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Note: This has been stuck in "Draft" purgatory for several months, but I decided to just throw it up as-is. Find this place and have a meal there, it's incredible!
I've raved about Perilla (들깨) on this blog before. You can eat the leaves raw or as kimchi; you can eat the seeds raw or roasted, or powder them to add to to soups, sides, and even pancakes; and you can use the oil to dress salads or to cook just about anything. Perilla, by virtue of its myriad uses, seems to me to be on par with coconuts, or even with hemp.
Though, of course, there are some small differences.
Anyway, such thoughts regarding the resourcefulness of Korean cuisine, the absolute refusal to waste any part of a plant, and thus the earth, rain, and sunlight that brought it to life, surfaced in my mind on a recent visit to Nokyaweon, a truly splendid restaurant located in Chilgok's less-visited east side. In particular, it was this that threw me into a reverie:
That's right, yet another perilla dish, which I hereby dub "pickeld perilla pod." (들깨 줄기 짱아치). If you look closely, you may be able to see that each stem has a series of little vase-like protrusions, each shaped just-so, perfectly able to cradle and eventually release the seeds that will eventually become next year's plant, or, in this case, this evening's meal.
The slightly sour, stingy pickled perilla pod is just one of dozens of beautifully prepared, wholesome, delicious side dishes that come standard with every Nokyaweon course meal. The dishes all change with the season, but here's a typical first course:
Starting from the center, moving outwards in a clockwise spiral: black sesame and pumpkin seed porridge, lettuce and cabbage salad, soft tofu salad, jellyfish with julienned vegetables, a pumpkin pancake, and steamed pumpkin and bean sprout side dishes.
Then come some of the heavy hitters: pan-fried tofu; lettuce, onion, and carrot salad with rich, sweet, spicy dressing; assorted bibimbap veggies; radish leaf and perilla powder soup; and hearty whole-grain rice.
There's more, too, but I didn't want to fill the post up with too many pictures. Suffice it to say that I wouldn't have been surprised if the table had collapsed under the weight of our meal.
I was introduced to Nokyaweon one fateful day by Mr. Kim Gi-su, manager of Chilgok's 농부장터 (The Farmers' Marketplace). Owner Kim Myeong-suk, as the decor makes clear, originally intended Nokyaweon as a place to share her family's knowledge about the power of tea, particularly Puer Tea (보이차) when grown, fermented, and processed according to traditional methods, to promote human health. In fact, Mrs. Kim's husband spends one semester a year in China lecturing about tea at universities and traveling deep into the countryside near the Burmese border to collect the finest tea leaves.
Nonetheless, the snacks and side dishes served along with the tea were so tasty that customers continually requested more, leading Nokyaweon to shift their emphasis. Now, at least in the mind of the hungry customer, the tea takes a backseat to the food.
And what food! Like Mr. Kim's store, Nokyaweon is about good food in all senses of the word - good for the palate, good for people, good for the planet. In their own words:
"At Tea-loving Nokyaweon...
- In order to preserve the inherent taste of our carefully selected ingredients,
we don't use artificial additives in any of our dishes.
- Through clean, clear tea and healthy food that allow humans and nature to coexist
We are doing our best to create a better food culture.
What Nokyaweon does:
- We produce and sell clean and clear, naturally fermented Puer tea.
- We produce and sell our own (Korean) eco-friendly Puer tea.
- We teach about and serve clean, wholesome traditional Puer tea. Know your food.
- We help to make good habits by emphasizing the importance of tea and food for human health.
- We share and spread the taste and beauty of traditional Korean food.
- We share Korean culture through international cultural exchanges and other volunteer opportunities."
For those who found that part a little wordy, here's the menu:
- Jeongsik (set meal) with rice steamed inside of a lotus leaf: 20k (tea included)
- Brown rice healthy set meal with tea: 15k (pictured above)
- Bibimbap: 10k
- Cold noodles with young radish leaf and fruit:10k
- Duck Bulgogi: 20k
- Red pepper paste bulgogi: 20k
- Roast turkey: 20k
- Steamed mushrooms: 10k
Sound good? Interested in visiting the restaurant, meeting the family, and learning a thing or two about tea? Nokyaweon is open for lunch and dinner every day except Sunday. Reservations aren't necessary. Nokyaweon is located on the east side of Chilgok, north of Unamji lake and south of Hamji park, in a smallsih alley across the street from the Greenville 4 Danji apartments. The closest bus stops are Buyeong 7 Danji (939), Greenville 4 Danji (939, Chilgok 1-1), and Unam Elemetary School (Chilgok 1-1, Rapid Bus 2). Even so, it's a bit hard to find, so have a look at the Green Guide map before setting out.
Mrs. Kim and Family


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The Wimbledon tennis tournament is working on extending its digital reach into emerging markets to bring it into the 21st century.
Just like the first wave of BYOD Bring Your Own Device, BYOW Bring Your Own Wearables is coming into the enterprise.
A decade ago, scientists took years of effort to amass raw data for the human genome. Today, BGI Shenzhen can do it in two hours or less.
Companies are rushing to derive meaning from all of the vast amounts of data collected every day to make better decision. But what exactly is big data?
As the use of big data, cloud computing and virtualization grows, so is the allocation of budgets to data centers.
Soon parents may encourage their children to pursue an increasingly popular career path: data scientist.
The arrival of big data has bought with it an era of monitoring based on information generated by mobile devices and social media usage.
Big data – where every aspect of your life is being quantified in every way imaginable – may be a term you are only just beginning to recognize.

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This landmark collection of writings explores how mindfulness—the practice of deepening our moment-to-moment awareness—can help us to open our hearts, improve communication, end destructive patterns, and be more fully present with each other.
Writings include:
Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on mindfulness and true love
Psychotherapist David Richo on finding the right partner
Meditation teacher Tara Brach on the power of forgiveness
Rabbi Harold Kushner on the power of giving our love to others
Novelist Jane Hamilton on marital meltdown—and recovery
Meditation teacher Susan Piver on the value of heartbreak
Psychologist John Welwood on relationships as a path of personal and spiritual growth
"What does 'mindful love' look like? How does it feel to be a 'mindful lover'? Andrea Miller and the editors at Shambhala Sun bring us meaningful and emotionally satisfying answers to these questions from some of the most widely-respected teachers and writers on the subject. This pithy volume will enlarge your understanding of what real love is and show you how you can experience it in your own relationship. The authors included in this compilation are more than just teachers of the art of love: they are the companions on the path who offer their own experiences to smooth our way." —Spirituality & Health


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There aren't a lot of teams out there trying to follow the Nashville model. Winnipeg is one of them.
