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Sure its been asked is sazall ok for cutting open a 275 gallon oil tank? My fire pit is done time for a new one.
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I have done it several times in building pig cookers..
but prepped them first by steaming them out with a steam jenny to get the crud loose...
I like the round oil tanks best for that purpose...
run the sawzall slowly with a coarse metal blade and have somebody give it a squirt of WD40 from time to time to cool the blade.. (white smoke is good)
also I usually tack weld a length of angle iron to the tank to be a saw guide...
Word of caution... do not run the blade fast... you will knock off the teeth in nothing flat...
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I turned the tank on it side and used my plasma and a come alongs snug cable to set the torch on and ride around the tank. Only had to move the come a long one tine brcause of the cranking mechinsm. Measured up from the concrete floor to get the cable level. My tank sprung when it was cut free, if I was to do it again I would run a 1/4" rod through the sides of the tank I was using and weld both sides to prevent the tank from springing open.
wear ear protection, a jig saw with the right blade might be easier to control.
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I would think using a good jigsaw with the right blade would be more accurate and easier to work with.
I should have run a couple rods through mine and welded them in-place, when the halves separated the ends sprang open.
I used my come alongs' snugged cable for a straight edge. I turned the tank on it's side an measured up from the shop floor to get a level cut and straight cut.
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Do not cut the tank with a torch or plasma cutter without purging with inert gas or filling with water. The heat will vaporize remaining liquid and create an explosive atmosphere inside the tank. Only use a sawzall if you can have someone keep soapy water on the blade the whole time you are cutting and a slower speed with good blades. This way no heat to vaporize the fuel. Oh a co2 extinguisher can be used as a purge gas if one is laying around plus nitrogen or argon will work also. Good luck..................HH 210MVP
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|November 15, 1999, 03:40 PM
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So how did everyone do??
Did draw for antelope this year OR black powder deer so i was left but with ONE big game hunt this year.
Lack of snow in the high country made for tougher ELK tracking but someone in camp saw animals EVERY day. Really wished i had a cow tag when i was watching 2 cows graze peacefully 25 yards away with an open shot... no way i could have missed.. when they finally spooked i found that a bull had been lurking nearby and ripping up an aspen. Never saw him but he left big prints. Chased them all week.
Saw moose and bear and all manner of wild critters while hiking an average 10 miles a day at 8500 feet. God i love it here in Colorado.
No elk killed this year but Dad killed a NICE 4x5 Muledeer with a 30 foot shot from a 30-06. We dined on our first venison last night and it was excellent. Of course we werent the FIRST to ejoy the tasty deer as a mountain lion had helped itself to the gut pile the day after dad shot it. (here kitty kitty).
Overall a great hunt and a fun time.
looking forward to next year already and secretly thinking about winter pheasents and coyotes in winter coats.
|November 15, 1999, 06:09 PM
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I leave on Thursday for a late season elk hunt on a private ranch north of Maybell Colorado.
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My wife shot a nice buck pronghorn, and we have had a great pheasant season. Duck hunting is just getting going. My deer hunting season was uneventful.
|November 16, 1999, 12:58 AM
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Plenty of season left yet for me, but after watching some yearlings and a spike run around at very close-but-just-out-of-pistol-range, I hit a little whitetail doe at 67 yards with a reduced load .257 Rbts 100 grain Ballistic Tip just behind the shoulder. Through and through, both lungs and the very top of the heart, exit hole the size of a nickel. She managed to run into thick brush nearby before expiring about 30 feet away. I was looking for the bullet before I bothered going into the brush to find her; you just don't have to worry when you hit them right, and the blood trail looks like a man with a watering can full of blood was walking away with the spout straight down.
Got up on a high hill the next day and saw no deer, but watched a couple of Tom turkeys making fools of themselves over a big hen 600 yards away. Watched them work their way to within 150 yards of our property, and then break off. Our property line was 350 yards away, and we'd be eating turkey now if they'd just crossed that line below us; I had a good rest and a great sling... Let that be a lesson; remember your call!! (Mine was in the truck, darn it!)
Headed back early; had a test this morning. Plenty of time, plenty of time.
Texas can be a fine place, too, Dr. Rob! Just wish I could find me a hunt here for pronghorn, and that we still had elk hunting...
|November 16, 1999, 09:26 PM
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Got my deer, antelope, and elk. Now I am chasing the geese. Man are they thick this year, the limit is five dark and five light per day. I'll kill geese until the end of December, then start riding my 700 RMK (snowmobile) through waist deep powder until May. Of course, then the Lund Pro-V will come out and I'll fish for walleyes until archery season in September, then it all starts over. Living in Wyoming is sure hard on the wallet though. My gasoline bill for boat gas in August and truck fuel for hunting in September and October came to $495.40. I guess that is cheaper than commuting to work like some of you guys. Am I gloating here?
|November 18, 1999, 12:11 PM
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Yeah, my season is over too. I ended it just after 12:30 on the opening day. It is nice to have the venison at the locker plant that quick, but damn, I wish I could still be huntin. Record high temps have been makin it pretty tough for the guys around here, the deer are keeping in the shade and thick cover during the day. I got lucky, some other guys were pushing a big grove off to the south of where I was and this buck kind of doubled-back, came out behind them, going full throttle across about 1/2 of a mile of absolutely flat wide open hay meadow. It had to cross a fence and about another 1/4 mile to get to the next shelterbelt when I popped it with my .270 Savage110 quartering away at about a hundred yards down the fenceline. One shot rolled it, and it stayed down. I don't really like to shoot at a deer that is running all out, but I have shot a few coyotes on the move, so I waited until I had what I felt was the best possible chance at the shortest range and took it. Anyway, I got a nice 2 1/2 year old nontypical 5x6 whitetail.
