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However, IPM's tenet is being tossed out the window in the San Joaquin Valley where many cotton growers are telling their pest control advisers that when it comes to controlling silverleaf whitefly, make it "just in case."
Growers who two years ago refused to spend money late season to control whitefly spent thousands in 2003 to control the pest whose honeydew can gum up textile mills as if Elmer's Glue was mixed with the cotton.
Sticky cotton from the 2001 SJV crop sent shock waves through textile mills worldwide and overwhelmed the SJV cotton industry, threatening the long-standing reputation of SJV cotton as among the finest in the world.
The primary culprit is the silverleaf whitefly (SLWF), although aphids can also cause stickiness.
SLWF is a baffling bug. The tiny critter does not impact cotton yields, but honeydew from a whitefly horde can ruin open bolls at harvesttime.
The tiny terror is what brought leading pest control advisers, chemical company representatives and University of California entomologist together recently at the Kearney Agricultural Center for a round table discussion on how to economically control the pest without breaking the budget or building up resistance to some pesticide classes with pesticide overuse.
UC IPM advisor Pete Goodell called the gathering because demands for sticky free lint requires pest managers to use the same tactics as high value vegetables where growers spend hundreds of dollars per acre to protect the appearance of the crop.
To date California PCAs and UC entomologist have utilized information developed in Arizona to monitor and treat for SLWF. However, it has become apparent that the Arizona system does not fit California like a glove.
Different approaches
Arizona has been successful in controlling SLWF in a virtual cotton monoculture. However, with many more whitefly host crops in California, PCAs are discovering large, migrating adult populations in cotton that require different approaches than Arizona.
The Arizona SLWF management plan calls for three stages of treatment beginning with one of the two insect growth regulators, Knack or Applaud followed by a non-pyrethroid and then late season pyrethroids, if necessary.
California PCAs are finding they need to follow IGRs with non-IGRs much earlier than in Arizona because whitefly populations migrate into fields just prior to boll opening.
"Cotton growers are spending a lot of money to protect their open bolls from whiteflies coming from weeds and other crops," said one PCA.
Timing of late to mid-season whiteflies is a debatable subject. Some PCAs said their clients want zero tolerance for whiteflies when bolls are open. That forces them to recommend sprays when populations are just building rather than wait until they are considered economically damaging. By then it may be difficult to control the pest to a zero sticky tolerance, and PCAs will not risk failure to meet the zero tolerance grower mandate.
Others say that when a small percentage of bolls are open, sprays can be postponed until more bolls are open and maybe get through the season with only one late-season whitefly treatment. If those early bolls are sticky, they can be mixed with clean cotton without any problems in ginning or in the textile mill.
Late cotton this season also made cotton more vulnerable to whitefly honeydew.
"I saw 72-inch tall cotton being irrigated on Sept. 15 on the West Side of the valley last season," said one chemical company representative. "That tells me there needs to be still more education about the impact of whiteflies on cotton."
Aphids challenge
While the whitefly is the biggest culprit, aphids can also cause stickiness. They were a challenge in 2003, and it was California's Department of Pesticide Regulation that stepped in to help growers and PCAs bring it under control.
Furadan has received Section 18 emergency exemptions for several years to control late season aphids, but the federal EPA told American cotton growers don't ask for another exemption in 2003 because EPA was convinced that the new chemistry now on the market could control aphids.
"We started hearing late last year that for whatever reason, many of these new products were not working," said Earl Williams, president of the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations.
"The California Department of Pesticide Regulation stepped over EPA to give us an emergency exemption for Furadan in California because it recognized that the grower needed it," said Williams. This action, he said, was a result of involving DPR in the cotton pest management strategic planning.
The sticking point in the sticky cotton issue is what is considered damaging honeydew levels. When that is determined, discounts can be determined in the classing office and traced back to fields and growing practices.
Most mills have technology to test for stickiness. That same technology is finding its way to growers.
The San Joaquin Valley Quality Cotton Growers Association is testing cotton from member fields this season with a highly sensitive machine to measure stickiness. That was cited as a major step in relating growing practices to clean cotton.
When the controversy exploded in 2001, California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association mounted an aggressive no sticky cotton campaign.
'Will come back'
And the problem seemingly went away. There were no mill complaints in 2002, but Williams, said "that does not mean the problem has gone away because we addressed it. We cannot rest on what happened in 2002 because we know it will come back."
Although the jury is still out on the 2003 crop, indications are that there was more sticky cotton in the valley last season than the year before.
One Indian textile mill has complained about sticky SJV Pima cotton. Williams is investigating whether it was 2003 or an earlier crop and is tracing it back to the gin and grower.
Another gin reported 10 to 12 modules of 2003 cotton too sticky to efficiently gin. "The grower stepped up and did the right thing and decided to feed the cotton to dairy cows rather than try to run it through his gin," said Williams.
"I think most growers, ginners and merchants realize that sticky cotton costs everybody," said Williams. "People who grow stick cotton are going to be penalized. It is going to cost those growers more to gin their cotton, and they should not get the same price as everyone else. Growers who spend money to control whiteflies and aphids are not going to stand for people who do nothing not being penalized.
There are channels to dispose of sticky cotton without hurting the valley's reputation. What irritated mills in 2001 was sticky cotton showing up in opening rooms without them expecting it.
"There are areas of the world like Sudan which grows sticky cotton. They sell it. Merchants can market it because there are mills who will take discounted sticky cotton," he said.
"There will probably always be a few who will, for whatever reason, not address the problem of sticky cotton in the field. However, as long as we have safeguards in place to deal with it, that problem has been dealt with," concluded Williams.


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As the festive season is upon us, it seems appropriate to
consider a suitably seasonal film. The Christmas Choir
offers an updated version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol by
telling the story of a workaholic, self-absorbed man who is jilted
into realising that life is about so much more. It is essentially a
tale of redemption, love and second chances that highlights the
power of music to unite and to transform.
Written by Donald Martin and directed by Peter
Svatek in 2008, The Christmas Choir was first shown on
television in America and has only just been released on DVD, in
the UK, in September 2010.
As the film opens, we are introduced to Peter
Brockman, hard at work in his office, where his secretary asks him,
apologetically, if she can have leave during the week after
Christmas, to see her family. Absorbed in his accountancy work, he
almost forgets that he is supposed to meet his fiancée for a meal
that evening and consequently arrives late to hear her tell him she
no longer wants to marry him because he is a workaholic. Confused
and upset, Peter consoles himself in a bar where a man called Bob
is playing the piano and singing. They start to talk and find that
both had mothers who believed in the power of music to nourish the
souls. Bob invites Peter back to meet 'his family', which turns out
to be the residents of a homeless shelter. Here Peter meets sister
Agatha, a formidable nun who runs the centre. She accepts a
generous donation from him but also invites him to give his time to
volunteering if he is able. He tells her that this is unlikely as
he has very little time, but he finds himself drawn back to the
shelter with the idea of starting a choir for the men there. He
hopes to give them the chance to earn some money for Christmas.
With some scepticism and reluctance, sister Agatha allows him to
try. The rest of the film tells the story of his struggle to make
the choir a success and to find out what really matters to him. As
Peter finds purpose in his life through the choir, he also finds
new love.
