years later, we have Yasu...And I think she's 19 years old. But...we have Lion! So...I know one event can put things in motion a long time before another event (Ex: Battler's Sin) but how would Yasu be put in the world if Natushi didn't kill the baby? Is she actually older and she was the maid with the baby? Could Yasu be Asumu's baby, the real Battler? Haha, just wondering~
|2010-12-04, 10:47
|Link #19382
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Buffer overflow
Spoiler for size:
Then again, there's another way. Remember Bern's talk about there being no miracles? Presumably because writing in things like "fate" and "it was all a miracle" is more or less an easy way out for a writer. Plus, Umineko tells us that magic (or falsehoods mixed with truth) is what creates miracles. Yet we're told that Lion survived the fall by a miracle.
Look at it this way: if Lion died in that fall, would any of EP7 be different? Genji's apparent goal in bringing Yasu to the island was so that Kinzo could see his child one last time before he died. Presumably, he felt sorry for Kinzo when he saw how much Beatrice 2 and Lion's deaths destroyed him. Even if Lion actually died, Genji could still give Kinzo peace before death only by making him think that Lion was alive.
So, if Genji had a motive for faking Lion's age and making him a servant, he had just as strong a motive to find another kid entirely and make Kinzo think it was Lion. Yasu wouldn't know the difference, so her reaction would be exactly the same as we're shown in EP7. And, there are actually two kids in the story who might have been 'the child' Genji chose.
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|2010-12-04, 11:09
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Miss Kimi
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Residing as the 18th guest of Rokkenjima
Age: 23
Hmm...okay...So Genji decided to bring a child to the island and make Kinzo think he/she was Lion. Are you saying that the child could've been Yasu? Who's the second one you're talking about? (gah, sorry, so stupid -_-)
I just as we speak (FINALLY) managed to get EP7 english patch to work. So I'll start reading it, and maybe it'll make me smarter xD
|2010-12-04, 11:21
|Link #19384
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Buffer overflow
The first Yasu candidate would probably be Asumu's Battler, since that kid should be exactly the right age.
However, we know that Genji supposedly faked the age of "Lion", saying that Yasu was three years younger than Lion should have been. But how exactly would you trick a child like this? I'm sure it's possible, but it would have taken some work. What if Genji noticed how much Lion's death hurt Kinzo and made up his mind to find a new child a few years later? At this point in time, only Genji and Nanjo know for sure that Lion is dead, and while Genji seems to be working to help Kinzo die happily, we don't really know what Nanjo's motives for doing this much are.
They could have chosen an orphan from somewhere, but the only other plausible possibility is that they took a kid from the Nanjo family (unless Genji has a wife hidden away somewhere). By choosing someone from Nanjo's family, they would be able to tell the whole story without risk of exposure. We don't know what kind of man Nanjo's son was, but while this would mean not being able to raise his daughter, it would also mean that daughter would become richer than his wildest dreams. What better way to ensure your child's future? ...Or so he might have reasoned. Plus, being the biological father of a kid like that would probably mean an easy life for him as well. On top of that, the point of this whole plan is to let a poor, sad, old man die in peace. If he was blinded by money, he had plenty of excuses to convince himself that it was morally not so bad. And, in the EP4 scenes, it seems clear that he has something to hide. It's also clear that he claims his daughter died at some time from sickness, which would be helpful for explaining the absence of his daughter now.
|2010-12-04, 11:36
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Blick Winkel
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Gobbled up by Promathia
I'm not sure if this has been said, but after reading the EP7 patch I'm starting to think that Shannon is responsible for the fake First Twilights.
The "murders" do not begin until Battler returns to Rokkenjima. Why?
Because Shannon plans the fake murders in order to test Battler's ability to solve the mystery. After all, it's known that Yasu loved reading mystery novels. Umineko could just be based off of "And Then There Were None" (which has been directly alluded to).
However, Battler's absence meant that Shannon didn't have anyone to talk to about mystery. When Battler returns, Shannon begins the fake First Twilight.
Kyrie takes advantage of the situation and uses the fake First Twilight as a coverup for herself. She actually is the "culprit" but Shannon is the one who wants to play a game with Battler and sets up the impossible crimes.
Heck, I might even take this one step further:
Perhaps Shannon planned ALL of the murders, but didn't intend them to be real. In fact, she NEVER discovers that the victims are actually dead. Kyrie takes the "closed room puzzles" and actually turns them in to murder cases.
Shannon could have planned to make this all "A real life mystery", and knowing Battler's experience with the mystery genre, she knew he would take the role of detective.
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Miss Kimi
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Location: Residing as the 18th guest of Rokkenjima
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Interesting. I never thought of Kyrie as the culprit.
....Wait, why would Kyrie be the culprit? ._. Like Will says in the beginning of EP7, there must be heart in a crime. (Lol, I'm reading it right now xD)
|2010-12-04, 13:08
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Kyrie and George have been speculated to be the culprit for a while. They are the ones who most frequently get pointed at.
The reason is that they both gave signs of being capable of murder. George technically could also have a motive. Jealousy can drive people insane, and we know that Shannon actually loves Battler.
Kyrie is suspicious for leaving Ange at home, and considering the Sumadera are in the bigger picture it's easy to imagine she planned the incident as a way to divert the vast Ushiromiya wealth into the Sumadera's cash. Although, can she be so much determined as to kill herself and her husband?
Krauss is also a potential culprit if he lied about his last investments proceeding well. He might have decided to kill all the family to avoid the shame of exposing the truth of his failures. However does Krauss even possess the necessary resolution? Krauss also lacks the "murderous intent" hints that the other have.
|2010-12-04, 13:25
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Ushiromiya Krauss is not the culprit. And he was killed long ago, shortly after you heard his voice over the phone, get it?