Now I wait for cold weather and blackpowder season.
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Had an excellent shot at a doe but I still have a problem with hesitating. Never got off a shot.
But the season is not over yet! Still have until November 30, then blackpowder, then the extended antlerless season until January 2.
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Neri di Bicci (Italian, Florence 1419 - ca. 1491 unknown)
Altar Wing with Five Saints, ca. 1445
Tempera and gold on panel (poplar)
48 5/8 x 32 1/4 in. (123.5 x 81.9 cm)
Kress Study Collection, 1961
An altarpiece fragment from SS. Annunziata, one of the most prominent churches in Florence, Neri di Bicci's Five Saints documents a moment of transition between late Gothic and early Renaissance style in Florentine painting. It is among the earliest known works by this prolific artist, who would come to dominate the more conservative trends in Florentine art patronage during the third quarter of the fifteenth century.Arrayed in two rows across a fictive tile pavement are five full-length standing saints facing to the right. In the front row (from left to right) are Saints Margaret, identified by her attribute of a dragon coiled at her feet, John the Baptist, identified by his hair shirt and banderole inscribed "Ecce Agnus Dei" (Behold the Lamb of God), and James Major, identified by his pilgrim's staff and cockle shell. In the second row, filling the two arched cusps at the top of the panel, are Saints Bernard, identified by his Cistercian habit, and Matthew, identified by the open volume of Gospels that he holds.
A companion panel in the Galleria dell 'Academia, Florence,1 identical in size and shape to that at Oberlin, represents Saints Francis, Philip, Catherine, Albert the Great, and Jerome, similarly arrayed in two rows on a fictive tile pavement but facing left instead of right. These two panels formed the left and right (respectively) lateral wings to an altarpiece, the central panel of which was identified by Federico Zeri as a Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.2
Werner Cohn (1956) first recognized the Oberlin and Academia panels as surviving fragments of the altarpiece formerly in the Villani di Stoldo chapel in SS. Annunziata, Florence. His identification is based on the provenance of the Academia panel from that church and on the coincidence of the identities of the saints with the names of Jacopo Villani, his wife Margherita, and their six sons (Giovanni, Matteo, Bernardino, Filippo, Girolamo, and Alberto), as well as the dedication of the chapel to Saints James, Francis, and Catherine as specified in the will of the chapel's patron, Jacopo di Giovanni di Matteo Villani.3 A drawing of the elevation of the chapel made in 1675,4 showing the altarpiece in situ, confirms this identification, as well as the association of the Boston Madonna as the central panel of the complex.
Parronchi (1964) has identified the Oberlin and Academia panels instead as parts of the former high altarpiece of SS. Annunziata, commissioned from Ventura di Moro in 1449 to replace an earlier altarpiece--ascribed by Ghiberti in his Commentari to Taddeo Gaddi (ca. 1300-ca. 1366)--and removed in turn in 1505 to make room for the Deposition altarpiece by Filippino Lippi and Pietro Perugino (ca. 1445/50-1523).5 This identification may be dismissed on the basis of attribution (Ventura di Moro is now known to be a wholly distinct artistic personality),6 and on the exact conformity of the paintings' iconography with the specifications of Jacopo Villani's will.
The date of the Oberlin/Boston/Academia altarpiece may be deduced on circumstantial grounds as between 1444, when the Villani acquired rights over the chapel of Saint James in SS. Annunziata, and 1454, when Jacopo Villani's testament was drafted. As the testament endows the chapel and obliges his heirs to say mass there on the feasts of Saints James, Francis, and Catherine, but makes no mention of ordering a painted altarpiece, it must be presumed that the painting already existed at that time. Nor is there mention of the altarpiece in Neri di Bicci's Ricordanze, which begins in 1453. Stechow and Kanter both favor a date early in this period on stylistic grounds, seeing the strong influence of Neri di Bicci's father, Bicci di Lorenzo, on the figure style and spatial structure of the paintings.7 A date before 1450 may also be indicated by the inclusion of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in the Oberlin panel, instead of Saint Bernardino of Siena, as patron of Bernardino di Jacopo Villani. Though widely venerated earlier, Saint Bernardino was canonized only in 1450.
L. Kanter
Born in 1419, Neri di Bicci inherited from his father, Bicci di Lorenzo (1373-1452), and grandfather, Lorenzo di Bicci (ca. 1350-2d decade, 15th century), one of the most successful and longest continually operative commercial workshops in Florence. Neri's earliest signed and dated work, at Canneto in the Val d'Elsa, is of 1452, the year of his father's death, but he may have been the actual if not the titular head of the family workshop for as much as a decade before that. His Gothic style appealed to the conservative taste of Florentine patrons and accounted in large part for the success of his family's workshop from the end of the fourteenth century, although he had introduced decorative and architectural motifs into his compositions derived from the leading artists of his time, such as Michelozzo, Fra Filippo Lippi (ca. 1406-1469), and Fra Angelico (ca. 1400-1455). Neri di Bicci's last dated painting, an altarpiece in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, is of 1482. He may have continued to paint for a decade or more after that, but no notice of him later than 1491 has been preserved.