For a team that's willing to acknowledge its small market nature, the Nashville Predators are actually an excellent team to emulate.
Last fall, Derek Zona of Copper and Blue presented a system that he called "Marginal Playoff Efficiency." He defined it as follows:
MPE measures the spending efficiency on points earned over the minimum necessary to make the playoffs. Because luck is often uncontrollable, I allowed for a 5% underage on points. For example, in 2006-2007 a team in the Western Conference needed 96 points to qualify for the playoffs. My minimum is 91. That number is different each season and different in each conference, so I've split the two conferences. The numbers below are the result. I've taken the number of points over the playoff minimum divided by cap dollars spent over the league floor. So Marginal Playoff Efficiency is points over the playoff minimum divided by dollars spent over the salary floor.
The Predators have consistently been one of the most cost-efficient playoff teams in the National Hockey League based on Derek's numbers. They ranked first in the Western Conference three times in six post-lockout seasons, and second in two others. The only year they failed to rank first or second was 2008-09, when the team missed the playoffs. That's also the only season since the lockout that Nashville has run a negative goal differential. Overall, Nashville ranked third (behind San Jose and Detroit) among Western Conference teams since the lockout.
There are a lot of things related to Nashville's success that mark them as a unique club. One is the longevity of their coaching/management duo. David Poile and Barry Trotz were the general manager and head coach in 1998-99 when the Predators entered the league; they are the general manager and head coach today.
Payroll is perhaps the most interesting point, however. In 2007-08 – the year Chipman is talking about in the video above – the Predators had the lowest salary cap hit in the NHL. It's slowly risen from that point to now – the Predators today sit 25th in the NHL in total payroll.
Choosing the Predators as a primary model – as opposed to the Sharks and the Red Wings – fits with what we know about this team and ownership group. Financial prudence is going to be a calling card of the Jets. They are not going to spend their way to success; rather they're going to run with a low payroll and attempt to ice a consistently competitive club.
We can also gather something on the short-term goals of the club. Winnipeg, today, has a minus-20 goal differential. The last time Nashville finished in that range was 2002-03, when they posted a minus-23 goal differential and finished well out of the playoffs. The next year, they got that goal differential up to minus-1 and made the post-season. They've missed the playoffs just once since, and as we have noted have been remarkably cost-effective every year since.
The playoffs next season and a goal differential near the break-even mark are ambitious but attainable goals, and probably represent a reasonable line in the sand when it comes to measuring the Jets' performance in 2012-13.


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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec 21, 2012) - Today, the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation, announced additional support in response to the destruction of Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines.
"Canada remains committed to supporting the most vulnerable people, who continue to suffer from the effects of Typhoon Bopha," said Minister Fantino. "The destruction is alarming, and Canada continues to ensure needs are being met."
The destructive typhoon made landfall three times as it passed through the Philippines. The most affected areas include Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley provinces in Mindanao. According to recent reports from needs assessment teams, some areas in these provinces are facing 80 to 90 percent destruction. With over 6.2 million people affected, thousands of homes destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people seeking support in and from evacuation centres, the humanitarian needs continue to increase.
The Government of Canada will continue to monitor the situation to ensure humanitarian needs are met and provide further assistance if required.
Canada continues to respond to Typhoon Bopha
Two weeks after the typhoon first made landfall on the coast of Davao Oriental, the number of dead and affected continues to rise. Approximately 6.2 million people have been affected, with 1,046 confirmed dead, and more than 2,662 reported injured. A total of 167,295 homes have been damaged, including 65,537 totally destroyed. In addition, the typhoon has damaged a number of bridges and roads. Many areas are still experiencing water and power supply interruptions. In addition, many local hospitals and health centres were badly damaged by the typhoon and are struggling to cope with the number of wounded and sick.
Today''s announcement will provide support to the following organizations to meet critical needs including food, safe drinking water, sanitation, shelter and other emergency relief items:
- International Committee of the Red Cross [http://www.icrc.org/eng/] will provide tents, essential household item kits, water, and other emergency relief items for up to 210,000 typhoon-affected people, including assisting in the repair of hospitals and rural healthcare facilities. ($500,000)
- Oxfam Canada [http://www.oxfam.ca/] will provide humanitarian assistance to up to 25,000 typhoon-affected people in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley, the two worst hit provinces, to ensure access to clean water, sanitation, shelter, food and other emergency relief items, specifically targeting the most vulnerable, including women and children. ($500,000)
To date, Canada has allocated $3 million to address the emergency needs of those affected by the impact of Typhoon Bopha in Mindanao, Philippines.
International Humanitarian Assistance Program
CIDA through its International Humanitarian Assistance Program, aims to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain the dignity of those affected by conflicts and natural disasters by providing appropriate, timely, and effective responses.


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Christian Petersen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
My intention with OSP is to bring Intimate, decadent, organic, sex products to market. OSP is a classy, high end, sustainable brand that helps lovers connect on a deeper level.
Positioning – Classy, Classic, Organic, Healthy, Fair, Sustainable, Vegan, Initmate
OSP products will be: Certified Organic, Minimally processed, Classy, packed in glass, not plastic
As a classy brand it brings tact and elegance to the sex industry. My target audience will be Sex stores, lovers and couples, snobby/yuppie types, health conscious individuals, vegans, diabetics, and people who enjoy sex and are after something to mix it up. OSP are great gifts for girlfriend/boy friend. OSP is gender mutual and caters for both hetrosexual and homosexual orientations.
A company logo - something that sets the tone of the brand: It will be used on products, brochures and a website
I need an elegant, strong, visually appealing brand. It MUST look classy. No sleaze or cheese.... I was thinking something black and red? I am open to suggestions and looking for creativity. Something that hasn't been done before and that gets customers interested is what It needs to be successful.
OSP - intimate . decadent . organic. This is the essence - it is important these are included in the logo. OSP is the brand name - so use that, not organic sex products in the logo design.
I have attached some photos. There is a picture of a female stomach - soft curves, erotic and sensual. I think that photo shows a beautiful female form. There is also a picture of a mans back the masculine equivalent. The other picture sss-1 is seductive and alluring. Think of these images are archetypes for OSP.
Cant wait to see what you creative peeps come up with.
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Cherry Tomato Couscous
Keep your eyes peeled for whole wheat or barley couscous - either would work great here. You can easily make this vegan by leaving out the feta - maybe do some sort of harissa drizzle instead?