The Christmas Choir is also a film
about estrangement between fathers and sons. We discover that Peter
has had no contact with his father for sometime and that Fred, one
of the homeless men, has been shunned by his son. We find
out, too, that Peter's father has a problem with alcohol, which
Peter finds very hard to deal with. This difficulty is echoed in
the problem drinking of one of the choir members, which almost
threatens to destroy the project at one point. The film reminds us
that anyone, from any walk of life, can encounter difficulties with
alcohol and money that may set them on the slippery slope to
homelessness and that receiving help at just the right time can
make the difference between success and failure for an
The Christmas Choir presents us with two important
topics that have a great relevance to those involved in mental
health: the first is the field of Music
Therapy and the second is the issue of psychiatric
morbidity among the homeless.
To quote from Nordoff
Robbins, the UK charity that
specialises in using music to transform the lives of mentally or
physically disabled adults and children: "Clap your hands. Tap your
feet. Sing out loud. Dance or stomp. Shout or cry. We all react to
music in different ways. But we all react. Because music has a
universal power to reach us, touch us and make us feel
There is a growing body of research in the
Music Therapy field that seeks to examine its clinical
effectiveness as an evidence-based practice in a wide range of
client groups. The Nordoff Robbins research department presents
some of this research in a publication, freely available online,
Presenting the Evidence. Of particular
interest to psychiatrists is the work being done, by music
therapists, with dementia sufferers, stroke victims, individuals
with learning disability and those diagnosed with autistic spectrum
The Christmas Choir may touch many of
us, at least in part, because the Carols in the film have probably
been known to most viewers living in Christian societies since
their childhood, whatever their religious beliefs. They often
provoke memories of past Christmases, whether good or bad, just as
they do for Peter in the film. This musical recognition can
demonstrate to us how music might be used in a therapeutic setting.
In a reminiscence session, for example, individuals suffering from
dementia, who lived through the second World War, may be able to
connect with their early life by singing along to wartime tunes
when they are unable to express those memories in words.
Turning to the other topic of relevance to the
mental health field, The Christmas Choir brilliantly
highlights some of the psychosocial issues associated with being
homeless. Much research has examined the psychiatric morbidity that
is associated with homelessness. An original paper by Marianne
Hayward entitled Psychiatric
morbidity and health service use among attendees at a winter
shelter, (Psychiatric Bulletin
(2007), 31, 326-329), found 31.3% of 597 attendees, at a Christmas
shelter in the UK, were recorded as having psychiatric morbidity.
Many other studies have shown an increased rate of depression,
anxiety, psychosis and substance misuse in the homeless population,
making it hugely important to target this population and encourage
better engagement with mental health services.
For homeless people, breaking away from their
social exclusion and poverty is often very difficult as it can be
almost impossible to get employment whilst they are homeless, but
to find even temporary accommodation can be too great a financial
challenge. Organisations like Off the Streets and into Work and
(who merged together in April 2010) work hard to find employment
solutions for homeless people. In the current economic climate this
has become an even tougher task. Homeless Link is the national
membership organisation for frontline homelessness agencies in
England. Their mission is to be a catalyst that will attempt to
bring an end to homelessness. Their website provides the
interested reader with a wealth of information on the issues and
facts surrounding homeless living.
This year, the BBC Radio 4 Christmas Appeal
also addresses the issue of homelessness by highlighting the work
of The
Connection, an organization providing specialist
services for the homeless in central London.
The Christmas Choir, based upon the
real life experiences of a small number of homeless men, provides a
wonderful introduction to some of the complex issues surrounding
homelessness, as well as to the power of music to transform
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A seizure is the physical findings or changes in behavior that occur after an episode of abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
The term "seizure" is often used interchangeably with "convulsion." Convulsions occur when a person's body shakes rapidly and uncontrollably. During convulsions, the person's muscles contract and relax repeatedly. There are many different types of seizures. Some have mild symptoms without shaking.
Secondary seizures; Reactive seizures; Seizure - secondary; Seizure - reactive; Convulsions
It may be hard to tell if someone is having a seizure. Some seizures only cause a person to have staring spells. These may go unnoticed.
Specific symptoms depend on what part of the brain is involved. Symptoms occur suddenly and may include:
Symptoms may stop after a few seconds or minutes, or continue for up to 15 minutes. They rarely continue longer.
The person may have warning symptoms before the attack, such as:
Seizures of all types are caused by disorganized and sudden electrical activity in the brain.
Causes of seizures can include:
Sometimes no cause can be found. This is called idiopathic seizures. They are usually seen in children and young adults, but can occur at any age. There may be a family history of epilepsy or seizures.
If seizures continue repeatedly after the underlying problem is treated, the condition is called epilepsy.
Most seizures stop by themselves. But during a seizure, the person can be hurt or injured.
When a seizure occurs, the main goal is to protect the person from injury:
Things friends and family members should not do:
If a baby or child has a seizure during a high fever, cool the child slowly with lukewarm water. Do not place the child in a cold bath. You can give the child acetaminophen (Tylenol) once he or she is awake, especially if the child has had fever convulsions before.
Call 911 or your local emergency number if:
Report all seizures to the person's health care provider. The doctor may need to adjust or change the person's medications.
A person who has had a new or severe seizure is usually seen in a hospital emergency room. The health care provider will try to diagnose the type of seizure based on the symptoms.
Tests will be done to rule out other medical conditions that cause seizures or similar symptoms. This may include fainting, transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke, panic attacks, migraine headaches, sleep disturbances, among others.
Tests that may be ordered include:
Further testing is needed if you have:
Krumholz A, Wiebe S, Gronseth G, et al. Practice parameter: evaluating an apparent unprovoked first seizure in adults (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Neurology. 2007;69:1991-2007.
McMullan JT, Davitt AM, Pollack CV Jr. Seizures. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al., eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2013:chap 18.


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War Vote In Congress Could Weigh On Global Growth
Buildup to U.S. Action Could Raise Oil Cost, Slow Economy.
The coming congressional debate on U.S. military intervention in Syria could become another impediment to stronger global growth, keeping oil prices up and weighing on consumers, businesses and policy makers for weeks.
In recent decades, potential U.S. military action in the Middle East has tended to spark heightened worries in markets—boosting oil prices, in particular—in advance of any operations. Those concerns often abated rapidly once action began, with the drop in oil costs and relief rally in stocks actually giving the...


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Progress Report #1 September 2nd, 2008
So far, our project is an attempt to control the flight of an RC plane with the Rabbit microprocessor. To do this we need several things....
Firstly, we need to acquire servos and an accelerometer. Then we must interface them with the Rabbit.
Second, we will implement switches to allow us to select different flight patterns before lift-off. This can be done with a simple DIP switch. Different combinations of switches will create different flight patterns.
Third, we hope to add a pitot tube to help us measure the air speed, which we will then use to perfect the flight patterns.
Also, we would also like to include an IC circuit that help us measure altitude.
The last two additions to the project are to aid in un-manned flight. Our first goal is obviously to get the accelerometers, servos, and rabbit communicating properly. The pitot tube and the altitude measurements are improvements that we can see would be the obvious next steps. We would consider communication with the servos to be a success, but are not setting a goal right now as to where we will be in December.