From 1453 to 1475, Neri maintained a workshop diary (Libro di Ricordanze) which documents an astonishing number of commissions for altarpieces and frescoes as well as painted household and luxury goods such as candelabra, coats of arms, wooden angels and crucifixes, stucco madonnas, tapestry designs, shop signs, etc., and lists no fewer than nineteen assistants who worked for him. The Libro di Ricordanze is an invaluable source of information on the system of Florentine workshop production in the fifteenth century, on the procedures of art consumption, and on the nature of the Florentine art market at the time. Art historians have traditionally regarded the Libro di Ricordanze as Neri di Bicci's most important work. His numerous surviving paintings, however, reveal him to have been an exceptionally accomplished craftsman and an able draftsman and colorist, if not an artist of singularly inventive inspiration.
General References
Santi, Bruno, ed. Neri di Bicci: Le Ricordanze. Pisa, 1976.
Frosinini, Cecilia. "Il passaggio di gestione in una bottega pittorica fiorentina del primo '400: Bicci di Lorenzo e Neri di Bicci, 2." Antichita Viva 26, no. 1 (1987), pp. 5-13.
Santi, Bruno. In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. Vol. 22. London and New York, 1996, pp. 797-803.
Villani di Stoldo chapel, SS. Annunziata, Florence, until 16889
Pinacoteca Vaticana, before catalog of 1870 (?)
Collection Sterbini, Rome (?)
Collection Newman, Florence (?)10
Collection Contini-Bonacossi, Florence
Collection Samuel H. Kress, New York, 1933
Given to the museum in 1961
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 1932. An Exhibition of Italian Paintings from the Collection of Samuel H. Kress. October (traveling exhibition concluded at Charlotte, N.C., Mint Museum of Art,1935.) Cat. p. 14.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1941-52. Permanent exhibition.
Del Migliore, F. L. Firenze citta nobilissima. Florence, 1684, p. 282.
Tonini, P. Il Santuario della SS. Annunziata di Firenze. Florence, 1876, p. 132.
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 333.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Preliminary Catalogue. 1941, no. 235.
Paatz, W. and E. Paatz. Die Kirchen von Florenz. Vol. 3, Frankfurt, 1952, p. 76 n. 248.
Cohn, Werner. "Notizie storiche intorno ad alcune tavole fiorentine del trecento e quattrocento." Rivista d'arte 31, ser. 3, vol. 6 (1956), pp. 61-65.
Stechow, Wolfgang. "The Samuel H. Kress Study Colleciton Catalogue." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 19, no. 1 (Fall 1961), pp. 9-13.
Stechow, Wolfgang. "Neri di Bicci: A Correction." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 19, no. 2 (Winter 1962), p. 102.
Casalini, Eugenio-Maria. "Una tavola di Taddeo Gaddi già alla ss.ma Annunziata di Firenze." Studi storici sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria 12 (1962), pp. 61-63, 67-69.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Florentine School. Vol. 1, London, 1963, p. 156.
Parronchi, A. Studi su la dolce prospettiva. Milan, 1964, p. 131 n.
Shapley, Fern R. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII-XV Century. Vol. 1. London, 1966, pp. 112-13.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, pp. 117-18, fig. 8.
Zeri, Federico. "Neri di Bicci: Reintegrazione di un dipinto già nella SS. Annunziata di Firenze." Antologia di Belle Arti 4, nos. 13/14 (1980), pp. 131-33.
Early Italian Paintings and Works of Art 1300-1480. Exh. cat., Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd., London, 1983, p. 49.
Sutton, Denys. "Piety and Restraint: Two Centuries of Italian Art in London." Apollo 118 (1983), p. 99.
Frosinini, Cecilia. "Il passaggio di gestione in una bottega pittorica fiorentina del primo '400: Bicci di Lorenzo e Neri di Bicci, 2." Antichita Viva 26, no. 1 (1987), pp. 7, 13.
Kanter, Laurence B. Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I: 13th - 15th Century. Boston, 1994, pp. 147, 149.
Santi, Bruno. In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. Vol. 22. London and New York, 1996, p. 798.
Thomas, Anabel. "Neri di Bicci's Assumption of the Virgin for S. Trinita, Florence: Squaring the Pyramid," Apollo 146 (August 1997), p. 46.
Technical Data
The painting is in remarkably good condition. There is a vertical split to the right of center of the panel, and another approximately 2.5 cm (1 inch) from the left edge; losses associated with these areas have been filled, inpainted, and/or regilt. There are several small holes in Saint Margaret's face, in the back of Saint John's head and in the halo just above his shoulder; and minimal scattered losses from flaking. The gold ground of the background is well preserved, but gilding in the floor is abraded, revealing the red bolus, and much of the mordant gilt decoration at the edges of the draperies has been lost. The tempera paint is applied with thin, hatched strokes; building up of layers permitted some areas of wet-in-wet modeling. Glazes are applied in broader strokes, using an oil or resin medium.
The panel was cradled in 1934; in 1961, the vertical members of the cradle were thinned to allow the wood greater movement. The painting was cleaned in 1961, and the losses filled and inpainted. The original frame and spandrel decorations have been removed. The present frame is slightly wider, and exposed edges of the panel have been filled and inpainted.