Of course this is for episode 5 and not for the other ones, but if there is only one universal culprit then yeah he should be discarded. Kyrie and George fit the mold though at least the human mold of murdering because of love or gold.
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Miss Kimi
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Well, out of the two, I'm more suspicious of George than I am of Kyrie. As for Krauss, for some reason I find him too cowardly or even smart enough to kill everyone.
What about Rosa and Rudolf? Could one of them be capable?
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In one of the scenarios I described yeah, Rosa would be the prime suspect in EP2 and even in EP1, the EP1 scenario though could be re-enacted with any of the people inside the shed during the first twilight though.
Rudolph I dont know, he isn't a predominant character the way Rosa or Nats , Eva are. He is more backgroundish .
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While I'd hesitate to characterize Yasu as submissive, her portrayal is more in line with what I suspect a Japanese audience would expect. The problem is that Beatrice as portrayed is not that far off from a perfectly acceptable strong female character to a western audience, where the native audience expects she needs to be toned down to be "humanized."
Personally, I find it pretty distasteful and think it sort of makes Battler look kind kind of a dick with unrealistic expectations (where if he actually saw hints of what he wanted at least he'd be romantic). But whatever, if I were looking to Japanese culture for particular preferred values I'd be barking up the wrong tree entirely. I can live with disappointment, but I stand by it not squaring up.
Lion himself can be someone else entirely or no one at all; that is, just a made up hypothetical person. We have contradictory testimony as to whether the baby story is even true, and even if it is no evidence that (1) it would ever have actually been accepted by Natsuhi if it existed, and (2) there was even the remotest possibility it could have survived. Who says a baby existed?
Unless ep8 comes down on it, or at least provides some definitive evidence, I'm not sure how we'd be sure of any of it. But under current parameters, I'm not sure it really makes a difference. It doesn't change what Yasu ends up thinking is true, and I don't see how anyone would have the ability to present to her evidence to the contrary short of Genji/Kumasawa/Nanjo admitting out of the blue that they lied about something.
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Keiraku, just wanted to say that I really appreciate the philosophical/thematic/world view opinions you post! I feel that is an aspect of umineko that ryu takes seriously yet doesn't get much attention from mystery theorizing points of view.
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|2010-12-04, 15:08
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Second, I believe that instead of only having a single 'self' to her body, she has multiple selves, that all exist on this 'thought plane' (which is a hypothetical place where all selves exist, but are intimately tied to our bodies as we know it). It seems that some overarching aspect of Yasu has control to change and manipulate these selves, but they seem to have their own will, desires, reasoning etc.
Third, I think that now we can view all events through out the series (except non-'magic' flashbacks and future events, I guess) as events unfolding on this thought realm. I consider Beatrice's Gameboard as a place abstracted from the 'normal world'; a place everyone is connected to a body, and instead this is a playground, if you will, for the selves to experience and clash. This is why the events of the 2 days so quickly go from seemingly normal to crazy magic scenes, because all of it exists there. I say that Yasu has the most control over this space, and has set it up as a fun mystery game to play with Battler, where Knox and Dine rules already exist to call upon, due to her tastes. This would be the idea, that thought though they didn't show up until the core arcs, Virigillia and Ronove repeated that Bern and Lamba weren't doing anything that was not allowed on the Gameboard by bringing them in. This would be a space where he allows his other selves (Shannon and Kanon) on a fundamental level to have happiness with the 'selves' of George and Jessica. At the same time, Gaap gets to play around with the corpses and hiding stuff all the while, Beatrice gets to have her overarching mystery duel between author and challenger with Battler.
Sorry, to answer your question directly, Kumamsawa, Genji, Kyrie, Rudolf, Rosa etc. are all the 'bodies' of the thought beings if you will. But on the space of the thought plane, some of them also have other selves (like Yasu) along side their 'normal' or fundamental selves. So Ronove and Genji are both parts of Genji that have their own will and freedom to do what they want separately on the level of the thought plane.
I originally made that post to show a way that Yasu's world can be completely cohesive and a part of reality as we know it.
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1. Beatrice has got to be 19 - EP5, EP6 and EP7 have pretty much left almost no room to argue this - and all the references we've got for that number point to 1967. If you're bringing some double, then I think you'll have to add clues foreshadowing his/her existence. The other Battler cannot be 19, because 1. He's got to be the same age as Battler and 2. I'm sure we can say for sure Battler's age is 18, since I'm rather sure we do not have any serious evidence about his birth date being fake.
2. The serious injury Yasu mentioned in EP7. She said it was due to the fall, meaning that Genji and Nanjo did tell her about this accident. Unless we go by the idea that Yasu happened to, coincidentally, have some bad injury and those two just decided to lie to her to make all fit, then I think there's no way the baby died in that fall.
Why could Yasu and Shannon be in the same place at the same time? I think that can be answered rather easily by saying that, at that point, Shannon was merely a figment of Yasu's imagination - notice that the first group of servants do not seem to notice Shannon at all - at the very least, not when Yasu is around. Shannon talks to them at times, but not even once do they reply to her.
The reason why Shannon and Kanon cannot be together at the same time is because Yasu is role-playing them. There's a difference between imagining characters and actually playing them as characters.
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We're not even specifically sure of the injury's nature. And again, Yasu has no way of knowing where it came from if he/she doesn't remember getting it. Of course, it would be a coincidence to an extreme if Yasu just happened to have a random injury, but we don't even know if Yasu is injured, or merely believes him/herself to be. Then too, I'm sure if Genji and Nanjo looked hard enough for a kid that roughly fit the description they could get one.
Still, the point is, we don't know the baby survived the fall, we don't know there was a baby, and we don't know Yasu was that baby. For the Yasu story to be exactly as presented, all those implausible things must be true. However, for Yasu to think him/herself those things, none of these needs to be true.