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Executive Director: Norma Houston
Norma took a leave of absence from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government in February 2007 in order to lead the UNC Tomorrow Initiative. Prior to joining the School of Government in 2006, she served as Chief of Staff and General Counsel to State Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight. She has also served as Dare County Attorney, an Assistant Attorney General in the N.C. Department of Justice, and staff attorney for N.C. Prisoners Legal Services. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law. Norma earned a B.S. in criminal justice and psychology and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar and serves on the boards of several associations, non-profit organizations, and advisory councils.
Contact Norma: firstname.lastname@example.com (919) 843-1903
(former) Deputy Executive Director: Tony Caravano
Tony joined UNC General Administration in March 2007. Prior to that he served as the Director of Legislative Outreach for State Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight. Caravano earned a B.A. in Criminology from North Carolina State University, where he was elected twice as the Student Body President. He resides in Raleigh and currently serves on several boards and advisory councils for North Carolina State University. Tony left General Administration in March 2009 and is now the Deputy State Director for United States Senator Kay Hagan.


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|St. Ignatius
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|San Francisco Juniors
2011: Played 81 sets...213 kills...127 digs...27 blocks...ranked second on the team in kills and fifth in digs...finished ninth in the NEWMAC in kills...amassed 20 kills and 15 digs versus Western New England (10/15)...also had 15 digs against Middlebury (10/22)...posted five blocks versus Amherst (10/21)...earned three aces against CCNY (9/30) and WPI (11/1).
2010: Played 101 sets...242 kills...186 digs...48 blocks...26 aces...ranked third on the team in kills and digs and fifth in blocks...posted a career-high 16 kills against Springfield (9/28)...collected 11 digs versus Bowdoin (9/10), Williams (9/24) and Coast Guard (10/30)...earned four aces against Mount Holyoke (9/14)...totaled four blocks versus Emmanuel (9/11) and Endicott (9/25).
2009: Played 31 sets...71 kills...tallied 15 kills and eight digs at Gordon (9/5)...registered three aces against Mount Holyoke (10/31)...notched two blocks versus DeSales (9/11).
Off the Court at MIT: Majoring in environmental engineering with a concentration in writing... completed an internship with ESA PWA, a company that provides high quality environmental hydrology and coastal and estuarine restoration...Alpha Phi...played softball freshman year and was a member of the tennis team last spring.
Why I Chose MIT: I came for Campus Preview Weekend and got to play with and hang out with the volleyball team. After that, I could picture myself as a part of the team and a part of MIT. MIT had become a place where I could live a balanced life.
High School: A 2009 graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep.
Club: San Francisco Juniors Volleyball Club (five years).
Personal: Daughter of Stella Perone and Dan Leonard...mother played tennis at MIT...brother Columbus '12 is the goalie for MIT's water polo team.


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Garden Art: Parasoleil Screens & Panels
As plants begin to die back and shadows get longer, keeping interest in the garden can be tricky. Playing with light and patterns can be a fun way to enliven a fall and winter scape and one of my favorite product to do that with is Parasoleil panels.
Uriah Bueller is the Boulder Colorado based artist behind the intricately cut copper panels at Parasoleil. As arbors and patio roofs, they cast beautiful shadows across outdoor dining tables. They can also be used as architectural screens —I personally love the idea of using them at the side of a front porch to screen and distract from a less attractive neighbor's plot, or just give a little privacy — fences, railings, and the company will even work with clients to create custom pieces like tables and benches.
There are a variety of standard patterns available or you can create your own. In the long light of fall and winter, it is nice to think about where the sun will be throughout the day and plan the screen pattern and placement for perfect shadow tossing.
There are a variety of materials used by the company, from corten steel to aluminum, but the signature garden product is made of 90+% recycled copper (which ages to a beautiful green patina) and carries a green certified designation.
MORE INFO: Parasoleil
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 5 diseños de 2 diseñadores freelance.
Coastal Cuties Natural and Organic childrens's Bath and Body Line
Coastal Cuties Bath and Body Line was developed as an offshoot of the Mother's Group that I started in 2006 called Coastal Cuties, I was looking for a safe bath and body line for my daughter and started asking the moms for their input and then decided I wanted to have my own line, coming from 10 years in sales I knew I could market and sell the line knowing it was a great product! a % off the sales is donated back to the moms group to help support our activities, the line can be seen on my Business Retail site http://www.coastalcutiesgear.com under bath and body
My target audience is parents, grandparents, shower gift buyers, basically anyone purchasing safe bath and body products for their children, I will be marketing the line as a wholesaler to salons, boutiques, and health food stores, it is currently sold as a retail product online on my site.
I would like to keep the sell sheet or as short as possible while being able to get the products across as an incredible line, The Tear Free Shampoo for toddlers won an iparenting media award (which is huge in the children's market it is a Disney award) and would like that to be a big part of this sell sheet/brochure
The Line includes A Toddler Line and a baby line
Toddler Line (Orange Creamsicle Scent)
Baby Line (Chamomile and Lavendar)
Toddler Line: 30SPF Sunscreen
Tear Free Shampoo
Body Wash
Baby Line: Lotion and Body Wash
Items are Paraben free and are Natural and Organic
I would like a Beach theme of sorts being that Its called Coastal Cuties but please be creative I look forward to seeing your creativity
If you can do this on a one page sell sheet I would prefer it


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Lynette Kvasny, an associate professor at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) seeks to raise students' consciousness of both the opportunities and problems that arise from the world's growing reliance on information and communication technology (ICT). She will discuss the social justice perspective she brings to the study of ICT and society during a lecture that she will give at the end of September.
Kvasny will present the second annual George McMurtry Lecture at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in 208 IST Building.
"Social justice education has the potential to prepare students to become something more than technologists who are able to effectively design, implement and manage information systems," Kvasny said. "They are becoming people who are sophisticated in their understanding of social interactions amongst diverse groups, and are able to critique current technology arrangements and envision new possibilities for ICT and society."
Kvasny is the 2012-13 recipient of the George J. McMurtry Excellence in Teaching and Learning Faculty Enhancement Fund. The fund recognizes IST faculty members at University Park who provide an exceptional learning environment for undergraduates in the classroom or online environments through their innovative teaching, commitment to student learning and creative interface with students.
Kvasny received her doctorate in computer information systems from the Robinson College of Business. Her research focuses on how and why historically underserved groups appropriate information and communication technologies.
Citing a study by Adams, Bell and Griffin (1997), Kvasny said that social justice education "utilizes experiential pedagogical principles that help students to understand power relations expressed in oppressive systems that incite feelings of marginalization, exploitation of labor, threats of violence, cultural imperialism and feelings of powerlessness."
"As students apply these themes to familiar ICTs and their digital culture, they become conscious of their operating worldview and are able to examine alternative ways of understanding the world and social relations," she said.


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2011 Processor of the Year H.J. Heinz Co.: A Global Standard for Local Performance
Heinz Global Performance System defines quality, teamwork and management best practices for 81 plants worldwide.
Growing up in Iowa, Troy Shannan often would pass the H.J. Heinz Co. plant in Muscatine, about 45 minutes down the road from his hometown, Burlington. "I knew the plant was there; I used to drive past it as a kid. But I'd never been inside of it until a few years ago," says Shannan. Now he oversees its operation and 22 other factories in the U.S. and Canada as vice president of manufacturing for Heinz North America.