1. Tempera on panel, 123.5 x 81.9 cm, inv. 3470.
2. Tempera on panel, 155.9 x 93.6 cm, inv. 1983.300; F. Zeri, "Neri di Bicci: reintegrazione di un dipinto gia nella SS. Annunziata di Firenze," Antologia di Belle Arti 4, nos. 13/14 (1980), pp. 131-33; Laurence B. Kanter, Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston I: 13th - 15th Century (Boston, 1994), pp. 147-49.
3. Werner Cohn, "Notizie storiche intorno ad alcune tavole fiorentine del trecento e quattrocento," Rivista d'arte 31, ser. 3, vol. 6 (1956), pp. 61-65. Cohn incorrectly transcribed the text of Villani's testament to suggest that his chapel was dedicated to SS. James, Mark, and Catherine, leaving Cohn unable to account for the presence of Saint Francis in the foreground of the Academia panel. The correct text is reprinted in Eugenio-Maria Casalini, "Una tavola di Taddeo Gaddi già alla ss.ma Annunziata di Firenze," Studi storici sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria 12 (1962), p. 67 n. 33.
4. Published in Eugenio-Maria Casalini, "Una tavola di Taddeo Gaddi già alla ss.ma Annunziata di Firenze,"Studi storici sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria 12 (1962), p. 68. The altarpiece was removed from the chapel in or shortly after 1688; see Provenance and note 9 below.
5. Alessandro Parronchi, Studi du la dolce prospettiva (Milan, 1964), p. 131.
6. For Ventura di Moro, known to Parronchi only through documents, see Ugo Procacci, "Di Jacopo d'Antonio e delle compagnie di pittori del Corso degli Adimari nel XV secolo," Rivista d'arte ser. 3, vol. 11 (1961), pp. 52-53, and Laurence B. Kanter, Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston I: 13th - 15th Century(Boston, 1994), pp. 138-41, 149. Casalini believed that the altarpiece shown in the 1675 drawing of the Villani di Stoldo chapel was that attributed by Ghiberti (Commentari, ed. O. Morisani [1947], pp. 34-35) to Taddeo Gaddi; Eugenio-Maria Casalini, "Una tavola di Taddeo Gaddi già alla ss.ma Annunziata di Firenze," Studi storici sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria 12 (1962), pp. 61-63.
7. Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, 1967), pp. 117-18; and Laurence B. Kanter, Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston I: 13th - 15th Century (Boston, 1994), p. 149.
8. This biography is reprinted with the permission of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from Laurence B. Kanter, Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston I: 13th - 15th Century (Boston, 1994), p. 147.
9. The altarpiece was removed from the chapel in or shortly after 1688, when patronage rights passed to the Guadagni family, and reinstalled in the Capitolo de'Macinghi in SS. Annunziata. In 1700 it was transferred to a room next to the upper sacristy in the church, and from there to the stanza della Barberia (a newly built dormitory room) two years later. In 1706 it was moved to the stanza del Professato where it remained until at least 1765. It is not listed among the paintings collected from the monastery in 1789 and exhibited in the Gallery established in the atrium of the Annunziata library. See E. M. Casalini, "Per una tavola di Taddeo Gaddi gia all'Annunziata," Studi storici sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria 12 (1962), pp. 61-63.
10. The presence of the Oberlin panel in the Vatican, Sterbini, and Newman collections is reported in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Preliminary Catalogue, 1941, no. 235, but is unconfirmed.


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From South Dakota to Ohio, farmers are preparing to plant the most corn in almost eight decades after drought ruined record U.S. harvests predicted by the government.
"Farmers are looking for every acre possible to plant this year," said Bill Bayliss, 67, who is expanding acreage by 10 percent on land he farms in West Mansfield, Ohio, where drought conditions have disappeared. "The price is attractive, and we have seen an improvement in soil moisture."
Corn acreage in the U.S., the world's top grower and exporter, will be the largest since 1936, yielding an all-time high of 13.863 billion bushels at harvest should weather conditions improve, the average of 17 analysts' estimates in a Bloomberg survey shows. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted record output in forecasts released Feb. 11. Futures contracts show traders expect corn prices to fall 19 percent by December to $5.615 as supply grows after the harvest, cutting costs for livestock producers and ethanol distillers.
While adverse weather the past three years prompted the USDA to back off predictions made in May before planting started, corn prices that are higher than 2012's record average mean the crop remains profitable for farmers. The grain closed at $6.9625 yesterday in Chicago.
"We are in a major transition to a more-abundant supply situation," said Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities Inc. in West Des Moines, Iowa, who grows corn and soybeans on his farm. "We have sent a clear price signal to the rest of the world to produce more corn." Prices may drop below $4 a bushel in Chicago this year, he said.
Price Slump
Corn futures that reached a record $8.49 in September have fallen 6 percent this month on the Chicago Board of Trade. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 commodities is down 1.1 percent, while the MSCI World Index of shares rose 0.1 percent. Treasuries lost 0.08 percent, a Bank of America index shows.
Farmers have the capital needed to boost production of corn, the biggest domestic crop valued at a record $77.35 billion in 2012, as the financial condition of U.S. agriculture has never been better, government and Federal Reserve data show.
Farm income will jump to a record $128.2 billion this year, Midwest cropland values are the highest ever and the ratio of debt to equity is the lowest on record at 11.3 percent, according to the USDA. While the worst drought since the 1930s cut output by 13 percent last year, farmers were protected from losses by crop-insurance payouts that reached an all-time high of $14.7 billion, with more claims expected.