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So, I just learned in EP7, (reading it right now) Will says that Lion was the result of if Natsuhi did not reject the baby. We know that much, but then he says that if he "disappeared" in the beginning, then Beatrice would come up, then. Lion suggested their like two sides of a coin, the witch on one side and he/she on the other (Btw, I got sooo angry when Lion didn't reveal his gender xD)
Anyway, are they trying to say that Lion and the "Beatrice" are the same? To put it direct:
- If Natsuhi accepted the baby, he/she would grow up to be Lion
- If she didn't, the baby could've still survived, and grew up to be Yasu, thus becoming the witch as they put it.
- Or the baby died, thus somebody else became the witch.
So, I'm thinking that Lion, Yasu and Beatrice III are all the same. Am I wrong? :O
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"two side of the same coin", plus both Bern and Will totally tell Lion that s/he's Yasu in the other "fragments".
Even provided that Yasu actually isn't Lion (which I strongly doubt) Will quite clearly doesn't know and believes they are the same. But there's simply no way that Will is wrong.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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- Judy said...
Steve, how do you do it? With your few words, you can generate tears in my eyes and then I don't see very well. Do you have any idea how much we love you? Yes, we are together.....now and for always.
- November 25, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Elizabeth said...
What a beautiful picture - I'm sure it shows that the sun is rising on a great day. We have much to be thankful for - even though miles separate us, the love and caring between siblings and all our family is certainly multiplied by a zillion. Thanks giving is appropriate, not just for today.
- November 26, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- Louise Blood said...
What a sweet sentiment, you old softy. Here's a huge hug over that space that cannot diminish my love for you, or our love for each other. Memories of family at this time of year are especially precious.
- November 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- Ann said...
Happy Thanksgiving! Memories of this day from long ago? There are things I do today that are "have to's" for Thanksgiving. Sweet potatoes - of course, - this was the only time I remember eating them in Penrose was on Thanksgiving - fresh cooked cranberries (no jelly stuff here), fruit salad (remember the store bought big red delicious apple that would make its appearance for the salad), squash pie; the smells, the bustle, the best sage dressing ever, etc. My memories are around the smells for sure, but also the sounds, and the fact that we used napkins at the table; Dad's laugh, and Mother trying to keep us out of mischief or from snitching before permitted; all of us pitching in to help set the table (who gets the matching silverware today?), bringing in wood from the woodpile; the warmth and the anticipated delight of a special dinner. Thanks was always given for the bounty of the year - that made a lasting impression on me, because I knew times were hard.
This was one of the holidays where older siblings just might make it home from what always felt like far off places, and so those of us still at home would watch from our bedroom windows for cars coming down off the highway and follow their lights to see if they turned at McBlains, and then did they turn at the mailbox - Hooray! Everyone is home once more.
Just as others have expressed, whether it is New York, Washington, Idaho or Utah, I can so easily put us all back together in the little white house in Penrose, and the outside temperature has no effect on the warmth those memories hold.
Love to all.
- November 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Elizabeth said...
One thing about it, I have very well-spoken siblings! Ann, it seems as if Thanksgiving was the only time we had celery (maybe at Christmas, too?) and grapes with seeds. Thank you for that nostalgic bit of writing. No wonder many of my dreams are located in Penrose.
- November 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- Shannon Blood said...
One question, Dad: Did you restrain yourself from throwing rolls across the table this year? *giggle* Happy Thanksgiving. Much Love!
- November 27, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Judith said...
Winnie the Pooh says that when we care so much, it is called love.
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We are a well established family-owned car dealership based in the UK. We are now into our fifth-generation of the family, the original company being found in the late 1800's!! We are still immensely proud of our history and heritage but we are now looking for a new identity for the company name – Hutchings.
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Nine years after Heath Ledger's tragic death from an accidental prescription drug overdose, the late actor is getting new life in a feature-length documentary, "I Am Heath Ledger," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival Sunday night.
According to the film's director, Derik Murray, the documentary gives insight into the life of the troubled Aussie, famous for his roles in "10 Things I Hate About You," "Brokeback Mountain" and his Oscar-winning role in "The Dark Knight."
But those close to him remember him as a father to daughter Matilda Ledger and a loyal friend.
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Members of Ledger's family, as well as celebrities Naomi Watts, Ben Mendelsohn, Dijmon Hounsou and Emile Hirsch appear in the documentary. Meanwhile, Ledger's ex Michelle Williams is notably absent, but the filmmakers said the "Manchester By The Sea" actress gave her blessing for the film.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
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- DJ's Life in Fiction said...
Wow! That's so cool! I wish I had that much artistic talent. :)
- April 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Morgan said...
I absolutly love love love her illustration, it's gorgous. I also wanted to say that I just read The Body Finder last night. I couldn't pry my eyes away from it so I ended up going to bed at 1 in the morning (on a school night.) I was tired today, but it was totally worth it. Your book was extroidinary and I loved every page. I just wanted to tell you how beautifully it was written and the relationship between Violet and Jay was my favorite part.
- April 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM
That's beautiful, I love it too!
- April 19, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Katie said...
Love her!!! She is so durn talented! And oh how much fun it has been to watch your launch of the killer new BODY FINDER!!!!!
YOu go girl!
- April 19, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- Heidi Willis said...
Gorgeous! I think Realm's covers are incredible! This one is beautiful!
- April 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM
- Little Ms J said...
Ridiculously talented!
- April 19, 2010 at 10:49 PM
- Kimberly Derting said...
Morgan - I'm so glad you liked it (but sorry you stayed up so late on a school night!).
- April 20, 2010 at 6:38 AM
- Karen Amanda Hooper said...
Very beautiful. Well done, Realm.
And for the record, I love Violet. I'm in love with Jay and reread parts of TBF so I can live vicariously through Violet. ;)
- April 20, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- JEM said...
That's a beautiful picture! I'll have to check out the interview, thanks!
- April 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM
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- Kimberly Derting said...