Shannan came to Heinz in 2004 and was promoted to his current position in 2010 with a background well-suited to continuous improvement. Since earning a mechanical engineering degree from Iowa State University in 1994, he spent nine years at General Electric, where his work with quality management and statistical methods helped him become not only a plant manager but a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Much of his perspective went into the development and implementation of the Heinz Global Performance System (HGPS), a process modeled on quality, teamwork and management best practices. HGPS was designed in 2008 by Heinz in partnership with Competitive Capabilities International (www.ccint.net), Irvine, Calif.
"HGPS resulted from the Heinz North America continuous improvement organization asking for a system to standardize and consolidate continuous improvement, Six Sigma, Lean and TPM and other best practices," said Dan Poland, chief supply chain officer for Heinz North America.
"HGPS provides the means to standardize measurement, reporting and continuous improvement practices across the North American plants as well as 21 facilities in Europe, 27 in Asia/Pacific and nine more. That's 81 plants worldwide that employ 35,000," Poland says.
Judging by Heinz's financial numbers (the company reported record sales and net income in fiscal 2011), HGPS has been a success. Another indication is seen in the November news that Heinz ranked first in overall customer satisfaction among all 225 companies in 47 industries in the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index. Heinz led all companies with an overall score of 89, which measures its performance in categories including quality, value, consumer loyalty and consumer expectations. Heinz also topped all 12 food manufacturers in the ACSI for the 12th consecutive year.
Commenting on the ranking, Heinz Chairman, President and CEO William Johnson said: "Our No. 1 ranking in the U.S. reflects our commitment to manufacturing consistently great-tasting premium foods that enhance consumers' meals at home and at restaurants."
For those involved in operations, those attributes of success begin and end in the plant. While each facility must follow a structured approach to track and report performance using the same standards, "each plant has wide latitude on how to design its own way to 'get there,' " says Shannan.
"Each plant's implementation has to be suited to its specific business, processes and production lines. So if you're in Muscatine, the way you implement the system is unique to your plant. Each time you roll it out, it can be different, from the [whiteboard] visuals to the way you implement projects."
The Muscatine plant's ownership of the program -- and customization of it -- is exemplified by that plant's renaming of the system as the Muscatine Performance System, which even has its own logo modeled after the corporate insignia for HGPS. This balance between standardization and home-team spirit has evidently resulted in top-flight operational effectiveness.
As with all companies, there is an organizational chart, but HGPS and related programs are in place to help transcend departmental borders, aka "silos" or "walls." The way Shannan sees it, his group is "essentially a customer of the Continuous Improvement group; we work hand in hand." Whereas HGPS is focused on the Factory Group, continuous improvement is maintained as a broader program under which manufacturing represents one link in the Heinz' global supply chain structure.
Sustainable profits
Cooperation across borders is evident in multiple programs across Heinz North America. Cross-functional resources from R&D, engineering, marketing, manufacturing and "pretty much all departments" collaborate on capital projects and many product developments.
Such was the case in launching the new dual-function Heinz Ketchup Dip & Squeeze package last year, which Heinz touts as its biggest innovation in ketchup in decades. This single-serve packet in the shape of a ketchup bottle holds three times the ketchup of traditional 9 gram packets. It lets consumers peel away the lid for dipping French fries or chicken nuggets or tear off the tip to squeeze ketchup onto their food.
"Dip & Squeeze required collaboration from packaging, R&D, quality, engineering, marketing -- the entire team was involved," says Shannan. The new product is produced in Fremont, Ohio, on a new thermoform/fill/seal installation created by Multivac. The package is a response to consumer desire for a mess-proof ketchup packet. A single package replaces three traditional flexible film pouches.
Of all the recent collaborative efforts that show HGPS in action, a new retort installation in Muscatine stands as a model for how to manage a plant improvement project. "The key challenge for this project was to make sure that the change in process didn't adversely affect flavor and other product attributes," says Shannan. "It took a lot of collaboration among manufacturing, R&D and quality to make sure it all came together and was approved by the FDA in time. It was a very complex project." (See the article 118 years of Modern Technology at Muscatine)
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Preview of Sunday's game between the Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots.
KICKOFF 1 p.m., Gillette Stadium, capacity 68,756
LINE Patriots by 101⁄2
FOXBOROUGH WEATHER Partly sunny, high of 34. Tom Brady is 25-5 as a starting quarterback when the temperature at kickoff is 32 degrees or lower.
TV CBS (WOIO Channel 19), with Bill Macatee, Steve Tasker.
PATRIOTS AT HOME (5-0) Beat Denver 34-31 in OT Nov. 24; beat Pittsburgh 55-31 Nov. 3; beat Miami 27-17 Oct. 27; beat New Orleans 30-27 Oct. 13; beat Tampa Bay 23-3 Sept. 22; beat New York Jets 13-10 Sept. 12.
BROWNS ON ROAD (0-5) Lost 41-20 at Cincinnati Nov. 17; lost 23-17 at Kansas City Oct. 27; lost 31-13 at Green Bay Oct. 20; lost 31-27 at Minnesota Sept. 22; Lost 14-6 at Baltimore Sept. 15.
LAST WEEK The Patriots trailed 17-7 at halftime at Houston before rallying for a 34-31 win. TE Rob Gronkowski and WR Julian Edelman caught 15 of Brady's passes for 128 yards. Browns WR Josh Gordon racked up 261 yards and gave the Browns a 28-25 lead on a 95-yard TD catch with 3:55 left, but the Browns fell 32-28 to Jacksonville.
SCOREBOARD The Patriots are outscoring opponents, on average, 26.8-21.8; the Browns are being outscored, 24.8-19.3.
BROWNS ATTACKING No. 29 run offense (82.3 yards a game) vs. No. 31 run defense (138.2); No. 12 pass offense (249.9) vs. No. 10 pass defense (224.0).
PATRIOTS ATTACKING No. 12 run offense (122.8) vs. No. 5 run defense (98.9); No. 10 pass offense (255.0) vs. No. 5 pass defense (207.8).
CAPTAIN DECEMBER Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is 48-8 with the Patriots in the 12th month of the year.
GORDON ON FIRE Gordon has given the Browns 799 receiving yards in the last five games. He led the 2012 Browns with 805 yards.
BRADY FACTOR Brady has led the Patriots to 10 division titles and five Super Bowls. ... Brady has passed for at least four touchdowns with no interceptions 15 times, most recently against Pittsburgh last month. ... If the Patriots need a yard or two on third or fourth down, Brady almost always gets it (89-of-94 in his career on QB sneaks).
FLASH FACTOR Edelman, a former Kent State QB, has 70 catches for 711 yards and has surpassed 100 yards in the last two games. Edelman has scored three TDs for the Patriots as a punt returner.
GRONKOWSKI VS. CAMERON Gronkowski has scored a TD in four straight games. Browns TE Jordan Cameron has scored six TDs, none in the last five games.
DON'T PASS GO In their most recent home game, the Patriots' pass defense held Peyton Manning to 132 net passing yards. Going into the game, Manning's average was 350.4.