3 cups cooked couscous*
1/2 a basket of cherry tomatoes, halved
1 medium cucumber, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1 cup cooked chickpeas
1 lemon, cut in half
1 lime, cut in half
about 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
fine grain sea salt
freshly ground pepper
1/3 cup basil or cilantro, chopped
1/3 cup feta cheese, crumbled
Combine the couscous, tomatoes, cucumber, and chickpeas in a large bowl. Lori - squeezes the lemon and lime juice directly into the bowl, so start by giving a good squeeze of lemon and lime juice into the bowl, add the olive oil, and some salt and pepper. Toss well, taste, and adjust with more of the above until it tastes just right. Lori notes - this really needs a generous amount of salt, and the lemon and lime juices might need to be adjusted depending on how juicy the fruit is.
Add the basil and feta and toss gently until it is evenly dispersed.
Serves 4 - 6.
*To cook the couscous: Either follow the package instructions or bring 3 1/2 cups of water to a boil, stir in a scant 2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt and 2 cups of couscous. Cover and remove from heat. Steam for 5 to 10 minutes and then use a fork to fluff up the couscous.
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Wild Turkey Trail
Gobble up the Wild Turkey for a great add-on to your Heil ride
This is another great new trail in Boulder County's quiver of trails. They built it out a few years ago and a good portion of it is silly, fun singletrack. Compared to bone-rattling Ponderosa Loop that it connects to, this is like melted butter. Wild Turkey is a great ride for the intermediate rider to work on cornering skills on some really cool swoopy turns - do like Maverick and Goose and "turn and burn." Oh, and the name of this trail ain't no joke. In the spring and summer, you can regularly see wild turkeys.
If you are coming to this trail from the Heil Valley Ranch trailhead, you'll be getting onto this from the eastern side of the Pondy Loop. If you're coming from the Picture Rock trailhead in Lyons, you'll be coming in at the lowest point of the Wild Turkey and will be going uphill either way.
How to get your groove here:
This trail is pretty sweet all around, but you can divide it into two sections - the southern section (south of where Picture Rock meets up) is steeper and looser/rocky, minor butt-whooper and the northern is smoother, twistier and flatter. The nice thing is that even though the steep part is rocky, there are some great lines for going uphill where you won't spin the rear wheel and eat the handlebars. The northern section of this has one section with, I swear, may be 300 yards of the silliest, funnest singletrack you'll find anywhere. Don't get me wrong, the rest of the northern section is sweet, too. But that section is like the miracle mile (well, miracle 300 yards) for giggles. If you want the snicker fest, ride this clockwise.
Riding Clockwise (north to south if you don't have one of those old-fangled clocks with hands)
Start at the Overlook and take the trail furthest east (the other two are part of the Ponderosa Loop) and head off on this super smooth trail that follows the rim of the canyon with Hwy 7 below.
The trees of death
If you're riding this trail clockwise from the overlook, the first quarter mile or so is a zippy, easy trail. Just when you think it's safe to hit the overdrive, there's a couple of super sharp turns with big, hard trees looking for love in all the wrong places. The trail's pretty loose here, so it's the perfect conditions for close encounters of the ouch kind.
Rocket ride
After your escape the aforementioned fairly gnarly winding tree section, things get a lot more straightforward. You're going to get some moderately exciting large bouldery-rocky-slabby things to ride over and then before you know it you're going to get to the happy place of joyous turning and burning. Enjoy every one of the 30 or so seconds of this and get ready for a bit of a rough ending. There's a small rock garden at the end of this that won't knock you off the bike, but it will kinda harsh your mellow if you're not ready for it. After that, it's just a couple hundred yards to the Picture Rock Trail.
Crank it up the hill
Now that you're at the bottom of the trail named after Ben Franklin's choice for the national bird of the US it's time to put on the game face and grunt up the south side! Like I said before, it's loose and rocky, but not bad and there are some good lines. That doesn't mean that I haven't gone over the bars here, going uphill, going less than 4 miles an hour, while attractive members of the opposite sex were jogging towards me, but as long as you're not me, you'll probably be just fine.
2nd Verse, do it in reverse (south to north)
Doing this trail from south to north (as if you were coming up from the Wapiti Trail and took a right onto Ponderosa Loop and then a right onto Wild Turkey) you get to ride down the steeper, looser section of trail. It's a great way for intermediate riders to build skill and confidence on looser terrain as the trail is open and pretty straightforward. When you get to the Picture Rock Trail, hook a left turn to stay on your trail (Unless you want to turn right. I'm not the boss of you.). The rest of this trail is a gradual climb with a few easy rocky sections all the way out to the overlook, where you'll meet up with the Ponderosa Loop again.
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S&P Spanish Downgrade Could Be Positive
Standard & Poor's downgrade could be helpful if it forces Madrid to seek a bailout early. But Dow Jones's Geoffrey Smith feels the move highlights the same old problem of political foot-dragging. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... the the ... all this though it's a it's ... amazing to just above the stages ... so all of you that this ... should be good news if it forces Madrid to seek an official bailout ... for its debts ... the dollar's like Jeff Smith who sat with me now ... feel that this isn't ... news whichever way you look at ... all Jeff ... the downgrade was not really a surprise of the credit rating agencies had already done this the striker and has competed in the last time Britain Spain and stop the year was a was still above ... where Moody's and Fitch have them ... um but that's ... is that this area in the sense that ... it's not really ... tell is if you didn't know already is the timing of this to mean really ugly but is ... holding their breath when you see women to has decided that the bill officially cleaned up bailout that he's he's awfully in times of the buying of him ... we won't do it with Intel is a very okok reminder of the of the problem which is called the euro zone Emmsons Crisis toxin which is that ... the government is people ... keep on putting all important decisions until the forced to ... sort of fallen tree so rendering of the initiative to to financial markets which tend to not been blamed for forcing them into the discussions ... ok but one could say that for that is that he ... I know you disagree with this is actually good because it may actually force decision if it starts pushing Spain's borrowing costs up ... once again I think if you think ... your idea of ... equilibrium is to help Spain to bail out the fuss as possible ... which meant that ... just ask again you can make the point ... I'm ... I would only save that's in the euro since been trying ... to learn that compares to this the last three or four years of this opening scene commands the means ... to get ahead of the cut of the practice ... and had its beginning ... in the last couple of months as some of the ESM ... PCB is car with a pretty credible pretty impressive the answer to that bailout ... for the European Stability Mechanism ... and then the ECB has trouble dismissing comes to supplement it with and much greater resources ... I was ... just the last couple months markets of stuff that trust from the government in possession through the guessing as politics and to discover the dilemma but that is of course ... they have to play ... racial politics and they have the selections available to the tothe fact that it was not thinking that the pace of growth ... until those elections about the way ... I mean this is called public ... oh ... yes I mean you know the odds in the meantime continue to to to face a lot of pressure media that Lumia brings awful continue demonstrations that ... on the idea that that would like to be made up of course and then some of them false and true very ... true intentions this to say at the the tensions between the are the regional governments and central governments ... have the capacity to ... the news and devalue the reforms that have been as unnecessary ... so yes of course all the things ... of all ... ok look in reaction to all this the euro has sort of thing happened on all the sudden we so boring cos I knew I was a little bit but not without that option out of its leaves of course the next thing that that that was what about ... it's difficult to ... read it ... the there this am and what is now encouraging Steinway countries that you think all ... the sudden death because his positions with each other ... made in sync on bad news out of question encouraging sign ... um I I am this also was put down to see at the SNP did overnight ... does not actually force the hand of all the funds to hold Spanish bonds because the domestic cup into junk status ... if however Moody's which is costing under the lemon ... custard Spain to junk has anyone talked about Jon eleventh ... venue was too mobile for selling them and thinks that stocks go mobile phones that is incredibly important point


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Jessy Houle needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 98 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
First, this is a VERY high profile, VERY high visibility portfolio packing opportunity. TechMasters, otherwise known as ToastMasters for technical people, is looking to create a brand similar to ToastMasters, but yet different enough not to confuse people. We are a legal chapter of ToastMasters, under the ToastMasters umbrella, but would really like to brand ourselves as technical in nature.