Karen- That cracked me up!!!
- April 23, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- ReggieWrites said...
That is wayyyy too cool Kim!!!
- April 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM
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Hey Jenni - No, just for fun!
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Searching for an angle…
Touched down in Philadelphia last night around 8 p.m. and headed to dinner with Ned Colletti and a number of people on his staff at a great Italian restaurant. For those who missed it, Ken Gurnick wrote an impressive recap of Ned's tenure as GM and whether you agree with his moves or not, you've got to admit that the end result has been what we've all been hoping for…whether it was starting a prospect development program in the winter, hanging onto the kids when some thought we should deal them, or making big trades for Manny, Casey, Berroa or Maddux, he and his staff — all the way down to each and every area scout and minor league instructor — deserve tons of credit for building this team and turning it over to Joe Torre and his staff.
I know that our plan was for Ned to answer questions from fans on this blog and I'm sure he'd still be happy to do that if any of you want to post them here. When things weren't looking very good, the questions stopped coming in but he's been willing to interact with everyone on this blog since Spring Training and that's pretty unique for a big league GM. Just be sure to direct the question to him and I'll try to get it answered this week.
In any event, as you can imagine, there are tons of media members here that are just getting to cover the Dodgers for the first time and everyone is seeking a unique angle. Part of our job in the Communications Department is to help provide them with interesting ideas. Among them…
– Our Chief Operating Officer, Dennis Mannion, worked for the Phillies for 15 years, eventually becoming VP of Marketing and Sales
– Fernando and Mariano Duncan were teammates on the 1994 Phillies
– Larry Bowa's ties to the Phillies (he might be the person we've received the most requests for so far)
– Ned actually used to be a sportswriter in Philadelphia, covering hockey in 1980-81
– Shane Victorino (former Dodger minor league twice Rule Fived from our system)
– Jayson Werth – who can forget his wrist sagas?
– Andre Ethier's thoughts on Philly cheesesteaks (he's now become MLB's resident foodie)
– Two former Dodgers on the Phillies' coaching staff (Davey Lopes and Milt Thompson)
– Former Dodger Charlie Manuel managing the Phillies
And arguably one of the best angles I've seen written so far is by the New York Times' Ben Shpigel, who pointed out that Manuel used to be Manny's minor league manager, big league hitting coach and big league skipper.
Speaking of Manny, he's on the cover of SI this week…hopefully the photo below shows up better than the ones of the Steelers' practice I uploaded back in Pittsburgh.
Meanwhile, my counterpart at the Phillies (who has been doing the PR thing far longer than I have and is one of the more respected people in the game), also has a front office blog like Inside the Dodgers. Larry Shenk runs Phillies Insider and you should peek in over there, too. Good luck to Larry in the series…may the best team win.
I also noticed that more Dodger fan blogs are popping up left and right, including this one by Kelly, currently being promoted on the front of MLBlogs. If you've got a Dodger blog, be sure to include it in your posts so others can check them out.
To answer the question about why the start time is 5:22 p.m., not 5:30 – it's all about network programming. FOX selects the times and in this case, it allows them to go on the air around 5 p.m. and still have up to 20 minutes or so for a pre-game show, plus commercials…
And finally, if you're back in LA and want to get together with other Dodger fans to watch the games, there are a ton of restaurants/bars in the Dodgers' Home Base Network where you can be sure the game will be on and other fans will be on hand.
That's all for now…this might be my longest post of the season so sorry for the rambling.
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Good morning ITD land ~ It's getting closer to game time….and, I for one, cannot wait. Thanks Josh for your great information packed posts. I just heard Tim McCarver, one of the Fox broadcasters, who will be doing our series, called Manny "Dispicable". Great unbiased opinion, isn't it?
Good Morning ITD writers and readers!!!!!!
Countdown to Dodger Baseball ~ 32 hours and 37 minutes
Josh – Thanks for the great write up. Question for Ned – What are the chances of the Dodgers re-signing Manny? Furcal? Lowe?
And another question for Ned ~ What are the chances of getting rid of Pierre and Jones?
I think I spelled "DESPICIBLE" sorry.
Didn't think to ask that one – LOL!!!! Too happy about Manny, Matt and Andre out there, you kind of forget about those two. For what it's worth, JP has been doing his job coming off the bench. BTW ~ When was the last time anybody has even seen Andruw?
Question for Ned, If you can give Pierre 45 mil and Schmidt 50 mil and Andruw 36 mil do you see any reason why you can't resign a player that will actually help the Dodgers win like Manny?
fliegel ~ I'm with you on that one! So, please Ned, resign Manny!!!
JOSH – Thanks for answering the questions about the game starting time.
Sports Illustrated Cover of Manny is great. Love the Heading.
QUESTION FOR NED: Of course I'm sure everyone is wondering about MANNY, is he going to be resign? What about our veterans KENT, SAITO & NOMAR?
Ned ~ With all the money Manny generates through merchandise and ticket sales, and the fact that Andre, Matt, James and Russell think he has helped them all at the plate, I think signing him must be your first priority.
An unusual letter-printing day for the Times today. A bunch of Angle fans are pretty sore that the squeeze didn't work out.
………So off goes another letter………
"To all you Angel fans who are wailing to high heaven about Mike Scioscia's decision to squeeze, you are most likely the same people who would be singing his praises for his "gutsy and aggressive" call if it had worked.
Trade him to the Dodgers. That's where he belongs anyway."
Yeah!!!! Dodgereric!!!!!!!!! and Good Morning to you!!!
Very intersting, Dodgreric. They were arguing about that play all day on television too.
In fact, they were saying that if the ball was dropped at home plate, the way it was after the tag out on third, he would have been called safe. If a fielder, catches a ball and runs into the wall and loses it, it's not a catch. So, the question is, are there different rules on a dropped ball?