Planting Boom
Planting from March to June will reach 97.73 million acres, up from a 75-year high of 97.155 million in 2012, according to the Bloomberg survey. While the drought cut output 13 percent to 10.78 billion bushels last year, improved weather will help boost stockpiles before the 2014 harvest to 1.795 billion bushels, the most since 2006 and up from a 17-year low of 632 million this year, according to the survey.
Hedge funds and other large speculators cut their net-long corn positions, or bets on higher prices, by 31 percent in the week ended Feb. 12 to 126,363 futures and options, the biggest reduction since June, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Holdings are down from 279,010 contracts on Dec. 4.
Most farmers "expect prices to ratchet lower," said Bayliss, the Ohio farmer. "I'm looking for cash prices to fall below $4.50 and hope it's not $3.50 or $2.50."
The USDA will update its 2013 forecasts at its annual outlook conference tomorrow in Arlington, Virginia.
With a return to normal yields this year, "a rebuilding of stocks and lower commodity prices would be expected in the fall," Joseph Glauber, the chief economist at the USDA, said Jan. 14 at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing in Washington.
Drought Risk
Drought conditions are lingering in the Great Plains and Midwest, the main growing area. About 83 percent of the six- state region from Kansas to North Dakota has soil moisture below 10 percent of normal, with some at zero, and where water shortages and crop damage are likely, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. A year ago, 5.5 percent was in drought.
Severe drought covers the entire state of Nebraska, the fourth-largest corn grower, more than half of Iowa, the biggest producer, and 70 percent of Minnesota, ranked No. 2, the monitor shows. Drought conditions will persist in the Plains and Southeast through April 30, the government said Feb. 7.
"The market is not paying attention to the potential problems from dry soils," said Dan Basse, the president of AgResource Co. in Chicago. "If we don't see an improvement in the weather and soil conditions by April 10, the market will respond just like last year. It's premature to be talking about sub-$5 corn when parts of the Midwest need 6 inches to 14 inches of rain to restore soil moisture."
Goldman Outlook
Dry soil across the western Midwest will limit the rebound in output, leaving prices in 12 months at $6, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a Feb. 10 report. Standard Chartered Bank said in a Feb. 14 report that corn will average $6.80 in the fourth quarter, 21 percent more than the December futures.
After predicting record crops, the USDA revised its forecasts lower in 2010 as fields were damaged by heavy rains during planting and a later heat wave, and again the following two years because of droughts.
It will take two or three years for a return to bumper crops, Randall Miles, a soil scientist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, said in a report last week. Rainfall would need to be 16 inches above normal to recharge soil moisture depleted by roots that went as deep as 8 feet to survive the drought, Miles said.
Drought Easing
The drought is beginning to diminish in Midwest areas east of the Mississippi River and in the Great Plains and western Midwest, Drought Monitor data show. Warming equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean and stronger trade winds are shifting from dry patterns to ones with increased rain in the central U.S., Gail Martell, president of Martell Crop Projections in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, said in a Feb. 12 report.
Corn production also is rising outside the U.S. after four years of higher-than-average prices. Traditional buyers of U.S. corn including Japan, South Korea and Mexico are purchasing more from Brazil, Argentina and Ukraine. Output in Brazil and Argentina, the biggest exporters after the U.S., will increase 5.9 percent to a record this year, the USDA said Feb. 8.
While corn futures for December delivery in Chicago trade at $1.3475 a bushel less than the May contract, the price is still 37 percent higher on average for post-harvest supplies during the past decade and above the cost of production, said Richard Guse, 52, who farms with his brother in Waseca, Minnesota. That's an incentive to grow more, he said.
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Rebuilding Bills will continue to play in Toronto, sign new deal with Rogers for five seasons
TORONTO – The Buffalo Bills and Rogers Media announced a new agreement Friday that will keep Rogers Centre as the team's second home.
Buffalo will play one regular-season game at the home of the Toronto Blue Jays for the next five years, and the new contract also includes one preseason game in 2015.
The existing five-year deal — which was worth $78 million — expired when Seattle posted a 50-17 win over Buffalo Dec. 16. But an extension had long been expected despite lingering attendance problems. Only 40,770 fans attended the Seahawks' win, far short of a sellout. Some 53,000 fans had been expected.
Buffalo, which finished 6-10 and underwent a coaching change this month, has won just one of its regular-season games in Toronto. The Bills recently extended their lease at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., for 10 years, which should solidify the franchise's short-term future.


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2013 Volvo C30: New Car Review
If you're concerned that cars all seem to look the same these days, you should take a look at the 2013 Volvo C30. Sporting a rakish rear roof line with a unique all-glass lift gate, the C30 draws inspiration from the classic Volvo 1800ES of the early 1970s rather than today's cookie-cutter cars.
So why hasn't Volvo sold more of these zesty little hatches? We can assure you it's not for lack of power: The C30's turbocharged inline 5-cylinder serves up plenty of entertaining thrust. The fuel economy's not bad, either. A more likely culprit is the C30's premium price, which probably makes buyers less forgiving of shortcomings such as the outdated navigation system and the surprisingly inconvenient cargo hold.
But the C30 looks great inside and out, it's comfortable and it can go pretty fast. And the C30's starting price of roughly $25,000 seems reasonable.
What's New for 2013?
The C30 is mostly not revised for the new model year. The hatchback's only notable changes are newly standard headlight washers and automatic wipers.