I will make sure to add a META tag to the website with name WebDesigner and content with your personal name or company name to properly praise your talents.
Thank you all for time, and good luck!
Our website will be targeted at the public, as well as contain a members area. Any logo usage on business cards will be targeting possible future employers, future TechMaster guests, and friends. Business letterhead will be targeting potential sponsors. The logo will be used in all of these areas.
Let your creative juices flow, but keep in mind 3 messages we are trying to communicate:
1) We are part of ToastMasters (so feel free to use the ToastMasters logo as an inspiration)
2) We want to communicate the idea that this chapter is technical in nature
3) We want to communicate the fact that even though we are technical in nature, the main goal of TechMasters (as well as ToastMasters) is to improve speaking ability… so we want to convey fostering confident speaking.
Although we do not have design guidelines, we will be using one of the below interface templates:
Furthermore, we will be using the logo on letterhead, business cards, and the like, so, transparency (or a white background is necessary as well).
Thank you all for time, and good luck!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Syngenta introduces its first biotech corn trait for boosting ethanol production. Enogen is a corn amylase technology that makes starch conversion more efficient, which improves the productivity of the dry grind ethanol process.
"This trait is designed to provide significant benefits to the dry grind ethanol industry," says Jack Bernens, Syngenta technology acceptance. "For an ethanol plant producing 100 million gallons of ethanol, the Enogen corn hybrid will drop $10 million to the plant's bottom line, primarily through increased throughput efficiencies and a reduction in energy and water requirements."
Boost to the bottom line
In traditional ethanol production, enzymes in liquid form are added to grain to transform starches to sugars. This step is not needed with Enogen technology because the enzymes are expressed directly in the grain. This makes starch conversion more efficient.
"Ethanol producers could see benefits of 8 to 10 cents per gallon and increased overall efficiency," Bernens says. Estimates are that a 100-million-gallon ethanol plant also can reduce water usage by 450,000 gallons, electricity usage by 1.3 million kWh and natural gas usage by 244 billion BTUs.
Enogen will be produced through a closed-end production system from producer to ethanol facility. Ethanol plants will contract directly with nearby growers for production and delivery of corn to the ethanol plant. "There will be a very tight track-and-trace system in place to ensure all product goes to ethanol plants," Bernens says.
The National Corn Growers Association has applauded USDA deregulation of amylase products like Enogen for all markets. However, some processor groups disagree and express concern that the trait can cause problems in some food-processing functions —causing some end-use products to degrade, for example. But officials are quick to point out that it is a processing issue and has nothing to do with the product's safety. Corn amylase is approved in Japan, Canada, Mexico and several other export countries. In 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found it to be as safe as conventional corn for food and feed.
"We have developed a system that goes beyond most identity-preserved systems," Bernens says. He explains that Enogen corn will not be grown in areas that traditionally sell to facilities that use corn in food or industrial starch products.
Syngenta is targeting the western Corn Belt for release of Enogen corn hybrids in 2011 and will be involved in every step of the process. "We will license both the ethanol plant and the grower, and the plant will contract with the grower," Bernens says. "We will also work with ethanol plants to test Enogen corn and show the value in the plant. Once the ethanol plant sees the value, the plant will contract out what they need."
Pricing for the Enogen seed has yet to be determined, but Bernens says in addition to a premium for the product, yield tests have shown no yield penalty with the trait.
"We certainly think a significant percentage of producers could derive benefit from the product," Bernens says. "It is a unique trait and will have a much slower gear-up than traditional corn traits. But as more plants get on board, we expect a significant increase in the next three to four years."


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|Birth Date:
|May 1, 1989
|Peru, Ill.
|High School:
|La Salle Peru Township
|Special Education
In 2009 (Sophomore): Callie started 56 games at
catcher for the Golden Eagles in her sophomore year...ended the
season second on the team with six home runs and 24 RBIs...had the
big game against Southeast Missouri (3/28), hitting a grand slam
and a double to drive in six of her 24 RBIs on the season...went
2-for-3 with a home run in Tech's final game of the season
against UT Martin (5/9)...had eight multi-hit games, including a
2-for-2 game against Kennesaw State (2/14) when she drove in two
RBIs and scored two runs...named to the Athletic Director's
Honor Roll.
Before Tech: Played her freshman season at Heartland Junior College in Normal, Ill., where she was named second team all-conference and made the all-tournament team at nationals.
High School: Callie lettered in three sports: softball, basketball and volleyball...in softball, Callie was the starting catcher for three years under coach Carrie Swanson...her senior year, she helped carry her team to a record of 29-4, the best in the program's history...in her junior season, she batted .487 with 18 doubles and two home runs.
Personal: Callie Brooke Schmidt is the daughter of Russ and Christie Schmidt of Spring Valley, Ill...birthday is May 1, 1989...majoring in exercise science.