Good morning everyone! Just heard on SportsCenter that Buster Olney is picking the Dodgers, which adds him to Ken Rosenthal and Tim Kurkjian. As far as Tim McCarver goes, he should be taken off that series not because he has his own opinion on Manny, but because I feel it could spill over to his opinion of the Dodgers. At least he is not calling balls and strikes in this series!
Good morning, June Darlin' and TruLumpy!!
Tru, in the home plate scenario, I think it would matter exactly how the ball was dropped. If the runner dislodges it, he's ruled safe. If the catcher tags the runner and gets bowled over and he drops it after he hits the ground, I think the ump would rule that the tag was made and the runner was out before the catcher hit the ground.
At least that's how I see it. But it's all subjective, isn't it? I thought Sabathia made an error on the play that was ruled a hit and eventually cost him a no-hitter. So what do I know?
Good morning ITD boys and girls!
Oh boy, I'm going to have to listen to Tim McCarver for this series??? Tim McCarver is an idiot. I've never liked him; never liked his broadcasting style. I don't like Ken Rosenthal either, especially for his stupid articles, but at least when he talks on the TV, he doesn't sound like a blithering idiot like McCarver does. I'll have fun watching the Dodgers on TV, but I'm not going to have any fun listening to McCarver. I like are Peter Gammons and Steve Phillips from ESPN; too bad ESPN isn't broadcasting the series…
Well, I guess we just hit mute and turn on Vin!
An excellent suggestion, PM!
Countdown to Dodger Baseball ~ 30 hours and 34 minutes
I hope everyone is having a great day. Quick story ~ My class was choosing who they think will win the AL Division, and as I was saying the names of the teams, one of my students says "My mom and dad call the Red Sox the Butt Sox". I couldn't help but laugh. Back to work. I will read all the comments at lunch. A much better day today 🙂
Kuo update please???!!!…….
Question from above for Ned, If you can give Pierre 45 mil and Schmidt 50 mil and Andruw 36 mil do you see any reason why you can't resign a player that will actually help the Dodgers win like Manny?
Answer: They won't be able to resign a player like Manny because they still have to give Pierre 45 mil and Schmidt 50 mil and Andruw 36 mil…
elf2 That's the point.
Question for Ned:
During the interviews of you I have heard lately, you have been giving a great deal of credit to Joe Torre. My question is this: When will you start giving the most credit where it is due — to the wonderful core of young players who have continued to play hard and show incredible patience (at least publicly) while Joe, and before him Grady, took excessive amounts of time to recognize that players like Loney, Kemp, and Ethier are superior to the likes of Luis Gonzalez, Juan Pierre, and Nomar?
Philly is a great town, i wish i could be there with you guys tomorrow. Hell, i wish i could be there with you guys in LA.
But tickets are just too expensive.
Good Luck!
Ill be outside the stadium cheering in LA 😀


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When Brad Spencer realized his destiny was to be a farmer, not a veterinarian, he came back to the family's Mississippi operation to "rejoin the life I'd always loved."
He had gone to community college to play baseball, another love, with an eye toward an eventual veterinary medicine degree. But fate stepped in.
"Our key employee back at the farm left, and I began commuting back to the farm to help out. Before long it dawned on me that I loved farming more than I did school — that there was no life I wanted more than farming.
"So I came back, married Carla, who I'd met at school, and have never regretted for a minute not becoming a veterinarian."
He began farming with his parents, Keith and Barbara Spencer, and rented five acres to farm on his own — a historical mirror of his grandfather's start in farming decades ago here at Vardaman, Miss., the epicenter of the state's thriving sweet potato industry.
"Grandfather Raymond Spencer came here from Tennessee, bringing sweet potato seed with him, and started farming on just five acres. He paid $25 an acre for the land — now, you couldn't buy it for $2,500 an acre. My father continued the operation and expanded it, adding a packing shed for washing, grading, and storing potatoes."
Today, Brad has boosted his owned acreage to 60, and is 50-50 partners with his father in the 1,700-acre Spencer and Son operation that includes sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans, and wheat.
He has a 50-plus cow herd, and 20 acres of watermelons that he says are a college fund for sons, Hunter, 11, and Justin, 8, who help with related chores, "to teach them responsibility and decision-making and to give them some of the training and experience I had growing up on a farm."
Brad and Keith are expecting to rent more land this year so they can add to their peanut and sweet potato acreage, he says.
"If that works out, we'll have another 300 acres, and our crop mix will likely be 600 acres of sweet potatoes, 700 peanuts, 20-30 acres of watermelons, and the rest in soybeans. We rotate land between crops to keep down diseases, and the 400 acres we have in winter wheat could go back into potatoes.
"Dad pretty much looks after the peanuts, and I take care of the other crops and the cows. My mother handles payroll and recordkeeping, and when were going full speed with harvest, she's out there driving a tractor." Wife Carla is a teaching assistant at a local school.
Brad's farming accomplishments, his community service contributions, and his involvement in state and national agricultural issues were factors leading to his being named this year's Outstanding Young Farmer/Rancher by the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. He placed in the top 10 in the national competition at Honolulu.
The Spencer farming operations are spread across a 45-mile radius in Calhoun and Chickasaw Counties, which necessitates a lot of tractors — "We have 11, not counting the time I got on the John Deere and Kubota tractors that were part of the Farm Bureau award," Brad says. "It's an hour's tractor drive to the farthest field.
"Dad and I bought a 30-foot no-till drill last fall and will now do a lot of no-tilling of soybeans. The John Deere (award) tractor has a guidance system on it, which will improve efficiency and save time."
Yields on some of their soybean fields have topped 55 bushels, with an average across all their acres of 35 bushels.
Irrigation not feasible
"All our crops are dryland — we'd have to drill so deep here for a relatively small volume of water that it just isn't economically feasible to irrigate. So," he laughs, "we do a lot of praying for rain.