ON THE RUN The Patriots have used four running backs as an effective committee that has amassed 1,473 rushing yards. New England's run defense, though, has allowed 1,658 rushing yards, at 4.5 per carry. The Browns need more than 100 yards out of their own committee.
LAST MEETING On Nov. 7, 2010 in Cleveland, the Browns routed New England 34-14. Colt McCoy completed 14-of-19 passes and Peyton Hillis ran for 189 yards.
SERIES The Browns lead 13-9, including a 20-13 win under Bill Belichick in the 1994 playoffs. In the most recent games at New England, the Patriots won 34-17 in 2007, 9-3 in 2003 and 27-16 in 2001.
AFC NORTH WATCH Bengals (8-4) home to Indianapolis; Ravens (6-6) home to Minnesota; Steelers (4-8) home to Miami.
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The Graham Opera House was opened in 1897 with 783 seats. It was renamed State Theatre in 1931. It was closed due to fire damage on November 17, 2010. It reopened in 2014.
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The State was operated by Iowa United Theaters of Des Moines in the early sixties. United also operated the Waco Drive-In in Washington, IA, along with numerous other Iowa theaters.
The State Theatre was damaged in a fire on Wednesday November 17,2010. Fire officials said a discarded cigarette in a trash can in the third floor projection booth was the cause. The theatre suffered heavy damage to the booth an considerable smoke and water damage to the rest of the structure. No word yet on a rebuilding plan.
On the CT news page, in the news about the recent fire, it says that the State was originally the Grand Opera House from 1897. Under Washington Iowa in the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide, there is a "Graham Opera House" – is it this theater? It says that the Graham was on the ground floor, had 783 seats, and ticket prices from 25 cents to $1. The proscenium opening was 32 feet wide X 29 feet high, and the stage was 38 feet deep. There were 6 musicians in the house orchestra. There were 3 newspapers in town and 4 hotels for show folks. The 1897 population of Washington was 5,000.
According to this Washington, IA Chamber of Commerce webpage, the State was born as the Graham Opera House.
Prior to the construction of the Graham Opera House, Washington was served by the Everson Opera House, a second-floor theater that was later converted to other uses. A 1909 book, "History of Washington County, Iowa" by Howard A. Burrell (Google Books fullview), has a photo of the Everson and drawing of the Graham, both probably from the late 19th century.
Here is an article from the Washington Evening News giving some historical background on the State Theatre. It's dated November 18, 2010, and being a newspaper article it might not remain available on the Internet for very long.
The article says that the building was erected in 1893 to replace the first Graham Opera House (located at the opposite end of the same block) which had opened in 1886 and was destroyed by fire in 1892. Movies were exhibited in the Graham Opera House as early as 1897, but it was not renamed the State Theatre until 1931, at which time it became exclusively a movie house.
Judging from the photos of the State linked in earlier comments, the current facade probably doesn't date from the 1931 remodeling and conversion of the opera house into a movie theater. That flat, plain style indicates a later remodeling project, probably from the 1940s or 1950s. The brick on the ground floor looks like it might even date from the 1970s.
Washington had at least one regular movie house in 1919, when an ad for the Motiograph company ran in the November 8 issue of Motion Picture News. It featured a letter from a "Mr. C.A. Pratt of the Electric Theatre Co., Washington, Iowa; Fox Theatre, Washington, Iowa and Pratt's Theatre, Winfield, Iowa…."
The State Theatre is open showing first run attractions, all digital with 2D && 3D capabilities.
I think this theatre has been classied the world's oldest operating movie theatre by the Guinness Book of Records?
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When you hold a team to 80 points defensively, everyone who is on the floor contributes to that, and that deserves more credit than anything else. —Detroit coach Lawrence Frank
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Brandon Knight learned a harsh lesson earlier in the week when he was shut out in a game at Milwaukee.
"I just remember not coming with a lot of energy, not lifting my teammates up," Knight said. "Me, as a rookie, that's something I've got to be able to do each and every game, no matter who we're playing against."
In a rematch with the Bucks on Friday night, Knight was at his best, scoring a season-high 26 points and helping the Detroit Pistons snap a seven-game losing streak with an 88-80 victory. Knight was outscored 21-0 by Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings in a loss to the Bucks on Monday night, but he looked impressive while turning the tables four days later.
The Bucks had won three straight, including a come-from-behind victory over Miami on Wednesday, but they trailed by as many as 15 points in the third quarter against the Pistons.
"We were terrible in every aspect of the game. Our effort was horrible — as bad as I've seen since I've been here — and our execution was very poor on both ends of the floor," Milwaukee coach Scott Skiles said. "We've played two good quarters out of the last eight. The other six have been pitiful."
Milwaukee went on an 11-0 run spanning the end of the third quarter and beginning of the fourth, and Detroit led by only four with 2:54 remaining. Knight responded with a floater, followed moments later by a driving shot off the glass, and the Pistons held on.
Knight went 10 of 23 from the field and also had seven assists and no turnovers. Jennings, the opposing point guard, scored 20 points, but only seven after the first quarter.
"I thought Brandon really responded," Detroit coach Lawrence Frank said. "When you hold a team to 80 points defensively, everyone who is on the floor contributes to that, and that deserves more credit than anything else."
Greg Monroe added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and Tayshaun Prince had 13 points for the Pistons. Shaun Livingston was the only other Milwaukee player in double figures with 14 points.
The Pistons led by as many as nine in the first quarter, but Jennings made all five of his shots in the period and it was 26-all after one.
Jennings finished 7 of 19, and the Bucks shot only 35 percent as a team. Milwaukee trailed 51-41 at halftime and never seemed to click offensively after scoring at least 100 points in each of its previous five games.
With Detroit up 58-52, Jennings tried a behind-the-back pass on a 2-on-1 break to Beno Udrih. The play resulted in a turnover, and the Pistons slowly increased their lead.
Knight made a nice bounce pass in transition to Rodney Stuckey for a layup and a 64-53 advantage. Jonas Jerebko made it 70-55 with a dunk.
Milwaukee trailed 72-68 in the fourth, but Monroe scored inside to halt the Bucks' run. That wasn't the last time the Bucks cut the deficit to four. It was 80-76 and 82-78 late in the fourth, but Knight answered both times with a basket.
"He was great tonight," Jennings said. "He was aggressive on offense and he was going for steals on defense. He's a good young player."
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And for the record, I meant important things for Lori. I too value my morning sleep way too much for any hanky panky then. (Plus: frequently a 5 year old migrates during the night into our bed because he "loves us and misses us so much." )
I'm such a bitch mom. That is MY bed and NOT theirs.
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The L.A. Kings opened Game 3 in heavy metal style Saturday, getting former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash to blast out the Star Spangled Banner.
They closed it the same way, playing a 40-minute drum solo on the Chicago Blackhawks' morale.
The Kings pounded Chicago so badly — outshooting them 15-3 during one stretch in the third period — that the defending Stanley Cup champions are starting to look like vulnerable underdogs in this thing.
"It's a 2-1 series against the defending Stanley Cup champs, so I don't think there's such a thing as taking control," said Kings captain Dustin Brown, after a convincing 4-3 decision in which the Kings seemed better in every aspect of the game.
"Both teams have shown they're able to battle adversity. But we did what we wanted to do tonight, we got the lead in the series, now it's about resetting and reloading. We're up in the series and we have to keep going."