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Broken Bones and Twitter 101 (No, they're not related)
I haven't been online these past few days, except for the occasional peek (a comment here or there, a tweet or two). Life--which I do have outside the web--has been hectic. My three-year-old introduced me to InstaCare and Orthopediatricians when he hurt his arm so much so that he couldn't and wouldn't let me touch it. Three x-rays later and a busted eardrum (mine), the InstaCare radiologist pronounced his elbow normal. No broken bones or fractures. So, the attending doctor proceeded to pop it back into place with twists and complicated maneuvers, sending my poor little one into a screaming match to rival the ladies of Real Housewives of [insert city]. As the complicated manuevers did not produce the effect we were looking for (she did it 3 different times), they gave him a sling and a referral (someone who'd hopefully know what is wrong with him).
Fast forward to the next day: We met the Orthopediatrician (for you guys who don't know medical mumbo jumbo, that 's a kid's doctor who specializes in bones. No, not similar to the TV show Bones). He ordered a new set of x-rays (no screaming this time though my ears were still ringing from the previous one), took a look at it, and gave us the diagnosis: Non-displaced fracture on the humerus. Treatment: a cast for 3 weeks. (Three seems to be the magic number here).
I've now added butler/maid/servant/slave to my résumé. So please forgive me if I haven't been around much. I'm not ignoring or snubbing you. =)
In an attempt to be helpful, I've come up with a simple Twitter 101, for those of you new to Twitter, contemplating diving into Twitter, or don't know what the heck Twitter is.
I'm fairly new to Twitter myself, being only 3 months old after cracking out of my shell to join the blue twittering birds. But with the help of friends, Twitter has been a positive experience for me.
So. Here are my tips:
1. Twitter is PUBLIC, unless if you opted for a private account, in which case no one you don't know can ever see you. Private accounts are good if you're only looking to connect with family and friends and want to make sure that Mrs. Harrington down the street won't see your tweets about her bumpit obsession and how you suspect she's a vampire because the stray cats she keeps bringing home with her are never seen again (cat vampire?).
So when you sign up for Twitter, remember this: Anything you tweet is open for all to see. Don't do a Weiner and send us photos of your non-existent abs.
2. Twitter is a great way to connect with friends and meet new people. Find a niche that you're comfortable with. For me, my niche obviously is anything writing-related. I follow literary agents and writers/authors. But feel free to branch out every once in a while. Interested in Visual Arts? Follow artists. Foodie? Follow cooks. And so on and so forth.
3. Don't get hung up on numbers. People follow and unfollow all the time. Twitter is a tease of a lady, that first date who may or may not call you, a fickle imp. As long as you see that the followers who matter to you (i.e. friends) have not unfollowed you, then you're golden. Spambots can follow and unfollow at their will and you need not blink an eyelash.
4. Use @ replies when conversing with friends.
e.g. Me: @aghowardwrites (Anita Howard) Hey, how are you?
Anita: @writercherie I'm good.
If you don't use @ the tweep you're sending the tweet to won't see it or know that you're trying to talk to them.
5. When promoting someone, use . (period) before the attribution. For instance, you just read this awesome blogpost and want to let all your followers know about it. Plus this awesome blogger with the awesome blogpost is a friend. Being the nicey tweep that you are, you give a shout-out:
@writercherie wrote a wonderfully cool and savvy blogpost about Broken Bones and Twitter, you should check it out at [link].
If you do it this way, the only people who are going to see this are the @ person (in this case, me), and our mutual friends who follow both of us. All your other followers who do not follow @person will not see it.
Another way to do this--aside from the period (.@writercherie wrote a wonderfully cool...etc.)--you can use words before the name:
Hey, @writercherie wrote a wonderfully...blah, blah, blah.
6. Some Twitter apps (like Tweetdeck) has an automatic shrink-link feature, which shortens your URLS so they don't use up all of your 140 characters. I heard Twitter has their own shrink-link now, though I wouldn't know because I use Tweetdeck most of the time. My savvy friend @aghowardwrites told me about http://tinyurl.com/. You can use this site to shorten your links.
7. Hashtags (they start with #) are useful if you and your many friends want to chat and keep a conversation. There are also scheduled chats--in the writing world for instance, there is #YAlitchat , #askagent , and many others.
Hashtags also let you search for trends or common things that people use/say/tweet about. If you click on #writing, you'll see all the tweets that employ this tag, whether or not you follow the people tweeting them.
Okay, that's it for now. Any questions? Clarifications? Comments? Let me know. I'd also like to hear how Twitter has been a positive or negative experience for you.
21 comments:
- Angela V. Cook said...
So sad to hear about your son's ordeal!! I think that's the worst feeling for a parent--helplessness. Here's hoping those three weeks breeze by ;o)
Twitter can be VERY confusing if you're not used to it (it wasn't that long ago I was a twitter virgin myself ;o)). You posted some great tips for newbies!
- June 15, 2011 at 1:49 PM
- Bethany C. said...
Geesh...you poor girl. Dealing with a casted kid on your birthday. BOO!! Glad he's doing okay. Boys dig casts anyway. He's probably got a few insects, a marble and 1/2 lb. of sand down there already.
Okay, thanks for the Twitter info. I would typically be embarrassed to ask this, but since you posted, and since all my buddies know I'm as blond as they come anyway, here goes: Regarding the hash tags. What's the point of using them? people will tweet me and then there's a hash of #goatloaversunite is this something that MEANS something? or is it just a silliness that proves other people are goat lovers, too?
- June 15, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Anita said...
Cherie, you lovely savvy sparkler! You never cease to amaze me with your helpful spirit! Love that about you. :)
Okay, first off, I'm sorry about your wee one! My goodness, poor baby. No wonder he was screaming. He had a fracture and the doctor was trying to pop his elbow into socket WHEN IT WAS ALREADY THERE. Seriously...ouch. Hope he heals quickly!
Secondly, YAY! My handle is an example in your post! Squee-ness abounds. :) *waves to @rookieriter and @angelavcook*
I'm interested to see your answer to miss @rookieriter. I know there are helpful hashtags that actually mean something, but I always thought we just use our goat-inspired ones to be silly.
Is there more to it? Are we attracting the attention of some secret organization of goat world domination? Enquiring readers want to know!
- June 15, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Krista M said...
I'm sorry about your little guy! That sounds painful.
I've never really understood the point of Twitter and though your advice is great, I think I'll stay with twitter abstinence. I can't be confused if I never join. :)
- June 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Sarah said...
Wow--what an ordeal! I can't believe you're blogging at all! It's so hard to help kids through medical procedures when they're too young to understand that it's meant to help them. I hope he recovers quickly!
- June 15, 2011 at 4:31 PM
- Caitlin Vincent said...
Oh dear, it sounds like you've had quite a time the last few days! I'm sorry to hear about your little guy. My siblings have broken bones before and its no fun for them or the rest of us. I hope he heals up quickly.