"But, if we can get enough rain to get them up and growing, sweet potatoes and peanuts can get by with less rain water other crops. If we can catch a shower now and then during the growing season, we're OK. The potatoes are actually sweeter when the weather's a bit on the dry side. Too much rain will rot them; they just turn to mush — as happened in the record rainfall year of 2009, when we lost 200 acres of potatoes and 100 acres of peanuts."
Until 1995, the Spencers also grew cotton, but that year Brad says "the bugs ate up the crop, no matter what we sprayed, and potatoes ended up paying the bills for the cotton. We haven't grown any cotton since."
Sweet potato production in the Vardaman area continues to grow, Brad says, with expansion into neighboring counties and good demand in both fresh and processing markets.
"The increased emphasis on healthful foods has been a boost," he says. "Sweet potatoes are high in Vitamin A, beta carotene, and a number of beneficial anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients. Even with all the production in this area, there'll be the occasional year when demand can't be met and the brokers have to buy potatoes elsewhere." (North Carolina is the leading sweet potato state.)
They shoot for yield average of 400 to 500 bushels per acre, with 260 bushels of that for consumer field packs. There are three grades: No. 1, No. 2, and Jumbo; those that don't fit into those grades are processors. No. 1s are the most profitable.
Unlike other row crops that utilize a lot of mechanization, sweet potato production, is very labor-intensive, Brad notes.
"About mid-March, we'll take whole potatoes from the previous year's crop to use as seed. (Every two years, we buy some new seed potatoes in order to keep diversity in the gene pool.) We put the seed potatoes in prepared beds, cover them with both black and clear plastic to retain heat, and in three to four weeks sprouts will be pushing up the plastic. We take off the plastic and cover the beds with a mesh fabric that allows water and air penetration, but also helps hold heat.
"Four weeks later, when the sprouts are about 6 inches high, we go in with a blade harvester and cut them off the mother potatoes. We hold them for a couple of days until they begin forming little white roots and are ready for planting."
Every plant is put into the ground by hand. "We have 8-row and 4-row potato setter machines, which workers ride through the field, placing plants into the soil. Sixteen people ride on the 8-row machine, with four walking behind, and there are 12 people with the 4-row machine, so we'll have 32-people in the field for planting. We can plant about 30 acres a day.
"We can't no-till potato ground; they need good, loose soil for planting and harvesting, so we have to till the land well."
Poultry litter for fertility
Brad says he's "a real believer" in soil sampling to determine fertility needs; "it's a proven practice for us." For the past five years, they've been increasing their use of composted sawdust poultry litter, and "it has worked really well, both in terms of fertility and adding organic matter. We'll apply an average 1.5 tons per acre and, if soil tests indicate, we'll also add some commercial 9-23-30.
"I can tell to the exact row where I've used the poultry litter — the plants are more lush and have a richer, deeper color."
They plant two varieties, Beauregard and O'Henry, the latter a white sweet potato for a limited market; "we only plant 15-20 acres," Brad says, "but they're a really good money variety."
For the first 40 days, he handles weed and insect control; when the crop starts putting out runners and enters the vigorous growth stage, his consultant checks once or twice a week for insects, including cucumber beetles, flea beetles, wireworms, and cutworms.
Other destructive pests, he notes, are deer and wild hogs. "Deer just love potatoes and will paw them out of the ground, and the hogs will root them up. They'll also get into the watermelons, but they don't bother peanuts as much."
Harvest, also labor-intensive, starts about 90-120 days after planting, usually around Aug. 15, and continues until November, six days a week.
"We can harvest about 15 acres a day. I do as much separating and grading as possible in the field, which makes things easier once we get potatoes into the packing shed. The potatoes are loaded in wooden boxes and stacked on an 18-wheeler trailer to haul to our shed, where they're stacked in temperature-controlled storage until they're cured (about four to six weeks), after which they're washed, graded, and packed."
Brad admits to being "a hard man to work for when it comes to grading — that's where I really watch things closely, because I want to be sure the very best quality product possible goes to my customers."
Each year, he says, "Our goal is to be ready for our biggest sales period, Thanksgiving. The second biggest sales period is Easter, with Christmas ranking third.
"We sell both to brokers and to our own customers, as well as to walk-ins and peddlers. Whatever the customer wants, we try to provide it."
In addition to boxed and bulk potatoes, the Spencers process a lot of three-pound bags for special orders, and can do about 600 of those per hour.
"We can keep 15,000 bushels of potatoes in storage, at 55-60 degrees, the year-round," Brad says, "but our every-year goal is to be sold out of the old crop just about the time the new crop is being harvested."
Culls or junk potatoes are sold for feed for cows — "they really love 'em; when I go into the pasture with a truck full, my cows come lickety-split."
New packing facility
In between rains since last Thanksgiving, Brad has been trying to get work under way on a new packing facility just up the road from his house, "so I can keep a closer eye on things."
It will be a 120-foot by 180-foot building, with areas for washing, packing, and storage. "With all of the new rules and regulations we have to follow, it would take too much money to upgrade our current packing facility, which is the oldest in Vardaman. But we will do some renovation and continue using that facility for storage. The new facility will allow us to consolidate our operation and to achieve more efficiency."
Sweet potato acreage is increasing in the region, he notes, in order to meet growing demand and also, "a lot of cotton growers have added sweet potatoes to their crop mix because of the rotational value. And because of their high fertility requirement, there is some residual fertilizer for the following cotton crop."
Last year, the Spencers had 300 acres of peanuts. This year, with high prices as a result of the 2011 drought in Texas that sent prices zooming, Brad says, "We'll have at least 500 acres, and if I can buy or rent another combine, we'll go as high as 750 acres.
"Peanut contracts had been in the $350 per ton range, but when the drought hit last year we contracted ours at $650, which was $100 more than we'd ever got before. And for peanuts over our contracted amount, we got $1,000 per ton."