They're going pretty good right now, having outscored Chicago 10-3 over the last four periods and change while getting contributions from all over. Jeff Carter, with a goal and two assists Saturday, has seven points in the last two games while the line of he, Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson have turned this series around, scoring six goals in the last four periods and 1:46.
"We're definitely rolling pretty good, but we can't take our foot off the gas pedal," Pearson said. "We've got to keep on going, each and every game. We're capitalizing on our chances and it's working out for us."
Suddenly, with two of the next three games here in Los Angeles, the Hawks are a loss away from being in very deep trouble.
"It's not ideal, it's not exactly what we wanted, to go down 2-1, but it's a good team over there, we have our work cut out for us," said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, whose two goals in the first period weren't good enough.
"They want it really bad. They're playing hard. Even when they have leads against us it seems like they get even better. For us, it's just a matter of continuing the effort we started with in the first period. Keep doing the things we're doing, we're really close."
The Hawks wanted to re-establish themselves after giving up six unanswered goals in Game 2, and seemed to be doing exactly that out of the gate.
It was 2-1 Hawks after 20 minutes on a pair from Toews (one of them shorthanded) and a power play marker from Slava Voynov, but the Kings took control from then on.
Carter scored his fourth goal in three periods to tie it and Toffoli put the hosts in front with his third in three games.
The goal was LA's third on 14 shots and the eighth against Crawford in a less than three full periods.
The Kings' decided edge in goaltending, which many thought could be the difference in this series, has just won them two games in a row.
Jonathan Quick seems to be getting stronger as the series goes on. He made a handful of clutch, if not brilliant saves, when the Hawks were up 2-1, to keep the visitors from pulling away for good.
"Quickie is Quickie, that's what I always say," Brown said. "You kind of come to expect him to be lights out for us. He finds ways to make big saves at big times to just give us a little bit of breathing room to either protect a lead or climb back into it. That's what we have him for He's a big part of our team."
In the third, when Chicago desperately needed a goal, they barely touched the puck.
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Nintendo's response to the 2012 NPD report is in. Sales for the Wii U (December and total since launch), NSMBU, Wii, 3DS, DS, and other data is now available.
Of course wii u generated more revenue than the wii. It did sell for a lot more $ so I assume that should be the case lol.
Good for Nintendo. All the haters going to hate, but the numbers speak for themselves, all in all great launch! :)
Not bad. Almost 900,000 in 41 days. They have also sold over 40 million Wii's now just in NPD region.
Anyone know why it's just Sony who refuses to give out actual numbers?
Sony might not have gotten very good sales numbers.
nukeitall, they haven't released numbers for a long time though. Not sure why.
I think ever since then Sony has declined to give out numbers.
I'm pretty sure Sony gives out official numbers with their quarterly and annual earnings reports. We'll likely see them in the next couple of weeks since their 3rd quarter just ended 10 days ago.
NPD is a third party that does sales tracking for many things, not just video games. They didn't want the media to release their numbers to analyze the market, because they believe that the market is too fragmented to really get a clear picture based on the way they analyze the numbers.
@ Mike - simple...if you post bad or ok numbers you lose the confidence of the consumer and if you lose the confidence of the consumer you lose the confidence of the shareholders and no shareholders equals no money.
Another thing could also be that Japan people are very proud people and if you do it is looked upon as a shame.
Not sure if I agree. Sony still releases annual results.
Makes sense. I know Apple and other companies don't like certain information out there.
They certainly don't mind when it comes to other regions. I do question NPD at times since I heard some retailers like Wal-Mart are not counted.
No necessarily. By that logic, then Sony and Microsoft should have earned more money with the PS3 and Xbox 360 than Nintendo did with the Wii, because those consoles were much more expensive. However, Sony and Microsoft sold their consoles initially at a massive loss, while Nintendo saw massive profit per each Wii console sold since day one.
So, yeah, it's not as simple as associating earning with the price of the console. It's all relative.
I'm more impressed with the Wii and NDS numbers (also New Super Mario Bros. U's attach rate - 65%).
Those Wii U sales are abysmal considering the price its going for. For comparison, the $600 PS3 sold more on the December after its launch.
In 2006 wasn't in the toilet either Grave. But since Wii U sales are abysmal, what would you call Vita's?
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Though they're not terrible. Wii, NDS, and the 3DS all put up decent numbers, so I'm sure Nintendo's ok with the outcome.
Really? I remember back in 2006 reading that Sony had about 400,000 PS3 units available for launch WORLDWIDE on their first month, and then they had a manufacturing problem where a portion of those units had defective lenses or something like that, so not all of those 400k units were available at launch.
Ohhhhh yeah. I remember that. The PS3 almost had no units available at launch. Weird that the Wii had plenty and then went through a massive drought the next six months.
Dont care if crap sells, its still crap, current-gen graphics with oversized gimmicky controller and portable with no 2nd analog stick and inferior grahics equals crap in my book. And all of Nintendo's franchises are 20/30yrs old franchises. I dont care how well Justin Beiber sells, he still sucks in my book!
The Wii U would probably be over the 1 million sold mark had Nintendo been able to anticipate demand for the Deluxe Set. Everywhere I see the system in stock its always the Basic model.
It seems to be selling well depending on the store. I normally go to a small Gamestop and they're actually trying to get rid of them. Meanwhile the larger and nearby Best Buy has nothing in stock by the end of the day. And that includes both the basic and deluxe models.
"While the Wii launch established new benchmarks in the United States, Wii U has surpassed its predecessor in perhaps the most important category: revenue generation," said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing."
"New Super Mario Bros. U has now sold more than 580,000 units, an attach rate of more than 65 percent."
Clearly, Nintendo has succeeded in something the Wii couldn't do, sell software! While the Wii did sell more consoles, Wii U surpassed its predecessor in the most important category, revenue generation! Software will ALWAYS drive a system, now come on Nintendo, bring out the big guns...
These numbers a re f*&$cking crazy.
There pretty much set for a stormy night.
Its no surprise, I'm still playing my Wii, I love my 3DS and im looking forward to all the great games and EXPERIENCES I'll have with the Wii U.
In the meantime I have my other consoles to keep me busy.
awesome sales
a price drop when next gen consoles come out will increase by alot
Wiiu is off to a good start. Everyone knows full well it's not fair comparing its sales to 360 , ps3 , wii , 3ds etc , because those consoles have much more games on the shelf.
I think if the wiiu can get to 10,000,000 worldwide by December it will be a huge success from their on...
The numbers are pretty good so far. So who knows.
It will get to 10M. Wii fitU and Pikmin 3 are both system sellers , lego city , Rayman , Monster Hunter , Aliens are semi system sellers.
Then you have unnanounced games , for all we know something HUGE could be announced at e3 and be released before end of the year , Infact about 4-5 Big wiiu games will be announced at e3 or before and released before 2014 guaranteed.
It's an 8th gen console , So no use comparing it to 360 lol. Lets wait and see what 720 and ps4 do in the same time frame...
Terrible numbers. Nintendo banked to much on the apple/casual audience and it bit back. Its flopping in America and Europe. The only place where this thing is somewhat selling is Japan.
The Wii U sales numbers are better in America than Japan dude. Or are you talking about relative to the competition?