Thanks for the Twitter run down. After I graduate and get back to writing more full-time, I'm going to have to take the Twitter plunge myself. I think I'll like it once I get the hang of it...so it's nice to have the ropes squared out :)
- June 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- T.S. Welti said...
That was painful to read. My daughter got a dislocated elbow when she was two. The doctor told me it was very common for toddlers, but that did not ease the horror. I hope your son's feeling better now.
I never thought of the period before the @. Though I've been using Twitter for over two years, I've only just started using it regularly in the last two months. I guess I'm still kind of a newbie. Thanks for the tip. :)
- June 15, 2011 at 5:14 PM
- Ashley Nixon said...
Aww! I hope your son gets to feeling better! That's horrible. My friend broke his elbow, for which nothing can be done, and I always hit it, forgetting he was in pain! :/
I need to use twitter more. I have followed more people (writers and agents) since starting my blog, so perhaps I can get into it a little more. I'll definitely come back to these tips when I start using it more. To me, it just seems difficult and I don't have time to sit down and play with it.
- June 15, 2011 at 5:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
OMGosh your poor little fella and poor mama! I hope everything settles down a bit. I can't imagine trying to 'pop' something back into place on a 3yo! :(
And great Twitter advice. The only think I'd add about Tweetdeck is that I personally don't like the shrinking thing because sometimes its a good Tweet but I can't RT it because its waaaay too long. So that's a bummer.
- June 15, 2011 at 7:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
OMG Cherie!! Where were you a few months ago when I was completely lost on Twitter?? lol Great advice, tho, so thank you!! Sorry to hear about your baby. :( Hope he feels better soon!!
- June 15, 2011 at 9:02 PM
- Christine Murray said...
Hope your son gets better soon, and great advice on twitter. I'm new to it all myself, but am rapidly getting addicted.
- June 16, 2011 at 1:40 AM
- chandra said...
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- June 16, 2011 at 4:24 AM
- Jacquelyn said...
Ouch, hope your son is feeling better soon!
I agree with sycamoremeadows. I wish this post had been around when I started using Twitter! Great pointers.
- June 16, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Kimberly Krey said...
Glad you got the elbow thing cleared away; hope your little one's feeling better. And thanks for the Twitter tips. I don't know what I'm doing half the time but I'm learning along the way thanks to sweet tweeter's like yourself. :)
- June 16, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- cherie said...
Hi lovely people who always manage to make me feel better!
He's doing fine now. He loved his bright orange cast when he got it, and totally thought he was supercool (he was brandishing it around like a weapon, scaring his sister away LOL). It will definitely take him time to get used to it. He'd already asked me several times if he could take it off. Yikes. But so far, so good. I still cringe everytime I remember the InstaCare doc twisting his arm around. *shudders* In her defense, the radiologist did say the elbow was normal so she thought it was ok to manipulate it. My poor baby boy.
Anyway, I'm glad the Twitter info is useful. I was TERRIFIED to use Twitter before I stumbled on Anita's blog and how she'd mustered up the courage to use it. *waves to Anita (Hi luv!)
Also, I totally forgot to add about RTs and DMs. Blame it on my foggy, sleep-deprived brain.
- June 16, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- cherie said...
Oops, brain's still mushy. I meant: ...stumbled on Anita's blog AND READ HER POST on how she's mustered up the courage to use it. (With the help of Nina Badzin's Twitter tutorial. I'd post a link but darn if I can find it now. I think it may be in one of my other Twitter post--the cracking out of the shell one. There should be a link to Nina Badzin's awesome tips.)
Oh, and to my goat loving homies...
Hmmm. Your question oh venerable @rookieriter aka Bethany C. is one that requires deep thinking and great thought. Somewhere, sometime, in this vast universe, one life form will unwittingly search for #goatloversunite and find a veritable cache of info that will open their eyes to the meaning of life.
- June 16, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Liz Fichera said...
So sorry to hear about your son! I had something similar when I was a kid. Not fun. For my mom or me.
P.S. Thanks also for tweeting my post from yesterday. Glad you liked it. :-)
- June 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Jenny Phresh said...
How totally wretched. I have dislocated my knee 3x in my life (fortunately not for many years) and it is awful. And it hurts. A lot. I'm sorry for your ordeal!
I am also worried now that Mrs. Harrington knows that I have been watching her Bumpit GROW because she has been hiding extra goat fangs underneath it. She is onto me. I had better be much more careful on Twitter from now on.
Thanks for all your super helpful tips!
- June 16, 2011 at 9:04 AM
- Carissa Elg said...
Owie!! When my son was 3, we went bowling on a Thursday (as we had since he was 3 months old). It was the second time he used his chubby little arms to push the ball down the ramp and watch it go... The quick little bugger grabbed the ball (trying to put it up there himself) and of course didn't make it. In our rush to stop him, he tripped and the ball landed on his hand, crushing the tip of his middle finger in doing so. You wouldn't think a 6 lb ball could do that much damage, but it can. Even if only dropped from 2 feet up. Glad to hear that your son is on the mend. Hope it heals quickly!
- June 16, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
Oh, your poor baby. I've been lucky (knock on wood) that my kids haven't broken any bones yet. Wishing you both well.
Thanks for the twitter tutorial. I'm still learning myself, and didn't know about the use of the period before the attribution, LOL.
Angie Sandro
- June 16, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- Writer Pat Newcombe said...
Great post and some useful reminders. I forget about the period thing before metnioning someone... Note to self - don't forget!
- June 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM
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A couple of posts ago on 'Over thy dead body' I wrote about how bizarre the weather was the day I visited Mount Jerome, and the fact that most of the old cemetery is in very poor condition. I imagine those two factors working together fed my uneasiness. So there I was in the part of the cemetery which is farthest away from the main road. There wasn't a soul in sight, it had stopped raining, and I was happily shooting photos when I heard THEM. Voices, whispering voices. I absolutely swear I heard them! On the honour of Boy scouts, Girl scouts, Cub scouts, and any other kind of scout you might think of, I HEARD WHISPERING!
I spun around on my heel fully expecting to find people making their way up the path nearby, but there was no one in sight. I stood in the middle of the path and looked in both directions and all around me. NO ONE was there. I chided myself for being scared and went back to taking photos. Then, I heard them again. This time I was annoyed and loudly declared "Who's there? This isn't funny!" NO ONE answered me, so... I did what any rational human being would do. I ran like h*ll back to the main road and into the shop where I was sure to find people.