They plant the Georgia Green variety in 40-inch rows when the soil temperature is about 70 degrees. "We don't plant them more than two years on the same ground, and then we'll plant something else there for three years in order to avoid disease buildups. We use a consultant on peanuts from Day 1 to check for diseases, particularly white mold.
"We shoot for a 3-ton yield and average around 2.5 tons, depending on weather. All our peanuts go to a buying point at Aberdeen, Miss."
Mike Howell, Mississippi Extension peanut specialist, says the state's farmers could more than double plantings this year, to about 30,000 acres.
This is Brad's third year for his sons' college fund watermelons.
"The first year, they did very well," he says. "The second year was average, and last year was pretty much a disaster due to dry weather — the melons just rotted.
"Once we destroy the beds where we start our sweet potato plants, we plant watermelons there, about the end of May or first of June. They're ready for harvest about the first of September, when other producers are starting to wind down their summer production.
"It's not a prime time price-wise for watermelons, but it's still good money. In a good year, we'll get 2 tons to 3 tons per acre. These late melons are exceptionally sweet, and we sell all we grow locally or to peddlers who come to the farm."
He started his sideline cow operation, also for his sons' college fund, with five head, and now has 57.
"We got in just the right time," he says, "because beef prices have seen a really good increase. Money from the cows we've sold has already paid off a good chunk of the loan at the bank."
In addition to his farming, community, and church activities, Brad is a member of the board of directors of the Sweet Potato Council and the Sweet Potato Council Fruit and Vegetable Co-op, and has served as vice chair of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Sweet Potato Commodity Advisory Committee.
He says farmers in the area are a close-knit group. "We all help each other. If I have a slack period and one of the other growers needs some help, I'll take my crew and help out. Last year, I took my entire operation over to help a neighbor, and I know he'll do the same for me if I need it. We all have a really special bond, which has made my choice of a farming career all the more meaningful."


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Yes, once, long ago, I did write about the sheer radness of Citro n's mini-Jeeplet, which totally kicks the poo out of the DAF 66 YA. It's beefier, tougher-looking, was actually briefly sold in the US of A, and was available with four wheel drive. The plastic-bodied Mehari was also the basis for the mighty FAF, and featured very little to none, er actually, none in the way of variator-type technology. 2CV-Mehari-FAF? That's a lineage that can't be touched, son. Don't make me drop the 2CV Safari on you.
Two boxer twins, one driving each axle? Those DAF Dakar trucks you love so much are merely ripping off something the parents of the FAF were doing years before. Hey, Jonny. How're your knees doing? Oh wait, I think you've just been cut off at them. Face!
Mehari [Citro net]
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RBOB futures soared and rocked to the highest level since last September as concern about tight supply in a New York harbor is causing a bit of panic. And as I expected, it seemed to get an extra shot of enthusiasm when Hess announced they were exiting the refining business and selling some terminals. If refining is such a great business, why does it seem like so many want to get out of it?
Mid-Atlantic stocks are 15% below the five year average and there has been a scramble. Still, after yesterday's epic pop and considering the market has posted gains almost seven days in a row, beware of a pullback.
Reuters News reported that Hess Corp on Monday announced plans to sell its oil storage terminal network and exit the oil refining business, after activist hedge fund Elliott Associates said it was considering nominating directors to the Hess board. Hess' decision to become predominantly an exploration and production company is similar to the strategy employed by others such as ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil, both spun off their refining operations in recent years. "Hess is now facing some activist shareholder interest. In order to deflect or preempt pressure from Elliot, Hess announced it will be becoming a pure E&P company," said Pavel Molchanov, an oil analyst for Raymond James. Molchanov said the move to simplify Hess' asset base should be appreciated by investors. Hess shares rose 6% in afternoon trading.
Hess has been shifting away from refining since early last year, when the HOVENSA refinery, a joint venture between Hess and Venezuela's PDVSA, was closed. Chief Executive John Hess has said the company's strategy is to focus on lower-risk, higher-return assets like its position in the Bakken oil shale in North Dakota.
Hess said in a statement on Monday that it received a letter from Elliott late last week saying the hedge fund might buy more than $800 million of Hess shares, or a roughly 4% stake. Such a purchase would make Elliott one of the top three shareholders in Hess, according to Thomson Reuter's data.
The Wall Street Journal says that the oil storage terminals Hess has put on the block as it looks to exit the refining business could fetch between $1.5 billion and $2 billion by Barclay's analysts estimate. The terminals' location has a lot to do with their value, the analysts say. More than half of Hess's storage space is located on high-priced real estate along New York Harbor, while the remainder of the facilities are spread along the East Coast. All told Hess is selling storage for 28 million barrels of oil, with room for 15 million barrels at New York Harbor. The New York space is worth between $65 to $85 per barrel, or as much as about $1.3 million, Barclays says. The rest will likely go for $40 to $60 per barrel, or up to about $780 million.


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IPCZ needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 226 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
International Protestant Church (IPC), Zurich
Hi! Thanks for helping out! We are an International Christian Church, we are looking to redesign our current logo. To view the current logo please look at http://www.ipc-zurich.org/. Our website is in the process of being redesigned also, so you are not limited to that layout or style. We want to see exciting new logo designs that really represent our growing, joyful and vibrant church!
A few words to describe what our Church is like and what we believe: Bible Believing, Family community, Fellowship, Disciple making, welcoming, equipping, evangelizing, spirit filled. We believe in the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection, and forgiveness of sins by grace through Salvation. More information can be found on our website.
We would like to communicate the following through our logo:
- Christ Centered,
- The Christian Faith
- International Community
- Welcoming
- Growing in Faith
- Service Oriented
The logo will be used for stationery, publications and our website. Also other various items such as pin badges.