Either way, the sales numbers are actually good, and this is before Smash Bros, Wii Fit, Pikmin, Monster Hunter, Mario Kart ect. The Wii U is a lock to get to 10 Million by December.
Terrible numbers? It sold more than Microsoft or Sony the same time frame their launch. Don't get me wrong I really wanted PS3 at launch, but $599 back then was too much for my wallet. So I am pretty sure that is why Nintendo has sold more. We did buy Xbox360 at launch, 3 months later Ring of Death...Ouch.
Judging by the sell of the wii u 299/349 must be to much for peoples wallets. It sold like crap plain and simple. the wii sold more than the wii u, the ps3 sold more and the 360 shitted on all of em'.
Sales are okay at the moment, but January through March could be brutal. Many people don't remember but the 3DS sales for the first few weeks were pretty good but took a nosedive. I kind of feel like this will happen with the Wii U sadly, but they can fix it.
1) The basic set has to go. Most people got the deluxe set and when I see stacks of Wii U's at Best Buys and Targets, it's always the basic set. No one wants it and Nintendo is just wasting money manufacturing it.
2) Advertise. Now I don't watch TV that often, but when I do I never see a Wii U ad. It just seems like they aren't pushing the system that much. Also on a side not, those Wii U commercials are terrible.
3) The name. We've been thought this thousands of times. But just like the Super Nintendo, PS2, GBA, 360 & 3DS the Wii U has the misfortune of being called an add-on by most casual consumers. Now yes casual consumers are stupid, but at the same time naming a system Wii U isn't smart either. This kind of goes into the second point, but still applies. They need to beat into people's heads that this is a new system. If Nintendo is desperate enough, they could discontinue the Wii to stop the confusion, but I doubt that.
4. ANNOUNCE SOME F***ING GAMES! I know Nintendo's known for their secrecy and wanting to announce their stuff when they want to, but for the love of Kojima's firm ass they need to announce more games fast. Some people are already saying Nintendo should price drop the Wii U like the 3DS, but what people fail to realize is while the 3DS sales picked up, they only really picked up when Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 comes out. It doesn't matter if they drop the price, if there isn't enough big games people won't buy it. I mean look at a few days ago when the announce Pokemon X and Y, all my friends are running out and getting a 3DS in preparation for X and Y. Do that for the Wii U! Announce a 3D Mario, show off Smash Bros (maybe a release date), Zelda, Retro's new game, Monolith's new game, show something built from the ground up for the Wii U that shows it is truly more powerful than the PS3 and 360, get people excited! Not everything needs to be saved for E3. Besides Bayonetta 2, there really is nothing to look forward to after the launch window. Get people looking forward to the future.
Look, i'm not going on the Nintendo hate train that everyone loves to ride on (especially on N4G) and these sales aren't terrible and just because it's not setting the world on fire with sales right now doesn't mean it will eventually I mean look at the 3DS and PS3, slow starts but now sell great and have great libraries. The Vita is slowly starting to pick up sales (though Pokemon might put a damper on that but that's another ramble). I'm just suggesting some ideas that can help the Wii U through it's first year, which is usually the hardest.
I fully agree. I've been wondering the same thing myself lately. I love my wiiu to death but i'm not seeing anything new coming out anytime soon.
Not to mention most 3rd parties are skipping it (for now).
But i'm hoping once they see how good its selling, they'll reconsider.
Btw, the demos for zombiu and nba 2k13 are now available on the wiiu eshop if anyone's interested. I'm downloading mine as I type this on my gamepad. :)
Aliens Colonial Marines in February, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in March.
Yes too many people that don't have a Wii U sit there and Knock it. It does more than my PS3 and it is REALLY Cool playing Black Ops on it, in FACT I would challenge ANY PS3 owner or 360 owner to play Multi-Player on line same room and compare, Or two pro-controllers and Gamepad as a map and tell me I am wrong...I am sorry, if I had to buy a freaking PS3 again, yes I would, because I have too many games for it not to, but Wii you is priced about the same as a PS3 Slim, and can do SOOOOOO much more. Oh and Xbox 360 0wners, it is called a PC.
LOL @ fools saying Wii U numbers are bad ! 890k in 40+ days!!!?! in NA alone wow how da hell is that bad? lol 3DS 1.25 MILLION IN DEC. plus the Wii/DS are STILL selling! 475k/470k.. wow
O shit black baron how long have you been on this site and have you made videos and make more videos like before calling out the sony drones and microshit fans and doing all the stuff you normally do its to damn funny
More games available early on and announcements to look forward to would have definitely increased the sales. It's too bad Nintendo didn't front more cash to high profile game studios for more support. I'm sure they would have seen better returns in the long run and would end up with a bigger lead over their competitors. It's really sad that Wii U owners are missing out on so many high profile 3rd party games this year. Nintendo should invest more on there investment and stay true to there promise of winning back the hardcore. (Im not hating) the Wii U obviously has great potential im just a little disappointed in Nintendo overall.
even with the numbers and facts...haters will still hate...point it wiiu is outselling ps3 and xbox360 during the same period and is either outselling or keeping pace with the wii and thats with all the lies from haters and bad press and game delays ....so that tells you just how well wiiu will be doing in a couple months....its in front to stay
Its cool to hate Nintendo in the game world even though their titles continue to sell like hot cakes. Wait until more software is announced and released, the console will earn its place. It has quite a few good looking exclusives coming out in the next few months, and exclusives are what sell consoles. Nobody is going to buy a PS3 to play Call Of Duty if they already have a 360 that can play it. ZThey will however buy one to play uncharted and the other exclusives the console offers. Thats what Nintendo needs to do. Multiplats are fine and all but if everybody is throwing the same party why not just stick to whats convenient?


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Unified Communications (UC) refers to both real-time and non-real-time delivery of communications based on the preferred method and location of the recipient. UC has the potential to bust open legacy information silos like voicemail, and bridge the gap between instant messaging (IM) and conventional email. UC can compensate for the weaknesses of the various communication types by linking media sources together. Who doesn't want seamless data exchange, where information effortlessly follows the user?A smart UC architecture can provide cross-platform awareness and cooperation between communications applications. The goal is that users quickly become aware of information they need to act on, wherever they are, and wherever the information came from. We want to avoid critical information island scenarios like these:
- Traditional voicemail that sits in a queue until you dial into your voicemail system remotely to check messages, or you return to your office and respond to the blinking voicemail light.
- An instant message from a colleague waits unanswered on a computer screen-there is doubt if the recipient will see the message when they return to their computer.
Both of the scenarios above involve a possible loss of data, or at least tardy processing of time sensitive business information. Microsoft's latest products, Exchange Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010, deliver a solution that eliminates these data loss scenarios.
UC market dominance eludes all vendors
Achieving a full featured UC capability that is easy to put together and use has been an elusive goal for the IT industry. Cisco is years ahead of Microsoft in the UC field, yet there is enormous potential for all players in this market due to the lack of a heavy favorite with customers. The 2011 Gartner Report on Unified Communications of August 22, 2011 rated Microsoft #1 for both vision and ability to execute, and had this to say about Microsoft's UC stack:
"Microsoft released Lync (an evolution of its OCS product) and enhanced its telephony capabilities. Microsoft now has references that use only Lync for telephony, which is an important milestone. Microsoft also made important UC as a service (UCaaS) advances with the release of Office 365, which includes Lync-Online. Microsoft's pending acquisition of Skype is likely to lead to Skype-integrated Lync offerings."