What We Like
Cool styling; slick cabin; powerful, personality-filled turbocharged inline 5-cylinder; comfy front seats
What We Don't
Old-school optional navigation system; one of the least practical hatchbacks you can buy
How Much?
Fuel Economy
All C30 models come with front-wheel drive and a turbocharged 5-cylinder rated at 227 horsepower and 236 lb-ft of torque. A 6-speed manual transmission is standard, but you can pay extra for a 5-speed automatic. Fuel economy isn't great, but it's not bad, either, for a turbocharged engine that's getting on in years. The manual's rated at 21 miles per gallon city/29 mpg hwy, while the automatic comes in at 21 mpg city/30 mpg hwy.
Options & Standard Features
The 2013 Volvo C30 is offered in two basic models -- T5 and R-Design.
Base-level T5 models ($26,500) are generously equipped. They come standard with air conditioning, 17-inch alloy wheels, Bluetooth, a USB port, remote keyless entry, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, remote keyless entry and split-folding rear seats.
Shoppers who step up to the sporty R-Design ($28,500) get leather upholstery, sport suspension, 18-in wheels, aluminum interior trim, fog lights and a rear spoiler.
Three packages are optional on both models. The Premier Package costs $1,600 extra and adds a power driver's seat, a power sunroof, a cargo cover and -- in T5 models -- aluminum interior trim. The Premier Plus Package ($1,100 above the Premier) adds keyless access with push-button starting, steering-linked xenon headlights, LED daytime running lights and a power passenger seat. At the top end is the Platinum Package ($2,200 above Premier Plus), which includes navigation and an upgraded sound system.
We don't usually say this about hatchbacks, but the C30 really isn't practical for hauling stuff. Beneath that sexy glass lift gate, the cargo bay measures only 12.9 cu ft, which is barely more than you get in a typical economy sedan's trunk. Flip down the 50/50 split folding rear seat backs, and there's just 20.2 cu ft. Even MINI claims a maximum of 24.0 cu ft for its Cooper Hardtop.
The 2013 Volvo C30 comes with standard stability control and six airbags. Although the government has not crash tested a C30 lately, the independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded the C30 its top rating of Good in every category.
Behind the Wheel
The R-Design's aggressive looks might have you thinking the C30 is a real "hot hatch," but this Volvo is fancier than that. We mean that the C30 isn't some hard-core boy racer set up for track days you'll never attend. Instead, it's set up for daily life. The C30 can carry decent speed through a corner, but it's just as much about navigating the urban commute or making sure you're refreshed at the end of a long trip. It's an excellent real-world package.
The front seats will be a highlight of C30 ownership for years to come, delivering almost peerless comfort on long trips. The 3-spoke steering wheel likewise strikes a pleasant balance between sportiness and comfort. The back seat is certainly tight on legroom, but if the front occupants don't mind sliding their chairs up a bit, rear passenger space is otherwise adequate.
From a driver's-eye view, the C30's cockpit looks decidedly upscale and modern. The signature "floating" center control panel adds to the effect, and we continue to appreciate the unique font that Volvo has used for years on its gauges and buttons.
Our main issue is with the navigation system. For one, it lives on top of the dash and flips up when in use, so it's already like a portable navigation unit. Also, the controls consist of buttons behind the steering wheel spokes -- you know, where you can't see them. Throw in the system's rudimentary graphics and you have an option we recommend avoiding.
Other Cars to Consider
FIAT 500 Abarth -- The little FIAT is cheaper than the C30, and it certainly feels the part inside. But we like its spunky look and turbocharged verve.
MINI Cooper S -- The MCS remains one of the world's great all-around cars, combining scintillating performance with stellar fuel economy. The Volvo is much better on the highway, though, and we already discussed the back-seat situation.
Volkswagen GTI -- Probably the C30's biggest problem, the GTI combines Volvo-like refinement with a touch more athleticism, and you can even get it with four doors. However, you can't get anything like the C30's unique style.
AutoTrader's Advice
We're real fans of the base C30 with the 5-speed manual. For the price of a Cooper S or a GTI, you get a satisfying, great-looking hatch with inimitable Swedish style.


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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is the perfect platform to bring together creative and passionate minds to share their knowledge and ideas that inspire with our university and the surrounding community.
According to the TED website, "Created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading," the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. MORE.
The TEDx ArcadiaUniversity 2014 Theme this year is Feeding America.
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Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.


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Have you ever wondered why your local tax assessor has such a high opinion of the value of industrial plants in your area? This is particularly perplexing when global competition drives down the price of finished goods, energy prices skyrocket, the plant gets older and justifying further capital investment becomes difficult because of razor-thin margins.
The assessor thinks industrial properties are worth hundreds of millions of dollars because he uses the trended investment cost method to value the plant. The assessor adds up the historical costs invested in the plant over the last 30 years, trends that cost to current dollars and depreciates the result based upon the plant's remaining physical life.
This method is a backwards-looking valuation approach that does not measure the external economic factors that makes industrial property less competitive or even obsolete. The trended investment cost method bears no relationship to the price at which an owner could sell a plant on the open market. Yet, market value is the basis for all property tax assessments.
Industrial property exists for only one reason — to manufacture goods and provide an income for the owner. When income declines due to external factors, the market value of the plant drops. Because the trended cost investment method only looks at past investment, it can't account for the current economic reality.
A preferred valuation method
The only way for industrial plant owners to obtain fair tax assessments is to argue for the use of the income approach to value their plants — the same valuation approach investors use to determine the price they will pay for any investment.