If you have any queries please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- New people (visitors, people moving to Switzerland)
- A growing community of believers.
- Current Members.
- Wide age range: youth, young adults, adults, families, elderly.
- International Community with over 70 nations represented.
We have had a few ideas and considerations for the logo redesign. As our target audience is an international community we would like to see designs that have both/either map or no map construct. Please bear in mind that most circular world maps leave out Oceania, if this could also be incorporated we would be very pleased, however we don't want the logo to look like a shipping/haulage company! We are also open to a design were the world is represented by a circle. A circle could represent the world, love, community, wholeness, infinity etc. Please don't let our ideas limit your creativity! We are excited to see what you come up with!
For your information:
-We are a church based in the Kanton of Zurich, Switzerland. Colour wise we prefer blue, navy, and white. (Blue and White are also the colours of Zurich's Kantonal Flag.) Although are open to other balanced colour schemes.
- The logo must photocopy well and also look good in greyscale format.
- Type face should be clear, simple and sophisticated. We like Futura and Century Gothic
- Design should have a long life expectancy.
- No Stock art or Clip Art or anything 'cute' or cartoonish.
1. Christian Cross (not a crucifix)
2. Globe/Global - representing our International Community (also see notes under Target Audience.)
3. IPC: We would like a logo that stands on its own without text, however we would also like to see designs which include the initials IPC, whichever option you feel works best. Something fresh, innovative, eye catching and which easily communicates what we are about.
4. A versatile logo. For instance the Church will celebrate its 50th Anniversary next year, during the period of special events we will incorporate a reference to this alongside the logo. We would also like to be able to display the logo with the words 'International Protestant Church, Zurich' around our design (either to right, left, top or bottom). If you wish, you can provide examples of how you would see your logo design used in partnership with these additional elements however the contest is for the logo alone, and not a logo with these additional elements. The delivered design with set format specifications must only be the logo .
- We need the file in rgb and cmyk.
- psd format (with layers)
- high res jpeg (roughly A4 size)
- Scalable Vector format (.ai, .eps etc)
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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metaxpert needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 10 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
HuntDash is a new company seeking to become the ultimate portal and allow locating information on hunting outfitters (directory) & later purchasing goods.
HuntDash is a social networking site for hunters, hunting outfitters, and hunting vendors.
Looking for profile page design to give us guidance for the rest of the site. Design conductive for hunting. Ideas for inspiration: http://www.templatemonster.com/webs…23477.html http://www.templatemonster.com/webs…19525.html http://www.templatemonster.com/flas…13225.html
1. CSS friendly.
2. Incorporate space for ads without compromising the look&feel
3. Users will be able to customize the color "theme" for their profile page.
4. The main nav should include links to high level items: "outfitters, store, classifieds, sweepstakes, contact us"
5. No Flash but should have rollover states
6. Please take into consideration how users are going to post a new activity update, view their blog, switch to photo gallery, etc. User experience important.
Profile details:
1. The profile page should include basic profile information (similar to standard MySpace and Facebook info panels)
2. Status feed panel (similar to Facebook). This will includes user generated updates on recent activities and/or hunts.
3. Friends panel – from a design perspective we prefer consistently sized images.
4. Photo gallery panel
5. Extensible for other features (like Facebook apps)
Logo: http://dev001.tometasoft.com/huntda…dlogo1.zip. Feel free to improve on it.


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2013-08-29 / Local News
Support for United Way
The Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BCNEPA) is committed to supporting nonprofit agencies that respond to the needs of its neighbors throughout the region. The Foundation's Board of Directors recently approved nearly $125,000 in contributions that will be shared by 14 United Ways across BCNEPA's 13-county service area.
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Every little girl needs a party dress!!! That's why we've partnered with Tea to give one lucky reader a $100 credit! From adorable outfits for little girls to hip clothes for boys too, Tea has it all (babies and women too!). I'm in love with their new Bali-inspired spring collection, and I know you will love it too!
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The Shape of Water is the early favorite in this year\'s Oscar sweepstakes. The sci-fi fantasy about love across species lines was nominated for the most Academy Awards, 13, including in a half-dozen major categories: Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Lead Actress (Sally Hawkins), Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer) and Supporting Actor (Richard Jenkins).
Monster Meets Girl in Romantic Sci-fi Fantasy
Oscar-Nominated Civil Rights Docudrama Released on DVD
All of the astronauts picked by NASA to participate in its maiden manned space programs, Mercury and Gemini, were white males. However, behind the scenes, there was a dedicated team of African-American, female mathematicians who played a pivotal role in ensuring that they launched and returned safely, whether from orbiting the Earth or a mission to the moon.


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Dungeon Siege III DLC, Treasures of the Sun, will be released in October for PC, Xbox 360 and PC, Square Enix has announced.
In Dungeon Siege III: Treasures of the Sun players will extend their journey and travel beyond the borders of Ehb to an all-new environment: the Aranoi Desert. On their search for a lost Legion hero, players will fight through hordes of new villains only to find a forgotten abbey hiding a long-lost secret: the greatest treasure of the Azunite faith.
In addition to the hours of new content, developer Obsidian has also tweaked, refined and implemented new gameplay features.
- New abilities: Players will be able to attain mastery of the arcane through powerful new attack, defence and healing abilities
- Level up to 35: Dungeon Siege III: Treasures of the Sun will further power up players by raising Dungeon Siege III's existing level cap from 30 to 35
- More monsters and items: Players will encounter new monsters in the Aranoi Desert-including mummies and giant skeletons-and will find more powerful items, adding to the thousands already available in Dungeon Siege III
- Reallocate Talent & Proficiency Points: Players can reallocate points spent in Proficiencies and Talents, enabling changes to character customization throughout the campaign
- New Enchanting System: Transmuting items now gives players chances at gaining powerful new Vials that allow them to enhance their weapons and armor through the DLC's new enchanting system