A woman in the tuck shop said I looked like I'd had a fright, and I blurted out that I had heard whispering voices. She was very matter of fact and, with a half smile and a lovely Irish lilt, she said, "Of course you did. What do you expect in a place like this? There are many souls wandering around here, and we all hear them whispering now and again. They're just trying to remind us they want to be remembered". I thought she was joking, but she was serious. Then she said something to me that I have heard many times before from my own mother, "You've more to fear from the living than the dead."
She made me a lovely cup of tea, and after a few minutes I returned to the path and made my way back to the very beautiful marker I had been photographing just before I fled. Upon my return I discovered that it is the grave marker of a 13 year old girl and her parents. I felt a little smile come over my face. Alice Cogavin just wants to be remembered.
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For the few, the proud, the patient who actually still read this blog, you may be wondering: How on earth could a blogger who claims to blog about healthcare from the layperson's point of view be so quiet over this last month or two or three, while health care was the hottest topic in the country?
I guess to answer that I'd have to ask you: Do you actually believe most of the debate was actually about health care?And health care for regular people?
Because I don't.
- I believe it's about political parties vying for dominance
- I believe it's about the Republicans thinking they have to squash anything that makes Obama look effective
- I believe it's about the Democrats wanting to look like something is getting done, anything
- I believe it's about for-profit insurance companies being absolutely the worst thing to happen to health care in the last half-century, but no one having the balls to say so...much less do something about it
- I believe it's about instigating fear and misinformation on the one hand
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Frank Rich's column this weekend, The Rage is Not About Health Care, says this is all about white people being scared of losing their majority-status and their power. That Obama's health care plan is just the first big initiative and thus the recipient of all this fear and rage and unacceptably violent rhetoric. He paints the entire anti-Obama cadre with the racist brush.
I think that might be too simplistic. The way I see it there are some folks who are scared of losing their power, yes. But I am much more inclined to believe they cynically figured out who might be the most vulnerable to their tactics of stoking fear and loathing, and went with that path of least resistance. Are folks like Palin and Limbaugh and Boehner and the rest personally racist? Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't really matter; it's not really why they're pursuing this path.
And what gets lost in all of this jockeying and violent rhetoric and compromise is any kind of rational and yes, bi-partisan, health care discussion. Rich points out that much of the bill that just passed is rooted in Republican proposals, and that just supports what I have long believed: Cynicism wins here, not true belief. I don't believe that all those Congresspeople voted their hearts, do you?
Now, let's see it in action. Come November if the entire country has crumbled under the thumb of fascistic, communistic, socialism, I think the Democrats are going to come out fine. No worse than any majority party during mid-term elections, at any rate. And then we will have rewarded namby-pamby-ness.
So, you see, it's a good thing I wasn't blogging health care during this whole, long, depressing national "debate". Because nobody else was really debating health care either. Hopefully this will all come down, and I'll get re-inspired to talk about health care and everyday ordinary people again soon.


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Folsom Lake: The shoreline won't drastically change on a daily basis, as they're now increasing flows out of the lake. There's considerable flooded brush and trees in the shallows that are holding bass, and dartheads, plastics and drop-shotting are attracting bites. The deeper water around the dam is producing trout and salmon.
Clear Lake: Considerable fishing pressure on weekends, so if you have a weekday or two, that would be the time to go. Bass fishing is hot. Fish are in the shallows, around any tule line in no more than seven feet of water. They're on or working their nests so just about anything you throw in there could get you bit.
Lake Amador: Management is still planting up to 1,000 pounds of its homegrown cutthroat-rainbows PER DAY. Trout fishing remains great at the face of the dam or the dirt area of the spillway. Some trout have moved up into the Mountain Springs arm. Bass catching also is up for those tossing plastics, Brush Hogs and Senkos.
Ocean salmon: Awesome action. At Bodega Bay, everybody on board catches a fish and some carry off a limit of two. While the majority is under 10 pounds or so, there's an occasional lunker up to 20. The Bay Area fleet has the salmon dialed in. They're finding schools early, and that means just about limits for everybody with a line in the water. Several keepers were running around 10 pounds, and they get the occasional 20-pounder.
Suisun Bay: Water flowing down the rivers is decreasing, but the fishing in Suisun Bay is still good for stripers and sturgeon. Soaking eel or any shrimp bait is working well, and those fishing for stripers are using bullheads. The Mothball Fleet remains a constant good bet, as is around the Benicia Bridge and Seal Island.
Camp Far West: The lake is well known for having a good crappie population, and when the catching is good, it's generally a well-kept secret by those doing the catching. However, word is leaking out that if you dunk small minnows along the brushy areas, you can get into crappie now. A few years ago, we soaked a minnow in a cove along the South Shore area, and it was inhaled by an 11-pound striped bass. Bass fishing also is outstanding. You can hammer bass until your arms ache by working the shallows, especially where there's cover. Nothing big, but good numbers.
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Italy Court Upholds Berlusconi Fraud Conviction
Italy's supreme court confirms Silvio Berlusconi will serve four years in jail for tax fraud, but orders an appeals court to review a five-year ban from public office. Giada Zampano reports from Rome.
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In this lecture, we continued our discussion on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). We started off with a revision of the previous lecture and focused on the important concepts like the two important wavelengths: the wavelength from the laser and the emitted scattered wavelength. The review also included a revision of Metal Film Over Nanoparticles, but included more details. After that, the lecture moved on to looking at the difference between the different types of metal surfaces and the advantages/disadvantages from each. The lecture then moved on to the application of the SERS in Glucose Sensing. For glucose sensing, the Metal Film Over Nanoparticle technique is used to measure glucose, from blood, but there are a lot of other molecules too so a "partition" coating is put to prevent large molecules from reaching the SERS active region. However, the partition coating will generate a SERS signal that must be accounted for. There are problem in the SERS method like the presence of other molecules competing for Raman signatures, interfering molecules can covalently bond with the metal surface and permanently foul it, and there is a strong fluorescence background involved. One of the biggest disadvantages are the size and cost and the fact that people will need to be implanted with optical windows in order to measure and read results. The SERS can be used for pathogen detection, forensic, and detection of metabolites in body fluids. Then, we look at results from Professor Cunningham's group and their work on In-line sensors for Biomedical Tubing. The detection of urea results with SERS are then observed. The lecture concludes with the analysis of the data from the detection of promethazine using the SERS technology.
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I was recently watching footage of a "traditional" Karate tournament. Where and when is not really relevant. But the main thing is that it was a traditional tournament with traditional kata.
A competitor walked out to the center of the ring, where she came to attention and shouted out the name of the kata. I have written before that I dislike the shouting of kata name. But that's another blog subject.