Cisco has offered a complete stack of UC hardware and software for some time, which also integrates with Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging through Cisco "Call Manager" software. The Cisco UC solution has a reputation for doing what it says; however owing to the cost and complexity of procurement, deployment, and support, it is still not extremely popular.
IBM is charging hard in the UC field with offerings called IBM SameTime and IBM SameTime Unified Telephony. IBM's UC technology was previously offered under the Lotus SameTime product line, but IBM has rebranded by dropping the Lotus linkage in the name. An upside to the IBM solution is that the server components can run on the AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems. A downside is that IBM doesn't have a hybrid on-premise and cloud integration story like Microsoft does with Office 365.
Microsoft hits a home run with 2010 releases
There are two main pieces to the Microsoft UC architecture: Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging for email integration and Lync Server 2010 for presence, instant messaging, and conferencing. When these products are deployed together, a powerful synergy is created that can be literally transformative for an organization. Here's a brief background of these Microsoft components, as well as how the new products avoid the information islands of voicemail and IM:History: Microsoft entered the UC market in 2006 with a new "Unified Messaging" component in the Exchange 2007 product. A centerpiece of early Exchange UC was the receipt of recorded voicemails as attachments to email messages. Today: Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging is a second generation UC server product with compelling new features like speech-to-text translation of voicemails. Scenario: Voicemails left at the office are translated and readable as text messages minutes later from anywhere using Outlook, Outlook WebApp, and via Active-Sync on mobile devices like smartphones. History: Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 (OCS) was the original IM and chat component that has grown into Lync Server 2010. Today: Lync 2010 integrates deeply with Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook; the presence and status of all team members in a project are viewable everywhere. Right-clicking on a colleague's Lync status icon will offer a half-dozen ways to interact with the person in real-time and non-real-time. Scenario: IMs left on a computer screen, but not replied to after a few minutes, are automatically packaged and delivered as emails, creating a permanent record of the IM.
Lync 2010 can replace or enhance your existing IP PBX system
To enjoy the benefits of any vendor's UC solution, it is necessary to interface the voice phone system with the computer data network. The heart of every telephony system is a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) device. Users of the PBX share a certain number of outside lines for making telephone calls external to the PBX. A legacy PBX is not IP (Internet Protocol) aware, so there are IP gateway devices available from many vendors to connect PBXs with UC components. Newer PBXs, known as IP PBXs, perform the legacy PBX role as well as talk natively over the IP network with UC components.
Figure A
The hardware needed for the full UC experience, here an IP PBX (UX2000 by NET) and an IP Phone (CX600 by Polycom).To support Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging, one or both types of PBX configurations are used when connecting a telephony network infrastructure to a data network infrastructure. See what hardware solutions are compatible with Exchange 2010 at the TechNet Telephony Advisor. Complement and complete your Microsoft UC experience with IP Phones that are Lync-ready. Figure A pictures the two key pieces in a modern office's UC solution: An IP PBX from NET (Network Equipment Technologies) and a Lync-ready IP Phone from Polycom.
Full Bio
John Joyner, MCSE, CMSP, MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management, is senior architect at ClearPointe, a cloud provider of systems management services. He is co-author of the "System Center Operations Manager: Unleashed" book series from Sams Publishing, and is developing cloud-based management solutions based on the Microsoft System Center 2012 suite. John is a retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander 'Surface Warfare Officer', with the subspeciality 'Computer Scientist, Proven'. His tours of duty included Chief of Network Operations for NATO's southern region and network administrator aboard the aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70).


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Cequent Acquires Brazilian Aftermarket Supplier
November 21, 2013 by RVBusiness Comments Off on Cequent Acquires Brazilian Aftermarket Supplier
Cequent Performance Products (CPP) has expanded its presence in the Western Hemisphere through the acquisition of DHF Automotive Solutions, a leading Brazilian aftermarket supplier.
The company has manufactured and distributed automotive hitching and accessory products for more than 15 years.
"We have great expectations of this business, our second investment in Brazil. The Brazilian market and DHF fit well into our strategy for growth in the automotive segment," said Paul Caruso, senior vice president of international and strategic development. "By adding this international resource, we are perfectly positioned to respond quickly to customer and market expectations."
CPP's first Brazilian acquisition, a company called Engetran, was purchased in 2012. Both DHF and Engetran are located in Itaquaquecetuba, Brazil, which is adjacent to São Paulo.


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Gov. Dayton to Speak at March 'First Tuesday'
Minnesota Governor to keynote event at at the McNamara Alumni Center on March 5
Governor Mark Dayton will address friends and alumni of the Carlson School of Management at the next "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" on March 5 at 11:30 a.m. in the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center.
Dayton, Minnesota's 40th Governor, has spent most of the past 34 years in public service. Prior to being elected governor in 2010, Dayton served as Commissioner of the Minnesota Departments of Economic Development and of Energy and Economic Development, as State Auditor, and as United States Senator. Dayton currently is on the Executive Committee of the National Governor's Association.
Dayton graduated cum laude from Yale University, where he also played Division I hockey.
Tickets, which include lunch, are available online for $28.
3/05/13 UPDATE: As long as the University of Minnesota is open, the First Tuesday event will be held today.
2/28/13 UPDATE: The event has sold out.
About the Carlson School of Management's 1st Tuesday Speaker Series
The Carlson School of Management's "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" began in 1992 to provide an opportunity for alumni and friends of the Carlson School to continue their management education. The series features top-notch executives as keynote speakers addressing hot topics in business and leadership. The event attracts alumni and business leaders from throughout the corporate community and is a popular networking venue.


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Research and Analysis by Jonathan Aldrich
Purchasing Power of U.S. Social Security Benefits Abroad, 1970–82
from Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 9 (released September 1983)
The Earnings Replacement Rate of Old-Age Benefits in 12 Countries, 1969–80
from Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 11 (released November 1982)


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Baker Resource Area RMP Revision
Welcome to the website for the Baker Resource Management Plan Revision. We hope this website will help you stay up-to-date on the revision effort and provide information about how you can be involved in the process. We appreciate your participation and look forward to continuing our work together.
If you have any ideas, comments, or issues you'd like to tell us about, please send your comments to firstname.lastname@example.com or view the contact page.
Baker Resource Area Welcome Letter (PDF)
The Vale District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has recently begun the process of preparing a revised RMP for BLM-managed lands within the Baker Resource Area. The previous RMP, finalized in 1989, is in need of revision to establish further management guidance and to update objectives and policies. The revised plan will provide a comprehensive framework for managing and allocating public lands and resources in the Baker Resource Area for the next 15 to 20 years.
Draft RMP Released November 22, 2011
The Draft Baker Resource Management Plan Revision is available on the Draft RMP page.
The Public Comment Period Closed on March 23rd, 2012
BLM has considered all comments on the Draft RMP/EIS and will publish responses in our Proposed RMP/Final EIS.
Planning Area Map
The following map displays the Baker Resource Area RMP Revision planning area boundary and analysis of the management situation