Utilizing either a discounted cash flow or a direct capitalization method, the income approach projects the future income stream of the plant, capitalizes or discounts the income by a market rate of return on invested capital, taking into account current and future expected market conditions, as well as the risks and illiquidity of the investment.
The business value reflects all the factors of production — land, buildings, machinery and equipment, skilled labor, managerial expertise and goodwill. It is incumbent upon owners to show assessors how to separate the value of the real and personal property from the value of the business for assessment purposes.
Bear in mind that all factors of production fall into one of three categories: working capital, intangible assets and fixed assets. Working capital and intangible assets are non-assessable in most states. The market value of working capital — which includes cash, receivables, inventories, less current liabilities — can be easily and accurately determined. Now, only the market value of the intangible assets needs to be eliminated to arrive at the value of the fixed assets.
Why exclude intangibles?
Intangible assets include software, goodwill, customer lists, contracts, patents and trademarks, assembled workforce and trade secrets. The owner of an industrial property invests in intangible assets in one way or another. For example, the owner pays wages to a skilled workforce and invests in R&D, from which benefits and trade secrets result, in the hope the return will exceed its cost.
Because of economic obsolescence, a struggling industrial plant with low margins enjoys little return on intangible assets. And because the cost of creating and maintaining intangible assets is already reflected in the income stream as costs of doing business, their market value has already been accounted for in the business value. Even if intangible assets do have a value above their cost, the assessor will not complain the resulting valuation is too high.
The devil is in the details. The two components of the income approach — the income stream and the discount, or capitalization rate — must be accurately calculated to derive market value. A plant's budget or strategic plan already projects the future income of the plant.
For property tax purposes, it is the expected future debt-free, after-tax cash flow from the industrial plant that is discounted by the weighted average cost of capital. However, this approach must account for the current and expected market risks and illiquidity of owning a single, stand-alone plant, not the cost of capital of a Fortune 500 company.
If the future income stream is realistic and the discount or capitalization rate reflects the inherent risks of investing in a single industrial plant, the resulting value will equal the price an investor will pay to own that industrial property.
There remains only the task of convincing assessing authorities that the income approach results in a far better, and fairer, estimate of the plant's market value than the antiquated trended investment cost method.
David L. Canary is an owner in the Portland office of Garvey Schubert Barer, the Oregon and Washington member of American Property Tax Counsel. He can be reached at [email protected].


text: Dear friends & colleagues, I'm glad to share with you the fourth and last stage of Rea McNamara's performance at the WAG - Widget Art Gallery on IPhone, IPod touch and IPad form November 30st until January 2nd, 2013. To know more about the Widget Art Gallery, I suggest to read my latest interview on Rhizome http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/oct/29/gallery-your-pocket/ Enjoy the show! Best regards, Chiara About the exhibition: "The Age Issue" by Rea McNamara. The happy, stylish chaos that is a wonder woman anti-aging from 30 to 60 in a month, form November 30st until January 2nd. Every week, Rea performs crystal vision interventions of her respective life stages in the WAG space. Will she ever feel bien dans sa peau? Let's discover, together! http://www.reamcnamara.com/ About the WAG: The "WAG" is a mini 3-dimensional, single room gallery that fits into your pocket 'cause I've developed it for IPhone, IPod Touch and I Pad. Every month, directly on your mobile, The "WAG" hosts a solo digital art exhibition related to the dynamic site-specific contest. So, the Widget Art Gallery works both as a sort of kunsthall showing temporary exhibitions and as a permanent collections museum because conserves all the past exhibitions inside an online archive. For IPhone and IPod touch, just copy this url http://www.chiarapassa.it/wag/mobile/ in Safari and choose: "add to home" and the WAG's icon will be saved on your IPhone. Do the same for IPad but paste this other URL: http://www.chiarapassa.it/wagipad/mobile/, or download the widget version for Mac osx dashboard at: http://www.chiarapassa.it/publicart.html . Past exhibitions at: http://the-widget-art-gallery.blogspot.com/ -- Chiara Passa - new media artist chiarapassa at gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Passa (Ita) Find me also: http://www.chiarapassa.it/socialnetworks.html


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Hardly a major force in the UK flatscreen TV market, Japanese brand Sharp has a huge LCD business that's largely Asia-focused and has, in recent times, been concentrating on the budget end of the TV and consumer electronics markets elsewhere.
That all changed last year when Sharp introduced Quattron – a new colour reproduction technology for flatscreen TVs that was long overdue.
TV pictures are made up of individual pixels that mix elements from three sub-pixels – red, green and blue – to produce colour. This RGB system has been in operation since the year dot in TVs, but Sharp changed all of that last year when it dropped a fourth sub-pixel – yellow – into the mix.
Reviews for Sharp's first Quattron TV, the LC-46LE821E, were good. But now this 40-inch LCD TV, the LC-40LE831E, is 2011's attempt at combining Quattron with 3D.
The LC-40LE831E uses active 3D tech (with a built-in transmitter) and is as fully featured as any on the market; Freeview HD, Full HD, DLNA networking and a stunning 34mm depth combine on this neatly designed package.
As well as some touchy-feely controls on the TV set's lower reaches – effectively on top of some hidden stereo speakers – there's a nice 'V' design, too.
It doesn't exactly recall Sharp's early reference-level (at that time) titanium Aquos LC-45GD1E LCD TVs from the mid-Noughties, but in sheer quality terms it's surprisingly close for such a low-cost TV, priced as it is at around £750.