What got me about this performance, was the way the young woman (gender is not the issue here, but the person I watched was a woman) pranced (or strutted) out to the center of the ring. She almost looked like a gymnast preparing to do a floor routine. Her steps and arm swings were precisely coordinated and elongated. Her toes and fingers were pointed.
My point is that even the act of walking out to the center of the ring was ritualized. It was not a natural walk. The competitor was already trying to impress the judges and the audience.
Like shouting out the name of the kata, I really dislike this. I have used the word "dislike" because children may be reading this.
Karate should be a natural thing. We are preparing for an unexpected attack. While walking down the sidewalk, someone jumps out from the bushes and attacks. Bam! We must defend ourselves. We are walking down the sidewalk... not prancing.
I don't think we would say to ourselves, "Look, a mugger in the bushes up ahead. I think I will prance so that he will be scared and not attack me."
And don't get me wrong. Men prance too. The tournament format seems to encourage an artificial, ritualized walk.
It should not be surprising that a system that does this to the simple act of walking, does pretty much the same thing to the kata itself. The kata become ritualized, crystalized, exaggerated, posed, staccato, stiff, punctuated by theatric kiai, etc. The crowd loves it!
Again, don't get me wrong. The competitors are doing exactly what they have been taught and coached to do, and they are very good at it. They are in excellent shape and their movements are amazingly precise.
But is this Karate? Is this how Sokon Matsumura did it? Is this how Kanryo Higashionna did it?
And if not, why not? Are we doing it better today than they did?
I always think that the place to do kata is inside an elevator, crowded with other people. No room to prance.
Given a choice, I would always pick ugly kata over pretty kata.
Charles C. Goodin
Tournament Kata -- Prancing
I was recently watching footage of a "traditional" Karate tournament. Where and when is not really relevant. But the main thing is that it was a traditional tournament with traditional kata.
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Mega dealers bring mega problems
With 25 years experience in the agricultural equipment business, I am convinced that the industry is in trouble and the major players either do not realize it or do not feel there is a problem. Today, ag equipment manufacturers are being run by a bunch of college-educated idiots who are nothing more than numbers crunchers. Gone is the familiarity with the basis on which the industry grew and prospered. The entire focus, now, is "market share," and if a dealer is not getting what the company considers to be his share, then he needs to either sell out or buy out his neighbor. Having a few mega-dealers with a scattering of sub-stores is the new rage. This is the way that market share figures will rise, or so it is thought. While it is true that the customer base is shrinking and the Internet has made price shopping very easy, there is still a place for a locally owned dealer who takes excellent care of his customers.
It is very interesting that the mega-dealer concept is so widely touted for it is no better than the old company-owned stores. Mention the phrase "company store" to any of the majors and they will cringe at the idea since company stores, historically, were not a good experience. The primary problems were that they never made a decent profit, they were a thorn in the side of independent dealers, and customer satisfaction was never high on the priority list. Now the same problems that plagued company-owned stores are going to start plaguing these mega-dealers and their sub-stores. Add to that that when one of the "biggies" goes South, there is a huge hole left where "market share" no longer exists.
Two major companies have just lost 18 dealers, and now there are large holes in areas that used to have an excellent dealer organization. Wouldn't it be interesting to see what "market share" is in those areas 12 months from now? While market share is an important aspect of business, it is not the only engine driving the train. A solid, parts-and-service-minded local dealer can still survive even if he doesn't get 50% of the market.
It is possible for car dealers and Wal-Marts to become super centers. But due to the size, type and complexity of modern farm machinery, super centers will only cause super problems for the customers, the owners and the parent company.
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I never used the argument about how we were going to kill lots of innocent people who neither asked for this war nor voluntarily signed an enlistment contract. That argument never went anywhere. Sometimes though, in those dark days of 2003, the argument about breaking our fellow citizens would go forward an inch or two. Usually among people who had experience with vets who returned from Vietnam.
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An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs.
Joshua Ryan Tabor, 27, was arrested on Jan. 31 and charged with assaulting a child after police in Yelm, Wash., responded to a call of a disturbance at Tabor's home and then later found the little girl hiding in a locked bathroom, according to Police Chief Todd Stancil.
Both the girl and the father admitted to the torture, even detailing how Tabor would sit the girl on the edge of the bathroom sink and hold her head down until it was nearly submerged in water, dunking her if she refused to recite the alphabet, said Stancil.
In the police report, the girl told authorities that "Daddy was upset becuase she wouldn't say her letters" and that he then put her in the water.
"It was hot! The water was hot!" the girl told police, according to the incident report. "I told him I would say my letters then! My heart shirt got wet."
Tabor told authorities that "his purpose was to punish her by putting her in the water because he knows she is afraid of it and he wanted her to cooperate."
"She said her letters after that," Tabor told the cops.
"My heart shirt got wet." I just had to stop and pull myself together for a bit.
And where do you suppose this Sergeant America learned the techniques he used to secure the cooperation of a 4-year old girl?
The blood continues to soak into the palms of Mr. Bush. Ours and theirs. It will for some time.
I really rather would not have been proven right like this.
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Companies added fewer workers than forecast in April according to figures from the ADP research institute, and the ISM manufacturing index fell to 50.7 in April from the prior month's 51.3. The markets await three key data points this week: Today's FOMC announcement, tomorrow morning's ECB announcement, and Friday's employment situation announcement. It is a very busy week.
Equities: Key equity indices such as the SP 500 and Nasdaq E-mini futures are down slightly this morning, with the Nasdaq down only 2 points and the SP 500 JUN13 E-mini futures are down 5.5 points to 1586.75. They key pivot for today's trading is 1590. Technically, the market could be preparing for a short term turn lower, but the highly important data to be released this week likely will trump the short term technicals.
Bonds: The U.S. 30-year bonds are rallying today on lower than expected ADP jobs report and an underwhelming ISM report. The bonds are certainly waiting to hear what the FOMC states this afternoon about future bond purchasing intentions. It seems as though the bonds are truly waiting for an official FOMC statement stating with certainty they will start to reduce bond purchases at some point in the future, and then the bond market might start to move down in price and up in yield. For the time being, the bonds have been very strong, even with the stock market making new highs this month.
Currencies: The yen has been in a quiet rally off of a potential double bottom right above 100. Today the yen is up 25 ticks to 102.83. We believe the yen could head to 104. The Aussie dollar is down 83 ticks today, likely going with key commodities such as oil and gold. We believe the yen has potential to rally further and the Aussie has potential to break below 102 to the downside.
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