Elsewhere in Sharp's stable of LE831 second generation Quattron screens is the 46-inch Sharp LC-46LE831E, a 52-inch Sharp LC-52LE831E and a 60-inch Sharp LC-60LE831E. Proof, if any was needed, that the major LCD TV manufacturers think that 40-inch is the new 32-inch, in popularity terms.


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my dad was raised on a big tobacco farm in southern virginia, and recently, brian meares' homesteading itch has gotten the better of him, so we're now proud owners of an old 70s camper that we hauled up to the farm this weekend.
brian wanted a sugar shack to stay in when he hunts, and i liked the idea of a camping cabin to bring friends to in the spring and fall. we christened it this weekend in the 25 degree weather, and i have to admit - i'm sort of excited about the prospects of my new farm getaway-styles. the camper sleeps 5 comfortably, and has a cute little banquette for dining (cushions are getting recovered asap - you're going to love it - but what am i going to do with those window treatments?!).
there's a working kitchen with a sink, a 4 burner cooktop, a stove, tons of storage, and a bathroom with a shower. brian landscaped (he would say bushhogged) the spot where he put the camper so there's a front and back yard, which will accommodate lots of tents among all of the little trees he left. an inaugural spring jamboree is already in the planning.
while we were there, we got a start on the firepit, found a coyote carcass and brian took this picture while the other sisterwives were making dinner.
(my friend said it looks like i'm the leader of a polygamous cult here)
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- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2013 at 11:41 AM
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I love this Jamie! Made me laugh out loud seeing your face sitting by the campfire! Looks totally amazing!!!!ReplyDelete
This is so awesome!! I'm so glad to have discovered you in 2012 and hope to get back to my college stomping grounds and finally visit Furbish in the New Year!
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Love it! I totally want a camper too! This one looks fun and has potential...especially with your touch!ReplyDelete
Lady, you will make the camper look amazing...even those window treatments!ReplyDelete
I love it and your hilarious commentary. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.ReplyDelete
I've visited your site for awhile now, but leave it to a camper to get me riled up enough to actually comment ; )
With the way my weekend house procurement has gone in the last year, I may not be far behind you in creating a little campdown.
You look pissed about the cold...i'm totally with you! And really, you christened it with other couples around?! harharReplyDelete
bahaha. my dad bought one of these one time and told my mom he got her "lake house." you are handling it way better than her.ReplyDelete
She's a beaut, Clark.ReplyDelete
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I second "she's a beaut, Clark" and damn, you're a good sport.ReplyDelete
This is absolutely positively fabulously hilarious. Can't wait to hear about your excursions-ReplyDelete
Ha, I thought you just looked freezing.ReplyDelete
This is amazing. It makes me want to live outdoors. xoReplyDelete
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What a cool "retro hunt camp"ReplyDelete
Sounds absolutely amazing! :)ReplyDelete
How I would love to be in your shoes right now. :P
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You are so fortunate to have such aReplyDelete
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Bodil Stokke keynotes on the FP languages for writing bug free, fault tolerant code that help building simple, concurrent and reusable software.
Bodil Stokke (@bodil) is a compulsive conference speaker in the fields of functional programming and internets technologies, and is a co-organizer of multiple developer conferences in Scandinavia and the UK, mostly because she's still learning how to stop. She is a prolific contributor to the Free Software community. In her spare time, she works as a developer for Future Ad Labs.
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Nice Talk - hope it gets good viewership
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In my experience, the following two features - found in most current FP languages - help enormously:
a) Immutability by default
b) Pattern matching
Immutability is already well understood.
Pattern matching allows us to express complex decisions in concise and very readable way. You can really only appreciate this after you have worked with it for a while.
I am most familiar with the F# language and I can attest that Pattern Matching has come to rescue many many times. The ML family (which F# is part of) leverages type checking in pattern matching to assist the programmer in making sure all cases are considered.
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Rich Hickey, if I got it right, wasn't saying he doesn't or you shouldn't do TDD. What he said is that it isn't TDD which gives you the flexibility to software changeability and lots of the abilities "promised" in several of the TDD talks out there. And the hammock time wasn't about thinking through your whole software system before starting to code it. He simply said that you should spend some time thinking about what you're doing before you jump into design decisions which could damage you in the future.
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The study found that the most significant action taken in the past 12 months was the "implementation of programs to reduce operating costs," indicated by 69.2% of respondents, down from 80.7% in 2012 and 73.1% in 2011. Various other activities, such as negotiating harder with vendors to reduce costs, implementing lean manufacturing programs, and accepting single-use systems into clinical manufacturing operations, were undertaken by at least one-third of respondents. Outsourcing to reduce costs, however, was not a key priority (1). Of the 19 cost-cutting actions examined in the study, the five actions relating to outsourcing occupied the bottom spots in the survey results, an indication that when it comes time to tightening the reins, calling a CMO is not the first option. In fact, it is one of the last.
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The relatively low priority assigned to outsourcing as a cost-cutting tool may reflect companies viewing these activities more as means to fill temporary gaps in capacity and as a way for biopharmaceutical companies to focus on their core competencies. Another explanation may be that although outsourcing is seen as a useful cost-reduction tool, it does not compare as favorably with other cost-cutting tactics. Biopharmaceutical companies are not alone in this result; in previous BioPlan surveys, few vendors approached cost containment by outsourcing.
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